Good afternoon, ministers and brethren present, and all those who are connected through the Amazonas satellite or the internet in different nations; it is a great blessing and privilege to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of fellowship with you around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time.
For this reason, let’s read a very important Scripture, which we believe with all our heart and await its fulfillment: Philippians, chapter 3, verse 20 to 21; and it is a Divine promise for me, and for who else? For each of you as well; because the promises are for the believers in Christ, the believers in the God of Israel, who materialized Himself. It says the following:
“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
“THE POWER OF TRANSFORMATION.”
Since God has promised a resurrection for the believers in Christ, in glorified bodies, and for those who are alive at that time: a transformation, thus, we want to be aware of, to know, this mystery of the power of the transformation; because we are waiting for (what?) the transformation. It’s a Divine promise, therefore, it’s the Word of God; and, as such, that Word must be materialized in me and in you as well.
For this reason, the Seed-Word, the creative Word, must be present, of which it once said that: “In the beginning God created the heaven (and what?) and the earth.”[1] And how did He do so? Later on it says: “And God said, Let there be light: and there was light”;[2] and He goes on to speak the same way for the recomposition of the Earth.
After having created in the beginning: “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,” millions of years passed after that; and then He came back to Earth to say: “Let there be light: and there was light,” and so on.
Now, the Spirit of God moved (what?) upon the waters;[3] Him: the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, which is Christ in His heavenly body. That is why Saint John, chapter 1, verse 1 and on, says that [verses 1-5]:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was (what?) God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
It says [verses 6-13]:
“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become (what?) the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Which were born, not (of flesh and blood), […] but (of what?) of God.”
By what? By the Spirit of God.
And then it says [verse 14]:
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth (or virtue).”
And now, we find that it was by the Word that God created all the – the Heavens and the Earth.
And who is the Word? It is the Holy Spirit, It is the heavenly body of God, Christ in His heavenly body. It is the Angel of the Covenant that is spoken of in the Old Testament: the Angel of God, the Angel of the Covenant, the image of the living God.
When people saw the Angel of God, they said: “We have seen God.” When they saw God, they were seeing the Angel.
Now we can understand this Scripture that says: “No man hath seen God at any time.” Saint John, chapter 1, verse 18, says:
“No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.”
So those who, since Genesis, since Adam, have said that they’ve spoken with God and that God spoke with them…? Now it says that no one has seen God.
What they saw was the heavenly body of God, the Angel of the Covenant, who is Christ in His heavenly body.
That is why Christ said: “Your father Abraham desired to see My day; he saw it, and was glad.”
The Jews said to Him: “You are not yet fifty years old, and You say that You have seen Abraham?”
Christ says to them: “Before Abraham was, I am.”[4]
Why? Because He is the Angel of the Covenant, He is the Holy Spirit, which is the heavenly body of God. A spirit is a body of another dimension, a heavenly body.
And now, we find that God has made all things by Christ; and without Him, nothing (that was made) was made.
In Colossians, chapter 2, verses… and chapter 1; chapter 1, verses 12 to 25, tells us that God created all things in Him: in Christ.
And how can we understand that? Simple, in a see-… Christ said: “Unless the corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone; but if it falls into the ground and dies, it brings forth much fruit (many wheat grains).” That is in Saint John, chapter 12, verse 24.
And where was the fruit? In the corn of wheat. And therefore, if the fruit is in the corn of wheat: then where was the wheat tree, the wheat plant? Well, in the same corn of wheat that is going to be sowed. In other words, God created, in a corn of wheat: a wheat plant and many grains of wheat.
It’s like a chicken egg, which is… which was formed through the union of a rooster and a hen: there is a chick or a hen in there, the feathers are there… And if you look… you see it and you say: “I don’t see anything. That’s crazy, to think those things.”
But when you put the eggs under the hen and a certain amount of time passes, you begin to see the chicks hatching, with their little feathers; and then they grow up; and you say: “What…? And where did this come from?”
—“I told you it was inside that egg, in those eggs. Now (you unbeliever!), now you can see it.”
And that’s also how it is with our physical bodies. Where were they? Where did they come from? It says that when Abraham offered to God, tithes to God, when he paid the tithes to God (in chapter 14 of Genesis), Saint Paul says in [Hebrews] chapter 7 that Levi was also tithing, who was in Abraham’s loins.
