The Father of the heavenly Family

Good afternoon, beloved brethren and friends present here in New York. It is a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, to share with you some moments of fellowship around the Divine Program, so that we may see who we are in God’s Program.

And then, in the evening, we will be gathered again, to share (with all the other people who will also be there) the topic for the evening, which will be: “THE BLESSING OF BEING A FRIEND OF JESUS CHRIST.”

For this occasion, I want to read in Saint Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, chapter 2, verse 19 and on (19 to 22), where he says:

“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.”

Our topic for this occasion is: “THE FATHER OF THE HEAVENLY FAMILY.”

Just as we came to this Earth and had an earthly father, there is a heavenly Father for the heavenly Family; and every person desires to belong to that heavenly Family.

Now, in order to understand how to belong to the heavenly Family, we need to see how we have come to belong, to be part of the earthly family.

Since God placed the human being on Earth, which He placed with eternal life, He gave him a theophanic body of the sixth dimension, in which he lived we don’t know how many days, months, years, millenniums or millions of years; a theophanic body, similar to our body but of the sixth dimension; a theophanic body equal to the theophanic body of Jesus Christ, in other words, equal to the Angel of the Lord, a theophanic body like that of the Angel of the Lord, which is an angelic body.

Then God created a body from the dust of the earth for Adam; and when he was placed in that earthly body he was a young man of 18 to 21 years of age in appearance, he had no health problems. Then He took from his side and made a companion for Adam¹; for, after salvation, the greatest thing a human being can have is a good companion.</sup>

And now, we find that the Divine Program for the person to come with eternal life to Earth is through divine creation, as God made Adam; but because of sin, which entered the human race, the human being lost the right to eternal life. Therefore, the human being, since the day he fell from eternal life and entered death, we find that the earthly life time began to be counted for the human being, and the human being can’t live eternally in the mortal, corruptible and temporary body.

And now, the human being is born through the union of a man and a woman; before, in the beginning, it was not so, because God created the human being; but later, the human being —after the fall— appears through the union of a man and a woman, who are our parents.

Now, you see, every person who comes like this, comes as a descendant of Adam, comes through that earthly family, of which Adam is the head, the first; but because Adam and Eve fell, it is a family, a fallen race: It doesn’t have eternal life.

But now, throughout the Scripture we have the promise that a perfect man will come, with eternal life; and when that promise was fulfilled there was on Earth a man named Jesus, who was none other than the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant within a body of flesh that was born in Bethlehem of Judea through the virgin Mary: A body created by God in Mary’s womb, God creating a cell of life in Mary’s womb, which multiplied cell upon cell; and thus the body of Jesus was formed, in which God, the Angel of the Covenant, the Word, dwelt in Him in all His fullness.

In other words, God became man. That is the great mystery of the First Coming of Christ: “Great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh²,” in other words, God was made man and lived among human beings. What for? To take away the human being’s sin, and thus give him eternal life; because if He takes away sin, then the human being lives eternally without sin.

This is how eternal life comes, and it is through Jesus Christ; that is why He said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes to the Father but by me.”

Now we can also see the… That is in John, chapter 15. And in… let’s see if that is the place… After He talks a lot about the Father, Philip tells Him: “Show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.” Chapter 14. It was chapter 14, verse 6:

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.

Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?

Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”

Now see how Jesus shows us that the Father is in Him; the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant.

You see, God comes descending from the seventh dimension, and He has a theophanic body in which He dwells in the sixth dimension. See, from the seventh dimension He descends to the sixth dimension, and then He descends to this dimension in human flesh in Jesus of Nazareth, to carry out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross and restore the human being to eternal life.

The Program of the restoration of the human being to eternal life, notice, has to do with the First Coming of Christ and His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross, in order to take away sin, because the human being can’t live eternally with sin.

And now, in the Program of Redemption, every believer in Jesus Christ who washes his sins in His Blood and receives His Holy Spirit, notice, God gives him a theophanic body of the sixth dimension; just as God gave a theophanic body to Adam before he came to this Earth in a body of flesh. That is the Program of and with eternal life: To first obtain the theophanic body of the sixth dimension, and then to obtain the physical and eternal body, which He will give us when He resurrects the dead in Christ and transforms us who are alive; and that will be when the House of God is completed, in other words, the Family of God, that heavenly Family.

