Good afternoon, kind friends and brethren present and radio listeners. It is a great privilege to be with you on this occasion to share some moments of fellowship with you around the Word of God and His Program relevant to our time, to thus see the time in which we are living and the divine blessings that God has for human beings at this end time.
For this reason, I would like to read in Revelation, chapter 2, verse 17, where it says:
“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It, and may He give us all to eat of that hidden Manna.
Our subject is:“THE SEVENTH SEAL AND THE HIDDEN MANNA.”
In order to understand our subject, we need to know what the hidden manna was in the time of Moses; which the apostle Saint Paul tells us about in his epistle to the Hebrews, when he tells us about the temple or tabernacle that the prophet Moses built. In chapter 9, verse 1 and on, he says:
“Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people.”
In this passage, we can see the importance of the temple or tabernacle that the prophet Moses built in the midst of the Hebrew people. Then, later on, in the time of the kings, king David wanted to build a temple for God, but God told him that his son Solomon would be the one to build that temple1.
And what is the importance of these temples in the midst of the Hebrew people? And how is it possible that the sins of a people can be forgiven and kept from God’s presence and not seen by God by them offering those sacrifices to God and carrying out those divine ordinances in the temple, on the seventh month of each year (which is the month when the offering or sacrifice of atonement is made)…?
In other words, on the tenth day of the seventh month, the offering of the goat is made. On that day of the year, the high priest enters the temple a few times, but he always enters the most holy place with blood, because if he comes in there without blood, he dies; because no person can present himself before God without atoning blood of the sacrifice. Why? Because otherwise, the person’s sins are seen by God, and the wages of sin is death2.
And now, the tabernacle that prophet Moses built and the temple that king Solomon built are a type and figure of the Temple that is in Heaven. That is why king Solomon was such a wise man, because what man on Earth can build a temple according to the model of the one that is in Heaven? Only a wise man; and that must be through God’s wisdom, who shows him how that Temple in Heaven is built; and the prophet Moses was the first one He showed it to.
That is why the high priest would bring the atoning blood of that goat into that temple on the tenth day of the seventh month, and he would bring it inside, into the most holy place, and apply it on the mercy seat (which is, let us say, the cover of the ark).
The ark was a large wooden box overlaid with gold that contained the tablets of the Law, Aaron’s rod that budded and a golden pot full of manna3, which they had brought on the sixth day to then… the sixth day was the day when they gathered twice as much, because on the seventh day (which was Saturday) manna did not fall from heaven. And now, on the sixth day, they also brought that manna that they placed in that golden pot, and they put in the most holy place; and that manna did not spoil because it was (where?) in the most holy place.
Now, seeing that the tabernacle built by Moses and the temple built by Solomon are a type and figure, are the representation of the Temple that is in Heaven, notice why the things that were carried out in that temple of Solomon and in the tabernacle Moses built were accepted by God in Heaven, in the Temple of God that is in Heaven, of which Melchizedek is the Priest there.
And Melchizedek is Jesus Christ Himself in His theophanic body, that is why He is a Priest according to the Order of Melchizedek; not after the levitical order, not after the order that Aaron and his family belonged to, but according to the heavenly Order of the Temple that is in Heaven, which was before the temple that Moses built and the temple that Solomon built.
And now, notice, through the sacrifice they offered on the tenth day of the seventh month for the reconciliation of the Hebrew people with God, by the Hebrew people offering that sacrifice each year…, which was brought by the high priest into the most holy place, the blood was brought there and applied on the mercy seat, where God’s presence was in the Light of the Shekinah; that Light that spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob”; that Light that delivered the Hebrew people and lit their way by night, and by day It was a cloud that covered them from the sun, a pillar of a cloud; and that Almighty God who appeared to Moses in that Cloud of Fire, notice, where was He? In the tabernacle that Moses built, He was upon the mercy seat, between the two cherubim of gold that were there; and that is where Moses would bring the blood, and then Aaron would do it: he would bring the blood there.
Aaron was the high priest, and every year, he offered that blood to God; he offered the blood of atonement for both the priest and other priests as well as for all the Hebrew people; and thus, the Hebrew people were forgiven, their sins were covered by the blood of that goat.
And when something is covered, you look at it and you do not see it, because the sin of the Hebrew people is covered by that blood; and when God would look upon the Hebrew people, He would not see sin in the Hebrew people. That was why, because through the sacrifices that the Hebrew people offered to God, their sins were covered by the blood of those sacrifices.
And notice, the Hebrew people would make mistakes, they would sin before God; and then, for God to say that He does not see sin in the Hebrew people, that is something strange; and the secret is that their sins were covered by the blood of those sacrifices.
