Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present, and radio listeners. It is a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of fellowship with you around the Word of God, and to see through the Scripture where we are in the Divine Program, and what things God is carrying out at this end time.
For this reason, I want to read in Saint Matthew chapter 24, verses 30 to 31, where Jesus Christ tells us:
“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”
Our subject for this occasion is: “THE SECOND COMING OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TO EARTH AT THE LAST DAY.”
The Second Coming of Christ at the Last Day, that is, in the seventh millennium, is the greatest promise made in the Scripture for this end time.
And mankind, especially the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, Christianity, awaits the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ; because everything depends on the Second Coming of Christ at the Last Day, both the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation for us who are alive.
And in order for us who are alive to be changed, we must hear the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet, which is the Voice of Christ speaking to us, giving us His Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom; that is why the Second Coming of Christ is so important to Christianity.
Now, mankind doesn’t know where the Second Coming of Christ will be fulfilled, even though they know where the First Coming of Christ was fulfilled: It was fulfilled among the Hebrew people, there in the land of Israel.
Now, the Second Coming of Christ is a greater mystery than what the mystery of the First Coming of Christ was.
This is the mystery of which Christ said that no one, not even in Heaven, knew when the day and the hour would be, not even the angels, not even the Son, but only the Father.1 Because this mystery couldn’t be opened at that time, nor in the time of the apostles, nor in the time of the messengers of the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church, because this mystery would be opened to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ at the Last Day, which is the Day before God pertaining to the Second Coming of Christ.
And the Day of the Second Coming of Christ—which is the Last Day, which is the seventh millennium to human beings—is the most glorious time for the children of God.
Now, it is very important to understand what the First Coming of Christ was, and then to understand what the Second Coming of Christ is and the benefits Christ will bring us in His Second Coming.
The First Coming of Christ, according to the Scriptures, would be preceded by a prophet, who would be preparing the way of the Lord. The Prophet Isaiah tells us in chapter 40, speaking about that prophet, starting from verse 3 of his Book, he says the following (and I want to read it), he says:
“The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.”
And in Malachi chapter 3, verse 1 and on, God tells us through the Prophet Malachi:
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.”
Now, here we have the promise of the Coming of the Messiah. We find that this promise has been made since the Old Testament, and we find that this promise was established for the human race even since Genesis.
When God promised the woman’s Seed (in Genesis chapter 3, verse 15), He was referring to the Coming of the Messiah there, who would come through a woman; but no one knew how and which one and where she would live and which nation that woman would be from.
But since the Scripture follows a sequence, we find that throughout the years, ages, and dispensations, God shed more and more light on this promise; all the way to the Prophet Isaiah, in chapter 7, verse 14, where he gives us a lot of light regarding that woman’s Son that God spoke about in Genesis. And he tells us the following:
“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”
Immanuel means: “God with us.”2
Here it shows us that the virgin’s Son will be God with us, God with human beings; it will be the incarnation of God, it will be God clothed in a veil of flesh; likewise, through the Prophet Malachi, it tells us:
“… and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple…”
Who is the One that will come? The Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and of every human being.
“… even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in…”
Who is the One that will come? The Lord, the Messenger or Angel of the Covenant, who had appeared to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob.
He had also appeared to Moses, and He told Moses: “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”3 And who said that to Moses? The Angel of the Lord.
Because the Angel of the Lord is the Lord Himself, God Himself clothed in His theophanic body; and when He is clothed in His theophanic body, He is known as the Angel of the Lord.
Now, this Angel of the Lord would come to the human race at the time appointed by God to carry out the Work of Redemption, and thus, take away the sin of the human being. And when He came, we find that it was in the Person of Jesus of Nazareth. He was the Son of the virgin, whom God had spoken about through the Prophet Isaiah and through the Prophet Malachi.
Jesus of Nazareth was none other than the Angel of the Lord or Angel of the Covenant, who is God Himself clothed in human flesh; none other than Emmanuel, which being interpreted is: “God with us.” What for? To take away the sin of the world.
That is why He came as the Lamb of God; and His physical body had to die, just like in the Old Testament they would take a lamb for Passover and sacrifice it on the eve of Passover.
