Good morning, beloved ministers and ladies who work hard in the Work of God, and congregations that are in different nations, and ministers who are in different nations as well, today, the first Saturday of the month of June; a month which is very important to me because it is the month of my birth.
It is a great blessing for me to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of fellowship with you around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time.
This month… the month of June also falls in the summertime, the time of harvest.
For this occasion, let’s read in Saint Luke, chapter 11, verses 14 to 23; and it says:
“And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered.
But some of them said, He casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils.
And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth.
If Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out devils through Beelzebub.
And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.
But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.
When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:
But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
“TIME TO GATHER WITH THE LORD.”
In these words of Jesus, we find that there is no middle ground for the human being before God, before Christ. He who is not with Christ, then Christ says that he is against Him, because whoever remains neutral is siding against Christ.
And now… either the person is with Christ, or without Christ; either he is for Christ or he is against Christ.
Whoever is not in favor, automatically appears in the group and with the group that is against Christ, because he does not cast his vote in favor of Christ.
And now, it’s like in the elections: he who doesn’t vote for a candidate, is not with that candidate; and therefore, if he remains neutral: he is against him, because he did nothing in favor of that person.
And that is also how it happened with peoples and nations: those who have not been in favor of Israel and do not give a vote of confidence in favor of Israel, are against it, because they side with those who are against Israel. And that is how it is with all nations: whoever is not with a nation, thus sides with those who are against that nation, because they do nothing in favor of that nation.
It is like this in every sphere. And the most important is this spiritual realm: he who is not with Christ… Christ says:
[Luke 11:23] “He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.”
And when this is applied to the harvest time, the reaping time, for the reaping time is for harvesting; and whoever is not harvesting with Christ, is then scattering, he is not doing anything in favor of that work of Christ, which is the Work that pertains to the harvest time.
Notice here, some may be spiritually asleep, and others awake but standing against the Work of Christ of the harvest time; like what happened in the sowing time or what happened in the time to keep what was sown.
Now, notice what the wise Solomon tells us. Chapter… or, Proverbs 10, verse 5, says:
“He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.”
Therefore, he who sleeps in the summer, when he ought to be awake, causes shame to Christ, God, and his own faith.
“Awake, you that sleep, and Christ shall give you light.”[1] He gives you light, and then you will see the relevant time in which you are living; and then you will be able to work in the Work of God.
Now, notice what he tells us:
“He that gathereth in summer is a wise son.”
Because in the summer is when the harvest takes place; because in the summer is also when the wheat (the fruit) ripens with the summer sun, which is the time when the sun gives more heat and the time when the day or the days are longer.
In the wintertime, the fruit doesn’t ripen. And in the nighttime, the fruit doesn’t ripen either, because it doesn’t ripen by moonlight; because the moon doesn’t give heat; what it does is reflect the sun.
If the sun appears, then the moon and its light no longer serve to give people light; and even in the times in which the moon is visible, even if it is visible, in those moments one doesn’t depend on the moon for light, but on the sun; and for heat, and for the wheat to ripen.
And the sun represents Christ: “Unto you that fear My Name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His Wings”;[2] and this is appointed for the time relevant to the Lord’s Day.
Malachi, chapter 4, tells us: “Behold, the day comes that shall burn as an oven…” Let’s read it so that we can see everything relevant to our time. It says [verse 1]:
“For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.”
Who is under the sentence to be burned? The chaff, the stalk, and those who have had no part in Christianity as well; on that day that shall burn as an oven, which pertains to the great tribulation, when nature itself will rise up against mankind.
Remember that when the Hebrew people went to the promised land, God said that “the Earth vomited out her inhabitants.”[3] And the Earth will once again vomit out her inhabitants with these environmental problems: of global warming, where the temperature has been rising; the poles have been… the polar ice caps have been melting, and will continue to, and consequently, sea levels will continue to rise; and that will cause tidal waves, tsunamis, and also the disappearance of many coasts; and that will fulfill the promise or the prophecy that says He will “repay the islands”;[4] and especially the Pacific, and those along the Pacific Ocean, are in grave danger.
Remember that the divine judgments come from stage to stage, after the messenger’s time of ministry has ended, and God has gathered the fruit: God’s sons and daughters of that time; and then He takes the messenger, because his time to work on the Earth already ended.
How He takes him? That doesn’t matter. He took John… perhaps anyone might say: “without a head”; no, but in the theophanic body he did have his head in place; the physical body, with a head or without a head, doesn’t matter; in other words, whether the person is burned, or a shark eats him out at sea, it doesn’t matter; he has another body: “If our earthly body were dissolved (or destroyed), we have one waiting; a temple, a… a building waiting for us.”[5] That is the heavenly theophanic body.
And therefore, we already have Eternal Life, our soul has Eternal Life. If the person dies, that is not a problem for him: he goes to Paradise to live in the heavenly body; and if his earthly duties at work or at home or economically were hard on him, then his problem is over; because the problems are here, while we are on Earth.
But we are here for a Divine purpose, and to work in the Work of the Lord; so that the number of God’s elect, the number of the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, to whom the Kingdom has been given, is also completed.
Remember that Christ said: “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.”[6] Therefore, the heirs of the Kingdom of God are the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; that is why they are kings and priests and judges as well; and they will reign with Christ for a thousand years and then for all eternity on this planet Earth.
They are the members of Royalty, of the heavenly Royalty, and as such, they are the members of the Royalty that will be established on the Earth in the Kingdom of the Messiah; that is why they will reign with Christ for the Millennium and for all eternity.
Everything Christ is heir to, the believers in Him are also heirs to. Remember that Christ said: “I am the Light of the world: he that follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life”;[7] but He also says to His disciples, to the believers in Him: “You are the light of the world.”[8]
Likewise, He is the Bright and Morning Star; but the believers in Christ are also represented in stars; which were also mentioned to Abraham: that his seed would be as the stars of heaven.[9]
Therefore, just as there is a star: the bright and morning star, which is Venus, and represents Christ, there is a star that represents you, and there is a star that represents me as well. And Christ is also represented in the sun: the Sun of Righteousness.
And the Scripture also says the following, regarding the believers in Christ, in chapter 12 of Daniel; there is also a Scripture there that speaks about people. Chapter 12, verse 3, says:
“And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.”
See? They are represented in the light of the firmament and also in the stars of heaven.
