Good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren present. It is a great blessing for me to be with you on this occasion, to share with you a few moments of fellowship around the Word of God.
For which I want to read the subject that you have marked here for today: “THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE JUSTICE IN THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION.”
I want to read in Psalm 32, verse 1 to 2, where it says:
“Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.”
Throughout the history of the human being, we find that man has always sought to be sinless before God. Sin began in the Garden of Eden, where the human being fell from the glory of God because of the serpent’s deception of Eve; and from then on the human being has been having serious problems on this Earth; and every human being that has been born from Adam until now, has been born through the union of a man and a woman, and therefore, has been born with sin and in sin.
The psalmist said: “…and in sin did my mother conceive me.”1
Now, that is, see, through the union of a man and a woman, that human beings are being born on this planet Earth; and notice how they come into the world from age to age, from time to time; and they come with the sentence of death, “because the wages of sin is (what?) death”2; and that is why man is born and dies, this is physically; and spiritually, notice, he also comes with the sentence of death and comes in death, he comes spiritually dead.
That is why Christ, see, He tells us in the Gospel according to John, chapter 5 and verse 24; He says:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
Because the human being comes spiritually dead to this planet Earth: he comes with a spirit of the world, and then he also comes with a corruptible, mortal and temporary body, in the permissive will of God; that body also sentenced to death.
And now, what is the solution to the problem of the human being? Notice, throughout the history of the human being, he has looked for different ways to remove his sins, but the human being hasn’t been able to remove his sin by himself; but God gave him a substitute there in the Garden of Eden, He gave him the sacrifice of little animals.
But those sacrifices and the blood of those animals couldn’t take away sin, it only covered sin before God; but sin was in the person; therefore, the person wasn’t justified, the person wasn’t justified, because sin was in him; it was only covered from God’s sight.
And now, see how, throughout these generations and dispensations that passed before the Dispensation of Grace, the human being struggled in his life to receive the blessing of God, he made those sacrifices for sin; but he could only cover his sins with the blood of those sacrifices, but never take away sin.
But God gave him those sacrifices while a perfect lamb came, to take away the sin of the human being. And that is why those sacrifices were effective in covering sin, because they represented, typified, Jesus Christ the Lamb of God, who would come to take away sin; that is why Christ came in His First Coming.
And in Isaiah, chapter 53, it tells us… let’s see here, it says [verse 1]:
“Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?”
Now, speaking of Christ, it says:
“For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all (In whom has God laid the sin of us all? In Jesus Christ).
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.”
Now look, this entire chapter 53 of Isaiah speaks of the Messiah, it speaks of Christ, who bore our sins.
He, you see, in bearing our sins: He became sin for us. And He hadn’t committed sin, but because He took all our sins, He became sin for us; and the wages of sin is death, therefore, He had to die, He had to die at that time; and He died for us, for our sins.
But He bearing our sins, what does He do? He takes away our sins; and that is how… Christ says… He says: “And by His knowledge shall My righteous servant justify many, and bear their iniquities.” In other words, our iniquities, our sins are carried by our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; and He died for them there on Calvary’s Cross.
And when we receive Christ as our Savior and we receive His Word, what happens? He carries out in us as individuals, or makes effective in us as individuals, the benefits of His Sacrifice on Calvary’s Cross.
He died there for our sins, He bore our sins; and now He will justify all who believe in Him and confess their sins upon the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross; that is the foundation upon which we make our confession of our sins. And, therefore, the Sacrifice of Christ is made effective in us as individuals, when we receive Christ as our Savior and confess our sins to Jesus Christ. And His Blood, you see, shed on Calvary’s Cross, is made effective in each one of us by taking away our sins.
And notice what Christ does in each one of us; let’s look at Galatians, chapter 4… Galatians, chapter 4, tells us about this mystery of justification. Let’s see, Galatians, chapter 4, there is all this mystery of what Christ has done for us. Galatians, chapter 4, speaks to us from verse 4 and on. It says:
“But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.”
