The Mystery of the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars Indicating the Time

First Mineiro Regional Youth Encounter

Good evening, youth, in this First Mineiro Regional Youth Encounter. It is a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of fellowship around the Divine Program, and to see where we are in His Program; and how to please Him, how to serve Him better, and how to receive His blessings.

Tonight, our subject is: “THE MYSTERY OF THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE STARS INDICATING THE TIME.”

Let’s read in the Book of Genesis, chapter 1, verse 14 and on, where it tells us:

“And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.”

“THE MYSTERY OF THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE STARS INDICATING THE TIME.”

Throughout the Scripture we can see that God uses the symbols of the sun, the moon, and the stars to represent things in His Program. And just like the sun, the moon, and the stars are seen in the sky, which is the first Bible, they also appear in the second Bible: the written Bible.

And in the fulfillment of the promises, we also find that the sun, the moon, and the stars also appear, indicating the time.

Now, when it comes to the sun, the moon, and the stars indicating the time in the Divine Program, fulfilling the prophecies: that speaks of the sun representing Christ; the moon representing the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and it also represents the Hebrew people; we also find the stars representing God’s messengers, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament.

In Numbers chapter 24, verse 17, we find a prophecy given that uses the symbol of a star. It says the following:

“I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel.”

Here the Scripture is speaking about the Coming of the Messiah.

In Saint Matthew chapter 2, verse 1 and on, it tells us the following:

“Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,

Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.”

Now notice how that Star these wise men saw represented the Messiah in His First Coming; they saw that sign in heaven as the sign of the Coming of the Lord among the Hebrew people. The sign of the Coming of the Son of man was seen among the Hebrew people.

These wise men were in the land of Babylon looking towards the land of Israel, in other words, from Babylon they looked West; and while looking West, over the skies of Israel they saw that Star, that sign: the sign of the Coming of the Messiah, the sign of the Son of man being seen in heaven, testifying that the Son of man was already on Earth.

That sign was seen in heaven and they knew the Messiah was already on Earth. That Star represented the Messiah.

And now, notice how when God speaks with the Prophet and Patriarch Abraham, He tells him about the stars and He also tells him about his seed, and He says to him… In chapter 15 of Genesis, it says the following… let’s see, verse 1 and on, says:

“After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.

And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.

And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.

And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.”

And in chapter 22, verse 17, of Genesis, it says the following… Let’s start on verse 15, it says:

“And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,

And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:

That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.”

Now, notice how God tells Abraham that his seed will be as the stars of heaven, and as the sand of the sea, or the sand which is upon the seashore. Notice how God symbolizes, represents Abraham’s seed in the stars of heaven and also in the sand which is on the seashore.

That is why we find that messengers of God have come forth from among the Hebrew people, represented in stars that appear larger than normal stars; those are messengers of God for the different ages.

And when we are told about a great Star, that is referring to a descendant of Abraham that is a dispensational messenger.

And now, notice what Jesus Christ tells us in chapter 2, verse *26, of Revelation: “And he that overcometh…” It says:

“…To him will I give power over the nations:

And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

And I will give him the morning star.”

Now, notice that the Morning Star represents the Second Coming of Christ; the Morning Star is Christ in His Second Coming. And that blessing of receiving the Second Coming of Christ is for the Messenger-Overcomer who will be in the Household of God giving God’s sons and daughters the Food in due season.

In Revelation 22, verse 16, Christ identifies the Morning Star here, saying:

“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.”

Christ is the Bright and Morning Star; and as a Son of Abraham, as the Son of Abraham, He is the Chief Star.

Notice, of all the children of Abraham, Christ is the Bright and Morning Star. All of Abraham’s children, Abraham’s seed, are represented in the stars of heaven.

And you know something? Each of you are also descendants of Abraham, sons and daughters of Abraham; you are stars, represented in stars of heaven. And here on Earth you are the stars, the sons and daughters of Abraham, descendants of Abraham through the Second Adam.

And among all those stars is the Bright and Morning Star, which is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; and in His Second Coming, He will be manifested as the Bright and Morning Star.