Christ Himself says: “I am the Bright and Morning Star.” Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16. And Revelation, chapter 2, verse 28, says that He will give the Overcomer (what?) the Morning Star.
And the Morning Star is the Pillar of Fire, it is the Angel of the Covenant; Christ, the Angel of the Covenant. Therefore, the Overcomer will have Christ, the Pillar of Fire, the Angel of the Covenant; he will have the Holy Spirit.
And as the messenger of the Last Day, he will have the blessing of being the messenger of Revelation, chapter 7, who will call and gather together 144,000 Jews or Hebrews (and…), 12,000 of each tribe; and he also has to do with the group of the foolish virgins, who will go through the great tribulation; because the Third Pull has to do with the foolish virgins, which, in the Coming of the Lord have no Oil at the Last Day, and cannot go in with Christ to the Marriage.
When they come, the Door has already been shut, according to the parable of the ten virgins, of Saint Matthew, chapter 25, verses 13… or rather, 10 to 13; they will be cast into outer darkness, which is the great tribulation.
And the world, the kingdom of the Gentiles, will also go into the great tribulation, where the Divine judgment will be falling upon the human race, where the Earth will be vomiting out her inhabitants.
Why will the Divine judgment come in that three-and-a-half-year time period which corresponds to the last part of the seventieth week of the prophecy of Daniel, chapter 9, verse 21 to 27?
The first part of the seventieth week: three and a half years, was fulfilled in the days of the ministry of Jesus; and then that seventieth week stopped and the gap for the Gentiles opened, for God to deal with the Gentiles under a new Covenant, and to be cleansed with the Blood of the new Covenant, which is the Blood of Christ our Savior, the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant, according to the words of Saint Paul in Hebrews, chapter 13, verse 20 to 21.
And also according to the words of Christ, at the last supper, there in Saint Matthew, chapter 26, verses 26 to 29 (of Saint Matthew), where Christ, taking the bread, and breaking… upon giving thanks, breaking the bread and giving to His disciples, He says: “Eat ye of it, for this is My Body”; and taking the cup of wine and giving thanks to the Father, He says to His disciples: “Drink ye all of it, for this is My Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
Why would the Blood of Christ be shed? For the remission of sins. It is the only Blood that remits the human being’s sins: It takes them from the human being and returns them to the devil, who was the originator of sin. There is no other blood.
Some may think: “But among the Hebrew people, in the Feast of Passover (there they als-…), when they sacrificed the paschal lamb, and in the feast of the day of forgiveness, the day of atonement (according to Leviticus, chapter 23, verses 26 to 29), they obtained the forgiveness of sins; on that day, all those who had confessed their sins to God obtained the forgiveness of their sins.”
Yes, their sins were covered by the blood of that goat of the sin offering; but the sin remained in those people, but covered by the blood; because animal blood doesn’t remit sins: it can’t take away the human being’s sin, and the spirit of the animal can’t come to the sinner to justify him and sanctify him and fill him with the Holy Spirit. That was just the type and figure of what God would do through Christ and His Blood shed on Calvary’s Cross.
When that which is real comes, that which is perfect, then the type and figure: what is in part and is temporary, is then taken away.
Animal sacrifices are no longer needed, nor can those sacrifices be restored either, because there is a Blood: the Blood of the everlasting Covenant. And we won’t go back to a covenant whose time already passed; we have to move forward. God doesn’t walk backward, neither do His children; therefore, we don’t walk backward, but forward.
Notice, this is also in… Hebrews, chapter 7, says… In Hebrews, chapter 7, it tells us [verse 11]:
“If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?
For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.”
And now, the priesthood has changed: from the Aaronic priesthood (or priesthood of Aaron, or Levitical priesthood), to the Priesthood of Melchizedek. The priesthood of Aaron is no longer functioning, because there is no temple. Where can the sacrifices be carried out?
But there is a heavenly Priesthood, where there is the Blood of the Perfect Sacrifice, the Blood of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, the Blood of the Atonement, there in Heaven, where the High Priest is the Lord Jesus Christ; He is Melchizedek.
And all the believers in Him are of that heavenly Order, they are the members of that heavenly Priestly Order; and they are also the members of the heavenly Royal Order: they are kings of the Kingdom of Christ; they are priests of the heavenly Temple.
And the heavenly Order will be established on Earth. The heavenly Order, with the Coming of the Messiah at the Last Day, after the great tribulation, He will come from Heaven; when the Marriage of the Lamb in Heaven and the Marriage Supper of the Lamb ends in Heaven, He will come with that heavenly Order, which are the members of His Church; His Church: His Wife, whom He marries; and therefore, they (those people) are joint heirs with Christ to everything that Christ is heir to.
And at a government level: the Kingdom of God will be established on Earth; no longer just in the spiritual realm, but at a government level; and the government will be the Messiah’s government.
That is why it tells us in Daniel, chapter 2 that at the end of time, in the stage of the feet of iron and clay of the statue that King Nebuchadnezzar saw; which represents, that statue represents the Gentile kingdom, which began with King Nebuchadnezzar and his kingdom and his empire (the head of gold); and it continued with the chest and arms of silver, which pertains to the Medo-Persian empire; and then it continued later on with the belly and thighs of brass, which pertains to the Greek empire; and then it continued later on with the legs of iron, which pertains to the Roman empire of the Caesars; and then, later on, the feet of iron and clay, which is what we’ve had after the fall of the Roman empire.
The feet of iron and clay, notice, have iron, which pertains to Rome, to the Roman empire; covered… and if it’s covered, some don’t see that it is the Roman empire, which is present at the Last Day. Since the fall of the Roman empire of the Caesars, the feet of iron and clay, which is the last stage of the Gentile kingdom, has been ruling over the Earth.
In the legs of iron, in the Roman empire, the time of the Roman empire, the First Coming of Christ was fulfilled, and they crucified Him. What a tremendous problem the Gentile empire got itself into: it crucified the Messiah!
Therefore, we won’t be blaming the Jews; they were blinded so that all of this could happen, and so that God could have for the human being a Sacrifice of Atonement for sin, so that everyone could be covered by the Blood of the New Covenant, and be completely cleansed from all sin and be justified before God: to be left as if they had never sinned before in their lives; and to become part of the Church of the Lord, of that Kingdom of God that is in the spiritual realm.
The born-again believers in Christ have entered into the Kingdom of God; that is the way one enters into the Kingdom of God.