That is the trajectory of the physical body: it comes from our ancestors, from the fourth generation, from that point on, it comes in the fourth generation, through there; and that is why there are blessings up to the fourth generation, or also judgments or curses.
(And now…) That is also why doctors ask people: “Well, in your family, did your father, your grandfather or someone, have such-and-such a health problem?” Why? Because if they had it, then the person might inherit it. It’s because we inherit from our ancestors, whom all of that comes from; sin was the same way too.
You can see the same thing in trees. Sometimes there are plantations that have to be burned down due to a plague. And if that tree didn’t get contaminated by that plague when it sprouted, then it happened beforehand: the plague was in the seed, and it came from a previous generation, or from two or three previous generations. Because if the seed of plantations that have the plague continues to be sowed, then the fruit will be a fruit with the plague, for all the generations that come after it.
That is why the good seed is the one that should be sown, and Christ is that good Seed. And in the good Seed comes (what?) the wheat: God’s sons and daughters.
That is why Christ says that the One who sows the good seed is, who? The Son of Man.[5] It’s because Christ is the good Seed, He is the second Adam.
Because the plague of sin entered the first seed upon sinning in the Garden of Eden, so its descendants have come forth with the problem of the plague of sin.
But Christ, the second Adam, is brought to Earth without sin, without plagues, for the sowing of that Corn of Wheat for a New Creation, a new race of human beings, without the plague of sin; because the Blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin.[6]
And now Christ is creating a new race with Eternal Life; and all the believers in Christ already have Eternal Life: they have Eternal Life in their soul, they have Eternal Life in the spirit that they have received; and now they need physical Eternal Life, which will come at some point; for which they need the power (of what?) of transformation.
Notice, around the Word, all of Creation has come: “And (God spoke) God said, Let there be light: and there was light,” and all of Creation has come that way; because the entire Work of God, everything that God does, comes from the creative Word spoken by God, which materializes, becomes a reality, at the relevant time. That has always been the Work of God; not… God doesn’t work any other way.
And how does the Word come? “He will do nothing without first revealing His secrets to His servants, His prophets.”[7]
For each time God brings His Word to a man. That man receives It from God, It becomes flesh in him; and he begins to speak that Word and It becomes flesh in the people who hear It; and what begins? Well, the Work of God.
That is the Work of God: everything that is being spoken starts being materialized. And what had been spoken for other times or in other times, but was not fulfilled in those times, is then fulfilled at that time; because there is spoken Word. In other times it was spoken Word for… let’s say, for our time, from Genesis to Revelation.
Therefore, the Word that is spoken to be fulfilled at a certain time, what was spoken will materialize around that Word.
And if it was spoken, of certain people, that God is going to give them such-and-such a blessing, well, first they will hear that Word, they will believe It, and they will conquer that promise by faith: believing it; and that is how the Word becomes flesh in the person.
And then, since It became flesh: around that Word that became flesh, the fulfillment of that promise will materialize.
Therefore, it will be a work of faith, a work of faith in the person, in the people of God. And not only what happens in the person, but what happens in the Church as a Mystical Body of believers. All the Work of God will be around the Word that has been spoken for His Church for that stage, for that age, for that time.
And things that God said He would do, He will do, or will be seen in the Church, are none other than the materialization of what God has said is going to happen.
All those things are the Divine thought spoken, expressed by the Holy Spirit through the instruments that He sends to His people.
And how will our transformation come? Simple. Reverend William Branham says… Let’s see here, because we are talking about the transformation, right? And I think that is the subject that interests us the most; because with the way things are getting on this planet Earth, I think many think the way I do: “The sooner I leave here, the sooner I am transformed and leave, the better.” I think many think like I do.
Let’s see in a Scripture of… in the book of The Seals, page 128 (of this version or translation) [“The First Seal,” p. 34], it says, about halfway down the page it says:
“[258] Seven Thunders, of Revelation, may He show the Bride how to prepare for the great translation faith (rapturing faith)!”
So, if the Thunders are the ones that are going to make known, to bring that revelation, to let Her know how to prepare Herself, then we have to hear what the Thunders… the people are going to be hearing the Thunders. Well, they may not know that what they will be hearing are the Thunders, but they will be the Thunders.
What are the Thunders? The Voice of the Mighty Angel that comes down from Heaven, the Word that He speaks for His Church. There lies the mystery: the Thunders reveal the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Coming of the Lord.
