Good evening, beloved brethren and friends present. It is a great blessing to be with you this evening, to share some moments of fellowship around the prophetic Word of God, and to see where we are at this Last Day, and thus, to glorify God and receive His blessings promised for this Last Day.
I want to read in Revelation chapter 2, verse 17, where God tells us in His Word:
“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”
May God bless our hearts with His Word, and open His Word to us, and open our hearts so that we may understand It, and thus, may He fill us with His blessings at this Last Day. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Our subject for this occasion is: “THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN MANNA.” This is a Biblical mystery and it is a prophetic Scripture for all the children of God.
In order to understand this mystery of the hidden Manna, we need to go to the Old Testament, where God commanded the Prophet Moses to put the manna, that manna, in the holy of holies. Notice, let’s see here… Chapter 16 of the Book of Exodus… Let’s read chapter 16, verse 23 and on, of the Book of Exodus. It says:
“And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake to day,” (or, cook it), “and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein,” (in other words, it didn’t get full of worms, nor did it stink).
“And Moses said, Eat that to day; for to day is a sabbath unto the Lord: to day ye shall not find it in the field.
Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
See, for that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
So the people rested on the seventh day.
And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.
And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations.
As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.”
Now, notice the way that this manna was put in the holy of holies here, and it was hidden inside the ark of the covenant; and no one could see that manna, except the high priest, who went into that place once every year.1
Now let’s see what Saint Paul the Apostle tells us regarding the manna; let’s see here: chapter 9, verse 1 and one, of the Book of Hebrews, of the Letter to the Hebrews, Saint Paul says:
“Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.”
Here we have seen that it was in the holy of holies, inside the ark of the covenant; which was in that place; where there was a golden vessel, a golden pot, containing that manna. It was hidden there inside the ark of the covenant. And no one, notice, could be looking inside the ark of the covenant because no one could go into the holy of holies except the high priest and Moses when he was on Earth.
Notice, because God had told the Prophet Moses that He would commune with him from the holy of holies. It says in [Exodus] chapter 25, verse 19 and on, around there… let’s read from that point on, or from verse 18, we will read around there, it says:
“And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.
And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.
And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.”
From where would God commune with the Prophet Moses? From the holy of holies, from above the mercy seat; from there, God would meet with Moses, He would tell Moses all things for the Hebrew people.
Now, notice that only two people could go into the holy of holies of the temple Moses built: one was the high priest, and the other was the Prophet Moses. The high priest, once a year; and Moses, as many times as he needed to go into that place.
Now, notice, that was where the hidden manna was. Notice, the high priest and Moses were the only ones who could go into the place where the hidden manna was.
And now, where are we going to find the temple of Moses in order to go into the holy of holies and see that hidden manna, see it there in the holy of holies, and take of it and eat? That temple is no longer there; and if they have it somewhere, well, it is not functioning. And in the tabernacle Solomon built, the hidden manna was also there inside the ark of the covenant; but where is that temple now? We cannot find it.
So, if it were a requirement to go to the tabernacle Moses built or the temple Solomon built in order to eat of that hidden manna, for Christ to give us of that hidden manna, we would never be able to find that hidden manna, and we would never be able to eat of that hidden manna. But we don’t have to worry because there is a new temple that has been built by our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, and that is the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ, that is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And just as the manna was hidden in the holy of holies inside the ark of the covenant, we must find the Temple of Jesus Christ; and not only go into the Outer Court, but come from the Outer Court (come from the Sacrifice of Christ, which was in the Outer Court), come from there, go into the Holy Place (go through the ages), and then go into the Holy of Holies, to the Age of the Cornerstone.
Now, during the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church, we find that Christ has been giving Manna, just as He gave manna to the Hebrew people for forty years.
But notice, there was a manna that the Hebrew people could not eat, and it was the one that was inside the ark of the covenant, inside the ark of the testimony, which was in the holy of holies.
Now notice, not only did that remain there the whole time, it even remained when manna had already stopped falling upon the Hebrew people. Notice, that is even the manna that entered into the promised land. Not the one they ate in the wilderness, but the one that was put in the holy of holies of the tabernacle Moses built, inside the ark of the covenant.
