Lord, What Do You Want Me to Do?

Good afternoon, fellow ministers in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; it is a great blessing for me to be with you on this occasion, to greet you and ask Christ for His blessings upon you all.

May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and also upon me, and may He use us greatly in His Work, and may He always guide us in the ministry; and may He prosper our congregations, and may He prosper us spiritually and materially as well, and our congregations; and may He reveal to us all His Program relevant to this end time; and may He prepare us, and may we soon be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven.

On this occasion, in the reading that Miguel had here, where we saw Saint Paul being called and how God appeared to Saint Paul, we can see that Christ makes the call.

Paul realizes that it’s Christ, it’s God who is calling him, and he asks Him: “Who are You, Lord?”

And that Light says to him: “I am Jesus, whom you persecute; it is hard for you to kick against the pricks.”

Saint Paul replies: “What do You want me to do, Lord?”

The Lord tells him what he has to do: go to the street called Straight, to the house of a man called Simon [Judas], and there he would be told what he should do.^{^[1]}

“LORD, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?” That was Paul’s question, and that is the question of every person who has an encounter with Christ.

We find Christ telling him to go to the house of Simon [Judas], which is found on Straight Street, that is, the street which is called Straight.

And now, notice, Christ doesn’t tell him that he has to be baptized nor that he has to receive Him as his Savior. It is a case similar to that of Cornelius, where an angel appeared to him and told him to call Peter, that Peter would tell him the relevant things.^{^[2]}

And now, Jesus sends Saul to the house of Simon [Judas], on the street of… which is called Straight, and there he will be told what he must do.

And why didn’t Christ tell Saul what he had to do: that he had to believe in Jesus Christ, and that he had to be baptized in His Name? Do you know why He didn’t tell him (just like He didn’t tell Ananias – or rather [Bro. Miguel: Cornelius] Cornelius)? Because “Surely the Lord will do nothing without first revealing His secrets to His servants, His prophets.”^{^[3]}

What Cornelius and his family had to do would be conveyed to him through Saint Peter, who was an apostle and was a prophet as well.

We also find in the case of Paul, that a man named Ananias (who was a prophet) would tell Paul (Saul) what he had to do. In chapter 22 of the book of Acts, we find the case of Paul in the house of Simon [Judas]. He says… the apostle Saint Paul narrates everything that happened. Chapter 22, verse 6 and on, says:

“And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.

And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

And they that were with me saw indeed the light, and were afraid; but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.

And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said unto me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do.

And when I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.

And one Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there,

Came unto me, and stood, and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up upon him.

And he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee, that thou shouldest know his will, and see that Just One, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth.

For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.

And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.”

He was told what he had to do there; because God revealed to Ananias what he had to tell Saul and what Saul had to do.

We find in chapter 26 as well, where he says… starting from verse 13 and on, he says [Acts]:

“At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.

And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.

But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee.”

In this passage, it says that this Light was stronger, brighter, than the sun; that detail is not mentioned in other places.

Now we can see that Saul of Tarsus was a believer in God: the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; but he didn’t know that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, was made man, was made flesh, and had lived among the Hebrew people, and had carried out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross.

Saul of Tarsus was persecuting all the believers in Christ. He persecuted them to death: he put some in prison, and he consented for others to be killed; it was a persecution to death. But later, after the experience he had, he converted to Christ and became one of the two major apostles.

Because Saint Peter and Saint Paul are the major apostles, that is why they are a type and figure of the Two Olive Trees. That is why the Gospel came to the Gentiles through Saint Peter and Saint Paul; and just as It came to the Gentiles through Peter and Paul, it will go back to the Hebrews through Moses and Elijah.^{^[4]}

Now Saint Paul says that God had chosen him from his mother’s womb.^{^[5]} But despite that, he had that difficult stage in which he didn’t know God, he didn’t know the mystery of the manifestation of God in human flesh in the person of Jesus.

When a person doesn’t know what God has done for the time in which he lives, many times he persecutes what God has done, and the believers in what God has done; without realizing that he is persecuting God Himself.

Christ said: “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?” He was persecuting Christ by persecuting the Church of Jesus Christ; because the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is the Head.

Now notice that to persecute the Church of Jesus Christ is to persecute Christ Himself. To receive the Church of Jesus Christ and His Message is to receive Christ Himself. Christ said: “He who receives one of these little ones receives Me; and he who receives Me, receives Him that sent Me.”^{^[6]}

Now we can see that —because Christ is manifested in His Church— to persecute the Church of Jesus Christ is to persecute Christ.

