Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present. It is a great blessing for me to be with you again on this occasion, to share with you a few moments of fellowship around the subject: “THE VEIL THAT CHRIST HAS REMOVED FROM US.”
“THE VEIL THAT CHRIST HAS REMOVED FROM US.”
For which I want to read in Second Corinthians, chapter 3, verses 6 and on, where the great apostle Saint Paul tells us, saying:
“Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.
For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious.
Seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech:
And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished:
But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
The veil on Moses’ face prevented the people from seeing the glory of God, which was on Moses’ face.
In the temple, the veil that was on the doorway to the most holy place prevented the people who were looking towards the most holy place from seeing the glory of God, which was on the ark of the covenant, on the mercy seat, in the most holy place.
In the temple, the head of the temple, that is, the main part, is the most holy place; and in the human being, you see, as to the physical body, the part of the head is the main part. We find that you can lose a foot, and still live; or an arm, and still live; but if you lose the head, that is where it ends.
And now, when people look at a person’s feet, they can’t call him by the person’s name, nor when they look at the arms; but when they look at his face, the head, they call him by his name; because there is the name of the person, he is the one who carries the name.
Now, the body, you see, all bodies look alike; but now, when we look at the face of the person, then we can distinguish the person and say: “You are So-and-so.”
And now, notice how also in the human being —as in the temple—: in the human being the body, speaking of the physical body, we have the name placed there, because wherever you arrive and you see his face, they call him by his name. And when you see the person who calls you by name, you greet him and say: “Hello, how are you, So-and-so?”; but if you don’t see his face, then you can’t call him by name.
Now, Moses’ face was covered because the glory of God was in Moses’ face; just as the most holy place of the temple that Moses built and of the temple that Solomon built: the most holy place had a veil at the entrance, at the entrance door, which prevented the sight of the one who was inside that temple, of the one who was in the most holy place there manifested upon the mercy seat. And there was the Eternal Name of God, because there was the Pillar of Fire, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord.
And notice how God says through the prophet Moses in chapter 23, verse 20 and on [Exodus]:
“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? In His Angel; in the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, which is the Word, the theophanic body of God, in which God dwells, and in which God appeared to the Hebrew people, and appeared to the prophets of the Old Testament and spoke to them.
Many saw the Angel of the Lord in the form of a man, of an angel, from another dimension, and they thought they were going to die because they had seen God face to face; but they had seen God face to face in His theophanic body, but they had not seen the One who was inside that theophanic body.
Now, that veil or theophanic body of the sixth dimension is the veil that covered the glory of God, which was inside that body. And then, when He became flesh and was manifested in the midst of the Hebrew people:1 “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us human beings (in the midst of the Hebrew people),” when He became flesh He was known by the name of Jesus; there was God veiled in human flesh. And no one could look and see the glory of God, which was within that veil of flesh.
And now, see, within that veil of flesh was the glory of God.
Now, some saw a man, but others saw God inside that man; in other words, others saw, realized that God was inside that man named Jesus.
It is very important to see what is behind the veil, because behind the veil of God is the glory of God. Behind the veil of God is the Most Holy Place, the Ark of the Covenant, the Mercy Seat with the Two Golden Cherubim, and the glory of God manifested there in the Most Holy Place.
See, in Isaiah, chapter 40, verse 3 and on, see what it says:
“The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.”
And how would the glory of the Lord be manifested and the glory of the Lord be seen? It would be manifested in a veil of flesh called Jesus.
When the glory of the Lord was manifested on Earth, according to the messianic promise… for which God sent His forerunner John the Baptist; and then came the glory of the Lord, the glory of God, manifested in human flesh, in a veil of flesh. And many didn’t see the glory of God because they didn’t look behind that veil of flesh to know who was carrying out those wonderful works in the midst of the Hebrew people and who it was that was giving that revealed Word to the Hebrew people.
Jesus said: “I do nothing of myself. What I see the Father do, that I do; and what I hear the Father speak, that I speak.”2 That is why He could also say:3 “The word which thou gavest me I have given them; and they received it,” that is, the believers in Jesus received it.
Now, look how the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says in the book of Quotations, in some excerpts of the message “The Unveiling of God.” And now, notice, it is in a message entitled “The Unveiling of God”; it speaks of the veil that was in the most holy place, there at the entrance door. And now, notice, it says, on verse 1101, it says:4
“Here, why couldn’t they see Jesus? He was masked. (that is, He was veiled in human flesh). God was masked (that is, God in morphe, who changes his mask, that is, his body).”
He changed from one prophet to another prophet, but it was God in each of those prophets; it was the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Holy Spirit, in each of those prophets.
See, Peter tells us this… In order for you to understand this reading, let’s see what Peter tells us in First Peter, chapter 1, verse 10 and on; he says:
“Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you:
Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify…”
The Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit, was in the prophets, and was veiled in human flesh in each of the prophets; it was God with a different veil of flesh in each stage. God in morphe, which means that God changes His veil of flesh, He changes His mask, that is, His physical appearance; because the physical appearance is the veil of flesh, the body of flesh, through which God was manifesting Himself from stage to stage and from dispensation to dispensation and from age to age.
“…when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.”
And who was it that announced the sufferings that would come to Christ, and the glories that would follow those sufferings? The Spirit of Christ.
That Angel of the Covenant, Angel of the Lord, who is also called “the Word of God,” who was with God and was God, and created all things, that is the only prophet. That is the one who has prophesied through His instruments, His veils of flesh, which are also called “prophets,” because in them God is manifested; the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, is manifested, making known the things that are to happen. And that is why we find that the prophets have announced the things that are to come, and have given testimony of the things that are happening in every age, according to the Word of God.
And now, notice that it is only One who has been making known the things that are to happen. Who is it? It is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, which is God Himself, which is the God of Abraham, God of Isaac and God of Jacob.
Through His manifestation in His theophanic body He appeared to the prophets, and manifested Himself through His prophets, and gave them the revelation of those things which they prophesied. “For the Lord God will do nothing, except He first reveal His secrets (to whom?) to His servants His prophets,” says Amos, chapter 3, verse 7.
And where does God place His Word? In the book of Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verse 15 to 19, it says that He places His Word in the mouth of His prophets: “…and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.” In whose mouth? In the mouth of the prophet He raises up from among the people.
[1 Peter 1:12] “Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.”
Now, we can see that the Spirit of Christ…, which is the Holy Spirit, which is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, which is Jesus Christ Himself but in Holy Spirit, without His physical body in which He came two thousand years ago in human flesh.
Now, see:
“Here, why couldn’t they see Jesus (that is, the Angel of the Covenant)? He was masked. God was masked (that is, He was covered with a veil of flesh). The Greeks wanted (to see) a god, and here He was (He was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob), but they couldn’t see Him because of the veil (in other words, the veil of flesh). / They come to see God, and they seen a man (Why? Because God was inside that veil of flesh). See? They couldn’t see God because God was veiled to them (that is, veiled in human flesh). Now keep that on your mind, God was veiled in a man. They could say, ‘No man could do these works except it be God. No man can do it, and how here stands a man and yet the works of God is manifested through Him!’ (How could it be? Because God was within that man carrying out those works; it was God.) See, they couldn’t understand that God was veiled (that is, veiled in human flesh).”
God had put on a veil of flesh, a body of flesh, in which He was manifested here on Earth (in this earthly dimension of light, time and matter) visiting the human race in the midst of the Hebrew people.