And just like for the spiritual transformation in each person, the mystery that is revealed is what? The mystery of the First Coming of Christ and His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross. And by believing in Christ, in His Name and His Work of Redemption, receiving Him as Savior, being baptized in water in His Name and receiving His Spirit, that inner transformation takes place.
For the physical transformation, it will be the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Lord at the Last Day, the revelation brought for the Last Day (which is the Voice of Christ, of the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven): giving us His Word, revealing these things to us, we will be receiving the revelation, the faith to be transformed. Around that Word that will have become flesh in the believers in Christ, the transformation will come for those people, and the resurrection for those who have already departed.
Therefore, there will be a Message that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will have, will receive, at the Last Day in the stage relevant to our time. Not for the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh age; because those Messages were already brought by the Holy Spirit through the messengers that He sent.
Therefore, the Mighty Angel, the Holy Spirit that was in those messengers, at this end time will be bringing us His revelation, His Final Message, which will become flesh in us; and all that God has promised for His Church at this end time will be materialized.
No one will be transformed unless they have that revealed Word, that Word of the Seven Thunders, incarnate in them.
Therefore, the Voice of Christ, the Mighty Angel, of the Holy Spirit who comes down from Heaven with the little Book open in His hand, and He gives It to a man to prophesy… if he is going to prophesy, then what must that man be? A prophet; because prophets are the ones who prophesy.
And he is going to eat that Word, that Message; that creative Word: he is going to speak It; all the believers who are going to be transformed will receive It (that Word); It will become flesh in them as well, just as It will become flesh in the messenger (because he eats It: he receives It, he believes It, and It becomes flesh in him); and therefore, that Word becomes a reality.
And the command is then: “Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.”[8]
And therefore, there will be someone prophesying, there will be someone who will have eaten that Word: who will be a prophet, and who will not belong to any of the seven ages.
Therefore, there must be a stage in the Church where he will be. And there is no other stage but the Golden Stage, the Golden Age, the Age of the Cornerstone. The One who will have eaten that Word, that Seven-Sealed Book, will appear there, and he will be speaking the prophetic Word; and there will be people up there who will be listening, because they will have heard the call to come up, to come up higher.
Because that is how it has been. In the first age, the believers went up to the first age with the Message of the Holy Spirit through the messenger of that – each age (Saint Paul); then to the second age came the messenger (the call by the Holy Spirit through that messenger, who had eaten the Word for that time), and the believers who belong to that second age went up to that second age… and likewise, they go up, like on a ladder, to each stage of the Church (the people who belong to each stage of the Church, where God also places the messenger of each stage).
And now, the seven messengers have left. Some may say: “Well, now we have no messenger.” Not for the seven ages, not anymore; but for the Age of the Cornerstone, the relevant messenger must appear.
And the Holy Spirit must speak to His Church in a higher age. In that age, what will be spoken will be materialized, what pertains to that age.
For example, in the past it was spoken that a Great Tent Cathedral will come in the midst of the believers in Christ; and it was not fulfilled in the seventh age. And Reverend William Branham wanted to make it a reality, and he spoke it; therefore, that is spoken Word.
But remember that the prophets have spoken Word for their time, which will be fulfilled in their time, and Word that will be fulfilled in other stages of the Divine Program. What was for their time, was fulfilled in the time in which they lived; and what was for later on, has been fulfilled as the cycles or ages of the Divine Program have come.
The Work of God has always been: to fulfill what He promised; to fulfill what He thought and spoke by the Holy Spirit (that is, by Christ in His heavenly body) through the prophets, which were the veils of flesh that He used.
For example, God had spoken to Abraham (in [Genesis] chapter 15, verses 12 to 19) that his seed would serve or be captive in a foreign land, and would be afflicted there; but that God would deliver them, and that He would punish the nation that would oppress them; and that He would deliver them with a mighty hand (in other words, “with a mighty hand” means with judgment, by force), to fulfill the punishment against those who had oppressed them. Because God is the Judge, and He judges and also carries out what He speaks as judgment; because He is the Judge of every kind, of all Creation.
And now, when referring to Divine judgment, remember, you have to think of a Court, where God is the Judge and there will be a judgment that is going to be carried out. When one says that the Divine judgments are going to fall upon the Earth, remember: all of that has to be… take place in Heaven, and then be manifested, revealed, on Earth; but the sentence already comes from Heaven.