The heavenly Father, the Father of the heavenly Family, you see, has been carrying out a New Creation; a New Creation of which Jesus Christ is the first, is the head of³, a man with eternal life.

And now, through that man with eternal life, the human being is restored to eternal life. Death entered through a man, through Adam, and now eternal life enters the human race through a man, Jesus Christ our Savior⁴. And now, we belong to God’s Family, because we have been born into God’s family.

And just as being born through our earthly parents, we were born into the earthly family, descendants of Adam; now through the new birth we have been born into the heavenly Family, through Jesus Christ our Savior, by receiving His Spirit and thus receiving eternal life (thus obtaining the new birth); and now we are descendants of the second Adam, of Jesus Christ our Savior.

And now, we belong to a heavenly Family; that is the House of God, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And in that House, notice, which He is building, creating (it is by divine creation)…; because “it is not by might nor by power (says Zechariah, chapter 4), but by my Spirit, says the Lord.” And all this was reflected in the house, in the temple that was restored there by the priest Joshua and the prince Zerubbabel.

Now, Christ is building a new house, that is, a new family: A heavenly Family. The Church of Jesus Christ is the House of God, the Family of God, the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ composed by the redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ, whose names are written (where?) in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life (since when?), since before the foundation of the world.

And now, from age to age, Jesus Christ our Savior, who is creating that new race, He is reproducing Himself, according to the law of reproduction of Heaven for the reproduction of a heavenly Family, which is by divine creation; and therefore the creative Word must be spoken.

And from stage to stage, from age to age, we find that Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit has been manifested in every messenger, every angel messenger that He has sent; and through that messenger He has spoken to the people that creative Word; and He has called, Christ, through the messenger of each stage, of each age, has called and gathered His elect.

Now, Christ is the Father of the whole Family, and He has placed a faithful and wise servant in every age; and through that spoken Word, that Message for that age, you see, Christ has been creating His Church. Each stage of the Church is by divine creation, through the manifestation of Christ, the visitation of Christ to His Church in the angel messenger of each age.

And see, there is a territory where God sends His messenger. Why? Because there is the material for the creation of that part of the heavenly people, of the heavenly Family; there is the good soil, where the good seed is going to be sown, and it is going to produce a hundredfold (100) in some, sixtyfold (60) in others and thirtyfold (30) in others⁵.

Let’s say it in the most understandable way: A hundredfold: In those who work a lot in the Work of Christ. Sixtyfold: In those who work a little less, because they have many commitments and have to attend to them, but are always working in the Work of Christ, and work in one way or another; they are always there striving and collaborating in the Work of Christ. And others thirtyfold: those are the ones who produce less, but produce.

That is, one must produce at least thirtyfold. But the potential in the Mystical Body of Christ, notice, is to produce up to a hundredfold.

And that is like when you plant a grain of wheat (or something you like to sow) and you want it to produce a lot; well, look, you plant 1 grain of wheat and harvest 100 grains of wheat. With 1 grain of wheat you don’t get much, but with 100 grains of wheat you get more; and if you find little of it, you plant it, those 100 grains, and it will produce a hundredfold.

How much are they going to produce then? Will it be one hundred thousand (100,000)? Or how much? Or ten thousand (10,000), around there? With 10,000 grains of rice or wheat the pot is already filled, and the family can eat.

Now, in the Family of God, you see, some produce… The good soil always produces. Now, the good soil, in order to produce a hundredfold, needs to have certain facilities, and you have to provide them.

A good soil, you know, that little dark soil (almost always) is the one that people like the most when they plant; they say: “That soil is good. That soil produces – it’s going to produce a lot.” But if that soil is in an arid place, where it doesn’t rain much, where there isn’t much humidity: It will produce, but it will produce thirtyfold. If that land where you plant, well, it receives…, that other land receives more moisture, and it also receives the sun, it’s going to produce sixtyfold. But if that land is in a place where there is an abundance of water, and where the sun also shines, it’s going to produce a hundredfold.