“He is veiled in a man, as He always was veiled (He was veiled in the prophets of the Old Testament, then veiled in Jesus in all His fullness). (Now) But, He was veiled unto them, He was in His human temple. God was in a human temple.”
Remember that the human being is a temple of God.5
And now, here was the perfect temple of God: our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; a human temple created by God, who created a cell of life in Mary’s womb, which multiplied cell upon cell, and formed, created, that body of Jesus, which was born in Bethlehem of Judea; and that is the human temple where God was manifested in all His fullness.
“…God was in a human temple. Now, be real careful, now He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever. See? God veiled, hiding Himself from the world, veiled in human being. / They could only see a man. But those Predestinated seen God. (They saw God behind that veil, within that veil, carrying out all the work relevant to that time, to the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah). One saw a man, the other one saw God.”
In other words, those who couldn’t see behind the veil and see that it was God who was inside that human body, what they saw was a man; and they said, some said:6 “He is a Samaritan and He has demons; He is a madman,” they said:7 “He is Beelzebub, and by the finger of Beelzebub (the prince of demons) He casts out demons.”
However, those who could see that it was God manifested in human flesh said: “It is not the prince of demons, Beelzebub. He is the Prince-God.” His Name is Eternal Father, Mighty God, Prince of Peace8</sup>; He is the Prince of Peace.
“Now, be real careful…”
He says:
“…And it was God veiled in a human being, making both of them right, but your faith in that what you don’t see. You believe it, anyhow. God veiled in a human being.”
And now, we continue reading in verse 1105 of the same page 124 of the book of Quotations (it is another excerpt from the message “The Unveiling of God”):
“Wherever the Word is (that is, the Word), It’s veiled. Moses had the Word. Now remember, after the Word was made manifest, Moses was Moses again. See? But while that Word was in him to be give out, he was God…”
Did God not say to Moses: “You shall be God to Aaron, you shall be in God’s stead”?9 Why? Because God was in Moses, and a prophet is the representation of God on Earth:
“….well, he wasn’t Moses no more. He had the Word of the Lord for that age. Nothing could touch him till that was over; had that Word with him. / And he was the Word to them.”
Why? Because the Word was in Him, It was veiled in human flesh.
“Now, God has to veil Hisself, as He promised, in human flesh. God! Do you get It? God has to veil Hisself in human flesh, and put a spiritual veil over them, (say, ‘Well, I’m this and I’m that’), in order to speak to the people.”
And now, continuing here on page 125 verse 1108, it says:10
“…Moses went in as Moses, went into this Pillar of Fire; and when he walked back out, he was veiled. For, he went into There, out of his traditions, the traditions of the elders. He had saw the Pillar of Fire, but now he goes into the Pillar of Fire. See? Amen! And he come forth, veiled. God’s Word in a man, veiled! Here he come walking out, oh, my, I can see it. Warned nobody else to try it, nobody can impersonate That. / Others have their places, that’s right, notice, but stay away from that Pillar of Fire. See? What a lesson we learn here! See, everybody wanting to be a Moses, and everybody (those who tried imitating Moses and died)… You remember what Dathan and them said out there? They said, ‘Now, Moses, wait here just a minute! You take too much upon yourself, see. Now, there is other men here that God has called.’ That is true. They, each one, were following fine as long as they went along, but when one tried to step up and take God’s position that He give Moses, which was predestinated and ordained to that job, tried to take it, fire come down and opened up the earth and swallowed them right into it.”
In other words, they tried to take the place of Moses. And the place of the prophet of an age or dispensation, no one else can occupy it.
And anyone, in the time of Moses, who tried to guide the Hebrew people, was trying to take the place of Moses. It was God through Moses leading the Hebrew people, not through anyone else. And Dathan and Korah tried to be the leaders; see, they even tried to lead the Hebrew people; and they had a serious problem.
The revelation of God for an age or for a dispensation, for the people of God, only comes through the prophet that God has for that time. And anyone who tries to imitate that prophet, and tries to say: “I can also obtain the revelation of God for my time,” and tries to seek the revelation of God on his own: he will have serious problems with God.
One of the things he will do will be that he will have a confusion in himself; he may have a lot of things right, but he will have a lot of things wrong. And those who follow him will not be following God: they will be following a man, and therefore they will be involved in a rebellion against God.
That was the rebellion of Dathan and Korah, who wanted to lead the Hebrew people, when God had the leader, the instrument, the veil of flesh through which God was leading the Hebrew people.
And now, people have risen in all the times who think they are the leaders of the people to lead them, when God has for every age and for every dispensation His man, His veil of flesh, through which God veils Himself in human flesh and reveals Himself through human flesh, and leads His people.
See, in the time of John the Baptist and of Jesus, and also of the Old Testament prophets, there were many religious leaders; but there was a prophet for each age, and through that prophet God guided the people. And many leaders rose up against those prophets, and therefore rose up against the divine guidance for that time, for that age or dispensation.
And when John the Baptist appeared, there was the guidance of God for the people; and then Jesus appeared, and there was the guidance of God for the people: God veiled in human flesh in Jesus of Nazareth.
But look, all those who rose up against Jesus, and they tried to lead the people…, and they led them against Jesus, to ask for the death of Jesus. But Jesus was rightly leading the people to give them Life, and Life in abundance,11 which is eternal life.
Now notice how there is always this struggle. Some people think that when God sends a prophet, a man, and manifests Himself through that man, all the other people and religious leaders are going to welcome him and receive him, and give him way for him to give his Message. Throughout the biblical history, in 99% of the cases this has not been the case. Even God having the prophet Moses as His instrument, who and through whom God delivered the Hebrew people: even, you see, the Hebrew people knowing that their leader was Moses, part of the people went with Dathan and Korah.
Now we can see that it is very important to follow the guidance of God, the guidance of the Holy Spirit; because when people look for one or more men to guide them, they are being guided humanly; and that is the contradiction of Dathan and Korah.
Now, we can see that the guidance of the people and for the people, is the guidance of God through the instrument that God has for each age and for each dispensation, in which God will be veiled; the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, will be veiled in that instrument, according to the portion relevant to that time, to that age or to that dispensation; and outside of that guidance there is no other guidance for the people of God for that age or for that dispensation.
Now, let’s continue reading in this passage we were reading. It says:
“See, everybody wanting to be a Moses, and everybody… You remember what Dathan (and Korah) and them said out there? They said, ‘Now, Moses, wait here just a minute! You take too much upon yourself, see. Now, there is other men here that God has called.’ (That is what Dathan and Korah used to say) That is true. They, each one, were following fine as long as they went along, but when one tried to step up and take God’s position that He give Moses, which was predestinated and ordained to that job, tried to take it, fire come down and opened up the earth and swallowed them right into it (in other words, they were swallowed by the earth and went to hell, to the fifth dimension).”
And that is what happens to the imitators who try to imitate the messenger of God for every age or for every dispensation: they get themselves into serious trouble with God; they try to imitate the messenger and they rise up against the messenger.
We continue reading, we continue reading on verse 1110 on page 125 of the book of Quotations; it says:12
“Moses was that living Word to the people, veiled by the Pillar of Fire, speaking what was to be veiled later behind badger skins. See?”
