Good evening, beloved brethren and friends present. May you have a Merry Christmas and a prosperous year 1998; and may the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and upon me also, and may we all soon be transformed and raptured and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
For tonight we have the subject: “THE MYSTERY OF THE DATE OF THE BIRTH OF JESUS.”
For which I want to read in Luke, chapter 1, verses 26 to 38, where it tells us as follows:
“And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.
And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
For all those present and viewers in the different countries, our subject is: “THE MYSTERY OF THE DATE OF THE BIRTH OF JESUS.”
According to Christianity’s tradition, until today, they have been celebrating the date of Jesus’ birth in the month of December, December 24; but that is according to tradition.
But according to the Scriptures, the Archangel Gabriel appeared to the virgin Mary in the sixth month, which is the month of Elul, which for us corresponds to part of the month of August and part of the month of September; that is, from August 15 to 16 to September 16 covers the sixth month, called Elul, month of the Hebrew people, of the Hebrew calendar, of the Hebrew religious calendar.
And now, counting from the first day of the sixth month, of the month of Elul, which would be counting from the 16th day (let’s say) of the month of August, counting from that date onwards, we would count:
• August 16 to September 16: one month;
• September 16 to October 16: two months;
• October 16 to November 16: three months;
• November 16 to December 16: four months;
• December 16 to January 16: five months;
• January 16 to February 16: six months;
• February 16 to March 16: seven months;
• March 16 to April 16: eight months;
• from April 16 to May 16: nine months of the Hebrew calendar.
And a woman’s pregnancy takes about 40 weeks, which is 280 days; and it can come two weeks earlier (that is, 14 days), or it can come 14 days later. In other words, the child can be born in a normal way, a normal delivery, 14 days before the 280 days; which would be then, it would be a delivery carried out about two weeks, that is, 14 days before; that is, a delivery at 266 days. And this would then be for May, May 2, it would be a delivery two weeks before the due date.
If it was two weeks before the 40 weeks, then it would be for May 2; but if it was for the full 40 weeks, then that would be for around May 21 or 22; May 22 (let’s say), which would fall under the sign of Gemini.
And if it were with the 14 days of delay in the delivery, that would be then a delivery of 294 days; and that would be a delivery for the day (let’s say), let’s see… (it would be 21+14=35) around June 6, around there, and He is still in the zodiac sign of Gemini. And that is counting from the first day of the sixth month when the Angel appeared to Mary.
But what if he appeared to her in the middle of the month? Then it would be around the 21st day of June. And what if he appeared to her at the end of the sixth month? Then the delivery would be for the month of July. And what if he appeared to her a little earlier?
In other words, it could be from May 16 until the month of July; there is a period of time that is not defined.
And what if it was the Day of Pentecost? Well, the Day of Pentecost was when the Holy Spirit came upon 120 people; but the Day of Pentecost, 33 years ago could be the Coming of the Holy Spirit in human flesh in the person of Jesus.
So we can see that the exact date of Jesus’ birth, the exact month and day of that month, is not fully defined; but it is from May 16 to the month of July.
If it were said…, in this Scripture:
“And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.”
If it said on what day of the sixth month, then we could already put an exact date to the birth of Jesus; but see, it has a variation of no less than 30 days. From then on we can see that there is a variation, but we can see that it was from May 16 onwards. From May 16 onwards it could have been in May, it could have been in June, and it could even have been in the month of July.
Now, if it was from May 22 to June 21 or 22, it falls under the sign of Gemini, and it is a very significant sign in the Program of God: it is the sign of the water bearer as well, that is, the water bearer is involved there; it is the sign of the twins.
And you see, it has something to do with the water bearer, for Christ once said: “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.” That was in John, chapter 7, verse 34 to 39.
And in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 17, it says as follows; speaking to us about the Water that God gives, it says: “And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.”
Now, see how, according to the Scripture, the date of the birth of Jesus is from May to July; in other words, our Lord Jesus Christ was born in one of those three months; and that is a summer time, when the sheep are in the field.
In the month of December, the sheep are in the sheepfold because they can’t be in the field, because it is the time when snow falls, it is cold weather, winter time, and they are placed in the sheepfold to protect them from the winter weather.
But according to tradition, the birth of Jesus is celebrated on December 24. It is a celebration that doesn’t mean that Jesus was born on that day, but the birth of Jesus is celebrated on that day.
Now, the Coming of Jesus to this planet Earth is the greatest blessing that the human race has ever received. He is the Second Adam, who came to redeem the human race, He came to restore the human race to its original position; that is why Jesus is the Redeemer, and the name Jesus means ‘Redeemer’ or ‘Savior.’
Jesus is in Greek, and it is also translated as such for other nations; but in Hebrew it is Joshua or Yoshua; and that is the name that means ‘Redeemer’: The Work that Jesus Christ came to carry out in His First Coming; and therefore, the First Coming of Christ is an event that has to be remembered by all human beings every day of our earthly life.
He is the Son of the virgin, He is the seed of the woman of whom God spoke in Genesis, chapter 3, verse 15, when He said, He said to the serpent:
“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”
This seed of the woman, you see, is a man; and that man is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, who came through a woman named Mary, a virgin of the city of Nazareth but who was a descendant of King David,1 and therefore was a princess; although she was a poor young woman, but her position as a descendant of David remained in her.
Joseph, to whom she was betrothed or engaged, was also of the seed of King David2; therefore, the Angel Gabriel sometimes calls Joseph: “Joseph, son of David,”3 because he was a descendant of King David.
And through King David and his descendants, the Messiah would come to Earth. Therefore, the seed of the woman of which God speaks in Genesis, chapter 3, verse 15, that promise had to be fulfilled through a virgin woman descendant of King David; and that was the virgin Mary, who has had the greatest privilege that a woman has had on Earth: she has had the privilege of having a child through divine creation.
That was the way originally established by God for Adam and Eve; but because Eve sinned, that way of bringing forth children by divine creation was altered, and from the fall of the human being in the Garden of Eden onwards, human beings have been coming through the union of man and woman, and not through divine creation.
But in Jesus we have the example of how human beings would be coming through divine creation from the time of Genesis; but that form was altered by Eve when she sinned.
So human beings have been coming through the union of a man and a woman, and therefore, have been coming in the midst of a fallen race, sentenced to death and living in death. Therefore, the human being comes in a mortal, corruptible and temporary body, which is born, grows, and then grows old and dies; and some people even die before their due time, because of old age.
Now, see how because of the fall in the Garden of Eden the human being comes in a mortal, temporary and corruptible body, to live a season on this planet Earth; and he also obtains a spirit of the world when he is born on this Earth, in that little body that is born through his earthly mother, a spirit of the world that inclines him toward evil, a spirit in the permissive will of God, that is, a spiritual body of another dimension (that is, of the fifth dimension).
That is why the First Coming of Christ was required: To restore the human being to his original position. And the First Coming of Christ, notice that it was by divine creation the body in which dwelt the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, called “the Word that was with God and was God” in John, chapter 1, verse 1 to 18.
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, as the glory of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and virtue.” That is in John, chapter 1, verse 14.
We find that before Jesus came to this Earth in a mortal body He already had a theophanic body of the sixth dimension, called “Spirit,” which in the Old Testament was seen by the Old Testament prophets, was seen by Abraham. It was in this body that God was and that carried out all the creation of the universe. John says, chapter 1, verse 1 and on:
“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.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”
In other words, God with the Word, that is, with His theophanic body, we find that He carried out all of Creation.
The Word is the theophanic body of God, also called “the Holy Spirit,” also called “the Man clothed in linen” of Ezekiel, chapter 9.
This Word, which is the body of the Word, the theophanic body of the sixth dimension of God, is the body where God dwelled and from where God carried out all Creation; this theophanic body is a body similar to our earthly body but of another dimension.