In the morning, the bright star announces that a new day is beginning, and that the light that is starting to shine is the light of the sun of a new day; and this represents a new dispensational Day starting to be enlightened by Christ, the Sun of Righteousness.

Christ is both the Bright and Morning Star and the Sun of Righteousness rising on a new dispensational Day.

Now, notice: “To him that overcomes I will give the Bright and Morning Star;” and Christ is the Bright and Morning Star.

And in His Second Coming, there will be a Messenger-Overcomer who will receive that Bright and Morning Star, he will receive Christ in His Second Coming; and he will reveal Him to all of God’s sons and daughters: he will make known the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, the mystery of the Bright and Morning Star and the rising Sun on a new dispensational Day.

That mystery of the Bright and Morning Star and of the rising Sun is the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ shining among His children and enlightening our understanding with His Word, His Word revealed to His Church at this Last Day.

He told us in Revelation chapter 4, verse 1:

“Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”

And in Revelation chapter 22, verse 6, through His Angel-Messenger comes the revelation of all these things which must shortly be done. And why is this? Because Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be manifested in His Angel-Messenger, He will be veiled and revealed through His Angel-Messenger, making known to us all these things which must shortly be done.

Christ will be enlightening our understanding as the Bright and Morning Star and as the rising Sun. Christ, the Bright and Morning Star and the rising Sun, through His Angel-Messenger, will be shining in the midst of His Church at this Last Day, shining as the Morning Star and shining as the rising Sun.

That is why you can see that when Christ spoke about the Coming of the Son of man with His Angels, in Saint Matthew chapter 16, verses 27 to 28 (where He told us that the Son of man will come with His Angels and reward every man according to his works), He says that He will come in the glory of His Father.

And then in chapter 17 of Saint Matthew, He took Peter, James, and John to a high mountain; and He was transfigured before them, and His face shone as the sun; because there He was showing them the Coming of the Son of man in His Kingdom as the Sun of Righteousness shining.

Christ is the Sun of Righteousness in His Coming shining at the Last Day, and enlightening our understanding on a new millennial Day, and on a new dispensational Day; on the new millennial Day of the seventh millennium, and on the new dispensational Day of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, which is the seventh dispensation.

And that is how the Sun of Righteousness, Jesus Christ, will be manifested on Earth, shining; and with healing, salvation, in His Wings for all of God’s sons and daughters.

And it will be the end-time sign, the Coming and manifestation of the Bright and Morning Star and of the rising Sun at this end time will be the end-time sign; and that is the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, manifested through His Angel-Messenger, shining and enlightening our understanding with His Word.

And now, we can see how the stars of heaven are a type and figure of human beings, of Abraham’s seed, who would come to Earth and be human beings.

And now, notice how human beings are represented in stars. That is why in Revelation chapter 1, verse 12 and on, it says the following:

“And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;

And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

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.”

Here we have Christ’s face as the sun, and we have seven stars in the right hand of Christ. Now, let’s see what that symbolizes:

“And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:

I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;

The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the (seven) angels of the seven churches…”

What are the seven stars? The seven angel-messengers of the seven Gentile Church ages. The first was Saint Paul and the last was Rev. William Branham.

Of those seven angel-messengers represented in those seven stars, we’ve seen who was the first (Saint Paul) and who was the last (Rev. William Branham).

Now, when we see the Son of man with His face as the sun, with seven stars in His hand, in His right hand, how many stars are you seeing? I am seeing eight; because I am seeing seven stars in His right hand, and I am seeing the Bright and Morning Star, who is the Son of man: the One who has the seven stars in His hand.

In other words, the Bright and Morning Star has the seven stars of the seven ages in His right hand. The Chief Star has the other stars in His right hand.

Now we can see how one Star can take another star in Its right hand.

It’s because those seven stars are seven men: the seven angel-messengers of the seven Gentile Church ages, who are represented in this diagram.¹ In these seven stages of the Gentile Church, the messengers: Saint Paul, Irenaeus, Martin, Columba, Luther, Wesley, and William Branham, were sent to the seven Gentile Church ages.