That is why the Hebrew people had all those sacrifices; and it was according to the Divine Order, according to the type and figure of the Temple that is in Heaven, it was a type and figure of the heavenly things; that is why those sacrifices worked that way before God. All those sacrifices were a type and figure of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, see? And that is why they worked that way in God’s presence until the perfect Sacrifice of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ our Savior, arrived.
When Jesus Christ arrived, we find that He was rejected by the Hebrew people, which worked for good, because otherwise they would have received Him and they would have crowned Him and He would not have made His Sacrifice for His children, and then, the people would have had to be offering animal sacrifices to God all the time; because the sin of the human being cannot be taken away by animal sacrifices, because the blood of those animals only covers the sin, because it is a type and figure of the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross. The only sacrifice that takes away sin is the Sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
And now, notice, after the Sacrifice of Christ was carried out on Calvary’s Cross, since then, no human being needs to offer God an animal sacrifice for his shortcomings or his sins, or his petitions.
Furthermore, notice, Christ said that the temple of Jerusalem would be destroyed4, and it was destroyed, for there is no need to have a temple there in which to offer animal sacrifices because now the Temple of God that is in Heaven has a living Sacrifice: the Lamb of God, who died and then resurrected and ascended to Heaven and positioned Himself in the Most Holy Place of the Temple that is in Heaven; and His Blood was applied on the mercy seat of the Temple that is in Heaven, there in the Most Holy Place.
And now, the same thing the high priest did on Earth, in the earthly temple, is what Christ has done in Heaven, in the Temple that is there in Heaven. Christ went to the Most Holy Place of the Temple that is in Heaven with His own Blood and He applied It on the Throne of Intercession (in other words, the seat of mercy), which is God’s place there, the Throne of God in Heaven; which was typified in the throne of intercession or the place of propitiation or the mercy seat in the temple of Solomon and in the temple that Moses built, in the most holy place.
The same thing the high priest did, applying the atoning blood of the goat on the mercy seat, is what Christ has done there in the Temple, but in the Temple that is in Heaven. Therefore, on this planet Earth, no earthly temple has been operating anymore, to apply the blood for sin in favor of human beings, other than the Temple that is in Heaven.
And that is why when a person receives Christ as his Savior understanding this mystery, his sins are not covered, because the Blood of Christ is not for covering sin: the Blood of Christ is for taking away sin, his sins are taken away; and then when God looks upon the person, He sees him without sin; and if he is without sin, well, the person receives the Spirit of Christ, the Spirit of God, and he obtains the new birth and is born in the Kingdom of God. Just as he was born into the house of his earthly family, now he is born in Heaven, born into the Family of God; and now he has a theophanic body of the sixth dimension, a body called the Angel of the Lord, which encamps around them that fear Him, and delivers them.
That is the body we are going to live in; when our earthly body dies, we leave in that new body of the sixth dimension, of another dimension, and we go on to live in Paradise until the resurrection of the dead in Christ occurs.
And in the resurrection of the dead in Christ, which will happen to those who have departed but had already washed their sins in the Blood of Christ, and had received His Spirit, what will happen? Well, they will resurrect in a new body, in an eternal body, no longer in a mortal body like the one we have; because if they resurrect in a mortal body like the one we have, they will die again; they will die again, just as it happened to Lazarus, who was resurrected by Jesus Christ but died again.
Now, why did Jesus Christ resurrect him to later die again? Because by resurrecting Lazarus there, Jesus Christ was showing the people that just as He resurrected Lazarus, He would resurrect all the believers in Him at the Last Day. Lazarus is a type and figure of all the believers in Christ who have lived on this Earth and have died physically: they have the promise of a resurrection at the Last Day; and the one who promised this resurrection showed by resurrecting Lazarus that He has the power to resurrect all His believers.
Now, notice, Christ said5: “I am the resurrection”; and if He is the resurrection, well, then He can resurrect all the dead who have believed in Him. It is not for the resurrection of the whole world in an eternal body, it is for His believers.
Yes, He will resurrect every human being (even if he is not a believer), when the time comes to be judged before the Throne of God; then, He will resurrect the rest of the human beings, and He will resurrect them in the same body they had when they lived here on Earth, and then, they will be judged. But a resurrection is coming that is called the first resurrection; that resurrection is for the believers in Jesus Christ.
And now, notice Martha speaking with Jesus in the case of Lazarus:
“Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
Why does she tell Him that she knows he will resurrect again in the resurrection at the Last Day? Because Jesus had taught that He would carry out the resurrection of all His believers at the Last Day.
