Good afternoon, fellow ministers in the Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; it is a great blessing and privilege to be with you on this occasion, to greet you and to ask Christ for His blessings upon each one of you.
May Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, bless you, prosper you spiritually and materially, and use you greatly in His Work relevant to this end time.
It is truly a great blessing and privilege to be with you and to see that you are hand in hand supporting the Divine project relevant to the end time, meaning, the entire Work of God relevant to the Age of the Cornerstone.
Sometimes we might ask ourselves: “What would I have done (each one of you could ask yourself) if I had lived in the time of Moses?” The same thing you are doing in our time. “What would I have done if I had lived in the time of Elijah?” You would have been one of those seven thousand who didn’t bow their knee unto Baal.[1] (And/or of Elisha.) And what if we lived in the time of Samuel or lived in the time of one of the prophets? Well, we would be hearing the Message that God would be speaking through them.
We would always be identified as believers; because whatever we are in our time, if we lived in another time, we would be the same thing: believers in the Word of God, in the form in which the Word of God would be coming at the time in which we would be given to live.
So, we wouldn’t have any problem, we know what we would have been in the past if we lived back then; and we know who we are now: believers; and we know what we will be in the future: believers, too.
The promise for our time is given by God through the Scriptures, and all the people of God are reminded of it through Reverend William Branham, and that is why he appears forerunning what God is promised to do at the end time. That is why, forerunning the Coming of the Lord, he also uses passages of the Old Testament, just like John the Baptist used passages of the Old Testament that spoke of the Coming of the Messiah.
And God is promising —through the Old Testament prophets, and speaking through Reverend William Branham— the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels at the end time. And the Angels who are sent, of the Son of Man, with the Great Voice of Trumpet, are the Two Olive Trees, Moses and Elijah, who will call and gather 144,000 Hebrews, 12,000 of each tribe.
And what the Seventh Trumpet is (which are the Two Olive Trees, Moses and Elijah), what the Seventh Trumpet is to the Jews, is the Seventh Seal to the Church. The Seventh Seal to the Church is the Coming of the Lord.
Now, Moses in his time, and also Elijah in his time, were both on the mountain of God and met with God, God spoke to them; it was also there that God gave Moses the Message for the fifth dispensation: the Dispensation of Law.
And with Elijah: there God spoke to him in the still small voice, which corresponds to the fourth stage; because first came… let’s… (if Miguel has it around there, he can read it to me; or if we can find it quickly…). First there came a strong wind that rended the trees… Kings, there around the 17th and on… uh… 19, verse 11 and on… [Bro. Miguel: 17:19?] (19… 19.) Chapter 19 of First Kings, verse 8 and on, says:
“And he arose, and did eat…”
Now notice, verse 6 says: “And…” Verse 5:
“And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat (this is already the second time… or the first time… we will see as we read).
And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again (that was the first time then).
And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.”
Notice, it is the Angel of God, the Angel of the Lord, the same One who appeared to Moses.
“And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.”
And now, notice, just as Moses came up to the mountain of God (Mount Horeb, Mount Sinai) shepherding the sheep of his father-in-law, Elijah also traveled to Mount Horeb (the mountain of God) when he found himself in danger; he traveled into Gentile territory. And Moses had traveled within a Gentile territory to a Gentile mountain, and Moses was shepherding the sheep of his father-in-law.
Now, let’s continue here…
These two prophets are very important, because they are the type and figure of the prophetic ministry that will come at the end time:
“And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word of the Lord came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
Remember that Elijah belonged to the northern kingdom, to one of the ten tribes of the northern kingdom; and Moses belonged to the tribe of Levi:
“And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:
And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?
And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
And the Lord said unto him, Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: and when thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria:
And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.
And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
Yet I have left me seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him.”
Now, here in this passage it shows us a very beautiful historical event; and it shows us the place where Moses had his encounter with God; and where Elijah also had an encounter there with God in the still small voice.
