Pastors Attentive and Obedient to the Word of God

Good afternoon, fellow ministers in the Mystical Body of Christ present here, and also those who are in different countries: there in Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, and the United States, and any other country that is connected on this occasion, and also during the next activity, which will be with the whole congregation.

It is a great blessing to live at this time, because it is the time in which the whole Divine Program culminates – will culminate in a great manifestation of God’s Spirit in the midst of His Church at this end time; for that dispensational interlace will be taking place, where the Dispensation of the Kingdom will fully begin, It will begin and bring great blessings for the Church of the Lord. That is the Lord’s Day.

Just like for the people who keep the Sabbath, the Lord’s Day is the seventh day, which begins on the sixth day in the evening; once the sun sets, the seventh day then starts, but people are still living in Friday, but Saturday already started.

What day is today, Miguel?

[Bro. Miguel: Today is Friday.] Well, it’s already Saturday (hehe). See?

[Bro. Miguel: What time is it?]

[Brother: It’s almost time.]

[Bro. Miguel: It’s almost time, but what time is it?]

[Brother: Twenty to six.]

That doesn’t mean it’s always at 6:00, but at sundown; not when it… when the sun sets; but there is still light, because there shall be light in the evening time;¹ even if you cannot see the sun, but there will be light, the sun will still be shining, but it’s already the light of another day, for another day.

And now, Jesus Christ said on one occasion, in Saint John, chapter… Let’s read Saint Peter instead: Second Peter, chapter 1, verses 15 to 21, and it says:

“Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.

We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.

For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”

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

“We have also a Word of prophecy,” (Saint Peter says), “whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts.”

The Day Star, that is, the Bright and Morning Star, which is Christ.

And now, Christ, the Day Star, is none other than the Angel of the Covenant, according to the Scripture.

In Malachi, chapter 4, it tells us… chapter 3, verse 1, says:

“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.”

He would send His Messenger, the Lord would send him before Him, and then the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, would come to His Temple.

And now, the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. The Word, which was with God and was God, and which created all things, is now made flesh, according to Saint John chapter 1, verse 1 to 18; and He dwelt among the human race, among the Hebrew people, and His Name was known as Yeshua or Jesus; which is the same Name that was revealed to Moses in Exodus chapter 3, verses 13 to 16. Why? Because according to Exodus, chapter 23, verses 20 to 23, God said the Name was (where?) in His Angel, the Angel of God, God had put His Name there; and the Angel of God, the Angel of the Covenant, is Christ in His heavenly body.

And when He is made flesh, well, He must bear the Name of God, the Name of God is there; and that is why the Name of the Messiah is the Name of God to His people.

That is why Christ said: “I have come in the Name of…” (whom?) “I have come in My Father’s Name.”²

Now, we find that Jesus said in Saint John, chapter 8, verse 56 and on:

“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.”

How was Christ, Jesus Christ, before Abraham? He was the Angel of the Covenant, the same One that spoke with Adam, with Abel, with Seth, with Enoch, with Noah, then also with the other men of God; with Abraham too, with Moses, with the prophets; He is the same One who also appeared to Manoah, in a visible form, and Manoah said: “We shall die, because we have seen God face to face.” Judges chapter 13 contains that passage.

He is the same One who had also appeared to Jacob, and Jacob held on to Him, and would not let Him go until the Angel blessed him, which happened already at the breaking of day; when the dawn was already breaking, Jacob received that blessing.

When the day was breaking the Angel tells him: “Let Me go, for the day is breaking.” We don’t know how many minutes passed from that moment when the day was breaking until the Angel blessed Jacob; the thing is that when he received that blessing, he was already limping, and the sun was rising, and that’s why he called that place…what was it, Miguel?

[Bro. Miguel: Wasn’t it Bethel?… Peniel.]

Peniel, which means ‘Face of God,’ because he said: “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” That is in Genesis chapter 32, verses 24 to 31.

So, notice, the people who were seeing the Angel on different occasions: were seeing God veiled in a heavenly body, called the Angel of the Covenant, and who is also called the Holy Spirit; because a spirit is a body from another dimension.

A heavenly body was the one that appeared like in the form of a man, that was the Angel of the Covenant, that was the image of the living God through whom God was manifesting Himself; God was inside that body, and through that heavenly body, He spoke to the people; and God put His Name in that heavenly body.

And now, that there is the mystery of God the Father, and of Christ: that Christ is the Angel of the Covenant, Christ is that heavenly body in whom God dwelt and through whom God created all things; He is the Word that was with God and was God, and was made flesh, and dwelt among the human beings, there in the midst of the Hebrew people.