And now, I am reading here in chapter 11 of John, verses 21 to 27; and Jesus replies to her:
“Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
She saith unto him, Yea, Lord…”
And that is also what we say: “Yes, Lord! We believe that You are the Resurrection and the Life, and that by believing in You, we will not die eternally if our earthly body dies, but You will resurrect us again in an eternal body.”
And now, where has Jesus Christ promised the resurrection of His believers at the Last Day? In John, chapter 6, verse 39 to 40, He says:
“And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”
When? At the Last Day. That He will resurrect them again when? At the Last Day.
“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Who will He resurrect at the Last Day? Those who believe in whom? In Him.
And which is the Last Day? That is a good question, because the Bible speaks about the Last Day here, Jesus speaks about the Last Day, and in different places in the Bible it also speaks about the last days.
What are the last days and which is the Last Day? In order to understand this mystery of the last days and the Last Day, we have to read what the apostle Saint Peter says in his second epistle, verse 8, where he says [chapter 3]:
“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing(if we are not ignorant of it, then we are able to understand what the last days are), that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
When it is spoken about one day before God, for human beings, that is a millennium (that is, one thousand years); and when it is spoken about the last days before God, that is referring to the last millenniums for the human beings. And when we talk about the last days of the week, we are referring to Thursday (which is the fifth day), Friday (which is the sixth day) and Saturday (which is the seventh day), and before God, those are the three last days of a week before God; and for human beings, those are the three last millenniums, which are the fifth millennium, sixth millennium and seventh millennium.
That is why now we can understand the reason why Saint Paul said in Hebrews, chapter 1, verse 1 to 2:
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days…”
When?
“…in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds…”
When does he say that God spoke through His Son? In the last days, and two thousand years have already passed, if we add to the calendar the years it is behind.
Now, could Saint Paul have been mistaken when he said that those days, when Jesus was preaching, were the last days? Could he have been mistaken? Saint Paul was not mistaken. It is because one day before the Lord is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day; and when speaking about the last days, that is referring to the fifth millennium, sixth millennium and seventh millennium; and when Jesus was 4 to 7 years old, the fifth millennium began, and therefore, the last days began before God, which are the last millenniums for human beings.
And now, see how there is no contradiction in the Scripture? Notice Saint Peter, also speaking about the last days, notice what he says: in the book of Acts, chapter 2, verse 14 and on, he says (this was on the Day of Pentecost, when some thought that they were drunk because they had received the Spirit of God):
“But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.”
In which days did God promise to pour out of His Spirit? In the last days:
“And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh…”
And since the Day of Pentecost, when He poured out of His Spirit upon 120 people, and from that point on, He has been pouring out of His Holy Spirit upon every person who has believed in Christ as his Savior, received Him as his Savior and washed his sins in the Blood of Christ: then, he has received the Spirit of Christ. Christ has poured out of His Spirit upon millions and millions of people who have believed in Him since the Day of Pentecost.
And now, what has happened to those people? Well, they have been born again, they have been born in the Kingdom of God. Christ told Nicodemus that unless a man is born again, he could not see the Kingdom of God, unless a man was born again, he could not enter into the Kingdom of God; he had to be born of Water and of the Spirit, believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior, and receiving His Holy Spirit; and that is how one is born in the Kingdom of God, and that is how a person obtains eternal life from Christ.
Otherwise, the person lives on this planet Earth and even if he gains the whole world and becomes the biggest millionaire, it would be useless if he does not have Christ as his Savior and if he has not washed his sins in the Blood of Christ and received His Holy Spirit. It would be useless because what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?6It is useless.
Why? What did the person do? The person was very, very cruel to himself, he was very cruel to his own soul. We can say that he thought very poorly for his own soul, because while the person—who is a living soul—had the opportunity to live eternally, he did not take advantage of that opportunity, he did not believe in Christ as his Savior, he did not wash away his sins in the Blood of Christ; and therefore, he must die eternally.
In other words, the person loses the right to eternal life when he does not take advantage of the opportunity he has to wash his sins in the Blood of Christ to be sinless before God.
He no longer needs to go the Hebrew people, to the temple there in Israel, to make an animal sacrifice; the temple is not even there anymore, so that no one is there making sin offerings, because God already sent the Paschal Lamb, God already sent the perfect Lamb, the Lamb of God, who took sin away there on Calvary’s Cross. And that sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross becomes effective when a person accepts Him as his Savior, and thus, washes his sins in the Blood of Christ. If he does not do it, unfortunately, the person loses the right to eternal life when he had that opportunity.
And notice, what will a man pay in exchange for his soul, for the salvation of his soul? He does not have to pay anything, see? He has nothing to pay. If he had to pay, no human being would have enough to pay for his salvation.
Now, notice, God has freely provided that sacrifice for us, and now, God does not accept another sacrifice. That is why every sacrifice there in the midst of the Hebrew people was taken away.
