Come Up Hither

Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present, and those who are in other places in Mexico, and also those in other countries. May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and also upon me. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

It is a great privilege for me to be with you today, February 28, 2014, a day that marks the fulfillment of 51 years since the appearance of the seven angels to Reverend William Branham. It was a very important day in the life of Reverend William Branham and in the history of Christianity; and today we are in that cycle again, being repeated for 50 years; today marks the fulfillment of 51 years since that important event. So, it is a very important day, an important night, for all the believers in Christ.

Let’s read in Revelation chapter 4, verses 1 and on… 1 to 3, and it says:

“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.

And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.”

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

“COME UP HITHER,” that Voice that spoke with him, from Heaven, said to John the apostle. “Come up hither,” is what the Voice says to John the apostle.

John the apostle is a type and figure, he represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ said to Saint Peter about John: “I want him to tarry till I come.”¹

To some people, seemingly, they didn’t see the fulfillment of that promise to John, because they thought that the Second Coming of Christ would be fulfilled in the time of John the apostle, but the apostle John died and the Second Coming of Christ was not fulfilled as some people thought.

On Mount Transfiguration, something great took place, which was prophesied in Saint Matthew chapter 16, verses 26 and on, where it says:

“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.”

The Son of Man coming with His Angels. It goes on to say:

“Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”

Coming in His Kingdom. Always keep in mind those words of Christ: “The Son of Man Coming in His Kingdom.”

Then in chapter 17 of this same Gospel according to Saint Matthew, it says:

“And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,

And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.”

In this passage, Christ is fulfilling what He said, that: “There will be some standing here, which shall not taste death, till they see the Son of Man coming in His Kingdom.”

The order of the Second Coming of Christ was shown on Mount Transfiguration. A mountain represents a kingdom. That is the Kingdom of God, from which Daniel saw the stone cut out without hands, which was cut out of a mountain, and came and smote the image upon the feet of iron and clay.

The image is the Gentile kingdom, which began with King Nebuchadnezzar and his kingdom, continued with the Medo-Persian kingdom, in the… First, the head of gold with Nebuchadnezzar; then the breast and arms of silver with the Medo-Persian kingdom; then the belly and thighs of brass, the kingdom of Greece with Alexander the Great; and then the legs of iron, the Roman empire of the Caesars; and then the feet of iron and clay, which is the kingdom, the empire of the antichrist.

In the stage of the legs of iron: the Roman kingdom or the kingdom of the Caesars, or kingdom of Rome, the legs of iron crucified Christ, the Stone cut out without hands, there on Calvary’s Cross; that was in the First Coming of Christ.

For the Second Coming of Christ, we will be living in the time of the feet of iron and clay; in other words, we will be living in the time of the Gentile kingdom, its last stage, which pertains to the kingdom of the antichrist.

That is why Second Thessalonians [chapter 2, verse 8] says that with the brightness of the Coming of Christ, He will consume the wicked one, the antichrist.

Now, that pertains to the Second Coming of Christ, to the time when He will come with His Angels. Remember that on Mount Transfiguration the Angels are Moses and Elijah; remember that a messenger is an angel, which means: a messenger of God.

And at that time the promise of the Coming of the Son of Man will be fulfilled that way: The ministry of Moses and Elijah will be seen in the Coming of the Son of Man in His Kingdom, which is His Church, because He comes to His Kingdom, to His Church; a Kingdom that has been in the spiritual realm since the Day of Pentecost up to now.

That is why Jesus told Pilate: “My kingdom is not of this world.” It is not of the Gentile kingdom. It is the Kingdom of God that comes with the Coming of the Stone cut out without hands; and that is the Kingdom that will be established after the great tribulation, physically, on this planet Earth.²

The solution to all economic, political, social, academic, military, and all other problems that the human race has, such as physical death, all those problems will be fixed by the Lord Jesus Christ in His Second Coming to His Church.

And after the rapture, which will be in glorified bodies, where His Church will go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, then She will return with Christ to Earth, for the establishment of the Kingdom of Christ, which will be the restoration of the Kingdom of David; where Christ will sit on the Throne of David as Son of David, and bring peace to Israel and to all the nations.

That is where total peace will be established upon the planet Earth: in the Kingdom of the Messiah, in the Kingdom of Christ, a Kingdom that will cover the entire planet Earth, a physical Kingdom which we so desire and which is the only hope for the permanent peace of the human family.

It is important to know that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has been going through a spiritual realm, in the spiritual field She has entered into the Kingdom of Christ, as Saint Paul tells us in Colossians chapter 1, verse 13, where it says:

“…Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.”

Born-again believers in Christ have been translated from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, is the Kingdom of God in the spiritual realm; that is why Christ is our King and He is also the High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek, who with His Blood intercedes for us before the Father.

The only hope there is for the human family, for all mankind, is the Second Coming of Christ; therefore, and for that reason, we have to go up like John the apostle, go up in the spiritual realm, just like the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has been going up, from stage to stage, from age to age, She has gone up from one age to another.

Which age has She gone up to? To the age where the Word of God is being proclaimed by the Holy Spirit, who is Christ, in and through the messenger relevant to each age. That is the way in which the believers in Christ, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, has heard the Voice of Christ, the Voice of the Holy Spirit, from age to age: through the messenger of each age.

And after the seven stages or ages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ have passed, in which Christ through the angel-messenger of each age has been speaking, has been manifesting Himself, has been revealing Himself to His people, then comes the call to come up like John came up: “Come up hither.”

Where will we go up to after the seventh age of the Church? We have to go up to the Age of the Cornerstone, to the Golden Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the age of and for the adoption of the sons and daughters of God, the adoption of the body, which will be the redemption of the body; wherein we will obtain the glorified, eternal, immortal, incorruptible and glorified body.

“Come up hither”. Where will we go up to? To the golden stage of the Church, the Age of the Cornerstone. And that is our subject: “COME UP HITHER.”

That is where the Voice of Christ will be speaking to His Church at the Last Day and giving Her the faith to be transformed and raptured. There, to that stage, is where Christ will come —in the fulfillment of His Coming— to His Church and for His Church. That is where everyone will hear the Voice of the Son of God, where everyone will hear that Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet.

Why go up from one age to another? To hear the Voice of Christ through the messenger of each age; and likewise, at this end time we go up above the seven ages: to the Age of the Cornerstone, to hear and see Christ in Holy Spirit speaking to us through His revealed Word for this end time, and fulfilling the promises that He has made for His Church for the Last Day, for the stage of the Golden Age of the Church, which is the Age of the Adoption, the Age of the Cornerstone.

That is where the Church will receive Christ in His Coming, that is where the Church will also receive the revelation of the Seventh Seal, which is the revelation of the Coming of Christ to His Church.

We have seen our subject: “COME UP HITHER,” and we have seen why and for what reason He calls us to come up: so that we hear His Voice, His Word, being revealed by the Holy Spirit and making known to us the things which must shortly come to pass at this end time.

“COME UP HITHER”: To the Age of the Cornerstone.

If there is someone who has not come up yet: “If today you hear His Voice, harden not your heart.” Come up and you will hear the Voice of Christ speaking directly to our heart.³

“COME UP HITHER.”

May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant be upon you all. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

I leave Reverend Andres Cruz Gallegos with you to continue and conclude our participation.

“COME UP HITHER.”