Good morning, kind friends and brethren present, ministers present, and also those who are in different nations and their congregations. May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon you all and also upon me. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
For this occasion, we will read some Scriptures in Philippians chapter 3, verses 20 to 21 and Hebrews chapter 37. Philippians says in chapter 3, verse 20 to 21:
“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.”
And in Hebrews chapter 10, verse 35 and on (35 to 39), it says:
“Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.”
“PREPARING OURSELVES FOR THE FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECIES,” which is: preparing ourselves to meet the Lord Jesus Christ for our redemption of the body, in other words, for our transformation and rapture. Preparing ourselves to meet the Lord Jesus Christ, preparing ourselves to meet our God, as Amos chapter 4, verse 12, says:
“Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.”
So, we are at a stage in which we are, what? Preparing ourselves for the encounter with our God and to meet our God, to meet our beloved Lord Jesus Christ in His Coming at the Last Day in which we are living.
We are preparing ourselves for the fulfillment of the Divine promises, the fulfillment of the prophecies, among which the most important is the Coming of the Lord to His Bride-Church for the transformation of Her body, for the redemption of the body, which is the transformation; for which the people and every believer in Christ must prepare themselves for that encounter with the Lord, to be transformed.
Therefore, we must have faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. And that faith to be transformed comes through the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet of First Thessalonians chapter 4, verses 11 to 21; and also First Corinthians chapter 15, verse 49, it says:
“And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Behold, I shew you a mystery…”
Remember that this matter of the resurrection of the dead believers in Christ and the transformation of the believers in Christ who are alive, is a Divine mystery; and it will be fulfilled at the Last Day, which is the seventh millennium from Adam to now, before the great tribulation.
The great tribulation is the three-and-a-half-year time period relevant to the second part of the seventieth week of the prophecy of Daniel, chapter 9, verses 21 to 27; because the first part of the seventieth week was already fulfilled in the days of Jesus Christ and His three-and-a-half-year earthly ministry, and all that’s left are three and half years of those seventy weeks of Daniel; and relevant to the last week are the last three and a half years of the seventieth week, where God will deal with the Hebrew people again.
When Christ died on Calvary’s Cross, the seventieth week paused there, in the middle, and there are three and a half years left of that seventieth week, which will be fulfilled at this end time. A gap opened there for God to deal with the believers in Christ who would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that gap has already lasted about two thousand years since the Day of Pentecost until now, or since the day of the crucifixion of Christ until now.
Now, we are living at the end time of the Dispensation of Grace, the groundwork for the introduction of the Dispensation of the Kingdom is already being laid. We are living in the most important time of all times, which is the time of a dispensational overlap, where the fruit of the Dispensation of Grace is gathered, the wheat is gathered, Christ gathers it and takes it in the rapture to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; which is why all the believers in Christ must be in preparation to meet the Lord in His Coming to His Church, in order to receive the transformation of their bodies and go with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.
All of this has to happen before the great tribulation, because the time of the great tribulation is the time when the Divine judgments will fall upon this planet Earth, and where nature’s problems will be so serious, and political problems will also be so serious that they will cause serious problems to the human family.
For example, environmental problems will cause great earthquakes, tidal waves, tsunamis and many other problems such as the warming of the Earth by the sun, and many other problems; and then also political problems will cause a third world war that will be atomic, and all of that will lead to the fulfillment of Malachi chapter 4, verse 1 and on, which says:
“For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.”
In other words, in the Bible a day that shall burn as an oven is already announced, and also in the parable of the wheat and tares, Christ says that the tares will be bound in bundles and will be cast into the furnace of fire,1 in other words, they will be cast into that day that shall burn as an oven, where all that do wickedly will be burned.
Also in different places in the Scripture, it tells us about all those terrible things that will come upon the human race, which it is important that human beings know and that they know how to escape those difficult moments that will come upon the human race. Notice, in Hebrews chapter 12, the apostle Paul tells us, verse *25 and on says:
“See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven.”