In other words, what Moses spoke, then was placed inside the temple, it was written and placed inside the temple; and the Law that was given for the people, by God through Moses, was placed inside the ark of the covenant; but that Law, that Word, was in Moses, and from Moses came to the people; because all revelation has to come through a prophet. He goes on to say:
“See? / Moses had the Word. They were written by God, nobody could interpret Them, Moses had to interpret Them, first. That’s the reason he veiled his face (that is, his countenance), ’cause he… Do you see It? See? Here It is.13 We could pick It, pack It up, and everything else there, but It’s got to be revealed. In order to reveal, Moses had to become God to the people. / Moses was the living Word veiled then. The people saw that Pillar of Fire, said, ‘Now we are satisfied.’ See? ‘Let Moses speak.’ See? ‘Don’t let God speak, lest we die.’ Moses walked right into that Pillar of Fire. See?”
And verse 1111 follows:
“…the promised Word to this age must also be veiled.”
Now, where is the Word of God found for each age and for each dispensation? It is found veiled in the messenger, in the prophet messenger, of that age or of that dispensation.
If it is for a dispensation, the Word of God for that entire dispensation is veiled in human flesh in the messenger of that dispensation; and that dispensation will revolve around that Word veiled in that messenger.
That is why you find that the Dispensation of the Law revolves around that Word that was veiled in Moses and given to the Hebrew people. And the Dispensation of Grace revolves around the Word veiled in Jesus. And so it is for the end time: The Word veiled for the Dispensation of the Kingdom will be in human flesh manifested in the Last Day, and around that Word veiled in human flesh will revolve the seventh dispensation, the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And through that Word veiled and revealed through human flesh, the whole Program of God for the Dispensation of the Kingdom will be made known to the people of God (to the Church of Jesus Christ and later to the Hebrew people); and, therefore, the people will have the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom for the Dispensation of the Kingdom, which is represented in the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet that Saint Paul said would play, would sound, in the end time, for the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive.14
That Last Trumpet, which is the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom being proclaimed, calls and gathers all of God’s elect in the Last Day. “And He shall send forth his angels with a Great Sound of a Trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds of the Earth, from one end of the Earth to the other,” says Matthew, chapter 24 and verse 31.
Now, we can see that it is very important to know the mystery of the Word veiled in human flesh, in order to understand how God will be working in this end time; for He will be working in the same way He worked in past ages and dispensations, because God doesn’t change His way of working. “For the Lord God will do nothing, except He first reveals His secrets to His servants His prophets.”
And now, we continue reading (we had read here):
“…the promised Word to this age must also be veiled. Notice. Sin-loving church members and sinners cannot see It because of the human veil. That’s the reason they couldn’t see Him.”
They couldn’t see Him —God— back in the past, because of the human veil, of the messenger of that time, where that Word was veiled in human flesh; they couldn’t see Him —God— veiled in human flesh in Jesus; and they couldn’t see Him veiled in every angel messenger in every age. And they will not be able to see Him veiled in human flesh in the Last Day in the Age of the Cornerstone in His Angel Messenger.
But the elect did see Him in the past; and therefore the elect of the Last Day will see Him veiled in human flesh.
In verse 1113 on the same page 125, it says, in this excerpt from the message “The Unveiling of God,” it says:
“The Gentile church has also been blinded from the veil, after it’s been tore off and showed God, the ecclesiastical veil. How? By veiling the Word in human being again. That’s exactly what Israel failed to see. If it would have been some Angel or something, Israel would have believed It. But being it could not be an Angel, it had to be a man. Amen! God can’t break His Word. In the last days it has to be the same thing again. See? What blinded Israel? That Man (in other words, the veil of flesh didn’t allow Israel to see, it blinded them; it didn’t allow them to see the glory of God that was within that veil of flesh). They said: ‘You’re a Man making Yourself God.’ That’s what they killed Him for, and, today, because the Message come through man and not Angels. See? God can’t change His way (couldn’t change what?), change His Word. He said He changed not. See? Notice, promised! And the Gentiles are just as blinded today as Israel was, because (what?) the veil. God veiled in a human being, blinded Israel. Notice, has ever blinded one. Notice, has ever blinded one. One, It will blind; the other, It will reveal the Truth (in other words, He will blind one and to the other He will reveal the truth). It’ll close the eyes of some, and open the eyes of the other.”
That is for this end time, as it was for the First Coming of Christ.
For the First Coming of Christ, the veil of flesh blinded the eyes of those great doctors in divinity; in other words, they couldn’t see, they were blinded to the manifestation of God within that veil of flesh. They were waiting to see the manifestation of the glory of God, as the prophet Isaiah said; for the prophet Isaiah said in chapter 40 [verse 3]:
“The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.”
But when the glory of the Lord came, manifested in the midst of the Hebrew people in the fulfillment of this promise, which is the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah, for whom John the Baptist was preparing the way as the voice of one crying in the wilderness…
Now, when the glory of God came manifested in the midst of the Hebrew people, It came veiled in human flesh: It came veiled in a simple man, a carpenter from Nazareth, named Jesus. The glory of God was manifested and veiled in that young carpenter, and they stumbled over that veil; they stumbled over that veil, and because of stumbling over that veil they couldn’t see the glory of God; they were blind to the glory of God, which was within that veil of flesh. Veiled in human flesh was God, the Angel of the Covenant; for behind the veil is the glory of God.
Behind the veil that was in the most holy place, the door of the entrance, was —behind that veil— the glory of God manifested upon the mercy seat, in the midst of the two golden cherubim.
And now, we find that within the veil of flesh —Jesus Christ— the glory of God was there, the glory of the Shekinah, the Angel of the Covenant, the Word, made flesh in the midst of the Hebrew people. God had created His physical body.
Just as God before obtaining that physical body that He created for Himself in Mary’s womb and was born in Bethlehem of Judea…; before that, God had His theophanic body, called the Angel of the Covenant or Angel of the Lord, which is a man of the sixth dimension, through which God created the entire universe. And that is why the Bible tells us in John, 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.”
All things were made by whom? By Him.
“…and without him was not any thing made that was made.”
In other words, no one else put his hands in the Creation, but only God, who is the Word that was with God and was God; in other words, God with His theophanic body, in His theophanic body, called the Angel of the Covenant or Angel of the Lord, also called the Word of God, that theophanic body of the sixth dimension, which is a man of the sixth dimension.
That which is seen was made from that which was not seen15</sup>; and Christ, who is God Himself (Jesus Christ is God Himself, who was in His theophanic body), created all things.
That is why Saint Paul can say in Hebrews, chapter 1, verse 1 to 3:
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hath 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…”
Through His Son He made the universe; that is, God through His theophanic body created the entire universe and sustains it:
“…by whom also he made the worlds;
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things (Who sustains them? Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, who is God Himself in His theophanic body) by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high…”
And now, when He became flesh, He carried out the purification of our sins with His own body. He is God Himself.
That is why He is Emmanuel, which translated is: God with us,16 according to the prophecy of Isaiah, chapter 7 and verse 14, where it tells us that the Lord Himself will give us a sign. Let’s see that sign: Isaiah, chapter 7, 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 (which translates as: God with us).”
And that child, that son that would be born, Isaiah also, in chapter 9 says, verse 6 to 7:
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.”
And now, see how God in such a simple form came veiled in human flesh, in a simple young man from Nazareth named Jesus. Who would have imagined that in that young man from Nazareth, a young carpenter, a construction worker; who would have imagined that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, was in there, veiled in human flesh?
He had become man, the Angel of the Covenant, He had clothed Himself with a human body, but created by God, so that through that body He could carry out the purification of our sins: take our sins, and thus become sin for us; and thus die, that body die on Calvary’s Cross; and then be resurrected (three days later be resurrected) and be glorified (be resurrected in a glorified form) to sit at the right hand of God in Heaven.