And now, through the Water of the teaching of the Word of God, you see, that little plant is fed to produce a hundredfold; and the Sun shines on it and brings it blessing. Water and Sun: The Water of the Rain of the teaching and the Sun shining, giving us His Light, His revelation.

Now see, one must be in front of the Sun and also receive the Rain of the teaching. That is why the Bible speaks of the former Rain, which is the Rain of the teaching of the First Coming of Christ, and it also speaks of the latter Rain, which is the Rain of the teaching of the Second Coming of Christ.

That is why for the Hebrew people also, the blessing that is promised for this end time, look how it says: In Hosea, chapter 6, verse 1 and on, it says:

“Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

After two days will he revive us (that is, after two thousand years; for ‘one day before the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day’): in the third day he will raise us up…”

And the Hebrew people, for this end time have the promise of a resurrection. Christ will make a resurrection for the Hebrew people as a nation, it will resurrect as a nation.

Now, we have already seen that they have been gathering together, but still the Spirit of God has not returned to the Hebrew people; and a body without a spirit is dead⁶; but when the spirit of life enters, it is already a living body.</sup>

In Ezekiel, chapter 37, that prophecy that speaks of the Hebrew people as dry bones, then God commands the prophet to prophesy; and each bone was joined to its bone; and nerves and muscles and flesh came; and there were those bodies already, but they had no spirit, therefore, they were still dead; but God told the prophet: “Prophesy to the spirit to come.” And when he prophesied for it to come from the four corners of the Earth, he says that the spirit of life entered into them and it was a powerful army.

That is what will happen when Christ reveals Himself to the Hebrew people, and the Hebrew people, 144,000 from among them, receive Him. They will be receiving Christ manifested in Holy Spirit in the Last Day, and thus they will receive the Spirit of Christ.

The Spirit of God was always, we find in the Old Testament that He was in the midst of the Hebrew people manifested in His prophets. That is why what the Hebrew people are waiting for in this end time is a prophet where the Spirit of God is manifested.

Now see how that blessing is going to come to the Hebrew people:

“After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up…”

And the third day is, from Christ until now, the third millennium, which is also the Last Day before God. And also, since the prophet Hosea gave this prophecy, two thousand years have already passed, and we are well into the third millennium from Hosea until now. Now, it goes on to say:

“Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord…”

In other words, they will not settle for what they already know, nor will they settle for what they will know for the time being when they receive it, but will continue to gain more knowledge. And during the Millennial Kingdom, there the knowledge will be available to all people. “For the Earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord⁷,” in other words, it will be filled with the knowledge of the Second Coming of Christ. And all the Hebrew people will enter into that knowledge and the benefits of His Second Coming, as they will also obtain the knowledge of the First Coming of Christ and the benefits of the First Coming of Christ.

“Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning…”

And “like daybreak,” that is “like the morning”; and in the morning it is the fourth vigil. As the morning being born, so is the Second Coming of Christ and that is how for Israel the Coming of the Lord will arise.

“…his going forth is prepared as the morning…”

In Malachi, chapter 4, verse 2, it says:

“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings…”

There we have the Second Coming of Christ being fulfilled in the morning; but of which morning and of which day? What morning and what day? “One day before the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day⁸.” On the morning of the seventh millennial day. And the morning of the seventh millennial day is – pertains to a number of years from the beginning of the seventh millennium.

“…and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth…”

See, “as the latter and former rain.” Why does He put the latter rain first and the former rain after? Again, there it is fulfilled that the latter shall (what?) be first, and the former shall be last⁹; and here the Latter Rain is first for the Hebrew people, and then the Former. What is that? The Latter Rain is the teaching, the revelation and teaching of the Second Coming of Christ; and with that revelation being made known to the Hebrew people, they will receive God’s blessing, and then they will also receive the teaching of the First Coming of Christ, which they rejected; and then they will weep. And Day of Atonement will be fulfilled in them, the 10th day of the seventh month of each year, where the atonement of a goat was carried out, and where the Hebrew people wept, grieved for their sins and asked God for forgiveness and mercy10.</sup>

Now we can see how God’s people, the Hebrew people, were reconciled every year: Through that atonement that was carried out; and they were afflicted and repented of their sins; and their sins were covered, and they were forgiven and were reconciled with God.