Notice, there was a strong wind: the Lutheran age; there was an earthquake: the Wesleyan age; there was a fire: the Pentecostal age; and then a still small voice, which is in the Age of the Cornerstone.
And now, Elijah heard all of that where? He saw it, he experienced it, where? On the mountain of God.
Let’s go to Hebrews, chapter 12; verse 18 and on says:
“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, 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.”
And now, we are not on Mount Sinai, rather we are on Mount Zion, on the Mountain of God, in the City of our God, the heavenly Jerusalem, with an innumerable company of angels, in and with and as members of the general assembly and Church of the firstborn written in Heaven, which are the members of the Mystical Body of Christ, whose names are written in Heaven; and we have come unto 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 speaks better things than that of Abel: the Blood of the New Covenant.
Now, everything that happened there on Mount Sinai, repeats, but in a higher sphere, under a New Covenant.
And now, in order for Him to give Moses the Message of the Dispensation of Law, he had to go to the mountain of God, to Mount Sinai; but now Moses in his second manifestation has to go to Mount Zion, where God gives the New Covenant.
And Moses is shepherding Gentile sheep there. We find Moses as a shepherd of sheep; therefore, the ministry of shepherding sheep back then is a type and figure of the shepherd ministry at the end time. And back then he is among the Gentiles and living among the Gentiles, in a Gentile territory, notice, after being rejected by his own people.
Now, we find that that was where God gave the Law to Moses; and now here, on Mount Zion… He went up to the top of Mount Zion [Sinai] to receive the Law; that was where God spoke to him after he already had reached that place with the people, because God said to him: “This shall be a token unto you: that when you have brought forth the people, you shall come to this mountain and you shall worship upon this mountain of God.”[2]
And now, let’s look at Revelation, chapter 14; let’s see what it tells us here: “And…” as well as chapter 7.
Chapter 7: the Angel with the Seal of the living God comes to call and gather 144,000, and to seal them in their foreheads; that messenger who comes with the Holy Spirit, with the Angel of the Covenant. Just as Moses came to Mount Sinai with the people: the Angel of the Covenant was with him, who is Christ in His heavenly body manifesting Himself in that Pillar of Fire, and on some occasions was seen in the form of a man.
But now, in chapter 14, it says [verse 1]:
“And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion…”
Not on Mount Sinai, but on Mount Zion; because on Mount Sinai it was the Covenant of Law, it was the Message of the Dispensation of Law; but on Mount Zion it’s the New Covenant and the Message of the Dispensation of Grace.
“… and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.”
They had the Name of the Lamb (of the Lord, of the Messiah) and His Father’s Name written in their forehead: “in their foreheads.”
“And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.”
And now notice, here the 144,000 appear again, who are called and gathered and sealed by the Angel who comes with the Seal of the living God.
And we know that the Two Olive Trees, Moses and Elijah, are the ones who come to call and gather 144,000; they are the ones whom the Son of Man sends with a Great Sound of a Trumpet to “gather together His elect from one end of Heaven to the other.”[3] In other versions it says, or in another one of the Gospels it says: “From the uttermost part of the Earth to the uttermost – or to the uttermost part of Heaven.”[4]
So, we can see that now, in the New Covenant and under the New Covenant, the Mountain of God is no longer Sinai; it is Mount Zion. And Mount Zion is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And all those who are in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ have gathered with the company of angels and those written in Heaven in the Book, in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Now, notice as well, the Gospel under the New Covenant or the Message of the New Covenant, the Gospel of Grace, came forth from where? From Mount Zion, Jerusalem. See? From Mount Zion, which is Jerusalem, came forth the Message of the Dispensation of Grace, under the New Covenant; It came forth from there. And therefore, notice, it is the Covenant that is made and preached on Mount Zion, in Jerusalem.
And that is the place from which the ministry of Moses and Elijah, they take the Message; because from the literal Mount Zion, which is Jerusalem, came forth the Dispensation of Grace and the Message of the law written in people’s hearts and souls and minds.
