Good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren present, and those who are connected through the Amazonas satellite or the internet in different nations.
May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you, ministers and your congregations, along with all the members of your congregations, and upon all those who are listening on this occasion in different nations.
For this occasion, Sunday, in which we always hold a Bible study for children, youth and adults, we will have a reading regarding which we will have the Bible study on this occasion; it is found in Genesis, chapter 45, verses 1 to 12, and it says the following:
“Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:
And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.”
May God bless His Word in our hearts and may He open the Scriptures to us, and may He allow us to understand this Bible passage historically, and also prophetically, which was fulfilled in that time; and which also speaks of a future fulfillment, which is typified here.
In the passage that we read, it tells us about the historic moment in which Joseph revealed himself to his brothers, making himself known, telling them: “I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.” In other words, by him saying to them: “Whom you sold into Egypt,” he is speaking to them about something historical that they knew; in other words, he is speaking to them about something they understood. He was not a man who appeared in Egypt and didn’t have a trajectory with them, or, who hadn’t been with them as their brother.
Furthermore, he had been born in Padanaram, where almost all of his brothers were born;[1] except for Benjamin, who was born on the way to Ephrath,[2] in other words, on the way to Bethlehem; but the rest of Joseph’s brothers, including Joseph, were born in Padanaram. And Joseph was born when Jacob was already very elderly, he was already about 91 years old when Joseph was born; and the Scripture says that he loved him very much because he had him in his old age.[3]
And now, we can see, in this son that he loved so much, Joseph, who is a son from the woman that Jacob loved, that is, from Rachel, who had two sons… She was barren; and she would cry out to God, and say to Jacob: “Give me children, or else I die.”[4] In other words, that meant that she wanted to kill herself if he didn’t give her children, or something like that; because it was a reproach not to have children.
And now, she was the woman or the young woman whom Jacob had married. She was the young woman whom he had met there at the well where she went to give water to her father’s sheep, which she shepherded; and Jacob was there; he drew water for the sheep after making himself known, telling her that he was the son of Isaac[5] (Isaac was the son of Abraham); and he asks her: “Who are you?” And she reveals herself to him: she tells him that she is also from the same family, daughter of Bethuel (I think she told him); meaning that she was Jacob’s cousin.
And that was what Jacob’s mother told him, and Isaac too: that he should go there, to Padanaram, to the house of Rebekah’s father and brother, and there, he would find a wife for himself;[6] so that he wouldn’t take a wife from among the women who lived there in the territory where Isaac and Rebekah were living, because that didn’t please neither Rebekah nor Isaac, nor God either.
Just as it doesn’t please the father and mother, and God, that our children fall in love with unconverted people; it’s the same. They had to be descendants of Abraham, believers in the God of Abraham and Isaac, so that their children would also be believers in the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob; because, otherwise, they would influence them and turn them away from the faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would lead them to believe in idolatry, in other gods (which are not gods, but people have made them gods).
Rebekah and Isaac did not like what Esau did: he took wives from the neighboring nations, which were pagans.[7]
And now, we find that Jacob lived in Padanaram for about 20 years, and there he formed his family, his home, in a Gentile land, where the descendants of Terah lived (Terah, father of Abraham).
And now, we find that he had eleven sons and one daughter there. And then, the last son, Benjamin, he had him in the promised land already; the only one who was born in the inheritance that God told Abraham that He would give to him and his seed.
Now, we find that Jacob had only two sons from the beloved woman: Joseph and Benjamin. He had other sons from Leah, such as Simeon, Judah, and so on; and from the handmaids of Leah and Rachel, he had other sons as well. And thus, the patriarchs came to life. And from there, as they multiplied, the Hebrew people was formed.
When they went to Egypt, it was a group of seventy-something people;[8] and counting Joseph and his sons, that is, three more; and Joseph’s wife, well, four more; and then the rest of the children that Joseph had there in Egypt.
Now, Joseph’s life tells us a story of Love Divine; he is the man who, throughout the Bible, other than Jesus, is the most perfect man that we find; he is the most perfect type of Christ, of the Messiah, who appears in the Bible; and therefore, there is a love story in Joseph’s life.
