The Door of God’s House

Good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren present here in Quito, Ecuador. It is a great blessing for me to be with you on this occasion, to greet you and ask God for His blessings upon each one of you and upon me as well.

May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon each one of you and upon me also; and may the blessings of Jesus Christ promised for this end time for the elect of God, for His Church, which we would be living in this end time, materialize in each one of you and in me. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.

Luke tells us, chapter 13, verse 22 and on, as follows:

“And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.

Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,

Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:

Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.

But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.

There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.

And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.”

May God bless His Word in our hearts and allow us to understand It.

Our topic is: “THE DOOR OF GOD’S HOUSE.”

This is the Door of God’s House, of which Christ speaks here, and He says that it is a narrow Door.

Christ also, in the parable where He speaks of the sheep and the Fold, and speaks of the Good Shepherd and speaks of the Door, in chapter 10 of John, He tells us that He is the Door of the sheep, He is the Door of the Fold; He says:

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.

And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.

All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”

Here we can see who is the Door of the Sheepfold, through which the sheep of God, the sons and daughters of God, would enter; and He says that the Door that leads to eternal life, which is Christ, that Door is narrow.

Now, in the parable we read from Luke, it says:

“Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are…”

And then it says, at the end:

“There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth…”

Now, we can see that it is for the end time that this Door will be closed.

This is the Door of the House of God; and the House of God is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, according to Hebrews, chapter 3, verse 1 to 6; and it is also the Fold where Christ places His sheep, according to John, chapter 10: “…and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd” (it tells us in chapter 10 [verse 16]).

And in Hebrews, chapter 3, we will only read…: Chapter 3, verses 5 and on (5 and 6), it says:

“And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we…”

Who is the House of God? Us, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the House of God; composed of those redeemed by the Blood of Christ, believers in Jesus Christ, who have washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ and have received the Spirit of Christ.

“…whose house are we…”

Now, notice:

“And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”

Now, notice, the House is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Door of that House is Christ. It is the House where believers in Christ enter, washed by the Blood of Christ; and they receive the Holy Spirit, and are born in that House; they enter that House through a Door, which is Christ.

Christ came as the Lamb of God and took away the sin of the world. And no one can enter that House except by believing in Christ as our Savior, and washing our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit.

We must enter through that Door, which is Christ; and when we enter through that Door we receive all the benefits that there are from God in His House for the sons and daughters of God.

In that House is that Christ is the head, He is the Lord of His House; and He has placed faithful and wise servants in His House, in other words, faithful and wise stewards, from age to age, who are the messengers of the different ages of the Church of the Lord; according to how God says through Mark: It says, in chapter 13, verses 34 to 37:

“For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.

Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:

Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.”

Watch for what? For the Coming of the Lord, watch ye ready to receive Him, so that He may not find us asleep.

Now, we can see that the Father of the Family (God) has left faithful and wise servants over His House, who have been in the House of God from age to age giving the spiritual food relevant to each stage of the Church of Jesus Christ. It says, chapter 12, verses 37 to 42, of Luke:

“Blessed are those servants whom when their Lord comes, he finds watching…”

“Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.

(12:37-42 of Luke).

And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.

Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?

And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?

Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.”

Here we can see the blessing that there is for the faithful and wise servant who is giving spiritual food to the sons and daughters of God in the House of God.

For a messenger of God to be a servant in the House of God, in the Church of Christ, he has to enter through where? Through the Door, which is Jesus Christ in His First Coming as the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world.

And now, notice, in the door to which and through which they entered the house there…: Where they had the Passover or paschal lamb, the Hebrew people, the night where God would be sending death and would be striking the firstborn in Egypt; we find that those who would be safe had entered through a door, which was with a sign: The sign of the blood of the Passover lamb on that door; that door had the blood of the Passover lamb.¹

And now, the Door of the House of God, where we are safe, you see, has the Blood of the Passover Lamb; for He is the Door and He shed His own Blood.²

There are many religions on this Earth (that is, many houses, spiritually speaking), and each one of those religions has the entrance door to that house; but the only safe house is the house that has on its door, on the doorposts and on the lintel, the Blood of the Lamb. That is the only safe house. And that is why Christ said: “Enter ye in at the narrow door.”

And now, He teaches us that the Door of that House will be closed at some time, and that there will be a person who will close that House; therefore, he will have the authority, from God, to close that House at the time that God tells him.

That House, as we have seen, being the Church of Jesus Christ, has the Door open for the entrance of the believers in Christ to that House (who wash their sins in the Blood of Christ, and receive the Spirit of Christ, and therefore are born in that House), where God places, from age to age, faithful and wise servants or stewards, to give spiritual food in time to all those children of God from age to age.

And now, Jesus Christ, who is the Lord of the House, ascended to Heaven, is gone; but He has sent His faithful and wise servants or stewards, from age to age, to feed the sons and daughters of God in the House of God with the spiritual bread of the Word of God, for the soul of the sons and daughters of God.