Now, see how this mystery of justification is becoming clearer in the New Testament through the Coming of Christ, and through the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross.
See how this mystery here, in Galatians, and also in Romans, becomes clearer every day. It says in Romans, chapter 4, verse 1 to 8… let’s see what it says there so that we may have a clear picture of this whole Program. It says chapter 4 of Romans… let’s start in verse 1 to verse 8, it says:
“What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
But to him that worketh not, but (that) believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.”
Now, through faith in Christ our Savior, believing in Christ as our Savior, believing in His Sacrifice there on Calvary’s Cross dying for our sins: now we are justified without doing works by ourselves to take away our sins with our own effort, but believing in the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross.
This is how, by receiving Christ, our sins are washed away in the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ; and they are removed; not covered, but removed from us.
And that is why in the elect of God their sins are removed, they have been removed through the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross.
And now, the sons and daughters of God are the righteousness of God, the very righteousness of God; just as Christ was made sin for us, and died on Calvary’s Cross for our sins, as a sinner, due to our sins; and went to hell in His theophanic body due to our sins, where we had to go.
And now, since He took our sins and died for our sins, bearing our sins…; and now He has made us the righteousness of God, without sin before God, by believing in Christ as our Savior and washing away our sins (where?) in the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In Revelation, chapter 1, verses 5 to 6, it says:
“…And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.”
And in Revelation, chapter 5, verses 8 to 10, it says:
“And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”
Now see that they are the redeemed by Christ, by the Sacrifice of Christ on the Calvary’s Cross —where He shed His Blood for us and washed us from our sins—, that we have become kings and priests, and will reign with Christ for a thousand years, and then for all eternity, in the glorious Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; because He has washed us from our sins and has made us His own righteousness.
This is what the Scripture also speaks of, and tells us that “He has made us the righteousness of God.” The elect of God, you see, have been made the righteousness of God, who have washed away their sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ the Lamb of God.
And now, we find that we are to reign with Christ for a thousand years and then for all eternity.
In First Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 21, notice what Saint Paul tells us; it says… verse 20 and on says:
“But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.”
This is in First Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 20 to 22.
But now, in chapter 5 of Second Corinthians, verse 21, it says as follows… Let’s start a little before: verse 20 says… Still a little before: let’s start in verse 14 to 21, where it says:
“For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead…”
The death that we had to have: we had it there in the body of Christ. When the body of Christ died: the elect of God, the death that they had to have, to receive, they received it there in the body of Christ. What for? So that through Christ we might receive eternal life.
“And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
If anyone is in Christ, then he is born through the second Adam: through Christ he has received the new birth and is a new creature; and he belongs to a New Creation; to that Creation of which the beginning of it is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
A New Creation: a new race that comes through the second Adam; a new race with eternal life, which he receives through our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
“And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.”
God reconciled us to Himself through whom? Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, who died on Calvary’s Cross for our sins.
In other words, the Sacrifice of the reconciliation of the human being with God was carried out by Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God; and through that Sacrifice comes the reconciliation of the human being with God. There is no other way for the human being to be reconciled with God, to be born again in a New Creation, and his sins to be remitted, to be removed, and to be found justified before God, as if he had never sinned.
Because when God justifies the person: the sins (even, which that person had committed) are no longer found in that person; because Jesus Christ took our sins and died on Calvary’s Cross; and now we are justified before God: as if we had never sinned.
That is justification: as if we had never sinned in this life; because our sins have been taken by Jesus Christ. And He, you see, turns them back to what they were before they were in the human being.
Just like bleach, whatever brand you have (whether it is Clorox or another brand): when you take a piece of clothing stained with some ink or some other stain, and you throw it in the bleach, then you find out that the ink stain disappears. And where is it, where did it go? It disappeared and went back to what it was before it was ink.
And our sins, being submerged, washed in the Blood of Jesus Christ: they disappear from us, and return to what they were before being sin; and they return to their place of origin, which is the devil; and there they remain, in the devil, in the form in which they were before being in the human being; until the devil is judged and cast into the lake of fire.
