First Mineiro Regional Youth Encounter
Good morning, beloved youth gathered this morning, in this First Mineiro Regional Youth Encounter. It is a great blessing to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of fellowship around the subject: “THE MYSTERY OF THE COMING OF THE LORD IN THE CLOUDS.”
That is the most important subject, in prophetic terms, for the human race; it is the mystery which Jesus Christ said that no man in Heaven nor on Earth knew; that is the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ; and we will be speaking about that mystery on this occasion.
“THE MYSTERY OF THE COMING OF THE LORD IN THE CLOUDS.”
For this reason, let’s read in Saint Matthew chapter 24, verse 30 to 31, where it 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.”
There we have the prophecy of the Coming of the Son of man, the Coming of the Lord, in the clouds.
Throughout the entire ministry of Jesus Christ, we will find that the prophecies that speak about the Coming of the Messiah were being fulfilled in Jesus; and even Jesus’ preaching was always according to the Scriptures.
When He prophecies about the Coming of the Son of man in the clouds with power and great glory, He is prophesying according to the Scriptures, according to the prophecies of the Old Testament that speak of the Second Coming of Christ.
The Prophet Daniel spoke of the Second Coming of Christ; and in the Book of Daniel, chapter 7, verses 13 to 14, it shows us the Coming of the Son of man in the clouds, and it tells us:
“I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.”
There we have the Coming of the Son of man in the clouds already prophesied in the Old Testament.
The Prophet Isaiah also speaks to us about the Coming of the Lord, both the First Coming as well as the Second Coming of Christ. We find that in their prophetic vision of the Coming of the Lord, the prophets saw both the First Coming of Christ as well as the Second Coming of Christ.
Both are the Coming of the Lord, which has two parts: the first part coming as the Lamb of God, taking away the sin of the world there on Calvary’s Cross; and His Second Coming as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings in His Claiming Work, to claim everything He redeemed with His precious Blood, and to put everything He redeemed with His precious Blood in eternity and with Eternal Life: to bring the resurrection of the dead in Christ in eternal bodies, and for us who are alive to be changed and have an eternal body, and thus, come into Eternal Life physically too. That is the Program of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ for His Second Coming.
Now, what is the Coming of the Lord? In order to see, in order to understand what the Coming of the Lord is at the Last Day, we need to understand what the First Coming of Christ was; for this reason, I will read in Malachi chapter 3, verse 1 and on, the announcement of the Coming of the Lord, it says:
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me…”
That messenger who prepared the way of the Lord in His First Coming was John the Baptist.
Who would send His messenger before Him? The Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And then what?
“…And the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple…”
Who would come? The Lord would come, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who is called the Angel of the Lord in the Old Testament, which is the same Lord in His theophanic body of the sixth dimension.
While God is in His theophanic body of the sixth dimension, He is known as the Angel of the Lord. He is the Angel who appeared to the Old Testament prophets, and they said the Angel of God or Angel of the Lord appeared to them and spoke to them; and we find the Angel of the Lord speaking in first person on some occasions, and speaking in second person on other occasions, but He is the same God in His theophanic body.
And now, it is promised that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will come, who is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord in the Old Testament. It goes on to say:
“…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.
And now, notice the prophecy of Isaiah chapter 40, verse 3 and on, where it also speaks of the messenger He sends before Him, and then the Glory of God will appear manifested, and all flesh shall see it; because the Glory of God would be manifested in a veil of flesh, in whom God would be manifested in all His fullness, in the fulfillment of the First Coming of Christ. Isaiah chapter 40, verse 3 and on, says the following:
“The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord,” (whose way would he be preparing? The Lord’s), “make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”
Whose highway or way would be made straight? That way would be prepared for whom? Our God; that voice crying in the wilderness would be preparing the way for Him.
And when there is mention of a voice crying, well, there has to be a man: a prophet on Earth through whom that cry comes, that message, preparing the way of the Lord.
And that voice crying in the wilderness, we all know it was John the Baptist; he himself says that he is that voice crying in the wilderness.1 When they asked him who he was, he told them he was the voice of one crying in the wilderness. He confessed who he was, he did not deny who he was; he identified himself in the Scripture and said who he was according to the Scriptures, as it was promised for that time.
And now, notice how John the Baptist, knowing his position in the Divine Program, takes the Scriptures that speak of him, and says: “I am not the Christ, I am not Elijah either; rather, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare the way of the Lord;” because He came preparing the way and preparing the people for the First Coming of Christ. He was the voice crying in the wilderness; he was the prophet-messenger forerunner of the First Coming of Christ.
Now, notice Isaiah saying: “The voice of him that cries in the wilderness;” that is a prophet appearing in the wilderness. He appeared preaching around the wilderness of Judea, he went along Jordan, preaching, calling people to repentance and telling them that the Messiah was near, that the Messiah was already on Earth, and that He would come after him.
He bore witness of One who would come after him: “After me comes One, a Man, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.”2 That is what Saint John, Saint John the Baptist, tells us in the Gospel according to Saint John; notice what he says in his message to the people.
He says in chapter 1, verse 22 and on, it says… let’s see… verse 19 and on (so that we get a clear picture), of Saint John chapter 1, says the following:
“And this is the record of John,” (meaning, the record that John bore), “when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?”
In other words, they sent him a commission of ministers, of priests, Levites; and among them came priests of the Pharisees too, because these priests and Levites who were sent were of the Pharisees. In other words, it was a delegation of ministers sent to John the Baptist to ask him who he was (who John was); because some people thought John the Baptist was the Messiah, the Christ.
And now, upon asking him:
“Who art thou?
And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not.”
Why did he say he was not Elijah? Because John the Baptist was not literally Elijah the Tishbite, although the ministry of Elijah was manifested in him for the third time. But it was the ministry of Elijah in another man: in John the Baptist; therefore, he was not Elijah the Tishbite, nor was he the Elijah who was to come before the Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord.
Before the seventh millennium, Elijah had to be on Earth to forerun the Second Coming of Christ; and John the Baptist wasn’t that Elijah forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.
And they asked him: “Who are you?” He confessed, saying that he was not the Christ. They ask him:
“Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.”
And yet he was a prophet. Jesus said that “among those that are born of women there has not risen a greater prophet than John;”3 and yet John says he is not that Prophet.
They asked him: “Are you that prophet?” They didn’t ask him: “Are you a prophet?” rather, they asked him: “Are you that prophet?” in other words, that Prophet anointed as the promised Messiah; that was not John.
The Prophet Moses had prophesied of the Coming of the Messiah, and that includes His First Coming and His Second Coming; and He is promised as a prophet: as that Prophet promised by God throughout the Scripture in the fulfillment of the Coming of the Lord. God said through the Prophet Moses, in chapter 18, verses 15 to 19, of the Book of Deuteronomy:
“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…”
That prophet is the Messiah in His First Coming and in His Second Coming; it’s in Him that this promise is fully fulfilled. The other prophets are a type and figure of this Messianic Prophet, who is the Lord in His First Coming and in His Second Coming. It says:
“According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly,” (meaning, there on Mount Sinai), “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.”
That is what the Hebrew people said to Moses. The Hebrew people were shaking there, seeing the Presence of God manifested on Mount Sinai; the mountain was on fire, and they heard thunders, they saw lightnings, they heard the trumpet sounding; and all of this filled the Hebrew people with fear, because God was manifested there on Mount Sinai, speaking with the Prophet Moses.
“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…”
Here we have the Messianic promise that the Messiah will be a prophet, and He will be the Prophet who will fulfill this promise in all its fullness. In the other prophets, this prophecy has been partially fulfilled; but in the Messiah in His First and Second Coming, this prophecy is fulfilled in all its fullness.
“…And will put my words in his mouth.”
Any person who wants to hear the Word of God has to know that it’s through God’s prophets that God speaks; through God’s prophets comes the Word of God, the Voice of God, for each age and for each dispensation.
“Surely the Lord God will do nothing without revealing His secrets unto His servants, His prophets,” Amos chapter 3, verse 7, testifies of this Biblical truth; just like this passage of Deuteronomy chapter 18, verse 15 to 19.
And the Word of God is so important for the soul of the human being that It is the Food for the human being’s soul. Just as we need physical food for our bodies, so that it doesn’t die (because if we don’t give our body food, it starts to get thin, becomes sick, and dies); likewise, if the human being’s soul doesn’t receive the spiritual Food of the Word of God, it dies spiritually.
That is why it is so important to hear the Voice of God, the Word of God: because It is the spiritual Food for our souls, and for our spirits too.
We cannot feed our spirit and our soul with carrots, with rice, with beans, with meat, and with all those things; yet there is Food for the human being’s soul and spirit. Christ said, quoting Deuteronomy chapter 8: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”4
That is the Food for the soul that every person needs to receive and to eat there in the depths of his soul; otherwise, the person will find himself weak and thin in his soul, unmotivated to fight in life, and to realize that there is a life after this earthly life: an Eternal Life for all of God’s sons and daughters. And when he learns these things through the spiritual Food that nourishes him there in the depths of his soul, the person is encouraged to live on this Earth, and to fight, knowing that there is a glorious future for every person who has received Christ as his Savior, and has washed away his sins in the Blood of Christ, and has received His Spirit.