And now, notice what happened to the Hebrew people: they do not have sin offerings (there in the land of Israel) and they do not have the sacrifice of Christ either, because they rejected Him; and that is why the Hebrew people have been going through all these tribulations and Hitler nearly exterminated them all. Why? Because their sins have not been covered by the sacrifices they had before (because they no longer have the sacrifices they had before), nor do they have the sacrifice of Christ, they have not received Him.
Therefore, the Sacrifice of Christ, the Blood of Christ, what happens? If It is not applied on the sins, then it cannot take them away; and they have rejected the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross, and that is why their sins have been seen by God; and the wages of sin is what? Death, and that is why death has been following the Hebrew people; Hitler nearly exterminated them, and currently, notice, they are still in danger because they have problems with their neighbors; but someday, someday they will understand.
When will that be? When the very last of God’s elect among the gentiles comes in, then, God will open their hearts and minds, and then, God will awaken them through the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ in His Second Coming, manifesting the ministries of Moses, Elijah and Jesus.
And then, the Hebrew people will say: “This is what we are waiting for!” And then, they will be told the whole story of everything that has happened and how God blinded the eyes of the Hebrew people so that they would not see the Messiah in His First Coming, and they would reject Him and He would be crucified; and thus, He would carry out the sacrifice for sin, thanks to the Hebrew people rejecting Christ and asking for the death of Christ on Calvary’s Cross; thanks to that, our sins have been taken away with the Blood of Jesus Christ, and we do not need to have a temple like the one the Hebrew people had in order to be making sin offerings there.
Christ is in the Temple of Heaven as High Priest, fulfilling the duties of His work, making intercession there for every person whose name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, which has been written since before the foundation of the world; and when the last elect of God comes in, then Christ will finish His work there as Intercessor, as High Priest, and He will come out of there and reclaim all those who He has redeemed with His precious Blood, and He will reveal Himself to the Hebrew people, and then, the Hebrew people will receive Him.
In His Second Coming, Christ will reveal Himself to the Hebrew people at the appointed time, and the Hebrew people will say: “This is the one we are waiting for!” But until the last elect among the gentiles comes in, the Hebrew people will not be able to receive that knowledge.
Now, how will it be at this end time for the call of the elect of the Last Day, both the elect among the gentiles as well as the elect among the Hebrew people? Christ has promised to give of the hidden Manna.
And what is the hidden Manna? For the Hebrew people, manna was what fell from Heaven every morning for forty years. In the afternoon, meat (that is, quails) would fall and manna would fall in the morning; in other words, they had breakfast and then they had dinner; and they did not work. God was sustaining the Hebrew people for forty years, and they were no less than two million people. Notice, the Almighty God kept them in the wilderness, and that was all to prove them, to know if they would serve God or not serve Him.
Notice, God tells us in the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 8, verse 1 and on, the reason why He had the Hebrew people journeying through the wilderness for forty years; because that was a journey that took less than a year; and notice, it took the Hebrew people forty years to reach the promised land.
Deuteronomy, chapter 8, verse 1 and on, says:
“All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers.
And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.”
Now, notice the reason why God had the Hebrew people go through the wilderness.
Many people say when they are financially well: “God is so good,” and they want to serve God; but when their life situation is difficult, some people do not want to serve God.
And every person should say from the depths of his heart: “I love God and I serve God in good times and in bad times as well.” And that is what God wants from His people; and that is why we have to go through good stages and also through bad stages, and the person must remain faithful to Christ, serving Him all the days of his life.
And now, the Hebrew people were proved and the Hebrew people failed. When times of trial came upon them, they would rebel against Moses, and therefore, against God.
And now, Christ, taking these words, “that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God,” Christ said, when He was tempted by the devil, when the devil told Him if He was the Son of God to turn those stones into bread…; because He had not eaten for forty days, He was fasting, and then He hungered; and the devil wanted Him to turn those stones into bread if He was the Son of God7.
And what would have happened…? What did the devil want? Well, if He was the Son of God to turn them into bread, to eat them and die; because if a person who has not eaten for forty days eats a piece of bread, he dies because his digestive system has not been working for forty days.
And notice, if He was the Son of God and He performed that miracle, the devil would have known that He was the Son of God, but He would have died by doing that (if He had eaten those stones turned into bread); but Jesus told him: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”
God’s prophets are the mouth of God, and every Word that proceeds out of God’s prophets for God’s people is spiritual food for the soul of the human being.
Notice, everyone eats daily, because they know that if they do not eat, they become weak, they get thin, and then they die – they fall ill and then die. And now, in the depths of their being, in their soul, every person needs to eat because otherwise their soul will die, it will fall ill and die.