Just like Nebuchadnezzar, remember? He exalted himself and believed that he was the one who had managed to have that great kingdom, and he didn’t know that it was because God had given him that kingdom; for God gives the kingdom to whomever he wishes.
And he had a dream of a great tree, and that – and he saw a watcher who said they should cut down the tree, and that it was by order of the watchers, of the holy ones; in other words, there was a judgment in Heaven, and the… the sentence was dictated; and that watcher dictated the decree, the decree that God had already dictated: he made it known.
And Nebuchadnezzar went insane, a… he was given a beast’s heart; that is, a spirit of an animal, of an ox, came upon him.[9] If it had been of a monkey, he would have been jumping on the trees.
And we find things are carried out in Heaven first, and then they are materialized on Earth, and they are made known through the instruments that God has for each time.
For our time we want to know everything related to the transformation and resurrection of the dead believers in Christ; and, therefore, the catching away or rapture of the Church. Because all those who are going to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb will have the promised Word for our time, which will materialize in them; and around that Word, our transformation will be materialized.
Because the Word is a seed; the Word is the Seed, the original Seed, what It says becomes a reality. Just like what is in a seed of some tree (or whatever it may be) becomes a reality when it is sown: it sprouts and bears fruit. That is also how the Word of God is, which accomplishes that which God sent It for;[10] He sows It in people’s hearts, and therefore, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ as a Mystical Body of believers.
Therefore, the Church will have the Word relevant to our time; and every believer in Christ as an individual will also have It. Around that Word, our transformation will take place.
That is why the faith for the rapture —which Reverend William Branham talks about— for the transformation and rapture (see?), is in the Thunders, the Thunders give it; and the Thunders is the Voice of Christ the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven in Revelation, chapter 10, speaking to His people.
And that is why He gives the Title Deed to a man: so that he eats It, and then prophesies, speaks, brings that prophetic Word; and consequently, the Holy Spirit will be in him, speaking through that instrument.
And there will be a stage of the Church where all of that is going to be carried out; and it will no longer be in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh age, because those ages already passed; and what was going to be fulfilled in those ages, was fulfilled.
Now we go up higher: to the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the Golden Age of the Church, the age where all those promises are going to be fulfilled. But we don’t know in what year. They will be fulfilled as time goes on.
It’s like the sowing of seeds: they are sown, they are watched over so that the… the birds don’t pull them out, don’t damage the… and so that the toads don’t get in. Remember, the… Song of Solomon, around there, it says that the little foxes ruin the crops.[11]
Therefore, one watches (the ministers must be watching): so that no one comes in to harm the congregation, so that he doesn’t come with something else or another interpretation, or his own ideas, from his own head, and pervert the true Word, the Seed-Word that is given to the people by the Holy Spirit through the instrument that He has for that age; and He always has only one in every age or in every stage of His Church.
And the people will then see: if it’s not according to the promised Word for that time, they won’t pay any attention to what someone else says. They will only want to hear what is relevant to their time: the promised Word for their time, which must come according to the order established by God. It can’t come any other way.
Therefore, God won’t speak through another instrument, only through the instrument He has for each stage, for each age. He can’t change the way He speaks. That has always been the way He does it.
And now, the power of transformation will be manifested by the Holy Spirit around that promised Word that has been given to His people, to His Church; and which His Church as a Mystical Body has received, and which every believer in Christ as an individual has received in his heart, and It has become flesh in the Mystical Body, and It has become flesh in the believer.
Therefore, if It has become flesh, then It must become a reality; he already has It made flesh. Therefore, around that Word that has become flesh in his life, will come the transformation.
That is how all the blessings come to the person: he believes the Word; and by believing It, It becomes a reality, what the Word says is fulfilled. Because “God watches over His Word (for what?) to (what?) perform It,”[12] to make It a reality.
And now, that is why we can see that Christ was always speaking the Word, what the Scripture said; because that is what was becoming a reality in Him for the people.
And that is why when He read Isaiah, chapter 61, when He reaches the part where it says: “And to preach the acceptable year of the Lord,” He stopped and didn’t continue;[13] because what it said next was: “and the day of vengeance of our God”; because the day of vengeance of our God wasn’t going to be preached at that time.