When God created man in His image: He created him a theophanic body of the sixth dimension, in which he dwelt and had fellowship with God, who was in His theophanic body also; and then, later on, God created him an earthly body from the dust of the earth, and man was placed in that body of flesh; but God hadn’t yet created a body of flesh for Himself, but it was in His Program.
And in the First Coming of Christ we find the creation of the body of flesh of God, created in Mary’s womb, when God created in Mary’s womb a cell of life, which multiplied; and thus God’s body was created, God’s body of flesh, in which God dwelt in all His fullness to carry out the redemption of the human being.
The prophet Isaiah tells us, speaking of this event that would happen, he says in chapter 7 and verse 14:
“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel (Emmanuel means: God with us).4”
It was the Coming of God in human flesh, it was the Coming of God with His theophanic body within a body of flesh that was born here on this planet Earth, in Bethlehem of Judea, through the virgin Mary. The virgin Mary had the privilege of being the first woman, in the history of the human race, to bear a child by divine creation.
The privilege that Eve rejected, she accepted it, Mary received it, when she said: “Be it done unto me according to Thy Word.” Thus says the virgin Mary:
“And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.” (Chapter 1, verse 38 of Luke).
The virgin Mary is the blessed woman of all women, who has had a son by divine creation, knowing no man: and that child that was born, that body of flesh that was born in Bethlehem of Judea, is the veil of flesh of God, where God dwelt in all His fullness. It says John, chapter 1, verse 14, it says as follows:
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us…”
The Word made flesh was called Jesus, which means ‘Redeemer’ or ‘Savior.’ And verse 18 of this same chapter 1 of John, says:
“No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.”
Now, we can see how through this manifestation of God in human flesh, the Father was revealed in human flesh in that body of flesh that was born of the virgin Mary, called Jesus, and also called “Emmanuel” by the Angel, and also called “God with us,” and also called “Son of God.”
Now, we can see that the promise for One to sit on the Throne of David corresponds to Christ, because He came through a virgin of the tribe of Judah, a descendant of King David. Luke says, chapter 1, verse 31 and on:
“And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.”
Now, see how the promise of the Throne of David corresponds to the Messiah, to Jesus born in Bethlehem of Judea through the virgin Mary.
Now, notice that He in His First Coming, with His body of flesh born through the virgin Mary, where that body was created, we find that through that body He carried out our redemption; “that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life”5; that whosoever believed in Him, and washed away his sins in the Blood of Christ, may receive the Spirit of Christ, and thus receive the new birth of which He spoke: Receive the Spirit of Christ, and thus receive the new birth of which Christ spoke to Nicodemus in chapter 3, verse 1 to 6, of John, He told him that it is necessary to be born again.
The new birth is a requirement to enter the Kingdom of God and become part of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; that is why Jesus said to him [verse 3]:
“Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God (in other words, he can’t understand it).”
And it goes on to say:
“Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.”
Now, notice that the new birth is needed and this is by believing in Christ as our Savior, believing in His Sacrifice on Calvary’s Cross and washing our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit; and that is how the new birth is produced in all those who have their names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life since before the foundation of the world; for God has written in the Lamb’s Book of Life those who will become part of this Mystical Body of believers called the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, we can see that His First Coming was to take away the sin of the world by dying on Calvary’s Cross; but before dying on Calvary’s Cross, 33 years before, the promise of the Coming of the Messiah was already fulfilled in the midst of the Hebrew people when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea.
There was a very important sign in the sky; because when God has promised to carry out an event on this planet Earth, God shows it also in the sky; because “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”6
In Heaven and in the firmament God places signs that give testimony of the Work that God is carrying out on Earth; and for the First Coming of Christ we find a very great and very important event that took place in Heaven, as a testimony that the promise of the Messiah was being fulfilled on Earth. In Matthew, chapter 2, verse 1 and on, it says:
“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 (in other words, Babylonian wise men),
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.”
This was a prophecy, which we find in Numbers, chapter 24 and verse 17, where it says that a Star would come out of Jacob. That Star that would appear in the sky was representing the Messiah; and for the appearance of that Star in the sky, the Messiah would be on Earth.
The Scripture says that these wise men from the East, that is, these Babylonian sages, saw that sign in the sky, for they were Babylonian wise men who had the Hebrew prophecies of the Coming of the Messiah. Well, remember that the prophet Daniel lived in Babylon, and he was the governor of the capital and was also the leader of other cities of the capital of Babylon.7
And we find that there were also the friends of Daniel: Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego,8 who also lived in Babylon and had children there, as well as Daniel the prophet, and also many Hebrews who were taken away in the Babylonian captivity or captivity, who lived in Babylon and also had children in Babylon.
Therefore, many Hebrews who were waiting for the fulfillment of the coming of the Messiah lived in Babylon. And surely these wise men, or were descendants of Hebrews, or were related to the Hebrews and these messianic prophecies.
And now, notice how they come to the city of Jerusalem looking for the Messiah, because they say:
“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.”
They, from there in the East, saw over the heavens of Israel; looking from the East to the West; for Babylon is in the East, and to the West of Babylon is Israel.
Therefore, in order for them to see the Star of Bethlehem over the land of Israel they had to look from the East to the West, to see that sign in the sky; and they followed the route to the place where that Star was being seen. That Star was being seen to the west of Babylon; and that meant that it was being seen over the skies of Israel.
As every person thinks that in the capital of a nation is where they have the fresh news of all that is happening; and because in Jerusalem (the capital of Israel) was the temple of God, the temple of the Lord, and there was the high priest and the priests there, they thought that in Jerusalem, there in the temple, was the Messiah, and that the high priest already had Him there in the temple, and that He would soon take the Throne of David, according to the prophecies. But when they come to Jerusalem looking for the Messiah, what happens? It says:
“When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.”
In other words, King Herod representing the Government (that is, politics), and all Jerusalem, both in the political and religious field, all Jerusalem was troubled; because there are these wise men announcing that the Messiah is already on Earth, that they have seen the sign in the sky, of the Coming of the Messiah, the Star that they saw in the sky according to the prophecy, and now in Jerusalem they know nothing about the Messiah.
The high priest knew nothing of the fulfillment of the First Coming of the Messiah; the high priest, that is, the high pontiff of the Hebrew religion, knew nothing of the First Coming of Christ.
How will it be for the Second Coming of Christ? Will the religious leaders who will be living on the Last Day realize the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ, or will it happen as it happened two thousand years ago: that the high priest or high pontiff of the Hebrew religion knew nothing?
Religions, or the Christian religion also has many great religious leaders, as the Hebrew religion had in the days of the First Coming of Christ; and all the leaders of the different religious groupings of Christianity are like the great leaders of the different sects of Judaism; because there was the sect of the Pharisees, there was also the sect of the Sadducees.
The sect of the Sadducees had as its maximum leader the high priest, because the high priest was always of the sect of the Sadducees. And the sect of the Sadducees was the religious sect that didn’t believe in resurrection, nor did they believe in angel or angels; and you see, of that religious sect was the high pontiff of the Hebrew religion called Judaism. Under the Dispensation of the Law they also had the sect of the Pharisees, who believed in resurrection and also believed in angel and angels; and they also had other religious sects.
But now, notice, the Christian religion has more religious sects than the Hebrew religion; although all the religious sects of Christianity can be divided into three: Catholics, Protestants (or Evangelicals) and Pentecostals; in other words, they can be summarized in these three groups: Catholics, Evangelicals and Pentecostals.
Now, for the end time in which we live, we also have the promise for the Second Coming of Christ, and we also have the promise of signs in Heaven; and above all, a sign: The sign of the Son of Man in heaven.
Now, since in the First Coming of Christ the religious world, which was waiting for the fulfillment of the First Coming of Christ (which was the Hebrew religion under the Dispensation of the Law and under the Message of the Law), failed to see the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah among the Hebrew people: The Christian religion, Christianity, has to be with its eyes open so as not to fail for the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ.
