The Mysteries That Are Already Fulfilled, the Mysteries That Are Being Fulfilled, and the Mysteries That Will Be Fulfilled

Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present. It is a great blessing to be with you on this occasion, to have fellowship around the Word of God and see the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, of the Kingdom of Heaven, that are already fulfilled, to see the ones that are being fulfilled in the present, and also to see the ones that will be fulfilled later on, in other words, the ones that still need to be fulfilled.

For this reason, I want to read in Revelation chapter 1, verse 1 to 3, where it says:

“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.

Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.”

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

“THE MYSTERIES THAT ARE ALREADY FULFILLED, THE MYSTERIES THAT ARE BEING FULFILLED, AND THE MYSTERIES THAT WILL BE FULFILLED,” is our subject for this occasion.

In Revelation chapter 4, verse 1, Saint John the Apostle tells us:

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

In order to understand all these things that have already happened, we have to go to the Divine Program that God established to carry out during these times that have already passed.

For example, we find that the things that have happened during the Dispensation of Grace, have happened since Christ until this end time.

And we find that during the Dispensation of Grace, seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church have been carried out, ages represented in the seven churches of Asia Minor, which were chosen as a type and figure of the seven stages that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ would go through during these seven phases among the Gentiles, which the Church would go through; during which Christ would be manifested in Holy Spirit through a man, a messenger, in each age, in each stage.

Among the Gentiles, we find that God sent Saint Paul the Apostle for the first age or stage of His Gentile Church; and Saint Paul said: “I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me.”¹

On one occasion, Saint Paul the Apostle, speaking about the ministry that God had put in him, which the Gentiles were receiving and the Hebrews were rejecting… on one occasion, when Saint Paul and Barnabas were preaching, and there was a large group of Hebrews and also of Gentiles, it says the following in the Book of Acts, chapter 13, verse 44 and on, it says:

“And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you,” (meaning, to the Jews), “but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.”

Now, notice how as many as were ordained (to what?) to Eternal Life, believed.

There are people who don’t know that human beings come to this Earth, and live here, and they are ordained to Eternal Life; their souls are ordained to Eternal Life, because they come from God; those are the firstborn of God written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life. And there is nothing we can do to belong or not belong to that group of God’s elect or firstborn; they already come foreordained and predestined and elected by God before the foundation of the world; in other words, “It is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs,” Saint Paul says, “but of God who shows mercy.”²

That is why we find that in the time of Jesus there were people who believed in Jesus and there were people who didn’t believe in Jesus.

Notice, those who didn’t believe—which are the unbelievers—notice, they are always the ones who create problems and persecute the one sent by God, in each time. Who persecuted the prophets of the Old Testament? The unbelievers. Who persecuted John the Baptist? The unbelievers, even though they were religious. Who persecuted Jesus? The unbelievers.

And notice, Saint John chapter 10, verses 22 and on, says:

“And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.

And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.

Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.

Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.

But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.

I and my Father are one.”

Why? Because the Heavenly Father, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Angel of the Covenant, was where? He was inside that veil of flesh called Jesus. This is what was prophesied by Isaiah in chapter 7, verse 14, when he said: “Behold, the Lord Himself shall give you a sign; behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and His Name shall be called Emmanuel,” (which being interpreted is: God with us).³

Notice how the Coming of the Messiah was also promised through the Prophet Malachi. And to prepare the people for the First Coming of Christ, we find that He would send (what?) a messenger; and through the Spirit of God, the Prophet Malachi prophesied what would happen. It says in chapter 3 of Malachi, verse 1:

“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me…”

Who would send His messenger? God, the Jehovah of the Old Testament, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who is the Angel of the Lord or Angel of the Covenant.

He is called the Angel of the Lord when the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is in His theophanic Body, in that theophany; He is called the Angel of the Lord, and He is the Lord Himself.

Because when He appeared to the Prophet Moses in chapter 3 of Exodus, it says that the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire, in a bush, that is, in a bush there in the desert, on Sinai, and He spoke to him, called him, and told him to take off his sandals, his shoes, for the place on which he stood was holy.⁴ Why? Because the Holy God was there; not because the land itself was holy, but because God was there, who sanctified that place. But notice, many wars have been carried out in that place.

Now, notice how also when the Angel of the Lord appeared to Joshua, He told him: “Take off your shoes, your sandals; for the place where you stand is holy.”⁵ Why? Because again the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the most Holy, was there and he was sanctifying that place, it was sanctified by the Presence of God.

And now, notice here, the One who will come is the One who sends His messenger before Him. It says:

“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me…”

Whom would this messenger prepare the way for? The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Notice here that it is the Angel of the Covenant, or Angel of the Lord, it is the Lord; it says:

“…And the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple,” (in other words, Elohim) “even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.”

Who would come? Well, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord; the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob would come in human flesh among the Hebrew people. That is why Saint John chapter 1, says:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The same was in the beginning with God.”

In other words, when reference is made to God in His theophanic Body, that is referring to the Word, that Body of the Word, that theophany; and then, it says:

“All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made,” (Saint John chapter 1, verse 1 to 3).