And then, the Bright and Morning Star appears on a new dispensational Day and in a new age, in the Age of the Cornerstone. None of the seven stars of the seven ages is the messenger of that age there; because for this Age of the Cornerstone, the Messenger is the Bright and Morning Star, which is received by the Angel of Jesus Christ.

And the Angel of Jesus Christ, with the Bright and Morning Star in the Age of the Cornerstone will be the instrument of Christ, for Christ to be as the Bright and Morning Star, giving us His Message of a new dispensational Day, telling us: “The dawn is breaking, the dawn of a new millennial Day, and of a new dispensational Day!”

The day is breaking, because when the Bright and Morning Star is seen manifested, it testifies that the day is breaking, and a new dispensational Day is beginning: the new Day of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, and the new millennial Day which is the seventh millennium. The dawn of a new millennial Day and of a new dispensational Day is breaking.

Now, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ at the Last Day and in the seventh dispensation won’t have any of the seven angel-messengers as Her messenger, instead, She will have a Star: the Bright and Morning Star, veiled and revealed through His Angel-Messenger at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.

We find that the seven stars, the seven angel-messengers, reflected everything God will carry out in the manifestation of the Bright and Morning Star.

Now, we can see the sun, the moon, and the stars indicating the time.

The manifestation of each of these stars, which are the seven angel-messengers of the seven ages, each time a messenger appeared, he was indicating the time of the relevant age in the Divine Program. And the people had to see that sign of heaven manifested on Earth; and those who saw it and received its Light came into the Divine Program, came into the relevant age, and were sealed with the Spirit of God in the Kingdom of God.

And at the Last Day, we will have the sign of the Bright and Morning Star among the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, among all the stars, which are God’s sons and daughters.

Now, we can see that at the Last Day, the morning stars will be with the Bright and Morning Star.

All the stars you can see in the morning, including the bright and morning star, represent God’s elect of this Last Day. When the dawn is breaking, a few stars can be seen, and the bright and morning star can be seen.

Once the seven Gentile Church ages have ended and the ministries of the seven stars have ended (of the seven angel-messengers among the rest of the stars, meaning, among the rest of God’s sons and daughters), we find that after going through those stages, we are now at the point where the day is breaking; and all those stars being seen are representing God’s sons and daughters, the descendants of Abraham, the children of Abraham through Jesus Christ, who would be living in the morning of a new dispensational Day.

Those stars that we see when the day is breaking represent whom? Where are the people who are represented in those stars? Well, here we are; we are present at this time when the dawn is breaking: the dawn, the morning of a new dispensational Day and a new millennial Day.

Now we can see that each of you is a star, and you didn’t know it. You are represented in a star in heaven.

And now, whom does the moon represent? The moon represents the Church. During the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church, we find that the Church was represented in the moon; because the moon shines at night and reflects the light of the sun, until the daytime comes and the sun shines directly upon the human race.

During the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church, we find the moon representing the Church of Jesus Christ; and when the day breaks, the moon will no longer be needed to represent the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; because the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will not be clothed with the moon on a new dispensational Day and a new millennial Day, instead, She will be clothed with the sun, She will be clothed with the Second Coming of Christ shining in His Church.

And the brightness of His Church will be the brightness of Jesus Christ manifested in His Church as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work; it will be Jesus Christ, the Son of man, shining with His face as the sun. That is Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit veiled and revealed in His Church through His Angel-Messenger with His face shining as the sun.

And just as we saw Christ in Holy Spirit veiled and revealed in each angel-messenger of the seven Gentile Church ages, at the Last Day we would be seeing Him veiled and revealed in His Angel-Messenger; and through him, He would be making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass.

We would be seeing Him as the Bright and Morning Star manifested in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger; and we would also be seeing Him as the rising Sun, the rising Sun on a new dispensational Day and on a new millennial Day, shining and enlightening our understanding with His Word, His revealed Word for this Last Day.

Now we can see the stars, we can see the sun, we can see the moon, and all of this in terms of what it means in the spiritual sphere, in the Work of Christ with His Church.

And we have seen that the manifestation of Christ as the Bright and Morning Star, and as the Sun of Righteousness shining, is indicating the time; and It is indicating that the time of the seven Gentile Church ages has come to an end, and a new age: the Age of the Cornerstone has begun; and a new dispensation is overlapping with the Dispensation of Grace.