In the terms in which Christ also spoke, regarding the Gentile kingdom and His Church, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, we also find that He spoke of things related to the field. And anyone might think: “This man is a farmer,” but He was also a construction worker, they called Him “The carpenter of Nazareth.”
So, He had his carpentry workshop; and we don’t know if in addition to wood, it also included iron or some other metal; because carpenters work with iron as well. “What do you mean they work with iron?” Don’t they use nails? Don’t they use a hammer? They work with iron too (hehe); they use handsaws, saws, all those things.
And now, since Christ is that Stone cut out without hands that King Nebuchadnezzar saw, and that vision was interpreted by the king – it was interpreted to the king by Daniel… who also saw it, God then showed it to him; and He not only showed it to him, but He also gave him the interpretation: He made known to him what that statue meant, which had different materials: gold, silver, brass, iron, and earth as well (clay).[10]
Now, in the time of the feet of iron and clay is when the Stone cut out without hands returns; that is the Second Coming of Christ. And with His Coming, Second Thessalonians chapter 2 says that with the brightness of the Coming of the Lord, He will kill the antichrist, the man of sin.[11]
The man of sin will be the highest leader who will be in the Gentile kingdom in the stage of the feet of iron and clay; and the Scripture says that he will sit in the Temple of God.[12] The spiritual Temple of God is His Church. Therefore, he will have a very close relationship with Christianity.
And he will try to conquer the Throne of David; but the Throne of David can’t be joined together with the Gentile throne; those are two different thrones.
The throne of the Gentiles is a throne of iniquity, it is a throne that comes all the way from Babylon; but he will want to join together the Gentile throne and the Throne of David; he will try to find a way. Therefore, well, he will try to have them recognize him as the king, heir to that Throne. We will see that later on, as time goes on; and as things unfold further.
Now, the kingdom of the Gentiles has reached its end time, that is why all the Gentile nations (which are all the nations besides Israel) are in a very difficult situation: they are being hit by economic problems, climate (or climatological) problems are affecting them, and all the problems are falling upon the Gentile kingdom.
Since Israel has not been restored to the Kingdom of God yet and they aren’t being ruled by the Kingdom of God —which is the Kingdom of David being restored and the Throne of David being occupied by the Prince Messiah— therefore, the Hebrew people has also had, and has, and will have, many problems; until the Messiah finally establishes His Kingdom, turns Jerusalem into the Capital not only of Israel, but of the entire world.
Because the Kingdom, not only of Israel but of the entire world, belongs to the Messiah; because He is the heir to the Kingdom of David, as Son of David; but He is the heir to the entire world as Son of Man; and He is the heir to Royalty as Son of Abraham; and He is the heir to the heavenly Kingdom and to the heavenly Throne, He is the King of the Heavens and of the Earth, as Son of God. Each one of those titles has an inheritance.
And that is why the believers in Christ:
- As children of Abraham: they belong to the heavenly Royalty, and to the Royalty of the Kingdom that will be established on Earth.
- As children of David: since they have been born again through Jesus Christ, through the manifestation of the Spirit of Christ in those believers, that new birth makes them descendants of David through Christ; and so, they are heirs… – joint heirs with Christ to the Kingdom of David.
And everything that Christ is heir to, I also am heir to. And who else? Well, each one of you as well.
Remember that the Kingdom of God was taken. Christ said: “The Kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation (or to a people) who bring forth the fruits thereof”[13]: it has been given to the believers in Christ, to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, to Christ and His Church.
And if It hadn’t been taken from Israel and given to another people, what would have happened? Well, all the believers in Christ, all the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, would be Jews; there wouldn’t be any among the Gentiles unless they identified as Jews; they would all be Jews, of one of the tribes; there would be no difference. All of them, the entire Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, would be Jewish.
He began with Jews, but then went on to the Gentiles, to call out from among the Gentiles a people for His Name; and He broke down the middle wall of partition that there was between Jews and Gentiles.[14]
And now, one doesn’t enter into the Kingdom of God just by being from Israel. One enters into the Kingdom of God by faith in Christ. It doesn’t matter where a person comes from, he doesn’t have to be tracing his genealogy.
The genealogy of the believers in Christ is in Christ; our genealogy begins there, and it leads us to eternity. And Christ: comes from God. See? We come from Christ, and Christ comes from God.
The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has been going through various difficult stages on this planet Earth; but that is none other than a war that began in Heaven, where the devil fought against the Archangel Michael, and lost the battle there.
That battle passed to the Earth, to human beings, ever since God put the human being on Earth, back in the days of Adam. And seemingly, the devil has been winning the battle, “seemingly;” but the final battle determines the final victory.
Christ already obtained the victory in the spiritual realm when He died, was buried, and resurrected victorious and glorified, and sat on the Throne of God; He obtained the victory to sit on the Throne of God. That was the battle: it was for the Throne of God.
If Christ hadn’t obtained the victory, then who would have sat on the heavenly Throne of God? Well, Judas Iscariot (to make it easier to understand). And then that Kingdom would be ruled by Judas Iscariot, and it wouldn’t be good at all.
But the Kingdom of God is ruled by Christ, and therefore, everything belongs to Christ; be they powers, or kingdoms, or princes, or principalities, everything belongs to Christ.
Now, we can see that there is a mystery there, concerning the Throne of God.
Some people think: “Well, if Christ is the One who is sitting on the Throne of God as King, and everything has been entrusted to Him, everything is under His authority (be they powers, or princes, or kingdoms, or angels, or archangels, everything)… well, then God ended up without power, God isn’t doing anything.” It’s because God is in Christ. It’s through Jesus Christ, who is on the heavenly Throne, that God is reigning.
It was through Jesus Christ that God created the Heavens and the Earth; through Christ in His heavenly body, called the Word, which was with God and was God, by whom He created all things. And then that Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, among the human beings, there in the midst of the Hebrew people. (Saint John, chapter 1, verses 1 to 20.)
And verse 14 is the one that says: “The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld His Glory, the Glory as of the only Begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.”
And in the same chapter, chapter 1, verse 18, it tells us: “No man hath seen God at any time.”
And why does the Scripture say that God spoke with Adam, and that God came every afternoon to speak with Adam?[15] And after they sinned, He came, He still continued to come; He sought him, and He resolved the situation they were in: a sacrifice of an animal was carried out by God, and the skins of that animal were put in place to cover Adam and Eve’s nakedness.[16]
And that is why we find that, after that moment, the human being has been sacrificing animals: in Genesis, in Exodus, in Leviticus, and so on, throughout the history of the nations.