In other words, the One who warns or speaks from Heaven is the Holy Spirit through different sent ones or messengers that He has been sending to the human race, and which have been sent in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of which Christ has been in Holy Spirit since the Day of Pentecost until now, and He still remains in the midst of His Church, He said: “Lo, I am with you always…” or: “Lo, I will be with you always even unto the end of the world.” (Matthew chapter 28, verse 20.)
He would be in Holy Spirit, He is in His Church in Holy Spirit since the Day of Pentecost until now, He is still in the midst of His Church. It says:
“Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.”
In other words, what will be heard, what will happen, will be more terrible than what happened when Mount Sinai was shaken in the days of Moses. Notice how it happened so that you have a clear picture, chapter 19, verse 9 and on says [Exodus]:
“And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the Lord.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
And be ready against the third day,” (and be ready against the third day), “for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.”
In other words, God was going to come down from Mount Sinai, and the people had to be prepared to receive God there in His Coming to Mount Sinai:
“And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes,” (verse 14).
“And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled.
And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
And the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.”
There we can see Moses and the people receiving God on Mount Sinai. But now the apostle Paul tells us… remember that on the third day was when God would come upon Mount Sinai, the two previous days were for preparation, a type and figure of the two days before God, two thousand years from Christ until now; and the third day: the third millennium from Christ until now, which pertains to the Last Day of the three last days, the last of the last days, which is the Lord’s Day as a millennial day.
In Hebrews chapter 12, Saint Paul narrates what happened back then, verse 18 and on of chapter 12 of Hebrews, says:
“For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.”
And now, we have not come unto Mount Sinai. Remember, in Deuteronomy chapter 18, verse 15 and on, speaking to us about that same time in which Moses with the people received God on Mount Sinai, it says in Deuteronomy chapter 18, verse 15 and on, Moses says:
“The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken.”
Whom does Moses say that God will raise up from among the people? A prophet like Moses. And whom does Moses say that the people are called to hear? That prophet, “unto Him ye shall hearken.” After Moses, all prophets were partially, and in a smaller portion, like Moses; God veiled Himself in human flesh in those prophets and spoke to the Hebrew people through those prophets.
That prophecy: “A prophet like Moses that God will raise up,” will be completely fulfilled in the Messiah. It was fulfilled in the First Coming of Christ, a prophet like Moses, a dispensational prophet, in whom God was veiled in human flesh and spoke to the people, that’s why Jesus said: “The words that I speak, I do not speak of Myself, but as I hear the Father speak, that is what I speak to you, as I see the Father do, that is what I do.”2
Everything Jesus did was shown to Him by the Father, everything Jesus spoke was spoken to Him by the Father to Jesus, and Jesus spoke it to the people. Jesus did not speak words of Himself, but as He heard the Father speak and do, Jesus spoke and did.
And then through the apostles, Saint Peter and other apostles —but Peter was the leader of the Hebrew Church of the New Covenant— and then the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, also spoke through the other apostles, and that was God’s Voice to the people. Then through Saint Paul to the Gentiles, Christ in the Holy Spirit veiled in Saint Paul, spoke the Gospel of Grace to them; and therefore, they were established under the New Covenant and in the New Covenant, and they became part of the believers, they became part of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And that’s how the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, has been speaking, as He spoke through Moses, through Saint Peter to the Jews through Saint Paul to the Gentiles, then through each messenger that God has sent to His Church, in the midst of His Church, up to Reverend William Branham, in whom the Holy Spirit was also veiled and revealed, speaking to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, speaking to Christianity and speaking to all mankind.
And at this end time the promise will be fulfilled in all its fullness: “The Lord will raise up a prophet like Moses from among the people; hear Him.” The Prince Messiah is the One in whom that Divine promise is fulfilled in all its fullness; and where will He be? On the Mountain of God, Mount Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the One that is waiting for the Coming of the Lord, in order for the believers in Christ to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. That is the Mountain of God, Mount Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. There, on that Mount Zion, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, is where all the believers will be preparing themselves to meet their God, to meet the Lord Jesus Christ in His Coming, in order to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; therefore, we must be prepared for that encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ in His Coming at this end time.