Christ in His First Coming wasn’t going to preach “the day of vengeance,” but rather “the acceptable year” of the Lord; that is why He stopped. The preaching of the day of vengeance of our God is for this end time.
Therefore, Christ in His Coming to His Church at the Last Day will be speaking about the day of vengeance; all these things that are going to happen at this end time.
In plain words: He will be making known the Trumpets, the Vials, the Plagues, all of that; but He will also be making known how to escape. Like when He tells Noah that He is going to destroy mankind, and Noah gets scared, but God tells him how to escape: an ark.[14]
So, there’s no problem. When, before God, the problem for the human family is big and God is going to destroy it, on the other hand the blessing for the believers is big.
And now, “THE POWER OF TRANSFORMATION.”
That is why we are called to go up higher, higher than the seventh age: to go up to the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the age for the adoption: where we will be hearing all the things that Christ will be speaking consecutively at the Last Day in the midst of His Church.
And then, when the entire mystery of what has been happening in the Church is opened, we will discover that we were hearing the Voice of Christ consecutively; and that is the Seven Thunders speaking.
The content of the Seven Thunders and the mystery of the Seventh Seal (which is the Coming of the Lord) is revealed by the Seven Thunders, that entire mystery of the Coming of the Lord to His Church. Because there is the Coming of the Lord to His Church, which is as a thief in the night;[15] and therefore, It is a mystery and It will be a secret that will be known by His Church, which will be transformed, but the world won’t know anything about it.
Like the world in the time of Jesus: they didn’t know that the First Coming of the Messiah was fulfilled there: in Him. They said that He was a young man who had a devil, that He cast out the devils by the finger of Beelzebub, that He was gluttonous and a wine drinker, and a friend of publicans and all kinds of people… and they had a very poor opinion of Jesus. That is why we find that when Jesus spoke, He spoke harshly, against those people who had that negative view of Jesus Christ.
And Christ knew who He was, He wasn’t going to get discouraged; He had a work to carry out according to the Divine Program, which was sealed in Him. When He says: “And other sheep I have, which are not of this Fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear My Voice; and there shall be one Fold, and one Shepherd.”[16]
He says: “No man takes My life from Me, I lay it down of Myself to take it again. This commandment have I received of My Father” (that is in Saint John, chapter 10, verse 14 and on).
He already came with a Divine mission, which no one understood; although it was already in the prophecies: that the Messiah would come, and in the seventieth week the Messiah would be cut off (chapter 9 of Daniel).
Therefore, He was the One who knew that mystery, He knew those Scriptures. The rest had read them, but in the time of their fulfillment, they didn’t understand their meaning. But Jesus did, He knew what was happening, He was the only One who knew; and from time to time one of the disciples would discover something, by Divine revelation.
When Peter… when Jesus asks: “Whom do men say that I, the Son of man, am?” the disciples said: “Some say that You are Elijah; others say that You are one of the prophets; others say that You are John the Baptist, who has resurrected…” of course, because of the things Jesus did: He did things that resembled the things Elijah did, He did things that resembled the things John had done, and so on; He did things that resembled the things the prophets had done.
But no one knew who He was: “He might be Elijah, or He might be John the Baptist, or He might be one of the prophets, who has resurrected.”
But who is He? That was what Jesus wanted His disciples to know: who He was in the Divine Program.
And Peter says to Him… And when Peter – Jesus asks: “And you, who do you say that I am?” Peter says to Him: “You: You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Jesus says to him: “Blessed are you, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood has not revealed it to you, but My Father which is in Heaven (or in the Heavens).” And there, He begins to tell them other things, other blessings. (This is in chapter 16 of Saint Matthew.)
Now, we can see that some did know, but they didn’t know everything. Peter didn’t even know that Christ had to die; because when Christ says that He has to go up to Jerusalem to be taken prisoner and to be judged and sentenced and crucified, Peter says to Him: “May such a thing not happen to You.”[17] Notice: “To wait for the Coming of the Lord, and now have It, only for Him to die, for Him to be killed?!”
They were willing to give their lives for Christ. When Jesus was taken prisoner, Peter drew his sword… and why do you think he didn’t cut the head off the priest’s servant? Because surely, he dodged the blow, and he only managed to get his ear.[18]
So, they defended Christ; not by arguing, rather, they defended Him as best they knew how.