That is why we find in the Old Testament that in Exodus, in chapter 12, God commanded the Prophet Moses that each should take a lamb, each family for themselves; and if the family was very small they would join another family; and they would take that lamb, sacrifice it, in other words, they would kill it, apply the blood on the lintel of the door of the house and on the doorposts of the house; and then, inside the house, they would take that lamb, which they roasted (they couldn’t cook it in water, they couldn’t make it a stew, rather it had to be roasted, in other words, passed through the fire), and then, inside the house, they would eat it.
Now, we find that the Hebrew people would be safe inside their houses, eating that lamb and with the blood of the lamb applied on the door, meaning, on the lintel and posts of the door of the house; because that night death, would pass through the whole land, and all the firstborn would die wherever there wasn’t blood on the lintel of the doors.
We find that death came upon all Egypt; and there was death in all the houses, because someone had to be the firstborn, and there was also death among the firstborn of the animals as well.
So, there was great death among Egypt on that night of Passover. But among the Hebrew people, there was peace; they had the paschal lamb among them, and they were eating it.
Now, we find that this paschal lamb is a type and figure of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Lamb of God; who was introduced by John the Baptist when he said: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”4 He took our sins and died on Calvary’s Cross for each one of us.
That is why He also said: “He who does not eat My flesh, and drink My Blood, has no Life abiding in him.” He said that in Saint John chapter 6, verses… let’s see here, verses 53 and on, it says… Let’s see here, let’s start a bit before that so we have a clear picture. He says [verse 47]:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
I am that bread of life.
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.”
Here we have Christ positioning Himself as the One who was typified in the paschal lamb, the paschal lamb that had to be eaten on Passover night.
And now we find that Christ is the materialization of that paschal lamb; and that is why on Passover, Christ also appears speaking to us about His body, meaning, His flesh and His Blood, there in the last supper, where He tells us in [Matthew] chapter 26, verses 26 to 29:
“And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
Now we can see that in the Holy Supper, this last supper, Christ is representing His body, in other words, His flesh in the bread, and His Blood in the wine. The wine is a type of the Blood of Christ, and the bread is a type of the body, meaning, the flesh of Jesus Christ.
And here we can see how Christ gave His disciples bread and wine; a type of Himself, which He carried out on Calvary’s Cross: by dying on Calvary’s Cross to give us His flesh and His Blood, for the remission of our sins.
And then we find the materialization on Calvary’s Cross of what was typified in the paschal lamb of the Old Testament, so that the Hebrew people’s exodus from bondage in Egypt could then take place, as God had promised the Prophet and Patriarch Abraham; which He fulfilled through Moses, the prophet of the Dispensation of Law.
Now, we find that Christ as the Lamb of God has been giving us of Himself: His flesh and His Blood, when we have received His Word and we have received His Holy Spirit; and that is how the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross has become effective in the lives of each of us.
And now, approximately two thousand years have passed, a time typified in the night; for the moon and also the stars appear at night. And that is why the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ was typified in the moon going through seven stages during the seven Gentile Church ages; and the messengers were represented in seven stars, which are the seven angel-messengers of the seven Gentile Church ages.
All of that work represented in the moon, and in the stars, and in the night, belongs to these two thousand years that have passed.
And then, in the morning time is when all of God’s sons and daughters will go free: the dead in Christ will rise and we who are alive will be changed, and we will be free. It will be that glorious liberty of the children of God, which Saint Paul speaks to us about in Romans chapter 8, verses 14 and on, where he tells us:
“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”
These people are the ones who have believed in Christ as their Savior and have received His Holy Spirit, and they are led by the Holy Spirit.
“For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.”
This manifestation of the children of God will be in eternal bodies, and with an eternal theophanic spirit inside that body. That is also called the fullness of the Holy Spirit in each of the children of God; because with the fullness of the Holy Spirit, we will obtain the eternal body He has promised us.
And he goes on to say:
“For the (whole) creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”
What is the adoption for God’s sons and daughters? It is the redemption of our bodies, it is the transformation of our bodies, for us who are alive; and for the dead in Christ, it is their resurrection in eternal bodies.
And that is how we will be delivered at the Last Day: by receiving an eternal and glorious body, to be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; and that is how God’s sons and daughters will be restored to Eternal Life, in order to live in an eternal body, and also have everything Adam and Eve lost in the fall.