See how one lives encouraged in life? By having a goal, the same goal God has with us. What is it? What is that goal? It is the same goal we have, because God has given us that goal. Do you know what it is? To become just like our Lord Jesus Christ.
That is God’s goal: to have millions of human beings just like the Lord Jesus Christ, with eternal bodies, and eternal theophanic bodies too; and thus, to live for all eternity with our Lord Jesus Christ, our elder Brother.
Now we can see God’s goal: it is to have sons and daughters with Eternal Life, with eternal bodies, both theophanic bodies as well as physical bodies; the theophanic body inside the physical body, and the soul of those people inside the theophanic body. Such is the Divine Program.
Now, we can see God’s goal.
He has a goal, He is not a God who works without knowing what He is doing. Before the foundation of the world, in His Mind He designed everything that He would carry out, both what He would start to do and what He would finish doing; in other words, the whole Program that He would carry out to have sons and daughters just like Jesus Christ: He already thought of it before the foundation of the world; and what He has been doing is carrying out His Program. He is a God who thinks before He acts.
Look, it’s not like some people say and do: they act, and when things go wrong, they say: “It’s because I didn’t think through what I was going to do.” Before doing something, every person should think and see in his mind the whole course of what he is going to do, and the results, so that afterwards he doesn’t say: “I regret doing this.” If he had thought about it before, and had seen those results beforehand, he wouldn’t have gotten himself into that problem.
Each person has five senses in his body (sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch) to communicate with the earthly things here; but in his spirit he also has five senses to communicate with the invisible things, and to be able to think clearly using those five senses.
You have different senses: such as reason, you also have the sense of imagination. And in your mind, in your spirit, you should think, you should reason so that you can make the right choice; and in your mind, using your imagination, you should go through the whole course of what you are going to do, from beginning to end, in order to see—in your imagination in your mind—how everything is going to turn out.
And if you visualize all of that, and then you act, you will act correctly; but if you don’t do that in your spirit, many things will go wrong. And who is to blame? Well, you: because you have free moral agency and God has given you the equipment you need for things to go well.
If things go wrong, don’t blame someone else, blame yourself, because you are the one responsible before God. And if someone else has had something to do with your problem, well, God will also hold them accountable; but you answer for yourself before God, when it comes to your own matters.
Because every person has free moral agency; that is the sense of the soul that every person has. And with that sense, the person can only do two things, one of two things: believe or doubt; in other words, to be a believer or an unbeliever.
And using the sense of his soul, the person must decide what he is going to do: if he believes it, then he will act according to what he has believed; and if he does not believe, then he should not act, he should not act on what he is going to do, because it is wrong to act on something that one does not believe in.
And now, it is also the same with God. Every person, when he hears the Word of God, notice, first It goes through the body through the sense of hearing (because faith comes by hearing the Word of God),5 It comes in through the ear, goes on to the senses of the spirit, and reaches the sense of the soul, free moral agency; and there, you open that sense by believing that Word, and that Word comes into the heart, It is sown there in the heart, It is believed there in the heart.
Now, there are others who when they hear the Word and It comes in, they reason It; and in their soul, when that Word reaches there, they say: “I can’t believe this.” By not believing It, that Word has not been accepted there; therefore, that person’s soul is not being fed with that Word, and It can’t give Life to that person’s soul. Why? Because just like when the person receives physical food, if he receives it, if he eats it, and he keeps it inside, it nourishes him, it is beneficial to him; but if he does not receive it or if he does not keep it inside, well, it is not beneficial to him.
And it is the same with the Word of God in the person’s soul: when the person receives that Word in his soul and believes It with all his soul, that person is eating that Word and is being fed by that Word there in his soul; there is nothing else to feed the soul but the Word of God.
Anything else is a human invention, anything else is manufactured food, it is food like any food that science can make, out of plastic or anything else; and you can’t eat a plastic steak. You wouldn’t eat it, would you? Nor plastic chicken either.
That is also how it is with the spiritual Food: we can’t eat humanly manufactured food there in the soul, it must be the Word of God pertaining to the time in which one is given to live; and that is the Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, for all the children of God, to feed the soul of all of the children of God.
And God has always had a faithful and wise servant from age to age and from dispensation to dispensation, who has been the mouth of God, out of which has come the Word of God, to feed the soul of all the children of God. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”
The mouth of God is God’s prophets, the messengers of God of different ages and different dispensations.
For each age of the Gentile Church, during the seven ages, the mouth of God was the messenger of each age. And for the Age of the Cornerstone, Christ says:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches,” (Revelation 22, verse 16).
And Revelation 22, verse 6, tells us:
“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to (manifest) unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”
Whom does Jesus Christ send to testify these things which must shortly be done? He sends His Angel, because His Angel is the mouth of Jesus Christ for this Last Day; just as the mouth of Jesus Christ in the seven Gentile Church ages were the seven angel-messengers. because through each of them, Jesus Christ was manifested, speaking to His people from age to age.
And at the Last Day, the mouth of Jesus Christ is His Angel-Messenger, through whom Jesus Christ will be speaking to His Church, and will be making known to Her all these things which must shortly be done.
And through the mouth of Jesus Christ for the Last Day comes the spiritual Food for the soul of each son and daughter of God; just as the spiritual Food for the soul of each son of God and daughter of God in the seven Gentile Church ages came through each angel-messenger of the seven Gentile Church ages.
In the Old Testament, the spiritual Food came through God’s prophets, through whom God was manifested, and was speaking through them to the Hebrew people; and they brought the spiritual Food for the soul of the people of the Old Testament.
Now we can see where we are at this Last Day: we are at the time when there is a famine in the land (as the Prophet Amos says in chapter 8, and verse 11 and on), but not a famine of literal bread, nor a thirst for literal water, but of hearing the Word of God, of hearing the Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
And people will wander from one nation to another nation, they will go across different continents, seeking the Word of God, and they will not find It, except in the territory where the mouth of God is, where the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is.
And from that mouth of God, which is the mouth of Jesus Christ, the Messenger of Jesus Christ, will come the Word of God, the spiritual Food for each of God’s sons and daughters.
There is always a place or a territory where the messenger of God, the mouth of God for each time, is present. And for the end time, God will have a territory ordained, predestined before the foundation of the world, to have His mouth there, His Angel-Messenger, through whom the Word of God, the spiritual Food for the soul, will be coming to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, notice, during the seven ages, there was a territory where the mouth of God was, where the mouth of Jesus Christ of each age was, where the messenger of Jesus Christ of each age was.
Saint Paul was there in Asia Minor. The mouth of Jesus Christ, Saint Paul, was there bringing the Message, the spiritual Food for the Church of Jesus Christ, in the first stage of His Gentile Church; His Church among the Gentiles, out of which Christ would call out a people for His Name.6 And notice how everything began among the Gentiles there in Asia Minor, in the first age, and He had the mouth of God there.
The mystical Body of Christ has always had the mouth of God, the mouth of Jesus Christ; It has always had the messenger for each age in each of Its stages and in the territory where that stage is fulfilled.
The first age was fulfilled in Asia Minor; and the mouth of Jesus Christ had to be there: Saint Paul, His angel-messenger, through whom came the Word of God being spoken for that first age.
Then we find that the second age was fulfilled in Europe, in France; and Jesus Christ had His mouth there, His angel-messenger of the second age, who was Irenaeus.
And likewise, we find that from age to age the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has had the mouth of Jesus Christ speaking to Her; Jesus Christ speaking through that messenger (which is His mouth), and through him, giving the spiritual Food to all of God’s elect. “For man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”
That is why it is so important to know the age and dispensation in which one lives, and to know the territory where that age is fulfilled, and to seek the mouth of Jesus Christ there, the messenger of Jesus Christ; because from that messenger, from that mouth of Jesus Christ, will come the Word of Jesus Christ, the spiritual Food for the soul of all the children of God.
Now notice, in Europe, Jesus Christ had five messengers, five ages were fulfilled there in Europe; and Jesus Christ had His mouth there, the mouth of each age, the messenger of each age, through whom Jesus Christ spoke to His people, to His Church, and fed His Church with His Word.
Those five messengers of the five ages fulfilled in Europe were faithful and wise servants; just as Saint Paul was the faithful and wise messenger, the faithful and wise servant of the first age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And then Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit went to North America, where He fulfilled the seventh age of the Gentile Church, and where he placed His mouth for the seventh Gentile Church age: Rev. William Marrion Branham; and through him, Jesus Christ was speaking to His Church in the seventh age of the Gentile Church.
Notice how in each territory where each Church age has been fulfilled, they have had the mouth of Jesus Christ, the messenger of Jesus Christ, through whom the Word of God has come. That has been the faithful and wise servant of each age, through whom Jesus Christ has been manifested; and the Household of God has been fed: the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ including all His Family, all His children.
And at the Last Day, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit goes on to Latin America and the Caribbean to fulfill the Age of the Cornerstone, and to call and gather all His children in His Household.
But notice, in every household, the father of the family must have food to feed his children, he is not going to let them starve to death. He would be an irresponsible person if the father of a family spends the money he earns on drinks or on other things and doesn’t spend it on his family; because he earned that money and it is meant to be used for the good of his entire family.
Some people spend money the wrong way, but God will hold them accountable; they spend money and they leave their family in need.
Every responsible man must strive, must work with bravery; just like he was brave and romantic to fall in love and have children, he must be brave to sustain that household. He has that responsibility before God.