And through each one of those faithful and wise servants, Jesus Christ has been manifested from age to age carrying out His Work relevant to each age. But through which of those servants will Jesus Christ, the Father of the heavenly Family, through which of the manifestation of those faithful and wise servants will the door of that House be closed? Well, it will be closed before the great tribulation begins.

As it tells us in the parable of the ten virgins, where He shows us, in Matthew, chapter 25, verse 10 and on, it says:

“And while they went to buy (the foolish virgins were going to buy oil), the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.

But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.”

Now, notice that in this parable it says: “And while they went to buy oil (while the foolish went to buy oil), the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.”

That is the Coming of the Son of Man, the Coming of the Bridegroom, in which the wise virgins (God’s elect) enter with Christ to the Marriage. Where? In the House of God. And the Door is closed with the wise virgins inside, for that Marriage of Christ with His Church, which takes place in the House of God; well, it is in the House of God that the Marriage takes place.

And now, with the door closed; in other words, it is a Marriage behind closed doors.

And we can also see in other parables where Christ speaks of that Marriage; and He also speaks to us of the Marriage Garment.

Now, the Door will be closed when every last one of the elect of the Mystical Body of Christ enters: Believing in Jesus Christ as their Savior, and washing their sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit.

When the last of the elect enters…; which are called in this end time with the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, revealing to them the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ…; without ceasing to speak about the First Coming of Christ and the Work that He carried out; because the Door is open for the elect of God in the House of God, to enter through that Door (which fulfilled His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross.

And when every last one of the elect has entered, the Door will be closed.

And he that is filthy, let him be filthy still, or he will be filthy still. Why? Because he will no longer be able to wash away his sins in the Blood of Christ, because he will have already left the Throne of Intercession in Heaven. And in Revelation it says that he that is filthy, then shall he remain filthy still³; for there shall be nothing to wash away his sins with. Revelation tells us about this mystery.</sup>

Now, we can see the importance of taking advantage of the time, the human beings, to enter the Kingdom of God, to enter the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, while there is opportunity; because someday that Door will be closed.

In Revelation, chapter 3, verses 7 to 8, thus says Christ:

“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth…”

Now, we can see that someday the Door of the House of God, to enter, will be closed, and there will be no more call to enter the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ; that happens when the last of the elect have entered the House of God. And then Christ comes out of the Throne of Intercession in Heaven and makes the claim of His redeemed, of those He has redeemed.

It is in the last time, where the faithful and wise servant or faithful and wise steward will be, of and at the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, that the door will be closed; and no one else will be able to be part of the Mystical Body of Christ.

The Father of the Family says that he will rise up and close the Door. The Father of the Family —which is God or Jesus Christ through the messenger who is on Earth in this time — will close the Door. And He is the one who shuts and none opens, and opens and none shuts.

Now, we can see that this is according to the prophecy of Daniel, chapter 12, and Revelation, chapter 10: Where the Mighty Angel of Revelation, chapter 10, and the Man clothed in linen that was over the waters of the river, in Daniel, chapter 12: “lifts up His right hand to Heaven, and swears by Him that liveth for ever and ever: for the time shall be no more.”⁴

The Door is closed there; and there are no more elect of God from among the gentiles for the Mystical Body of Christ; for all will have entered by that time.

When he proclaims that the time is no more, well, the Door is closed. There is no more time to enter the House of God as a member of the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, because all have already entered, the members of the Family of God, which are the sons and daughters of God, who are enrolled as part of that Family. As in a home: Those who are registered as part of that family, in the birth record of the members of that family, you see, they are registered as members of that family.

And when the last one has been born in the Family of God, the Door will be closed; when the last one of God’s elect has entered.

Now, we can see that this is for this end time.

Under the ministry of Jesus Christ upon His House, through the different messengers, the Door has been open. And under the ministry of the messenger of the Last Day or seventh millennium and Dispensation of the Kingdom, the Door will be open at the beginning of the ministry of Jesus Christ through His Angel Messenger; but in a certain part of His ministry, at the end, the Door will be closed; for Christ will close it; and all the elect of God will already be inside the House of God. And then the divine judgment will be poured out upon the Earth, and there will be (the what?) the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, for those who had not entered the House of God through the Door of that House.

And now, we can see how the Door of the House of God that will be closed is Christ as the Lamb of God carrying out His Work of Redemption. And the people who hear the preaching of the Gospel, and believe in Christ as their Savior, and wash away their sins, and receive the Spirit of Christ: they enter the House of God, they are born in the House of God; but the time will come when no more chosen children will be born, firstborn of God of the Church of Jesus Christ, because the number of the elect of God will be completed; and then the Door will be closed; but we will all be safe inside the House of God.

Our brother Branham in the message “Souls that are in prison now” was very concerned, because he said that all the Scriptures, all the prophecies that pointed to the end time, pointed to that direction; and if the door was closed, there would be no more mercy for mankind, for the human beings, and God’s judgment would come upon the human race.

But he says: “I hope it is not closed, because I have a family, I have children.” And he prayed for them, what for? So that they might be inside the House of God before the Door is closed.⁵

And when the door is shut, it says that they will knock at the door knocking for the door to be opened for them (those are the foolish virgins), but it will be too late. They will be cast into outer darkness, which is the great tribulation, where the weeping and gnashing of teeth will be. While the Church of Jesus Christ will then be at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, enjoying that great reception in Heaven for three and a half years.