And then, in verse 9, it says (of Saint John chapter 1):

“That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.”

Now, we have the promise that the Word, which is the Light, will come to the Earth, will come into the world.

“He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us…”

Who was made flesh? The Word. “And the Word was in the beginning with God, and the Word was God.” God with His theophanic Body was made flesh and dwelt in that body of flesh called Jesus. It was none other than Emmanuel: God with us, among the human race, among the Hebrew people.

The Hebrew people had the promise of the First Coming of Christ; and that is why the First Coming of Christ had to be fulfilled through a Man born among the Hebrew people; and the promise of the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ also had to be fulfilled through a man born among the Hebrew people, which was whom? John the Baptist; the one who would prepare the way of the Lord, notice, was John the Baptist.

The Hebrew people were waiting for the coming of the Prophet Elijah, and they didn’t know that when God promises the coming of a prophet who already came in the past—when He fulfills that promise again, and the prophet called by that past name comes: what happens is that God sends a prophet of that present time with the ministry of that prophet of the past; and in that prophet, the Spirit of God that was in that prophet of the past comes manifested, operating the ministry He had operated in that prophet of the past.

That is why when the Prophet Elijah was going to be raptured in a chariot of fire or flying saucer (as it is called nowadays), he told Elisha his servant: “Ask what you want, before I am taken away from you, and it will be given to you.” Elisha, who was Elijah’s servant, told him: “Let a double portion of the Spirit that is in you come upon me.” Elijah tells him: “You have asked a hard thing.”⁶

It was easier to ask to be the king of Israel or the king of the whole world, and it would be granted to him, than to ask to be a man with a double ministerial portion for that time, with the Spirit and power of Elijah, in other words, with the ministry of Elijah again, in a double portion.

But God had told the Prophet Elijah, there on Mount Sinai, in the cave where he was, He had told him: “Return the way you came from, and go, and anoint Hazael to be king over Syria, Jehu to be king over Israel, and Elisha to be prophet in your place,” (in other words, “as your successor.”)⁷

So, the Prophet Elijah already knew who his successor would be; therefore, the request made by Elisha was according to God’s will; in other words, he was asking for something according to God’s will. And for the position Elisha would occupy in the Divine Program, he needed the ministry of Elijah; and he wanted it in a double portion.

Elijah told him: “You have asked a hard thing.” Why? Because a person can’t say: “I want to be a prophet,” and much less say: “[I want to] be a prophet with a double portion, with a double portion of the Spirit that is in Elijah;” because God doesn’t allow or doesn’t grant a human being the request of being a prophet, because the human being isn’t the one who determines whether he is or isn’t a prophet here on Earth; God is the One who already determined in His Program, before the foundation of the world, how many prophets He would send.

And what is a prophet? A prophet is a man who comes to Earth sent by God with both consciouses together; he comes with a spirit of a prophet of the sixth dimension. Because the spirits of prophets belong to God and they are sent from age to age, and from dispensation to dispensation, to bring God’s Word to the people of God. Those spirits of prophets come from the sixth dimension and they are manifested in human flesh here on Earth in human beings, ordained by God for that purpose; that is why they can see and hear in the sixth dimension, and see in other dimensions, and receive the Word of God pertaining to that age or that dispensation in which they are living; the Word of God for that time comes sealed in that man, the Divine Program pertaining to that age or dispensation comes sealed [in him].

And God can’t replace him; in other words, God can’t say: “This man isn’t working out for Me, I’m going to replace him with another man.” He can’t do that because that is already a Divine Program established by God before the foundation of the world; that prophet already comes designed by God for that age or for that dispensation, and the Message pertaining to that time comes sealed in him; and no other man can obtain the Message for that age or for that dispensation except the prophet sent by God for that age or for that dispensation.

Notice the case of the Prophet Moses: at the time in which the Prophet Moses lived, the promise of the Hebrew people’s deliverance had to be fulfilled as it was given to the Prophet and Patriarch Abraham in chapter 15 of Genesis. God had told the Prophet and Patriarch Abraham that his seed, notice, would be great, but they would serve in a nation… notice, chapter 15, verse 12 and on, says:

“And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years,” (remember that Abraham hadn’t had children through Sarah yet).

“And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates.”

Now, notice how Abraham, despite not having a son yet… he didn’t even have his son Ishmael through Hagar yet, much less his son Isaac through Sarah; Sarah was barren, and at that time, Sarah was quite old, and so was Abraham; and God was already promising Abraham a deliverance for his seed, and he still didn’t have a seed manifested.

And notice, when God also appeared to Abraham as the King of Salem or Jerusalem, called Melchizedek, it says that Abraham tithed to Melchizedek, and Isaac hadn’t been born yet; and Saint Paul says that when Abraham tithed to Melchizedek, Levi was also tithing there, because he was (where?) in Abraham’s loins.⁸

And now, where was the seed of Abraham that would be in bondage in the land of Egypt? (But here, God doesn’t tell him which land it would be, but later on, from history, we know it was the land of Egypt.) And now, where was that seed of Abraham? Well, it was in Abraham’s loins.