And now through the Sacrifice of Christ, our Atonement, our sins are not covered, but are removed, and we are reconciled with God. Did you see how simple everything is?

Now, first of all, all this blessing belongs to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is God’s heavenly Family; and then the Hebrew people will receive God’s blessing. They rejected Him in His First Coming, but they will receive Him in His Second Coming.

Now we can see which is the House of God, which is the heavenly Family of our heavenly Father; and He has been creating that Family.

The souls of those people come from the seventh dimension, they come from God; they are part of God, they are God’s seed, they are God’s wheat, they are the children of the Kingdom; and they are placed in mortal, corruptible and temporary bodies to live for a period of time and bear fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixtyfold and others a hundredfold. And from age to age some have given thirtyfold, some have given sixtyfold and some have given a hundredfold; and at this time we have the opportunity to bear fruit ourselves in abundance, and we can bear fruit up to a hundredfold, that is, the maximum.

Now, we have seen that for each time there was an age, a messenger with a Message and a people who received it; and in a territory that stage was fulfilled; and there God had the majority of His children to form that stage or age of the Church.

In the midst of the Hebrew people the Church of Jesus Christ began on the Day of Pentecost, and then spread to the gentiles; and from among the gentiles God began to call a people for His Name. It began when Peter went to the house of Cornelius and preached to them, sent by Christ¹¹; and then God sent Paul, after he was converted, He sent him to the gentiles12.</sup>

And so the whole Divine Program was passed on to the gentiles; and from among gentiles and from among Hebrews, God has been calling a people for His Name¹³; and both, from among gentiles and Hebrews, become part of the same Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, all believers in our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. And that is the House of God, the Family of God, in which Christ has placed a faithful and wise servant for each stage: Those are the angel messengers of each age, and that is the father of the family of the age; but the Father of the Family of the whole Church is Jesus Christ our Savior.</sup>

And now, we can see how Christ, the Father of the Family of all His House, of all the Church, through the messenger of each age brings to life the elect of each age; they are born in that age and thus they are born in the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, through the Word that has been spoken through the messenger of each age.

And now, when we have seen that God has manifested Himself in the land of Israel, and then among the gentiles in Asia Minor, Europe and North America; and now we ask ourselves: And where is Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, in our time, manifesting Himself and calling and gathering His elect? Well, He is in Latin America and the Caribbean; and He is calling and gathering Latin American and Caribbean people, no matter where they have gone to live. As far as they are, the Message reaches them there; whether they go to Europe or Asia or wherever they go, the Message reaches them there.

Now, we can see that the center of operations of Christ in each age has always been the territory where He is fulfilling the Program for that age; but the Message has been extended to other territories to reach the elect who have gone to live in other territories for some reason. And that is not a problem: The important thing is to be a child of God, an elect of God, because wherever he is, the Message will reach him.

Now, we can see that the major group is always in the territory where that age is being fulfilled. And the Age of the Cornerstone corresponds to Latin American and Caribbean people. And where are there more Latin American and Caribbean people? Well, in Latin America and the Caribbean.

So we can see all that Divine Program, and so we can see the heavenly House of Jesus Christ, His Church, which He is creating; that is by divine creation, from age to age.

And now we can see who we are: We are members of the Family of God, of that heavenly Family; and we didn’t know it, but now we do. And we have a Father, the heavenly Father, THE FATHER OF THE HEAVENLY FAMILY, who is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; the heavenly Father, the Word that was with God and was God, who became flesh and dwelt among the human race: Our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

Now we can see who is THE FATHER OF THE HEAVENLY FAMILY: Our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; and we: His children of this end time, born in the Kingdom of God, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in this end time, in the Age of the Cornerstone. Someday the Door will close, but every elect will have already entered the House of God.

“THE FATHER OF THE HEAVENLY FAMILY.”