And that is why now, at the end time, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ (which was born in Jerusalem), notice, is the one that has God’s blessings under the New Covenant.
And thus, for Moses and Elijah to meet God, they must be on the Mountain of God, Mount Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem, and so on, where we find those written in Heaven, the firstborn, who are the members of the Church; there and from there, the ministry of Moses and Elijah must come forth.
And Moses was sheepherding what? Literal sheep; and later he was sheepherding people, who were typified in sheep. Therefore, that shepherd ministry is important for Moses.
All the ministries were being operated in the ministry of Moses: [the ministry] of prophet, of evangelist, of pastor, of teacher, and so on.
Now, Elijah must also come forth, appear. The ministry of Elijah, notice, went on to Mount Zion, to the Mountain of God, there in Reverend William Branham; there it was, on Mount Zion; and it must remain there, on that Mountain, in its fifth manifestation; and from there it can turn to Israel. And the ministry of Moses too.
In the still small voice, Elijah hears the Voice and Message of God; and, notice, it has to do with anointing three people: the king of Israel, the king of Syria, and Elijah’s successor: Elisha. Yet Elijah only called Elisha;[5] but because the ministry of Elijah passed on to Elisha and was in a double portion[6] (notice, a double portion), he worked to continue the work of Elijah.
A successor has to continue the work of the one he is succeeding, he has to follow the same line of thought; and the goals which that person had and that he had from God, he has to continue them until they become a reality; because he comes with the same spirit as the one he is succeeding; he is the continuation.
And now, we can see that there is a very beautiful picture to be carried out at this end time.
We find Moses already coming with the – with a tabernacle, but he had to build it first.
And we find Elijah repairing the altar, rebuilding the altar, with twelve stones;[7] each stone represents a tribe. He must bring together the lost tribes, along with the two tribes: the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, so that the presence of God, the Fire of God, the Spirit of God may return to the Hebrew people.
And likewise, we find countless things that happened back then, which are a type and figure of the ones that must happen in our time; in other words, the prophetic line that has been laid out by God must be maintained.
So, we can see that we are in a very beautiful, very glorious time, where we have the promise of a vision, in which Reverend William Branham saw a Tent, and he saw the full manifestation of God in that Tent.
That is connected to —in that full manifestation— the creation of missing limbs,[8] healings, altar calls,[9] and resurrections (he says there), resurrection,[10] and all those things, Reverend William Branham says. And he couldn’t find the moment… he was fighting for it, seeking… to materialize the vision that he had.
But notice, he wasn’t allowed to, even though he tried; because it wasn’t under the ministry of the fourth Elijah; it must be under the ministry of the fifth Elijah and second Moses (so, then, that…), and the presence of the Pillar of Fire must be there.
The Angel who accompanied Reverend William Branham is there, the Holy Spirit is there, working in the stage of the still small voice, the stage of the Golden Age of the Church, which is the Age of the Cornerstone.
All the things that were said would happen in the time of Elijah, when God said to him: “You shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria, Jehu to be king over Israel, and Elisha to be prophet in your place,” yet he only dealt with Elisha; but Elijah in his second manifestation dealt with the others who were appointed to be anointed.
And we find that to anoint the king of… Jehu, Elisha didn’t even have to go: he sent one of the sons of the prophets with the oil to anoint him.[11] Perhaps he was already elderly, or… God led him to do it that way, because he had to decide —according to God’s will— how he was going to carry out that… that stage, the anointing of Jehu.
So, we can see that the work of Elijah, which began with Elijah the Tishbite, continues from stage to stage.
Reverend William Branham, on page 449 of the book The Seals,[12] says: “The only spirit of Elijah that I know of is the Holy Spirit,” or “the only Elijah that I know of is the Holy Spirit,” something like that; because it is the Holy Spirit operating the ministry of Elijah in each stage.