Now, notice, Joseph was a prophet. It doesn’t say of the other sons of Jacob that they were prophets, only of Joseph; meaning that the prophetic line passed from Abraham to Isaac, from Isaac to Jacob, and from Jacob to Joseph. And since he was the firstborn of the beloved wife, Rachel, whom he married… although we find that another son of Jacob was born before him, but that was through Leah. The Birthright Blessing had to come through Jacob and Rachel.
And now, notice here in First Chronicles, chapter 5, verse 1 and on, it says:
“Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s:)”
And nowhere in Biblical history does it appear that the Birthright Blessing was taken away from Joseph and his sons.
The rights entitled by the Birthright contain a double portion of everything: a double portion of inheritance; meaning that the one who receives the largest part of the inheritance is the firstborn. And the one who receives the largest part of the Divine inheritance is the firstborn: for him and his family; that is, for him and his seed, for him and his tribe. And that indicates to us that something very important is reflected in Joseph and his sons, which is connected to the Prince Messiah and the children of the Prince Messiah, the offspring of the Prince Messiah.
And now, we find that Joseph had two dreams;[9] when he told his brothers the first one, they got angry at him and hated him. Then, later on, he tells them “I had another dream,” and he tells them the other dream where he had seen the sun, the moon, and eleven stars, bowing down to him.
And remember that God had told Abraham that his seed would be like the stars of heaven;[10] meaning that the sun, the moon, and the stars typify people, descendants of Abraham. The sun represents Israel or Jacob. The moon represents Rachel, Jacob’s wife; whether she was alive or dead in those days, she was still Jacob’s wife, because the saints don’t die, they only finish their stay here on Earth and go on to live in another dimension.
And now, you read the Bible and you can see twelve stars (twelve stars)[11] although Joseph saw eleven, but the chief star was Joseph; whom the sun, the moon, and 11 stars bowed down before; the eleven stars represented his eleven brothers.
And now, we find that before the Messiah, just as the sun, the moon, and eleven stars bowed before Joseph… and then, when he made himself known to them, we find that his eleven brothers bowed down to him; and then, when he sent for his father… his father who lived there in the land that God had promised to Abraham, meaning, Israel, because the Angel told him: “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for as a prince you had power with God and with men and have prevailed,” (chapter 32 of Genesis, verses 24 to 32); and in other chapters, like chapter 35 of Genesis, He also speaks to him about how his name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; there are other places in the Bible.
And now, we find that Joseph goes through such difficult stages because the Messiah the Prince would go through difficult stages.
Joseph being sold by his brothers[12] typifies the Messiah being sold as well; He was sold by Judas Iscariot.[13]
Then we find that He descended to hell, where He preached to the spirits that were in prison there,[14] in other words, He went to the fifth dimension, which is typified in Joseph being cast into a… a pit, a well without water; which also typifies the burial of Jesus or of Yoshua.
And also when he was cast into prison there in Egypt,[15] which typifies Christ in a heavenly or spiritual body, as the Angel of the Covenant, going to the fifth dimension (to hell) and preaching there to those who were in prison, who lived in the time of Noah and were disobedient to the Word of God spoken by the prophet Noah, and the flood came and took them all away.
That happens to those who don’t listen to the Voice of God in the time in which they are given to live; for the Voice of God always comes by the Holy Spirit through a man, through a prophet.
And now, we have the case of Joseph. Joseph making himself known to his brothers is a type of the Messiah, of Christ, the Christ, the Anointed One, revealing Himself to His people: the Hebrews, the Jews, meaning, to the different sons of Jacob; which will happen in this end time in the Coming of the Lord.
There was a very wise mayor in Jerusalem, whom I heard someone else speak about there in Jerusalem, who said: “Whether Jesus is the Messiah or not (he was not going to argue), when He comes, when the Messiah comes, I will ask Him if He has been here in Jerusalem before.” He didn’t offend anyone and everyone thought very well of him; he didn’t lean towards one side or the other, he was impartial. If all people spoke that way, they would be speaking wisely.
And now, the Prince Messiah will reveal Himself to the Hebrew people.