He was the One who gave Moses the Law for the people, there on Sinai; but now He has promised to give a New Covenant for His people, to establish a New Covenant.

And now, remember, Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, is the One who would establish a New Covenant. And that is why, when He is in human flesh, at the last supper, in chapter 26, verses 26 to 29, of Saint Matthew, and chapter 22 of Saint Luke, He says, while giving bread to His disciples: “This is My body, eat ye all of It.” And when He takes the cup and blesses it giving thanks, He gives to His disciples and tells them: “This is My Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”

And now, He speaks to us about the Blood of the New Covenant; and Saint Paul in Hebrews, chapter 13, verses 20 to 21, tells us that the Blood of Christ is the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant.

And now, notice how the New Covenant is now established, and the Word of the New Covenant is given there in Jerusalem, and that is where the Sacrifice relevant to the New Covenant is carried out; and there the apostle Peter, upon speaking, brings the revealed Word of the Gospel of Christ under the New Covenant, for a new dispensation: the Dispensation of Grace.

And now, the Word of God came forth from Jerusalem to all places, and It has reached us here in the West.

Why has that Word been going through the whole Earth? So that all those seeds of God who are on planet Earth in different ages and different times throughout these two thousand years that have passed, may enter into the New Covenant.

And when the Church is completed, then the Door of the Dispensation of Grace will be shut, Christ will finish His Work as Intercessor and then He will become the King of kings and Lord of lords, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, to carry out His Claiming Work.

And in Revelation chapter 5, He appears taking the Book, the Title Deed, the Lamb’s Book of Life, the Seven-Sealed Book, to open It and reveal to His Church that mystery, those mysteries contained in that Book. Then… The mystery contained in the Seventh Seal is the mystery of the Coming of the Lord.

And now, we see how those different stages, ages, have passed, and how those Seals have been getting fulfilled from stage to stage, from age to age. We have seen how what is to be fulfilled in His Church has been getting fulfilled; we have also been seeing how what is to be fulfilled in the world, in the kingdom of the Gentiles, has been getting fulfilled; and how the different ages of the Church have been passing, and the impact that each age has had on the world and also on the Mystical Body of Christ.

And we have seen that God doesn’t do anything, He doesn’t work, except through man, through a human being in each time.

And now, we find that He has been giving us His Word of the New Covenant; just as He wrote His Word, His Law, on stones;³ and after Moses broke those tables,⁴ those laws were written on stone tables again,⁵ just like the ones that were written on the previous tables that Moses broke.

And now, the promise is that God will write the New Covenant on tables, but of flesh, of the heart of all those who will believe in Him. And since they will be written in our heart, His Word of the New Covenant, thus we will wholeheartedly obey His Voice, His Word, we will be ministers who are obedient to the prophetic Word that is being fulfilled, and to that Word of the Covenant, those Divine laws that have been written in our hearts through the Gospel: being preached, being revealed, being taught to every human being who has received Christ as his only and sufficient Savior.

And now, we have the prophetic Word, and that prophetic Word is the One that is being quickened, being brought to life, being brought to fulfillment by Christ Himself, who has been in the midst of His Church in Holy Spirit the whole time. Just as Christ, who is the Angel of the Covenant, who is the Holy Spirit, was in the midst of the Hebrew people, now He said in Saint Matthew chapter 28, verse 16 to 20: “And I will be with you always, even unto the end of the world.”

He is the One who has been in the midst of His Church the whole time, He has been guiding His Church, He has been bringing His Word to His Church. Just as He brought It through Moses, likewise, He has brought It through Saint Peter and Saint Paul; and then, just as He sent prophets to proclaim that Word to the people and keep the people in that Word, He has sent different messengers from age to age; and thus, the different stages or ages of the Church have been fulfilled, with Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, being in the midst of His Church from age to age; because it’s in Holy Spirit that Christ would be in the midst of His Church.

And He said in Saint John chapter 14, verse 26, that the Holy Spirit would be sent in His Name.

That is why when He appears to Saint Paul when he was on his way to Damascus, He appears to him in that Light and says to him: “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?” Saul asks Him, knowing that It was the same Light that had appeared to Moses and said to him: “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,”⁶ now It appears to Saul of Tarsus, and Saul of Tarsus asks Him: “Lord, who are You?” And that Angel, the Angel of the Covenant, Christ, says to him: “I am Jesus, whom you persecute; it is hard for you to kick against the prick (or against the pricks).”⁷

That is because Christ is the same yesterday, today, and always; the same in the Old Testament as well as in the New Testament; and He will always be the same. He is the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, in whom the Name of God is. And when He was made flesh, the Name of God was also there, and the Name of God was put in the veil of flesh.