Adam and Eve lost the Title Deed, they also lost the right to Eternal Life and they also lost the eternal body, for they lost the opportunity to live in the body that God gave them for all eternity; they lost that blessing.
But now, at the Last Day, at the end time or seventh millennium, everything will be restored to God’s sons and daughters.
God’s sons and daughters are the members of the mystical Body of Christ, the ones redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ, the ones who have been written in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world.
As Saint Paul tells us in his Letter to the Hebrews, in chapter 12, verse 20 and on; he speaks to us about the elect or firstborn of God, and he tells us that they are written in Heaven. He says [verse 22]:
“…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.”
God’s firstborn, who are God’s elect, God’s sons and daughters, typified in the wheat, have their names written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life; and Christ died for them on Calvary’s Cross.
Now we can see that, at the time in which they are given to live here on Earth, these people hear the preaching of the Gospel, and they believe in Christ as their Savior, and they receive Him as their Savior, and they also receive the Spirit of Jesus Christ; and that is how what was represented in the paschal lamb becomes a reality in the life of each firstborn of God, each elect of God.
And that is how, from age to age, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is formed: as they are called and gathered into the mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And at the Last Day, these firstborn written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, have the promise of a deliverance; in other words, they have the promise of an exodus, like what happened in the time of Moses.
That exodus is a type and figure of the exodus of the Last Day, of the exodus to return to the promised land of the new body that God has promised for each son and daughter of God; so that all things are restored to God’s elect, to God’s sons and daughters.
And in order for this whole Divine Program to be carried out at the Last Day, we find that just as God appeared to the Prophet Moses in that Pillar of Fire or Flame of Fire on a bush, and spoke to him and told him: “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,” and made known to him the purpose of His Coming, and told him that He had heard the cry of His people Israel, and had come down to deliver them, to free them; and He said to Moses: “Go, go to Egypt to bring forth My people Israel out of Egypt. And I will be with you.”5 “And I will put My Word in your mouth, and you will speak what I command you.”6
Notice the commission that Moses received for the Hebrew people’s deliverance.
And at the Last Day, the ministry of Moses will be on Earth for the second time for the deliverance, not of God’s servants, but of God’s sons and daughters; for the deliverance of God’s elect, of the members of the mystical Body of Christ; who will rise in eternal bodies (those who have departed), and we who are alive will be changed. That is why the ministry of Moses will be here on Earth for the second time at the Last Day.
And it will have the commission of bringing the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom for the deliverance of God’s sons and daughters.
Remember that God told the Prophet Moses: “Let me destroy these people, and I will put you over a greater people.”7 What greater people can there be other than the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ?
The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ are a greater people than the Hebrew people. The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ are the people who are God’s elect, God’s sons and daughters, and the Hebrew people are the people who are God’s servants.
And what is greater before the Presence of God: a son or a servant? A son is greater.
Therefore, the ministry of Moses is promised to be put among a greater people: among the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ at the Last Day.
And then it will go from among the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, once the Divine Program pertaining to the Last Day among the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is carried out, then that ministry will go to the Hebrew people with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom; in other words, with the Message of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work.
It is very important to understand that the First Coming of Christ was as the Lamb of God, to take away the sin of the world; but the Second Coming of Christ is as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work, to claim everything He has redeemed with His precious Blood: to claim all His elect, those who have already departed and those who are alive, and to claim everything to which He has the right; which also includes the Hebrew people and also includes the Throne of David, to restore the Throne of David and the Kingdom of David, and thus, restore the Kingdom of God on this Earth among the Hebrew people; and to reign over the Hebrew people and then over all mankind.
We find this promise in Saint Luke chapter 1. And let’s see here: verse 30 and on, of Saint Luke chapter 1, the Archangel Gabriel tells the virgin Mary:
“And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.”
Here we have the promise of the restoration of the Kingdom and Throne of David over the Hebrew people; and this will be through Jesus Christ, who, in His Second Coming, will restore the Throne and Kingdom of David; and thus, the Kingdom of God will be restored on this Earth among the Hebrew people.