Now, Jesus Christ is a responsible Person. He has a Family, and It is His Church; He has been having sons and daughters from age to age in His Church, who have been born through the new birth in His Church; and He has been bringing the spiritual Food for His Household from age to age, and He has put a faithful and wise servant there, through whom Jesus Christ has manifested Himself to feed His Household with the Word of God, the Message of God pertaining to each age.
Christ said that when we pray we should ask for our daily Bread.7 And God’s sons and daughters have been asking for the spiritual Bread of each age, of each day: the ones of the first age asked for the Bread of that first day, the ones of the second age, well, they asked for the Bread of that second age; and so on, from day to day, in other words, from age to age. The seven days of the week represent the seven ages.
And then we find that we reach Sunday, and on Sunday you don’t say: “Today is Sunday; I ate all seven days of the week, so I can’t eat this Sunday.” How many of you don’t want to eat physical food today because you ate during the seven days of the week that have passed? No, all of you will say: “Yes, I ate these seven days of the week, but they are already in the past. Now I need to eat Sunday’s food.”
And spiritually, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ with Her children, which are the children of Jesus Christ through the new birth, have eaten in the first age, second age, third age, fourth age, fifth age, sixth age, seventh age; in other words, the seven days of the week, the seven days of that spiritual week (which are the seven ages of the Gentile Church), they ate and they were very happy.
And now, the children of Jesus Christ in His Church of the Last Day are living on the Eighth Day, which represents or is represented in Sunday. We are having a spiritual Sunday in the House of God.
And now, will they leave us without Food because they already ate during the seven Gentile Church ages? No, sir! There’s no more Food in the House of God, in the Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ? Well, no problem. We have to find spiritual Food for the children of God who have come to the Household of God on the Eighth Day.
And Jesus Christ says: “To him that overcometh will I give of the hidden Manna.”8 Notice, Jesus Christ has had a spiritual Food hidden, kept, for those who would come at the end; and He would have spiritual Food for them, spiritual Nourishment.
And where did He hide It that those of the seven Gentile Church ages didn’t see It or eat It? They weren’t able to eat It because they ate the spiritual Food that was in the Holy Place; but the Food Jesus Christ kept for us, for this Last Day, He kept It in the Holy of Holies.
And no one from the seven Gentile Church ages could enter there, not even the seven angel-messengers; because if they entered: they would have taken It and given It to their people, and they would have left us without the spiritual Food of the Last Day and of the Eighth Day, in other words, of the spiritual Sunday, which is the Age of the Cornerstone.
And now, Christ calls us, He invites us to come up to where He has kept that spiritual Food. From age to age, they went up and they ate the spiritual Food of each age (all of this took place in the Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ); but now Christ calls us to come up to the Age of the Cornerstone: “Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.” Revelation chapter 4, verse 1.
And when we come up to the Age of the Cornerstone, Jesus Christ has His mouth there, the mouth of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, through whom that spiritual Food comes to all the children of God; the Word of Jesus Christ comes, which proceeds out of His mouth, which proceeds out of His Messenger.
That is the hidden Manna, that is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, the spiritual Food for each of your souls and also for mine; that is the Food which I am eating of in the spiritual Temple of Christ in the Holy of Holies.
And no one could eat this Food in past ages because It was kept for us in the Holy of Holies; just like in the holy of holies, inside the ark of the covenant, God commanded them to put a golden pot with manna, which would not corrupt: it could be there for all eternity as long as the ark of the covenant was in the holy of holies.9
And the hidden Manna, which represents the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom—the Message of Jesus Christ for the Last Day, which proceeds out of His mouth, which proceeds out of His Messenger—is a Message that will always be before the Presence of God; therefore, it will be a Message for all eternity.
It will be the Message with which all of God’s sons and daughters will come into eternity, they will come into physical Eternal Life as well; because we will receive a new body, we will receive that transformation; because we are eating the hidden Manna of the Holy of Holies, and “he who eats of this Bread shall live forever.”10
Now, in Paradise the saints of the past ages are hearing what is being preached here in this dimension; and they depend on the entire Divine Program that is being carried out in the Church of Jesus Christ at this Last Day; for them to be raised in immortal bodies, and for us to be changed.
Now, the manna (remember) represents Christ. He said: “Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.” And He told them: “He who eats of this Bread shall live forever,” (in other words, he will not die, but live eternally). And He said: “I am the Living Bread which came down from Heaven.”
Christ is the Bread of Life represented in the manna that came down from heaven; and Christ is the Bread of Life that is represented in the manna in the golden pot placed in the ark of the covenant, there in the holy of holies.
And to eat the Message in each age, which comes out of the mouth of Jesus Christ, which comes from the messenger of Jesus Christ: that is to eat Christ, to eat of Christ. Christ is the Word that was made flesh.
And now, Christ, the Word that was made flesh, has been in the midst of His Church in Message form, and also in the form of the Holy Spirit, and also in the form of a messenger for each age; because Christ has been manifested in Holy Spirit in each messenger.
And now, we have seen how from age to age they have been eating the Lamb, just as the Hebrew people did on Passover each year; and as they did during Passover, before the Hebrew people’s exodus from Egypt.11
And now, at the Last Day, we will be eating of Christ, the Word, by receiving the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom in our soul; because that is the hidden Manna that He has promised to give us in order to feed our souls and live eternally.
For us to be changed and raptured at this Last Day, He gives us the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, the hidden Manna; and by eating It, we are prepared to be changed and raptured at this Last Day.
Now, that is a Food that we don’t eat with our literal mouth, instead, we eat It here in our soul with faith: by believing It with all our soul, we are eating that hidden Manna.
That is the Manna of which I am eating and which I share with each of you, in the Household of Christ, in the Household of God, in the Church of Jesus Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone. That is the spiritual Food that He has given me to give each of you, in order to feed you with that Word of God at this Last Day.
“Who is the faithful and wise servant, whom his Lord has made ruler over His Household, to give them their portion of Meat, their portion of Food in due season,” (in other words, their Food in due season)?12 Each one in past ages gave the children of God the Food in due season in the Household of God, meaning, in the Church of Jesus Christ, from day to day, from age to age; but now we have reached the spiritual Sunday, the Age of the Cornerstone.
And who is the Faithful and Wise Servant who at the Last Day, in the Household of God, would give all of God’s sons and daughters the spiritual Food for the soul? It is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; because that is the mouth of Jesus Christ at this Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone.
And that is the Messenger which He puts in the territory where He fulfills the Age of the Cornerstone, and the territory is: Latin America and the Caribbean.
And where are the people who would be fed with that hidden Manna at this Last Day? Well, here we are. Some of us are here in Brazil, in Belo Horizonte, here in Brazil; and in different parts of Brazil there are thousands of people who are also receiving that spiritual Food.
And in all of Latin America and the Caribbean there are thousands of people who are being fed with the hidden Manna, with the spiritual Food pertaining to our Day: the Eighth Day, which is Sunday and also the first day of the week.
Notice how Sunday, as the first day of the week, is also the eighth day; because if you count the seven days of the week and then you add an additional day, that is eight; and Sunday would be day number eight or the eighth day.
The number eight represents infinity [∞] and eternity; therefore, everything contained in the number eight will be representing eternity and is for all eternity.
That is why the Message is an eternal Message; and the people who come up to the Eighth Day, to the Age of the Cornerstone, are the people who will be changed without seeing death, and will come into eternity. And the Eighth Day, which is the Age of the Cornerstone, is the Eternal Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; that is the Golden Age.
Some of our own may depart, that is not a problem; because he will rise in an eternal body and be a witness of the resurrection, and he will come testifying that the resurrection has already taken place. And even if it was an elderly man (or elderly woman), that doesn’t matter, he will return in a new, eternal, and young body; and even though he comes in an eternal and young body, we will recognize him, because we will speak to him and he will speak to us; and he will tell us everything that has happened, and he will also tell us about the things that happened when he was here in the body of flesh; and then we will realize that it is the same person, but in a new body.
So, we can see the reason why some people (some of our own) have departed, and perhaps someone else may depart.
There is also another reason why a person may depart, and it is because he misbehaves and God shortens his days so that he doesn’t behave that badly for the rest of his life; and God may shorten his days. But we don’t want God to shorten anyone’s days, instead, we want each person to live out the time that God has determined for that person.
And there are people who have been predestined to not see death, in other words, to not finish their days here on Earth, but instead be changed and have the eternal body, and live for all eternity without seeing death.
Now, where would those children of God be? They would be, where? In the Age of the Cornerstone. And the territory for the Age of the Cornerstone is Latin America and the Caribbean.
And now, notice, the first age: the first day of the prophetic week of the Church ages. The second day: the second age… Let’s start over:
• The first day of the week is always Sunday. Sunday: the first day, the first age.
• The second age: Monday, which is the second day.
• The third age: the third day, meaning, Tuesday.
• The fourth day: the fourth age, which is Wednesday.
• The fifth age: the fifth day of the week, which is Thursday.
• The sixth day: the sixth age, which is Friday.
• The seventh day of the week: the seventh age of the Gentile Church, which is Saturday.
• And then, we go back to the first day: Sunday, and this spiritual Sunday is the Age of the Cornerstone.
See how we are in the first day of the week, the spiritual Sunday? It is the eighth day; and the number eight speaks of eternity and infinity. And everything put there is what represents what is in the Holy of Holies of the Temple which is in Heaven; and everything that is in Heaven, in the Holy of Holies, is eternal.