But what food will the person eat? There is only one food for the soul of the human being, and that is the Word of God, the Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
Now, let us see where we find that Word of God. In Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verse 15 to 19, it says:
“The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken…”
Who did the prophet Moses say that the people are called to hear? The prophet God raises up from the midst of the people. It says:
“…according to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not(this was on Mount Sinai, Mount Horeb).
And the Lord said unto me (and this is Moses speaking), They have well spoken that which they have spoken.
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee (in other words, like Moses), and will put my words in his mouth(Where does God put His words? In the mouth of the prophet He raises up), and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.”
Everything God commands that prophet to speak, the prophet will speak it, because God has put that Word in his mouth; and every person must hear the Voice of God in that prophet.
There are people who say: “I am not interested in hearing the Word of God, I am not interested in the things of God, in religious things.” Every person has free moral agency; and since every person has free moral agency, every person decides if he will hear or he will not hear; no one can force him to hear or not to hear, because every person is responsible for himself before God.
And now, what will be of the people who will not hear? Well, let us read it here:
“Whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.”
He can sort it out with God later, because God is the one who will require it of the person because he did not hear that Word of God.
And in the book of Acts, chapter 3, verse 22 to 23, that is being quoted by Saint Peter here (this passage is quoted), and he says:
“For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.”
He will be destroyed and lose the right to belong to the people of God, he loses the right to eternal life; and no one wants to lose the right to live eternally, and much less to live in an eternal body like the body God has for the human being who hears the Voice of God.
“He that heareth my word,”says Christ, what does he have? Let us see. In John, chapter 5, Christ says the blessing there is for those who hear His Word; it says (chapter 5, verse 24):
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, 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.”
He has passed from death unto life. When we have been born on this Earth, we have been born among a fallen race, among a race that is spiritually dead before God; before God, the human being is in that fallen state; but when he receives Christ as his Savior and washes his sins in the Blood of Christ and receives His Holy Spirit, that person has passed from death unto eternal life, that person now has eternal life when he has received Christ, and now he has received a theophanic body of the sixth dimension.
And now, we have seen where God puts His Word: in the mouth of the prophet He sends. That is how it was in each prophet God sent, that is also how it was in Jesus Christ, that is how it was in the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ and that is how it was for the seven angel messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church.
Saint Paul said8: “Nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” The Word, the Message that Paul preached was the Message of Christ, the Word of Christ for that first age among the gentiles; and that is how it has been from age to age through the manifestation of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit in each angel messenger.
Christ said in John, chapter 10, verses 14 to 16:
“I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold (meaning, they are not of the Hebrew fold, they are gentiles), them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”
And how will they hear the Voice of Christ if Christ died, resurrected and ascended to Heaven and is on the Throne of God, in the Temple that is in Heaven, making intercession there as the High Priest? Through the manifestation of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit in His messengers, from age to age, we have been hearing the Voice of Christ, Christ has been speaking to His sheep among the gentiles and He has been calling and gathering together His children, whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life since before the foundation of the world.
And the person does not know that his name is written there until he hears the Voice of Christ in the age in which he has been granted to live and that Message directly reaches his soul and moves his soul; and his soul awakens, it awakens from that spiritual sleep, it awakens to reality, and he realizes that God is speaking directly to his soul, he realizes that there is eternal life after death, he realizes that we are only living for a short time here on Earth for a divine purpose.
We are not here by mere coincidence, we are here because God has sent us to this planet Earth to live for a period of time to make contact with His Program, to take our position in the Mystical Body of Christ and there, to obtain eternal life, so that then, when the dead in Christ resurrect in eternal bodies, we who are alive may be changed and have an eternal body, and live with Christ throughout eternity.
He who does not make contact with Christ and His Program relevant to the age in which he lives, loses the right to eternal life. But Christ said9: “My sheep hear my Voice and they follow me.”
Therefore, the Message of Christ has been preached in each age, and those who are of God have heard His Voice in the age in which they have been granted to live; no one has had to force them to believe, because in their soul, when they hear the Voice of Christ they answer to that call, their soul awakens and they realize that they are a son or daughter of God, and say: “Lord, what do You want me to do?”
As Saul of Tarsus said. When he encountered Jesus Christ in that Light and He spoke to him, Saul said10: “Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?”
And Christ shows him His Program for the time in which the person is living, he believes in Christ as his Savior, washes his sins in the Blood of Christ, receives the Spirit of Christ and thus, he is born again, he is born in the Mystical Body of Christ, he becomes a member of the Mystical Body of Christ (in other words, of the Church of Jesus Christ our Savior), and thus, the person is sealed in the Kingdom of God with the Spirit of God to live throughout eternity. Notice how simple the Program of God is.