Now we can see what justification is for the sons and daughters of God: that God sees them without sin, as if they had never sinned or had sinned on this planet Earth. They are justified before God and stand before the presence of God without sin; for, at the Last Day, those who have already departed: to be resurrected in eternal bodies, and we who are alive: to be transformed; and to be in eternal bodies to reign with Christ for a thousand years and then for all eternity.
Now, the mystery of justification, see how it is manifested: it is through Jesus Christ, who would justify us by believing in Christ and washing away our sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ; that is how we are justified before God. And we are “the righteousness of God,” because Christ has made us unto our God kings and priests, and we are the righteousness of God.
Let’s continue reading here. You see, this Program of Reconciliation with the human being, or of the human being with God, is the Plan of Redemption; it says [verse 18]:
“And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.”
In other words, the preaching of the Gospel; showing the mystery of the Coming of Christ and His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross, where He died taking our sins and becoming mortal; and He paid for our sins there on Calvary’s Cross, so that we don’t have to pay for our sins; He already paid the price and reconciled us with God.
So sin is taken away from the person when he confesses his sin on the basis of the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross; there the sins of the person are cast into the Blood of Christ and disappear, and the person remains as if he had never sinned, thus he remains before God.
Let’s see, the Scripture also tells us: “The Blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin.”3
Now, let’s continue reading here:
“Now then we are ambassadors for Christ…”
Ambassadors of the Kingdom of Heaven. You see, these ambassadors are the preachers of the Word of God, announcing the reconciliation through the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross; so that the person may receive the Spirit of Christ, produce in him the new birth, and be born in a new race that comes from the second Adam.
And that new birth of which Christ spoke to Nicodemus, is not to be born again by means of a man and a woman, but to obtain the new birth by believing in Christ as our Savior and receiving His Holy Spirit; and thus being born into the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is His Church, and becoming a member of that Mystical Body of believers.
Because through one Spirit: The Holy Spirit, we are baptized into one Body, that is, into the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ; and thus we become part of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It goes on to say… Well, it says:
“Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us…”
How did God beseech through… God beseech to the human race? How does God beseech to the human race to be reconciled with God? Through the preachers of the Gospel, making known to them the way, the program of reconciliation of the human being with God, carried out by Christ on Calvary’s Cross.
And no person can have peace with God, and be reconciled to God, except through the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross.
“Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.”
That is the Message of reconciliation for the human being: to be reconciled with God through the Sacrifice on Calvary’s Cross of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, washing our sins in the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. It says:
“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
And now, see how we are “the righteousness of God,” and how we have been justified by God, as if we had never sinned before; because the Blood of Christ has taken away our sins by us believing in Jesus Christ and confessing our sins on the basis of the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross.
Now, we can see how we are reconciled with God: through the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross; because in Him God carried our sins, and He is the one who justifies many; that is, all those who believe in Him and wash away their sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ. And are made the righteousness of God, and are made kings and priests, and shall reign with Christ… We are made the righteousness of God, and are made kings and priests, and shall reign with Christ a thousand years and then for all eternity.
Now you see, not even in the Mind of God are our sins remembered; because the Blood of Christ is so powerful that it takes away our sins and disintegrates them: it returns them to what they were before they were sin in the human being.
Now, we can see the importance of the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross, and we can see the righteousness of God; and how the righteousness of God would be manifested to those who would believe in Christ as our Savior be justified, and would then receive His Holy Spirit, and would be born in the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, we can see the importance of believing in Christ and His Sacrifice performed on Calvary’s Cross.
Now, the Hebrew people, since they didn’t believe in Christ and asked for His death, we find that they have been going through a very difficult stage for all these two thousand years that have passed from Christ until now; two thousand years approximately, where they haven’t had sacrifice for sin, being carried out that sacrifice that they performed there in the temple, because the Roman general Titus destroyed the temple.