And now, Saint Paul speaks to us about that body as His veil, His veil of flesh; let’s see. In Hebrews, chapter 10, let’s see what it says there… Chapter 10, verse 20, let’s see what Saint Paul says there, in that passage; it says… Chapter 10, verse 9 and on, it says:
“Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,
This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh…”
Now see here the veil: the veil of the Most Holy Place is His flesh.
And now, the veil of the Temple of God in Heaven is our Lord Jesus Christ; and when He died on Calvary’s Cross, the veil of the Temple of God in Heaven, of the Most Holy Place, was opened.
And now, Christ ascended to Heaven and entered the Most Holy Place —where the glory of God is in the Temple of God in Heaven— to make intercession, as the high priest did every year on the 10th day of the seventh month.
And now, who was it that opened the veil and who passed through the veil? In the most holy place only one person; one person was the one who could pass through the veil, to the other side, and enter into the most holy place and see the glory of God: It was the high priest; which is the man upon whom the Name of God was written on his forehead, on that golden plate that the high priest had on his forehead, that golden plate called “holy crown.”
And now, see how that golden holy crown or golden plate contained the Name of God; it said:17 “Holiness to the Lord,” that is, “Holiness to YHWH.” And only that man, with the Name of God written on his forehead and with the ministry of high priest, was the one who could pass through the veil and see the glory of God upon the mercy seat, in the most holy place, and go with the blood of atonement to make intercession for the Hebrew people; and also to carry the golden censer with the fire of the altar; and the incense (the fist full of incense) to throw it upon the censer, into the censer; and there arose a cloud of smoke, of incense, into the most holy place, and covered the mercy seat; and there were the prayers of the Hebrew people being presented before God.
The high priest had to enter with the censer, because otherwise the high priest would die in the most holy place, in the presence of God.
Therefore, you see, in Leviticus it is established that the high priest had to enter with that censer; and also in Leviticus, God also orders Moses to make it known to the high priest (the way to enter the most holy place). See, he had to enter properly dressed, he had to enter with the censer at a certain time, he also had to enter with the blood of atonement for him and for all the priests (that is the blood of the bullock); and he also had, then, to enter with the goat’s blood for the intercession for the people. It says Leviticus, chapter 16, verse 1 and on:
“And the Lord spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the Lord, and died (they approached, but not according to the way God had established: they approached with strange fire)<em>;
And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.”
And He begins to enumerate all the things with which the high priest must enter the most holy place. And among the things, we have the blood of atonement for the high priest and the other priests, the blood of the calf or bullock; and then, with the blood (later on, in another of the entries), with the goat’s blood, he had to, with his finger, sprinkle seven times on the mercy seat.
The prophet and apostle Saint Paul also says in his letter to the Hebrews, 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 (now, look, the cherubim of what? of glory; because there was where the glory of God, the glory of the Lord, was manifested) shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.”
Here we can see that in that temple there was a candlestick, the table of shewbread; all of that was in the holy place. But now, in the most holy place, beyond the veil (that is, behind the veil), was the ark of the covenant, the tables of the Law inside the ark of the covenant, Aaron’s rod that budded, and there was also the manna urn (the manna was hidden there, inside the ark of the covenant); and upon the ark of the covenant was the mercy seat, which was the lid of the ark of the covenant; and upon the mercy seat, made of the same piece of gold, were the two cherubim, one on one side and the other on the other side; and in the midst of the two cherubim, upon the mercy seat, was there the glory of God manifested in the Pillar of Fire, that Cloud, that Light of the Shekinah; and from there God spoke to Moses all the things that He wanted Moses to speak to the Hebrew people.
That is why it says in Exodus, chapter 25, verse 21 to 22:
“And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark…”
In other words, the mercy seat is the lid of the ark, and on the lid of the ark are the two golden cherubim, and that is where the glory of God is manifested; and that is the place of intercession, and that is the place where the blood of atonement is placed.
That is called the seat or chair of mercy, while the blood of atonement is upon it. As long as the blood of atonement is placed upon that place, it is a place of mercy; but if on the 10th day of the seventh month of each year the blood of atonement was not placed there, both for the priests and the people, then from there went forth the judgment of God for the Hebrew people.
It goes on to say:
“And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.”
There we can see the most important place in the temple, and that place is behind the veil.
Now, we have in the Temple of God the place where the glory of God is, which is the Most Holy Place, upon the Mercy Seat.
The most holy place, you see, in the human being, which has body, spirit and soul; the body represents the outer court, the spirit of the human being represents the holy place and the soul of the human being represents the most holy place.
Therefore, also, the human being, being a temple of God, is a temple for the dwelling of God in the soul of that person, of the person. That is the place where God dwells in the human being who has received Him as his Savior and has washed away his sins in the Blood of Christ and has received His Holy Spirit.
Now, we can see that the most important part of the human being is the soul of the person, because that is what the person really is. The spirit is a body of another dimension and the physical body is a body of this earthly dimension; but the soul, that soul, if it is of God, it is a seed of God, and he has his name written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, since before the foundation of the world.
That is the seed of God, which comes to Earth in mortal, corruptible and temporary bodies, and receives a spirit of the world; and therefore requires a new birth to receive a spirit of the sixth dimension, of God, a theophanic body of the sixth dimension; and then, in the Last Day, to receive an eternal and glorified physical body, equal to the body of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
Now we can see how important God’s Program is for all the sons and daughters of God, for all those seeds of God, those souls of God, who come to this planet Earth to make contact with Christ the Eternal Life; and thus obtain the new birth, and thus obtain the theophanic body of the sixth dimension; and then, in the Last Day, obtain the physical and eternal and glorified body, equal to the body of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, to be in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ our Savior.
Now, seeing what the veil is there in the temple of Moses and the temple of Solomon…, which is type and figure of Christ, Christ in His Coming: His First and Second Coming of Christ.
Now, the veil there was the veil of flesh that the Angel of the Covenant was wearing in His First Coming. And when that veil of flesh was wouded on Calvary’s Cross, the veil of the earthly temple there in Jerusalem was torn from the top to the bottom.18 And it was high up, no man could cut that veil with scissors; one, because it was from the top down; and the other, because it was thick, and not even with scissors could that veil of the temple be cut; but God tore it from the top down.
And now, you see how also on Calvary’s Cross, Christ was wounded there, and the veil of the Temple of God was opened in Heaven for Christ to enter behind the veil of the Temple of God in Heaven, to enter the Most Holy Place, to make intercession for all of us during all this time that has elapsed, and what remains of this end time, until He has made intercession for the very last of God’s elect.
Now look who is the one that can enter behind the veil: it has to be the High Priest; and Christ entered into the Most Holy Place of the Temple which is in Heaven. The veil of the Temple in Heaven was opened, and Christ entered there into the Most Holy Place, and has been making intercession for each one of those whose names are written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
And now, the Second Coming of Christ, in the Last Day, will be the veil of the spiritual Temple of the Lord Jesus Christ; because Christ has been building a Temple. And therefore that Temple has the Holy Place, which pertains to the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church, which have been built with living stones, with sons and daughters of God who have been called and gathered and placed in the Temple of God, in the Holy Place, where those seven lamps have been in the candlestick or candelabrum, which are the seven ages with the seven angel messengers shining within the Temple of God, in other words, within the Church of Jesus Christ.
And then we pass, from the seven ages of the gentile Church, in the Last Day, to the Age of the Cornerstone; where God, everything that was built in the Most Holy Place, Christ builds in His Church; therefore, there He will have everything, and it is built with human beings.