Now, the mystery is here in the moment and the way that Joseph revealed himself to his brothers: first, they didn’t know he was a Jew, that is, a Hebrew; they didn’t know he was their brother; they didn’t know he had been with them in the land that God gave Abraham as an inheritance for his seed; they didn’t know that the young man who was speaking with them and who was a prince in Egypt, governing Egypt, had been appointed governor; and the only one higher in political position than him was Pharaoh; but Joseph was the administrator, let’s say, the viceroy or prime minister.
So, the second-in-command in the kingdom was Joseph; a type and figure of Christ there in Heaven, on the heavenly Throne, where God had Him sit together with Him.
And now, we find that when he reveals himself to his brothers: he reveals himself among the Gentiles, in the midst of the Gentile people, a Gentile territory; that’s where they see him; and they don’t know it’s him, but they see that powerful man with such an important position in the kingdom, a man who spoke and things had to happen; meaning, he spoke and things had to be done as he commanded.
But, what was the secret why they had not been able to understand that that young man was their brother Joseph? First: he dressed like a Gentile; second: he didn’t use the name Joseph, but the name that Pharaoh had given him, a new name, he had a new name.[16]
The Coming of the Lord, Revelation chapter 19 says, will be with a Name that no one knows except He that receives It, and His Name is called the Word of God. Meaning that the Angel of the Covenant is the One who comes at the Last Day, manifested with a new Name; new to people, but not to God.
Christ Himself says in Revelation, chapter 3, verse 12: “To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden Manna…”[17] “and I will write upon him the Name of My God, and the Name of the City of My God…” It seems like I’m mixing two verses from two chapters, but we’ll fix that now:
[Revelation 3:12] “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.”
There lies the secret: the Coming of the Lord at the Last Day will be with the New Name of the Lord.
If two thousand years ago, it was difficult for some people among the Hebrew people to recognize Him by the name of Yeshua, it will be difficult to recognize Him among Christianity at the Last Day; but the Jews will say: “This is the One we are waiting for!” They are going to see Him coming for His Church, because for His Church it will be time to be transformed and taken with the Messiah to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
There lies the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of Joseph, of our Joseph, the Messiah, the Christ, the Anointed One, revealing Himself to His people, revealing Himself to the Hebrews, to the Jews; but He will be with the Church that is in the New Covenant, just like the First Coming of the Lord was with the people and among the people who were in the Covenant relevant to that time, who were under the Divine Covenant that was given to them on Mount Sinai: they were under the Dispensation of Law.
And now, at the Last Day we will find that the people under the New Covenant is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is waiting for the Coming of the Lord, just as the Hebrew people were waiting for It two thousand years ago.
Will Christianity miss the Coming of the Lord at the Last Day? The elect will be the only ones who won’t miss It; everything will be very simple; but He will be revealing Himself to His Church, the firstborn written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and they will obtain that Divine revelation, like it was obtained by the apostles and that whole group who followed Jesus.
And then, since the Day of Pentecost, the apostles, starting with Peter, tell the story of what the First Coming of the Lord was. Those who saw Him and received Him had the blessing and privilege of being the ones who started to make known what the First Coming of the Lord was. It will also be that way at the Last Day with God’s elect who will see, who will have the revelation of what the Coming of the Lord will be.
What was the Coming of the Lord two thousand years ago? In Malachi, chapter 3, verse 1, it says that it was the Coming of the Lord (meaning, God the Father) and of the Angel of the Covenant: “the Coming of the Lord, in whom you delight;” the Coming of the Lord, as it says in Malachi chapter 4. And that establishes the pattern, or design, or blueprint, also for the Coming of the Lord at the Last Day; in other words, it will be something parallel.
Notice, chapter 3 of Malachi, verse 1, says:
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me…”
In other words, a forerunner, and we all know that was John the Baptist, the one that came in the spirit and power of Elijah to prepare a people for the Lord, for the Angel of the Covenant, who would come after John the Baptist in his ministry; meaning, He would come after him: even while John the Baptist, the forerunner, was still in his ministry, the Messiah would appear.
That is why he said: “There stands One among you, whom you know not.”[18] And then, when he saw Jesus, he said: “This is the One of whom I said that after me would come One greater than me; He is the One who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with Fire.”[19]
And now, Jesus Himself testified of John the Baptist as the messenger who would come preparing the way for the Lord, and He said that he was that Elijah who was to come.[20] And who came afterwards? Yeshua or Jesus.