Now, we find that Jesus Christ, our beloved Savior, through the Work carried out on Calvary’s Cross, paid the price for the restoration of all things: for the restoration of the children of God to Eternal Life with an eternal body and also with an eternal theophanic spirit, and also for the restoration of the Throne of David and the Kingdom of David over the Hebrew people and over the whole world.
Because as Son of David, Christ obtains the right to the Throne of David, to sit on the Throne of David as King of kings and Lord of lords; and the Overcomer will sit with Him in His Throne. Revelation chapter 3, verse 21 says:
“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”
At the Last Day, in the time of the Coming of the Son of man, in the time of the Coming of Christ, the Overcomer will be present, the Faithful and Wise Servant, giving God’s elect, that is, the members of the mystical Body of Christ, the Food in due season.
And where will he be? In the Household of God, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. He will be giving them the spiritual Food of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Claiming Work; that is the spiritual Food for all of God’s sons and daughters who will be living at this Last Day.
In other words, the Message for God’s sons and daughters is the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah; because the entire Divine Program relevant to the Last Day rests on the Second Coming of Christ.
So, we can see that at this Last Day in which we are living there are great promises, there are great prophecies that must be fulfilled; and as they are being fulfilled, God’s Program pertaining to this Last Day is carried out.
And since we are living at the Last Day, in the seventh millennium, if we add to the calendar the years it is behind, then we have to understand these prophetic promises pertaining to the Last Day.
Because what good is it for a person to live in the time of the fulfillment of the Divine Promises if he can’t see them, if he can’t understand them?
What good was it for those who lived in the day of Jesus to live in the day of Jesus and not see, not understand, the First Coming of Christ? To not see that that young man called Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah, the King of Israel? For those who weren’t able to see Him as the King of Israel, as the Messiah, as the Christ: it was of no use for them to live on this Earth in a time as glorious as the time of the First Coming of Christ.
And that is how it is for our time: it’s of no use for a person to live in this glorious time if he isn’t able to see the fulfillment of each of the Divine Promises relevant to this end time. And it will be of no use for many people to live at the Last Day if they aren’t able to see—at the Last Day—the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work.
Some people don’t realize that the First Coming of Christ was fulfilled on Earth for thirty-three years; and in thirty-three years, we find that only a small group noticed the fulfillment of the First Coming of Christ.
And peak Work of Christ in His First Coming was something that to many seemed like a defeat that Jesus Christ was suffering. It seemed like He was suffering a defeat on Calvary’s Cross; but He wasn’t suffering a defeat: He was dying there for each of us (because He had taken our sins, and that is why He became mortal), so that each of us can live eternally.
And everyone thought everything was over when Jesus Christ died; but He died on Friday, He died on the eve of Passover, and then He was in the sepulcher on Friday night and Saturday night; but on Sunday morning we find Him resurrected.
During the time when His body was in the tomb, He went to hell, where each human being had to go. Each of us had to go to hell because of our sins; but since He took our sins, well, He had to go to hell.
And there, He preached to the souls in prison who were disobedient in the time of Noah, as Saint Peter the Apostle tells us in his first Letter. Let’s see, so that we have a clear picture of these things that we are talking about. It tells us in chapter 3 of First Peter, verse 18 and on, it says:
“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit…”
In other words, what died was the body of flesh, but Christ Himself, His Spirit did not die, nor did His Soul. But he says:
“…by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison…”
He went, what? He went in the Spirit, in His theophanic body, and preached to the souls in prison.
Who were these souls in prison that were there in hell? He says:
“…which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.”
We find that in the time of Noah, that generation had come to an end. A dispensational prophet was present there with the Divine Revelation of the things that would happen to that generation; he made known to them that that generation would be destroyed by a flood. The Divine Judgment would come in the form of a flood and destroy the human race; but God made known to Noah a way to escape the Divine Judgment that would come.
And God took Enoch before the Divine Judgment of the flood came, He took him so that he would not see death;8 a type and figure of the elect who will be changed and raptured before the Divine Judgments of the Great Tribulation begin.
Now, in the time of Noah there were many religions, there were many ways to believe in God, and there were many people who were very religious, very good; but the Prophet Noah had the Divine Revelation of God’s Program.