And now, you see, for almost two thousand years the Hebrew people have been without sacrifice for sin; therefore, they have been at enmity with God; in other words, they haven’t been reconciled with God. But there comes a moment, a stage, for the reconciliation of the Hebrew people with God. That stage is also prophesied to be fulfilled at the Last Day.
It is found in Zechariah, where it speaks to us of that stage that is coming for the Hebrew people, in and for the Last Day, where the Hebrew people will receive a very great blessing. Chapter 13 of the book of the prophet Zechariah, it says [verse 1]:
“In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.”
They will see the Sacrifice for sin, in other words, they will see the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross; in other words, their eyes will be opened, and then they will understand what happened two thousand years ago in the First Coming of Christ.
And in Isaiah, chapter 59, verses 17 and on, it says:
“For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west…”
From where will they fear the Name of the Lord? From the West; for the Second Coming of Christ with His New Name is in the West.
“…and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood…”
That will be the devil, who will come as a river manifested in the antichrist, to destroy both the Hebrew people and God’s elect from among the gentiles.
“When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.”
And the standard that will be raised against the enemy, in the Last Day, is the Second Coming of Christ, as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work, to face the enemy in the Last Day.
“And the Redeemer shall come to Zion (there you have it: it is the Coming of the Redeemer), and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.
As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.”
Now, see how the Hebrew people will enter the Divine Covenant. Those are the ones that “turn from iniquity” in the midst of the Hebrew people; which are 144,000 Hebrews who in the Last Day will receive Christ and will obtain the knowledge of the Second Coming of Christ, and also the knowledge of the First Coming of Christ to take away the sin of the world.
And in Romans, chapter 11, the apostle Paul quoting that prophecy of Isaiah —that its fulfillment is for the Last Day—, he says in chapter 11 and verse 25 and on; speaking of the Hebrew people, he says:
“For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.”
In other words, until the last of God’s elect of the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ has entered, which enters the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; that is where the last of God’s elect enter. And He is looking for them, the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd seeks him where?
Just as He sought in the first age, in Asia Minor, the elect of that age; and then in the different ages, in the territory where those ages were fulfilled, He sought His elect; in the Last Day where would He seek His elect? In the territory where the Age of the Cornerstone is fulfilled:
In Latin America and the Caribbean, He would be calling and gathering with the Great Voice of Trumpet, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, He would be calling and gathering His elect; which are called and gathered in the Age of the Cornerstone and in the Dispensation of the Kingdom, in the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And those are the ones who come in the Last Day, according to the divine promise.
And where will the elect of God be sought and gathered, and will be listening to the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet, with which the elect of God are called and gathered? Where are those elect in the Last Day manifested in human flesh? We are here, in Latin America and the Caribbean, listening to the Voice of Christ, the Great Voice of Trumpet calling and gathering His elect, in the Age of the Cornerstone, in the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And when the number of the elect of God is completed, who will be called and gathered in the Last Day, with whom the Mystical Body of Christ will be completed in this final stage that corresponds to the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ; when the last one arrives: The Mystical Body of Christ is completed. And it comes under the ministry of the final messenger: The Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, calling and gathering all the elect of God in the Mystical Body of Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And when the last of the elect from among the gentiles enters into the Age of the Cornerstone: then the fullness of the gentiles will have entered in, the last of the elect of the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ will have entered in; and then (what?) the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us which are alive will come; and we will be with our eternal and glorious body, as Christ has promised.
And so it will be that in the Last Day the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be with eternal bodies; both those who will be resurrected in eternal bodies, as well as we who are alive, who will be transformed in this Last Day.
And where will those who will be transformed in the Last Day be when they are alive? They will be in the Age of the Cornerstone and in the Dispensation of the Kingdom, hearing the Great Voice of Trumpet, the Trumpet of God, that Trumpet of Heaven, that Last Trumpet, which is the Final Message: The Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom through the Holy Spirit through His Angel Messenger.
And the territory where most of those people that will be transformed will be, will be the territory where the Age of the Cornerstone is being fulfilled, which is Latin America and the Caribbean.