And a new millennial Day is beginning if we add to the calendar the years it is behind; and if we don’t add them to it, then there are only three years left until the end of the sixth millennium and also the twentieth century, and the beginning of the twenty-first century and therefore the seventh millennium.

But, one question: Could God’s calendar have fallen behind? I don’t think so. Do you? If God’s calendar hasn’t fallen behind, then we are in the twenty-first century and the seventh millennium; and God has to be fulfilling the things relevant to the twenty-first century and the seventh millennium, which are the things related to the Bright and Morning Star being manifested and the Sun of Righteousness shining.

All of this represents the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit veiled and revealed in His Angel-Messenger, enlightening our understanding with His Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom at this Last Day.

The Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom revolves around the Second Coming of Christ. With that revelation, we are enlightened, we are illuminated, so that we can understand all these mysteries of the Kingdom of God; and so that we can see the Sun, the Moon, and the stars indicating the time.

The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ which was represented in the moon during the seven Gentile Church ages is now clothed with the Sun. This is indicating the time of a new dispensation: the Dispensation of the Kingdom, and a new millennial Day: the seventh millennium (is beginning); and this is indicating the time of the great blessings of Jesus Christ for His Church, to raise the dead in Christ and to change all of us who are alive at this Last Day.

In the First Coming of Christ, they asked Jesus Christ for a sign, and do you know what Jesus Christ said? In Saint Matthew chapter 16, let’s read what He said there, so that we have a clear picture of what this means. Chapter 16, verse 1 to 4, says:

“The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.”

But notice, a sign from Heaven was there. The Prophet Isaiah said in chapter 7, verse 14: “Behold, the Lord Himself shall give you a sign: A virgin shall conceive, and bear a Son, and His Name shall be called Emmanuel;” and the fulfillment of that promise was there as a sign from Heaven for the Hebrew people.

And they wanted signs from heaven, and the sign that the Prophet Isaiah said that God would give them was there: that is the Coming of the Messiah, His physical body coming through a virgin, being born of a woman. The greatest sign was there: it was a Man, Jesus Christ; it was the sign of the end of the Dispensation of the Law and the beginning of the Dispensation of Grace.

It goes on to say:

“He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?”

It is very important to know the signs of the times, to know the signs of the prophetic times, of the ages and dispensations; and above all, to know the sign of the time in which one has been given to live.

And the sign of the time in which Jesus lived was the First Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Son of the virgin, which would be the greatest sign that God would give the Hebrew people.

And what will be the greatest sign God will give the Gentiles and then the Hebrew people at this end time? The Second Coming of Christ; the Coming of the Bright and Morning Star, that Star shining in the Age of the Cornerstone, as the Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone and the Dispensation of the Kingdom, veiling Himself and revealing Himself in His Angel-Messenger.

That is the greatest sign this mankind will be seeing at this end time. And they will be seeing the sign of the Sun of Righteousness rising at this Last Day, which is the Second Coming of Christ: Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit coming veiled and revealed in and through His Angel-Messenger.

That is the sign of the rising Sun, it is the sign of His face as the Sun, for everyone to see the face of the Son of man shining as the sun.

The sun is the king of the stars, and the Son of man in His Coming at the Last Day comes as King of kings and Lord of lords; that is His face shining as the sun.

That is why in Revelation chapter 10, we also find Him with His face shining as the sun.

Now we can see the mystery of the sun, the moon, and the stars indicating the time, indicating this time in which we are living, as the end of the Gentile kingdom and as the ushering in of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, the Kingdom of God; indicating the end of the Church ages, and indicating the end of the Dispensation of Grace; and indicating the beginning of the Dispensation of the Kingdom and the beginning of the Age of the Cornerstone, and the beginning of the Last Day, meaning, the seventh millennium.

Notice everything that the sun, the moon, and the stars are indicating at this time in which we are living.

Each of you as stars of God, as sons and daughters of God, manifested at this time, on this morning of a new dispensational Day, in this daybreak, as sons and daughters of God we are all shining in God’s Heaven, in His Church at this Last Day; just as the stars in the sky do, because each one of you is represented in a star of heaven.