And now, notice that for the fulfillment of everything God has promised, we find that God works in His Program and gives His Word, and then His Word is materialized as time passes; first, there is the Divine Word, and then that Word of God is materialized.

And now, notice that when God says to the Prophet Abraham and Patriarch Abraham here that they will serve a strange nation for four hundred years, and afterwards they will come out with great substance, He is speaking to them about a deliverance that God will carry out for the seed of Abraham once the time of bondage is fulfilled; and for the fulfillment of this promise of the Hebrew people’s deliverance, God needed to have a man, a prophet on Earth, a man with both consciouses together.

There are men, prophets, who come to Earth, who come with both consciouses together; some are sent for an age and others are sent for a dispensation.

When we speak of a great prophet—or rather, of a great man, we are speaking of a prophet, but when we speak of a greater prophet, we are speaking of a dispensational prophet: that is the greatest type of prophet that can exist and that God can send to Earth. And that is why when the First Coming of Christ was fulfilled, He came as a dispensational Prophet: the Prophet of the Dispensation of Grace.

And now, notice how for the Hebrew people’s deliverance, God also had to send a prophet, a dispensational prophet, who was Moses; he was among the Hebrew people for forty years, and they didn’t understand that he was the man, the prophet for them, for the Hebrew people’s deliverance. And when he killed an Egyptian who was mistreating a Hebrew, we find that he had to flee to Midian, because Pharaoh was searching for Moses to kill him, to apply the highest penalty—which is the death penalty—for killing an Egyptian; and Moses became a wanted man by Pharaoh’s law enforcement, in other words, he became a fugitive.

But notice, that didn’t stop him from being the prophet appointed by God for the Hebrew people’s deliverance, a dispensational prophet; and he had those problems. But notice, didn’t God know he would have those problems? Since all things work together for good to God’s sons and daughters, how much more so a prophet of God? That caused Moses to leave to Midian, where he was a keeper of sheep for forty years, and God was teaching Moses there.

Because the wisdom that Moses had obtained in Egypt, there in the Pharaoh’s kingdom, was of no use for the Hebrew people’s deliverance; because it wouldn’t be by might, nor by sword, “but by My Spirit, saith the Lord.” Such is the Work of God, it’s always by the Spirit of God. “Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord;” Zechariah chapter 4, says so.

And now, notice, for forty years Moses lived in Midian as a keeper of sheep, and he was in charge of the entire herd of sheep of Jethro, his father-in-law; he became like the administrator of Jethro, his father-in-law, over all the riches possessed by Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, who was also a priest in Midian, and believed in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; he came from the seed of Abraham too.

And now, notice, throughout forty years God took all the human wisdom out of Moses and instead put Divine Wisdom, and He anointed him to be the messenger who would bring the Hebrew people out of Egypt; there on Mount Sinai, when He called him, He anointed him; and the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who had promised the Hebrew people’s deliverance, told Moses in Exodus chapter 3 (let’s see what God tells Moses here), verse 6 and on:

“Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.”

Now, notice that God had come down to free the Hebrew people, to deliver the Hebrew people from bondage; and now He needed a man, a prophet, to go in that prophet, and for God to manifest Himself and deliver the Hebrew people through that prophet.

Moses asks: “Who am I, that I should go do that?” Moses was the prophet of God for the Dispensation of Law, for the fifth dispensation. And Moses wouldn’t be the one who would deliver the Hebrew people, but God through Moses; therefore, the Work would be carried out by the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who was the One that promised to deliver the Hebrew people.

Notice that without Moses, the Hebrew people’s deliverance couldn’t take place. It didn’t matter how long the Hebrew people were there in Egypt, if Moses didn’t go… God couldn’t go in another man; He had to go manifested in the Prophet Moses, because he is the prophet of the Dispensation of *Law ordained by God before the foundation of the world.

And that is how it is for each age and for each dispensation: the manifestation of God is always carried out through the prophet-messenger for that age or for that dispensation.

That is why God says through the Prophet Moses, in chapter 18 of Deuteronomy, verse 15 and on:

“The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken,” (whom does God say that the people of God are called to hear? The prophet that God raises up in the midst of the people);

“According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb,” (meaning, on Mount Sinai), “in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.

I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth,” (where does God put His Words? In the mouth of the prophet He sends), “and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.”

What will be spoken by the prophet that God sends? All that God commands him to speak.

When people hunger and thirst (as the Prophet Amos says in chapter 8, verse 11 and on: hunger and thirst, not for bread or water, but to hear the Word of God), where will they seek It? In the mouth of the prophet He sends for that time; that is the messenger who comes with the Bread of Eternal Life; “for man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God,”⁹ that proceeds out of the prophet-messenger of God sent for each age and for each dispensation.

And depending on the time, on the age and dispensation in which the person is living, the person has to search for that messenger whom God sends for that time, to receive the Word of God through that messenger; because that Word is the spiritual Food for that person’s soul. For man shall not live by literal bread and literal water alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God; and the mouth of God are God’s prophets; God puts His Word in them. “Surely the Lord God will do nothing without first revealing His secrets to His servants the prophets,” (Amos chapter 3, verse 7).