If they missed it, they missed the fulfillment of the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God in His Work of Redemption, the Second Coming of Christ is like the Lion of the tribe of Judah in His Reclaiming Work; and Christianity, with all its religious sects, has to be with its eyes wide open, because just as the First Coming of Christ was in simplicity, the Second Coming of Christ will also be in simplicity.
The First Coming of Christ was fulfilled in the midst of the Hebrew people for 33 years; and they didn’t even realize, the Hebrew religion under the Message of the Law, didn’t realize the fulfillment of the First Coming of Christ. And if some realized it, they fought against the First Coming of Christ, and said: “He shall not rule over us.”9
They were waiting for a king; and the King came in such a simple way, so humble, He came as a simple carpenter from Nazareth, when He was already at an age when He obtained His trade, as every Hebrew has to obtain a trade to support the family.
And now, notice how the prophecies of the First Coming of Christ were fulfilled in the midst of the Hebrew people, and the high priest didn’t recognize in Jesus of Nazareth the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah, the fulfillment of the Coming of the King of Israel.
And the consequences for the Hebrew religion and for the Hebrew people were disastrous, for Christ Himself, prophesying about the Hebrew people and the capital (Jerusalem), and the buildings there, and the temple and the people who lived there in Jerusalem, prophesied saying in Luke, chapter 19, verse 41 to 44… This was during His triumphal entry to Jerusalem. It says:
“And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.”
The First Coming of Christ, the Coming of the King of Israel, was hidden from the eyes of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, including the high priest and the priests of the Hebrew religion; only very few priests realized that Jesus was the Messiah.
And now, we can see that it is a very sad thing that God fulfills the promise He has made to a people, of the Coming of the Messiah, and that these people are spiritually blind and can’t see the fulfillment of that promise in a simple young carpenter from Nazareth. It had to be in the midst of the Hebrew people and it had to be through a man, and that promise was fulfilled through Jesus of Nazareth.
And now, Jesus says, prophesying, He says:
“For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,
And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.”
Since Jerusalem didn’t know, with its inhabitants and its religion, didn’t recognize the time of the Divine Visitation to the Hebrew people in human flesh, veiled in human flesh in the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah, the King of Israel, the divine judgments would then come upon the city of Jerusalem and its inhabitants, and the temple of Jerusalem and the Hebrew religion.
And in the year 70 of the Christian era, the Roman general Titus destroyed Jerusalem after encircling it, and destroyed the temple, and took the temple goods to Rome; and he burned, notice, the temple, he destroyed Jerusalem. And history says that there were so many people crucified…, because they were placed on crosses, they were crucified. Notice, the same thing they did with Jesus; for they asked for the death of Jesus on the Cross. And now, notice, they are receiving in payment, they are beginning to receive the payment of what they did; for they said: “His blood be on us, and on our children.”10
And now God is demanding from the hands of the Hebrew people and Jerusalem (the city of Jerusalem, where Christ was crucified), He is demanding the Blood of the Righteous Jesus; and because they didn’t have the Blood of Jesus Christ applied in their souls, in their hearts (because they had rejected Him), now God demanded the divine judgment on the Hebrew people, starting in Jerusalem.
And from then on the Hebrew people have been suffering serious persecutions; to such a degree that there were times in the history of the Hebrew people that the Hebrew race was almost extirpated from planet Earth.
Hitler intended to uproot the Hebrew people from the Earth; but the mercy of God has also been with the Hebrew people, and God didn’t allow Hitler to totally destroy the Hebrew people. Although by the hands of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin, and other dictators before and after Hitler, and in Hitler’s time, you see, the Blood of Christ was being avenged at the hands of the Hebrew people, and of the children and descendants of those who asked for the death of Christ on Calvary’s Cross.
And through the death of Christ on Calvary’s Cross, we find that the price of redemption was paid; the price of redemption was paid for us to be restored to eternal life. That is why Christ says: “He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” (John, chapter 5, verse 24).
It has passed (from what?) from death to Life: He has received eternal life by believing in Christ as our Savior, and washing away our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit; and thus has begun the restoration of the human being to eternal life, the restoration of the sons and daughters of God to eternal life; Christ restoring, first of all, the human being in and to a theophanic body of the sixth dimension, also called in Scripture “the Angel of the Covenant, who encamps round about…,” or “the Angel of the Lord, who encamps around those who fear him and defends them.”11
The Christians of ancient times, from the time of the apostles, had knowledge of this angel that every Christian has; and when Peter was imprisoned in jail and was delivered by the Angel of God,12 he went to the house where they were praying for him: he knocked at the door, and a young woman named Rhoda went and noticed that it was Peter who was at the door, and out of joy she didn’t open the door. So she surely had a little window in the door, through which she could look when she opened that little window, she could look, and she saw that it was Peter; and she went back to the group that was praying for Peter, and said to them: “It is Peter who is knocking at the door.” They said: “It is not Peter, it is his angel!”13
Because they knew that every Christian had an angel, which is the theophanic body that the person receives when he believes in Christ as his Savior, washes his sins in the Blood of Christ, and receives the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit; there he receives a theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension, in other words, a theophanic body of the sixth dimension.
And when the person dies, he goes to live in that theophanic body to Paradise, that is, to the sixth dimension (because the sixth dimension is Heaven); and there the person who has believed in Christ and has been born again, and his physical body dies: he goes to live in Paradise in that theophanic body, which is a body similar to our body but of another dimension; that is the image of God; that is the image of God, which is the theophanic body.
And just as God has His theophanic body called the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, and also called the Word of God; every Christian has his theophanic body as well; and that is his angel, who encamps around him and always defends him.
And now, look at how the early Church had knowledge of this angel that every Christian has. And Jesus Christ Himself, speaking of the little ones of the Kingdom of Heaven, referring to His disciples, and representing them, the believers in Christ who would come to form His Church, representing them in the children, says that their angels see the face of His Father every day.14 Their angels are their theophanic bodies, of the sixth dimension.
And now, notice how Jesus Christ, through His First Coming and His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross, has been restoring the sons and daughters of God to eternal life: giving us eternal life by believing in Him as our Savior, and washing our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit: He gives us His Holy Spirit, and thus gives us eternal life; and thus fulfills His promise of which or with which He said: “If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink,” implying the Spirit that believers in Him would receive.
Let’s read it in John, chapter 7, verse 37 to 39:
“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)”
But notice, Christ is giving this promise to all who would believe in Him, that they would be filled with the Holy Spirit, with these waters of eternal life that would flow from within them or through them; that is, they would be filled with the Holy Spirit, and thus the new birth would take place in every person who has his name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life since before the foundation of the world.
Every person has to understand why he is living on this Earth, and every person who has his name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life has come to this Earth to make contact with eternal life.
And we make contact with eternal life by believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior, and washing our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit; and thus we make contact with Jesus Christ, the Eternal Life, and that is how we are born into the Kingdom of God.
We are born again, and thus we are born with eternal life in the Kingdom of God, so that in the Last Day we may receive the fullness of the Spirit of God, and thus receive the transformation of our bodies, and obtain an eternal body, we who are alive, and the dead in Christ resurrect in eternal bodies; and all together be completely redeemed, not only with a theophanic body but with a physical, eternal and glorified body.
So that thus, in the Last Day, which is the Day of Redemption, those who will be in Heaven…, who received the Spirit of Christ and were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise for the Day of Redemption… that is, for the Last Day, when Jesus Christ will give us the eternal body, where Jesus Christ will redeem the physical body, that is, Jesus Christ will transform our body; and thus we will be adopted into the Kingdom of God as sons and daughters of God.