Eternity is reflected in the Age of the Cornerstone; it is reflected in the Eighth Day of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the spiritual Sunday, to which we have been called, and during which we are eating spiritual Food, Sunday’s Food.
You know something? In most families, the only day that their diet changes a bit is on Sunday; on Sundays there is almost always a change in diet, in food.
And here, notice, during the seven ages they have been eating the Message pertaining to the seven ages; and in the Age of the Cornerstone, Christ changes our diet: He gives us of the hidden Manna, He gives us the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, He gives us the Message that revolves around the Second Coming of Christ.
During the seven ages, we have been eating of the Message of the First Coming of Christ, but now He also gives us the Message of His Second Coming. This is the only day of the spiritual week of the Church of Jesus Christ when He would give us the Message of His Second Coming, as spiritual Food for our soul.
Now, we are seeing that during the seven ages they have been eating the spiritual Food of the First Coming of Christ and His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross; and all of us have also eaten that spiritual Food. But now, in addition, we are given the spiritual Food of the Second Coming of Christ; the Food, the Message, which was not given in other ages, It was not given for them to eat, only the prophecies of the Second Coming of Christ were given.
Now, what was the First Coming of Christ? In order to understand His Second Coming, well, we have to understand what the First Coming was. The First Coming was the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, of the Angel of the Lord, who is the same Lord in His theophanic body; and when He came, what was promised regarding the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, of the Angel of the Lord, was fulfilled.
In the Book of Exodus, chapter 23, verse 20 and on, it talks to us about this Angel, and it tells us:
“Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.”
Here we can see the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant; and God says that He has sent His Angel to the Hebrew people to deliver them and take them to the promised land. The Prophet Moses was led by that Angel, the Angel of the Lord, who is the Lord Himself in His theophanic body.
Then, when the Prophet Malachi tells us, in chapter 3, that the Angel of the Covenant will come, the Angel of the Lord will come (whose way was prepared by John the Baptist, as the forerunner), when the Angel of the Covenant came, the Angel of the Lord, He came clothed in human flesh. Saint John chapter 1, verse 1 and on, 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.”
How can this be understood: that in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God?
The Word refers to God’s theophanic body, that theophany or theophanic body, which is a body similar to our body but from another dimension; and God in that theophanic body (which He created for Himself; that body came from God), while dwelling in that body, God carried out the creation of the whole universe. He carried out all of Creation from that body: He created angels, archangels, cherubims, He also created all the solar systems, He created the whole universe, He created dimensions; God created everything from that theophanic body.
The first thing God created for Himself was His theophanic body; that is why it is the beginning of the Creation of God.13 And that is why it says:
“All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”
The Word was the Creator of all things; the Word that was with God and was God. And in Genesis chapter 1, verse 1, it says:
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
God created the Heaven and the Earth being in His theophanic body, and from there, He spoke all things into creation.
Notice where the origin of creation is. Science is looking for the origin of creation, and the origin of creation is in God, in His theophanic body.
And God in His theophanic body (which, as I told you, is a body similar to our body but from another dimension), God in that theophanic body appears as a Man of another dimension, of the sixth dimension; and that Man of the sixth dimension, who is God in His theophanic body, is the One who carried out all of Creation.
We have seen who created the heavens and the Earth: it was a Man of another dimension, called the Word of God. And who was dwelling in that Man of the sixth dimension? God in all His fullness.
That theophanic body of the sixth dimension was God’s garment, in other words, God’s veil; a veil, a body of another dimension, of the sixth dimension.
In that body, we find that He also created Adam: He brought him from God and He also put him in a theophanic body; and Adam was in the image of God,14 because the image of God is that theophanic body; and then He created him a physical body out of the dust of the ground.15
But God had not created Himself a body of flesh yet, but He created Adam a body of flesh out of the dust of the ground; but God, in His Program, was to create Himself a physical body, which was fulfilled later on.
The Coming of the Word is promised in the Scripture. It says:
“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John,” (Saint John chapter 1, verse 6 and on).
“The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe,” (so that all men would believe in whom? In the Light).
“He was not that Light,” (meaning, John the Baptist was not that Light), “but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”
That true Light which enlightens every man (God, who, veiled in His theophanic body is called the Word, and is also called the Angel of the Covenant or Angel of the Lord), was now coming into the world, He was coming to this earthly dimension in a visible form. And let’s see how He would appear. It says:
“He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
He came unto his own,” (meaning, to the Hebrew people), “and his own received him not,” (the Hebrew people did not receive the Word when He came).
“But as many as received him… even to them that believe on his name…”
Now, notice that when He comes, He comes with a Name being revealed: that is the Name of Redemption, for the Work of Redemption that He will carry out on Calvary’s Cross.
“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.”
Those are the ones who believe in Christ, receive Him as their Savior, wash away their sins in the Blood of Christ, and receive His Holy Spirit; and thus, they are born of the Spirit of God, and they are born in the mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And that is how God’s sons and daughters are born in the Kingdom of God.
Because the birth they had through their father and mother is in God’s permissive will, so that a Divine Purpose can be fulfilled in the lives of all those people who are born through a man and a woman.
But now, notice, when we are born through the union of our father and mother, we receive a mortal, corruptible, and temporary body, and we receive a spirit of the world; but our soul is not from the world, it is from God, it comes from the sixth dimension; but we obtained a body and a spirit in God’s permissive will.
Therefore, this experience of living in a mortal body and obtaining a spirit of the world when we were born, is a one-time experience that every son and daughter of God goes through on this Earth, which will never be repeated for the children of God; and it gives us an opportunity to serve Christ, to come in contact with Eternal Life, which is Jesus Christ, to thus obtain a new birth, a new birth that is not through the union of a man and a woman.
When Nicodemus heard Christ say he must be born again (because except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God, he cannot understand It), Nicodemus thought this meant being born again of a woman, and he asked: “How can these things be?” (in other words, being born again).16
And Nicodemus was the great teacher of the Hebrew people, a doctor of theology, of divinity, a teacher of many, and now he didn’t know the mystery of the new birth; he only knew the mystery of the natural birth through the union of a man and a woman, but he didn’t know the mystery of the birth by Divine Creation.
And now, he asks: “How can these things be? Can a man, when he is old, enter into his mother’s womb and be born?” And if Nicodemus was old (because he is speaking about himself, he was the one who was interested in entering the Kingdom of God), if Nicodemus was old, how old might his mother be, if she wasn’t dead? Now if she was an elderly woman, Nicodemus, humanly thinking, asks himself: “How can it be possible for me to enter my mother’s womb, and for my mother to be pregnant again and give birth to me? I don’t understand what Jesus is saying. How can these things be, Jesus?”
And Jesus says to him: “Verily, verily, I say to you, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God,” (or Kingdom of Heaven). “You must be born again. Marvel not that I said to you: You must be born again.”
It is the new birth that is obtained upon believing in Christ as our Savior, washing away our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit.
Christ had been speaking of the new birth, but notice, the disciples of Christ had not been born again either, they only had the natural birth through their earthly mothers.
The new birth started taking place on the day of Pentecost; and since then, millions of people have been born into the Kingdom of God, they have been obtaining a new birth.
Now, notice, when you have been born on this Earth through your mother as a result of the union of your father and mother, we find that you have been born, but not as a child of God, you have been born as a child of the world; and you have been born among the children of the world. And you have been born in a race that is in death, a fallen race, that doesn’t have Eternal Life; and that is why human beings are born, they grow up, they look very beautiful, but then they get old and they are not so beautiful anymore, and then they die and they are even less beautiful.
Because no matter how much a person may have loved his girlfriend or his wife or his mother, after she dies and many days pass, he doesn’t want to see her anymore. Well, didn’t he love her so much, and now he doesn’t want to see her? It’s because she is no longer in that body (he still loves her), she is in another dimension now; the only thing that died was the earthly house, the physical body.
What some youth, some people, fall in love with is the earthly house, instead of looking beyond the earthly house, deep inside, to the person’s soul and seeing that soul, and thus, seeing whether that person is actually beautiful and is actually good there in the depths of their being; because that is true beauty, that is where true beauty is found. Physical beauty, that is temporary; physical beauty, that is fleeting, that is vanity.
Many people say: “So-and-so is very handsome or very beautiful;” but notice, once they die, they look as ugly as the ugliest person that ever died. So, there is no difference.
Now, people have to see the beauty of the person’s soul; because that beauty of the soul will last for all eternity if the person is a son or daughter of God. And when we are in the new body, you won’t see the old body anymore, you will see a new body in which that person will be living.
Now we can see this mystery of what the human being is: a body, spirit, and soul. And we can see why the new birth is required; and it is obtained through Christ: by receiving Him as our Savior, washing away our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving His Spirit; and thus, we receive a theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension, which we were not able to receive when we were born through our father and mother; but through the new birth, notice, we obtain that theophanic body of the sixth dimension.
And when that happens in our lives: we are in heavenly places in Christ Jesus with a theophanic body of the sixth dimension;17 we are in the same position as Jesus Christ before having His physical body: He was in His theophanic body.
The Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, Elohim, Melchizedek (all of those manifestations of God in a visible physical body, but of another dimension), were Jesus Christ in His theophanic body; because He is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who would come.