And now, during the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church, notice, Christ has been giving Manna to His Church from age to age. This Manna which He has been giving them from age to age (just as He gave the Hebrew people manna for forty years) is the Word, the Message that Christ has given His Church from age to age. He has given that Message to the messenger of each age; and he has received that Message, that Manna, and He has given It to the people; and with that Food, with that Manna, the people of God, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, have been fed.
From age to age, notice, Christ has had a faithful and wise servant, where? In His House. Which is the House of Christ? His Church. Saint Paul speaks to us about this; notice, right here, in this Book to the Hebrews, which we have been reading about the tabernacle.
Now notice, in chapter 3, verses 3 to 6, Saint Paul tells us:
“Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”
Now, notice that there is a new house: the House of God, the House of Jesus Christ, which is His Church; and Jesus Christ is High Priest there.
So notice, as High Priest, He has been in the Outer Court; then He has been in the Holy Place, walking among the seven golden candlesticks or seven lamps on the golden candlestick; and then He goes on to the Holy of Holies. Because in order to go into the Holy of Holies, He must have first passed through the Outer Court, and He also must have passed through the Holy Place, because He is going into His House to reach the Holy of Holies.
And that is what Christ has been doing. He was here in the Outer Court, then He went on to the Holy Place from age to age (Jesus Christ the High Priest), to go on to the Holy of Holies of His spiritual Temple at the Last Day.
Now notice, He was manifested from age to age in each angel-messenger.
Now, also notice, also here, to go into this place, there is a veil to go through. And the veil, notice, is always Christ manifested at the relevant time; in the First Coming of Christ, the veil was there: Jesus, the veil of flesh.
And now, notice, one must always go beyond the veil; because what is behind the veil… Notice, what is behind the veil of the holy place is the holy of holies, along with everything the place is made up of… or, let’s see… What is behind the veil of the holy place is everything that is in the holy place: there are the seven lamps there on the candlestick, there is the shewbread, and all those things that pertain to the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church.
And then we find that what is behind the veil of the holy of holies is everything that pertains to the holy of holies. The ark of the covenant is there, the tables of the Law are in the ark of the covenant, the hidden manna is there in a golden pot, Aaron’s rod that budded is there, the mercy seat is there, and the two cherubims of gold are on the mercy seat; and the Presence of God, the Shekinah, that Pillar of Fire is shining there in the holy of holies.
And now, notice how Christ has been moving in His Temple, both in the construction of His Temple and in the Work (notice) pertaining to each stage or each age, which is the Work of the construction of the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ.
Because He is building a House, a Temple, which is a Family, a heavenly Family; because the House of Christ is the Family of Christ, God’s descendants, of which we find that Jesus is the beginning of that new Creation.2 A new Creation; because the first creation, which began with Adam, fell; and therefore, all those who come through the seed of Adam come sentenced to death.
One is born here on Earth through the union of a man and a woman, and then one lives for a period of time, and that person dies; and that person’s entire life in terms of the physical body has ended.
But through the second Adam, who is Jesus Christ, by hearing the preaching of the Gospel and believing in Christ, believing in the First Coming of Christ, and receiving His Word, and receiving Him as our Savior, and washing away our sins in the Blood of the Lamb: we receive His Holy Spirit, and thus we receive a theophanic body, a theophanic spirit; and that is when we start to have Eternal Life.
And then, at the Last Day, we will receive the physical and eternal body that He has promised for us; and we will be living there for all eternity, in an eternal body, and we will reign with Christ a thousand years, and then for all eternity.
But before that Kingdom begins here on Earth, the Great Tribulation must pass through this Earth to remove the kingdom of the world and establish the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, so that the kingdoms of this world become the Kingdoms of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. And we must be raptured before the Great Tribulation; and before being raptured, the dead in Christ must rise first, and we who are alive must be changed.
See how there is a process? And in that process, certain things are received. And before we are changed, what does the Scripture say? The Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet will sound, and the dead in Christ will rise first, and then we who are alive will be changed.3
But before that Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet sounds, it says: “And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet.” In other words, the ministry of the Angels of Jesus Christ must come, which are the ministries of the Two Olive Trees, the ministries of Moses and Elijah.