Because the blood of those animals covered sin, although it didn’t take it away; it was the type and figure of a perfect Sacrifice that would come later on, it was the shadow; but the reality is Christ.
And now, we find that He appeared to… He also spoke to Enoch, He also spoke to Noah, He also spoke to Abraham.
He appeared to Abraham on different occasions in physical form: as Melchizedek (and He also appeared to him…), in chapter 14 of Genesis; and He also appeared to him in chapter 18… 17 to 19, of Genesis, with two other Angels, two other Archangels, which were Michael and Gabriel, the day before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; and He revealed to Abraham that the following year, counting from that moment when He was speaking with them there, he would have the son, the promised son would be born; for which Abraham and Sarah had to be rejuvenated, transformed, because Abraham was already 99 years old, and Sarah was 89 years old.
And no man would expect a child from an 89-year-old woman or wife; and to make matters worse: she was barren. But she was rejuvenated, and so was Abraham; to the point that when… because of the destruction there was in Sodom and Gomorrah by the Archangels Gabriel and Michael… who went to Sodom, appeared to Lot, Lot took them to his house… they had lunch with Abraham, and now they were having supper with Lot.
And now, notice, there was a problem there in Sodom and Gomorrah: It’s because those people had unnatural tendencies, and it was legalized there.
Remember that the Scripture says, Christ Himself says, that “the Coming of the Son of Man will be as it was in the days of Lot,”[17] that is, in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah.
That is why everything starts aligning with the condition of the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah: the condition of the inhabitants of the different nations; and no one can stop that. What is happening is prophetic, and therefore, one shouldn’t start fighting with those things.
The Angels didn’t start fighting with those of Sodom and Gomorrah, but instead protected Lot and his family, and brought them out of that city so that the Divine judgment wouldn’t destroy Lot and his family.
Those people of Sodom and Gomorrah were already condemned, because God had already come down to see if it was true, and He came down with His Angels; and when He comes down with His Archangels Gabriel and Michael, something major is going to happen on Earth. When They come: there is either blessing or curse; or both: blessing for Abraham and curse for Sodom and Gomorrah.
“As it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah, as it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be in the day when the Son of Man will be manifested, will be revealed.” Therefore, the world will be in the condition that Sodom and Gomorrah were in; and in the media, we can all see that mankind is heading down that path; therefore, the Gentile kingdom is under the sentence of destruction.
The Scripture says in Malachi, chapter 4, verse 1 and on: “Behold, the day comes that shall burn as an oven” (it tells us); and well, nature moves so that what it says becomes a reality.
“For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble (that is, they will be burned): and the day that cometh shall burn them up (meaning, will burn them up), saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.”
In other words, regarding those people who are mentioned here: the wicked ones, the tares… remember that in the parable of the wheat and the tares,[18] the tares will be cast into the fire and will be destroyed; they are the ones that Christ said will be destroyed.
He says: “The wheat are the children of the Kingdom; the Son of Man (He says) is the One who sows the wheat.” The Son of Man sows the wheat, and the children of the Kingdom are the wheat.
The One who sows and places the children of the Kingdom on the Earth, is Christ; we are here on Earth because Christ has brought us to live on this planet Earth. And we have been placed in the Kingdom of Christ, His Church, the Kingdom that is in the spiritual realm, but on Earth; because “the field” is the world: we have been placed in this world, but sealed by the Spirit of God in the Kingdom of Christ.
The tares are the children of the wicked one, the enemy that sowed them, who does He say it is? The devil. And he is talking about human beings: the wheat are people and the tares are people as well.
Now, He says to let everything grow together; because the laborers, who are the messengers of different stages of the Church, wanted to uproot the tares: “How, then, can you have tares if You sowed wheat? Do You want us to uproot the tares?” In the parable, Christ says: “No, the owner of the field says not to uproot the tares, because by uprooting the tares they might also uproot the wheat.”
And remember that they are people, He is talking about human beings; one person might be related to the other: the father-in-law might be wheat and the son-in-law might be tares, or vice versa; or the daughter-in-law might be wheat and the mother-in-law might be tares, or vice versa too. And by taking the mother-in-law away, the mother-in-law might also uproot or take the daughter-in-law with her, out of the Kingdom of Christ.
That is why we must let everything continue until the final moment.
And in this world, notice, the workers can’t uproot the tares from the Earth, from the planet Earth, because by uprooting the tares they might also uproot the wheat.
Remember James (and… who else?) and John, on the occasion when they were not received in Samaria, and they say to Jesus: “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from Heaven as Elijah did (in other words, to burn them)?”[19]
Remember that Elijah commanded fire to come down from heaven two or three times, when they would send a military leader with fifty soldiers to find him and imprison him, because they wanted to kill him, and they had to take him to King Ahab.
And Elijah said: “If I am a servant of God, then let fire come down from heaven and consume them all,” and it happened. It happened the first time, it happened the second time… and when they sent the third one with fifty soldiers, he already knew the story; and he was fearful of God, on top of that; but he gets to where Elijah is and apologizes, asks for forgiveness, and says to him: “This… don’t destroy… command fire to come down from heaven, to consume these as you did with the others. Have mercy on us.” And then God says to him: “Go, go down with him,” He says to Elijah.[20]
So, notice what Elijah was like; it doesn’t seem like he was much of a pacifist, but he was very fearful of God. And to defend the Divine Program, if he had to use the power of God: he let himself be anointed by the Spirit of God to speak that creative Word, and for those things to happen, and to destroy the enemy.
Elijah was of the northern tribes, of the northern kingdom, of the ten tribes that are called “the lost tribes” nowadays; that is why Elijah is associated with the Gentiles.
The first time, he appeared among the northern tribes; the second time, he appears as Elisha, the ministering spirit of Elijah in Elisha; then he appears in John the Baptist: a descendant of Levi, of the priestly order of Aaron; and then the ministry of Elijah appears in North America, in Reverend William Branham: the Holy Spirit anointing a man with that ministry to fulfill the seventh stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in North America.
Because the Divine Program with the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ began in the East, in the land of Israel, in the time of Jesus and the apostles; and then It continued moving from East to West: It moved to Asia Minor, after Asia Minor It moved to Europe, from Europe It then moved to North America; and look at where It has moved after North America. It can’t move from the continent of the Americas until the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is completed.