Because God told Abraham: “Your seed will be as the stars of heaven.” And how many of you are a seed of Abraham? We are all a seed of Abraham by faith in Jesus Christ.

Now we can see who we are and where we are represented: we are represented in the sky, in the first Bible; and we are represented here in the second Bible, the written Bible.

When It speaks about the elect of God, the sons and daughters of God, who is It referring to? Well, us. When it speaks about the stars that will be shining at the Last Day when the day is breaking, who is It referring to? All of us.

Now we can see the mystery of the stars, as well as the Moon and the Sun, indicating the time in which we have been given to live, and identifying the time in which we are living.

We are living in the most glorious time of all times.

“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows his handiwork.”² And now what is in Heaven is being fulfilled, it is being fulfilled on Earth, in each one of you and also in me, now the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ declares the glory of God; and in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord’s handiwork is shown, it is made known: the Work of Jesus Christ carried out in past ages and the Work of Jesus Christ being carried out at this end time.

Now notice where the glory of God is being manifested and where testimony is being given, and where the glory of God is being proclaimed.

The skies represent the spiritual Heavens of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, because we are put in heavenly places in Christ Jesus;³ and in those heavenly places we are all stars of God, sons and daughters of God.

Doesn’t Job say that when God was creating the Earth and the whole universe and laying the Cornerstone, the morning stars were shouting for joy?⁴ And when he talks about the morning stars, he says: “The sons of God.”

And now, at this end time, when Christ is laying the Foundation Stone, when the Cornerstone is being laid in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the morning stars, the morning sons and daughters of God, shout for joy at this Last Day.

Here we are shouting for joy like the stars were shouting for joy when God was carrying out Creation and laying the Cornerstone.

Now we can see how everything is materialized in each one of you and also in me, in each member of the mystical Body of Christ at this Last Day, just like in the elect of past ages what pertained to those ages was materialized in them.

And now God is materializing in human beings the things pertaining to this Last Day, notice, He is materializing in human beings the construction of the Holy of Holies of His spiritual Temple.

Notice how God is materializing heavenly things through human beings and among human beings. Everything that is in the Temple which is in Heaven was represented in the tabernacle Moses built and the temple Solomon built, and it is materialized in the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ in human beings.

Just as the tabernacle Moses built and the temple Solomon built were representative of the Temple that is in Heaven, now the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, that new Temple, represents the Temple which is in Heaven.

And now, in the Temple of Jesus Christ here on Earth, which is His Church, He has been materializing in human beings all the things that are in Heaven; and the representation of the things that are in the Temple which is in Heaven are now in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And we have been given the best part of the Temple in Heaven being materialized here on Earth, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ: we have been given the Holy of Holies part of the Temple which is in Heaven, to be materialized in His Church by Christ at this Last Day.

And everything that is in the Holy of Holies of the Temple that is in Heaven goes on to be materialized in the Holy of Holies of the spiritual Temple of Christ, which is the Age of the Cornerstone at this Last Day.

In the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the one that represents the Holy of Holies of the Temple which is in Heaven, everything that is there in the Holy of Holies is materialized here; and the representation of everything that is the Holy of Holies which is in Heaven would be here on Earth, in the Holy of Holies of the Temple of the Lord Jesus Christ.

For example, in Heaven we have the Archangels Gabriel and Miguel who stand before the Presence of the Lord; in the Temple of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Holy of Holies, those are the ministries of the Two Olive Trees: the ministries of Moses and Elijah being materialized in the Temple of Jesus Christ, in the Holy of Holies.

And everything that is there in Heaven is materialized in the Temple of the Lord Jesus Christ. What pertains to other ages has already been materialized, and now what pertains to the Holy of Holies is being materialized.

That is why the Title Deed, the Book of the Seven Seals, is taken out of the right hand of the One in Heaven by Jesus Christ, He opens It in Heaven, and brings It to Earth at the Last Day, to His Church, and It is put in the Holy of Holies of His spiritual Temple; because It is in the Holy of Holies of the Temple which is in Heaven and It must go to the Holy of Holies of the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ.