And Deuteronomy chapter 8, verses 3 to 4, tells us that “man shall not live by bread only, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” And we also find that Jesus Christ says in Saint Matthew chapter 4, verse 4, and Luke chapter 4, verse 4: “For man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”

In order for a person to be spiritually fed in the age or dispensation in which he has been given to live, he needs to receive that Word, that Message of God that God gives through that messenger, that prophet sent for that age or for that dispensation; there is no other way.

Now, notice how through the Prophet Moses, He teaches us these things; and it says:

[Deuteronomy 18:19] “And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.”

In the Book of Acts, chapter 3, verses 18 to 23, it tells us: “I will destroy him from among the people;” he loses the right to be part of God’s people, and therefore, to Eternal Life.

Because it isn’t a matter of the person saying: “I’m not interested in hearing the Message that God gives through that prophet.” Every person is called to hear that prophet: “Him shall you hear,” God said through the Prophet Moses.

And now, notice how from age to age and from dispensation to dispensation, God has sent prophets, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, and the Word of God for the people, for each age and for each dispensation, has been there.

And now, we find that in the Old Testament, God’s prophets were sent, and the last of them was John the Baptist; “for the prophets prophesied until John the Baptist,” Jesus Christ says;¹⁰ but we find that the New Testament prophets began with the Lord Jesus Christ: the greatest Prophet, both of the Old and the New Testament. And then Jesus Christ has sent prophets in different stages.

Notice, Saint Peter was a prophet and also an apostle. We find that many of the disciples of Jesus Christ were apostles and prophets; and also, among the angel-messengers of the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church, which are shown here in this diagram, we find that some of them were also prophets, such as Saint Paul and Martin too, and William Branham: they were prophets of God, in whom the Word of God was.

And the other messengers of the seven ages were men of God, in whom God put His Word, the Message pertaining to the age in which He sent them and in the territory where He sent them.

And we find that in the first age, we have Saint Paul as the messenger where the Spirit of Christ was manifested, where the Spirit of God was manifested, speaking to His people, speaking and calling God’s elect pertaining to this first stage or age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which was fulfilled in Asia Minor.

Then, for the second stage or age, the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ was in Irenaeus, calling and gathering the elect of that second stage there in France; and they were gathered in the second age of the Church of the Lord.

And likewise, we find that through each angel-messenger, Christ has been manifested in Holy Spirit, calling and gathering His elect in each age.

Then we go on to the seventh Gentile Church age, which was fulfilled in North America, and Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit was manifested in Rev. William Branham, who was the messenger of the seventh Gentile Church age, and was also the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.

Now, notice, he was the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, in whom the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, was operating the ministry of Elijah for the fourth time; because He had already operated that ministry in Elijah the Tishbite for the first time, in Elisha for the second time…

Because when the sons of the prophets saw that Elisha took Elijah’s mantle, when Elijah was raptured to Heaven, and he wrapped it together, and smote the waters of Jordan, and the waters of Jordan opened up, they said: “The Spirit of Elijah has rested on Elisha;”¹¹ the ministry of Elijah for the second time was there; Elisha had received the ministering Spirit of Elijah, he had received a double portion of the Spirit that was in Elijah, as he requested and as it was ordained by God to be manifested in the Prophet Elisha.

And then, the third time that the ministry of Elijah was manifested was in John the Baptist.

And the Archangel Gabriel, notice, speaking of John the Baptist, tells Zacharias the Priest and John the Baptist’s father (who couldn’t have children from his wife Elisabeth, and both were well stricken in age), He says that they will have a son. It says, chapter 1, verse 13 and on (of Saint Luke), says:

“But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

And thou shalt have joy and gladness…”

He would have joy and gladness. Because, notice, the request of Zacharias and his wife Elisabeth was for God to give them a child; they had that request since they got married, and now that they were old, their request would be granted. Their request had been heard by God, and now that request would be granted to them; it had been heard by God since the first time they requested it, but now that request would be granted, and it would include a great blessing.

Because it is better if the answer to the request that one makes to God comes at the time ordained by God, instead of obtaining something on one’s own; because when one obtains what he wants by his own means, one doesn’t obtain the best; but when God is the One who gives him according to His will, notice the great blessing that the person obtains. It says:

“But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth.

For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord…”

The most important thing is that the child or children one will have: that they be great in the sight of God, in other words, that they be sons and daughters of God unto Eternal Life; and this [child] would be great in the sight of God. It says:

“…And shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.

And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God.

And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias,” (how would that son of Zacharias come? In the Spirit and power of Elijah), “to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”

So, John the Baptist would be the Elijah promised in the Scripture to come preparing the way of the Lord.

And who is the One that says he would be the Elijah who would come, in addition to what the Archangel Gabriel already said? Another very important Person says this. In Saint Matthew chapter 11, verses 13 to 14, it says:

“For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.”