One shouldn’t be arguing with people. Whoever doesn’t believe: doesn’t believe; because you know the unbeliever isn’t going to believe. The believer is the one who believes. Arguing with unbelievers… Christ says: “Do not cast pearls before swine, lest they trample them”[19]: they will trample over everything you’ll say, which are pearls; the Divine revelation is a pearl or pearls that God has given you, for you to have; they are a treasure.
Now, we can see that at this end time a great blessing is promised: the transformation, for which Christ will come.
But how He will come, when He will come, and these mysteries: this will only be revealed to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, to all those who will be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; no one else has to know, because no one else will be transformed.
Now, at a certain moment, that manifestation of the power of God will have an impact on the foolish virgins and also on the whole world. And that will identify the Bride-Church of the Lord, because that power will be manifested in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And that is why a great vision was shown to Reverend William Branham around the year 1956, on January 1, 1956. See, since ‘56 God already showed him, in a vision, that a Great Tent Cathedral is going to appear in the midst of the believers in Christ. That is why he was always talking about that Great Tent Cathedral, and he tried to make it a reality in his time.
And he was told that the fulfillment of the Third Pull will be there; and the Third Pull is the stage of the creative Word being spoken. And when the creative Word is spoken, what has been spoken will be materialized through that Word, around that Word; and, therefore, wherever that Word is, It will be fulfilled, It will be materialized; and where will It be? In the believers in Christ who will be transformed.
Therefore, that is the revelation for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, for those who are going to be transformed. And that will be given by the Holy Spirit in the midst of His Church at the Last Day, Christ, the Mighty Angel.
And now, all of that is a mystery; but the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will receive it, they will receive the revelation, the way that God has always given His revelation, His Word, to His people: by the Holy Spirit through the instrument that God has for that age.
Therefore, they —the believers— will identify the Word; and in whom that Word will be so that It is spoken, preached; and the age as well.
Therefore, they will be hearing and seeing; and then they will have located the Holy Spirit in the instrument that God will have for the Last Day; and therefore, they will have found the Word that will give them the faith to be transformed and raptured at the Last Day.
In any other person, who comes trying to bring in something else, they will not listen to him; if it’s not according to the promised Word for the Last Day, it will be worthless to the believers in Christ.
Because anyone who lets – who allows others to put something else in him, a human interpretation, something else that someone else thinks, and mixes it with the revelation, what has he done? “A little leaven leavens the whole lump”:[20] he makes that Word ineffective for the person, and It won’t produce any transformation for him. That’s why it is so important to keep the Word that is brought: pure, without leaven, without adding to It or taking away from It.
That is why there is a judgment, a curse, for whoever adds to or takes away from the Word (Revelation, chapter 22). Whoever adds to It: the plagues will be added to him; and whoever takes away from It: his name will be taken away from the Book of Life. The Scripture explains it so simply there.
Therefore, no one will dare —none of the elect— to take from It or add to It. When you see someone taking away from It or adding to It, remember: that person doesn’t seem to be a good transmitter of the pure Word from God to the elect.
Because if he takes away from It or adds to It, he is doing the same thing that the devil did through the serpent in the Garden of Eden; where God said that the day they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they would die (God said to Adam); and the serpent took that same Word and added to It: “You will not die.”[21] It was a “not,” a single word.
Therefore, even if it’s one word, the chosen ones will locate it, they will see… If someone else adds just one word to It, they will say: “He is adding to It. Therefore, that explanation, or what he is saying is not what is going to help me for my transformation.” So, he will be hearing the pure Word by the Holy Spirit through the instrument that God will have for that time.
They will have it… Reverend William Branham said that a Message will come, and it will be worldwide;[22] and it will be, the Word, the Seed Word, written… it will come out in the press, in the media; that Word will come forth in all ways. And therefore, we are going to have It written (in booklets), on video, and through every means currently available, so that the believers have the Word.
People will rise up against it. They did it in the day of Jesus, and in the day of Moses as well! Therefore, they will do it in our time, as they did in the times of the different messengers that God sent.
In the times of the prophets of the Old Testament, people rose up against them, and even killed many of the prophets. And Jesus Himself: they rose up against Him until they crucified Him, they managed to crucify Him. They did the same thing with the apostles, too. They have done the same thing with the messengers of the different stages of the Church; they have persecuted them.