In the days of Jesus, to persecute Jesus Christ was to persecute God, because God was in Jesus. And now Jesus is in His Church, therefore, to persecute one of the children of God is to persecute Christ Himself; because we are part of the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Christ is represented, and the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is represented, and also every child of God as an individual, is represented in Jacob, the Hebrew people; because the Hebrew people are the firstborn people of God as a nation. It’s the first nation here on Earth that God has created. In the Millennial Kingdom He will be creating new nations; in eternity He will be creating new nations.

Now, we can see that the first nation created by God is the Hebrew people: a nation created by God with God’s servants. But the nation created by God with God’s children is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; that is the heavenly nation, that is why it’s the heavenly Jerusalem.

And now, Christ is creating that heavenly nation, materializing it here on Earth in the form of His Church; and it is a nation with a new race: of immortals.

People may be surprised when we say: “of immortals”, but Christ is immortal, and all His children are immortal as well; because He said that He gives us Eternal Life,^{^[7]} and if He gives us Eternal Life, He makes us immortal.

And now, it’s in His Program that we do His will, just as Christ did the Father’s will.

It was the Father’s will that, when He was in Egypt as a child, He be called out of Egypt to the land of Israel; the same thing that God did with Israel: He called them out of Egypt and brought them to the land of Israel, to the promised land. Every firstborn of God goes through those same stages.

We find the firstborn of God written in Heaven, who are called out of the spiritual Egypt, which is the world, which is the kingdom of darkness, which is the kingdom of the devil (and the pharaoh is the devil); the elect of God are called out of there, and they become part of that heavenly nation, of the heavenly Israel.

And now, just as Jesus, the Firstborn of God, said that it pleased Him to do the will of the One who sent Him, and that that was His meat: to do the will of the One who sent Him, it’s the same for every firstborn of God, and for the Church of Jesus Christ as the firstborn Church of God, which has the firstborn of God from Heaven, written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Now, we have seen that our meat is to do the will of the One who sent us: of Jesus Christ our Savior, as individuals and as ministers; and all of us together, as a Mystical Body of believers, along with our congregations.

Therefore, let’s keep moving forward as Jesus did, as Saint Peter did, as Saint Paul did, doing the will of the One who sent them, and likewise, the One who sent us; it’s the same Lord who sent them. Therefore, let’s walk as they did, doing the will of the One who sent us.

Our question was: “Lord, what do You want me to do?” The answer is: To do the will of the One who sent us, which we get to know as we obtain knowledge of the Divine Program for the time in which we are given to live.

We have seen that we are living at the end time.

And the will of God is: for us to keep moving forward, serving Christ with all our soul, working in His Work, serving Him all the days of our lives, and keeping the congregation that God has given us well fed with the Word of Christ relevant to our time; and all the other things that we know are the will of God: living holy lives before God, pleasing Him in every way and serving Him with all our soul.

And soon we will be transformed, together with our congregations, and then Christ will manifest Himself in all His fullness in the midst of His Church.

There we have seen which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ that will be transformed and will have the manifestation of Christ in all His fullness; where the Tent Vision will be fulfilled; and where there will be signs, miracles, and wonders, that have never before been seen in the Church of Jesus Christ; along with the miracles that have already been seen as well, which will be repeated; but others that have not been seen, will be made a reality: such as restoring someone’s body part, like a missing arm or a missing leg or something like that.

It will be such a great manifestation of Christ, that Christ will restore a body for the dead in Christ: He will restore them in eternal bodies; and He will transform us.

We have seen that all of this is in the Divine Program for when Christ has completed His Mystical Body of believers.

Now, we have seen that in the Tent Vision God showed Reverend William Branham all these signs and wonders that will be performed.

And yet, he says on page 136 of the book of Quotations that the miracles will be when Moses and Elijah. Why? Because in the Church of Jesus Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone, will be the ministry of Moses for the [second] time and of Elijah for the [fifth] time. Those will be the ministries that will show great miracles and wonders.

And that will be once the Door has already closed.

That is on page 114 or 115 of the book of Quotations; 114, paragraph 1002 (that is, one thousand and two).^{^[8]} It says:

1002 – “[205] …and there’s got to be a ministry preached to her. But remember, at that time, it’s all over. It’s done. It’s just a haunting.

206 There will be a ministry that will show great wonders, Joel said so, but there’ll be no time for redemption (even Joel spoke about what God will do at this time). It’s all over. The Lamb has done took His Book, and His redeemed is over.”

That is where the Dispensation of the Kingdom fully comes in; that is where the manifestation of Christ in all His fullness comes in; that is where we will have, in all His fullness, the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, carrying out those great miracles and wonders.

That is where the adoption will be carried out or being carried out. That is where Jesus Christ will adopt His Angel Messenger and use him in that glorious manifestation of wonders, miracles, and signs, through which God will shake the whole world.

There will be a ministry that will do great wonders: that is the ministry of Moses and Elijah (we are going to show that soon); but the Lamb will have already finished His Work of Intercession.