Physically we have also been sealed with the Holy Spirit of His promise, of the promise, as well as the saints of the past ages; as Saint Paul tells us in his letter to the Ephesians, chapter 4, where it says, verse 30:
“And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”
The Day of Redemption is the seventh millennium for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; because in the seventh millennium the Church of Jesus Christ will be in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the stage of the eternal age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. That age is represented in the number 8, and it is the eighth age, the eternal age, where the dead in Christ will be resurrected in eternal bodies and we who are alive will be transformed; and thus we will all be restored to eternal life with an eternal body also.
The Day of Redemption is also in Leviticus, chapter 25, verse 8 to 13, where God speaks to us through the prophet Moses, and tells us:
“And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.”
This speaks to us, for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, of the time when we will return to the inheritance that Adam and Eve lost in the fall: we will return to eternal life with an eternal body and with an eternal theophanic spirit, which we have received when we received the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ. It says that there will be a Message that will proclaim freedom throughout the Earth, in other words, it will proclaim that glorious freedom of the children of God, which they will receive in this end time.
In other words, we will have the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom proclaiming the glorious freedom of the children of God, which they will receive in the Last Day with the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive, to be restored to all our inheritance, which Adam and Eve lost in the fall back in the Garden of Eden, but which will be restored to the sons and daughters of God in this end time, in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the age of the updated Year of Jubilee in this end time for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
For this planet Earth, the Year of Jubilee will be updated after the Millennial Kingdom.
Now, notice that after the seven weeks of years comes the year of jubilee; and for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ: after the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church is that the Age of the Cornerstone comes, where the Year of Jubilee is updated and where freedom is proclaimed to all the sons and daughters of God, so that those who live may be transformed and the dead in Christ may be resurrected.
“A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession.”
And with the updated Year of Jubilee to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, every son and daughter of God written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, will return to eternal life, with an eternal body, and to our inheritance which Adam and Eve lost in the fall; in other words, we will be restored to eternal life and to all the divine inheritance.
In the divine inheritance there is eternal life, there is the eternal body, there is the eternal physical body and the eternal theophanic body also; and there are also all the things that the human being lost in the fall, because we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ Jesus our Lord.
And for the Last Day, at the Second Coming of Christ, Christ will restore all the members of His Church to eternal life with eternal bodies: those whose physical bodies have already died (which will be restored later in eternal bodies), and those of us who are alive will be transformed and will have the eternal body as well.
And thus the Year of Jubilee will materialize in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone, with all that the Year of Jubilee prophetically entails for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ for this time in which we are living: to receive an eternal body, and then to be raptured and go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven.
Now, notice the importance of the Coming of the Lord, both the First Coming of Christ and the Second Coming of Christ, for the Coming of the Messiah, the Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Lord, has two parts, which are: His First Coming, which is the first part as the Lamb of God in His Work of Redemption there on Calvary’s Cross; and the second part of the Coming of the Lord is His Second Coming as the Lion of the tribe of Judah in His Reclaiming Work for the Last Day.
Now, we are living in a very important time: the time for the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work; therefore, the things that happened in the First Coming of Christ will be reflecting and symbolizing the things that will happen in the Second Coming of Christ.
For example, there was a forerunner for the First Coming of Christ: there will be a forerunner for the Second Coming of Christ.
The forerunner of the First Coming of Christ was prophetically called Elijah, because he was a prophet in whom the ministry of Elijah was manifested for the third time; and the name of that prophet was John the Baptist, of whom the Archangel Gabriel testified that he was the Elijah who would prepare the way for the Lord; and Jesus also testified in chapter 11, verse 17, that John was the forerunner of His Coming, the messenger that He would send before Him preparing the way. Matthew, chapter 11, verse 14, says:
“And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.”
And in chapter 17 of Matthew, verse 10 and on, it says… When they came down from Mount Transfiguration, where they had seen Moses and Elijah, then come the disciples to Jesus telling Him what the scribes were saying about the coming of Elijah. He says:
“And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.
Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.”
Now, see how Jesus on two occasions identifies John as His forerunner, He identifies him as Elijah. And on one occasion He also told them that John the Baptist was a torch, in other words, a lamp that burned, and they wanted to walk in his light, but Jesus said to them: “But I have a greater testimony than John.”15
Now, notice how Jesus identified John as the prophet who would come before Him; and then would come the Messiah, who is identified as Jesus of Nazareth.
And Jesus Himself also testified that He was the Messiah when He said: “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled before you.” (Luke, chapter 4, verse 12 and on). And in other places Christ also testified that He was the Messiah.
He testified using the Scripture, which is the Word of the Father; therefore, it was the testimony of the Father in the Scripture. And God also testified when Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, and God said: “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.”16 And also on Mount Transfiguration God testified of Jesus, saying: “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased; hear ye Him.”17
Now, we can see the testimony that the Father gave of Jesus, that this was the Son of God, that this was the Messiah, that this was the King of Israel.
Now, we can see how John the Baptist also gave testimony of Jesus saying: “After me comes One of whom I am not worthy to untie the latchet of His shoes; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire.”18
Now, notice how John the Baptist was testifying of One who would come after him; and when he saw Him, John said: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”19 He presented Him as the Lamb of God in His First Coming. For His First Coming is as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world, and that is why He had the name Jesus; for Jesus means ‘Redeemer’ or ‘Savior.’
And that is why the First Coming of Christ was also reflected in Joshua; and even the name Joshua means ‘Savior’ or ‘Redeemer’; in other words, it is the same name of Jesus.
And now, we can see that Joshua is in Hebrew and Jesus is in Greek.
And now, we can see how even the name of Jesus was reflected in the past: how it was in a man of God named Joshua, and how that was the man who brought the people into the promised land.
And it is Jesus that takes the human being to the promised land of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and it is Jesus Christ who in His Second Coming will bring all the children of God, His Church, into the promised land of the new body, the eternal body that He has promised for all of us; and He will also bring us into the promised land of the glorious Millennial Kingdom that will be established on Earth during the seventh millennium.
And now, notice how our beloved Lord Jesus Christ is, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, manifested in human flesh two thousand years ago in His First Coming: He is the greatest blessing that the human race received or that the human race has received, because it has been nothing less than the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord; and in the Angel of the Covenant, in the Angel of the Lord, was the Name of God; God says it through the prophet Moses in chapter 23 and verse 20 to 23, of the book of Exodus. It says:
“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.”
Where is the Name of God here in this passage? It is in His Angel, in the Angel of the Lord, which is the theophanic body of God, in which God has been manifested from the beginning.
“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.”
And it says: “All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”
In other words, God in His theophanic body, in the form of a man but from another dimension, from the sixth dimension, carried out the whole Creation, as it says in Genesis, chapter 1, verse 1:
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
And now, notice that the Angel of the Lord here appearing to the prophet Moses in chapter 3, says to Moses:20 “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”
The Angel of the Lord is God Himself manifested in His theophanic body, in that theophanic body of the sixth dimension that appeared to the prophets of the Old Testament on many occasions, wrapped in that cloud of light or flame of fire. But within that light or flame of fire is a man of the sixth dimension called the Word or Angel of the Lord, which has the Eternal Name of God.
Now, in the Old Testament we find that the Eternal Name of God, which the prophet Moses wanted to know, was told to Moses that it was YHWH, and the translators interpreted these four consonants by adding other words or letters – other letters, thus forming the name Yahweh or Yahve and also Jehovah. In other words, at different times they placed it this way, because the Name of God was no longer pronounced, which was pronounced inside the temple in the most holy place, when the high priest entered the most holy place on the day of atonement, on the tenth day of the seventh month of each year.
Moses also knew that Name, he heard the pronunciation of that Name. And Moses, notice, he also went into the most holy place, and God talked with him in the most holy place, and Moses talked with God.
Moses wanted to know the Name of God, which was in the Angel of the Lord; because the Angel of the Lord is the same Jehovah, God Himself manifested in His theophanic body of the sixth dimension; a theophanic body of the sixth dimension, which is similar to our physical body but of another dimension.
