Speak, Lord, for Thy Servant Heareth

Good afternoon, fellow ministers in the Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, and also ladies and other people gathered on this occasion, present here; and also ministers and other people who are connected through the Amazonas satellite or internet. May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and also upon me.

This afternoon or this evening—this afternoon, let’s read in First Samuel chapter 3, verse 1 and on, which speaks to us through the Prophet Samuel when he was still a young man; and it says the following:

“And the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no open vision.

And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;

And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;

That the Lord called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I.

And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he said, I called not; lie down again. And he went and lay down.

And the Lord called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.

Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed unto him.

And the Lord called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived that the Lord had called the child.

Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

And the Lord came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth.

And the Lord said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.

In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.

For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.

And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of the Lord. And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision.

Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he answered, Here am I.

And he said, What is the thing that the Lord hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.

And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the Lord: let him do what seemeth him good.

And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.

And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the Lord.

And the Lord appeared again in Shiloh: for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the Lord.”

May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.

Our subject is: “SPEAK, LORD, FOR THY SERVANT HEARETH.”

You will find that Samuel was a very God-fearing young man and that Samuel’s appearance in the life… among the Hebrew people was a Divine miracle.

Eli the Priest himself spoke the Word of blessing for Samuel’s mother, who was barren and was already a bit stricken in age; and her husband, Samuel’s father, was also already of a certain age; and they hadn’t had children.

And she was very sad, because it wasn’t good for a woman to be childless among the Hebrew people; because having children is a blessing from God.

And she would pray in the tabernacle that was in Shiloh, on different occasions, asking God to take away from her that reproach: she was barren. And the priest would see her on the different occasions when she would go to the tabernacle…

The temple of Solomon hadn’t been built yet, because not even David had been born yet, much less Solomon. And the tabernacle was in Shiloh, which the Hebrew people had taken up to Shiloh; and the ark of the covenant was there.

When Eli, the priest, saw this woman—on one of those occasions—he thought she was drunk, and he tells her certain words; she felt very sad. In chapter 1 of First Samuel, it says… verse 12 and on, says:

“And it came to pass, as she continued praying before the Lord, that Eli marked her mouth.

Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.

And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.

And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord.

Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto.

Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.

And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.”

In other words, she believed what the high priest (remember that he is the high priest) spoke.

He had the blessing of—that high priest, of speaking blessings as well; because he was the high priest, who would speak to God, who would reach the most holy place in the tabernacle; and who, in chapter 5 of Numbers, or chapter 6, it says that God commanded him that in order to bless the people he should do it in a certain way and in the Name of God, speaking the Name of God upon the people.

And now, surely she doesn’t go back to the temple to cry and be afflicted, instead she went… It says:

“So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.”

From that point on she was happy: “I’m going to have a baby soon!” And she did, it was done according to… She believed the word that the high priest spoke, she believed it; he said: “May God grant your petition,” she believed it.

Notice what a simple blessing: “Go in peace, may God grant your petition.” Sometimes we want it to be a long prayer, and so then: “That is true because he prayed for me for an hour.”

Notice, for a barren woman to have a child, she only heard a few words: “Go in peace, and may God grant your petition.” See? The one who said it, it didn’t matter if he only said two words, but they referred to what she wanted.

You will find Jesus Christ sometimes, when some people would come to Him, He would tell them: “According to your faith be it unto you;” that’s all, that was it. “May it be done according to what you believe.” If he didn’t believe that he would… that it would be so, then it wouldn’t be fulfilled, in other words, nothing would happen; whatever he believed, that is what would be fulfilled for him.

And now, we can see that Samuel is a miracle, a miracle (one) of the Word spoken by the high priest, a miracle in response to the prayer of his mother, Hannah, and a miracle of her faith in the words that the high priest spoke to her: she believed that creative Word and it was fulfilled in her.

And the other thing is: Why did she want to have a son?

Sometimes there are parents, a married couple, a couple, who want to have a child so that he can be a performing artist, or be a lawyer, or be something; in other words, they want him to be—so that he can be… so that the child can be whatever they weren’t able to be.

But she wanted him so that he could serve God, so that he could be in the temple of God, to take him to God, to the temple, so that he could work in the Work of God.

And that is the greatest desire a person can have for their children. And when one asks God for a son or a daughter, the most noble thing is to want them so that they can serve God.

And her petition was granted, and she was not selfish, she did not say: “Now I have him, now I won’t take him over there.” No. Later on, after a certain time, she went; surely after she had weaned him, she went and told him: “Here is the son that I prayed for, I prayed to God, and you told me: ‘May it be done according to…’ or ‘May God grant your heart’s petition, go in peace.’” In other words: “Go in peace, God will grant—and may God grant your petition.”

“Here is the answer to my prayer and the answer to the words you said to me, that it be done unto me according to my petition. And here is the purpose for which I wanted him: to bring him to the temple, to give him to you so that he may serve God here in the temple.”

God gave her a great gift, and she put that gift in the service of God.