And in order for the ministry of Moses and Elijah to come, the ministry of His Angels with the Great Voice of Trumpet, it says that the Son of man will be seen in the clouds; and in order to be seen in the clouds, well, the sign of the Son of man must be shown, where? In Heaven.
Now, this is what Christ said in Saint Matthew chapter 24, verses 30 to 31, where He 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.”
He says He will come in a cloud; and on February 28, 1963 a mysterious cloud appeared in the sky; there was no scientific explanation for this cloud, no scientific explanation to satisfy all scientists and human beings.
But what is the mystery of this cloud? That this cloud is composed of seven angels sent by God, who appeared to Rev. William Marrion Branham on February 28, 1963, while he was hunting in the mountains of Tucson, Arizona; and one of these angels caught him away and took him (took him in spirit, in his theophanic body), and he was put together with those angels who were here. [Dr. Soto shows the photograph of the cloud from the Life magazine article published on May 17, 1963—Ed.]
Counting Rev. William Marrion Branham, here are the seven angel-messengers of the seven Gentile Church ages; and there is also another Angel (which is this one here)… Notice, if we turn the picture to the right, we will find that this cloud of angels forms the face of the Lord Jesus Christ: the beard (here) is the seven angel-messengers of the seven Gentile Church ages; and the white hair (here) is the Angel who was very different from the rest, which Rev. William Marrion Branham told us about.
And in order for these seven angel-messengers of the seven ages to fulfill the type and figure of the Lord’s beard, they had to be manifested in human flesh here on Earth, each one in the time he was given to live.
And for this Angel to form the white hair, in other words, to fulfill the type and figure of the white hair of the Lord Jesus Christ, He must come to Earth in human flesh at the Last Day; and that will be the Coming of this Angel in human flesh in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; through that, He will be fulfilling the type and figure of the white hair of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, notice how this whole great mystery of the Second Coming of Christ would be so simple. This is for the Last Day, for the Age of the Cornerstone, where the Angel who was very different from the rest will be ministering here on Earth.
And since these seven angel-messengers, which form the beard of the Lord Jesus Christ, ministered here [in] the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth, and seventh ages, and they were in the territories where those ages were fulfilled, and the Manna pertaining to the age in which they lived came to them, and they gave It to the people: they were the faithful and wise servants of the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church, and they were feeding God’s children (where?) in the House of God; because the House of God is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And that is where God’s Family is born; because the House of God is the House of God’s Bread. And that is why God’s Bread was there, the Manna, the Message, which came to God’s children from age to age; to be fed with that Manna. Through the Food that fell, God’s blessing came: It reached the messenger, and the messenger in his age gave It to the House of God, to the Church of Jesus Christ, to God’s sons and daughters of that age.
Notice the parable of the faithful and wise servant and of the faithful and wise steward; notice how it’s in the Household of his Lord, the House of God, the Church of Jesus Christ, that He would put those faithful and wise servants.
But now, notice that the great blessing is for the faithful and wise servant who is in the House of God giving them Food in due season, the portion pertaining to that time, to the time of the Second Coming of Christ.
It says, let’s see, let’s read this here, because this is very important, and it is a prophecy to be fulfilled at the Last Day. Saint Matthew chapter 24, verses 42 to 47, says:
“Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household,” (what Household? His Church), “to give them meat in due season?”
What Meat or Food? The Manna.
“For man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” Saint Matthew chapter 4, verse 4; and Saint Luke chapter 4, verse 4; and Deuteronomy chapter 8, verses 3 to 4.
It goes on to say:
“Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.”
Blessed is the Faithful and Wise Servant who will be in the Household of God, feeding the children of God in the time of the Second Coming of Christ.
“Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.”
And the meaning of those words covers everything: “He shall make him ruler over all his goods.” Search for all the goods of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, which, during the glorious Millennial Kingdom, will be manifested here on Earth in the glorious Kingdom of Jesus Christ. And who will be with Jesus Christ in His Kingdom, administering those goods? Well, Christ says here:
“Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.”