God being in that theophanic body of the sixth dimension (which is similar to a human body of our dimension), created the Heavens and the Earth being in that body. In other words, it was a Man of the sixth dimension that created the Heavens and the Earth; and that Man was with God and was God; He is called the Angel of the Lord, which is Jehovah Himself in His theophanic body, and then in John, chapter 1, verse 14, it says that the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.
When He became flesh and dwelt among us we knew Him by the name of Jesus. That is the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, made flesh in the midst of the Hebrew people; and He is Emmanuel, which translated is: God with us.
That is why Saint Paul in First Timothy, chapter 3, verse 16, tells us that it is a very great mystery that was manifested there. And he tells us, speaking to us of that mystery, he tells us in the following manner; and I want to read what the great apostle of Jesus Christ, Saint Paul, tells us here; let’s see what it tells us in First Timothy, chapter 3, verse 16:
“And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness (that is, the mystery of God): God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”
Now, we can see that God manifested in human flesh was seen of angels and was seen also of human beings; He lived among human beings in that veil of flesh called Jesus; and then He died, resurrected and ascended into Heaven; and was received up into Heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God, upon the Throne of God in Heaven.21
Now, we can see who our beloved Lord Jesus Christ is. It is God Himself with His theophanic body of the sixth dimension, manifested in human flesh in the veil of flesh that was born through the virgin Mary.
That is why Jesus could say: “Before Abraham was, I am.” They were saying to him: “You are not fifty years old, and you say you have seen Abraham?” In other words, they are telling Him: “You are a liar, because you are not yet 50 years old; and Abraham lived hundreds of years ago. So you are lying.” But Christ said: “Before Abraham was, I am. And Abraham desired to see my day; he saw it and was glad.”
Now notice, this was said by the Lord Jesus Christ in John, chapter 8, and they thought that Jesus Christ was wrong because of what He was saying. Let’s see, chapter 8… Verses 56 and on, of John, chapter 8, it says:
“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.
Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.”
Now, notice that by Jesus saying: “Before Abraham was, I am.” He is identifying Himself as the I Am that appeared to Moses, who said to Moses: “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” And that was the Angel of the Lord. And the Angel of the Lord, since He is the same God in His theophanic body, in that theophany of the sixth dimension, notice, He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
And now, Moses says to Him, he asks Him: “What is Your name?” And the Angel of the Lord, who is Jehovah Himself, says: “I Am that I Am.” In English it is: “I am.” In other words, He is the I Am, the I Am.
But that Name, which means the I Am, the Yo soy in Spanish, notice, it is in four consonant letters: YHWH; but the pronunciation of that name, notice, Moses heard it.
Now, one is the Hebrew pronunciation of a name… If we say Jesus in Hebrew, then we have to say Yoshua or Joshua; if we say it in Greek, then we say Jesus, or Jesus [Yisus], Jesus.
So it all depends on the language in which we are pronouncing the name of Jesus. If we say it in Chinese, the pronunciation will vary. If we say it in a language other than English and Spanish and in a language that sounds like our language, then surely anyone will hear the name of Jesus and will not know that they are saying the name of Jesus.
Now, we can see that those four letters have a pronunciation that the prophet Moses heard. Now, we find that when Jesus appeared, it was nothing less than that Angel that had appeared to Moses, it was nothing less than that Angel that has the Name of God, the Eternal Name of God.
And now, notice how Jesus Christ on one occasion says:22 “Father, glorify thy name.” And God, with a voice of thunder from heaven, spoke and said: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again (that is, once more).”
That is a divine promise. And that divine promise, notice, will be fulfilled. Part of it was fulfilled in the First Coming of Christ, where the Name of God was glorified; and He will glorify It even, even more, or will glorify It again: in the Second Coming of Christ.
Now, the Name of the Angel of the Lord will be there. Notice, John, chapter 12, verse 27 and on, it says:
“Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say?…”
This is the Mount of Olives or Garden of Olives, there in Gethsemane:
“Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.”
In other words, He had come for this purpose: to take our sins, become mortal and die on Calvary’s Cross.
“Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven…”
Let’s see… No, this was not in… It was a little before the mount… it was a little before Gethsemane. He says:
“Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him.
Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.”
Now, notice how the Eternal Name of God was glorified in the First Coming of Christ; and it will be glorified in the Second Coming of Christ.
In the Coming of the Word made flesh two thousand years ago in Jesus, the Name of God was glorified, the Name of the Angel of the Covenant; and It will be glorified, according to Revelation, chapter 19, in the Coming of the Word; according to Revelation 19, the Word coming, which is the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation, chapter 19, which has a name that no man understood but he himself. Revelation 19, let’s see what it tells us: verses 11 and on, it 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, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant in His Second Coming. The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, in the book of The Seals, page 256 in Spanish, said:23
“196 …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.”
In other words, the Word, the Word coming in human flesh in the Last Day, in the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ. The Word coming incarnate in what? “In a man,” said the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.
In other words, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, which is Jesus Christ in His theophanic body, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, for the Last Day He will have a veil of flesh in which He will be veiled and revealed, manifested, and where the Eternal Name of God will be glorified; and where Jesus Christ will be manifested as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work.
Now, remember that the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God, manifested in human flesh in a man named Jesus of Nazareth, that mystery was fulfilled and manifested on Earth for 33 years; and people didn’t realize that there was the veil of flesh where the Word was, the Word incarnated in all His fullness; they didn’t realize that there was the Angel of the Covenant clothed in human flesh in the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God.
So it will also be for the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, and as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work: the Angel of the Covenant will be manifested in human flesh, in a man, in the Last Day, for many years.
And the people who will be living on Earth will not realize what will be happening in God’s Program, and they will not realize that Jesus Christ will be in Holy Spirit in a veil of flesh here on Earth in the Last Day; in the end time and Age of the Cornerstone; and there He will be carrying out the Work relevant to the end time.
The First Coming of Christ was manifested on Earth for 33 years, in other words, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant in human flesh, in a veil of flesh created by God in Mary’s womb; because there were no veils of flesh, human beings, clean of sin; because they had come through the first Adam, who had fallen, and all were contaminated with sin; and God had to create a body of flesh without sin, to dwell in it.
And after carrying out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross, and washing us with His precious Blood, and filling us with His Holy Spirit, on this planet Earth (during all these two thousand years that have passed, and even in our time), there have been people cleansed from all sin and filled with the Spirit of God, born in the Kingdom of God, born again.
And a born again person has no sin, because the Blood of Christ has taken away his sins. The Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin.24
Therefore, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, has been manifesting Himself from age to age in each angel messenger sent by God to His Church; and those have been veils of flesh washed with the Blood of Christ, therefore, they have been veils of flesh without sin.
And for the Last Day, He will be manifested in His Angel Messenger cleansed in the Blood of Christ and filled with His Holy Spirit; therefore, he will be without sin, and will be the instrument of Jesus Christ, of the Angel of the Covenant, for His manifestation of the Last Day, through which He will be speaking to His Church and will be making known to her all these things that must happen soon, in the end time.
John wanted to worship the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, but the Angel prevented him, and said to him: “Look, don’t do it, because I am your fellow servant and of the prophets. Worship God.”25 Why did John want to worship at the feet of the Angel who showed him these things? Because he saw the manifestation of Jesus Christ, of the Angel of the Covenant, of the Angel of the Lord, of God through His Angel Messenger; and he heard the Voice of Christ as that Great Voice of Trumpet speaking through His Angel Messenger; for this Angel Messenger was the one who showed John all these things that John saw in the book of Revelation.
And now, notice how the Angel identifies himself as one of God’s prophets and tells John that he can’t worship him, to worship God.