And now, we are at the end, and the world is also at the end, for the statue that was seen by King Nebuchadnezzar and later Daniel, who interpreted that dream for him, it says that in the stage of the feet of iron and clay, it says that the Stone cut out without hands (which is Christ) came and smote the feet, the statue upon the feet of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces; and the iron, the brass, the silver, and the gold were also broken to pieces; in other words, what was left of those previous empires.⁸

And since that statue represents the kingdom of the Gentiles, notice, the kingdom of the Gentiles will end; and it ends with a catastrophe, which will cover every aspect of the human race, every aspect of the kingdom of the Gentiles.

And when we see the situation that the nations are in because of North America’s economic problem… because that problem is affecting all the nations. Because a simple or large problem that affects one nation: affects all nations, for they belong to the kingdom of the Gentiles in the stage of the feet of iron and clay.

Just like when you have a foot problem: it affects your entire foot; and it affects the other one, because now the other one has to bear the weight of the rest and it might also be impacted; and one foot’s problem might pass on to the other one as well.

So, we find that mankind, in the stage of the feet of iron and clay, is in serious trouble; and sometimes we wonder what is happening.

What is happening has to be in the prophetic Word; which, what it needs is Light: the Light of the Divine revelation being brought, being taught in the Message relevant to our time, to then see what is happening, so that our eyes may be enlightened.

Because prophecy is not of private interpretation;⁹ the One who gave it is Christ, the Holy Spirit, and He is the only One who can interpret it correctly; and He has been in His messengers throughout the different stages of His Church.

At this time, He will be revealing His Word according to how He has planned, and it must then be according to the way He has always done, “Surely the Lord will do nothing, without first revealing His secrets (to whom?) to His servants, His prophets.”¹⁰ So for our time there must be an instrument through which Christ reveals His prophetic Word relevant to our time.

And now, notice, the Voice of Christ crying out as when a lion roars and seven thunders uttering their voices, must be in some stage of the Church; and if it was not in the seven ages, then it is for our time: the Age of the Cornerstone; because there in Revelation 10, He was crying as when a lion roars.

Therefore, it must be for the Age of the Cornerstone, because for the seven Church ages He was not as Lion, but as Lamb, as the Lamb sacrificed in the Sacrifice of Atonement for the human being’s sin.

And now, just as Christ spoke through each messenger in the seven ages, and He spoke as Lamb and also as High Priest, He will now be speaking as Lion, as Judge, as King, in the Age of the Cornerstone; and He will be speaking consecutively and opening all these mysteries to us; and above all, the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery for which there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour. And that mystery being spoken, will be the one that will give us the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

There is no other mystery that can give the faith to be transformed and raptured to the Bride-Church that will go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. There won’t be another mystery to give Her that faith to receive the eternal and glorified body. And the Voice of Christ as Lion is the only One that can speak, and with His Voice, His revelation, open this great mystery that caused silence in Heaven.

In the revelation of that mystery, the mystery of the New Name of the Lord will be revealed.

And all of that is relevant to the end time, to the Lord’s Day, where that Great Voice as of a Trumpet will be speaking to His Church; where the Seven Thunders, the Voice of Christ as Lion, will be speaking to His Church and giving Her the revelation to be transformed and raptured; just like through the Gospel of Christ, the revelation to receive the spiritual transformation has been given: by receiving Christ as our Savior, being baptized in water in His Name, and receiving His Holy Spirit, and thus, obtaining the new birth.

And now, through the Gospel of Christ for the Last Day, through the Gospel of Christ for the Dispensation of the Kingdom (which will be the Gospel of the Kingdom), that whole mystery will be opened, and Christ will be giving us the revelation, the faith, for that physical transformation that we are waiting for.

Reverend William Branham, when speaking of the Third Pull, also says that this stage will happen when the time of redemption has already come to an end; but there will be a great manifestation of the power of God, and that will be in the midst of His Church.

And Reverend William Branham says that when the Jews see that, they will say: “This is the One we are waiting for.”¹¹ Because that Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven, which is the Angel of the Covenant, the Messenger to Israel, the One that gave the Law to the Hebrew people, will now come to His Church; and they will see Him coming to His Church at the end time, in that full manifestation called: the Third Pull.