And He also says [Revelation 3:21]:
“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.”
And He also says:
“And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end,” (in other words, until this end time in which we live), “to him will I give power over the nations,” (that is, over all nations).
“And he shall rule them,” (meaning, he will govern them), “with a rod of iron…”
And what else does He say? That is in Revelation chapter 2, verses 26 to 28. He 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.”
Notice, the same power that Christ has received from the Father, now He gives it to the Overcomer.
And also the Manna; notice, He gives the Overcomer the hidden Manna: “To him that overcometh will I give of the hidden Manna, and will give him a white Stone, and in the Stone a new Name, a new Name which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth It.”
The white Stone, notice, the Prophet Daniel saw It in his interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, when King Nebuchadnezzar saw a statue whose head was of gold, its breasts and arms of silver, and its belly and thighs of brass, and its legs of iron, and its feet of iron and clay; that is the Gentile kingdom which God shows in that statue.4
And now, notice that he saw a Stone cut out without hands, cut out of the Mountain, which came and smote the image upon its feet of iron and clay; that is the Second Coming of Christ.
And that is the same white Stone that comes with a new Name; because the Second Coming of Christ is with a new Name, which He received when He died, rose, and ascended to Heaven victorious.
That is why Christ also says: “Him that overcometh…” Let’s see, chapter 3, verse 12 of Revelation, He says the following:
“Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God,” (where? in the Temple of My God, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ), “and he shall go no more out,” (out of that mystical Body of believers, in other words, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ): “and I will write upon him the name of my God,” (the Eternal Name of God will be written upon the Overcomer), “and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God,” (the new Jerusalem will have a Name, and that is the Eternal Name of God). And He goes on to say: “and I will write upon him my new name.”
Now, notice how these words of Jesus Christ shake the religious world, they shake the theological world; because after God manifested Himself in the Old Testament using different names, now we find that later on, when He comes in His First Coming, He comes with the Name of Jesus.
Notice, God had used: El, Elohim, Melchizedek and all these Names; but now when the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, comes in human flesh, He bears the Name of Redemption: Jesus.
Because what Jesus means is ‘Redeemer,’ and He came to do the Work of Redemption; that is why He had to have the Name of Redemption.
But now in Revelation chapter 3, verse 12, He tells us that He has a new Name.
And after human beings managed to discover (after a long time) that the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Jehovah of the Old Testament, the Angel of the Lord came with the Name of Redemption “Jesus”… and the Hebrew people and the theologians of the Hebrew people, the doctors of divinity, didn’t realize or know that It was God’s Name for Redemption. Now, once Christianity already has knowledge on the Name of Jesus, now Jesus says in Revelation chapter 3, verse 12, that He has a new Name that no man knows, and that this new Name comes in the white Stone, and that only the one who receives that white Stone knows It. And the white Stone is the Second Coming of Christ; and the Second Coming of Christ is with His new Name; His New Name, which is the Name of the Lion of the tribe of Judah, of the King of kings and Lord of lords.
Now notice, everyone who is waiting for the Second Coming of Christ is expecting a young man to appear, who perhaps looks about thirty-three years old… that’s if they don’t think He has gotten old because so many years have passed (approximately two thousand years).
Now, they would usually be expecting a young man of about thirty-three years of age, with a beard, with His hair long, as the First Coming of Christ was two thousand years ago, and with the Name of Jesus; but they forget that He says He has a new Name.
And that mystery would only be known by the one who receives that white Stone, in other words, the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Covenant coming to His Church, to His people, to His House, again at this Last Day.
Likewise, notice, Jesus said: “I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not…”5
Now notice, referring to the antichrist He said: “when another comes in his own name (a name that he will give himself or they will give him as leader), well, you will receive him.”6 In other words, He is talking about the antichrist.
But now Christ says He has a new Name for His Second Coming.
Now, notice that the Second Coming of Christ is truly a mystery; and especially after seeing in the Scripture that He comes with a new Name, making the Second Coming of Christ even more mysterious.