Jesus Christ also said on one occasion: “The hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for such worshipers the Father seeks to worship Him.”26
The Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is the last prophet messenger that Jesus Christ would send to His Church; and He is the prophet of the last dispensation: the Dispensation of the Kingdom, with the last dispensational message, which is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ.
The Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is not the Lord Jesus Christ; he is only the prophet messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ, through whom Jesus Christ will be manifested in the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, to make known to us all these things that must come to pass soon, in this end time.
And he wants no other honor than to be the messenger servant of the Lord Jesus Christ for the Last Day, the instrument of Jesus Christ for the Last Day. That will be enough for the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, notice how, just as for the First Coming of Christ there was an earthly Israel, where the First Coming of Christ was fulfilled; for the Second Coming of Christ there will be a heavenly Israel, and that heavenly Israel is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which has been waiting approximately for two thousand years for the Second Coming of Christ.
And it is for the heavenly Israel, the Church of Jesus Christ, the promise of the Second Coming of Christ, first of all; and then for the Hebrew people. And His Coming is as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work; and there will be the Eternal Name of God manifested.
And it will be enough for the sons and daughters of God to know that there will be the Eternal Name of God manifested. Although many will not be able to understand it, because it says Revelation, chapter 19… and verse 12, says:
“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.”
In other words, people can’t appear saying that they know the mystery of that Name, because that mystery is known by Himself; and in His manifestation in human flesh that mystery will be known by the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And he will understand it in the manifestation of the Word coming as the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, coming in human flesh, and having that Name that no one understood, except him. He is coming to obtain the Victory of Divine Love. And with that Name he will obtain the Victory in Divine Love, because God will glorify His Name. He said: “I have glorified It, and I will glorify It again.”
Now, let’s leave the Name alone, because we all know that in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone (which is the Age of the Most Holy Place), is where that Name would be manifested and would be working for all the sons and daughters of God; just as in the most holy place of the temple built by Solomon and the tabernacle built by Moses, the Eternal Name of God was there, in the most holy place. Why? Because who was there? The Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, upon the mercy seat that was on the ark of the covenant. And if the Angel of the Lord was there: The Angel of the Lord is the one that has the Eternal Name of God.
Didn’t God say, speaking of the Angel of the Lord, of His Angel, said: “Don’t be rebellious to Him, for He will not forgive your rebellion, because my Name is in Him”? Where the Angel of the Lord is, there is the Name of God, that Eternal Name of God.
And now, coming in the Last Day as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, and as the white horse Rider of Revelation 19; if the Angel of the Covenant comes, the Angel of the Lord, which is the Word coming in human flesh in the Last Day, for He comes with His Eternal Name; and there that Eternal Name will be manifested.
Therefore, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, will come manifested in the Eternal Name of God in the Last Day; and God will glorify His Eternal Name in the Last Day.
Now, let’s see how, just as Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea…; in other words, the First Coming of Christ was born where? In Bethlehem of Judea, but many people were born in Bethlehem of Judea, and many descendants of David; and also King David was born in Bethlehem of Judea.
And now, Bethlehem is “the House of the Bread of God,” and Christ is the House of the Bread of God, that is why He was born in Bethlehem of Judea. And Christ being the House of the Bread of God, notice how Christ spoke the Word: “For man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”27 And there was the Bread of God, the Word; that is why He said: “I am the living Bread which came down from Heaven; and he that eats of this Bread shall live forever.”28
Now, notice how the Bread of Life was manifested in human flesh in Jesus, because He is the House of the Bread of God.
And now, Christ being the House of the Bread of God, He is our Bethlehem; and all those born in Christ, believers in Christ who have washed their sins in the Blood of Christ and have received His Holy Spirit: they are born in Christ, therefore, they are born in Bethlehem; because Christ is our Bethlehem, He is the House of the Bread of God, of the Bread of Life.
And the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is also the House of God, and it is the spiritual Israel and it is the House of God; and therefore, it is the House of the Bread of God, where Christ, the Bread of God, has been from age to age feeding His children from age to age, through every faithful and wise servant that He has sent.
And so the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, having those born in Christ, those born in Bethlehem, becomes the Church-Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ in Bethlehem also known as the little Bethlehem.
And in our time, in the Age of the Cornerstone, the little Bethlehem for the Last Day will have the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ; because in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ… notice, by believing in Christ, washing our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit: we are born in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; in other words, we are born in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Bethlehem that would have the sons and daughters of God, descendants of Christ the Son of David.
And therefore, all those born in Christ, in the Mystical Body of Christ, are the House of David, and therefore they are kings and priests, to rule with Christ for a thousand years and then for all eternity.
That is why we will all be with Christ reigning in and from Jerusalem over the entire planet Earth, and over the Hebrew people; because it is the House, the Family, the descendants of David, the descendants of kings of the House of David, who will receive the Kingdom of God and will reign with Christ, with the Messiah, for a thousand years and then for all eternity.
Now, notice how among all those born in Christ (our Bethlehem), and in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ (our Bethlehem as Church), there will be one in whom from age to age God will manifest Himself, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit would manifest Himself; and that would be the messenger of each age or stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He manifested Himself in Saint Paul, the first angel messenger of the Church of Jesus Christ among the gentiles; in Irenaeus, the second; in Martin, the third; in Columba, the fourth; in Luther, the fifth; in Wesley, the sixth; and in William Branham, the seventh; and in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, the eighth, for the Age of the Cornerstone.
And all these: born in Bethlehem; as in Bethlehem King David was born, and as in Bethlehem King David’s brothers were born; which were seven brothers that King David had, but the youngest of them was who? David, who was the eighth son of Jesse.
And now notice how, in the manifestation of the eighth messenger, Jesus Christ will manifest Himself as Son of Man and Son of David, to make the claim of His Throne and His Kingdom, and to rule over the Hebrew people and over all nations; and to make the claim of His Church: all those redeemed with His precious Blood, to place them in eternal bodies: us who are alive and also the dead in Christ, who lived in past stages.
Now, notice how in these eight sons of Jesse are represented the eight messengers of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ among the gentiles; and how in the manifestation of the eighth messenger —which is represented in King David— Christ will manifest Himself as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work. And He will claim the Throne of David; for He is the heir to the Throne of David.
And in His final manifestation, Jesus Christ as heir to the Throne of David, will make claim to His Throne, and will sit upon the Throne of David. And to the Overcomer, who in the Last Day will be His Angel Messenger, He says:
“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”
In other words, on the Throne of God in Heaven, Christ when He overcame, when He died and resurrected and ascended to Heaven: He sat on the Throne of God in Heaven, at the right hand of God, and received power over all things.
And now, on His Throne, the Throne of Christ, which is… not the one in Heaven, but the Throne of David, upon which Christ will sit because He is the heir to that Throne, now He says:
“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”
In other words, the same thing that the Father did when Jesus ascended to Heaven victorious, the same thing that the Father did: He sat Him on the Throne of the Father, He sat Him on His Throne in Heaven, now Christ does the same with the Overcomer, with His Angel Messenger of the Last Day: He will sit him on His Throne with Him. And what is promised in chapter 2 of the book of Revelation, verse 26 to 27 will be fulfilled:
“And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron.”
And the Overcomer will receive authority over all nations, just as Christ received authority in Heaven and on Earth when He sat on the Throne of the Father.
Now, we can see this mystery of the Kingdom of God.
And now, seeing THE MYSTERY OF THE DATE OF THE BIRTH OF JESUS, the date that corresponds to the months of May, June or July, it all depends on which day of the sixth month of the Hebrew religious calendar the Archangel Gabriel appeared to the virgin Mary. And since it doesn’t say on what day he appeared (here in the Scripture I read to you), I can’t tell you exactly the day of Jesus’ birth.
But I can tell you: between the month of May to the month of July was the birth of Jesus, and it falls under the sign of Gemini (or the other sign that follows it, if it is for the month of July or the month of June from the 22nd onwards).