That is why the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said: “I would be surprised if from so or such a city, or state are raptured, a certain number of people are raptured.” And I am not going to say the number, but look in the messages of our brother Branham, look in the book of Quotations (those who have the book of Quotations) and also in other messages, and you will see there the very small numbers that our brother Branham saw.
And do you know that even at that moment when he was speaking…? If at that moment the resurrection of the dead took place and the transformation of the living had to take place, do you know that no person was transformed at that moment, and none of those who were alive could leave in the rapture?
And why is that? Because the Thunders are the ones that give the faith of the rapture. And what the Thunders reveal is the Second Coming of Christ in its fulfillment; and all that was in the future; it wasn’t to be fulfilled in the seventh age of the gentile Church.
That is why the resurrection of the dead didn’t occur in any of the seven gentile Church Ages, and the rapture couldn’t occur in any of the seven gentile Church Ages either, and the transformation of the living couldn’t occur in any of the seven gentile Church Ages either; because faith was needed for the rapture, the faith of rapture, which is in the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work. And it is for the Age of the Cornerstone, in the Dispensation of the Kingdom, that this mystery is revealed to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And no person, who doesn’t have the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ in the Last Day…, no person, who doesn’t have this revelation of the Second Coming of Christ in the Last Day, can be transformed and raptured; because the faith of rapture is contained in the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work.
Now, we can see this mystery, and now we can understand then why Saint Paul spoke that the time of the gentiles had to be completed, and the fullness of the gentiles had to come in; that is, the fullness of the Mystical Body of Christ: up to the last of God’s elect.
And then what? Then, since the dead in Christ will be resurrected in incorruptible bodies, we who are alive will be transformed, and we will go from here to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
And what will be happening here on Earth? The great tribulation will be falling upon the Earth; but the Hebrew people will have the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, and will also have the knowledge of the First Coming of Christ. All this will be obtained through the ministry of Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit through His Angel Messenger in the Last Day.
That is why none of the seven angel messengers of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ: neither Saint Paul, nor Irenaeus, nor Martin, nor Columba, nor Luther, nor Wesley, nor the Reverend William Marrion Branham, could convert the Hebrew people to Christ; they weren’t the ones who had to take the Message of the Gospel to the Hebrew people as a nation, to convert them to Christ as a nation, because the Hebrew people will be converted to Christ as a nation in the Last Day, at the Second Coming of Christ.
And through the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom is that they will come to Christ and will be converted to Christ; and their sins will be taken away, as the Scripture says, and they will enter the Dispensation of the Kingdom, and will be prepared to be in the glorious Millennial Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; 144,000 Hebrews are in the Lamb’s Book of Life destined, predestined, assigned to receive Christ in the Last Day.
And now, who will bring the Message to the Hebrew people?, through whom will they receive the Message in the Last Day? Through the ministry of the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the ministry of Christ through His Angel Messenger.
Now see why no other messenger of Christ could convert the Hebrew people to Christ; see, because Saint Paul was among the Hebrew people and they persecuted him and stoned him also, and they were always looking for him to kill him; and he couldn’t convert the Hebrew people to Christ as a nation; because that will be for the Last Day, for the seventh millennium, under the ministry of Christ through His Angel Messenger.
And just as the Jews brought the Gospel to the gentiles through the ministry of Saint Peter and Saint Paul: Peter opened the door to the gentiles in the house of Cornelius, and Saint Paul continued among the gentiles with the Message of the Gospel of Grace.
And we have had two thousand years, where millions of gentiles have been entering the Kingdom of God, the Mystical Body of Christ; they have been washing their sins in the Blood of the Lamb, and have been being (what?) justified; and have been becoming (what?) the righteousness of God.
And now, see how Jesus Christ justifies us and leaves us…, by washing away our sins in His Blood, He leaves us as if we had never sinned on this planet Earth.
Now, we continue reading what Saint Paul says. Let’s see here… the last thing he said was that “the hardening of the Hebrew people would be (what?) in part,” until when?
“…until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer…”
Now, Isaiah says that “He will come to Sion,” and now here Saint Paul says that “He will come from Sion.”