Now, we can see why in Revelation chapter 10 Jesus Christ comes with the little Book open in His hand and He gives It to a Man. John the Apostle represents the Man, the Messenger who will be present at the Last Day, receiving Christ in His Coming and receiving that open little Book that He has in His hand.

And John, being the type and figure, was told to ask the Angel for that little Book, and the Angel told him:

—“Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.”

John says:

—“I took the little Book, I ate it up; and when I ate it up, it was sweet in my mouth, but it was bitter in my belly. And He said to me: You must prophesy again before many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings.”

We find all of this in Revelation chapter 10, verse 1 to 11. And then, the next chapter is chapter 11 of Revelation, where the ministry of the Two Olive Trees appears, the ministry that prophesies before many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings.

That is a ministry which comes adopted at the Last Day. That is the ministry that Christ will have on Earth, manifesting these ministries through His Angel-Messenger, whom Christ will give the Title Deed so that he eats It at the Last Day, and then prophesies before many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings.

That messenger and that ministry which Christ will operate in him will be adopted at the Last Day. When he has to prophesy before many peoples, nations, and tongues in the fulfillment of Revelation chapter 11, the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ will already be adopted; and those ministries will be operated worldwide; and he will be prophesying before many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings: he will be making known everything that God will be carrying out at the end time.

He will be a television. What is a “television”? Someone who sees in another dimension and channels it and brings it to this dimension in a visible form; and a prophet is a television: he sees in the sixth dimension and in other dimensions, and then he can make known to all of God’s sons and daughters all the things he has seen, and he can say the things that will happen among the human race.

All those things that will happen, Christ said: “Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.” And it’s through His Angel-Messenger that He makes them known; because through His Angel-Messenger comes the manifestation of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit.

That Angel-Messenger comes with the Seal of the living God, meaning, with the Holy Spirit at this Last Day.

That is why it is so important to know the mystery of the sun, the moon, and the stars indicating the time; and to be able to understand the symbolism that the sun, the moon, and the stars represent, in order to see the Sun at this Last Day shining on a new dispensational Day, meaning, to see the Son of man coming with His face as the sun, and to be able to see the Church shining at this Last Day.

In Isaiah chapter 60, it says (verse 1 and on):

“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.”

“The glory of the Lord is risen upon thee:” the Second Coming of Christ in glory has risen upon you. “Arise and shine.” Shine with what? With the Light of the Second Coming of Christ, and thus, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be clothed with the Sun.

We have seen the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ at this Last Day clothed with the Sun.

The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the one with the promise of the Second Coming of Christ as the Sun of Righteousness shining; and then the Hebrew people will see Christ in His Second Coming with His face shining as the sun, and they will say: “This is the One we are waiting for! We are waiting for the Sun of Righteousness shining. What is He doing shining in the West?” It’s because the Sun that will rise in the East is in the West first.

In the West, in the continent of the Americas, the Sun of Righteousness shines at this end time, on a new dispensational Day, and in a new age, and on a new millennial Day, to fill every human being with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, of the Second Coming of Christ; and thus, to bring them that Divine Revelation in such a simple way that even children can understand It, as it was two thousand years ago where children could understand the First Coming of Christ.⁵

Now we are living in a time parallel to the First Coming of Christ, and things parallel to what happened in the First Coming of Christ are taking place. We are living in the most glorious time of all times.

We have a prophetic passage in the Book of Genesis that shows us the sun, the moon, and the stars. It is found in Genesis chapter 37; and let’s read that passage, it says… starting from verse 1, to 11, it says:

“And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan. 

These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.”

Joseph was only seventeen years old, but a prophet is already a prophet when he is born. God said to many of His prophets: “When you were in your mother’s womb I chose you, and I made you a prophet.”⁶

And even referring to John the Baptist as forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, before he was born, even before he was conceived, he was already a prophet; a prophet announced in the Scripture.⁷

And now Joseph, at seventeen years old, is already having prophetic experiences. It says:

“Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more,” (instead of thanking God because they had a prophet among them, and he was their brother).

“And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:

For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us?” (they were very angry), “And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.”

Here we have the sun, the moon, and eleven stars.