And now, seven stages or seven ages of the gentile Church have already passed. This diagram, used by Reverend William Branham, represents the Church of Jesus Christ passing through her different stages, andherewe have the messengers of each one of those stages; and for the Last Day we reach the Golden Age of the Church of Jesus Christ, which is the Age of the Cornerstone.
For each age of the past, there was a territory where each age was fulfilled and where God called His elect, and as time passed, Christ in Holy Spirit moved from territory to territory and from messenger to messenger, calling and gathering together His elect in the different times and ages and in the different territories.
And now, where is Christ calling and gathering together His elect? Notice, the first age of the gentile Church was fulfilled in Asia Minor, and Saint Paul was the messenger; the second was fulfilled in France, and Irenaeus was the messenger; the third in Hungary and France, and Martin was the messenger; the fourth was in Ireland and Scotland, and Columba was the messenger; the fifth was in Germany, and Luther was the messenger; the sixth was in England, and Wesley was the messenger; the seventh was in North America, and Reverend William Branham was the messenger. Christ was manifested in those messengers calling and gathering together His elect, calling and gathering together His sheep.
And now, where is Christ calling and gathering together His Sheep? Where does Christ fulfill the Age of the Cornerstone? Well, look: the good news is that Latin America and the Caribbean is where Christ manifests Himself as the lighting shining and enlightening the depths of our souls and our understanding, so that we understand His Program relevant to our time, so that we hear His Voice and are called and gathered together at this end time, in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, and thus, so that the Mystical Body of Christ is completed at this Last Day with Latin American and Caribbean people.
And this truly is good news for all the Latin American and Caribbean people: that Christ will complete His Mystical Body of believers, His Church, with Latin American and Caribbean people.
And the Latin American and Caribbean people thought God had forgotten about them because they do not belong to developed nations such as these nations in Europe or North America, rather, they are a bit behind in some fields; but in terms of the things of God, in terms of the Program of God, they are at the head of all the nations, because Latin America and the Caribbean is where Christ is calling and gathering together all of His elect.
And now, Latin America and the Caribbean is where the Voice of Christ, that Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet of Revelation, chapter 1 and verse 10 to 11, speaks to us and calls us. John says:
“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day(remember that the Day of the Lord is the Last Day, which is the seventh millennium), and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.”
Who is the Alpha and Omega? Who is the first and the last? Our beloved Savior Jesus Christ. It is the Voice of Jesus Christ speaking to us at this Last Day.
Now, how will He be speaking to us? Through whom will He be speaking to us? In Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1, it says the things He will be speaking, the things He will be making known:
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”
And how will we go up and where will we go up to? We will go up to the Age of the Cornerstone, where Christ will be speaking to us with that Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom and He will be showing us all these things which must come to pass at this end time.
And through whom will He be showing us all these things (because the mouth of God has always been God’s prophets)? In Revelation, chapter 22, verse 6, we have the answer to that question:
“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”
Who has He sent? His Angel Messenger. For what? To show unto His servants the things which must shortly be done.
Here, in the Age of the Cornerstone, is where He sends His Angel Messenger, just as He sent seven messengers in the seven ages, through whom He spoke to His people and called and gathered together His elect in the Mystical Body of Christ.
And here, in the Age of the Cornerstone, He sends His Angel Messenger to make known to the people, to all the sons and daughters of God, all these things which must shortly be done, and that is how He calls and gathers together His elect in the Age of the Cornerstone; and this is the age that pertains to the Latin American and Caribbean people. The Latin American and Caribbean people are the ones to whom He sends His Angel Messenger, making known to them all these things which must shortly be done.
And in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16, it says:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
To testify which things? All these things which must shortly be done; that is why He sends His Angel Messenger, He sends him to all the churches.
He is a dispensational prophet messenger with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, revealing to all the churches and to all the human beings all these prophetic things that are in the book of Revelation that must happen.
The book of Revelation is a symbolic book and in those symbols, it contains all the things which must come to pass at this end time, just as it contains the symbols of the things that would come to pass in all this time from Christ until now.
And now, for the Last Day He sends His Angel Messenger to testify all these things which must shortly be done.
And now, He has promised to give us of the hidden Manna. And what is the hidden Manna? Because we all want to eat of that hidden Manna. Christ is the hidden Manna, Christ is the Word.
And now, where was the hidden manna in the tabernacle Moses built? It was in the most holy place, inside the ark of the covenant. And inthisdiagram we have the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church and the Age of the Cornerstone. The seven gentile Church ages pertain to the Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, because Jesus Christ has been building a New Temple.