Spiritual or heavenly Sion is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is for His Church: spiritual Sion.
The apostle Saint Paul in his letter to the Galatians tells us that we are not on Mount Sinai, but on Mount Sion, in the heavenly Jerusalem, and so on.
And now, there is heavenly Sion —which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ—, which comes in the Last Day manifested as the white horse Rider of Revelation, chapter 19; and it is the Word, the Word incarnate in a man.
He comes “to Sion” in that form: Christ veiled through His Angel Messenger, as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords.
And then to the Hebrew people He will go from where? “From Sion”: He will go from heavenly Sion to earthly Sion, which is the Hebrew people; and from the heavenly Jerusalem to the earthly Jerusalem.
“There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.”
Now, it says: “When He takes away their sins.” In other words, the Hebrew people have had two thousand years (from Christ until now) with their sins; and for that reason they have been having so many problems.
The divine judgment has been upon the Hebrew people as a nation, and that is why they have been hated by the gentile nations at different stages, at different times; and they almost exterminated the Hebrew people at the time of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin, and other dictators.
“For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.”
Their sins shall be taken away; for it says that a fountain shall be opened in the house of David; a fountain in the house of David, says the prophet Zechariah in chapter 13, where we read a few minutes ago. And it will be for what? It says [verse 1]:
“In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.”
Now, you see what is coming for the Hebrew people, but they have to wait until the fullness of the gentiles comes in; they have to wait until the last of God’s elect comes in.
And that is why the Work of God that is being carried out among the gentiles in the Last Day is so important; because it is in that Work that the elect of God of the Last Day are called, to complete the number of the redeemed by Jesus Christ, of the elect of God in the Mystical Body of Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone.
You see, the Hebrew people are waiting for us!; they are waiting for us, for the number of God’s elect to be completed.
And that is why we are working in the Kingdom of Christ taking the Message everywhere; so that just as we have come to the Mystical Body of Christ, and we are in the Age of the Cornerstone…
We have come through the Message of the Age of the Cornerstone, through the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and we have been placed in the Age of the Cornerstone and in the Dispensation of the Kingdom. And so also the elect yet to come, which have their names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life: they have to be called and gathered; therefore, the Message has to reach them, so that it enters into their hearts, and they are called and gathered into the Age of the Cornerstone and into the Dispensation of the Kingdom; and thus the Mystical Body of Christ is completed.
And our goal is to carry the Message until the Mystical Body of Christ is completed, to carry the Message until the last of the elect, until the last of the elect is called and gathered in the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And while the last one appears: before the last one because they are before, there…, perhaps hundreds are before reaching the last of the elect; in other words, someone will be the last one to arrive, of those who have their names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
And when that happens, the dead in Christ will resurrect, we who are alive will be changed, we will be here from 30 to 40 days, the Hebrew people will see God manifested in each of those elect that will be in eternal bodies, and they will see the ministry that will be in the midst of His elect, which is the ministry of Christ through His Angel Messenger, and they will say: “This is the one we are waiting for! This is the one of whom the Scripture speaks! And what is He doing here, among the gentiles?!”
They will see Christ among the gentiles, as Joseph was seen among the gentiles when his brothers saw him at the time when Joseph revealed himself to them.
And now, see how this great event, corresponding to the Last Day, is prophesied in the Old Testament and also in the New Testament; and it is also prophesied by the Reverend William Marrion Branham, who was the prophet messenger of the seventh age, the Age of Laodicea, and forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.
Now we can see how Christ would come to His Mystical Body of believers, to His justified Church, and to the members of the Mystical Body of Christ, who are justified by believing in Christ as our Savior and washing our sins in the Blood of the Lamb.
And we receive His Spirit, and we are born, we are born into the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ: we belong to a new race; to a new race of which Jesus Christ is the first. That is why He is the second Adam; the second Adam of this new race that He has started by believing in Christ as our Savior and washing our sins in the Blood of the Lamb, who bore our sins and died for us on Calvary’s Cross, and justified us. He is the one who justifies us all before God, as if we had never sinned before.