We have seen how this heavenly Family has been formed. See how it was typified: It was typified in the formation of the Hebrew people: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the twelve patriarchs; and the Hebrew people emerged from there.

And now look at how the heavenly Family, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, has been emerging: As He has been sending His messengers from age to age. That is why His messengers will have a very important position in the Millennial Kingdom and for all eternity; just as the patriarchs have a very important part in the midst of the Hebrew people for the Millennium and for all eternity; and also the apostles of Jesus Christ, and the seven angel messengers of Jesus Christ, and the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And now look at the family you belong to: You belong to the heavenly Family, of which Jesus Christ is the Father; and He is also the head, the first of that Family, the same God who became man and dwelt among the human race. And we will have a body like the glorified body of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ when He gives us the new body; and so we will all be in God’s Family with a glorified body, equal to the body of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

See how many blessings there are for God’s Family; and it is to His House, which is His Family, to which He has promised to come in this end time, as He has come from age to age manifested in the messenger of each age.

“THE FATHER OF THE HEAVENLY FAMILY.”

And He will close the Door, says Luke, chapter 13, verse 25 and on; one day He will close it. It is like when all the family members enter the house, and the father closes the door of the house so that no other people enter, because it is time to close the door. Luke, chapter 13, verse 25, says:

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

As it was in Noah’s time, when Noah and his family entered, and God closed the door, those who knocked at the door had no answer, and the door was not opened to them; He who closed it was God¹⁴. And here the one who closes the Door in the House of God is Jesus Christ Himself, the Father of the whole Family.

Now, He has had an instrument for every age, there at the Door, calling them to enter through the Door, which is Christ, into the House of God; but when He rises from the Throne of Intercession in Heaven, and claims all that He has redeemed with His Blood, the Door will already be closed; and no one else will enter the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, that is, the House of God, because the number of the heavenly Family will already be complete (completed); and then we will be transformed and then taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven.

There are people who are children of God, elect of God, first born of God, part of the Family of God, and don’t even know that they are part of God’s Family; their souls are of God; but when the Message reaches them, it comes directly to their soul, to the heart, and then the soul is awakened to the reality; and so he is born to eternal life, to the life of God, to the life of the heavenly Family.

Well, we have seen who we are according to the Word of God. And what the Word says is true: We are “of the household of God.”

How have you come to be a member of the earthly family where you were born? Well, through birth, by being born into it; and by being born into the Family of God, through the new birth, by believing in Christ as our Savior, we have been born into the Family of God and we belong to that Family of God, we are part of that Family of God: Members of the Family of God; so you can understand it better: Descendants of God.

And a person, recognizing that he is a descendant of God, is truly a blessing, because then he can know why he lives on this planet Earth. And that existential distress that the human race has, the believer in Christ no longer has it, because he already knows where he came from: From God, from the seventh dimension; where he is: Here, in this earthly dimension; and why he is here: He knows the purpose for which he is here; and then where he is going: For we are going to the Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ, and also to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, we are going to live eternally with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

And that is truly having a future. The most glorious future is the future of the members of the Family of God.

That is why it is a great blessing and privilege to belong to the Family of God; and to recognize the Father of the Family, our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Word who became flesh, and dwelt among human beings, and died for us on Calvary’s Cross; and who has been making intercession in Heaven for those whose names are written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life; and has been in His Church in Holy Spirit, manifested from stage to stage, Him calling all His sheep (all His sheep, which are His children), the members of God’s Family.

“THE FATHER OF THE HEAVENLY FAMILY.”

May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and upon me also; and may the number of God’s elect be soon completed, and may we soon be transformed along with the dead in Christ who will be resurrected in eternal bodies; and after the full manifestation of God in us, which will last from 30 to 40 days on Earth, may He take us to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven, to that great heavenly feast. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.

It has been a great privilege to be with you this afternoon, testifying to you of THE FATHER OF THE HEAVENLY FAMILY</strong>; and that is our Father, your Father and mine as well. So we can see why we are brothers and sisters: Because we are children of the same Father.

“THE FATHER OF THE HEAVENLY FAMILY.”