The temple of Moses is no longer needed, nor is the temple of Solomon needed, rather, Jesus Christ has been building a New Temple out of human beings; and that is why the sons and daughters of God are being called and gathered together: to become part of that spiritual Temple.
That is why Saint Peter, referring to that Temple, tells us in chapter 2 of his first epistle, verse 4 and on:
“To whom coming, as unto a living stone (in other words, coming to Christ, the living Stone), disallowed indeed of men (He was disallowed in His First Coming), but chosen of God, and precious,
Ye also, as lively stones…”
Now, we are living stones, just as Christ is a living Stone; aliving stone: a living being represented in stones, but now they are living stones.
And now, what will He do with these living stones? It says:
“…ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”
And now, each one of us as individuals is a living stone to be a holy Temple for the Lord as an individual and to become part of that spiritual Temple, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and He has been calling human beings (which are living stones) and He has been putting them in that spiritual Temple that He has been building; and with all the elect He called and gathered together in the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church, He formed the Holy Place of that spiritual Temple.
And for the Last Day, with all the elect who He calls and gathers together in the Age of the Cornerstone, He forms the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple, the most important part of His spiritual Temple. The most important part of the Church of Jesus Christ is the Age of the Cornerstone, and the people in whom that Age of the Cornerstone is fulfilled are the Latin American and Caribbean people.
Therefore, where does Jesus Christ have the greatest blessing of the Temple of Jesus Christ? In Latin America and the Caribbean, in the midst of a people who are simple and humble but who love God and believe in God, have faith in God and know that God is with us. It does not matter what difficult situations Latin America goes through, God is with Latin America and the Caribbean, He is with the Latin American and Caribbean people, and He is building the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple.
And now, where was the hidden manna in the tabernacle that Moses built? It was in the most holy place; and the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ is where the hidden Manna will be, and where it will be given to all the sons and daughters of God. And that hidden Manna, notice, is the spiritual food that will not spoil; because while the hidden manna was in the most holy place, it remained intact, because it was in God’s presence.
And now, the hidden Manna, which is the Word, which is Christ, the Word, will be manifested at the Last Day in the revelation of Jesus Christ for the Last Day.
The revelation of Jesus Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as the King of kings and Lord of lords, at the Last Day coming to His Church in the Age of the Cornerstone and the Dispensation of the Kingdom; that revelation, the revelation of Jesus Christ for the Last Day, is the hidden Manna for all the sons and daughters of God; and the revelation of Jesus Christ for the Last Day is the Second Coming of Christ.
That is the spiritual food that no human being in past ages and dispensations was able to eat. Why? Because in the past ages, the spiritual food that the people of God have been eating is the spiritual food of the Word of the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world on Calvary’s Cross; and that is a spiritual food for our soul, but there is a spiritual food that has been hidden from the human beings, and it is the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as the King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work.
And that is spiritual food, that is hidden Manna, that is the divine revelation that Christ will give all the sons and daughters of God of the Last Day in the Age of the Cornerstone, in addition to the divine revelation of the First Coming of Christ.
First, we must have the divine revelation of the First Coming of Christ and we must have received Christ as our Savior and washed our sins in the Blood of Christ.
What would a person want the Second Coming of Christ for if he did not first receive the First Coming of Christ and the benefits of the First Coming of Christ?
First we must receive the First Coming of Christ and His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross ⏤and thus receive Christ as our Savior, wash away our sins in the Blood of Christ and receive His Holy Spirit⏤in order to then receive the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, as the King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work, where He will reclaim all those He has redeemed by His precious Blood, who are the ones that have received Him as their Savior; and at the Last Day, if they remain alive until the dead in Christ resurrect, when we see the dead in Christ resurrected, we will be changed.
Now, for the Last Day, the elect who will be changed will have first eaten the spiritual food of Christ, of the First Coming of Christ, just as we find that the Hebrew people were eating manna from Heaven for forty years; but there was a food, a manna, that was hidden in the most holy place, and that hidden manna represents the Second Coming of Christ being revealed to all the sons and daughters of God.
And for the Last Day, we will be receiving that revelation and we will be eating it in our soul; and that is what it will mean to be eating the hidden Manna, so that we are changed at the Last Day according to the Word of Christ.
Now, we can see that this is for the Last Day, for the time of the Coming of the little white Stone; notice, it says: “To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden Manna, and I will give him a white Stone…” Let us see, it says in chapter 2, verse 17 (which we read at the beginning):
“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”
The little white Stone is the Second Coming of Christ.
The New Name in that white Stone, notice… Let us see here, in Revelation, chapter 3, verse 12, where it also makes reference to a New Name so that we get a clear picture; it says:
“Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.”