And that was the coming of the forerunner and the Coming of the One forerun: the coming of the Elijah forerunning the First Coming of the Messiah, and then the fulfillment of the First Coming of the Messiah in a young carpenter called Jesus or Yeshua.
That was the Coming of God the Father, the Lord, whom the people sought, and the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, in whom the Hebrew people delighted. The same One who gave them the Law on Mount Sinai would now come in human flesh and would be the promised Messiah.
The Angel of the Covenant is none other than God’s heavenly body, in other words, the image of the living God; and then, God’s physical likeness is the physical body of the Messiah. As simple as that. And there we would have God in all His fullness, the fullness of the Godhead: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, manifested among the Hebrew people; Emmanuel: God with us;[21] God with us the human beings, the human family; God clothed in human flesh.
Didn’t God visit Abraham with two Angels, which are Gabriel and Michael, and eat with Abraham?[22] And then the two Angels went to Sodom and had supper with Lot there.[23] But the lunch was with Abraham; and He ate meat with Abraham, tender calf meat, and also butter and bread, flour cakes.
And now we can see that visitation of God in a visible form to Abraham; a type and figure of what will happen at the Last Day, when the Son of Man is promised to come with His Angels: the Son of Man will come with Moses and Elijah, with the Two Olive Trees; and there lies the mystery of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels.
And now, when the Son of Man with His Angels reveals Himself to the Hebrew people, He will be fulfilling the historic moment that typified what the Prince Messiah will do at the Last Day: Him revealing Himself to His brothers the Jews, the Hebrews.
There lies the type and figure, and it must be fulfilled that way; because in God’s Mind, before the type and figure exists, the reality exists; before the type and figure: the reality. A type and figure is made from the reality; in other words, the antitype comes before the type and figure, that is why it’s “anti”-type.[24] A type and figure can only be made from something real that will happen later on.
Now, Joseph typifies the Messiah in His First Coming and in His Second Coming. It was among the Gentiles that he revealed himself to his brothers. That is why when the Hebrews see the Messiah, the Son of Man, the Christ coming for His Church, they will say: “This is the One we are waiting for,” in other words: “What is he doing among the Gentiles?”
The same thing: What was Joseph doing among the Gentiles? He was the prince there, he was the second-in-command in the kingdom, he was the man or young man who received a new name that was given to him by Pharaoh, and he also received a Gentile bride, a Gentile wife, which typifies the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ephraim typifies the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and Manasseh typifies the Jews, the Hebrews. As simple as that.
Who was given the greater blessing? Ephraim.[25] Manasseh was given a great blessing: he would form a great nation; a type and figure of the Jews forming a great nation; a nation that, in such few years since its founding, its establishment as a free and sovereign nation (in other words, from 1948 to this day), it has already been a first-world nation for many years now.
And there are nations that have existed for 100 years, 200 years, 300 years, and they still aren’t first-world countries. What mystery lies in that small nation that has become a first-world nation, with cutting-edge technology? It’s because it has a great blessing, which was bestowed upon it by Jacob upon Manasseh.
But the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, typified in Ephraim, who was told… when Joseph wants the first blessing to be bestowed upon Manasseh, who was the oldest, but Jacob put his right hand upon Ephraim’s head, who was the youngest… just like Jacob was the youngest and Esau was the oldest, but the Birthright Blessing came upon Jacob; he had to fight, but God helped him; he loved God’s blessing.
Whoever loves God’s blessing, seeks God’s blessing: he strives to obtain God’s blessing, and God helps him; and God says that He loves those people: “Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”[26]
Whoever doesn’t seek God’s blessing, whoever doesn’t give importance to the things of God, remember: what God said about Esau goes for you too.
But whoever seeks God’s blessing, remember that what God says to – says of Jacob: “Jacob have I loved,” also goes for you. And as the Angel Gabriel said to the prophet Daniel: “You are greatly beloved,”[27] in other words, greatly beloved in Heaven; that is also how it is for all those who seek God’s blessing: they are greatly beloved in Heaven, God’s beloved; that is why they are kings and priests and judges of the Order of Melchizedek.
And now, we can see that something great is going to happen with the Hebrew people, and it’s that they will see the One they are waiting for; and just as Joseph revealed himself to his brothers, the Prince Messiah will also reveal Himself to his brothers.