But the believers of each age remained steadfast: believing the Message that God brought through the messenger that God sent them. It will be the same in our time.
And the power of the transformation will be manifested at the Last Day, in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone, and in every believer in Christ, in whom the Word will be made flesh.
The Word must be made flesh in order to produce what the Word says. When it becomes flesh is when the person hears It and believes It with all their heart, and doesn’t let the enemy tear It from his heart.
When a person…, when a person stops believing, what happened? The devil, somehow, using any instrument…
Because it says that the fowls come and snatch away what was sown in the person’s heart.[23] He let a fowl come near… An eagle brings the Word; but there are other fowls… (Eagles are prophets), and… but they… another person comes along to put something else in there, to snatch away the Word that was put in the heart of the believer. And if he lets the Word be taken out of his heart, he will become an unbeliever, and he will rise up or become an enemy of the Divine Program; and he will even turn away from Christ.
If you see that a person turns away from Christ, then he has nothing for us, he has nothing for you, he has no Word for you. To leave Christ is to leave Eternal Life. Therefore, He says: “Whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in Heaven” (Saint Matthew, chapter 10, verses 32 to 33).
Therefore, a person who turns away from Christ, whether a simple believer or a minister: has nothing to give you or me. And if he says that he has something, it’s something…, a word that has been perverted to make you an unbeliever of the Word of God relevant to our time.
He will try to do what was done to Eve: to cause disbelief of the original Word that was spoken to Adam, to instead believe the word that the devil is saying, which is 99% Word of God and only one percent…: “will not,” he only added a “not” to it.
In the history of Christianity and of… in the history of the Bible, there are people who have added more than one word; so, they have done worse than the devil, they have done worse than the serpent.
So, we can see that we must keep the Word relevant to the age in which we live: pure. For this reason, well, in the end time there will be printing presses, there will be magazines, there will be equipment to record DVD’s, there will be equipment to record picture and sound; so that we have the pure Word, which is what has to become incarnate in us; so that, around that Word that will be incarnate in us, the transformation may occur.
And It goes from stage to stage until It produces; just like the Word, which is Christ, the Word, represented in a corn of wheat, notice the stages He went through; and He had to die. But then, on the Day of Pentecost, the Wheat Plant was born, the Corn of Wheat was born; and then the fruit, as the stages of the Church have passed, in the Wheat Plant: many wheat grains, many sons and daughters of God, have been born in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
There are different stages. And now we are in the most glorious stage: the stage in which the fruit will ripen; because the top ripens first, which is the age that is highest, and therefore, closest to the Sun. And therefore, the fruit that ripens first is the one that has the blessing that being on the Wheat Plant: it ripens. And it is the group in which the promises that were made in another time, but were not fulfilled, will be fulfilled at that time, in those elect of the Last Day.
It is important to know that the power of the Holy Spirit will be carrying out that transformation around the Word that will be made flesh in the believers in Christ at the Last Day; and therefore, that will be the fruit of that Seed-Word, which will be materialized, will become a reality. What it says is going to happen, what God is going to do, will be seen done in favor of those who have that creative Word made flesh in them.
That is why the Tent Vision will also be fulfilled in this end time. And the things that were seen in that vision by Reverend William Branham, will be seen by the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which will be in the stage of the Cornerstone Age, at the Last Day.
And since man is God’s partner, and God has been working by His Spirit through His Church from age to age: well, through His Church, in the Age of the Cornerstone, the fulfillment of the Tent Vision will be carried out.
Therefore, everyone will be working in that stage, in that age, to make that Tent Vision a reality; just as everyone worked in the time of Moses to make the tabernacle that God showed Moses a reality. They had to work, because God works through human beings.
Likewise, they —ministers and congregations— will be working united in the project of the Tent Vision, relevant to this end time. As simple as that.
That doesn’t mean it will be easy. Remember that whenever the Work of God is carried out and it is said that that is what God wants to be done, or that is God’s Program for that time, enemies always rise up to try to prevent that project from being carried out.
We even find that, in past times, when the temple was going to be restored, the enemies of the people, of God, rose up to mock and also to try to keep them from continuing the restoration of the temple.
There will always be mockers, there will always be enemies, there will always be people who don’t have the Word relevant to our time made flesh; they won’t believe it. If they don’t believe It, then It’s not made flesh in them. And therefore, they will rise up against It, so that those in whom the Word is made flesh do not work in the Divine Program.