Sometimes there are people who want to earn a lot of money, who want to be rich, for what? To buy a lot of things for themselves; but there are others who want to have a lot in order to work in the Lord’s Work, to put it in God’s service. And that truly is good. And one can pray for those people for God to make them multimillionaires, so that they can serve God in that financial aspect.

Of course, sometimes when they ask and desire that, then, once they have it, they say: “How could I put this…? Now I’m rich, now I don’t need God to give me more; now that I have this, I can multiply it myself,” and they keep what they received.

But it’s like the one who receives a talent: he buried it.¹ Not using for the Work of God what… or part of what God has given you, well, that is burying the talent God has given you.

The words of Christ related to this are: “Lay up treasures,” (where?) “in Heaven, where neither thieves break through nor moth and rust corrupt.”² That is where we secure everything we put in the Work of God; and that is where it is multiplied. “Behold, I come, and My reward is with Me, to give every man according to his work.”³

So, he who knows these Scriptures and believes them with all his heart, what will he do? Well, lay up treasures (where?) in the Kingdom of the Lord, so that in the Millennium he can enjoy great blessings.

In the Millennium, each person will occupy a position according to how he worked in the Work of the Lord. That is why He gives us talents, so that we work in the Work; and He doesn’t take them from us, except those who don’t work.

The laborer is worthy of his reward,⁴ and he who is lazy is worthy of what was given to him being taken away and given to the one who has more.

In the parable of the talents and the pounds, they say… when the talent is taken away from the person who had one and didn’t use it, and he gave it back: “Here it is;” he wouldn’t even keep it… he gave it back; but it was given to the one who had the most. And the rest say: “But, Lord, he has the most.” Then Christ says: “Unto him who has much, more shall be given.”⁵

Because he who has much, has worked a lot in the Work and has much, for he knows how to labor in the Work; he has worked a lot; and he who works a lot, well, the blessing from God is great, and more is given, added unto him.

And now notice, this woman of faith, Hannah, is an example for all women; surely she was an example for Mary as well, who believed and what the Archangel Gabriel told her was fulfilled.

These Angels Gabriel and Michael are mysterious, they appear in the Bible a lot.

And in one passage, Rev. William Branham, around page 33 of the Book of Quotations, says that Gabriel is the Messenger to Israel. It also appears on page 9 of the Book of Quotations. On page 33, I think it’s the one that says: “Gabriel announced the First Coming of Christ,” (and what else will He do?), “He will announce the Second Coming of Christ.”⁶

I have always called Gabriel the prophet-messenger from another dimension.

Gabriel in His heavenly theophanic body, notice all the times He (Gabriel) has appeared to bring Divine Revelation to Earth: to Zacharias the Priest,⁷ to the virgin Mary;⁸ and we don’t know how many other times He appeared and His name was not mentioned. He is an Angel of the Divine Revelations.

Someday we will know the mystery of Gabriel and Michael, and we will rejoice greatly.

Notice, for the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, they were there eating with Abraham first,⁹ and then Gabriel and Michael went to Sodom;¹⁰ they had lunch with Abraham and dinner with Lot.

In other words, they spent many hours with Abraham. And then, they arrived at Sodom in the evening already, when it was time to gather in their homes for dinner; and there, although they wanted to stay in the street, but Lot insisted and took them to his home; they had dinner with Lot there.¹¹

And this is another mystery: Angels eating.

The mystery of Gabriel and Michael is great, and they are some of the few Angels whose names are mentioned in the Bible.

And now, regarding Michael, it is said that He is the Prince which stands for the children of Israel.¹² And remember that the Kingdom or kingdoms of the spiritual world, of the spirit world, have a heavenly order. If Michael is the Prince, the Prince-King of that Army, then He is a very important Person; and He stands for the children of Israel; in other words, in these battles that the Hebrew people had from Egypt until they reached the promised land, the Angel or Archangel Michael was present there.

And if when the Angel or Archangel Gabriel was fighting among the Gentiles, in the different stages of the Gentile kingdom, for the change from one kingdom or empire to another, and Michael helped Him,¹³ wouldn’t Gabriel help Him when Michael was with the Hebrew people there in Egypt, in the wilderness, over on Mount Sinai, and also in the Hebrew people’s entire journey through the wilderness?

In the death of Moses, it says that Michael took care of Moses’ body.¹⁴ Even funerals are carried out by Them—by Michael, when necessary, for people or with people like Moses.

And taking souls to Abraham’s Bosom is the work of angels as well. Jesus Christ says so. Where does He say that? [Brother Miguel: I think in the 6th, I think of Luke, in the parable of…] Of the rich man and Lazarus. See?

So, angels have a lot of work; and they are led by Archangels like Michael and like Gabriel.

Saint Luke 16:22, around there you’ll find the parable of the rich man and Lazarus.

And even when Christ died and rose, angels were also there: two Angels,¹⁵ who may even be the Archangels Gabriel and Michael, or Moses and Elijah, the ones who had appeared on Mount Transfiguration.

Regarding Mount Transfiguration, there is something great that will be opened someday; because what happens there is the order, not of the First Coming of Christ, but of the Second Coming of Christ; but that is being reflected there, on Mount Transfiguration, Christ being manifested there, Christ being (let’s see, so that we say the right word) transfigured.