And just as the veil of flesh back then was a human being: Jesus Christ; and just as the candlestick with its seven lamps were human beings: The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ with her seven angel messengers passing through her seven stages; the Most Holy Place is also built with living stones, with human beings.
And all that is in the Most Holy Place of the Temple which is in Heaven is materialized in human beings in the Last Day.
And it is human beings who will enter that Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, passing through the veil, passing through the Second Coming of Christ; just as to enter the Temple, during these seven stages or ages of the gentile Church, people have had to pass through the First Coming of Christ. No person can enter the Temple of God without believing in the First Coming of Christ.
One enters the Temple, and thus passes into the Holy Place, by believing in the First Coming of Christ. No one can enter the Temple of God without believing in the First Coming of Christ. Why? Because to become part of the spiritual Temple of Christ, a person must be born again; and to be born again, he must believe in Jesus Christ as our Savior, wash his sins in the Blood of Christ and receive His Holy Spirit; and thus he is born in the House of God.
He is born in the House of God in the Holy Place, and then he can pass into the Most Holy Place in the Last Day, to see the glory of God manifested in the Most Holy Place; but first he sees the Work of God relevant to the Holy Place and sees how Jesus Christ was manifested through His angel messengers, which God’s elect of the seven ages of the gentile Church saw, and they saw the Light of Christ manifested through His messengers in each age.
But now, you see, Saint Paul says:19 “Now we see as through a mirror, in darkness.” And, look, how does one see in a mirror, in darkness or a dark place?
If you can see in a dark night, in order to see you have to have a light, a lamp; and then, if you place a mirror and you see in a mirror (seeing as in a mirror in darkness), what you are seeing there is a reflection of what is in the Most Holy Place. And what is in the Most Holy Place was reflected in the seven ages of the gentile Church; but that was seeing as in a mirror, in darkness, during the seven ages of the gentile Church, which corresponds to the night.
That is why, let’s see, in Exodus, chapter 27, verse 20 to 21, it says:
“And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten (of olives what?, beaten) for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the Lord (What was the time for the lamps of the candlestick to be shining with olive oil? From evening to morning): it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.”
Now see, they were turned on in the evening, and then, in the morning, they were turned off. It was to give light during the night.
And the seven ages of the gentile Church with her seven angel messengers, which are the wicks lit with the Fire of the Holy Spirit, under the anointing of the Olive Oil, of the Oil of the Holy Spirit (the Olive Oil is the Holy Spirit): now see how shone, during the seven ages of the gentile Church, those lamps with those lit wicks: the messengers of each age; but that is from evening to morning.
And now, that was for what part of the Temple? For the Holy Place of the Temple.
Now we can see that there are two lights in the Temple: the Light that comes from the lighted lamps, which is the Light of the Spirit through those messengers; and then the Light of the Most Holy Place; but there are no lamps there: there is only the Light of the Shekinah, the Light of the presence of God in that Pillar of Fire.
And the high priest went in during the 10th day of the seventh month, during (what?) the daytime. And the Light that the high priest saw in the most holy place during the day… Although the most holy place was a place without lamps, without lights, it was a dark place, but with the Light of God there it was the most illuminated place.
Now, we can see that that Light that was there manifested, which was the presence of God in the Pillar of Fire, the Light of the Shekinah, pertains to the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, where we no longer need any of the seven lamps, nor any of the seven lights that were in those lamps. In other words, we no longer need any of the seven angel messengers of the seven ages to give light in the Most Holy Place; because the lights of those seven lamps that were in the candlestick or candelabrum didn’t enter the most holy place to give light.
What is needed in the Age of the Cornerstone is one light: the Light of the Shekinah, the Light of the Pillar of Fire, shining in the midst of the Two Golden Cherubim, in the midst of the ministries of Moses and Elijah, in the midst of the Two Olive Trees; because there, in the most holy place of the temple which Solomon built, were two cherubim of olive wood covered with gold, and under the wings of those cherubim was the ark of the covenant with the two golden cherubim with and on the mercy seat.
And now see how all this symbolism is fulfilled in the Church of Jesus Christ in the Last Day.
Now, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Place, for the Last Day she would be looking not as in a mirror in darkness, but she would be seeing (how?) face to face; she would be seeing face to face the glory of God manifested in the Most Holy Place, upon the Mercy Seat, in the midst of the Two Golden Cherubim; because the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ would pass through the veil: she would pass from the Holy Place to the Most Holy Place.
And how is she going to pass from the Holy Place to the Most Holy Place if she doesn’t pass through the veil to see what is behind the veil? And to see what is behind the veil in the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, well, one must pass through the veil, to see the other side of the veil: one must pass through the Second Coming of Christ. There is no other way to pass into the Most Holy Place and be there, and eat of the hidden Manna, and see the glory of God manifested in the Most Holy Place upon the Ark of the Covenant.
Now we can see in the Most Holy Place, face to face, all that is in the Temple of God in Heaven, and all that was in the temple of Moses and the temple of Solomon, being materialized in the Church of Jesus Christ, in the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple.
And just as the tables of the Law, the Word of God for the Dispensation of the Law, were placed by Moses inside the temple, in the most holy place, in the ark of the covenant; so Christ brings the Title Deed, the Book of the Seven Seals, and places them inside the Most Holy Place, inside the Ark of the Covenant.
And that is why, you see, Christ, the Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven, says to John, who is type and figure of the Church of Jesus Christ and the Angel Messenger for the Last Day (just as He was type and figure also of the seven angel messengers); He says to John, who is type of the Angel of Jesus Christ: “Ask the Angel that stands upon the earth and upon the sea, ask Him for the little Book that He has in His hand.” And he goes and asks Him. And the Angel says to him: “Take it, eat it; it will be sweet in your mouth, but it will be bitter in your belly.”
And John says that he took it and ate it, and he says that it was sweet in his mouth but it was bitter in his belly. He says: “And when I had eaten it, it made my belly bitter.” Those are the trials and persecutions and afflictions that the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ will have to go through when He eats that little open Book that is given to him by Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven.
“And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up (Revelation 10, verse 10 and on)<em>; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.”
The final prophecy, the prophecy of the Last Day for many people, nations and tongues, comes through the one who eats the little Book of the Seven Seals in the Last Day, which the Angel of the Covenant brings, the Angel of the Lord, which is Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, coming in the Last Day with that Title Deed. Coming where? To His Church. Coming to what part of the Church? To the Most Holy Place of His Temple.
Just as the Word, the testimony that God gave to Moses, was placed in the most holy place of the temple of God built by Moses; thus the Title Deed is also placed in the Most Holy Place of the Temple of God, of the Temple of Jesus Christ, in the Ark of the Covenant in the Last Day.
That is also where the hidden Manna is; and that is where the hidden Manna comes from, which is the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ for all the sons and daughters of God, to eat the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ.
“To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden Manna,”20 the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ: that Manna that will never corrupt, that will never cease to exist. That is the spiritual food for all those who will be living during the Dispensation of the Kingdom; and with that revelation is that “the Earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.”21
Where was the glory of the Lord in the temple? In the most holy place, upon the mercy seat. Humanity will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, of the Second Coming of Christ fulfilled, manifested, in the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple.
Now we can see all this mystery that is contained in the Temple of God, in the most holy place of the temple that Moses built, of the temple that Solomon built and of the Temple that is in Heaven, to be manifested in the Temple of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone.
And now, God in the Last Day, notice, removes the veil that prevented the sons and daughters of God to see into the Most Holy Place; He removes the denominational veil, which with traditions and dogmas and human interpretations prevents people from seeing the glory of Jesus Christ in His Temple, in the Most Holy Place, in His Second Coming.