The Lord Jesus Christ testifies that He has a New Name; that is the New Name in the white Stone. And the white Stone is the Second Coming of Christ, it is the Cornerstone that the builders rejected in His First Coming.
In His Second Coming, He comes with a New Name that no man knows. Since it is a New Name, it is not the name Jesus, because the whole world knows the name Jesus.
And now, that is a mystery to be revealed in the Age of the Cornerstone and the Dispensation of the Kingdom for all those who will be eating the hidden Manna, for all those who will be hearing the Voice of Christ through His Angel Messenger, who is the one sent by Christ (for what?) to testify all these things which must shortly come to pass at the Last Day; to testify of the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of that Stone cut out without hands with that New Name; to testify of the Program of God pertaining to the Last Day, to testify of the call of the Great Voice of Trumpet, to testify of the hidden Manna, of what the hidden Manna consists of, and so forth, to testify of the entire Divine Program pertaining to the Last Day.
Now, we have seen the mystery of the hidden Manna: it is the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as the King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work; and the Seventh Seal (of Revelation, chapter 8, verse 1) is the Second Coming of Christ, which caused silence in Heaven for about half an hour when it was opened.
Revelation, chapter 8, verse 1, says the following:
“And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.”
That is the Second Coming of Christ. The Second Coming of Christ causes silence in Heaven for about half an hour.
When that mystery was opened in Heaven, everyone in Heaven remained silent so that the enemy of God, the devil, would not know that mystery and would not interrupt the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ, would not interrupt the fulfillment of the Coming of the Stone cut out without hands with a Name that no man knew.
We have seen that at this end time, this entire mystery of the Seventh Seal and the hidden Manna will be revealed because God will send His Angel Messenger to testify all these things which must shortly be done; and thus, Christ through His Angel Messenger will open the Scriptures to us and show us the meaning of all these apocalyptic mysteries relevant to this end time; and then, we will see, we will understand the entire Divine Program relevant to this end time.
And this is for the Age of the Cornerstone, which pertains to Latin America and the Caribbean, in the construction of the spiritual Temple of Christ, in the section of the Most Holy Place, which has been granted to Latin America and the Caribbean.
That is why I pray for Latin America and the Caribbean, so that He allows it to enter into the glorious Millennial Kingdom of Christ, and so that Latin America and the Caribbean is not destroyed by the divine judgments that will fall upon the Earth during the great tribulation.
I love Latin America and the Caribbean and I ask Christ to spare it from those divine judgments that are to come, and to allow it to survive the great tribulation and enter into the Millennial Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, and may the glorious Millennial Kingdom of Christ be filled with Latin American and Caribbean people! For Latin America and the Caribbean is where Christ is building the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple; therefore, may the blessing of the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ also fall upon the Latin American and Caribbean people and upon the entire Latin American and Caribbean territory, and may it enter into the glorious Millennial Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
That is my petition before God, with all my heart, for Latin America and the Caribbean.
The other places no longer have a messenger who can pray for those places where those ages were fulfilled, but Latin America and the Caribbean does have people to pray for Latin America and the Caribbean: it has all of you and me as well, praying for the Latin American and Caribbean territory.
We have reached the end time, we have reached the time where the mystery of the Seventh Seal is being opened and where the hidden Manna is being given to the Latin American and Caribbean people in the Age of the Cornerstone, where we have all been hearing the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet calling and gathering together all of God’s elect.
Christ said in Matthew, chapter 24, verse 31:
“And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect…”
That Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom revealing the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as the King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work. And thus, with that revealed mystery, calling and gathering together all of God’s elect. That is what is currently happening in Latin America and the Caribbean.
This is the territory of God’s blessing in the Mystical Body of Christ at this Last Day, this is the territory where the blessings of Jesus Christ come upon His Church so that soon the dead in Christ may be resurrected and we who are alive may be changed and go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
That is why He sends His Angel Messenger at the Last Day:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
That is the Angel Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone and the Dispensation of the Kingdom. He is a dispensational prophet with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which is the Message of the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet calling and gathering together all of God’s elect and revealing to them this mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work; and thus, giving us the hidden Manna in the Age of the Cornerstone, in the Age of the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ.
It has been a great privilege to be with you testifying to you about“THE SEVENTH SEAL AND THE HIDDEN MANNA.”
May the blessings of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and upon me as well, and may He always feed our soul with His Word, the hidden Manna; and soon, may the dead in Christ resurrect and may we who are alive be changed. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
I leave Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin with us again. Thank you very much, and have a wonderful afternoon.
“THE SEVENTH SEAL AND THE HIDDEN MANNA.”
4Matthew 24:1-2, 24:15; Mark 13:1-2, 13:14; Luke 21:5-6, 21:20-22