And the person’s way didn’t matter; if it wasn’t the right way, which was according to the way Noah believed in God and worshiped God and served God, and believed in God: every other way was wrong. And the judgment of the flood that destroyed them, those who didn’t believe like Noah, testifies that they were wrong.
And now, many people looked at the Prophet Noah and listened to his Message, and may have said: “This is inconceivable to the human mind: that God, who is Love, would destroy the human race;” but God said He would destroy it. And who can tell God that He can’t do it? It is because they don’t see the other side of the coin, which says that God is a consuming Fire.9
And we find Noah preaching that a flood is coming, he was about five hundred years old when he began preaching this. And when he was six hundred years old, the flood came; but by that time, Noah had already built an ark, which God had shown him. God showed him the pattern or blueprint of the ark. He showed him how to build the ark: the size, the material, and the floors it would have, and what the ark would be for: where Noah and his family would be saved, and animals, birds, and reptiles would also be saved.10
Now, notice how God doesn’t destroy the righteous with the unrighteous: He delivered Noah and his family when He destroyed the human race at that time, when He destroyed that generation.
And then Christ visits them in hell, those who were disobedient in the time of Noah, and actually confirms to them why they are in hell; and He shows them that they are unbelievers, and they went to hell because they were unbelievers; they were destroyed by the flood and then they went to hell because they were unbelievers. Because hell, which is the fifth dimension, awaits the unbelievers.
Now, we can see that Christ then went to Heaven, where they were also waiting for Him, for Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were there, and John the Baptist was also there, and other prophets of God of the Old Testament were there too.
For example, Job said: “I know my Redeemer lives; and though after worms destroy my flesh, yet in my flesh shall I see my Redeemer.”11 And Job was able to see Christ, the Redeemer, visiting Paradise.
Now, on Resurrection or Easter Sunday, Sunday morning, Christ appeared in the fourth watch, meaning, from 6:00 to 9:00 in the morning; He gradually appeared to His disciples and spoke to them.
We find that the first ones who saw Jesus Christ resurrected were women.12 Most of the time women seem to wake up earlier, and in most homes, well, they are the ones who wake up the earliest to prepare coffee and prepare breakfast. And they had that blessing.
And you know something? Women represent churches. Therefore, those women represent the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Bride-Church, which will wake up early, which will be awake at the Last Day to receive Christ in His Second Coming with His Angels, and to receive the dead in Christ who will rise; and also for each member of the mystical Body to receive the transformation of their bodies.
So, notice who was represented by those women that saw Christ resurrected, and especially Mary Magdalene, who is the one that was able to speak to Christ; and even though she didn’t recognize Him at first, when Christ spoke to her and told her: “Mary!” she said to Him: “Rabboni!” (which means Master).13 She recognized Him by what He spoke to her.
And at the Last Day, the Virgin Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, will recognize Christ speaking to Her at the Last Day, in the fourth watch of the Last Day, by the words He will be speaking to Her. Through the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, making known to Her all these things which must shortly come to pass, that is how the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will recognize Christ speaking to His Church, speaking to His sheep, and calling them and gathering them at the Last Day in the Lord’s Fold, which is His Church, in the Age of the Cornerstone, at the Last Day.
And just like He gathered His elect into His Church in each age, at the Last Day He calls and gathers His elect and brings them together in His Church, in the age pertaining to the Last Day, which is the Age of the Cornerstone, in the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And just like two thousand years ago the human race was in the stage of the First Coming of Christ, at the Last Day the human race will be in the stage of the Second Coming of Christ. Back then the human race was in the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world; and now, at the Last Day, the human race will be in the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah in His Claiming Work, to claim everything He has redeemed with His precious Blood and bring it back to Eternal Life. That is the Divine Program pertaining to the Last Day, in which we are living.
And notice, when the First Coming of Christ was fulfilled, everything was so simple that they couldn’t believe that this young carpenter of Nazareth was the Messiah; no one could imagine that this simple young man from Nazareth was the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant; because they stumbled over the veil of flesh. But inside that veil of flesh was the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, who had appeared to Moses and had delivered the Hebrew people; and now He had come in human flesh in the Person of Jesus of Nazareth.
The Word, who is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who is God Himself in His theophanic body, had become flesh, had become man, had become a Prophet, and dwelt among human beings.