Now, Christ tears that denominational veil, so that they can pass into the Most Holy Place, into the Temple, pass into the Temple of God and enter into the Most Holy Place.
That is in regard to the veil that Christ takes away, THE VEIL THAT CHRIST HAS REMOVED FROM US</strong>; and now we can see clearly. But also the veil of the most holy place represents Christ in His Second Coming, as the veil of the temple there represented Christ in His First Coming.
Now, the veil of the Temple of God, of the Church of Jesus Christ, which is inside the Temple, this is the veil of the Second Coming of Christ; which, behind that veil, when we look at who is behind that veil, we can see that it is Jesus Christ manifested in the Last Day in the midst of His Church.
Now, on page 256 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, our beloved brother, Reverend William Branham, telling us about the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, which is the Second Coming of Christ, says:22
“196 But when our Lord appears here on earth, He’ll be riding on a snow-white horse. And He’ll be completely, fully, the Emmanuel, the Word of God incarnate in a Man (that is to say He will come veiled in human flesh).”
And in order to see and enter the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, one must pass through that veil; one must enter through the Door, which is Christ, and pass through that veil of flesh where the Holy Spirit will come, the white horse Rider, manifested in the Last Day; in order to be able to see the glory of God manifested in the midst of His Church in the Most Holy Place, upon the Mercy Seat, in the midst of the Two Golden Cherubim, that is, in the midst of the ministries of Moses and Elijah, on the Last Day.
When Christ promised the Coming of the Son of Man in Matthew, chapter 16, verses 27 to 28, He said it would be in the following form, He says:
“For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels (He comes in the glory of His Father. And where must the glory of the heavenly Father be manifested? In the Most Holy Place)<em>; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”
And then, in chapter 17, Christ took Peter, James and John to a high mountain, and was transfigured before them: His face shone like the sun, and there appeared —speaking with Jesus— Moses and Elijah. That is the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, coming in His Kingdom on the Last Day.
And see how the Coming of the Son of Man coming in His Kingdom was represented there: it was represented on Mount Transfiguration; because that is how the Coming of the Son of Man for the Last Day would be fulfilled: coming with Moses and Elijah, in other words, the ministries of Moses and Elijah being manifested. And all that is to be fulfilled in the House of God, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Most Holy Place.
For this end time, just as in that time of Mount Transfiguration, Jesus was adopted there and God said: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased (in other words, I am content)”; for the Last Day, the Coming of the Son of Man, the Coming of Jesus Christ with His Angels (which is the coming of the ministry of Moses, the ministry of Elijah and the ministry of Jesus, in the Coming of the Mighty Angel, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit to His Temple): He comes to manifest Himself in the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple through human flesh, by veiling Himself in human flesh in His Angel Messenger, whom He will be using, and through whom Christ will be carrying out the Work relevant to the Most Holy Place.
And it will be a very important stage in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ, because Christ will still be there, as High Priest, in His spiritual Temple, just as He was from age to age; but none of the seven angel messengers had the ministry of High Priest. They only had the ministry of priests in the Temple of God, of messengers in the Temple of God; but Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ will have the ministry of High Priest in the Temple of God; and through him the Angel of the Covenant will be manifested, Jesus Christ, the High Priest of the Temple which is in Heaven, in His instrument that He will have here on Earth.
And that is where the last work of Christ in Heaven is reflected in His Church, in the Most Holy Place. And the number of God’s elect will be completed, and the dead in Christ will be resurrected in eternal bodies, and we who are alive will be transformed; and thus we will all be totally, fully reconciled with God.
That is the adoption of the sons and daughters of God: the adoption, the redemption of the body,23 that is, the transformation of our bodies; where we will obtain an eternal and glorified body, equal to the body of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; and thus we will be in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ.
It is in the Most Holy Place that Christ will also be adopting His Angel Messenger. It is a time for the adoption of the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ and of all of God’s elect of the Last Day. That is why we enter the Most Holy Place: to obtain full reconciliation with God and to be adopted as sons and daughters of God.
Now see how for the Last Day all these things would be fulfilled, according to the Program of God.
Now, before Jesus Christ was on Earth and ministered on Earth, being the High Priest Melchizedek… You see, before He entered the Most Holy Place of the Temple of God in Heaven, to carry out the Work of Intercession, first He had to be on Earth and His physical body die on Earth, and shed His Blood; in order for that Blood of the Lamb of God and of the Atonement to be taken by Jesus Christ as High Priest, to be taken to Heaven and presented in the Temple of God in Heaven.
Before He could do His work in Heaven, He had to be on Earth in His First Coming. And before Jesus Christ can do certain things in Heaven in the Last Day, He must first be manifested on Earth.
And He has been manifested from age to age in Holy Spirit, and He has been manifested through human flesh; just as for His First Coming He was manifested through human flesh carrying out the Work relevant here on Earth, to later ascend to Heaven and with His own Blood carry out the Work relevant to Intercession for all the children of God, which has already taken two thousand years and we still have what is left, until we are transformed.
Now, for Christ to carry out certain things in the Temple of God in Heaven, He has to be manifested on Earth in the Most Holy Place, and He has to be veiled in human flesh; and He has to place there, in the Most Holy Place, His elect of the Last Day; and He has to be operating His ministry there, as High Priest, through His Angel Messenger.
That is why the one who entered the most holy place was the one who had the Name written on his forehead. The other priests couldn’t enter; only the high priest was the one who had it written on his forehead and was the only one who could enter the most holy place.
And Christ has promised to write upon the Overcomer His New Name and Eternal Name of God (Revelation, chapter 3, verse 12); and He has promised to give him that little white Stone with a new name, which is the Second Coming of Christ with a new name.
Now, Christ, manifested in the Last Day as High Priest, and veiled in human flesh, enters the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple. And He brings the Eternal Name of God; because the Angel of the Covenant, which is Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, says Exodus, chapter 23, verse 20 to 23, which has the Name of God:
“…provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.”
And now, wherever the Angel of the Covenant has been manifested, there has been the Name of God. But now He will write it upon a man, who will be the instrument of God to enter into the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of God, for Christ through him to be manifested in the Most Holy Place as High Priest and carry out the Work relevant to the Last Day in the midst of His Church; and after that Work is finished, then the dead in Christ be resurrected in eternal bodies and we who are alive will be transformed.
Now we can see how in the Temple of God this Work is carried out behind the veil of the Temple of God, behind the veil of the door of the Most Holy Place.
But we also find that the religious world has a veil, which prevents the people from looking into the Temple of God and into the Most Holy Place of the Temple of God, to see what God is carrying out in His Temple in this end time. But that veil is torn; and the people will be delivered, and they will cry out: “Delivered, delivered!”24
I don’t want to talk much about that, because that is already a prophecy that has to be fulfilled at a certain time, where millions of human beings will benefit from what God is doing in this end time; and millions of human beings and ministers, of all religious groups, will receive great blessings.
For the moment we have to be inside the Temple of God, in the Most Holy Place, to see the glory of Jesus Christ on this Last Day; and with the revelation of the manifestation of the glory of Christ in His Second Coming in His spiritual Temple, in the Most Holy Place, is that the Earth will be filled: humanity will be filled with that knowledge in the Last Day.
That is why then, for the Millennial Kingdom, there will be no religious groupings, religious sects or anything; why? Because all that veil has already been taken away; and now everyone will see face to face, because the whole Earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of God manifested in the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple.