Now, we have seen the mystery of justification. He justifies whom He wants; you see, He has mercy on whom He wants to have mercy; and that is referring to God’s elect: on whom He has mercy, and He justifies God’s elect —as if they had never sinned before— by means of the Sacrifice on Calvary’s Cross, in which we have washed away our sins and are justified before God.
We have seen the mystery of justification; the mystery which, in dispensations before the sixth dispensation, was hidden from the eyes of human beings.
“THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE JUSTICE IN THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION.” That is what we have seen on this occasion.
We lack time to quote all the Scriptures, but you read at home the Scriptures that speak about justification and the Sacrifice of Christ; and thus you will have a clearer picture every day, about the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross, and the importance of believing in Christ as our Savior; and thus remain believing in Christ all the days of our life; and serving Him with all our soul and with all our heart.
You can read Romans, chapter 9, verse 14 and on. Or if you want to read a little bit like this, where it says:
“What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.”
And in verses 23 and on, of this same chapter 9, says:
“And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?”
This is a question. Let’s see how we can do it here, since it is a very long question:
“…but also of the Gentiles?
As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children (of God) of the living God.”
See, from among the gentiles, where the gentiles weren’t called children of God; now among the gentiles they are called, the elect of God, the members of the Mystical Body of Christ, they are called “sons and daughters of God.”
See where God would place His children during the Dispensation of Grace; and still in our time there are among the gentiles sons and daughters of God, who are being called and gathered in the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And now look at the great blessing that we have at this time in Latin America and the Caribbean: we have the call of the Great Voice of Trumpet calling and gathering the sons and daughters of God, the elect of God, the last elect of God of the Mystical Body of Christ, to complete the number of the elect of God from among the gentiles, to complete the number of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; in other words, to fulfill the fullness of the gentiles, and then come the opportunity for the Hebrew people.
Now, Saint Paul, see how he tells us the reason why the Hebrew people didn’t believe in Jesus Christ: and that is that first the fullness of the gentiles must enter, who are the members of the Mystical Body of Christ, among the gentiles; and from time to time a Hebrew enters the Mystical Body of Christ. But one enters the Mystical Body of Christ as an individual: receiving Christ as our Savior and receiving His Holy Spirit, and thus entering the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ.
Well, we have seen where we are in the Program of Divine Justice in the Plan of Redemption: we are now, at present, in the Age of the Cornerstone.
God bless you, God keep you; and remember this mystery: “THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE JUSTICE IN THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION.”
And don’t forget our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, who died on Calvary’s Cross. And when anyone commits any error, fault or sin, remember: The Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin; and Christ justifies us before God as if we had never sinned, when we confess our sins to Jesus Christ, and thus wash away our sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ. For our confession to Christ is on the basis of His Sacrifice on Calvary’s Cross; and thus our sins are taken away, our faults, any problem or error we commit after being in Christ, serving Him in the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ.
May God continue to bless you, may God keep you, and may we always go forward serving our beloved Lord Jesus Christ in the age we have been allotted to live in; serving Him with all our love, from the depth of our heart, with divine love; and working in His Work all the days of our life until the last one arrives and until the last of the elect; and then we will be transformed, after the dead in Christ are resurrected.
And may the last of the elect soon arrive, and may the Mystical Body of Christ be completed, and may we be transformed, and may we be raptured and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven, to the House of our heavenly Father. In the Eternal Name of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
Thank you very much for your kind attention, and I leave with you the Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin to continue and finish our part in this afternoon, thanking Jesus Christ for His blessings, and for justifying us before God, and for washing away our sins in His Blood shed on Calvary’s Cross.
And now, see how we are justified before God: as if we had never sinned.
We have seen: “THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE JUSTICE IN THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION.”
May God bless you and keep you all.
With us Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin.
“THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE JUSTICE IN THE PLAN OF REDEMPTION.”
1 Psalms 51:5
2 Romans 6:23
3 1 John 1:7