Perhaps the great scholars in religions, or in religion, or in the Christian religion, scratch their heads, and ask: “Now what could that Name be?” Not everyone can imagine that He comes with the new Name; but those who manage to read here and understand that this is the new Name that He will have in His Second Coming, that is where all their earthly wisdom ends; and they will only be able to say: “This is more complicated than we imagined.”
But notice, I will tell you: This is simpler than what the Christian religion and the Hebrew religion have theologically imagined; because in Revelation chapter 19, it says He has this Name on His vesture and on His thigh: King of kings and Lord of lords; just like in His First Coming the Name that He would have would be Emmanuel; yet, He did not come with the Name “Emmanuel” written, rather, the meaning of Jesus was “Emmanuel: God with us.”7
And it will be Emmanuel again: God with us, the Angel of the Lord with us again; but on His vesture, on His clothing, in which He will fulfill His coming, He will have that Name written; for He comes with His new Name.
Now notice, we must eat good Food then; good Food that feeds us so well that it fills us with wisdom from Heaven; and that Food is the hidden Manna pertaining to the Last Day.
Now, we have seen that in the House of God, God’s sons and daughters would be fed by the faithful and wise servant of each age; fed with what? With the Manna of each age, the spiritual Food of each age, the Word of each age.
And notice, they have been fed with the Message of the First Coming of Christ, the Message of the Gospel of Grace, the revelation of the First Coming of the Angel of the Covenant in human flesh in all His fullness: with the Name of Jesus.
But now, let’s see here: on page 211 of the Book An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages, Rev. William Marrion Branham, tells us:
“Now then, there is also the thought of the future partaking of the hidden manna. I think it will be the eternal partaking of the revelation of Jesus Christ in the eternal ages to come.”
What will the hidden Manna be? The eternal partaking of the revelation of Jesus Christ in the ages to come. Not in these ages, in these seven ages, but rather, in the ages to come; and that is why we have the Age of the Cornerstone, which is an eternal age. And in that eternal age, we eat the hidden Manna, we eat the Divine Revelation 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 when we eat of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords.
He said: “I am the living Bread which came down from Heaven; and he that eats of this Bread shall live forever.”8 That was to eat of the revelation of Jesus Christ in His First Coming, in order to receive salvation.
And now, at the Last Day we are required to eat of Christ in His Second Coming as the Lion of the tribe of Judah in order to receive the faith, the revelation to be changed and raptured; and thus, to be eating of the hidden Manna.
Where was the hidden manna? In the holy of holies.
Where do we find the Holy of Holies of the Temple of God? The temple of Solomon is no longer there, neither is the temple of Moses. Where will we go? Where will we find the Temple?
Here is the Temple. It is the spiritual Temple of Christ, it is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Age of the Holy of Holies of the spiritual Temple of Christ, where the hidden Manna, the hidden revelation, the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, would be hidden from all the wise and prudent of past times and of this time; and it would also be hidden from the seven angel-messengers of the seven Gentile Church ages, because they had to eat the Divine Revelation of the First Coming of Christ, but in the Age of the Cornerstone we eat the Divine Revelation of the Second Coming of Christ; that is what it means to eat the hidden Manna at this Last Day. And it is a Message for all eternity; It is for the Millennium and for all eternity.
It is the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom feeding us the Message, the Word, the hidden Manna, the spiritual Food pertaining to the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, meaning, pertaining to the Holy of Holies of the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ.
And how does that hidden Manna come to God’s elect at this Last Day? It comes through the revelation of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit through His Angel-Messenger:
He gives His Angel-Messenger the spiritual Food for God’s elect, the Message, the Divine Revelation of His Coming, of His manifestation in the Holy of Holies in His spiritual Temple through His Angel-Messenger; and He reveals that mystery to him. And he makes it known, the Angel-Messenger makes it known to all the members of the mystical Body of Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone; and thus, they receive the hidden Manna.
That is the hidden Manna, the revelation 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 the revelation of Himself, the revelation of Christ at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, in the Holy of Holies of His spiritual Temple.