See? The prophets and the Law went as far as John the Baptist. The Old Testament prophets went as far as John the Baptist, because he was the last prophet of the Old Testament; and from that point on, other prophets would come, like Jesus, and disciples of Jesus, and angel-messengers of ages of the Church of the Lord.

But only one would come for the Dispensation of Grace, and then for the Dispensation of the Kingdom, and we will see that at some point.

Now, it goes on to say:

“And if ye will receive it,” (that is, ‘if you will receive John the Baptist’), “this is Elias, which was for to come.”

Who also says that John the Baptist is that Elijah who was to come? Our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

And then, when He comes down from Mount Transfiguration (on another occasion), and they ask Him about Elijah—when they ask Him about Elijah, notice what Jesus says… let’s see, chapter 17 of Saint Matthew, verse 10 and on, says:

“And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?”

See? The Hebrew people were waiting for the coming of Elijah. They thought that since Elijah left in a chariot of fire, he would come in a chariot of fire (meaning, in a flying saucer), and that he had to be the same Elijah, Elijah the Tishbite himself.

“And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come,” (referring to an Elijah who will come at the end time), “and restore all things.

But I say unto you, That Elias is come already,” (and now He is referring to an Elijah who already came in that time of Jesus), “and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.

Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.”

Because John the Baptist was the Elijah who would come preparing the way of the Lord. He was the voice of one crying in the wilderness,¹² one with the Spirit of Christ, with the Spirit of God, with the Holy Spirit, in whom the Holy Spirit would be operating the ministry of Elijah for the third time.

And then, notice, the Messiah appeared, the Christ, of whom John the Baptist said: “Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world.” John the Baptist said: “I knew Him not; but He that sent me to baptize told me: Upon whom you see the Holy Spirit descending like a dove, and remaining upon Him, the same is He.” John the Baptist says that in the Gospel according to Saint John.¹³ And John the Baptist says that he saw It, he saw It descend upon Jesus, and that is why he testified that Jesus was the Man whose way he was preparing; he identified Him as the Messiah and as the Lamb of God who would take away the sin of the world.

Now, notice how these things were happening among the Hebrew people, as God had promised. And the high priest and the doctors of the Law, and the priests, and the Sanhedrin Council (formed by or consisting of seventy Hebrew scholars) weren’t able to understand what was happening at that time; but John the Baptist and Jesus testified what was happening; the forerunner and the One forerun testified what was being fulfilled according to the mysteries of the Kingdom of God for that time.

And notice, people couldn’t let themselves be carried away even by opinions of the great scholars among the Hebrew people, nor even of the high priest; because their opinions were against the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah and the coming of His forerunner.

Even though they said they were waiting for Elijah, when he came, notice, he was called John the Baptist, and they said: “No, it says here that Elijah is coming; we are waiting for him literally;” but when he came, what came was the ministry of Elijah in another man called John the Baptist: it was the third manifestation or third time that the ministry of Elijah was manifested. The fourth time was in Rev. William Branham.

Now, it is very important to understand these things of the past, so that we don’t miss the fulfillment of the things pertaining to this end time.

Now, who would you have heard at that time? John the Baptist and Jesus, or the high priest and the Sanhedrin Council and the doctors of the Law and priests of that time? Who would you have heard? If you were to hear the one God told you to hear, well, you would have heard John the Baptist first and then Jesus of Nazareth; because God said through the Prophet Moses: “The Lord your God will raise up unto you a prophet like me. Him shall you hear.” And the people were hearing—some of them were hearing Jesus, but others were hearing the high priest and the priests of that time; and that is why some people couldn’t believe in Jesus of Nazareth; but others could believe.

Now, notice how there are always two groups: those who believe and those who don’t believe. And which group would you have wanted to belong to? Well, the ones who believe. No one wants to be one of the unbelievers.

But if people don’t understand the Program that God is carrying out at the time in which he is living or they are living, what happens? Some people end up in the group of the unbelievers because they can’t understand what is happening, because they start to hear the opinions of those who are against what God is carrying out; and what God carries out in each time is what He promised in His Word; and then others come along giving their opinion against what God is fulfilling. But the messenger of that age and that dispensation will always be there, testifying what God is fulfilling at that time. And “he that is of God, hears God’s Voice.”¹⁴

That is how it was in each age, that is how it was in the time of the Old Testament prophets, that is how it was in the time of John the Baptist and Jesus, that is how it was in the time of the apostles, that is how it was in the time of the seven angel-messengers, and that is how it is today, in our time.

Now, we have seen that all these things have happened in the past: they are promises that were fulfilled during past ages and dispensations.

But in our time, we have the promise of the Coming of the Son of man with His Angels. And we have already seen the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, who came in the Spirit and power of Elijah, preparing the people; preparing the people for what? For the Coming of the Son of man, for the Second Coming of Christ.

And now notice, if the people who were there the moment that John the Baptist said that after him would come One whose shoe’s latchet he was not worthy to unloose… and when he saw Him, he said: “This is the Man, this is the One who I said would come after me. This is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.”