1002 – “[206] As Jesus first preached and was rejected, and then went and haunted those that were in there, preached to them that were in prison, could not repent, no time for salvation, that same ministry will have to repeat again. What if that could be the Third Pull? to the Eternal lost.”

That is the Third Pull for the lost, where there will be great wonders, great miracles.

Now let’s see on page 136, paragraph 1208,^{^[9]} it says… that is, they ask him:

1208 – “[186] [Question 253] Will the Bride—will the Bride before Jesus comes, will She have all power of Holy Ghost to perform miracles, raise dead, and so on as in the latter rain—or is this the latter rain for the hundred and forty-four thousand Jews? Will all ministers have this, are we, or, are we just waiting for the coming?”

That is the question they ask him, and brother Branham says:

1208 – “197 Now, latter rain, a hundred and forty-four thousand Jews, no, that isn’t…that…they won’t…that’s—that’s when Elijah and Moses…There’s where the miracles take place. The things that the people’s been looking for, the Pentecostals, for miracles, that’s where that’ll take place in that, under them. See, that’s Elijah’s and Moses’. (…)

198 We’re just to wait on the Coming of the Lord.”

Now, notice, for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ —who will be transformed at this end time— She should not be waiting on miracles, but on the Coming of the Lord, the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, in that part where He calls and gathers His elect (how?) by revealing to us the mystery of the Seventh Seal.

To perform miracles, the power of God is manifested; to reveal the Word, the power of God is manifested. And it is more glorious to see the power of God manifested by opening the Word to us, than by healing a sick person; because when He opens the Word to us, the miracle is for everyone; when He heals a sick person, the miracle is only for that person.

There are many preachers, many evangelists, who perform miracles; but there is only one kind of ministry that opens the Word: the ministry of the prophet for each age and for each dispensation. Not just anyone can open the Word.

And now, for the Last Day we have the promise that the Seventh Seal would be opened to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; that takes the power of the revelation of the Spirit of God to open that mystery. And that is a greater miracle than raising thousands of dead and giving sight to thousands of blind people.

That is such a great miracle, that when it was opened in Heaven: it caused silence in Heaven; because that is a mystery that God has kept in His mind, in His heart, for all eternity. No one knew that mystery.

Therefore, it takes the manifestation of the power of God, of the power of the Divine revelation, to open that great mystery, to open it to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is a greater miracle than any other miracle that can be carried out in any sick person in need.

But the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has been in need of the miracle of the revelation of the Seventh Seal, in order to have the faith, the revelation, to be transformed and raptured with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; for each member of the Church of Jesus Christ, as an individual, to have the faith to be transformed and raptured.

Just as we have obtained the faith to obtain our salvation, to obtain the forgiveness of our sins, and to receive the Holy Spirit… Which is that faith? The revelation of the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God in His Work of Redemption.

And now, the mystery of the Seventh Seal gives us the faith, the revelation, to be transformed: the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work. There lies the mystery of the Seventh Seal.

And now, that mystery of the Seventh Seal is contained in the Angel who was different from the rest, who appeared in this cloud formed by angels.

For the mystery of Christ in each angel messenger, who are here in their theophanic bodies, they had to be manifested in human flesh, in each age in which they were given to live.

For the mystery of the Seventh Seal to be fulfilled, there has to be a manifestation in human flesh, and the Angel who was different from the rest has to be present; for that mystery to be opened in terms of its fulfillment, and for that mystery to be revealed to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Notice, the mystery of Christ in each age was His manifestation in Holy Spirit in each angel-messenger, through whom He carried out the Work relevant to each age, and He called and gathered the elect of the age by giving them the revealed Word for each age.

When the Word is revealed for each age through the messenger of each age, to whom the revelation comes, that is when God calls and gathers His elect.

And when God, at this end time, opens His Word to us, He calls and gathers His elect with that Word being revealed to God’s elect. Where? In His Church, in the age relevant to this time, which is the Age of the Cornerstone.

Nothing else can call and gather each elect of God at the Last Day, neither among the gentiles, nor among the Hebrews either. It has to be with the Divine revelation of the Seventh Seal, the Divine revelation of the Coming of the Lord as Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work. That is the faith, the revelation, to be transformed at this end time.

Just as we have believed in the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God in His Work of Redemption to obtain the forgiveness of our sins and to obtain salvation, to obtain the Holy Spirit, and thus obtain the theophanic body (and thus obtain the new birth, and have a theophanic body of the sixth dimension, and be translated from the kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ); in order to obtain our eternal, immortal, incorruptible and glorified physical body, it’s the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Claiming Work.

All those who will be transformed will be believing in the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Claiming Work. And that is how we receive the faith, the revelation to be transformed at the Last Day.

Now we can see this mystery of the Kingdom of Heaven.