That is why we must look at what is beyond the veil, what is behind the veil of the Holy of Holies of the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ; not stumble over the veil, but look at what is behind it, in order to receive the hidden Manna upon going into the Holy of Holies; and by being there, receive that Manna which could not be eaten in other ages; because they could not receive the Second Coming of Christ at that time, they could not see It, understand It, receive It, because it was not the time for the Second Coming of Christ.
The time of the Second Coming of Christ is the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, where Christ comes to His Church in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; just as He came to the messenger in each age, and revealed Himself to His Church through the messenger.
And He comes here, in the Age of the Cornerstone, to His Messenger, and reveals Himself to His Messenger; and through His Messenger He reveals Himself to His Church in the Age of the Cornerstone. And with Christ revealed as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, He feeds us the hidden Manna, He gives us the revelation of His Coming as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Claiming Work.
So, the hidden Manna is: Christ revealed in and to His Church at the Last Day. And when we eat the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around His Second Coming, we are eating the hidden Manna; because the revelation contained in the Gospel of the Kingdom, the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ, is the mystery that would be opened to us; and thus, it would be the hidden Manna given to each one of us.
Remember that the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which contains the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ, gives us to eat of Christ Himself in Word form; just as Melchizedek gave Abraham bread and wine to eat9: He was giving him of Himself in type and figure. Because notice, bread represents Christ. He said: “I am the Bread of Life; and he that eats of this Bread shall live forever.”
Now, we can see this MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN MANNA.
Where would we receive Him at the Last Day? In the Temple, in the Tabernacle of God. But the one of Moses no longer exists, neither does the one of Solomon; the Hebrews no longer have a temple where they keep manna in the holy of holies. But Jesus Christ does have a Temple. Jesus Christ has a Temple, and that Temple is His Church; and the Holy of Holies of His Temple is this place: the Age of the Cornerstone. That is where we must go, that is where we must enter to receive that hidden Manna; to receive the revelation 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.
Now, we have seen what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said. He said:
“I think it will be the eternal partaking of the revelation of Jesus Christ in the eternal ages to come.”
And the revelation of Jesus Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, notice, is the hidden Manna for each one of us. For He comes—the hidden Manna comes—and manifests Himself in our age, the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom. And the Message that comes from Him, which is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and reveals His Coming, becomes Christ in Message form for all of us, He is the hidden Manna.
“And he that eats of this bread shall live forever,” because that hidden Manna is Christ for all of us.
And notice, Christ has been manifested in different forms: in the form of the Angel of the Lord or Angel of the Covenant, and also in the form of the Message: the Message of the hidden Manna; because it is Christ in Word form for all of us; because that Message of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah is Christ Himself revealed to His people at this Last Day.
It has been a great privilege to be with you, testifying to you about: “THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN MANNA.”
And there are still many things we could—we can say, but from what we have said you already understand where that Manna is.
In which Temple is It? In the Temple of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In which age? The Age of the Cornerstone.
And who is It for? For the elect of the Last Day.
And where are the elect of the Last Day, who would be in the Holy of Holies of the spiritual Temple of Christ? Here we are, in Latin America and the Caribbean! There is a group here in Cancun, and in different places in Mexico there are different groups; and in all Latin America and the Caribbean there are different groups of elect who are in the Holy of Holies of the spiritual Temple of Christ eating of the hidden Manna, eating 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 has been a great privilege to be with you, testifying to you about the hidden Manna.
Onward eating of the hidden Manna at this end time. And soon may all of you, and me, be changed and raptured, and may we go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Because all those who will be eating of the hidden Manna at the Last Day, have the promise to be changed and raptured if they are alive when the dead in Christ rise. So, onward eating of the hidden Manna, and enjoy the Food!
May God bless you, may God keep you, and thank you very much for your kind attention.
I leave Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín with us again to continue and conclude our participation tonight by thanking God for His blessings and for the hidden Manna that He kept for whom? For all of us at this Last Day.
May God bless you and keep you all.
“THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN MANNA.”
1 Hebrews 9:6-7
2 Colossians 1:15
3 1 Corinthians 15:51-52
4 Daniel 2:31-45
5 John 5:43a
6 John 5:43b
7 Matthew 1:23
8 John 6:51
9 Genesis 14:18