Notice, John the Apostle and Andrew, Peter’s brother, followed Jesus. Did they do the wrong thing or the right thing? They did the right thing. Because the forerunner comes to prepare the way for the One who will come after him, so that the people who are prepared follow the One forerun, in other words, so that they follow the One who will come after the forerunner.

And the One that would come after John the Baptist, the forerunner, would be Jesus of Nazareth, and He was the One everyone was called to follow. All the disciples of John the Baptist were called to follow Jesus, who would baptize them with the Holy Spirit and Fire. Those who stayed with John the Baptist didn’t receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire on the day of Pentecost; and until they received Christ as their Savior and washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ, they weren’t able to receive the Holy Spirit.

Notice how people cannot stay with the forerunner.

Saint Peter found (in chapter 19 of the Book of Acts) some of the disciples of John the Baptist, and notice what he says; chapter 19, verse 1 and on, says:

“And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,

He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.”

They didn’t even know about the baptism of the Holy Ghost; and they were disciples of John the Baptist, the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, the Elijah who had to come at that time, in the third manifestation of Elijah’s ministry.

“And he,” (Saint Paul), “said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism,” (they were disciples of John and they had been baptized by John the Baptist).

“Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.”

That is the work of a forerunner: to prepare the people and tell them to believe in the One who will come after him, which is the One forerun, whose way he is preparing.

And now, the disciples of John the Baptist, notice, had not received the Holy Spirit; but the disciples of John the Baptist who had received Christ, who had gone with Jesus, had (of course) left John the Baptist to follow Jesus; but they didn’t leave him due to problems, rather, they left him because John said: “This is the Man, this is He of whom I said that after me comes One greater than I, who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire.” And in order to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire, who did they have to follow? The forerunner or the One forerun? The One forerun.

Even if they had received and followed the forerunner, afterwards they had to go on and receive the One forerun, and follow Him.

And that is how it is at the Last Day: God promised a prophet-messenger to forerun the Second Coming of Christ, and that promise was already fulfilled: and it was Rev. William Marrion Branham.

And now, for the Last Day, we have the promise to be filled with the fullness of the Holy Spirit. And who will be filled with the fullness of the Holy Spirit at the Last Day: the followers of the forerunner or the followers of the One forerun? The followers of the One forerun will be the ones who will be filled with the fullness of the Holy Spirit, they will be the ones who will be changed at the Last Day; and God will dwell in those people in all His fullness.

And what will happen to the followers of the forerunner? Well, the followers of the forerunner who follow the One forerun will receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit as well; and those who don’t follow Him, those who don’t follow the One forerun: well, they will be left without the fullness of the Holy Spirit, and therefore, they will be left without the transformation of their bodies. And this is a truth that it’s better to say openly like this now, and not to wait until the resurrection and transformation of all the saints; because then there won’t be an opportunity for others to be changed. The ones who will be changed are those who will be following the One forerun.

Just like in the First Coming of Christ, those who would follow the One forerun are those who would be baptized with the Holy Spirit and Fire in the firstfruits of the Holy Spirit; likewise, at the Last Day, the followers of the One forerun in the Second Coming of Christ are the ones who will be filled with the fullness of the Holy Spirit, they will be filled with the Holy Spirit and Fire at the Last Day, they will be changed, and thus, they will be adopted in the Kingdom of God; and they will have an eternal body to live for all eternity with Christ in the glorious Millennial Kingdom and for all eternity in the Kingdom of God.

Now, what good is a forerunner if the One forerun doesn’t appear? And what good is it to follow a forerunner if afterwards the One forerun doesn’t appear and we don’t follow the One forerun? If we stop at the forerunner, well, that’s as far as we will go; we can only receive the blessings promised to be poured out upon those who follow the forerunner; but the promises to be received by the followers of the One forerun are the promises that those who follow the One forerun will be able to receive. It’s as clear as one plus one equals two, and two plus two equals four; it’s as simple as that.

And now, let’s see what John the Baptist told us the Coming of the One forerun would be, because he was announcing the One forerun; and then, when he saw Him, he said: “Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world;” he introduced the One forerun, he introduced Him as the Lamb of God.

And now, in the Second Coming of Christ, His Work will be as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords; that’s what is forerun by the fourth Elijah: William Marrion Branham, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ. And for all the believers in his Message, it is good to know what he said the Coming of the One forerun will be, the Coming of Christ, the Coming of the One whose way he has been preparing all the days of his ministry.

Do you want to know what he says will be the Coming of the One forerun, whose way he is preparing? In Revelation chapter 19, the white-horse Rider appears, [the Rider] of the fifth horse of Revelation; and that is the Coming of Christ. And that white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19, let’s see who He is. In the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, page 318 (while Rev. William Branham is praying), he says—in a part of the prayer, he says:

“[391] …May the Holy Spirit come down now, the white-horse Rider, while His Spirit, Spirit of Christ, in the face of antichrist, and call His Own.”

Who is the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19? The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ. And why does He come? To call His elect, to call His Own.

And now, what will that be? What will the Coming of the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19 be? It says on pages 151 to 152 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, it says:

“283 And, Jesus, His Name on earth was ‘Redeemer,’ Jesus. When He was on earth, He was the Redeemer, that’s true. But when He conquered death and hell, and overcome them, and ascended on High, He received a new Name.”