Notice, who were the ones that received the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost? The disciples of John? Some of the disciples of John who followed Jesus; but those who didn’t follow Jesus weren’t – didn’t receive the Holy Spirit, they didn’t receive that inner transformation.

Those who received the forerunner, John the Baptist, did the right thing; but John the Baptist taught them that after him would come another Man, who would baptize with the Holy Spirit and Fire.^{^[10]} And those who would follow that Man who would come after John, would be the ones who would receive that baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire.

Those who didn’t follow Jesus: didn’t receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire; they weren’t even baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, because they weren’t believers in the Lord Jesus Christ; they were believers in John (the disciples of John were).

But some, like John and Andrew, followed Jesus; those were the two disciples who, when they heard John say: “Behold the Lamb of God,”^{^[11]} they said: “This is the way to go! We’re going with the Lamb of God!”

They went with the Lamb of God and left John. But they didn’t leave John angrily; they left grateful to John that he had shown them who was the One that would come after him; because the secret was to follow the One who would come after John, in order to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire, and to obtain the theophanic body of the sixth dimension.

And for the Last Day, God already sent His forerunner, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ. And who are the ones that will be transformed at the Last Day? Those who will follow the One of whom the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ spoke; those are the ones who will be transformed, those are the ones who will receive that physical baptism of the transformation of their bodies. First they receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, but then they will receive that full baptism, which will be the transformation of our body.

The baptism of the Holy Spirit is the firstfruits of the Spirit, the firstfruits. But at this time —in addition— comes the fullness, the fullness of the adoption with the transformation of our bodies; and then we will have an eternal, immortal, incorruptible and glorified physical body; just as we have a theophanic body of the sixth dimension.

With the First Coming, He gives us the theophanic body; He carries out the Program, He materializes the Program to give us the theophanic body. With His Second Coming, in His Claiming Work, He will give us the eternal, immortal, incorruptible, and glorified physical body, for all those who will be following the One of whom Reverend William Branham spoke.

Now we can see that those who will be following the One whom Reverend William Branham said would come after him, will have asked: “Lord, what do You want me to do?”

And what is the will of God for this end time? Just like Saint Paul says in the book of Acts that John the Baptist taught the people to believe in the One who would come after him (chapter 19 of the book of Acts) Reverend William Branham taught the people that someone else would come after him; and he said that he would take his congregation and say: “This is the man.”^{^[12]}

Now we can see that Reverend William Branham is preparing the way for One who will come after him; he is preparing the way for Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, who will come manifested at the Last Day in the midst of His Church.

The Word will come to His Church; that is the One whom Reverend William Branham prepared the way for. And the mystery that will be fulfilled in the Word coming at the Last Day is the mystery of the Seventh Seal.

The elect of the Last Day will understand more about that mystery than was understood by the elect of God who followed Jesus in His days, before Jesus was crucified, and even after Jesus was crucified.

The Scriptures had been spoken, but they were sealed; then Christ opened the Scriptures to them when He resurrected, and He showed them that everything that had happened was in the Scriptures. It was necessary for Him to go through those situations that He went through, where He was taken prisoner, He was judged, He was sentenced, He was crucified, He was buried; then He resurrected, with His body glorified, He was with His elect for 40 days (appearing on different occasions) and then He ascended to Heaven.^{^[13]}

All those things that Jesus went through were sealed in the Bible, and they were sealed in Him, to be fulfilled in Him; because He is the Word made flesh.

And now we can see that, in our time, we will be understanding the Second Coming of Christ more than the disciples of Jesus Christ of the First Coming of Christ understood while Jesus was with them.

Now, this mystery of the Second Coming of Christ is the mystery because of which there was silence in Heaven. The Thunders reveal that mystery, that’s why the Thunders give the elect of God the faith, the revelation, to be transformed and raptured.

Giving them the rapturing faith means giving them the revelation for the rapture, for the transformation and the rapture, giving them the revelation of the Seventh Seal, the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Claiming Work.

Now we have seen that that is the Program of Christ for this end time. And in that Program: “LORD, WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?” Well, for us to be hand in hand with Christ —in His Program relevant to this end time— working in His Program, and having all the brethren in our congregations well fed.

May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and also upon me, and may He use us greatly in His Work at this Last Day; and soon may the number of God’s elect be completed, and soon may Jesus Christ rise from the Father’s Throne, resurrect the dead believers in Christ, transform us, and manifest Himself in all His fullness in His Church, in those 30 or 40 days promised for a full manifestation of Christ in the midst of His people; and may He then take us with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven.

Thank you very much for your kind attention. And continue having an afternoon filled with the blessings of Jesus Christ.

We will see each other in the service with the entire congregation, in a few minutes, when the service with the entire congregation will begin.