And at the end time there will be a giant Tent Cathedral, which was seen by Reverend William Branham, where he saw the Pillar of Fire positioning Itself in a small room; therefore, the instrument that He will be using at that time will have to be there, and the Name of God will also be there.

Reverend William Branham also says, around page 26 or page 40 of the book of Quotations, that if this is that in which God will begin to reveal or make known His Name in a new way.¹²

This is all simple; but because God sealed it, then it can’t be conceived by the human being; until God opens that mystery, and then everyone can say: “But this is simpler than I was imagining!” And others will say: “No, it can’t be so simple.”

So, if it is simple they say it can’t be, and if it is complicated, they say: “No, that is too complicated, it can’t be that either.” The unbeliever is an unbeliever, whether things are presented to him in a simple way or in a complicated way. If it’s not in a simple way, they say: “No, that is too complicated to understand. I can’t believe or understand.” And if it is presented in a simple way, they say: “It can’t be something so simple.”

But notice the simple way in which the Name of God was: in a veil of flesh called Jesus, the name Yoshua. And notice, many didn’t believe, mainly among the religious leaders of His time; they didn’t even realize the Name of God was there.

But this shows that it has to be by Divine revelation, it has to be that the Spirit of God opens people’s understanding to understand; and when God is the One who works, then the person says: “It is so simple! I believe it with all my soul.”

Well, He has been speaking in the midst of His Church, He has been writing His laws in our soul, in our heart, and in our mind, so that we keep His laws, His commandments, and thus we live eternally with Him in His Kingdom; and we receive His blessings relevant to the Dispensation of Grace, and then the ones relevant to the Dispensation of the Kingdom.

I’m already seeing here that people are already arriving for the next service. So, from this chat we can see that Christ is the Angel of the Covenant of the Old Testament. Saint Paul, speaking about Him, says in Hebrews chapter 1:

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

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

And he also tells us that He is the image of the living God, he tells us that He is the Person of God;¹³ and He is the image of the heavenly body, that theophanic body. That image is the Holy Spirit, which is that heavenly body or theophanic body called the Angel of the Covenant or Angel of God, in whom the Name of God is – was, is, and will be eternally.

And now, we can see what He also said: that He would give us a New Covenant, He would make a New Covenant, the same Angel, who is Christ in His heavenly body, whom God is in, now makes a New Covenant with His people and writes His laws here, in the heart of all the believers.

Now we can see that Jesus Christ is greater and more important than we imagined many years ago.

We have seen these things, and now we know that what has been carried out throughout the Church ages is a Divine Plan, and now we are (aware) in an eternal age: the Age of the Cornerstone, in an eternal phase, which we have gone into without realizing it; and there are some words by Reverend William Branham who says that if we knew our position… and he says: “We will, one day.”¹⁴

And our position now isn’t the fourth, fifth, or seventh age; it is the Age of the Cornerstone. That is where the Holy Spirit goes up and that is where He comes manifested at the Last Day.

And now, we have seen all these things and we know that the manifestation of the Third Pull couldn’t be in other Church ages, only a sample of It was given; but that full manifestation is promised for the Age of the Cornerstone, which we have come into; and therefore, we have come into an eternal age; and that is why, while we are alive, we are waiting for our transformation, in other words, to physically enter into Eternal Life: obtaining the eternal and glorified body.

By being obedient to that prophetic Word, we will have great blessings from God.

I appreciate and I am very grateful for the support you have been giving Puerto Rico in this great project of The Great Tent Cathedral that is being carried out there in Puerto Rico. And the way things are in the continent of the Americas, with the economic situation, which has affected all the nations, we have to get ahead because the economic situation is becoming more difficult every day.

And therefore, it’s in our best interest to complete all that work relevant to that Tent Cathedral before things get worse in the economic aspect; because there are some expenses that – which one takes on for that construction of that Tent Cathedral; and also the floor, which is large and has certain specifications that are very costly.

We have to… as Miguel says: a greater effort, so that soon we have everything paid off and The Tent already completed, because the progress they make on the construction depends on the payments that are made (so…), and the lands as well.

My desire has always been to not have debt, and that is also what I have taught them there in Puerto Rico; and the best thing for Puerto Rico is that they don’t have debts, so that they don’t have to worry about those large payments; because they also have to pay for electricity, which is expensive, because of the buildings that are there, and the water bill as well. In other words, there are some monthly expenses that are also high, but those facilities are needed. And when we will need all of that the most is when that stage comes, when that pull is completely manifested, that is when we will see that we were going to need all of that for that glorious moment of that full manifestation of the Lord.