But notice, Joseph’s wife and children knew Joseph; but Joseph’s brothers didn’t know Joseph, until he revealed himself to them. That is how it will be at this end time.
Now, we can see that the time is coming when what happened back then with Joseph and his brothers will be repeated with our Joseph, the Prince Messiah, who will reveal himself to his brothers the Hebrews; and that will be Joseph, the Messiah, revealing Himself to His brothers. And then we will say: “Joseph, the Messiah revealed Himself to His brothers the Hebrews.” Everything that will be happening will be as simple as that.
There was also a type and figure in the last century, the 20th century, in the life of the messenger of the seventh stage or age of the Gentile Church, Reverend William Branham: he received the promise from God that He would have a son from his wife Meda, who typified the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ at that time; and she couldn’t have any more children, but God had told him that he would have a son. The doctor wanted to operate her, but Reverend William Branham said no, that she would have a son.
God said to Reverend William Branham, on one occasion when he was reading the story of Joseph, and he liked it so much that he said: “If I ever have a son, I’ll name him: Joseph;” and God told him that he would have a son.
And now, let’s see something very interesting for all of us here, because we have another type and figure here. It is on page 164, paragraph 1462, of this book which contains quotes from the messages of Reverend William Branham; it says[28]:
1462 – “[239] I remember that up here in ‘Twin City,’ I think Brother Brown and them was with me; and I was taking the life of Joseph, in the Bible. And I read that Bible, there was a man there was nothing against! (In other words, there was nothing against him, he was a righteous man, a devout man, a man who kept himself for God). Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all of them, had something against them (that is, they had something against them, meaning, they did something wrong), but not Joseph (there was no way to find fault in him). What a man, a perfect man, a perfect type of Christ!”
It would be good for all youth and adults to be like Joseph:
1462 – “[242] I said, ‘Thank You, Lord. O God, thank You for such a man.’
243 And right then the Holy Spirit revealed to me, said, ‘You’ll have a son, and you’ll call his name “Joseph.”’ I got up from there and thanked the Lord. (…)
[256] And I remember, four years later, my wife…
257 We knew we was going to have a baby. (…)
259 When it was born, it was Sarah. (…)
267 Four years passed, finally she was going to be mother again. (…)
277 I went up, the mill, to pray. And I started there. There stood that Light hang between two trees, said, ‘Go back to your, were, to the Book.’ I went back to the—the Bible…”
In other words, his – “the Book” meaning “in the Bible.”
1462 – “[277] … the Bible, and while it, and been laying in my car, and when it did, the wind had blowed it over to where Nathan was setting, and David, said, ‘Go tell My servant David, I took him from that sheepcote (meaning, from that flock of sheep), from feeding those few sheep of his father’s, and I made him a great name like the great men.’ (Not all the—the greatest name, but just like great men; never made him a Billy Graham, but a…give him a name, you know.) Said, ‘I done that, but,’ said, ‘I can’t let him build the temple, but his son…’
278 And just as soon as It said, ‘His son’s,’ oh, my, there it was.
279 I said, ‘Joseph?’ That’s right.
[280] I run, throwed my arms around her (meaning, around his wife), and I said, ‘Honey! Joseph is coming. Joseph is on his road’” (that is, the son He had promised him).
That son who Reverend William Branham had from his wife Meda is also a type and figure of the Coming of the Messiah; he is not the Messiah, but rather the type and figure of the Coming of the Messiah. That is why he is also a minor prophet, because he has to typify the Coming of the Messiah.
And now, the Coming of the Messiah at the Last Day is a mystery. The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is waiting for him; the Hebrew people are also waiting for the Messiah; and therefore, that is the most important of all the subjects that the Hebrew people and Christianity could have: the Coming of the Messiah. No subject is more important than that. Because in the Coming of the Messiah and the Coming of the Messiah is what the future of Israel and the future of Christianity, and therefore, the future of the human family, depends on.
The human race rests and depends on the Coming of the Messiah for the Last Day; not just the Hebrew people and not just Christianity, but all human beings. And that will be the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, the Coming of the Son of Man with the Two Olive Trees, for the Church and then the Hebrew people. And that will fulfill the Third Pull; and all of that will reach its peak (meaning, its climax) in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision. As simple as that. Everything is intertwined.