Therefore, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be completed in the stage of the Cornerstone or Age of the Cornerstone. The Message that will be calling and gathering the elect of the Last Day will be there; It will be gathering the fruit, the elect, the wheat, into the Mystical Body of Christ, so that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ may be completed.
We see that the Day of Pentecost, the fiftieth day, is… Remember that fifty means ‘pentecost’ – or pentecost: ‘fifty’; that is in Leviticus, chapter 23, which is that feast of the harvest, the feast of pentecost.
And that is how everything has continued moving. That Day of Pentecost which began back then, has continued gathering the fruit, the wheat, into the Kingdom of Christ in the spiritual realm.
Then comes a Year of Pentecost; for which there must be (before a Year of Pentecost can come) the fulfillment of 49 years, in which there must be 7 sabbatical years; which is in Leviticus, chapter 25, verse 1 to 7. And then, in chapter 25, verses 8 to 13, there is the year of Pentecost; for the physical materialization of that gathering into the Kingdom of Christ, in eternal, immortal, and glorified bodies: with the dead resurrecting in eternal bodies and the living being transformed.
Notice, that is the new Pentecost; it is no longer a day, but a Pentecost represented in the fiftieth year, the year of jubilee, for each one to return to his family and to his inheritance. And that always pertains to a Cornerstone Age.
Because before a Cornerstone Age or Golden Age, those seven weeks of years pass, which typify the seven stages or ages of the Church; and after the seven ages, we go into what the fiftieth year represents: the Age of the Cornerstone, where the great blessing for all the believers in Christ is.
Now, that doesn’t mean that there won’t be struggles, problems, persecutions; there always were and there always will be.
In the days of Jesus they were living… In the days of John, in the day of John they were living in the seventh stage of the Hebrew Church under the Law; and when Christ appears, He begins the Age of the Cornerstone, because Christ Himself is the Capstone or Cornerstone.
The messenger for the Age of the Cornerstone is a cornerstone as a messenger, and he must always be a dispensational messenger. He can’t be a messenger of prior ages, he must be a dispensational messenger.
A messenger of a past age can’t rise to become a dispensational messenger; each one has his place.
That is why a messenger of an age, even if it is an age preceding the Age of the Cornerstone, cannot carry out the Program which is determined to be carried out in that Age of the Cornerstone; even if he tries, he cannot, God doesn’t allow it. That is why we always find that a messenger who is before a dispensational messenger, will always be a forerunner of the one who will come after him.
Even he tries… The messenger who was before Noah, even if he tried to build an ark, and carry out everything and do everything that Noah had to do: it wouldn’t work for him. The same in the time of Moses: even if a messenger prior to Moses tried to do what Moses had to do, it would not work.
Before the foundation of the world, God has chosen His messengers, His prophets, and the time in which He will send them, and the Message that they have to proclaim.
And no one can break the Divine Program. And if someone tries to alter the Divine Program, like what happened with Moses when he smote the rock, the second rock, twice: he had problems before God;[21] because the rock represents Christ, who had to give Water.
The first rock in Horeb,[22] there on Mount Sinai, represents the First Coming of Christ; and the rock had to be smitten, because in the First Coming of Christ, Christ has to be smitten to carry out the redemption of the human being and give the Water of Eternal Life, which is the Holy Spirit.
But the second rock, in Kadesh Barnea, represents the Second Coming of Christ. And the Second Coming of Christ is not to be crucified, to be wounded, because that Work was already done in the First Coming of Christ.
He came as a Lamb in the First Coming, in the Second He comes as a Lion. The Sacrifice would not be of a Lion but of a Lamb, which pertains to the First Coming.
The Second Coming is to make the claim over everything He redeemed with His precious Blood; it’s to carry out the materialization of the Year of Jubilee, it’s to carry out the whole Divine Program pertaining to the Last Day, pertaining to the Age of the Cornerstone, the Golden Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And therefore, when Moses smote the rock, the second rock, God was filled with wrath against Moses, and said to him: “Because you did not glorify Me – you did not sanctify Me, you did not glorify Me, and…”[23] he told them that they had not believed, something like that; and he smote the rock in anger…
Acting out of anger always brings problems; and even more so when you are acting in the Work of God, one cannot act with anger.
And the problem for Moses was that he altered the order, the Program of the Second Coming of Christ: he broke the type and figure. For this reason, the Second Coming of Christ will be wounded: It will have a crucifixion in the spiritual realm, where from public places (like churches, pulpits and places like that, and through many other places), they will speak badly of everything God will be doing at the Last Day; and that will be a second crucifixion; for this reason, it will be unpardonable for the people who do it.
And well, Moses paid the consequences as well: he wasn’t able to enter into the promised land, he only saw it from a distance;[24] and he also only managed to be in the two and half tribes that inherited the land before crossing the Jordan; Moses divided that territory among them;[25] but as for the rest of the territory, Joshua was the one who divided that territory; and Joshua represents the Holy Spirit.
It will be the Holy Spirit at the Last Day who will give us the inheritance: He will bring us over to the other side of the Jordan, to the other side of death; because the Jordan represents death.
The Hebrew people crossing over, in… into the promised land, crossing over to the other side of the Jordan, crossing over Jordan on dry ground, happened in the summer.
It will be in the summertime… I don’t mean that literally; it may also be fulfilled literally in the summertime; but in the spiritual realm: summertime is harvest time.
It will be in the time of the wheat harvest, when the wheat will be gathered and placed in God’s Storehouse. The time of harvest will be when the dead in Christ will resurrect in glorified bodies first, and we who are alive will be transformed.
And Christ said when that summertime would be: He said when we see Israel, the fig tree, budding; and He also said: “And the other trees.”[26] “The other trees” are the other nations. And now we are seeing how the other nations are freeing themselves from the bondage in which the dictators have held them. That is a great sign, those are the other trees, and it is from the Middle East.
And now, He says: “When you see those things, summer is near.”[27] And when He speaks to us about “summer,” He is speaking to us about harvest time, because in the summer is when the harvest is carried out.
In the summer is when the Kingdom of God is near, and in the summer is when Christ says… in Saint Luke, chapter 21; as well as in Saint Matthew 24, verses 32 and on, verses 32 to 39; and Saint Luke, chapter 21, verses 25 to 36; and also chapter 17 of Saint Luke.