What does it mean to be transfigured, Miguel? To be transformed: from transfigured, from one form or figure to another. For Saint Luke says that His countenance was altered.¹⁶

There is something there, because it is showing the order of the Second Coming of Christ there; and therefore, it is showing Him there with Moses and Elijah. So that there is very important.

The type, also, it is also there when the Angels, God along with Gabriel and Michael, appeared to Abraham. That is why it says that as it was in the days of Lot, so shall the Coming of the Son of man be.¹⁷

And Christ, speaking about the Coming of the Son of man, in Saint Matthew chapter 16, verses 26 to 28, tells us: “For the Son of man shall come in the glory of His Father with His Angels, and then He shall reward every man according to his works.” And He tells them: “There are many standing here, which shall not taste of death, until they see the Son of man coming…” Let’s see here again: “Coming in the glory of His Father,” it should be… Verse 28, 27 to 28; it says:

“For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.”

Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”

And Christ, in chapter 6, verse 10, of Saint Matthew, says that when we pray, we should say: “Our Father which art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come.” And how does the Kingdom of God come? With the Son of man.

The Son of man comes in the Kingdom of God. “The Son of man coming in His Kingdom.” And it was shown there how the Son of man will come in His Kingdom: He comes with His Angels, with His messengers, with the Two Olive Trees: Moses and Elijah.

And it won’t be the first Moses; and let’s say that the second Moses was Jesus, He was a prophet like Moses, a dispensational prophet; and if we count Jesus, a prophet like Moses, as the second time, then the third time at the Last Day will be a prophet like Moses in whom God will put His Word: He will put It in the mouth of that dispensational prophet.

And the Word for the Last Day is the Gospel of the Kingdom, the Message of the Dispensation of the Kingdom. And therefore, that Message will cover all the things that God will speak at the Last Day.

In the Message that Christ preached, He spoke blessings, He spoke commandments, and He spoke judgments as well.

And now, we are just touching on this subject of the Coming of the Son of man in His Kingdom. And the Son of man will come as a Lion there; and therefore, that goes all the way to Revelation 10, and continues with Revelation 11.

Now, moving on to Samuel, the child Samuel who was taken to the temple served God there with Eli, he served God before Eli; so, he was being trained to succeed Eli, perhaps Eli didn’t realize it; but notice, he was the one who was interested in serving God; and Eli was already getting old, and Eli’s sons didn’t qualify to be Eli’s successors.

We find that Samuel came to be the last judge of Israel, in whom there was also the priesthood and the ministry of a prophet. There we have a man in whom the ministry of a prophet is consolidated with the ministry of high priest, or priest, and the ministry of judge.

He was a very great, very important, and very good man. Whatever he spoke was fulfilled; and we can see that he could foresee things.

He was the one who anointed Saul¹⁸ and then he also anointed David.¹⁹ In other words, he was the one who made the overlap between theocracy and monarchy; he was the last messenger as a judge of theocracy.

And now, that occasion when God speaks to him… Notice that it is very important here: he is the one who introduces the monarchy.

“And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the Lord, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;

That the Lord called Samuel…”

And remember that the candlestick with its seven lamps represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and before the candlestick goes out…

In the New Testament, the candlestick represents the Church; and the Church, from age to age, has been on fire with the Holy Spirit; but notice, in the seventh age of the Church is where the seventh Light is: His messenger; God shining through him in the Temple, in the Holy place.

And before that Light of the seventh age goes out, the Holy Spirit shining through that seventh messenger… because the lamp is the Church and the wick on fire is the messenger on fire with the Holy Spirit; and before it goes out, God has to call a man, who will be a man like Samuel. A man like Samuel, who is the one that will make that overlap between the Dispensation of the Kingdom and the Dispensation of Grace, between the Gospel of the Kingdom and the Gospel of Grace, and so forth; an overlap man.

We find Samuel being young, receiving the call of God; and we find him in the house of God, the tabernacle, which represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the New Testament; a man where God spoke, in the house of God, there in the tabernacle.

At the Last Day there will be a man in the House of God, the Church, where God has been speaking through His Spirit through the messengers from stage to stage, from age to age. And we find God speaking to him.

At the Last Day, before the last Light or the candlestick goes out… because when all seven messengers left, the candlestick went out, and there is no more Light for any of the seven ages, because the Light of each lamp went out: the messenger departed. As simple as that.

At the Last Day, may the Spirit of God have that man; and may we be able to see him and hear what God will be speaking to him, revealing to him for all of us.

Since he was young, notice, since he was a child he was already in the house of God.

We find that there, under the time of that prophet, is when the change from theocracy to monarchy took place; and only through a prophet like Samuel could that change from theocracy to monarchy be carried out.

And notice, he was yielding, he was handing over his place. He didn’t like it at first when the people asked for a king, and God told him: “They are not rejecting you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them;”²⁰ because God was reigning through Samuel.

And it is better to have an old king who is good, who hears from God and who serves God, rather than a young man as king who doesn’t listen to the Voice of God and doesn’t obey the Voice of God.