When the Coming of the Son of man is fulfilled, God will always be manifested in human flesh in a prophet; because what accompanies the Coming or manifestation of the Son of man is the ministry of a prophet, and in that prophet, God manifests Himself and He carries out the ministry of the Son of man, He carries out the ministry of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
That is why God called the prophets in the Old Testament son of man or sons of man: because that title is always related to a prophet.
And that is why Christ as Son of man is heir to the whole planet Earth, with every human being of the present, of the past too, and of the future. And that is why He will be able to judge the people who have lived in the future and those who live in the present as well: because He, as the Son of man, has that inheritance and is the heir to the whole Earth.
Notice in Saint John chapter 5 what it tells us about the Son. Chapter 5, verse 21 and on, says… *19, says:
“Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.
For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son.”
Who is the One that will judge the human race? The Son, our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. The White Throne Judgment will be carried out by our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; in other words, it will be God manifested in the Person of Jesus Christ.
And Jesus Christ will also have His Angel-Messenger, the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Ministering Angel, the One who will be ministering in all the Work of Christ of the Last Day; because He says:
“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”
In other words, the same thing the Father does with Jesus, that is what Jesus does with His Angel.
And that is why in Revelation chapter 2, verses 26 to 27, Christ also tells us the following (and I want to read it too), He says:
“And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end,” (until when? Until the end), “to him will I give power over the nations…”
None of the seven angel-messengers received this power over the nations, and none of the Old Testament prophets received this power over the nations. Why? Because Christ received this power when He rose victorious from among the dead; and then He says that He will give this power to the Overcomer.
And we find that neither in the Old Testament, nor in the New Testament, no prophet of God had this power over all the nations; each of them had temporary or partial power over some nations. But at the Last Day, we find in chapter 11 of Revelation, verse 3 and on, where it tells us:
“And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.”
And this will be during the three and a half years of the Great Tribulation, where the Divine Judgment will fall upon Earth.
And these ministries of the Two Olive Trees, which are the ministries of Moses and Elijah, will have that power. And those ministries will be in the Overcomer, who is the Faithful and Wise Servant, who is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; and through those ministries manifested in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, all of that Divine Power will be manifested in the fulfillment of God’s promise for the Last Day.
That is why every Divine Promise relevant to the Last Day will be fulfilled through the ministry relevant to the Last Day, which is the ministry of the Holy Spirit through His Angel-Messenger, in whom every Scripture must be fulfilled.
Now, let’s continue reading in Revelation chapter 2, where it tells us the following… verse 27 is next, it says:
“And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.”
See? The same power that Jesus Christ received of the Father, now He grants it to the Overcomer. And we have already seen that the Overcomer at the Last Day, at the time of the end, is the Faithful and Wise Servant, the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And it says:
“…and I will give him the (bright and) morning star.”
And what is the Bright and Morning Star? (Because He is going to give It to the Overcomer.) In Revelation chapter 22, verse 16, it tells us:
“I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.”
What does this mean? That the Second Coming of Christ, notice, will be received by the Overcomer.
None of the seven angel-messengers of past ages received the Second Coming of Christ because it wasn’t the time for the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ; but at the Last Day, it is the time for the Second Coming of Christ, which will be received by the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And the group of elect there shall be at the Last Day will receive the blessing of the Last Day and hear the Message of Jesus Christ through His Angel-Messenger, the Message of the Second Coming of Christ, to welcome Christ in His Second Coming; just as the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ will [welcome] Him at the Last Day.
So, we can see these Divine Promises and how they would be fulfilled at the Last Day.
We have seen that we are living in the greatest and most glorious time of all times. We are living in the time promised in the Scripture as the Last Day, which is the time for the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to Earth according to the prophecies.
Let’s see how much time we have left, Miguel, to see how much more of the Scripture we can give here. We have a few minutes left, so our friends listening on the radio can continue hearing and understanding these Biblical prophecies pertaining to this end time in which we are living.
Notice how at the Last Day people would be living at the time of the Coming of the Son of man. And notice here in Saint Matthew chapter 24, verses 37 to 39, Christ tells us:
“But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”
Now, in the time of Noah, they didn’t know: they didn’t understand the Divine Program that was being carried out, they didn’t understand that God had a dispensational prophet on Earth, they didn’t understand that a new dispensation was starting: the Dispensation of Human Government, because the Dispensation of [Conscience] was coming to an end.