So, we can see that it is a Work of the Holy Spirit: the Work that has been carried out by God through the prophets, through the apostles, through the different angel-messengers of each age, and also for this time in which we are living.
Remember that in the prophecy of Ezekiel, chapter 37, verses 1 to 14, in the time of the resurrection of the dry bones, we find that there were different stages; and… (it seems that it’s in the fourth stage) in the fourth stage the spirit had to come to them, because the different stages passed and there was a mighty army standing, but without a spirit, they needed a spirit; and then the prophet was told to call the spirit, from the four winds.
And calling the Spirit, notice, why? Because the Spirit was moving among the Gentiles, in the Work of the creation of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, a heavenly people; and now, the Spirit of God must return to Israel.
I heard an ambassador say that the saddest thing was that the presence of God left Jerusalem, which was there in the temple. And now, through the prophecy of Ezekiel, chapter 37, verse 1 to 14, we see that the Spirit of God, the presence of God, will return to Jerusalem, It will return to Israel.
So… A prophet was the one who called the spirit to go into those bodies… into that army that had already… that had been raised, and now they only needed the spirit; and when it came into them, they became an army, a wonderful people.
So, only a prophet will be able to call the Spirit of God to return to Israel, and he will do it! That is why the ministry of Moses and Elijah will be present at the end time; and that is why the Kingdom of God will then be established on Earth and the Prince Messiah will sit on the Throne of David.
“MOSES AND ELIJAH ON THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD.”
Not on Mount Sinai anymore, but on Mount Zion: the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which began there on Mount Zion, Jerusalem.
May God bless you and keep you, and we will see each other again at tonight’s activity.
And I hope to be with you again this same year during the trip that Missionary, Reverend Miguel Bermúdez Marín will be taking; or is he not coming here this year? He is coming here. On what date, Miguel?
[Bro. Miguel: That is set for May 14 and 15.]
Will you be here two days also – here again, or just one day?
[Bro. Miguel: We will be here two days again, because… to give Guatemala two days, El Salvador two days, and Honduras two days. In Honduras it would be on Saturday and Sunday.]
Saturday and Sunday. A Sunday, Miguel, is always important…
[Bro. Miguel: Yes, but I already… they say that they have very good – they have good internet and good broadcasting capabilities.]
We will have to test it; because then… At one of the last locations we visited, there was an issue, which affected everyone else.
Well, you already know that wherever there is an activity on a Sunday, if the broadcast isn’t working well, we have to eliminate that site; or use other equipment, not the same one; because if we use the same one, it will do the same thing again. Yes. So, then…
Because not just one group but all the groups of all the countries are affected when the broadcast is interrupted somewhere. In other words, the ministers of that place are responsible before all the other congregations. It is their responsibility to have things well-prepared for a Friday… or Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, which are the three main days in which people gather in all the countries: Fridays: in the congregations; Saturdays: the ministers’ meetings; and Sundays: all the congregations.
Well, may God bless you and keep you.
And remember: Moses and Elijah where? On the Mountain of God, Mount of Zion.
Let’s leave Miguel here already, he is already here. May God bless you, Miguel.
God bless each one of you. And we will see each other this evening, God willing.
“MOSES AND ELIJAH ON THE MOUNTAIN OF GOD.”
[1] 1 Kings 19:18
[2] Exodus 3:12
[3] Matthew 24:31
[4] Mark 13:27
[5] 1 Kings 19:19-21
[6] 2 Kings 2:9-15
[7] 1 Kings 18:30-39
[8] Quotations, p. 93, para. 804: 63-0322 – The Seals, “The Fifth Seal,” p. 4, para. 24
[9] Quotations, pp. 12-13, paras. 97-98: Full Gospel Business Men’s Voice Magazine, Vol. IV, No. 2, March 1956, pp. 11-14
[10] Quotations, p. 12, para. 96: 56-0224 – “Jehovah-Jireh,” p. 19, paras. 49-50
[11] 2 Kings 9:1-10
[12] The Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” p. 12, para. 89