He is that Light which would be manifested on this Earth. And how would the Light, the Light that would come, which is the Word, be manifested? It says:
[John 1:14] “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”
When the Word—who is God with His theophanic body—was made flesh, He dwelt among human beings, and we saw Him among human beings with the Name of Jesus. In that young carpenter from Nazareth named Jesus, the Word was made flesh, God with His theophanic body was made flesh, clothed in human flesh among human beings; and He was a prophet, the Prophet of Nazareth, and He was a dispensational prophet; and He is the greatest Prophet the human race has had.
Now we can see that God would come among the human race clothed in human flesh; that was the occasion where God created Himself a body and was living on Earth like human beings do. And the world didn’t know Him, they didn’t know it was God visiting the human race in a body of flesh created by Himself; it was created by God, and that is why it was the only body that could be sacrificed for the sin of the human race.
No other person could die to take away the sin of the human being. And that is why they had animal sacrifices: to cover sin through the blood shed by those animals until a perfect Man came; not the product of the union of a man and a woman, but the product of Divine Creation; which happened when God created a cell of life in Mary’s womb, and that blood cell multiplied, cell after cell, and the body of Jesus was formed, was created, which was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, four to seven years before the fifth millennium began.
Now, we can see who Jesus Christ is: He is the Word that was with God and was God, and was made flesh; He is Emmanuel, which being interpreted is: God with us.18 Isaiah chapter 7, verse 14, says:
(Because) “the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel,” (and Immanuel means: God with us).
That child which the virgin would have was fulfilled in the birth of Jesus through the virgin Mary.
Notice how the Messianic promise was fulfilled, and the veil of flesh where God dwelt in all His fullness appeared, where God was manifested to carry out His Work of the Redemption of the human being, and to make the new birth of the children of God possible: for God’s sons and daughters to be born in the sixth dimension first, in their theophanic bodies first; and then obtain the new body at the Last Day, in other words, obtain the eternal body, which we are waiting for at any moment: we are waiting for it in the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the spiritual Sunday.
Christ rose on Sunday morning. And now, the dead in Christ will rise at the Last Day: they will rise on the spiritual Sunday, which is the Age of the Cornerstone.
And now, notice, we who are alive are waiting for them to rise and appear to us, and bring us the good tidings, the good news that the resurrection has already taken place, so that we may be changed when we see them. That is what will happen sometime in the Age of the Cornerstone.
Now we are in the same stage as Jesus Christ before He obtained His physical body: He was in His theophanic body of the sixth dimension.
And now, we have obtained the theophanic body of the sixth dimension once we have received the Spirit of Christ, and all that’s left is this body of flesh that will be exchanged for the eternal body He has promised; and thus, we will have an eternal body just like the body of the Lord Jesus Christ; and thus, we will be sons and daughters of God manifested in eternal bodies for all eternity. That is the adoption of God’s sons and daughters, which we are waiting for at this Last Day.
God will put us in that position of children created by Him. He already created the theophanic body for us, and all we need is for Him to create the eternal and physical body for us, which He has promised for all of us; a body that will be created by God for each of you and also for me, in which there will never again be sickness, nor sadness, nor problems, nor signs of old age (in other words, not even wrinkles around the eyes, or on the forehead, or on the cheeks, or anywhere else).
We won’t see any signs of old age; it doesn’t matter if a hundred years, five hundred years, a thousand years, a million years pass, you will see yourself in the mirror and will say: “I still look the way I did when I received this new body.” Well, that is because you won’t get old, you will always represent eighteen to twenty-one years of age; because it is an eternal body created by Jesus Christ for each of you and also for me.
And we are waiting for Him to create that body for us who are alive; and He will do that by changing our body, if we are alive when the dead in Christ rise.
And those who have already departed, Christ will create a new body for them, and dwelling in that body will be each of God’s elect who are in Paradise and will rise; because if they were in the mystical Body of Christ in the age in which they were given to live and they obtained the new birth, then they have the promise of rising in an eternal body at the Last Day.
Now, we can see that it is not a matter of religious sectarianism, rather, it is a matter of Divine Creation. It is a matter of a Divine Program in which God is creating a new race; and it starts with the creation of our theophanic body of the sixth dimension, and then, well, He will create the physical and eternal body He has promised for all of us.
Now we can see that in order for Him to create the eternal body that He has promised us, countless prophecies must be fulfilled; among them, the most important one is the Coming of the Son of man in the clouds.
That is a prophecy for the end time, that is: the Coming of the Son of man in the clouds; a promise which, as I showed you in the beginning, is also in the Old Testament. The Prophet Daniel, in chapter 7, verses 13 to 14, testified of the Coming of the Son of man in the clouds.
And now, we are living at the end time, where the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, must become a reality here on Earth.
Now, we can’t overlook the different stages that the First Coming of Christ went through, because the Second Coming of Christ will also have Its different stages.
Notice, the First Coming of Christ went through the stage of being in Mary’s womb for nine months. If it were less time, the Bible would say that it was only seven months or eight months; but when things happen the usual way, taking the usual amount of time that a mother has her baby in her womb, it doesn’t have to say that it was nine months, that is the norm.
Now, we find that the First Coming of Christ began there in Mary’s womb; and then, upon being born in Bethlehem of Judea, the fulfillment of the First Coming of Christ continued; but notice, It was in Its initial stages, It was in Its infancy, but the First Coming of Christ was now fulfilled. But the Work He came to do required that thirty-three years pass; and at thirty-three years old, as the Lamb of God, He died on Calvary’s Cross and carried out the Work of Redemption.
The last three and a half years of the ministry of Christ were very important, during which He preached the Acceptable Year of the Lord.19 Under the ministry of Jesus in His First Coming, the Year of Jubilee was also fulfilled there among the Hebrew people; and that is why He was in the Age of the Cornerstone of that time.
John the Baptist was the messenger of the seventh age of the Hebrew Church under Judaism.
And now, notice, the First Coming of Christ was already on Earth, but He carried out the Work of Redemption when He was thirty-three years old.
Very few people saw the First Coming of Christ and understood the First Coming of Christ when He was in Mary’s womb, except for Mary, Joseph, and Elisabeth.
Because when Mary went to Elisabeth (her cousin) to visit her, who was pregnant and was already about six months along (so she was only about three months away from giving birth to John the Baptist, the one who would be the forerunner of Jesus)… and now, when Mary arrives and greets Elisabeth, the child who was in Elisabeth’s womb leaped for joy: he was filled with the Spirit of God; and Elisabeth said that the child leaped in her womb when he heard Mary’s salutation, and she says some very beautiful words to Mary and to the child who was in her womb.20
Now, notice how Mary knew that this child was the Messiah, the Son of the Most High God, in terms of the veil of flesh; and Elisabeth also knew that the child in Mary’s womb was the Messiah, whose way would be prepared by the child who was in her womb (which was John the Baptist).
The forerunner and the One forerun met face to face there; but Jesus was in Mary’s womb and John the Baptist was in Elisabeth’s womb; but notice, they recognized each other even while they were in the womb.
And then, John the Baptist was born later on, and then Jesus; and we don’t know if they got to play together, we don’t know.
Biblical history doesn’t tell us about that, it tells us about Jesus when He was then two years old (after He was born, when He was two years old or so), when the wise men went to see Him and worshiped Him;21 and then it tells us about when He went to Egypt; and from Egypt, then He went to Nazareth.22 And then it speaks to us about when He was twelve years old, when He was in Jerusalem in the temple speaking with the doctors of the Law and with those scholars, doctors of divinity, who were astonished at the wisdom of the child Jesus; who was increasing in wisdom and favor before God, and also in stature.23
And then it tells us about Jesus when He was almost thirty years old; so, He was about twenty-nine and a half years old when He went to the services of John the Baptist, who was preaching and calling the people to repentance, and was baptizing people.
Jesus went to the services of John the Baptist; notice, He came from Nazareth, He came down to Judea, and went to John the Baptist, heard his preaching and was baptized by John the Baptist, who didn’t want to baptize Him. He tells Him: “You come to me to be baptized, and I am the one who needs to be baptized by You.”24
Perhaps they had known each other, perhaps they had been in contact before that time. Since Mary and Elisabeth were cousins, we don’t know how many more times Mary visited Elisabeth; and if she visited her, she wouldn’t have left the child Jesus there in Nazareth, she would have had to take Him to the mountains of Judea. And if Jesus and John were together as children, then they knew each other and talked; and perhaps God carried out some works at that time.
Now, when the time came for the ministry of Jesus Christ, John the Baptist was saying: “After me comes One whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose: He will baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with Fire.” And then he says: “I knew Him not, and you do not know Him either. There is One among you, among us, whom you do not know; He is the One who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire.” And he says: “But He who sent me to baptize told me: Upon whom you see the Holy Spirit descend like a dove, and remain upon Him, the same is He. He is the One whose way you are preparing, He is the Messiah.” And John says: “And I saw, I saw It descend upon Him (upon Jesus).”25
This was when John baptized Jesus, and saw the heavens opened. And notice, he didn’t want to baptize Jesus, he was going to lose that great blessing; but Jesus tells him: “We must fulfill all righteousness, it is necessary to fulfill all righteousness;” and then John didn’t insist with Jesus anymore: he baptized Him, he saw the heavens opened, he saw the Holy Spirit descend like a dove upon Jesus, and Jesus was filled with God’s fullness there.