So, we have to know that something great is about to happen. Something great is moving in the Divine Program, to reach the climax of the Divine Program.
In the fulfillment of the Third Pull, which will be in the Tent Vision, that will be the climax, the greatest part of the Third Pull; that is where Joseph, the Messiah, will reveal himself to his brothers. As simple as that.
The Angel of the Covenant, the Pillar of Fire, the Angel who accompanied Reverend William Branham, will be there; and a name that he heard and wanted to know will be there. He was searching for what that name was;[29] he may have forgotten it after he came out of the vision, or he may have been looking for it to find its meaning, but a name will be there.
And if the name is so important, then it can’t be anything other than the Eternal Name of God, the Name of the City of our God, the Name of the New Jerusalem, which will have the Name of God, and the New Name of the Lord.
Remember that Christ said that He will make the Overcomer a pillar in the Temple of God: “And I will write upon him the Name of our God (meaning, the Eternal Name of God, which was revealed to Moses),[30] and the Name of the City of our God, and the New Name of the Lord.”[31] As simple as that.
All of that will be there; and from there, the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Coming of the Lord to His Church, will be revealed. And the Hebrew people will see him and receive him; they will receive their Joseph, the Messiah, for they received him back then, which is the type and figure; therefore, they will receive him at the Last Day.
Therefore, you will see the Hebrew people, the Jews, the leaders of Judaism, coming closer, because they are looking for something, and they will find it; and that will be Joseph, the Messiah, revealing Himself to His brothers.
Now we can see the type and figure in Joseph, the son of Jacob. And now we can also see a type and figure in Joseph, the son of Reverend William Branham.
And when he says: “Joseph is coming!” he says to his wife Meda, who typifies the Church, wasn’t he announcing to the Church the Second Coming of Christ, forerunning the Second Coming of Christ, telling the Church that Christ would come? See? Saying the same thing, in type and figure, to his wife.
Now, this is as much as I can tell you; because if I keep going, I will be opening the Seventh Seal to you completely; and for now, we are going to leave it alone. Remember that Meda represents the Church; and the virgin Mary also represents the Bride-Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Virgin-Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Something great is going to happen in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ at this end time, to the point that the Church’s wait for the Coming of the Lord will bring forth the blessing of the Coming of the Lord. Now, I will leave the details alone.
Reverend William Branham, speaking about the Seventh Seal, which is the Coming of the Lord, said on page 14 [p. 15 in Eng.] of the book “Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed,” he said that mystery had been in God’s Mind before the foundation of the world.[32]
That mystery is the one of which Christ said (in Saint Matthew chapter 24) that no man knew neither the day nor the hour, not even the angels; it is the mystery because of which there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour.[33]
And he says that no one knows when it will be nor how it will be, but that it will be revealed; and he says: “It’s a good thing that no one knows how it will be or when it will be.”[34] Why? So that there are no impersonations.
Because anyone who feels a sensation will believe that God is with him to fulfill the Coming of the Lord; because there are many impersonations. There are always impersonators, there were in the past and there are in the present as well; impersonators, who are a hindrance in the Work of God; like Theudas and Judas, who came before Jesus, and drew many disciples, and they died and everything ended.[35]
And now, the place where they are is a difficult one for them, because impersonators don’t have a good future after they die.
And now, at the Last Day, God will have a people who will have the Divine revelation for the Last Day in the Golden Stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, after the seven ages of the Church. After the seven ages will come the Golden Age, the Age of the Cornerstone, the Age of the Stone cut out without hands, the Age of and for the Coming of the Lord. And in that Golden Stage or Age, the Dispensation of the Kingdom will overlap with the Dispensation of Grace.
In that stage, through the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom, the understanding and the heart of the believers in Christ will be opened, to obtain the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and the heart and the understanding of the Jews will also be opened to receive the Coming of the Lord.
What are they waiting for? They are waiting for a man, a man anointed with the Spirit of God, meaning, a man in whom the Angel of the Covenant is; and they are waiting for a man of the time in which that prophecy is fulfilled, a man of flesh and bone; but they are waiting to see what that man will be speaking, because that is the important part.