There are people who don’t know that when Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven and sat on the Throne of God, He received a new Name. Where does the Bible say that? It says that… It says that, and some people haven’t read it yet. Let’s see where It says that. Revelation chapter 3, verse 12, says:

“Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God,” (meaning, the Eternal Name of God), “and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and my new name.”

Now, notice how Rev. William Branham, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, also speaks to us about this new Name. He says:

“[283] That’s the reason you holler the way they do, and they don’t get nothing. 

284 It’ll be revealed in the Thunders.”

The Voice of the Seven Thunders is required, which is the Voice of Christ crying as when a lion roars and Seven Thunders uttering Their Voices; that is the Voice of Christ in His Coming as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, giving us His Last Message: the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom; and in that Message, this mystery of the Second Coming of Christ and His new Name, will be made known to all of God’s sons and daughters.

He goes on to say:

“[284] Notice the mysteries. He is coming, riding…There’s got to be Something to change this Church. You know that. There’s got to be Something. Notice, ‘No man knowed, but Himself.’ Now, notice, ‘No man knowed, but Hisself.’

And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name was called The Word of God.”

Because it is the Coming of the Word of God to Earth at the Last Day, just as the First Coming of Christ was the Coming of the Word of God, It was the Word made flesh in the Person of Jesus of Nazareth.

And now, let’s see here:

“[284] And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he tread the winepress of the fierceness and the wrath of Almighty God.

And he had on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.” How does He come? As King of kings and Lord of lords.

(Revelation 13:19-16)

285 There comes the Messiah. There He is…”

See? That is the One whose way he is preparing.

And in the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, page 154, he says:

“302 Glory! Notice! And when this Holy Spirit that we have becomes incarnate to us, the One that’s in our midst now in the form of the Holy Ghost, becomes incarnate to us, in the Person of Jesus Christ, we’ll crown Him King of kings,” (and Lord of lords).

The Holy Spirit has to come incarnate at the Last Day to be crowned ‘King of kings and Lord of lords.’ Because a spirit cannot be crowned; He has to be manifested in human flesh.

And now notice, on page 295, of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, he says:

“196 But when our Lord appears here on earth, He’ll be riding on a snow-white horse. And He’ll be completely, fully, the Emmanuel, the Word of God incarnate in a Man.”

What was he forerunning? The Coming of the Word incarnate in a Man: the Coming of the Word incarnate in a Man, the Coming of the Holy Spirit incarnate in a Man and manifested through a Man at the Last Day.

It is the Coming of the Holy Spirit, of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit in human flesh at the Last Day in the Prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom and of the Age of the Cornerstone; and through him, He will be crying as when a lion roars, and the Seven Thunders uttering their Voices, in other words, speaking to us His Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom; and thus, calling and gathering His elect at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; up here, where He says in Revelation chapter 4: “Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter;” the things that will happen after the things that have already happened in the seven Gentile Church ages.

Now, the things that will happen here in the Age of the Cornerstone, at the Last Day and in the Dispensation of the Kingdom, Christ will make them known through His Angel-Messenger, through His Prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom; He will make all of this known at the Last Day to His Church, which will be in the stage or Age of the Cornerstone: a stage that will be fulfilled in the Latin American and Caribbean territory, where He will be calling Latin American and Caribbean people, and putting them in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; and there, He will be making known to them all these things which must come to pass at this Last Day, at this end time.

And now, notice how the Coming of the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19, which is the Coming of the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger, in His Prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom… and through him, making known to us all these things which must shortly be done.

In Revelation chapter 22, verse 6, it says:

“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”

The things that Christ promised to make known to His Church are now made known by the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; because Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit comes veiled and revealed in His Angel, the Holy Spirit comes manifested in human flesh at this Last Day, speaking to His Church and making known to Her all these things which must shortly be done; making all these things known to Her (where?) in the Age of the Cornerstone and in the Dispensation of the Kingdom.

Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit comes in His Angel-Messenger, which was promised to happen at the end time, at the Last Day; and this would be the Coming of the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19: the Word incarnate in a Man.

This is what Rev. William Marrion Branham foreran, to be fulfilled at the Last Day among the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and thus, to call and gather all the elect of God at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; and these are the things that are happening at this Last Day.

And the things that happened in the past are the things that happened during the seven ages or stages of the Gentile Church, which came to an end in the seventh age of the Gentile Church, under the ministry of the seventh angel-messenger: Rev. William Marrion Branham.

And now, among the things that will be fulfilled later on, are: the resurrection of the dead in Christ, the transformation of us who are alive, the rapture—the thirty to forty days that we will be here on Earth in the eternal body, and then the rapture of the elect (in other words, going away with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb), and then the three and a half years of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven with Christ, where He will be giving out the rewards for all the work we have carried out in the mystical Body of Christ, in the Church of Jesus Christ.

And then, on Earth, while we are in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven, on Earth they will be going through the Great Tribulation; that still needs to be fulfilled, just like the rapture and the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven.