And that is when His three-and-a-half-year ministry began; and He crowned His ministry with His death on Calvary’s Cross, bearing our sins and dying for them, and paying the price of Redemption.
That is why now every human being has the opportunity to have a Sacrifice for sin. He no longer needs to go to the land of Israel and take a lamb or a goat and sacrifice it there in the temple (there isn’t even a temple of the Hebrew people there in Jerusalem anymore); but now every person has the Sacrifice of the Lamb of God that was offered by Jesus Christ, the High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek.
And now, when the person believes in the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross with all his soul, and confesses his sins upon Christ and over Christ as the Lamb of God, and washes away his sins in the Blood of Christ, the Spirit of Christ comes upon the person, He fills him with the Holy Spirit; and thus the person is born again in the Kingdom of God; to then, at the Last Day, receive the fullness of the Spirit of God: receive the new body, where we will have the fullness of the Spirit of God manifested in each one of us.
Now we can see the mystery of the First Coming of Christ and the purpose of His Coming. And we can see that on Earth was the veil of flesh where God would be manifested in all His fullness, in the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah and in His Work of Redemption carried out on Calvary’s Cross.
Now, how long was He on Earth before beginning His ministry? Twenty-nine and a half years. And no one noticed that on Earth was the veil of flesh where God would be manifested in all His fullness, in the fulfillment of the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Coming of the Angel of the Lord, the Coming of the Messiah in His First Coming.
And He was among them, and He played among the children, and then He was among the youth, and later among the adults (when He was over twenty-one years old), and they didn’t know Him. “He came to His own,” the Hebrew people, His people; because by being born among the Hebrew people, well, He appeared as a Hebrew citizen; because the person has the citizenship of the nation where he is born.
And now, He is among the Hebrew people, and the Hebrew people are waiting for the Coming of the Messiah, and the Messiah is there with them for twenty-nine years; and then His ministry begins, and He has three and a half years of ministry, and they still don’t know Him; and He has the stage of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross, He carries out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross, and the Hebrew people still don’t know Him. And even now, the Hebrew people still don’t know that the Messiah was on Earth two thousand years ago.
The Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, Elohim, Melchizedek, the Lord of the Old Testament was with them in human flesh, in the veil of flesh that God provided Himself for that time.
God provided Himself a body, in which He dwelt and which He used as the Sacrifice for sin for the Redemption of all the sons and daughters of God whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Now, we have seen the mystery of the First Coming of Christ: it is the mystery of the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Coming of God with His theophanic body and in His theophanic body, clothing Himself in a human body, a body of flesh called Jesus of Nazareth. In that young carpenter from Nazareth, the Coming of the Lord was fulfilled.
And at the Last Day, in Revelation chapter 19, we have the promise of the Coming of the Word. Let’s look at that promise here. Revelation 19, verse 11 and on, says:
“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.”
It is the Coming of the Word of God, It is the Coming of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, It is the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, It is the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit veiling and revealing Himself in human flesh and through human flesh.
And in order to see the Coming of this white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19, which is the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit clothed in a human body, we have to find that veil of flesh, that human body, where Jesus Christ will be manifested at the Last Day; where the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord will be manifested, making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass.
Because He will have a veil of flesh here on Earth of this time in which we are living, through whom He will be veiled and revealed. In other words, the Word, the Angel of the Covenant, which is Jesus Christ in His theophanic body, will be clothed in human flesh; He will be clothed in a body of flesh at the Last Day, a body of flesh of this end time.
On page 318 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said, regarding the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19, he said something very important, which I will be reading to you after we read on page 154 of the Book of The Seals. The Book of The Seals says on page 154:
“302 Glory! Notice! And when this Holy Spirit that we have becomes incarnate to us,” (meaning that He will come incarnate; He will come in a body of flesh), “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).
And on page 318 of this same Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, while he was praying, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says this in part of the prayer:
“[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.”
Now, who is the white-horse Rider of Revelation? It is the Holy Spirit, It is Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit. And now, He comes to call His own.
And how will He be here on Earth at the Last Day, in the fulfillment of the Coming of the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19? If God sent a forerunner to prepare the way for the Coming of Christ at the Last Day, he must have spoken about how the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19 will come; just like when John the Baptist was sent as the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, he testified of what the Coming of the Messiah would be like, and he even showed them the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah in Jesus of Nazareth.
And now let’s read page 295 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, where the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ 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 will the Coming of the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19 be? What will the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit at the Last Day be? It will be the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit at the Last Day, in human flesh, in a Man, in a Prophet; and there is only one Prophet promised for the Last Day; he is the Prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, he is a dispensational prophet, and he is the Prophet of the Age of the Cornerstone: the Angel-Messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In that Angel-Messenger, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be manifested in human flesh at the Last Day as the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19; and that is why on His vesture and on His thigh is written: King of kings and Lord of lords, because He comes as King of kings and Lord of lords.
That is why the Coming of Christ at the Last Day is promised as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work. The lion is the king of all the animals, and Jesus Christ is the King of all kings, He is the King of kings and Lord of lords.
He is King God, He is King Theophany, and He is King Jesus. He is the King of kings.
He is King in the seventh dimension: King God.
He is King in the sixth dimension: King Theophany. He is the King who appeared to Abraham as Melchizedek, King of Salem, King of Righteousness, and King of Peace.26
Now He is also King of this Earth, to reign over the Hebrew people and over all nations.
It is the same King, the same God. King God in the seventh dimension; and King God in the sixth dimension is King God in His theophanic body.
And King God in this earthly dimension will be Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit coming in human flesh at the Last Day, veiling and revealing Himself in human flesh, in His Angel-Messenger, to carry out the Claiming Work at this Last Day.
Now, how long will the veil of flesh where Jesus Christ will be manifested in Holy Spirit at the Last Day be [present]? How long will he be on Earth before the whole Claiming Work of the Lord Jesus Christ is completely fulfilled, and the dead in Christ are raised, and we who are alive are changed?
We don’t know how long, but the veil of flesh where Jesus Christ will be veiled and revealed in Holy Spirit carrying out the Work pertaining to the Last Day must spend a certain amount of years [here]. Back then He spent thirty-three years there, and at the end of those thirty-three years He carried out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross.
Now, how many years will the veil of flesh where Jesus Christ will be manifested in Holy Spirit at the Last Day be [present]? How long will He be here on Earth before we are changed and the dead in Christ are raised in eternal bodies? We don’t know; but when the dead in Christ are raised and we are changed, we will be able to calculate the time.
Because that veil of flesh has to be on Earth and reach maturity, reach the relevant age for that manifestation of Jesus Christ in all His fullness, for the Work pertaining to the Last Day.
Now, how many people will have the same blessing that Mary had, and Elisabeth had, and Joseph had, and Zacharias the priest had, and Simeon had, and Anna had, and the shepherds who went to the birth of Jesus?27
We don’t know how many people will have that privilege. And they will be seeing the veil of flesh where God will be fulfilling the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit veiling Himself in human flesh, where we will have the Word that was with God, and is God, and will continue to be God; and at the Last Day, He will be manifested in human flesh: the Word coming, the Angel of the Covenant coming, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit coming in human flesh, in His Angel-Messenger at the Last Day.
Now, how many years will pass from the birth of that veil of flesh to the transformation of that veil of flesh? And how much time will pass from the new birth of that messenger of Jesus Christ until he receives his adoption, the transformation of his body? We don’t know how much time will pass, but we do know that all of that will be fulfilled at this Last Day.
And with the adoption of the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, where Jesus Christ will be veiled and revealed in Holy Spirit, with the adoption of that Messenger comes the adoption of all of God’s elect who are alive and the adoption of those who departed in past ages.
That is why the Coming of Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit at the Last Day is so important, to fulfill the purpose for which all the prophecies of the Second Coming of Christ have been given.
On February 28, 1963, a very important sign appeared in the sky; in other words, one of the pages of the first Bible (which is the sky) opened and showed a great sign.
And those who can read that first Bible, will be able to read and understand what was shown there; which is also in this third Bible, it is written here. In this third Bible, it says that the sign of the Son of man will be seen in Heaven; it was seen in letter form here in the written Bible and it must appear in the sky.
And in 1963 a mysterious cloud appeared in which Rev. William Branham was in his theophanic body, for he was caught up by the angels of God who came to him and caught him up; one of the angels caught him up and took him with him, and He was put in that constellation of angels that formed that mysterious cloud.28
Those angels who appear in that cloud are the seven angels of the seven Gentile Church ages, and another Angel who is very different from the rest. That other Angel who is very different from the rest is the Angel of the Covenant, Jesus Christ in His theophanic body, who must come in human flesh among His Church to give us His blessings.
Just as Christ in Holy Spirit came manifested in each angel-messenger of each Gentile Church age, giving His blessings to His Church in each age, He must come at this Last Day manifested in the Angel-Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone and of the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And that Angel who was very different from the rest, notice who He is. In the Book The Revelation of the Seven Seals, page 546, paragraph 275 and 276 says:
“275 And did you notice? ‘That one Angel,’ I said, ‘in there, was a strange Angel.’ He looked more to me than any of the rest of Them. You remember that? [Congregation says, ‘Amen.’—Ed.] They were in a constellation; three on a side, and one on top. And the one right next to me here, counting from the left to the right, would have been the seventh Angel. He was brighter, meant more to me than the rest of Them. You remember? I said, ‘He had His chest out, like that, and was flying eastward’ (you remember) ‘like that.’ I said, ‘It picked me up; lifted me up…’”
Who was the one who picked up, lifted up, took the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ and put him in that constellation of angels? It was the Angel who was different from the rest.