The Voice of God, then, for Saul, came through Samuel; because Saul was not a prophet, although he prophesied.

Samuel was very sad to see that there would come a change from theocracy to monarchy; because in theocracy, God is the One who reigns through a man, through those men who appear as judges among the Hebrew people (and the last one was Samuel); but in monarchy, it is a king reigning for God.

And that is why we find that some of those kings, instead of reigning for God, they reign for themselves: they become rich, they become popular; and they kill everyone they don’t like. As simple as that. And if it is beneficial to adopt or for the people to adopt or for part of the people to adopt pagan religions, they allow it because it benefits them; because they make an alliance with other kings and they marry the daughters of other pagan kings, and then they have to allow them to establish pagan religions, pagan temples on their land; and that becomes a curse for the Hebrew people.

Those things caused idolatry to enter among the Hebrew people; and many of those among the Hebrew people converted to pagan religions.

Even Solomon himself, it says that he worshiped, that he served idols, these pagan idols, when he became old;²¹ it seems that wisdom fades away: he forgot what God had told him, perhaps; and then he brought the people trouble.

Because God deals with Israel as a nation; and whatever the king does… the king and all the people receive the benefits; or if he receives… If he does things right, he and the people receive blessings; if he does the wrong things, they receive curses.

And that is how it is with all nations: if the king or ruler or president of a nation acts the wrong way and gets upset with other nations, he can start a war, he can harm himself and harm the people; and he can bring economic and political ruin upon all his people, and a war that will leave them in ruins. That is how it is with nations.

And now, at the end time there will be a man like [Samuel], there will be a man like Moses, there will be a man like Elijah (because he is one of the Two Olive Trees; and like Moses, who is also one of the Two Olive Trees; they appeared there on Mount Transfiguration), and there will be a man like Jesus as well; and there will be a man like Saint Peter, and there will be a man like Saint Paul; because as Saint Peter and Saint Paul brought the Gospel to the Gentiles, the Gentiles will take it to the Jews.²²

Of course, the Gospel of the Kingdom will go to the Jews, just like the Gospel of Grace came to the Gentiles.

In other words, the type and figure is already there; and it repeats, let’s say, history repeats itself, but under a New Covenant and also under a new Program, and with new people.

It’s because what is happening, already happened in other times, other dispensations, and with other people; history repeats itself but with different people. And what is happening in the present, we have to search for it in the history of the human race, and look at the time they were in alongside the present time.

Christ Himself spoke that way, He believed that; He spoke that way when He said: “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the day when the Son of man is manifested,” (meaning, such will be the day of the Coming of the Son of man); “and as it was in the days of Lot, so shall it be also in the day when the Son of man is revealed, is manifested.”

The Son of man is a prophet, the title of a prophet. That is why Jesus said: “The Son of man,” because He was a prophet.

And now… That is in Saint Luke chapter 17, that is where you find that He says: “As it was in the days of Noah and as it was in the days of Lot.” In Saint Matthew He only says: “As the days of Noah were.” Chapter 24, verses 34 to 39, of Saint Matthew.

And now, the messenger whom God will be using at the Last Day will be a dispensational messenger; and he will be the Angel of Revelation chapter 1, verse 1 and on; of Revelation chapter 19, verses 9 to 10; and Revelation chapter 22, verse 6 and on; and Revelation chapter 22, verse 16 to 17.

Chapter 22, verse 6 and on, says:

“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.

Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.

And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.

Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.

And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.”

Then, in the same 22nd chapter, verse 16 and on, it says:

“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.”

Here Christ identifies Himself as the Root and the Offspring of David, and as the Bright and Morning Star.

The Bright and Morning Star is the Pillar of Fire, the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit. That is why in Revelation chapter 22—or chapter 2, verse *28, it says that he that overcomes, it says: “I will give him the Morning Star;” in other words, He will give him the Pillar of Fire, the Holy Spirit; and therefore, that will be the Angel of Revelation chapter 7, verse 2 and on: the Angel that comes—that ascends from the East, and that comes with the Seal of the living God: he comes with the Pillar of Fire, with the Holy Spirit, with the Angel of the Covenant in him, to call and gather 144,000 Hebrews, 12,000 of each tribe.

And in Revelation chapter 14, we find that group of 144,000 already gathered on Mount Zion, the Mountain of God.

And if that is how it was prophesied, that is how it was seen, that is how it was shown to John the Apostle by the Angel of the Lord, then that is how it will be fulfilled; because it is a Divine Program.

John is already being shown beforehand everything that will happen; and it was already put there in the Book, called the Book of Revelation, where it shows the revelation of Jesus Christ: it shows Jesus Christ revealing Himself in the midst of His Church through the different ages, and after the ages it shows how Christ will be working, and it also shows the things that will be happening on the planet Earth, not only for the Church of the Lord, but what will be happening to the Gentile kingdom, and what will be happening to the Jews as well. Everything is shown in that Book of Revelation, which is in symbols.