Now, in chapter 21 He tells us that “when we see the fig tree budding, let’s lift up our heads to Heaven, for our redemption is near.” “Our redemption” is the transformation of our body, the redemption of the body.
As it tells us in Romans, chapter 8, verse 17… or 16 to 31, where it tells us that: “…the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.” Waiting for what? Wanting what? Longing for what? Longing for the adoption, the redemption of the children of God; longing for the manifestation of the children of God: the manifestation of the children of God in eternal bodies, glorified bodies; the manifestation of the children of God as children of God in eternal bodies, as intended for them.
So when we see the fig tree budding, and the other trees: let’s lift up our heads to Heaven, why? Because our redemption is near.
Is it near? The signs are in the newspapers, on television, and in plain sight for all who are present in those places.
The redemption of the body: in other words, the resurrection of the dead in Christ in glorified bodies and the transformation of us who are alive.
Now, it is also a time of many problems, of many struggles; and the tares will try to destroy the wheat.
The tares always try to pretend that they are the wheat, and they say that the wheat are the tares. They said that Jesus was Beelzebub, that He had devils,[28] that He cast out demons by the finger of Beelzebub;[29] and then those who spoke that way about Jesus made themselves out to be saints.
But Jesus said to them: “He that is of God, hears God’s Voice; that is why you don’t want to hear It, because you are not of God. You are of your father the devil, and the works of your father you will do (they wanted to kill Him); he has been a murderer from the beginning,”[30] that is what Christ says about the devil.
And now, there He is speaking about wheat and tares. Those who are of God: the wheat, hear God’s Voice, and those who are not of God: the tares, well, they don’t hear God’s Voice.
Time to gather. To gather what? The wheat, God’s sons and daughters.
“TIME TO GATHER WITH THE LORD.”
And now, to work in the Work of the Lord in our time —like it was in other times— is to be with the Lord, and to be gathering with the Lord. One gathers souls, people, unto Eternal Life, and they are placed in the Kingdom of Christ, which is in the spiritual realm.
And then, also, at the Last Day, the gathering unto physical Eternal Life takes place: for the transformation of our bodies, to physically enter into the Kingdom of God with physical Eternal Life; which has never happened in the Church of the Lord, but it is promised for this end time.
Christ is the first of all His brethren. And therefore, we will all be like Him: young for all eternity, with glorified bodies, immortal bodies, interdimensional bodies; we will have no need for transportation.
Remember, Christ, already glorified, moved from one place to another, He entered places while the doors were closed; He entered, appeared, and then disappeared; and He could also eat.
When the believers in Christ who resurrect come, they will be able to eat with us as well. But remember, they can appear and disappear; so that we aren’t frightened.
“TIME TO GATHER WITH THE LORD.”
He says: “He who does not gather with Me, scatters abroad.” Therefore, we must be with Christ, in the Program of Christ relevant to our time, working according to that Program; where the fruit is gathered, the wheat is gathered, which ripens with the Light of the Sun, the Light of Christ, in His final manifestation.
That is why He says it is important that we stand before the Son of Man, Christ, who is the Sun of Righteousness, for what? To ripen or mature. “Unto those who fear My Name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise, with healing in His Wings.” See?
The Sun, Christ, coming to His Church (which is in the spiritual realm), comes before the great tribulation, to ripen us with the Light of His Word; and then He takes us with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Unless we ripen, there will be no transformation, nor resurrection for the dead in Christ; that is why we are waiting for the Coming of the Lord.
Because our citizenship is not earthly: “Our citizenship is in Heaven, from which we also look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will change our body (this mortal body), that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body (according to what?) according to the working whereby He is able to subdue all things unto Himself.” Philippians chapter 3, verses 20 to 21.
So, that is why we are waiting for the Coming of the Lord; and therefore, the Church is the One that is waiting for the Second Coming of Christ, for Her gathering and transformation. Without the Coming of the Lord there will be no transformation.
Therefore, we have to be on the lookout at this end time; and we have to know how to tell the difference, to know the difference between the Coming of Christ to His Church and what will be the Coming of Christ to this world, at the end of the great tribulation; those are two different events.
Before the great tribulation, He comes for His Church and to His Church, and He comes with a New Name; and after the great tribulation, He comes with His glorified Church after the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and He also comes with a New Name, a Name that no man knows but He Himself. Therefore, it is not Jesus, because everyone knows the name of Jesus.
That is another one of the mysteries; and that mystery is revealed in and by the Thunders of Revelation, chapter 10, verse 1 to 11.
And that is a mystery that will be revealed to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and it is connected to the Coming of the Lord to His Church; and then it will be connected to the Coming of the Lord after the great tribulation for the establishment of the Kingdom of God.
And it is connected to the four consonants that were given to Moses (in chapter 3, verses 13 to 15, of Exodus), when Moses wanted to know what the Name of God was, and he asked God: “Lord, if they ask me what Your Name is, what shall I say to them?”
And that was where God said to him: “You shall say to them: I am that I am…” – God says to Moses: “I am that I am. And you shall say to the people: I am has sent me to you.”
When we go to look at the four consonants, they are none other than: the letter Y…
Writing from right… with me facing this way, from this side, from right to left. And you might say: “From left to right.” But it’s from… let’s say: from right to left.
The letters: YHWH. Those are letters of the sacred Name of God.
Therefore, that mystery is going to be opened to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Moses… God says to Moses: “You shall say to the people: I am has sent me to you.”
If you read “YO SOY” [“I AM” in Spanish —Ed.] from right to left, what does it say? “YO SOY.” And if you read it from left to right, what does it say? The same thing: “YO SOY.” However you read it, it is the I am. It is the same God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Jacob wanted to know the Name, but it wasn’t granted to him.[31] Manoah wanted to know the Name, but it wasn’t granted to him either.[32]
Moses wanted to know it, and that was granted to him; from what we can tell, he was the first to whom it was granted. And that is why he named his helper: Joshua, which was Oshea the son of Nun;[33] he gave him the name Joshua. Or he translated it; if Joshua means the same thing, then he translated it to “Joshua.”
Our Joshua is Christ, it is the Holy Spirit. And our Joshua, the Holy Spirit, will come to His Church with a New Name at the Last Day, and He will give us the faith to be transformed at the Last Day, to cross over to the other side of the Jordan.