He was taken there in his theophanic body, not his physical body; it was his theophanic body that was taken there. The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ went in his theophanic body to that cloud formed by the angels of God.
“276 Here It is, the one with the Seventh Seal, the thing that I’ve wondered all my life. Amen! Them other Seals meant a lot to me, of course, but, oh, you don’t know what This has meant.”
Now, notice, this Angel who is different from the rest is the One with the Seventh Seal; and the Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ.
This Angel, who is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ in His theophanic body, must come veiled and revealed in human flesh at the Last Day; and that is the Coming of the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19; and that is the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit in a Man, in the Angel-Messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In that veil of flesh of the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, at the Last Day, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be veiled and revealed, manifested; and Jesus Christ will be manifesting the ministries of Moses for the second time, Elijah for the fifth time, and Jesus for the second time.
Because the One who has ministries and the One who gives ministries and the One who operates ministries is the Holy Spirit, it is the Angel of the Covenant; Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit is the One who has and operates ministries.
And He will be operating the ministry that He operated two thousand years ago in that veil of flesh called Jesus; and He will be operating the ministry that He operated in that veil of flesh called Moses. And He will be operating the ministry that He operated in that veil of flesh called Elijah the Tishbite, He will be operating it for the fifth time; because He has operated that ministry on other occasions: He operated it in Elisha for the second time, He operated it in John the Baptist for the third time, and He operated it for the fourth time in Rev. William Branham, and He will be operating it in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ for the fifth time as one of the Two Olive Trees of Revelation chapter 11, and Zechariah chapter 4.
And He will be operating the ministry of Moses as one of the Two Olive Trees of Revelation chapter 11, and of Zechariah chapter 4; and He will be operating the ministry of Jesus for the second time on this Earth as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work.
We have seen a mysterious sign in heaven, where there were the seven angel-messengers of the seven ages and an Angel who was very different from the rest. Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, was there being crowned King of kings and Lord of lords by the seven angels, to then come in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger among His Church.
Now, remember that the veil of flesh through whom Christ will be manifested in Holy Spirit, that veil of flesh will go through different stages.
Some people may want to see the final phase, one has to wait until the end of the Seventh Seal for that; but those who will be seeing all the stages that the Angel of the Covenant will be going through (Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit veiled and revealed in His Angel-Messenger making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass), and those who will be called and gathered at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone, those people don’t have to wait for the end: they will be seeing the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit veiled in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger.
And that manifestation of Christ will reach the point that it will be in all His fullness; and once it’s in all His fullness, then the Coming of Christ will be fulfilled among His Church in all His fullness.
It must start with the firstfruits first, and the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ must start with the firstfruits first, to then be able to receive the fullness of the Spirit of Christ and thus receive the adoption at this Last Day; and for all the elect of God to receive their adoption as well.
Now, we can’t lose sight of the fact that before the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, is fulfilled in all His fullness, and before the fullness of the Spirit of God is manifested in the great miracles and wonders that will be performed, before that there are previous stages, and Christ in Holy Spirit will be present in His Angel-Messenger; and we follow the journey of the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, which is Jesus Christ manifested in Holy Spirit in His Angel-Messenger.
And if we want to see the journey of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in the seven ages, then we look at the manifestation of Christ in each of His angel-messengers. And if we want to see the manifestation of the Angel of the Covenant in all His fullness in the past, then we look at the manifestation of God in all His fullness in the veil of flesh called Jesus of Nazareth; and that gives us an idea of what the manifestation of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit in all His fullness in His Angel-Messenger will be like at the Last Day, in the adoption of the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now we can see that there is a journey, and we can’t lose [sight of] that journey; we can’t expect to see things at the end when we can see things as they are happening. And when we start seeing the things that are happening, and we start taking part in everything that is happening, well, we are part of that Work that He is carrying out at this Last Day; so that at the Last Day, at this end time, and in the Age of the Cornerstone, we may all be changed.
This is the only time when God’s elect would be seeing Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh through His Angel-Messenger, they would be seeing Him face to face, and they would be understanding His manifestation. This is the age to see Jesus Christ face to face in Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh through His Angel-Messenger.
In past ages, some didn’t even notice the manifestation of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit in His angel-messengers of past ages; but this time is a time when the daybreak of a new dispensational Day, and a new dispensation, and a new age, and a new millennial Day, has taken place.
And Christ, the Sun of Righteousness, is shining and enlightening our understanding and opening our heart and the Scriptures to us so that we may understand all these prophetic things that must be in fulfillment at this Last Day; and they have already started being fulfilled; and the things that are yet to be fulfilled will also be fulfilled.
Now, we have seen the sign of the Son of man in heaven, in the sky we have seen the Coming of the Son of man with His angel-messengers of the seven Gentile Church ages, we have seen it in the first Bible; then we have also seen it prophesied in the third Bible.
And in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, all of this must be materialized, which has been seen in this Bible, and which has been seen in the first Bible which is the sky; where the Zodiac is, and where all the stars are, and where the clouds appear.
There in the sky – when we talk about the sky, we are talking about the atmosphere, and notice, the sign of the Son of man would be seen there, testifying that the veil of flesh in which Jesus Christ would be manifested at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, and seventh millennium, that veil of flesh was already on Earth. He is not going to wait until the end to bring the veil of flesh as a baby, when he has to be grown up at the end to be used by Jesus Christ and so that He fulfills His promises through that veil of flesh.
Now we can see the journey of the Angel of the Covenant, of Jesus Christ, since the Old Testament, since Genesis, to this end time, to Revelation.
And we can see who we are in the Divine Program. The first Bible, the sky and its constellations and everything it contains, and the written Bible, testify of us all. We are written there in Heaven, and we are represented in the stars of heaven; and we have been written in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world.
In other words, you have not appeared on this Earth by coincidence: you have appeared on this Earth because God has sent you to live on this Earth at this Last Day. In the Divine Program, we were ordained to appear at this end time, and to appear on this Latin American and Caribbean territory. Notice the great blessing we have at this Last Day.
And now you, who didn’t know who you were: now you have discovered that you are a son or a daughter of God, and you didn’t know it. But now, where are God’s sons and daughters? Here we are. Now you really know it, and I know it too.
Now we all know who we are in the Divine Program, and what we are here for at this end time: we are here to see and receive the Coming of the Lord, and so that we can be changed and raptured. But first we are called and gathered at this Last Day by the Voice of Christ, that Great Voice of Trumpet, which is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which calls us and gathers us in His mystical Body of believers in the Age of the Cornerstone.
Now we have seen the sign of the Son of man in Heaven. We have seen the Son of man, Jesus Christ, in His theophanic body, with the seven angels of the seven ages with their theophanic bodies too, appearing where? In the clouds.
Doesn’t the Scripture say that the sign of the Son of man will be seen in the clouds, and that the Son of man will be seen clothed with a cloud or in the clouds? Let’s see what it says here (chapter 24, verses 30 to 31, of Saint Matthew):
“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn.”
Now, not only will they mourn during the Great Tribulation, they have already been mourning since 1963. Every time a nation’s currency goes down, there is mourning in that nation and among all its inhabitants, and many other nations, which also mourn, because when one nation’s currency goes down, the currency of other nations also goes down, and it forms an international problem.
Notice, when this happened in Mexico, it caused a global problem. Notice, when this happened in Japan these days, it caused a global problem, where the kings of the Earth have been mourning, the rich have been mourning, some who have lost millions of dollars; many companies have lost millions of dollars too, and many nations have lost millions of dollars.
And if a person loses one dollar or one hundred dollars (to make the mourning a little stronger), when a person loses a hundred dollars… One hundred dollars being equivalent to… is it one hundred [Brazilian] reals here? If you lose one hundred reals, don’t you feel bad? Of course you do! Sometimes the person–if she’s a housewife, she says: “This is what I had to buy groceries for my children,” and she starts to feel sorry for herself: “Now where will I find one hundred more reals to buy food for my children?”
And if you feel bad losing one hundred reals, what is it like for thousands of people or millions of people who lose millions of dollars when the currency of certain nations falls?
And nations also mourn, because they lose a lot; and then their currency is also unstable and they don’t know if it will also fall. It’s because the world’s economy is on shifting sands.
It is a kingdom without a foundation. Notice, it began with the head of gold, so it didn’t have a foundation. What has a foundation, notice, always begins from the bottom up, laying the foundation.
But the Gentile kingdom has no foundation. Why? Because the Gentile kingdom comes from the kingdom that the devil stole from Adam through deception. And the world, notice, is trusting in a kingdom without a foundation.
And with the Coming of Christ, the Stone cut out without hands,29 there will be a change of kingdom: the Kingdom of Christ will be established, and the kingdoms of this world will become the Kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ; because the Kingdom of Christ does have a foundation: It comes from eternity, It is an eternal Kingdom. Revelation chapter 11, verse 15 and on, says:
“And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.”