And also, after the Great Tribulation is over, then the return of Christ with His Church in eternal bodies for the glorious Millennial Kingdom; and the glorious Millennial Kingdom, where we will be kings and priests.

And once the devil is on the loose for a short period of time, fire and brimstone comes down from Heaven, and destroys those armies that the devil will have; and the devil is cast into the lake of fire.

And then Judgment Day, the final White Throne Judgment; and after that, those who are condemned are cast into the lake of fire, where the devil and the antichrist and the beast will be; and those who come out with Eternal Life, the sheep—who are at the right hand in the Judgment—come into Eternal Life.

And after Judgment Day, all of mankind and the Earth, notice, go into a stage of fire, a fire baptism, which this Earth goes through; and after that, the Earth is renovated: there is a new heaven and new earth, and we will be in eternity.

There won’t be any problems on Earth or anywhere in the universe again, while the devil and all those who were condemned and all the fallen angels are being destroyed in the lake of fire; we don’t know for how long, but there will be an end to the lake of fire and the people who will be in the lake of fire.

And why will there be an end to the lake of fire, and to hell, and to the people who will be there? Because the lake of fire and those people who will be there don’t have Eternal Life; and if they don’t have Eternal Life, well, they can’t live there eternally. Once they have served the sentence they received as a punishment in the lake of fire, well, they will cease to exist in body, spirit, and soul too.

And the righteous will reign with Christ, and will be in the Kingdom of God for all eternity; that is why the Scripture says that “our sufferings are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”¹⁵

We have to understand that we are here on Earth due to a Divine Purpose: to come in contact with Eternal Life, and thus, believe in Christ as our Savior, wash away our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receive His Holy Spirit; and thus, for the new birth to be operated in us; and thus, to become part of the mystical Body of Christ, which is His Church; and thus, to be sealed with and unto Eternal Life, so that at the Last Day we may be changed if we are alive when the dead in Christ rise; but if anyone dies (if his physical body dies), there is no need to worry, because he will rise in an eternal body, and live for all eternity, and meet us at this end time.

So there are no problems for the believers in Christ; if they die, they will be raised at the Last Day (as Christ said), meaning, in the seventh millennium; and if we are alive when they rise, well, we will be changed. Those are things that must be fulfilled, but we are in the process of the Divine Program where these promises will be fulfilled later on.

Now we are being called and gathered in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the Age of the Cornerstone is fulfilled and where the Dispensation of the Kingdom is opened, and where the ministry of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit through His Angel-Messenger is manifested, and all of God’s elect are called and gathered.

We are at the time in which He is making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass at this Last Day, at this end time in which we are living. We are living in the most glorious time of all times.

And as these promises are being fulfilled: they are being made known in terms of their fulfillment, in other words, these promises are being shown as already fulfilled at this end time; and the ones that are about to be fulfilled are shown as promises that will be fulfilled at this end time; and we will receive the benefit of the fulfillment of those promises.

Now, where are the ones who would be seeing and experiencing the promises of the Last Day being fulfilled? Here we are: in Latin America and the Caribbean, seeing the fulfillment of these promises as they are being fulfilled, and receiving the benefit of the fulfillment of these promises.

We have been called and gathered into the mystical Body of Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, and we are hearing these things that must shortly come to pass at this Last Day through the Holy Spirit by His Angel-Messenger, whom He sends to make known to us these things which must shortly come to pass at this end time.

And Revelation 22, verse 16, says:

“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”

Who does it say here that Jesus Christ has sent? His Angel-Messenger.

There are many people who say they are sent by Jesus Christ; but among all those who say they are sent by Jesus Christ at this Last Day, after the ministry of the seventh angel-messenger, there will only be One who will be the true Person sent by Jesus Christ to testify these things which must shortly come to pass. Only One will be the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom and of the Age of the Cornerstone, testifying these things which must shortly come to pass; and through him, we can receive the knowledge of all these things which must shortly come to pass at the Last Day, of which many have already been fulfilled, and others are in the process of being fulfilled.

It has been a great privilege to be with you tonight, testifying to you about the mysteries that are already fulfilled, the mysteries that are being fulfilled, and the mysteries that will be fulfilled; the mysteries of the Kingdom of God or Kingdom of Heaven.

May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, our beloved Savior, be upon each one of you and also upon me. And may all these blessings He has promised for His elect for this Last Day be materialized in each one of you and in me. And soon may we all be changed and raptured and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. And soon may the dead in Christ be raised in eternal bodies. And may the elect be called and gathered, the very last elect, at this Last Day; may the number of God’s elect be completed soon; may the very last elect be called and gathered soon at this Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.

May God continue to bless you all. Thank you very much for your kind attention, and have a good evening everyone.

I will leave Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín with us to continue and to conclude our participation tonight by thanking our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

May God continue to bless you all.

“THE MYSTERIES THAT ARE ALREADY FULFILLED, THE MYSTERIES THAT ARE BEING FULFILLED, AND THE MYSTERIES THAT WILL BE FULFILLED.”