So, they have their spiritual eyes open, and so does the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is why we need to know the Biblical prophecies, and know the type and figures, so that we don’t miss, we don’t overlook, the fulfillment of the Coming of the Lord at the Last Day.
It is important for us to be vigilant, watching, as Christ said; He says: “For you know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh,”[36] meaning, “you know neither the day nor the hour of the Coming of the Messiah, the Son of Man.”
And now, our subject for this Bible class on this occasion has been made clear: “JOSEPH REVEALS HIMSELF TO HIS BROTHERS.” And since it is a type and figure of Christ at the Last Day revealing Himself to the Hebrew people, we will be on the lookout for Christ, the Messiah; for the Messiah, the Christ, the Anointed One, revealing Himself to the Jews; that is, to the Hebrew people, to the tribes of Israel (that includes the lost tribes).
Now, you have to notice something: he did not reveal himself to all twelve tribes, he did not reveal himself to all twelve brothers, why? Because he was one of them. That is a very important detail, and we will leave it alone; because he and his family… that is, Joseph, who represents – who is the head of the tribe of Joseph… knew who Joseph was.
(Let’s stop here…) Because the revelation that Joseph, his wife, and his children had, we find that it was then passed on to the eleven brothers; and then he revealed himself to his father, when he came, because they went to bring him.
Now, what moved Joseph? The presence of his brother Benjamin; the presence of his brother Benjamin, who represents the 144,000. I already gave you a bit more; with that, I think we’ve had enough now.
Remember that in Zechariah it tells us that there will come a time of weeping, of mourning, for the tribes of Israel. That is in chapter… Let’s see…, let’s see which chapter it is. In chapter 13, verse 6, it tells us… and in chapter 12 as well; verse 10 and on, it says:
[Zechariah 12:10] “And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.”
There we can see what will be happening; and that will be during a time of squeeze for the Hebrew people, a time in which their neighbors will be waging war against them.
If you read before that (before the reading that we had, in that same 12th chapter), you will find that they will have a difficult time, when their neighbors will be very furious at them; but everything will work together for good. It says there what will happen to their neighbors.
And now, we can see that in the book of Revelation it also tells us about that event, in chapter 1, verses 4 to 9. You can read that one, and you will find that it’s related to chapter 12 of Zechariah.
Continue having a happy afternoon, everyone.
And may this new year, 2010, bring many spiritual and material blessings for all of you, and for the entire Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. May all of you have a happy and prosperous year 2010, all of you and me as well!
“JOSEPH REVEALS HIMSELF TO HIS BROTHERS.”
[1] Genesis 35:22-26
[2] Genesis 35:16-18
[3] Genesis 37:3
[4] Genesis 30:1
[5] Genesis 29:9-12
[6] Genesis 28:1-2
[7] Genesis 26:34-35
[8] Genesis 46:26-27
[9] Genesis 37:5-11
[10] Genesis 22:15-17
[11] Dr. Soto repeats himself for the interpreter, who had understood “two stars” -Ed.
[12] Genesis 37:23-28
[13] Matthew 26:14-16, Mark 14:10-11, Luke 22:2-6
[14] 1 Peter 3:18-20
[15] Genesis 39:20
[16] Genesis 41:45
[17] Revelation 2:17
[18] John 1:26
[19] John 1:29-33
[20] Matthew 11:13-15
[21] Matthew 1:23
[22] Genesis 18:1-8
[23] Genesis 19:1-3
[24] Dr. Soto refers to the Spanish prefix ante, meaning “before” -Ed.
[25] Genesis 48:1-20
[26] Malachi 1:2-3, Romans 9:13
[27] Daniel 9:23
[28] Quotations 1462: 65-1126 – “Works Is Faith Expressed,” pp. 31-34, paras. 239, 242-243, 256-257, 259, 267, 277-280
[29] Quotations, p. 40, para. 321: 56-0219 – “Being Led Of The Holy Spirit,” p. 8, para. 24
[30] Exodus 3:13-14
[31] Revelation 3:12
[32] 63-0728 – “Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed,” pp. 15, 52, paras. 102, 395-397
[33] Revelation 8:1
[34] Quotations, p. 106, para. 923: 63-0728 – “Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed,” pp. 15-16, paras. 105-107
[35] Acts 5:36-37
[36] Matthew 25:13