At the Last Day there will be no problem understanding it, because the one who gave this revelation to John will be sent in the midst of the Church, to therefore, give us, open to us all these mysteries that are yet to be opened.

For example, through the seventh messenger many mysteries of the Book of Revelation were opened; but although they were opened… for example, regarding the Sixth Seal, it wasn’t known who or in whom the ministry of the Two Olive Trees would be fulfilled.

At the Last Day, that mystery of the Seventh Seal will be known, and the mystery of the Seventh Seal will also be opened; and many more mysteries that are hidden in the Sixth Seal and the Seventh Seal, and also in the Fifth Seal, and even in the Fourth Seal too.

At the end time is when God is going to deal—continue dealing with His Church, but He will also deal with the Hebrew people; but that has to do with the dispensational change.

But the Jews are going to see Him, God, working in the midst of His Church, and they will say: “But this is the One we have been awaiting for thousands of years,” in other words: “What is He doing over there with the Gentiles?”

The thing is, also, that the group of elect of the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone, surely most of them will be Hebrews, many of the lost tribes of Israel, who will be hearing the Great Voice of Trumpet or the Great Trumpet of Isaiah chapter 27, verse 13; which is the same Great Voice of Trumpet of First Corinthians chapter 15, verses 49 to 58; and First Thessalonians chapter 4, verses 13 to 17; and also Philippians chapter 3, verses 20 to 21. All of that will be fulfilled at the Last Day.

And when the Jews see that… even when we are seeing that approach, we need to keep our eyes wide open, because the stage that will be for the Jews will start being introduced, even while the Church is here; because the introduction is one thing and the full entrance is another thing.

He will be the only one they will welcome. And surely, they will want to take him away from the Church at the Last Day. Surely, they will say: “No; he is ours.” All of that is going to happen. When you see it… see that happening, remember I already told you that those things will be happening.

Remember that they are waiting for Elijah, and they know what Elijah is going to be speaking; and they will be waiting for a man like Moses, a prophet like Moses as well; and they are waiting for the Messiah.

So… and they also know and say that it won’t literally be Elijah; it will be a man of this time.

So we are in a very glorious time, where that man will be saying: “Lord, speak Lord, for Your servant is listening;” and then he will be communicating to the people what he heard, or at least what he must tell them. And he will keep to himself what is for him; and there will be no way to get it out of him, because it is for him. And he will give the people what is for the people; and let’s say, if he gives them one fourth or half at most, that is a lot, because no one will have given them as much as this messenger will be giving the people; and he will be giving them the things in a simple way so that everyone understands them; he will be part of the mystical Body of Christ.

The First Coming was in the midst of the Hebrew people, the people who were under the Covenant relevant to that time under the Law and under the correct dispensation; and the Second Coming is for the people who will be under the New Covenant, which is the Church of the Lord. As simple as that.

In plain words: The First Coming was in the East, so then the Second Coming is where? The Morning Light was in the East, and the Evening Light, well, in the West; because the light sets, the sun sets in the [West], it rises in the East and sets in the West; the light sets in the [West]. When referring to the morning, it is the East; when referring to the evening, it is the West. As simple as that.

There is a Psalm that says the Lord comes out as a strong man to run through the Earth like the sun,²³ to run through the Earth; so, if He comes out like the sun, it comes out in the East (the sun rising) and travels all the way to the West; that is where its journey ends, to then return to the East, to come out in the East again.

In other words, in a journey of—how many hours, from the time it comes out of the East? Let’s say, 24 hours. From the time it comes out, until it comes out in the East again, the Dispensation of Grace has journeyed for 24 hours.

The Dispensation of Grace must be fulfilled to come out in the East again; because under the Dispensation of Grace, Christ is running through His journey from East to West, like the sun.

When it says: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with Me…” First it says: “If any man…I stand at the door, and knock: if any man opens the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.”²⁴ What is it speaking to us about? About the evening, about the West; about the evening, because supper is in the evening.

If it said: “I will have breakfast with him,” then that is for the Jews, for the Hebrew people over there, for the East; for them, well, it’s in the morning, coming out, rising as the sun: “Unto them that fear My Name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His Wings.”²⁵

For the Jews, it’s by rising in the morning, and for the Gentiles, for the Church, it’s by finishing His journey as the Sun.

In Hosea, chapter 6, around there it says: “He shall come unto us as the dawn.” And what is that referring to? To the evening (the sun setting) or to the morning? Well, the dawn refers to the morning.

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

And why does it put Latter first and then Former? Because at the time that the Latter Rain is falling, that is when it comes together with the Former Rain that is coming—the Message that is coming from the East, the Gospel of Grace; and that is when It comes together with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom which pertains to this end time.

Therefore, they will hear about both Rains; and when God opens their understanding, well, they will understand; like what happens to us, when He opens our understanding then we understand.

And with the teaching of the revealed Word for the time in which one lives, the Holy Spirit opens our understanding.

Look at the disciples, they didn’t understand many of the things that Jesus spoke, nor did they understand that Jesus had to die crucified; then He started quoting all the Scriptures to them when He rose; and He opened their understanding, according to Saint Luke chapter 24, where it says that: “Then He opened their understanding, that they might understand,” (what?) “the Scriptures.”