And whenever a dispensation comes to an end, a Divine Judgment must fall upon the Earth; but a new dispensation always starts and overlaps, and those who will escape go into the new dispensation through the call of God through that dispensational prophet whom God sends.
And Noah, as the prophet of the Dispensation of Human Government, had the Message for that new dispensation and the way to escape the Divine Judgements that would come at that time.
But the people who lived at that time didn’t know, they didn’t understand the Divine Program, they didn’t understand the Scriptures, the prophecies pertaining to that time, and they weren’t able to understand that that generation had come to an end; but the Prophet Noah and those who were with the Prophet Noah did understand.
These things had also been preached on by the Prophet Enoch, and by previous prophets, like Methuselah, and also like Lamech (Noah’s father); and other prophets had also spoken about these things; but now the one who had to give the Last Message was the Prophet Noah.
And when the time comes for the Last Message, many people can’t believe, because they can’t understand those things that must happen at that time.
So, the Prophet Noah was the prophet who was making known the things that would happen at that time. And only eight people (including Noah) understood, believed, and received that Message; the rest couldn’t understand It, therefore, they couldn’t believe It.
But even though the majority didn’t understand and didn’t believe, and only eight people believed and understood, still the flood came and took away all the unbelievers, who had not understood; and only eight people were saved.
Now, think about that: out of a generation of thousands or millions of people, only eight people were saved.
And now, Christ tells us that the Coming of the Son of man will be as it was in the days of Noah14: that they didn’t know. And what won’t they know or understand at the Last Day? Well, the Coming of the Son of man, they won’t understand the mystery of the Coming of the Son of man with His Angels veiled and revealed in His Angel-Messenger; just as they didn’t understand God’s manifestation in a man: in the Prophet Noah at that time.
At that time, there also appeared—a little before the flood, the comet that is currently passing through15 had appeared, which has already been seen for about two and a half years or so.
At first, in ‘95, it was—it started to be seen through telescopes; and then, as it has come closer, we have been able to see it with the naked eye. These days it can be seen with the naked eye, but later on it will move away; and the last glimpses we will be able to catch of it will be through binoculars and telescopes. But its message will already be given on Earth.
The same message that comet is giving is the same Message that would be preached on Earth: speaking of the Divine Judgments that will come upon the Earth, and also the Divine Blessings that will come upon God’s sons and daughters.
In other words, the interpretation of the presence of that comet on Earth is what God is carrying out on Earth at this Last Day; just as the interpretation of the Star of Bethlehem was the birth of Christ in Bethlehem of Judea. In other words, the fulfillment is the interpretation of what is seen in heaven; because what is seen in heaven must be materialized on Earth.
And now, we are seeing signs in the skies that were foretold by the prophets of the Old Testament and also of the New Testament, and personally by our beloved Lord Jesus Christ
And now, on Earth, notice, at the time of the end or the end of the world, Christ said that we would be seeing something very important; because at the end of the world [century], the human race will have reached the time of the reaping, called the harvest; the harvest is the reaping. And notice what Christ said would be happening on Earth at that time. In Saint Matthew chapter 13, verse 30, it tells us the following:
“Let both grow together,” (meaning, the wheat and tares together), “until the harvest,” (in other words, until the time of reaping), “and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.”
Now, the wheat are the children of the Kingdom; the tares are the children of the wicked one.
The tares will be bound in bundles and will be cast into the furnace of fire, where there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth; in other words, they will be cast into the Great Tribulation, where atomic fire and volcanic fire and every other type of fire will be unleashed upon the wicked ones, that is, upon the tares.
Jesus, explaining this parable, says in chapter 13, verse 37 and on, of Saint Matthew:
“He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
The enemy that sowed them,” (in other words, that sowed the tares), “is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
The Son of man shall send forth his angels…”
When does He say that He will send forth His Angels? In the time of harvest, of reaping. What for? To gather the wheat into the Barn, and cast the tares into the furnace of fire. And the tares will be cast into the furnace of fire, He says:
“As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”
That will be during the Great Tribulation, when atomic, volcanic, and every type of fire will burn up the tares; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
But by that time the wheat will not be on Earth, by that time God’s sons and daughters will not be on Earth, because they will already be changed and raptured, and they will be in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven, where they will spend three and a half years enjoying that great Marriage Supper of the Lamb, where God’s elect will be receiving the rewards for all their work carried out in the Kingdom of God. It says:
“Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.”