Now anyone might say: “Maybe we don’t need so much land and such a big building.” Well, don’t worry: you don’t need it, but the Work of God does. Thank God you don’t need it, because then you wouldn’t be able to help the Work, because you would spend it all on yourself.

But in the Divine Program it was already shown that there would be a big Tent Cathedral, and it has to appear somewhere; and it has to appear in the territory where God is working, where that eternal age is being fulfilled.

It can’t be in the… in another age, it has to be in the age that is in effect, and it has to be with the people who are in that age, and it has to be with the instrument that God is using in that age.

That is why Reverend William Branham tried, although he was the instrument of his time, but The Tent Cathedral wasn’t for his time; he was only given the vision, and like a good messenger, he wanted to make it a reality in his time, but he wasn’t allowed to.

The same with going to the Hebrews, to the Jews, to take the Gospel: he wanted to, but he was forbidden, because he wasn’t the messenger with the fifth ministry of Elijah.¹⁵ As simple as that.

And now, God has many blessings, much prophetic Word to be made a reality, to be fulfilled at this end time. A lot has already been made a reality among us, and the mystery of those prophecies relevant to our time has also been opened, but there are others that are still sealed and must become a reality as well, and be identified in the prophetic Word as the prophecies that are being fulfilled.

Sometimes we speak to you about some that are not fulfilled, and we tell you that they will be fulfilled; in other words, that is already showing that certain… – a certain prophetic Word is coming forth to be fulfilled.

May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you, and may He use you in His Work more and more every day at this end time. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

And remember: make a greater effort this entire year, until we finish those commitments and… Huh? [Bro. Miguel: Until we have The Tent set up.] Yes, until it is set up and we’ve – all those lands have been paid off, then we will be more at ease.

Anyone might say: “But after that? After that we’re leaving. All those expenses just for us to leave?” But that is how it is in the Program. Don’t worry, because those who don’t have that, well, they won’t have the blessings that are promised there either.

[Bro. Miguel: He doesn’t have a blessing either.]

Right.

[Bro. Miguel: He might not have expenses, but he doesn’t have a blessing either.]

It’s like when God told Moses: “Build a tabernacle,”¹⁶ anyone may say: “Oh! But to build a tabernacle when we are walking all the time; this will be difficult later on; and then we have to carry it.” But that was the Plan. Other people didn’t have that tabernacle and they didn’t have God among them.

God always has the human being as a partner in His Program, a partner in all the projects that God carries out. And the best Partner is God, and to God, the best partners are His children; all of our heavenly Father’s business stays in the Family. Christ said: “I must be about My Father’s business,”¹⁷ and not be lazy, but working.

Well, may God bless you and keep you; and onward, working in our Lord’s business, our God’s business, who has a great business for this end time, a great project that was already prophesied and must become a reality in our time.

And we have to get ahead so that the most difficult time doesn’t catch us, doesn’t come upon us; because the president of the United States himself said that this year things could get worse in North America’s economy; in other words, he didn’t give people hope that this whole financial problem would be resolved this year.

So, we are in difficult times; but also, I don’t know if Miguel told you, read to you, that Reverend William Branham said that a depression would come, and that it would be in the spiritual and in the physical.¹⁸

So, it’s the prophecies being fulfilled; we can’t do anything in terms of that. But in terms of working so that the Divine Program is fulfilled, all of us can, even in difficult times. The Church was born in difficult times, so… but the presence of God was with them.

Well, may God bless you and keep you; and I leave Missionary Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín here again to continue. And over there I can already see the people that are arriving.

So, may God bless you and keep you, and we will see each other in the next service already, and also those who will be there in Bogota, we will see each other there again on Saturday; and we expect great blessings from God for the ministers’ meeting on Saturday. And then on Sunday we also have a service.

How many were in the activity of the… in commemoration of the Holocaust? There, according to what I was informed, more than 75% (no less than 75%) were Jews, in other words, the majority were Jews. They are very unsettled, they know something is about to happen, and they also know that they are in danger there in Israel and that they need God to help them.

Perhaps they don’t know the entire Plan that God has for our time, but God is going to speak to them. At some point, they will see Him in that manifestation, and they will say: “This is the One we are waiting for.” Why do we know it will be that way? Because it has already been spoken, Reverend William Branham already saw all of that and said it would be that way.

Well, may God continue to bless you all.

“PASTORS ATTENTIVE AND OBEDIENT TO THE WORD OF GOD.”