So you see, according to the Bible, the date of Jesus’ birth is not the date on which it is currently celebrated. But remember, it is only a celebration; it is a celebration, a tradition in commemoration of the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ; although the date was not December 24, because from December 24 to December 25 was the feast to the sun, the feast to the sun.
But now, notice, on the pagan date of the pagan feast of the sun, now the birth of Jesus is being celebrated and commemorated and remembered, although the birth of Jesus was not on that date.
Just as throughout history we find that when a nation conquered another nation, it destroyed its temple, and on top of the place where that temple was, they built another temple of the religion of that other nation that had conquered that nation.
You see, that also happened when the temple was destroyed there in Jerusalem; then later on, in another time, they built a temple where the temple was in Jerusalem, and they built the Mosque of Omar.
That was done so that the religion that had that temple couldn’t be a prosperous religion, and would be absorbed by the new religion that had conquered with the entrance of that new nation and that new government.
And so, notice, it has been happening in different nations and with different religions. And now the remembrance or commemoration of the birth of Christ is being celebrated on the date when the birth of the sun god was celebrated, of that pagan god; but that is not the date of the birth of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
But we remember in this season, called “Christmas” or “Easter,” we remember the birth of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; and we thank our beloved God for sending Jesus Christ two thousand years ago to this planet Earth, being born in Bethlehem of Judea for our salvation.
Without His coming, this planet Earth would no longer exist. The human race wouldn’t exist on this planet Earth without the First Coming of Christ fulfilled two thousand years ago. On the day Christ died, the human race had to die, because of sin; but all the sin of the human race was found in Christ, for He took our sins and became mortal, and all divine judgment fell upon our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
Thanks be to God for the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God two thousand years ago in Bethlehem of Judea. He was on Earth 33 years, in that body of flesh, that veil of flesh; and very few people realized the fulfillment of His First Coming.
The question is: for the Second Coming of Christ, as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, from the day when His Coming in human flesh begins to be fulfilled, how many years will pass until He reaches the peak and the full realization of the claim of all that He redeemed with His precious Blood? We don’t know.
The signs of Christ’s Second Coming have appeared in heaven. Christ said there would be signs in heaven and on Earth. They asked Him: “What sign will there be of Your Coming and of the end of the world?”, and Christ told them in Matthew, chapter 24, verse 30 onwards:
“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn.”
A sign would appear in heaven for the end time: the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. For the First Coming of Christ was the Star of Bethlehem, or what they call the Star of Bethlehem. And for the Last Day, notice, the sign of the Son of Man will appear 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.”
In other words, that sign of the Son of Man in the sky would contain the presence of the Son of Man in Heaven, with angels in the sky; and… it says:
“…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.”
Now, why are the elect of God being called and gathered for years here on Earth in this end time, with the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet, which is the Message of the Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom? It is because we are in the time of the sign of the end of the world, which is the coming of the Angels of the Son of Man, the coming of the reapers, to carry out the harvest: to gather the wheat, the sons and daughters of God, in the Storehouse of God.
That was the sign of the end of the world given by Christ in Matthew, chapter 13, verse 30 to 43, when He said to let the wheat and the tares grow together until the harvest, because at the time of the harvest the Son of Man would send His Angels, in other words, He would send the reapers, to carry out that harvest. And He tells us that the reapers are the Angels, and the wheat are the sons of the Kingdom, and the tares are the sons of the evil one; and He tells us that the harvest, the reaping, is the end of the world.
In other words, noticing the time of the harvest, of the gathering of the elect of God by the ministries of the Angels of the Son of Man, the ministries of Moses in the Last Day: that is the sign of the end of the world.
The sign of the end of the world is the presence of the ministries of Moses and Elijah, of the Two Olive Trees calling and gathering the elect with the Great Voice of Trumpet, that is, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, in this end time.
And some will ask: “But what about the sign of the Son of Man in heaven?” The sign of the Son of Man in the sky, just as it was seen two thousand years ago, and it was a Star: The Star of Bethlehem that those wise men followed…; and the people of that time didn’t realize that that sign of the Star of Jacob was that Star that was being seen, and that was the sign that the Messiah was already on Earth, and that Elijah was also already on Earth…; and Elijah was John the Baptist.
And now, you see, the birth of John the Baptist had already happened, and also the birth of Christ had also happened; and when the wise men arrived in Bethlehem of Judea they found Him in a house, but He was born in a manger. And why in a house? Because He is already about two years old, therefore He is no longer in the manger, He is already in a house.
And now, when the wise men are questioned by King Herod, and he asks them how long, since when had they seen that Star appear: according to what the wise men told King Herod, it was already two years since that Star was appearing, two years testifying that the Messiah was on Earth, that He had already been born in Bethlehem of Judea.
And now, for the Last Day, the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, is the sign that will be giving testimony that we are in the end time, in the time of the Coming of the Son of Man.
A very important sign appeared in the sky, on February 28, 1963, a mysterious cloud in heaven, 50 miles wide – or 30 miles wide by 50 miles long, 26 miles high,29 where airplanes don’t fly, and where there is no humidity and where clouds don’t form; and there this cloud was formed.
How did it get there? What is this cloud? How was it formed? The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says that he was caught up to that cloud, he was taken to that cloud; and there were seven angels, and he saw there seven angels, and one of the seven angels was very different from the other angels; and he says that in that cloud were the angel messengers of the gentile Church ages and another Angel who was very different from the others, which had the Seventh Seal; and the Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ.
There was the Angel that had the Seventh Seal, there was the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ in His theophanic body. And that is the Angel for the Last Day, which is the Word, which in the Last Day will be manifested in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom in His Angel Messenger, just as He was manifested in every angel messenger of every age of the gentile Church.
He was manifested in the seven angel messengers; and for the Last Day this Angel that was very different from the others will be manifested in His Angel Messenger, which, for the Last Day will be on Earth veiled and revealed through human flesh; and that will be the white horse Rider of Revelation 19 coming in human flesh in a man.
Now, did you see how simple everything is? Everything is simple, as everything was simple for the First Coming of Christ.
Now, the veil of flesh, the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, is not the Lord Jesus Christ; but in him will be the Lord Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, veiled and revealed, manifested through him in His Work relevant to the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, to do the Reclaiming Work and bring the dead in Christ in eternal bodies, and us who are alive to transform our bodies; and thus we all have the eternal body that He has promised for each of us.
Now, we have seen the mystery of both His First Coming and His Second Coming. And now, the birth of the veil of flesh in which the First Coming of Christ was fulfilled, notice, its date we have already seen: from May to July is the date, taking into account the sixth month of the Hebrew religious calendar in which the Archangel Gabriel appeared to the virgin Mary; but we don’t know if it was the first day, or it was in the middle of the sixth month, or if it was the end of the sixth month.
Therefore, we have 30 days left in play; because if it was at the beginning, then it is 30 days before the date that would have to be if the appearance of the Angel Gabriel to the virgin Mary was at the end of the sixth month.
So this gives us an approximate time, more or less, in the time span of the months of May, June and July; but the date in which the birth of Christ is commemorated, where the birth of Christ is remembered and God is thanked for the birth of Christ, is the date of December 24.
But that is not the date when Jesus Christ was born; but His birth is commemorated on that date. And we thank God for the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem of Judea two thousand years ago.
The important thing is that He was born in Bethlehem of Judea two thousand years ago, and that He died on Calvary’s Cross and took away our sins; and then poured out of His Holy Spirit upon all believers, He has been pouring out of His Holy Spirit since the Day of Pentecost until this our time.
That is the important thing about the First Coming of Christ: that He really came and paid the price of Redemption; and redeemed us, saved us with His death on Calvary’s Cross; typified in the passover lamb that the Hebrew people sacrificed on the eve of Passover to prevent the death of the firstborn on that night when death would pass through Egypt killing all the firstborn in Egypt.