Now, we can see what Christ says will be seen at the Last Day.
In terms of ministries, the ministries of the Angels of the Lord Jesus Christ will be seen, which are the ministries of Moses and Elijah. The ministries of the Two Olive Trees will be seen manifested on Earth in human flesh in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, through whom He will be making known to us all these things which must shortly be done at the Last Day.
Just as Noah made known the things that were going to happen in his time, now the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is also a dispensational prophet, will be making known to human beings the things that will happen at this Last Day. And with that Message, all of God’s elect will be called and gathered, and they will be prepared to be changed at the Last Day.
But not everyone will believe, only God’s elect will believe, only the ones whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life will believe, first; and then, later on, the rest of those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, in the section that is not the section of the Lamb’s Book of Life, will believe.
And the one hundred and forty-four thousand Hebrews who appear in Revelation chapter 7, verse 2 and on, and in Revelation chapter 14, verse 1 and on, will also believe. And they will be called and gathered and sealed with the Seal of the living God in their foreheads by the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Angel that comes with the Seal of the living God.
That Angel who comes with the Seal of the living God in Revelation chapter 7, verse 2 and on, notice, comes with the Holy Spirit; because the Holy Spirit is the Seal of the living God.
“And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption,” (Saint Paul tells us in Ephesians chapter 4, verse 30).
Now we can see what Christ has promised to be fulfilled at the Last Day: He has promised the great reaping or harvest of the wheat, and of the tares too; and He has promised the ministry of His Angels for this important Work of the Last Day, as a blessing to all of God’s elect.
So we must be aware of the time in which we have been given to live and of the things that Christ has promised to carry out at this end time, at this Last Day, in which we are already living if we add to the calendar the years it is behind.
Because one day before the Lord is a time period of a thousand years to human beings, as Saint Peter tells us in his Second Letter, in chapter 3, verse 8, where he tells us that we cannot be ignorant: “Be not ignorant that one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
Notice here, let’s read it (we are about to close). Chapter 3, verse 8 of Second Peter (how many minutes do we have left, Miguel?):
“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
One day before God is like a thousand years of our years.
The Last Days before God are three thousand years or three millennia: the fifth millennium, sixth millennium, and seventh millennium; and the Last Day before God is the seventh millennium.
And we are already in the seventh millennium if we add to the calendar the years it is behind, and therefore, we are in the Lord’s Day, the Day of the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to Earth at the Last Day.
For me, beloved friends and brethren present, and radio listeners, it has been a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you about: “THE SECOND COMING OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TO EARTH AT THE LAST DAY.”
May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon each one of you and also upon me; and soon may we all be changed and raptured.
And may He open our understanding and our soul, our heart, to understand all these things which must shortly come to pass at this Last Day, which is the time appointed for the Second Coming of Christ to Earth as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work.
Thank you very much for your kind attention, beloved friends and brethren. And have a good evening, everyone.
I will leave Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín with us again, to give you the phone numbers and addresses you can write to or call to obtain literature completely free of charge, and also to meet whenever you wish to hear and watch a video, a video conference, of topics like the one you have heard on this occasion.
So, I leave Rev. Miguel Bermudez Marin with you to give you this information, so that you can call or write.
With us now: Miguel Bermúdez Marín.
“THE SECOND COMING OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TO EARTH AT THE LAST DAY – PART II.”
1 Matthew 24:36; Mark 13:32
2 Matthew 1:23
3 Exodus 3:6
4 John 1:29
5 Exodus 3:1-12
6 Exodus 4:12
7 Exodus 32:10
8 Genesis 5:24; Hebrews 11:5
9 Deuteronomy 4:24; Hebrews 12:29
10 Genesis 6:13-22
11 Job 19:25-26
12 Matthew 28:1-10; Mark 16:1-9
13 John 20:11-18
14 Luke 17:26-27
15 Hale-Bopp