There we have the change from the Gentile kingdom, for the kingdoms of this world, the kingdoms of all the nations, to become the Kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ; and for all the nations to belong to the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, which will have Its capital in Jerusalem; and He will mete out justice, love, peace, prosperity, and teaching, and knowledge to the human race. Jesus Christ will reign from Jerusalem over the Hebrew people and over all the nations, and the Overcomer will sit with Him in His Throne.
Now we can see that Jerusalem will be the capital of the world, and the territory of Israel will be the Federal District. And the rest of the nations will be the territory where the rest of the human beings will be living; but the group of God’s elect of the Old Testament will live in Jerusalem, as well as the group of God’s elect of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Christ will be in Jerusalem, reigning upon the Throne of David, and from there He will rule over the Hebrew people and over all nations; and the Overcomer will be with Him:
[Revelation 3:21] “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne,” (in other words, the Throne of David), “even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne,” (that is, the Throne which is in Heaven, there in the Holy of Holies of the Temple which is in Heaven).
Now, we can see that Christ, from the Throne of the Temple which is in Heaven, has been carrying out a great Work for the benefit of all those whose names have been written in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world.
And when He sits on His Throne in Jerusalem, upon leaving the Throne which is in Heaven, He will rule from that Throne and carry out all the Work pertaining to the Kingdom of God on this Earth. And the Overcomer will be sitting with Him; and with him, the Faithful and Wise Servant, He will be carrying out the Work pertaining to the Kingdom of God; because Christ says He will make the Faithful and Wise Servant ruler over all His goods,30 that is why He puts him on His Throne with Him.
We have seen this mystery of the Coming of the Lord: it is the Coming of the Son of man coming in the clouds, as Saint Peter showed it, or as Saint Peter shows it in the Scripture when he speaks about Mount Transfiguration and also as Saint Matthew shows it there on Mount Transfiguration.31 That vision of Mount Transfiguration is the vision of the Second Coming of Christ with His Angels, with His face as the sun, in other words, as King of kings and Lord of lords.
In Revelation, the Coming of the Son of man also appears. Revelation chapter 1, verse 7 and on, says:
“Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him.”
It says He comes with the clouds; but after that He has to be here among His Church manifested in human flesh.
After this sign in heaven testifying what Christ would be doing on Earth, after that, will there be any other sign that will appear in the sky? We have to wait for time to pass for that to happen; and if there is any other sign that is visible in the sky during a certain stage, that will also be a testimony of the Coming of the Son of man.
Now, we can see that this could be in the Coming of Christ with the saints who are in Paradise, coming with them to take their bodies here (their eternal bodies) and for us to be changed; but let’s wait.
Notice how those angels came; and those angels who are in that cloud (which was captured in photographs and even published in magazines), all the elect of God are represented in those angels: all the people of the seven Church ages are represented in the seven angel-messengers, and the ones of the Age of the Cornerstone are represented in the Angel who was very different from the rest.
Here we have that sign that was seen in heaven; if we turn it to the right, that cloud formed by angels forms the face of the Lord: the beard is formed by the seven angel-messengers of the seven ages, and the white hair of the Lord is formed by the Angel who was different from the rest.
With the manifestation of the seven angels of the Church, the fulfillment of the Lord’s beard was formed; in other words, what the Lord’s beard represents was fulfilled under the ministry of the seven angels of the Lord.
But the Lord’s white hair is representing the ministry of the Angel who was very different from the rest. And the ministry of the Angel who was different from the rest manifested in human flesh through His Angel-Messenger will be forming the fulfillment of the type and figure of the Lord’s white hair; and it will be introducing Christ as Judge of all the Earth, and as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work.
That is why He appears coming on the clouds; and He appears with His face as the sun (if you read this entire 1st chapter), and He appears with [verse 14]:
“His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.”
Now notice how all of that was also seen in this sign in heaven. There we have the seven angels with the Angel who was very different from the rest; there we have Jesus Christ with His seven angels, which are the seven stars in His right hand.32
And now, notice how everything was shown in heaven to be fulfilled here on Earth at the Last Day, at this end time.
Now, since 1963, something very great has been happening on Earth. Notice, in Revelation chapter 10, we find Christ coming down from Heaven again. It says [verse 1]:
“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire.”
Here we see Him clothed with a cloud. Where do we see Him? In heaven, clothed with a cloud; and He is coming down.
And the rainbow upon His head: the rainbow is the Divine Covenant.
And His face as the sun: that is as King of kings and Lord of lords.
And all of that was represented when the seven angels were in that cloud with the Angel who was very different from the rest, with the Mighty Angel.
And just as the ministry of those seven angel-messengers was materialized in the seven ages, likewise, the ministry of the Mighty Angel, at the Last Day, must be materialized in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger at this Last Day.
And now, notice that He brings the little Book open in His hand.
“And he had in his hand a little book open,” (that is the Title Deed, the Book of the Seven Seals, which He took in chapter 5 of Revelation; He opened It in Heaven and He brings It to Earth), “and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.”
The Voice of Christ speaking to us as a Lion, crying out as when a Lion roars and Seven Thunders uttering their Voices; the Voice of Christ speaking to His Church at the Last Day.
All of this must be materialized among the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. All of this must be carried out among the Church of Jesus Christ; for Christ to then leave the Throne of Intercession in Heaven and come with the saints of the seven ages: raise them, and change all the elect who are alive at this end time.
So, at this time, we have prophecies that are being fulfilled. The prophecies that are being fulfilled are tied to the Coming of the Lord and to the Angel-Messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ, who will be on Earth at this Last Day, to see and receive His Coming, and to be the instrument of Jesus Christ in His Coming; so that through him, Jesus Christ cries as when a lion roars and the Seven Thunders utter their Voices; and to give us the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and reveal to us with that Message the mystery 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.
When this mystery is opened to all of mankind and to the Hebrew people, this mystery will already have all these stages that have already been fulfilled. And thus, everyone will be seeing, at the end of the Seventh Seal, at the end of the Coming of the Lord, they will be seeing the Claiming Work that He will have carried out at the end of His Coming.
And they will be seeing human beings with eternal bodies walking on this Earth; and those are the elect of past ages and the elect of this end time, who will have an eternal body because we will be changed. We will be in eternal bodies; and the dead in Christ will be raised in eternal bodies, and they will also be here with us.
And we will be seeing that Work finished. And we will be seeing our Lord Jesus Christ in our midst manifested in His Angel-Messenger, and we will be seeing Him in the new body that the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ will have; we will also be seeing Jesus Christ manifested in His Angel-Messenger there in all His fullness.
It has been a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you about THE COMING OF THE LORD IN THE CLOUDS.
I have shown you throughout the whole Scripture, the Old Testament and the New Testament, the prophecies that speak of the Coming of the Son of man in the clouds; I also showed you the sign of the Son of man in Heaven being fulfilled on February 28, 1963; and I have shown you where we are in the Divine Program, and who you are in the Divine Program.
Where have you come from? From the seventh dimension. Where are you? We are here on Earth in these mortal bodies. But in terms of our theophanic body, we are already in the sixth dimension, we have representation in the sixth dimension (which is our theophanic body); and we are going to our eternal body which Christ has promised for all of us at this Last Day; and then we will go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
That is what Christ has promised for whom? For all of us at this Last Day. Here we are, the ones who at this end time will receive all those blessings promised for the Coming of the Lord.
May God bless you, may God keep you. Thank you very much for your kind attention; and we will see each other again in the next afternoon service, which will be at 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon; and after that service we will be traveling to São Paulo.
Miguel will have, I think within… at 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon (at the beginning of the service, right?) he will be with those in the Eleventh Seminar of Laborers in the Ministry, which have been gathered with Miguel all these days; because we have asked Christ to send more laborers into His vineyard, and He is sending more laborers; and Miguel is meeting with them so that they know how to work in the Lord’s vineyard at this Last Day.
So, may God bless you, may God keep you; and I leave with us again: Miguel Bermúdez Marín.
“THE MYSTERY OF THE COMING OF THE LORD IN THE CLOUDS.”
1 John 1:23
2 John 1:26-27; Mark 1:4-7; Matthew 3:11; Luke 3:15-16
3 Luke 7:28; Matthew 11:11
4 Matthew 4:4; Luke 4:4
5 Romans 10:17
6 Acts 15:14
7 Matthew 6:9-13
8 Revelation 2:17
9 Exodus 16:33-34
10 John 6:49-51
11 Exodus 12:1-20
12 Matthew 24:45; Luke 12:42
13 Revelation 3:14
14 Genesis 1:26-27
15 Genesis 2:7-8
16 John 3:1-10
17 Ephesians 2:6
18 Matthew 1:23
19 Luke 4:16-21
20 Luke 1:39-44
21 Matthew 2:1-11
22 Matthew 2:13-23
23 Luke 2:41-52
24 Matthew 3:13-17
25 John 1:34
26 Genesis 14:17-20; Hebrews 7:1-3
27 Luke 2:25-38; Luke 2:8-17
28 The appearance of this cloud was photographed and published in two magazines:
Science magazine: published 19 April 1963, Vol 140, Issue 3564. Author: James E. McDonald, https://www.science.org/toc/science/140/3564
Life magazine: published 17 May 1963. Article title: “…And a High Cloud – Ring of Mystery,” https://bit.ly/3ureXyD
29 Daniel 2:34
30 Matthew 24:47
31 Matthew 17:1-8
32 Revelation 1:20