Now, Jacob is seeing that his son Joseph is having prophetic dreams, dreams given by God. It says:

“And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?

And his brethren envied him…”

Perhaps the dreams his brothers had were not significant dreams; but Joseph’s dreams were very significant, they were prophecies that would be fulfilled at a certain time.

But how could a young man who was seventeen years old expect his father, his mother, and his brothers to bow down before him? That meant that he was going to reign over them; but he was one of the younger brothers, the second to last, because the youngest was Benjamin.

But notice, Joseph was the one who had the Birthright Blessing; and somehow, that Birthright Blessing would be given, would be spoken. And with the Birthright Blessing: the Kingdom belongs to the one who has the Birthright Blessing.

That is why we are the heirs of God and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ our Savior,⁸ and we will reign with Christ a thousand years and then for all eternity; because He has washed us in His Blood and made us kings and priests unto our God,⁹ and we shall reign with Him a thousand years and then for all eternity. This shows that Christ and His Church have the Birthright Blessing.

Our Joseph, that is Jesus Christ, whom the tribes of Israel will bow to. One hundred and forty-four thousand Hebrews at this Last Day, in the seventh millennium, will bow down to our Joseph, to Jesus Christ in His Coming as King of kings and Lord of lords, and as the Sun of Righteousness shining, and as the Bright and Morning Star.

Now we can see how all this was reflected in Joseph.

We can see the sun, the moon, and eleven stars here. Eleven stars: Joseph’s eleven brothers; but Joseph was the twelfth star, or the star that was missing there. Why? Because Joseph is seeing eleven stars, but Joseph is a greater star than those eleven stars he is seeing; because Joseph is the one who has and inherits the Birthright Blessing.

It is like when Christ had seven stars in His hand, and Christ is the Bright and Morning Star. That is why when we look at the Son of man with seven stars in His hand, we see eight stars; we can see seven stars and a greater Star: the Bright and Morning Star, which is Jesus Christ in His Second Coming.

It goes on to say:

“And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.”

Surely it was a joy for Jacob to know that he had a prophet son; and this meant that the Birthright Blessing that Isaac had received from Abraham, and Jacob had received from Isaac, he had a prophet to speak that Blessing upon.

And Christ at the Last Day will be speaking the Birthright Blessing and putting the Title Deed in the Messenger of the Last Day, of the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.

Through Jesus Christ, the Second Adam, to the Church Jesus Christ comes and in the Church of Jesus Christ is born (through the new birth) a dispensational prophet son for our Lord Jesus Christ; and he will be the one who will be adopted at the Last Day. The Birthright Blessing will come upon him.

It will be the first time that Jesus Christ will have a dispensational prophet son. He has had prophet sons born in His Church: like Saint Paul, like Saint Peter, and like Martin, and like our Brother Branham; but none of them have been a dispensational messenger.

Now, notice how at the Last Day the last prophet son and the last prophet-messenger whom Jesus Christ would have, would be a dispensational prophet, a messenger born in God’s Bethlehem, which is Christ; born in Christ and born in His Church, that is what it means to be born in Bethlehem, in the present-day fulfillment of Bethlehem.

And now, the blessing of the ministry of Christ pertains to that Angel-Messenger, and the blessing of the ministry of Moses pertains to that Angel-Messenger, and the blessing of the ministry of Elijah for the fifth time pertains to that Messenger; because he is a dispensational messenger.

Now we can see THE MYSTERY OF THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE STARS INDICATING THE TIME, indicating the time of God; indicating the time of a new dispensation: the Dispensation of the Kingdom; indicating the time of a new dispensational Message: the Gospel of the Kingdom; indicating the time of a new dispensational messenger: the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; indicating the time of the end of the Gentile Church ages and the end of the Dispensation of Grace; and also indicating the time of the end of the Gentile Kingdom and the beginning and ushering in of the Kingdom of God.

The Seventh Seal contains the end of all the things that must end, and It contains the ushering in and establishment of all the things that must begin in the Kingdom of Christ during the Dispensation of the Kingdom in the seventh millennium or Last Day.