And thus they will no longer be seeing as in a mirror in darkness, as it was seen during the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church; because the Church was passing through its seven stages, which correspond to the time of the night. That is why the Church was represented in the moon, and that is why it had stars; each star was an angel messenger for each age.
And now, the bright and Morning Star (that is, of a new dispensational day) is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ25</sup>; and He is also the Sun of Righteousness, who in His Wings brings healing26 for all the children of God: He brings His whole Program to carry out for the resurrection of the dead in Christ and for the transformation of us who are alive; and thus to be taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb with eternal bodies, and escape the divine judgment of the great tribulation that is to come upon this planet Earth.
For He will hide us in His Tabernacle there in Heaven, in His Temple, and He will be offering us that Great Marriage Supper of the Lamb. There we will be hidden and safe, while humanity will go through the great tribulation, where the divine judgments will be poured out upon this planet Earth.
But you see, to get there we must first enter through the veil, pass through the veil: pass through the Second Coming of Christ, to enter the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ; and then materialize in us our entrance to Heaven, to the Most Holy Place of the Temple that is in Heaven, to the Great Marriage Supper of the Lamb, to the House of our heavenly Father, which is the seventh dimension.
“In my Father’s House are many mansions (said Jesus); if it were not so, I would have told you before; I go therefore to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself (Why? Because we are the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ), that where I am, there ye may be also (so that we may be in the seventh dimension, which is where He is).”27
Now, you see the great blessing that is behind the veil, where the Word will be veiled in the Last Day; because where the Word is, there the Word will be veiled in human flesh. If we find the veil of flesh, we will find the Word, the Angel of the Covenant, within that veil of flesh.
And that is how on the Last Day we would be seeing face to face: because we would see beyond the veil, behind the veil, who it is that is behind that veil (that is, within that veil or behind that veil) carrying out the Work of the Last Day.
Now, see how simple everything is in the Divine Program; everything is simple. And “the Lord God will do nothing, except He first reveal His secrets to His servants the prophets”; therefore, He will have a prophet for this end time, to reveal to His Church all these things that must soon come to pass.
And all these things which must shortly come to pass, says Revelation 22, verse 6, which are revealed by the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ:
“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to (manifest) unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”
And Revelation 22, verse 16, says:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
Who is the Sent One of Christ to give testimony of all these things that must shortly come to pass? The Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; because that is the veil of flesh where the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, in the Last Day will be manifested in the midst of His Church; and through that messenger will be that He calls us and gathers us and places us in the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple.
And passing through the veil that God will have at this time, passing through the veil, we will see everything of the Most Holy Place of the Temple that is in Heaven being materialized in the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
Now… Let’s see, Miguel, what time do you have over there… For me time has stopped, because mine doesn’t have batteries anymore; so time is no longer for… on my watch. What time? 8:00? We are finishing early tonight too…
We can see that we are living in the most glorious time, the most glorious time of all times.
This is the time that the apostles and also the prophets of the Old Testament, and all the believers in God of the Old Testament and the New Testament desired to live in; but it has been given to live this time without us having said: “Lord, I want to live in this end time”; but by the grace of God He determined, designed and predestined each one of you and me also to live in this end time.
In other words, it is not a matter of us. It is a Program, a Divine Plan, in which we have had the best part. And here in Latin America and the Caribbean He has placed us for this great blessing; and if anyone has gone to another nation, the blessing reaches them there, if he has his name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Now, we have seen what the veil is in the Temple of God, in the Temple of Jesus Christ, and in the Temple of God in Heaven; and we have also seen what the veil is, the veil that Moses had on his face, which prevented from seeing the glory of God.
And now, the Hebrew people have a veil placed on their face, and they can’t see the glory of God in the First Coming of Christ; they couldn’t see it, because they had the denominational veil with their traditions,28 their own interpretations; and that is why they couldn’t see beyond those interpretations that their great religious leaders…
The high priest and the doctors of the Law, and the members of the Sanhedrin Council, great teachers in divinity, in theology, were saying to them: “This is what this promise here means.”
And they couldn’t see the fulfillment of those divine promises (why?) because of the veil placed before them the elders, the priestly ministers of the Hebrew people, with their traditions; and because of the traditions they invalidated the Word of God, giving it their own interpretations, and making the Word of God and its fulfillment ineffective in the midst of the Hebrew people. They made it ineffective for them.
The Coming of the Messiah was being fulfilled; and although it was fulfilled in their midst, by their interpretations and traditions, they were invalidating the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah. In other words, the Coming of the Messiah was of no benefit to those who didn’t receive the Coming of the Messiah; a blessing as great as that, and it was of no blessing to them if they didn’t receive His Coming.
Now, you see, they had that traditional veil, that sectarian veil, that denominational veil, which prevented them from seeing the fulfillment of the First Coming of Christ. The high priest, with the priests of that time, said that Jesus was Beelzebub and that He had demons.
And when, in order to condemn Jesus, the high priest says to Him:29 “If you are the Son of the living God, say it now; tell us, and trouble not our souls,” Jesus says to him: “I have said it before, and you have not believed; I have said it before, I have said it before to you.”
And then the high priest, instead of saying: “Glory be to God who now speaks clearly to us! We receive you as the Messiah,” instead he said – he tore His clothes (and the high priest couldn’t tear his clothes)30</sup>; he tore his clothes and said: “He has blasphemed!” And the one who was blaspheming was the high priest, not Jesus; Jesus was telling the truth.
The high priest was accusing Jesus of blasphemy; and with that accusation, the blasphemer was the high priest; and he was tearing his clothes, which he couldn’t do; and he was condemning Jesus, the Prince of Peace, which he couldn’t do either; and he couldn’t speak against the Prince, and the Prince is always the High Priest.
Just as one couldn’t speak of the earthly high priest, neither could one speak of the heavenly High Priest; and there the high priest was speaking against Melchizedek the High Priest. In other words, there he violated a number of precepts and divine ordinances that were established for the high priest and the other priests.
They condemned Him out of religious jealousy: they didn’t like the way the Messiah came. But they will like it when they know what happened, and they will weep bitterly, and they will receive Him at His Second Coming. He will come as, for them, as King of kings and Lord of lords.
He will make that change from High Priest to King in the Most Holy Place; in the Most Holy Place He will make that change. And through the same manifestation as Priest in the Most Holy Place, He will change to King of kings and Lord of lords, and Lion of the tribe of Judah.
When He has finished His Work of High Priest in the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple, He will change; and then He will carry out the change in Heaven, in the Most Holy Place of the Temple which is in Heaven.
Just as in order for Him to minister in the Most Holy Place of the Temple which is in Heaven, and to offer there the Blood of Atonement for sin, He had to come to Earth, fulfill His First Coming in human flesh, and offer that body in living Sacrifice on Calvary’s Cross; in order to be able, with that Blood, to go to the Most Holy Place. In other words, the Work had to be done here, in order to then pass on to the Temple which is in Heaven.
And also the Work pertaining to the Last Day, which He will do in Heaven, changing from High Priest to Judge of all the Earth and Lion of the tribe of Judah: first He has to fulfill here His Coming to His Church and in His Church, in the Age of the Cornerstone, as High Priest, while He is there as High Priest; but afterwards He will make the change, and then He will change there also.
Well, we have seen this whole Divine Program being manifested in His Church in this end time.
We are living in the most glorious time of all times, where Christ, the Veil and Bridegroom of the Church of Jesus Christ on this Last Day, would be manifested.