Now, you see the importance of seeing in our time that, although the Door will be closed from one moment to another, it is still open for the entrance of the last elect of God to the House of God, to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

One enters through a door the House of God: The Door is Christ in His First Coming as the Lamb of God. And through the Door, which is Christ in His Second Coming, one goes out to Heaven, or enters Heaven, for the Marriage of the Lamb.

Saint John had entered the House of God through the Door of Christ’s First Coming; but then, in the apocalyptic revelation, he then saw an open Door (where?) in Heaven.⁶ That open Door in Heaven is the Seventh Seal opened in Heaven —which is the Second Coming of Christ—. And through that Door, John the apostle entered in the vision, and saw in Heaven all the wonderful things that he then narrates to us in his apocalyptic vision: He saw a Throne established in Heaven, one seated on the Throne, and he saw all the things that were there.

And through that Door opened in Heaven, which is the Second Coming of Christ…; because Christ is the Door, both in His First Coming and for His Second Coming.

Now, we need to enter through that Door of the Second Coming of Christ to go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. And the Door of Mercy in the end time will be closed; but we have an open Door in Heaven, which is Christ in His Second Coming, so we can enter and see all the things that John saw, being materialized, and to be able to be transformed and raptured in the end time and go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

We have seen: “THE DOOR OF GOD’S HOUSE.” And Christ is the one who opens and no one closes, and closes and no one opens.

It was He who shut the door of the Dispensation of the Law, and no one has been able to open it; and He opened the Door of the Dispensation of Grace, which is Christ, but one day He will close that Door, and no one will be able to enter through that Door.

And the Door that leads us in the rapture to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, notice, it is Christ in His Second Coming, for those who have entered through the Door, which is Christ in His First Coming; one must first enter through that Door.

Now, we can see this mystery, and we can see why Noah made a door downstairs, on the ark —by divine order—, and then he made a door upstairs on the third floor (or window or door). And when that door or window was opened, it looked towards heaven. You see, that is the Door of the Second Coming of Christ: An open Door in Heaven.

To see that Door we must do as Jesus said: “Lift up your heads to Heaven, for your redemption is near.”⁷

When John heard that Voice or Great Voice as of a trumpet speaking to him, a Voice from Heaven, it was when he looked up to heaven and saw an open Door in Heaven.

Now, since we are at the end time, we can see what a great blessing there is in the House of God before that Door closes; which will close when the last of God’s elect comes in. And we hope that it will not be so slow, and that he will soon enter along with the rest of God’s elect who are yet to enter. Although we know that later the Door will be closed, but everyone will be inside; and the dead in Christ will be resurrected and we who are alive will be transformed. The door will be closed for the blessing of the sons and daughters of God.

“THE DOOR OF GOD’S HOUSE.”

We have seen that that Door is that narrow Door, which is Christ our Savior; and some day the Door of entrance to the House of God will be closed, which is Christ in His First Coming as the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world.

And no one else from among the gentiles will be able to enter through that Door to the House of God: It will already be closed and no one else will enter, the number of God’s elect will already be completed.

When the Angel lifts His hand to heaven, His right hand to heaven, and swears by Him who lives forever and ever that time is no more: There, the Door, which is Christ, is already closed or has been closed; and from then on God will work within His House in favor of His elect, and then in favor of the Hebrew people.

The key to that Door was the one God gave to Peter when He said to him: “And I say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

There are other doors, but the only Door to Heaven is Christ; the others are doors, but not to Heaven. Christ said: “The gates of hell shall not prevail against it (that is, against the Church of Jesus Christ). And to you I will give the keys of the Kingdom of the Heavens.”⁸

What for? To open the Door, which is Christ as the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world on Calvary’s Cross. That was the Door that Peter opened on the Day of Pentecost to the Hebrews,⁹ and then he opened it to the gentiles in the house of Cornelius¹⁰; but someday that Door will be closed.</sup>

That is the East Gate. And you see that the East Gate, which is Christ at His First Coming, is represented in the “eastern gate” in the midst of the Hebrew people.

And “the eastern gate” of the wall or walls is closed, they call it “the Golden Gate”; and they say that that gate will be opened for the Messiah to enter through that gate.

Now, we can see the type and figure of Christ, the Door through which we enter into eternal life; that is the Door of the House of God, of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

It has been a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, giving you testimony of “THE DOOR OF GOD’S HOUSE.”

May God bless you, may God keep you. And we will see each other in a few minutes or a few hours in the next activity. It is 4:30, by 6:00 you are already gathered, and already at 6:30 the devotional is beginning; and at 7:00 (from 7:00 to 7:30) I will be with you with the topic: “THE GREAT VOICE OF TRUMPET CALLING AND GATHERING GOD’S CHILDREN.”

So may God bless you, may God keep you, and speak to us again tonight in the next activity.

“THE DOOR OF GOD’S HOUSE.”