It is a Work of the Spirit of God in order to understand.

But when God doesn’t open the understanding, it happens as it says in chapter 29 of Deuteronomy, verse 4; it says:

“Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.”

And now, understanding depends on God opening our understanding.

That is why sometimes there are older people who don’t understand; and a child comes and you ask him such and such a thing, and he says… and he answers correctly right away. God gives children understanding, things that children come to understand and older people haven’t understood yet. And for children it becomes something so ordinary, so common, that they talk about it among themselves. And if you are around children talking about things of God, you will hear things that will amaze you about the understanding they have.

“SPEAK, LORD, FOR THY SERVANT IS LISTENING.”

And now, if God speaks to Samuel, a prophet and the last judge of theocracy… so, Samuel was no ordinary person, he was the last of the judges of theocracy.

God had said that they could have a king whenever they wanted; it wasn’t that they couldn’t have a king, but there was something they had to know.

Miguel, there is a place where it states the conditions to have a king; it’s in Deuteronomy, but I can’t remember very well… If you look it up where it says “king”… It says:

[Deuteronomy 17:14] “When thou art come unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;

Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose,” (in other words, it won’t be the people’s choice, but God’s election): “one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.”

And then He tells them what the consequences will be. It says:

“But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the Lord hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.

Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:

And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life,” (in other words, he couldn’t have the book of the Law in his library just for display, but to read from it every day), “that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them:

That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his children, in the midst of Israel.”

There are many kings who lived many years, and there are others who lived a short time because they didn’t do God’s laws and statutes.

And now, the case of this prophet, Samuel, is very important, because he was the last judge of theocracy. And in theocracy God always reigned through a man; in other words, he was God’s Throne.

No throne was visible; but it’s because man is a temple: he has an outer court, a holy place, and a most holy place. God was in the most holy place, which is God’s human throne, the most holy place; and God’s human [holy place] is the spirit of the person; and the outer court is the body.

And it is the same way in the Church of the Lord: From Adam to Christ: the Outer Court; from Christ or the apostles to the seventh angel-messenger: the Holy Place; and from that point on is the Most Holy Place.

And remember that those parts of that Temple built out of human beings, out of living stones, is currently in the most important part: the Most Holy Place of that Temple, which is being built out of living stones.

Notice, Samuel was in the tabernacle, the temple (which was in itself a piece of canvas or a tent), where the ark of the covenant was.

The Ark of the Covenant is the Word, Christ. And in the Church is where the Word, the Ark of the Covenant, has been carried from age to age by people, by human beings, messengers; just as the priests had to carry the ark of the covenant, now each messenger carries the Ark of the Covenant in the Temple, and they place It there in God’s Temple.

After the seventh age… because the Ark has been in the Holy Place since the apostles to the seventh messenger; and then It will be passed on to the Most Holy Place by a prophet like Samuel.

The one who passes It on will have a blessing… Remember that we are priests and kings and also judges in the Kingdom of Christ. Therefore, he will have a priest blessing, but a major priest blessing; because none of the seven messengers were able to place the Ark of the Covenant, the Word, Christ, in the Most Holy Place.

Only a messenger with a major priest ministry, a high priest ministry, will be able to take the Ark into the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ; and that will be a dispensational messenger, a messenger who will make that overlap; like Samuel did, he was the one who made the overlap between theocracy and monarchy, because he was the one who anointed Saul.

And the [monarchy] started while the [theocracy] was still in effect; because while Samuel was alive, the theocracy was still in effect, because God continued to speak to Samuel.

There is always a time like that, in that overlap, where both are operating. And the one that is starting, in the time of Samuel, wanted to destroy the one that was coming to an end. Samuel himself says, he says to God: “If Saul hears that I am going to anoint someone in Saul’s place, he will kill me.”²⁶ He was already afraid of him.

The young man that he anointed now thought he was in charge; but Samuel was still the one in charge; because theocracy is above monarchy, because it is God working, ruling, through a man.

That is why when Samuel was very sad because the people asked for a king, and he thought they had rejected him, God tells him: “They have not rejected you, they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.”

Now they want a man to rule over them, like the other kings; and the one God had elected, who was a man after God’s heart, was David. And where was David? He was in the loins of Jesse.

Because Saul reigned for 40 years… Notice how easily we can calculate: Saul reigned for 40 years, and then David came to rule over Judah and Benjamin for 7 years, and then the other tribes joined.

Notice, he began with… the kingdom was divided; but Saul had it united, but then it was broken: two tribes went with David. And then the other ten tribes, later on, after seven years of David ruling in Hebron over Judah and Benjamin, then they asked David to also rule over them; and he united them.

And then in the time of Solomon, later on, because of Solomon’s problems… in the time of Rehoboam… In the time of David he tells him that kingdom will be broken, divided. And it was given to… in the time of Rehoboam, Solomon’s son, the kingdom was broken, and ten tribes were given to Jeroboam.

The names are similar: Rehoboam and Jeroboam; the “Je” is added, which includes sacred letters: from Jehovah or Yahve or Yahweh; and he is a descendant of Ephraim, and therefore of Joseph.