And now, the Firstborn of God written in Heaven, notice, have been delivered from death and hell by believing in Christ as our Savior, and washing our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit; and thus having the Blood of Christ applied on the lintel and doorposts of our soul, just as it was applied on the lintel and doorposts of the houses where the firstborn were living.
And now, we are living in mortal bodies, in mortal houses, but we have the Blood of the Passover Lamb: of Jesus Christ, applied in our soul, in our heart, to escape death, hell, death and hell, and to have eternal life with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
See how the type and figure is fulfilled through Christ and His First Coming; and His Blood applied in our souls, in our hearts; and the life of the Blood of Christ, which is the Holy Spirit, being received within us.
We have seen how the First Coming of Christ was represented in the Old Testament: in all those sacrifices that were performed in the midst of the Hebrew people; all of them were fulfilled in Christ and His First Coming, He fulfilled those sacrifices. And that is why the Second Coming of Christ is not to die again on a cross and take away sins, because His Second Coming is unrelated to sin, it is not related to sin, to die for sin and take away sins, because He already did it in His First Coming.
Now He comes to reclaim what He redeemed with His precious Blood, to place us all in eternity, with an eternal, glorified body, and in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
The First Coming of Christ is a great blessing for the human race. Thanks to the First Coming of Christ the human race has continued to exist until this present day, and thanks to the First Coming of Christ we are living in this end time.
We thank our heavenly Father for the First Coming of Christ, being born in Bethlehem of Judea as the Lamb of God to carry out His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross.
It has been a great blessing and privilege for me to give testimony of the First Coming of Christ and of His birth and of His date, and the date of the birth (more or less), and this commemoration of His birth, which takes place in these days, called Christmas or Easter, where we remember the birth of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ in Bethlehem of Judea two thousand years ago, when the Star of Bethlehem was seen in the sky, which was the sign of the Coming of the Son of Man two thousand years ago.
As this sign of this cloud that appeared on February 28, 1963, is a sign of the Son of Man in heaven, of which Christ spoke in Matthew 24 and verse 30. There were there the seven angel messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church and the Mighty Angel, the Angel of the Covenant, Jesus Christ in His theophanic body; and then, in the Last Day, to come manifested in human flesh in His Angel Messenger, in His Work relevant to the Last Day.
It has been a great blessing for me to give you testimony of these mysteries of the Kingdom of God; and to tell all of you that without the First Coming of Christ there is no forgiveness of sins, there is no way to take away our sins; because through His Sacrifice on Calvary’s Cross, and His Blood shed on Calvary’s Cross, He cleansed us from all sin.
There is no other way to enter eternal life, and thus enter Heaven, to live for all eternity with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. He is our Savior, our Redeemer, through whom God manifested His love.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”30
And those who don’t believe in Him will be lost; but those who believe in Him: we are saved for all eternity, to live with Christ in eternal bodies for all eternity.
There is no other hope for the human being. Hope is in Jesus Christ, in His First Coming and in His Second Coming; because His Coming is in two parts: His First Coming as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world and redeem us with His precious Blood; and as the Lion of the tribe of Judah in the Last Day, in the second part of His Coming —called the Second Coming of Christ—, to reclaim all that He redeemed with His precious Blood and to place us in eternity with eternal life and an eternal body.
There is no hope outside of Jesus Christ, we can’t get our hopes up outside of Jesus Christ. All our faith, our hope and our dreams are where? In our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. There is no other like Him, and there is no other in whom we can place our faith and our hope and our eternal future.
May the blessings of Jesus Christ our Savior, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon each one of you and upon me also; and may the number of God’s elect in His Mystical Body of believers soon be completed, and may the dead in Christ soon be resurrected in eternal bodies and may we who are alive be transformed; and may we all have the eternal body, and are thus restored to eternal life with eternal bodies, and to the eternal inheritance of God, and are as heirs of God and joint-heirs with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ in His glorious Millennial Kingdom and Eternal Kingdom.
And soon, after the transformation and resurrection, go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven, to receive there the rewards for all our labors performed in the Kingdom of God, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
May you all continue having a night full of the blessings of Jesus Christ, a night full of happiness, peace, harmony and heavenly blessing.
I leave again Felix Caro to continue and finish our part or the part of this activity; and then I will be with you in the other part (which will be here in the back), where we will be at the Christmas dinner sharing those moments also; I will be with you sharing those moments, as every year, and also thanking God for Jesus Christ our Savior.
May God bless you, and may you all continue having a night filled with the blessings of Jesus Christ our Savior.
Miguel is also with us. It would be nice if Miguel would give us a little greeting tonight. We are going to ask Felix to give Miguel the opportunity to give us a little greeting. You may come this way, Miguel.
[Greetings from brother Miguel].
Thank you very much, Miguel. May God bless you greatly Miguel.
On December 24, which is Christmas Eve, we also remember the departure of our brother Branham, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ; and we also accompany the feelings of his family; and we ask God to bless them greatly, and all the brethren who follow the Message of our brother Branham in North America and in all countries.
He is that Elijah who would come forerunning the Second Coming of Christ.
Just as John the Baptist, the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, died a not very pleasant death, also our brother Branham departed in a way that was not the best way we would have wished for him; but God is the one who determines how each person who lives on this planet Earth will depart.
We accompany the feelings of his family, and we ask the blessing of Jesus Christ for his family, and may He fill them with the knowledge of all His Program relevant to our time, and may He use them greatly in His Work in this Last Day.
And may the fulfillment of all the prophecies that were given by Reverend William Branham, as they are being fulfilled, be seen fulfilled by his relatives, by his family, and by all the followers of our brother Branham.
You see, Jesus was not born on the 24th, but our brother Branham, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, departed on December 24, the day of the eve of the Passover; which will be a memorial, a memorial day for the Millennial Kingdom. In some… on that day the departure of our brother Branham will be remembered, and on the day of his birth, therefore the arrival of our brother Branham. Somehow there will be a remembrance of all this trajectory that we have gone through.
So, notice, we are writing history. What will be history for the future is being written in the present. And as the Hebrew people commemorated all that was history during the time of Egypt and the coming out of Egypt, notice, for the Millennial Kingdom and eternity in some form there will be a commemoration to the fulfillment of all those types and figures, to the fulfillment of them in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Well, may God continue to bless you all, may God keep you; and I leave again Felix Caro to continue.
And may you continue having a night full of the blessings of Jesus Christ.
“THE MYSTERY OF THE DATE OF THE BIRTH OF JESUS.”
1 Genealogy of Jesus by Mary: Luke 3:23-38 (son of David by Nathan, verses 31-32)
2 Genealogy of Joseph (adoptive father, Mary’s husband): Matthew 1:1-17 (son of David by Solomon, verse 6)
3 Matthew 1:20
4 Matthew 1:23
5 John 3:15-16
6 Psalms 19:1
7 Daniel 2:46-49
8 Daniel 1:6-7
9 Luke 19:14; John 19:14-16
10 Matthew 27:25
11 Psalms 34:7
12 Acts 12:6-11
13 Acts 12:12-15
14 Matthew 18:10
15 John 5:33-36
16 Matthew 3:13-17; Mark 1:9-11; Luke 3:21-22
17 Matthew 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35
18 Luke 3:16; John 1:17; Mark 1:7-8
19 John 1:29, 1:36
20 Exodus 3:6
21 Mark 16:19; Luke 22-69; Col. 3:1, Acts 1:3; 8:1, 10:12; 12:2
22 John 12:28
23 The Seals in English, page 303
24 1 John 1:7
25 Revelation 22:8-9
26 John 4:23-24
27 Matthew 4:4; Luke 4:4; Deuteronomy 8:3
28 John 6:50-51; 6:58
29 30 miles of width x 50 miles of length = 48.3km x 8.46 km / at 26 miles of altitude = 41.8km
30 John 3:16