And all this is under the Seventh Seal, under the Sun shining at this Last Day. All of this is under the Second Coming of Christ as the rising Sun, shining and enlightening our understanding.

And just like in the First Coming of Christ He said He was the Sun, He was the Light of the world… When He went to the land of Zabulon and Nephthalim, those territories had a promise, it was: “Galilee of the Gentiles, beyond Jordan: to the people which sat in darkness and in shadow of death, Light is sprung up.”¹⁰

When the Light sprung up, it was the manifestation of the Angel of the Lord, of the Angel of the Covenant, of God veiled in human flesh in the veil of flesh called Jesus; and through that veil of flesh, God [was] manifesting Himself and preaching the Message pertaining to that time. And that is how the Light was shining among the inhabitants of Zabulon and Nephthalim; and to those who dwelled in darkness and shadow of death: Light sprung up.

Christ said: “I am the Light of the world.”¹¹ The Light of the world was there, Jesus Christ, shining among the inhabitants of Zabulon and Nephthalim.

And at the Last Day, Jesus Christ, the Son of man, the Light of the world, the Sun of Righteousness, would be in Latin America and the Caribbean (the present-day fulfillment of Galilee of the Gentiles), shining and enlightening our understanding at this Last Day.

There we have the Sun shining. Notice the mystery of the Sun.

We have also seen the mystery of the Moon: the mystery of the Church; and we have seen the mystery of the stars, of the seven stars of the seven ages: which are the seven angel-messengers of the seven ages.

And we have also seen the mystery of the Bright and Morning Star, which is Christ in His Second Coming veiled and revealed in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger.

We have seen: “THE MYSTERY OF THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE STARS INDICATING THE TIME.”

Notice, in the parable of the wheat and tares, what would indicate the time of the end or end of the world? The Coming of the Angels of the Harvest, which is the Coming of the ministries of Moses and Elijah in the Angel of Jesus Christ, calling and gathering all of God’s elect, God’s wheat; and then the tares will be bound in bundles and will be cast into the furnace of fire, where there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth; in other words, they will be cast into the Great Tribulation.¹²

But the wheat, God’s sons and daughters, are called and gathered, and they are prepared to be changed and raptured at this Last Day, and to be taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in the House of our Heavenly Father. And what indicates the end of the world is the Coming of the Angels of Lord calling and gathering—with the Great Voice of Trumpet, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, calling and gathering God’s elect.

And now the Sun, the Moon, and the stars, are indicating the time at this time in which we are living.

“THE MYSTERY OF THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE STARS INDICATING THE TIME.”

How many are seeing the Sun, the Moon, and the stars indicating the time? All of us are seeing the Sun, the Moon, and the stars indicating the time in which we are living.

Where are the people who would see the Sun, the Moon, and the stars indicating the time? Here we are in Latin America and the Caribbean. We are seeing the Sun of Righteousness shining, we are seeing the Moon: the Church clothed with the Sun, and we are seeing the stars: the seven angel-messengers of the seven ages and the Bright and Morning Star, which is Christ coming in Holy Spirit in His Angel-Messenger at the Last Day, shining on the morning of a new dispensational Day and on the morning of the seventh millennium.

It has been a great privilege to be with you, testifying to you about the Sun, the Moon, and the stars indicating the time.

May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon each one of you and also upon me; and soon may we all be changed and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.

Thank you very much for your kind attention. And I will leave Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín again to continue and conclude our participation this evening—or at least for now, because later on we will be with you again in the next stage: we will be here in the first watch, which is from 9:00 to 12:00.

The first watch is from 9:00 to 12:00; but where are we spiritually? In which of the watches? We are in the fourth watch. We are in the fourth watch spiritually, although at this moment we are in the first night watch of this day; but at the Last Day we are in the fourth watch of the Last Day, meaning, of the seventh millennium.

Well, let’s leave all of that there, because if we continue, it will take us until the early morning, because there is nowhere to stop; what we do is just pause on every occasion, to then continue on another occasion.

May God bless you, may God keep you.

And with us again: Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín, to continue.

May God continue to bless you all. Amen.

“THE MYSTERY OF THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE STARS INDICATING THE TIME.”