And that is when the tribes are divided again. At the Last Day a prophet like Samuel will come and he will unite them again. As simple as that.

That is what is in Ezekiel chapter 37: the stick of Judah and the stick of Ephraim or the stick of Joseph in Ephraim’s hand; because the scepter of the kingdom of the South was in the hand of Judah, and the scepter of the kingdom of the North, of the ten tribes, was in the hand of Ephraim; meaning, of that tribe of Ephraim, in the person of Jeroboam and then in other kings that came along.

But at the Last Day both scepters will be joined together in the hand (like in the hand of the Prophet Ezekiel), in the hand of God, and it will be one Kingdom; and God is going to do that, He will do it at the Last Day.

And there will be a covenant of peace; there is the peace for Israel, the everlasting peace. They are fighting for temporary peace and they will have it for some time, but it will be temporary; then what will come is a war, and there will be a lot of problems there; but the everlasting peace will come as it is promised: in the Kingdom of the Messiah, which will be the restoration of the Kingdom of David, where monarchy will unite with theocracy; and then it will be God ruling through the Messiah.

That is why He will have judges in that Kingdom. That is why Christ tells His disciples: “You will sit on 12 thrones, because you have been with Me from the beginning;”²⁷ and the other 12 thrones (there are 24), well, those belong to the 12 patriarchs, sons of Jacob. As simple as that.

Christ also says: “You will sit on 12 thrones and judge the 12 tribes of Israel.” Therefore, there is a great blessing for the apostles of the Lord.

One of them lost the blessing, but another got it;²⁸ because blessings are not lost, a person may lose them but they go on to someone else.

Notice, the one who received one talent lost the blessing of the talent that he had, he gave it back, and it was given to the one who had the most. Therefore, everything that talent stopped producing, will be recovered quickly by the one who had the most, because he knows how to do good business.

We have to be on the lookout for what God has in store to speak to His Church at this end time. “Surely the Lord will do nothing without first revealing His secrets to His servants, His prophets.”²⁹

All the revelation contained in the Book of Revelation, which at the Last Day will be opened in Heaven and brought to Earth and given to a man to eat, we will then hear all those things that will be spoken by the one who will eat that Book; that is why he is told: “Prophesy before many peoples, nations, and tongues.” That is in Revelation chapter 10; and in chapter 11 we find him prophesying already.

With the ministry of Moses and with the ministry of Elijah come all those prophecies.

Therefore, everything that will be spoken by God to that prophet like Samuel, will be heard by the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ at the Last Day; because he will be sharing with the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ all those things that will be given to him. And what he will be sharing will be the spiritual Food for the Church; he will be giving the Food in due season to the Household of God, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, over which he will be made ruler.

He will be the Faithful and Wise Servant of the Last Day, just like the different messengers of the Church were the faithful and wise servants of each age; but the great blessing is for the Faithful and Wise Servant of the Last Day.

“Who is the Faithful and Wise Servant, whom his Lord has made ruler over His Household, to give them Food in due season? Verily I say unto you that when his Lord comes and finds him so doing, verily I say unto you that He shall make him ruler over all His goods.”³⁰

When a rich man or a king makes someone ruler over all his goods, as Pharaoh did with Joseph… Joseph became the administrator, the prime minister or viceroy of that kingdom; the administrator of that whole kingdom. In other words, he was sitting with him in his kingdom, in his throne; meaning that he led all things; and he had the king’s seal. Therefore, what Joseph spoke was or pertained to the voice of the throne, from the throne; and nothing could be done except what Joseph said.

It says [Revelation 3:21]:

“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me,” (where?) “in my throne.”

That was the throne that was sought by… Who was seeking that Throne? John and James. They didn’t settle for the throne that Christ told them about, because they knew there was more; because they were on Mount Transfiguration seeing what the Coming of the Lord at the Last Day will be, what the Coming of the Son of man will be; they knew that there is a great blessing on the Throne of the Messiah.

The two disciples even came with help: their mother, who was also a family member of the virgin Mary; I think she was her sister or something like that (one of the Marys, and it seems that it was that one); and therefore, if she was Mary’s sister… (Salome, it seems, was one of the children). We will look at that more carefully later on. Or it was one of the other Marys, there were a few Marys.

That was a very common name because Moses’ sister was also named Miriam; and it’s like when… That is why we find names of important figures in the history of the Hebrew people; and that is why we find many people with the name Joshua, with the name Moses, with the name Solomon, with the name David; because mothers want the best for their children, and sometimes they look for names that are already famous, the name of a famous man.

Hardly anyone names them Judas, much less together with… much less giving them two names, calling them: Judas Iscariot.

It’s because sometimes they give people two names. And if they are going to give them two names, they always find two good names, to reinforce the first one, a good middle name as well; they don’t give them a good one and then give them a bad one, where all the good of the first one is destroyed by the second one.

Therefore, we want to listen to what God speaks for this end time; and that is how we will receive the faith, the revelation to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

That mystery of the Seventh Seal will be revealed at this end time.