The mystery of the Second Coming of Christ after the great tribulation is great, but the mystery of the Coming of the Lord to His Church is greater; that is the most mysterious one; and that is the one that will only be known by every believer in Christ who will be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
No one else has to know that mystery, only the believers in Christ who will be transformed, who will be listening to the Voice of Christ as the Lion, of Revelation, chapter 11; and therefore, they will be listening to Christ, the One who spoke in the Church ages as High Priest and as Lamb, they will be seeing Him change from Lamb to Lion, from High Priest to King.
He will be speaking consecutively just as He spoke during the different stages or ages of the Church, the seven stages, but He spoke through different messengers. At the Last Day, He will speak consecutively, without changing, He will speak consecutively as Lion; and therefore, those are the Thunders of Revelation 10, the Voice of Christ speaking to us at the Last Day and revealing to us all those mysteries: the mystery of His Coming, the mystery of His New Name, the mystery of the faith for the rapture, the mystery of the territory where the manifestation of the golden stage of the Church will take place, the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, and all these things.
Therefore, all of this is also connected to the resurrection, and to the transformation of the believers in Christ who will be living at the Last Day.
And the believers in Christ will be filled with the Divine revelation of the Last Day; and they will be very grateful to God at the Last Day waiting for their transformation, because they will have the faith, the revelation, to be transformed.
Christ says in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 12: “Behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”
And His Coming is to His Church. After the great tribulation, It will be with His glorified Church, and He will come in the midst of the Hebrew people as well; but His Coming before the great tribulation will be to His Church.
And in the midst of His Church is where we will see His manifestation, where we see the manifestation of the Son of Man; and in the midst of His Church is where the Hebrew people will see the manifestation of the Angel of the Covenant, the Messiah, whom Israel is waiting for; and they will say: “This is the One we are waiting for!” In other words: “What is He doing with the Gentiles? What is He doing with Christianity? What is He doing with the Church?” Well, surely giving them the faith to be transformed.
There is a very great mystery in the Coming of Christ to His Church at the Last Day, and the Coming of Christ after the great tribulation; those are two different things that we have to understand.
And even after the Millennium and Judgment Day, the Earth will go through a time of purging: it will be engulfed in fire. But the elect, His Church, the Church of the Lord, and those who will be saved and will go into eternity, well, surely they will be in another dimension while the planet Earth is purged; and then, well, they will come with Christ to reign for all eternity.
In plain words, the planet Earth, after the Millennial Kingdom and after Judgment Day, the planet Earth will become the center of the universe.
Why? It’s simple: because “the Throne of God and of the Lamb,”[34] the Throne of Christ – the Throne of God and Throne of Christ, will be on Earth, in the New City, the New Jerusalem; which will no longer be the current city, rather it will be a heavenly City that will be established on Earth; and its inhabitants will be the believers in Christ, and also the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the sons of Jacob, and all those who will have an important place in that city.
The planet Earth will be the center of the universe, because it will be the federal district or the capital of the universe.
Now you can see why the Earth, the planet Earth, is so important. Though the planet Earth has been mistreated with all the things they have done to it, which have affected it; despite all that, the planet Earth is the God’s footstool; and therefore, it will be the place where God’s Throne will be, or in plain words: everything that is in Heaven, will be on Earth; everything that is in Heaven in another dimension will materialize here on Earth.
And I will be there, and so will each one of you; and in an important position, because you are members of the Royalty of that heavenly Kingdom that will materialize on Earth.
That is where we will fully have all the inheritance that God determined for us before the foundation of the world; and that is where we will be fully manifested for all eternity as sons and daughters of God, princes and princesses who will obtain great blessings and will perhaps be in charge of planets, and for some: galaxies; for the messengers, it will be galaxies.
—“But, something so big, a planet for one person?!”
Well, how many planets do you think there are in the universe? There are billions! So, don’t worry.
The important thing is that you and I are prepared at the Last Day, receiving the Word, the Divine revelation for our time, aware of the stage or age in which we are to live; and always praying for one another; knowing that the enemy of God, the devil, is like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, and we must protect ourselves by praying to God so that the Spirit of God protects us at this time in which we live, “because the days are evil.”[35] And the devil doesn’t want us to be transformed; because once we are transformed, he won’t be able to harm any of God’s elect anymore.
Christ conquered the heavenly Throne and heavenly Kingdom, and He will conquer the earthly Throne and the earthly Kingdom too. Therefore, the lines have fallen unto us in pleasant places, and we have a great heritage.[36]
In our time, let’s be in the Work of Christ; aware of the time in which we have been given to live; gathering with Christ: laboring in the Work of gathering the wheat, laboring in the Work of gathering all the elect of the Last Day.
In the parable of the wheat and the tares, it says that “the Angels will come with a Great Sound of a Trumpet (Christ also says so in Saint Matthew 24, verse 31), and they shall gather together His elect.” The elect: 144,000 Hebrews; but also the elect of the Church, whose number we do not know, and it doesn’t matter what the number is, the important thing is that we be one of those elect.
And the identification will be that they will be hearing, what? The Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet. That will be the identification, and therefore, the faith of those people will grow to the point that they will be transformed at the Last Day.
Hold on tight to Christ and His Word, like Jacob held on to the Angel who appeared to him. That Angel who appeared to him is the Angel of the Covenant, Christ in His heavenly Body, who, at the Last Day, will also be with us, for he said: “I will be with you always, even unto the end of the world.” (Saint Matthew, chapter 28, verse 20.)
He has been in our midst in Holy Spirit.
Back then, when He appeared to Jacob (in chapter 32, verses 24 to 32 of Genesis), He was in His heavenly body, theophanic body.
And now, he that has ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.[37] The Holy Spirit, Christ in Holy Spirit, spoke through the messengers in each age; and those who had ears to hear (in other words, the elect of each time), heard the Voice of the Holy Spirit through the messenger that He sent them in each age.
That is how it will be at this end time: he who has ears to hear, let him hear what the Holy Spirit will be saying at this end time. And thus, we will obtain all the Divine revelation that we need to obtain the knowledge of the entire Divine Program. Our faith will increase in order to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Some people say: “Lord, increase my faith.”
How can faith be increased? The same way that faith comes, that faith is born: faith comes by hearing the Word.[38]
That is why the Word is preached: so that the faith of Christ comes, is born, in the person who hears It. And how does faith grow? By continuing… (by hear-…) by continuing to hear the Word; by continuing to hear the Word, one’s faith keeps increasing. There is no other way.