And that is why the wise virgins in the Last Day… According to Matthew, chapter 25, verse 10 to 13, it says that “while the foolish (or fatuous) virgins went to buy oil, the Bridegroom came (that is the Second Coming of Christ); and they that were ready went in with Him to the Marriage: and the Door was shut.” The marriage is the union of two beings who love each other.
During the seven ages of the gentile Church, Saint Paul says that he has espoused the Church to a Bridegroom, to Christ.31 And the virgin Mary, when the Archangel Gabriel appeared to her, was espoused to Joseph.32 To be espoused is to be betrothed to Joseph, but the wedding had not yet taken place. She was a virgin; if she had been married, she wouldn’t have been a virgin.
And now, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has been presented to Christ by Saint Paul as a pure Virgin to Christ. Therefore, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, during all these past ages, has been as the Bride-Virgin of the Lord Jesus Christ, from age to age.
And for the Last Day is that, in the Bible, in Revelation, chapter 19, verses 6 to 9; and in the parable of the ten virgins, chapter 25, verse 10 to 13, of Matthew; for the Last Day is that the Marriage of the Church-Virgin takes place with Christ. It is the union with Christ, Christ the Word.
Christ, the Word, at His Second Coming comes as the Bridegroom, as the Bridegroom who will marry His Bride-Virgin; and there they will become Bridegroom and Bride, and that is where the Bride takes the Name of the Bridegroom; and it is in the Most Holy Place where the Name of the Bridegroom is.
And now, see how it is the priest who performs the marriages.
And we are going to leave that there, because with what we have had today… Let’s see if we have other subjects here where we can cover that part… Let’s see if Miguel comes here (he is getting closer to…). “THE FEAST…,” that will be for the ministers’ meeting; but for tomorrow…
Tomorrow Friday we have: “THE PEOPLE GUIDED BY THE PILLAR OF FIRE.” That is for tomorrow night, in the capital, in Guatemala, Guatemala City. (Is it in Antigua?). Ah, in Antigua. Those who can’t go, then can later listen to the video; and those who can go and wish to go, are invited. (I don’t know if the place is large… It is large, so there is no problem). And it will be (at what time, Miguel?) at 7:00 in the evening; that means that tomorrow we will finish a little bit later than today, and we are close to here.
And then, on Saturday… (Saturday will be where, Miguel?). Saturday will be in the capital. (At what time, Miguel? At 7:00 also or at 6:00?). It will be the dedication of the location that…, it is for the dedication of the new location. How many know where it is? On some little sheets they have, there is the correct address; on a loose leaf (that Miguel can give you) there is the address. (And how many people fit there? Will all those who are here fit there? No problem then). And the subject will be “THE GLORIOUS INAUGURATION OF GOD’S TABERNACLE” or “GLORIOUS DEDICATION OF GOD’S TABERNACLE,” where we will be seeing the temple of Moses dedicated to God and the temple of Solomon dedicated to God; and then we will see the Temple of Jesus Christ, how it will be dedicated to God.
That of Moses, well Moses dedicated it; the one built by Solomon, well Solomon dedicated it. And the Son of David, Jesus Christ, is the one who has been building the Temple, therefore He will dedicate it, He will be manifested on Earth to dedicate that Temple. He will be manifested on Earth to dedicate that Temple. He will be where? In the Most Holy Place.
And Moses will also be there, because the ministry of Moses is promised for this end time; he will not miss that dedication of the Temple of God. And the prophet Elijah will also be there. On Mount Transfiguration, there they were.
Well, on Sunday we will also have the morning and afternoon activity, Sunday the 13th. How many activities do we have on Sunday, Miguel? We have only one marked here: “THE FULFILLMENT OF THE DAY OF ATONEMENT IN THE LAST DAY.” And that… That one is then in this other one that we have over here, Miguel. Let’s see… “THE WORK OF THE GREAT TRUMPET OF THE JUBILEE.” (We have it here too, Miguel). So we are going to have two very key, very important messages for Sunday also.
All these days God has been blessing us greatly and showing us, by the types and figures of the Old Testament and even of the New Testament, the things that are relevant to this end time.
We have also seen how they were represented or symbolized in the Old Testament, in types and figures, the seven stages of the gentile Church: they were represented there, in the Holy Place of the Temple of God. And now the things that pertain to our time are represented where? In the Most Holy Place.
“THE VEIL THAT CHRIST HAS REMOVED FROM US.” That has been our subject for this occasion.
And now we see face to face in the Most Holy Place, and we see the glory of Christ manifested in the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple, where what God has in the Temple of Heaven in the Most Holy Place is reflected.
It has been for me a great privilege to be with you testifying to you of: “THE VEIL CHRIST HAS REMOVED FROM US.”
And now, where are they and who are those who would see through the veil and see inside the Most Holy Place the glory of Christ, the glory of God? Well, here we are present: a part here in San Lucas, Guatemala, and also in different places in Latin America and the Caribbean; and some in other continents also, but who are God’s elect; seeing face to face (no longer by mirror in darkness, but face to face) the glory of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, in the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple.
May the blessings of Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Place be upon each one of you and upon me also; and may the number of God’s elect soon be completed, and may all the dead in Christ soon be resurrected in eternal bodies, and may we who are alive be transformed. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And may we all be taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Amen and amen.
Well, may God continue to bless you all, may God keep you; and with us again Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin to continue and finish our part on this occasion.
Tomorrow we will see each other again, those of you who are in Antigua Guatemala for the activities.
We are going to ask Miguel to come this way…; he will make any necessary announcement, and he will tell you where in Antigua Guatemala tomorrow’s activity will be; and also, if he has the address or addresses of the other activities on Saturday and Sunday (the address), he will also give them to you.
It is on this little sheet that Miguel can facilitate… Our brother Bermudez must have some of them around, for those who don’t have them, so that they can arrive directly to the place and get an early seat; because those who arrive late, almost always have no seat; and those who arrive late always want to sit in the best place, but that corresponds to those who arrive first.
Thus also for us: we arrive first at the Most Holy Place, for we have the best place. At the First Coming of Christ, the apostles arrived first, and Christ tells them: “The best seats are for you: twelve thrones.”33 That was for those who arrived first.
Now, we are going to have Miguel here, our brother and friend Miguel Bermudez Marin, to continue and finish tonight our part in giving thanks to Jesus Christ our beloved Savior.
May God bless you all and have a wonderful evening.
“THE VEIL THAT CHRIST HAS REMOVED FROM US.”
1 John 1:14
2 John 5:19, 5:30, 8:26-29
3 John 17:8
4 The Unveiling of God – June 14, 1964
5 1 Corinthians 3:16-17
6 John 8:48
7 Matthew 12:24, Mark 3:22, Luke 11:15
8 Isaiah 9:6
9 Exodus 4:16
10 The Unveiling of God – June 14, 1964
11 John 10:10
12 The Unveiling of God – June 14, 1964
13 Brother Branham picks up his Bible —Ed.
14 1 Corinthians 15:51-52
15 Hebrews 11:3
16 Matthew 1:23
17 Exodus 28:36, 39:30
18 Matthew 27:51, Mark 15:38
19 1 Corinthians 13:12
20 Revelation 2:17
21 Habakkuk 2:14, Isaiah 11:9
22 The Seals in English, page 303
23 Romans 8:23
24 Works is faith expressed – November 26, 1965
25 Revelation 22:16
26 Malachi 4:2
27 John 14:2-3
28 Mark 7:9
29 Matthew 26:62-65, Mark 14:60-64
30 Leviticus 21:11
31 2 Corinthians 11:2
32 Luke 1:26-27
33 Matthew 19:28