The Seals are not open yet, because the Book of the Seven Seals is still closed at the Throne, in the hand… in the right hand of God; and it will be taken and opened when Christ finishes His Work of Intercession in Heaven and leaves the Throne of Intercession, and takes the Book and opens It in Heaven.

That is why Rev. William Branham says in the message The Revelation Of The Seven Seals: “That is how It will be someday, It is still in the right hand of God.”³¹ But God through Rev. William Branham is giving us many things that are contained there.

But when It is taken and opened, and brought to Earth, and given to a man, that is when the adoption will take place: the resurrection of the dead and the transformation of us who are alive; because that is the Title Deed of Eternal Life.

Without that Title, we cannot return physically to physical Eternal Life, we cannot be adopted physically.

That is the Title Deed that Adam and Eve had, which Adam had and lost, and It went to the hand of God; then at the Last Day It will go on to the hand of Christ, and He will bring It to Earth and give It to a man.

Remember that he will be a prophet like Samuel, and a prophet like Elijah, and a prophet like Moses, and a prophet like Jesus, and a prophet like Saint Peter, and a prophet like Saint Paul the Apostle. Remember that they were apostles and prophets.

There we have the types and figures; and we can still find more types and figures: he will be a prophet-king like David and like Solomon; and so on, we can see all those types and figures of the Old Testament riding the trail again in the New Covenant.

“SPEAK, LORD, FOR THY SERVANT IS LISTENING.”

May God bless us greatly and use us greatly in His Kingdom at this Last Day. For those who are listening in other nations: may God bless you greatly as well.

And pray a lot so that God speaks to us at this Last Day, so that He reveals His Word to us, everything we need to know in order to be prepared for our transformation.

I appreciate and I am very grateful for all your support for the project of The Great Tent Cathedral, and your support for the missionary and evangelistic work until the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is complete.

We have been put on Earth in the age pertaining to us to work in the Work of the Lord, both you and I.

Tomorrow we will be here again in the relevant service, to continue speaking in tomorrow’s Bible Study. What is tomorrow’s subject, Miguel? [Brother Miguel: “ADAM, WHERE ARE YOU?”] That is a very important subject for us all, and we will be seeing what God has for tomorrow.

Today we saw a lot of types and figures. And still, of what… of those things we have spoken about, the matter of Mount Transfiguration still contains something very great. To put it more clearly: the experience of Mount Transfiguration is the Seventh Seal; so, notice how great that vision is.

May God bless you and keep you; and I will leave Dr. Miguel Bermúdez Marín with you to continue.

And we will be in Torreon the day after tomorrow, and then in all the other places that are already scheduled.

Well, may God bless you and keep you.

We already had dinner, we already had dessert too; so, we won’t have coffee, which some people drink after they eat. We will leave that alone; and we will continue talking, we have time… Time is so short, that we don’t have time, because time… because through the satellite you will be able to hear everything that is spoken all these days.

At any moment the matter of Mount Transfiguration will come out; I don’t know if before or after when we are already in The Great Tent Cathedral.

So, may God bless you and keep you; and pray a lot. Remember that our success is guaranteed.

When the Church, when the Bride, recognizes Her position: Her position given in the Kingdom, Her position in the mystical Body of Christ… that is where we have to recognize the position of the Church; it is the Bride-Church recognizing Her position, what age She is in.

We left out something about Samuel: It was the fourth time that God spoke to him, the fourth time; the third time was when he went to Eli, and Eli realized that it was because God was calling him, and he said: “When He says again: Samuel, Samuel! You will say: Speak, Lord, for thy servant is listening.” And when God spoke to him for the fourth time, he said: “Speak, Lord; for thy servant is listening,” and he heard the Voice of God then.

And the fourth time in the restoration of the Church…The first time: Lutheran Age; the second time that God spoke: Wesleyan Age; the third time that God spoke: Pentecostal Age; the fourth time: the Age of the Cornerstone.

We always have to find, in the type and figure, the stage that pertains to what already happened, or what is… what pertains to our time, we have to find it there in the type and figure. That cannot fail.

Well, that was the coffee.

[Brother Miguel: … because the Bible says that—of Samuel, that he is the man who, the Bible says…]

That no Word fell to the ground.

[Brother Miguel: … that he let no Word of the Lord fall to the ground. He is the only man of whom the Bible says this: that he let no Word of God fall to the ground.]

Yes, that… and that is the Word of the Last Day. Let’s see how it says it here so that… right here where we read:

[1 Samuel 3:19] “And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground.”

In other words, Samuel let none of God’s words fall to the ground, or God let none of Samuel’s words fall to the ground.

You have to search in another Bible, in other versions, to see more clearly what…

To make it easier: God let none of the words Samuel spoke fall to the ground, and Samuel let none of the words God spoke fall to the ground either; while you look for another explanation, I think with that one we cover both parts.

Well, may God bless you and keep you; and I will leave missionary Dr. Miguel Bermúdez Marín with us.

God bless you and keep you.

“SPEAK, LORD, FOR THY SERVANT HEARETH.”