But the believers will continue working; Christ will support them; because He watches over His Word to perform It.
Therefore, we have that promise from God; and God, through His Spirit, will fulfill that promise using different people, who will be blessed for having been instruments for the fulfillment of what God promised.
In terms of physical projects among the Church of the Lord, this is the most important one; and therefore, it’s the most important one that the human race will be carrying out at the Last Day. No other physical project, construction project, is more important than the construction and materialization of the Tent Vision; no other is more important.
There, the believers will be confirmed in the faith, and in that stage of the Church will come the resurrection and the transformation; but we don’t know how many years or months are left until all those things that have been promised for the Church become a reality.
We are to do the physical part: to work in that for which God wants to use us, so that the Tent Vision becomes a reality; and it will be the materialization of what has been promised, of what was spoken.
That Tent Vision will be made flesh in every believer: believing it with all his heart, and therefore, working so that it becomes a reality.
Therefore, somewhere on planet Earth —and it has to be in the West, it can’t be anywhere else— we will see the materialization of the Tent Vision; and all the blessings that were seen manifested there, we will see them there too.
Now, after that Great Tent Cathedral is built, we don’t know if God will be performing miracles from the first day, or if a year or two years will pass; we don’t know. We do know one thing: that the Word of God, the Gospel of the Kingdom and the Gospel of Grace, will be preached, both Rains —Former and Latter— will be falling upon the people at the same time.
Therefore, onward working in the Divine project! Every Divine project, spiritual or physical, that is appointed —for Christ through His Church— to carry out.
And may God use you greatly in His Work at this end time. And soon, may not only the Tent Vision be materialized, but the transformation of our bodies and the resurrection of the dead in Christ, and the rapture or catching away of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, by THE POWER OF TRANSFORMATION, the power of God through the Holy Spirit, fulfilling, doing all these things.
And therefore, everything will be a Work of whom? Of the Holy Spirit, of God through His Spirit; of course, using human beings.
It has been a great blessing and privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you of: “THE POWER OF TRANSFORMATION.”
Once again, I leave Reverend Andrés Cruz Gallegos with you to conclude our participation on this occasion.
And in the afternoon, we will continue with the program that is already scheduled, where we will be talking about the subject: “THE LORD DELIVERS AND PROTECTS HIS OWN.” We will see that subject there, which will be a continuation of the one we’ve had now.
And we will put together the one we’ve had now, “THE POWER OF TRANSFORMATION,” with the one of the ladies, which is: “LADIES PERSEVERING WITH THE ANGEL UNTIL THEY OBTAIN THE TRANSFORMATION.”
Therefore, we will stay within the Mystical Body of Christ, as well as the age relevant to us in our time. We will be waiting for that transformation.
May God bless you and keep you; and everyone continue having a happy afternoon, filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.
I’ll leave Reverend Andrés Cruz Gallegos with you to conclude our participation on this occasion. And until 6:00… Is it 6:00 in the afternoon? [A brother answers: Yes. Yes, at 6:00.] Until we see each other in the afternoon, God willing. It’s still daylight at 6:00. So, we will be there early to continue seeing what the Word of God has for us at this end time.
Well, continue having a happy afternoon, filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.
“THE POWER OF TRANSFORMATION.”
[1] Genesis 1:1
[2] Genesis 1:3
[3] Genesis 1:2
[4] John 8:56-58
[5] Matthew 13:37
[6] 1 John 1:7
[7] Amos 3:7
[8] Revelation 10:8-11
[9] Daniel 4:10-33
[10] Isaiah 55:10-11
[11] Song of Solomon 2:15
[12] Jeremiah 1:12
[13] Luke 4:16-21
[14] Genesis 6:13-22
[15] 1 Thessalonians 5:2, 2 Peter 3:10, Revelation 16:1
[16] John 10:16
[17] Matthew 16:21-22, Mark 8:31-32
[18] Matthew 26:51, Mark 14:47, Luke 22:50, John 18:10
[19] Matthew 7:6
[20] 1 Corinthians 5:6, Galatians 5:9
[21] Genesis 3:1-5
[22] Quotations, p. 157, para. 1407: 65-0815 – “And Knoweth It Not,” p. 13, paras. 94-95
[23] Matthew 13:3-4, Mark 4:3-4, Luke 8:5