Therefore, we continue to hear the Voice of God, believing and hearing each day all that God has for us in our time, in the age relevant to our time, until we are transformed; and working so that Christ completes His Church: working in the gathering, in the harvest, gathering the souls for the Kingdom of Christ through the preaching of the Gospel.
“TIME TO GATHER WITH THE LORD.”
This is an important time for all of us.
Don’t hear other voices. Any voice that you hear trying to separate the people, remember: don’t pay attention to it; because it will turn you away from God’s Program, and then you won’t be able to be transformed.
We have to be hearing the Voice of God, the Voice of the Spirit of God, in our time.
“He who doesn’t gather with Me, scatters abroad,” Christ says. Christ has been gathering the elect in each age, and in our time as well; gathering them, where? Into His Mystical Body of believers; gathering His sheep.
Always take sides with Christ, His Word, His Program, His Work, at the time in which we are given to live, so that no one is confused.
And any attack that anyone makes against the Work of Christ, the Church of the Lord, or any of the members of the Church of the Lord: let’s not pay attention to it; let’s just pray that God strengthens the believer in Christ who is being attacked, and that Christ helps him.
Never forsake the Lord; we must never forsake Him. He died for us on Calvary’s Cross.
Christ said: “Whoever denies me, him will I deny before My Father who is in Heaven.” And no one wants to be denied by Christ. Christ doesn’t want – or you don’t want Christ to deny you before God. “But whoever confesses Me (Christ says), him will I confess before My Father who is in Heaven.” (Saint Matthew, chapter 10, verses 32 to 33.)
Therefore, remain in the faith of Christ, remain faithful to Christ; and Christ will transform you the moment that He resurrects the dead believers in Him; and thus completes His Church, and glorifies It, and thus carries out His Claiming Work, and transforms us who are alive.
We are at the time in which many important things will be happening.
Hold on tight to Christ, the Angel of the Covenant! Like Jacob held on to Him. It doesn’t matter what the consequences of holding on to Christ are.
Jacob was injured, and left limping; but limping with the blessing is better than not limping but not having a blessing. So, if we suffer with Him, we will reign with Him.[39]
Stay faithful to Christ, faithful to His Word, faithful to the New Covenant, faithful to His Name, and He will take us with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Christ said: “Whoever honors Me, him will My Father honor.”[40]
Therefore, onward serving Christ, aware of the time in which we have been given to live.
Ministers, and ladies present, who work hard in the Work of Christ, and ministers who are in other nations, and your congregations: May God bless you greatly and use you greatly in His Kingdom at this end time.
And soon may the Church of the Lord be completed, and may He complete His Work as Intercessor, as High Priest. And may He leave the Father’s Throne and take the Title Deed, open it in Heaven, and carry out His Claiming Work.
We have heard Reverend William Branham, who said that a squeeze is coming down upon the Church of the Lord.[41] Therefore, it will be a difficult moment, a difficult stage.
No one wants squeezes, but if they come, well, we have to face them, confront them; but it will be the time in which Christ will manifest Himself in all His fullness, in what we know as “the Third Pull,” and where the Vision of the Great Tent Cathedral will also become a reality; and the Glory of God will be in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
God will have great blessings for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, even if a squeeze comes down, but in times of squeeze is when God’s great blessings have come.
When Israel was going through a squeeze there in Egypt, in Moses came the blessing for the Hebrew people, for their deliverance. When the people were going through a squeeze in the days of Jesus and the apostles, the blessing of the human being’s redemption came: with the death of Christ on Calvary’s Cross, and then came the blessing of the day of Pentecost. Those were difficult days. It has always been that way.
Therefore, let’s be aware of those Biblical truths in order to know, in those difficult moments that come, that everything was already prophesied, announced, so that we would be steadfast: with our faith steadfast in Christ, without anything taking us off the path of Christ; remembering that Christ said that “he who puts his hand to the plow, and looks back, is not fit for the Kingdom of God.”[42]
May the blessings of Christ our Savior be upon all of you ministers present today, the first Saturday of the month of June, at this important meeting; and all of your congregations as well; and all the ladies who are present here as well, and the youth and children who are present here.
May God bless you and keep you, and use you greatly in His Work, and strengthen you, and establish you and confirm you in the faith of Christ.
Well, may God bless you and keep you, and continue having a happy evening, filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.
I leave Missionary Miguel Bermúdez Marín with you to continue and conclude this ministers’ meeting at the appointed time.
I don’t know if you have a break scheduled for them, or… [Bro. Miguel: We will end with whatever you give us for ‘dessert.’] I have already said goodbye a few times, Miguel! (Haha.) But you may come up, Miguel.
May God bless you and keep you; and continue having a happy evening, filled with the blessings of Jesus Christ, our Savior.
“TIME TO GATHER WITH THE LORD.”
[1] Ephesians 5:14
[2] Malachi 4:2
[3] Leviticus 18:25
[4] Isaiah 59:18
[5] 2 Corinthians 5:1
[6] Luke 12:32
[7] John 8:12
[8] Matthew 5:14
[9] Genesis 15:5
[10] Daniel 2:31-45
[11] 2 Thessalonians 2:8
[12] 2 Thessalonians 2:4
[13] Matthew 21:43
[14] Ephesians 2:14
[15] Genesis 3:8
[16] Genesis 3:8-21
[17] Luke 17:28-30
[18] Matthew 13:24-30, 13:36-43
[19] Luke 9:51-56
[20] 2 Kings 1:9-15
[21] Numbers 20:1-13
[22] Exodus 17:1-7
[23] Numbers 20:12, 27:12-14
[24] Deuteronomy 1:37, 32:48-52
[25] Numbers 32:1-42, 34:13-15
[26] Luke 21:29-31
[27] Matthew 24:32-33, Mark 13:28-29
[28] John 7:20, 8:48, 8:52, 10:20
[29] Matthew 12:24, Mark 3:22, Luke 11:15
[30] John 8:44
[31] Genesis 32:29
[32] Judges 13:17-18
[33] Numbers 13:16
[34] Revelation 22:1-3
[35] Ephesians 5:15-16
[36] Psalms 16:6
[37] Revelation 2:7, 2:11, 2:17, 2:29, 3:6, 3:13, 3:22
[38] Romans 10:17
[39] 2 Timothy 2:12
[40] John 12:26
[41] The Ages, “The Philadelphian Church Age,” pp. 313-314
[42] Luke 9:62