Through the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet comes the blessing of the revealed Word to the people, comes the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, comes the Message which prepares us, which gives us the faith, the revelation, to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
There on Mount Sinai the Hebrew people would be adopted as God’s people, they would be adopted as the firstborn son as a people of God. And the physical adoption for the believers in Christ as sons and daughters of God will be the transformation of our bodies; and all of that is going to happen on Mount Zion, the Mountain of God, the heavenly Jerusalem, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Church is the One that is waiting for the Lord in His Coming, the Church is the One that is waiting for the transformation of their bodies: the members of the Church of the Lord, the believers in Christ. The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, made up of believers in Christ, is the One that is waiting for the rapture or catching away of the Church to go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Therefore, we need to be prepared to receive Him in His Coming at this end time, to receive Him in the fulfillment of the prophecies of this end time.
He will be fulfilling more prophecies at this time than the ones He fulfilled during past ages; just as He fulfilled more prophecies in His First Coming than the ones that had been fulfilled before the First Coming of Christ, during the Dispensation of the Law.
There are more prophecies about the Second Coming of Christ than the First Coming of Christ.
The First Coming of Christ had many specifications in order to locate the place where it would happen, where the Messiah would be born, which family He would come from. It would be from a virgin, a young virgin, descendant of King David; He would be born – He would be from Bethlehem of Judea, from Bethlehem; even if He lived in another city, but then the birth would be in Bethlehem of Judea; and therefore, He would be a descendant of King David; and that means that He would be a Prince of the house of David.
There were also the prophecies of His ministry, there were the prophecies of His death, burial, and resurrection. In those three and a half years of ministry Christ fulfilled more prophecies than before the age of 30 and on. In other words, starting from 30… He fulfilled more prophecies from 30 to 33 years of age, than the ones He had fulfilled before that date.
He fulfilled the prophecies of redemption for the human being, the prophecies for the deliverance of God’s sons and daughters from the kingdom of darkness. He also had His triumphal entry into Jerusalem.3 All of that was a prophecy that had to be fulfilled.
Now, the fact that God fulfills prophecies doesn’t mean that everyone will believe the fulfillment of those prophecies. Unbelievers, and also make-believers, will always rise to fight against the fulfillment of those prophecies and blaspheme against the fulfillment of those prophecies, and say that it is not the fulfillment of those prophecies.
There will always be a struggle, a battle; there always was and there always will be. Now, it depends on which side you are on: if you stand on the side of those who rise against, you will lose the blessing that there is in the fulfillment of those prophecies. If you are on the side of the believers, and you are a believer in those prophecies and their fulfillment, you will have the blessing that comes in those prophecies that will be fulfilled.
So, it is important to know which are the prophecies that promise great blessings from God to the believers in Christ, which are the Divine promises for the Church of the Lord at this end time. As we get to know those promises, those prophecies, faith grows in the person’s soul, for faith comes by hearing the Word of God,4 and with the heart man believes unto righteousness.5
You cannot believe in something you have not heard. “How will they believe without a preacher? And how will they preach except they be sent? Therefore, blessed are the feet of those who bring glad tidings, of those who announce peace!” (that’s around Romans chapter 10, verses 10 and on).
It is important to know the prophecies so that faith is born, faith grows, and we can have the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. The Scripture tells us in the book of Acts, chapter 3, verse 18 and on (18 to 23):
“But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer,” (His Christ, His Anointed One. Anointed One means…. That is, Christ means ‘Anointed One,’ Messiah means ‘Anointed One,’) “he hath so fulfilled,
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.
And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.”
In other words, Heaven must keep Christ there on the Throne of Intercession as High Priest until when? Until the time of restoration… “whom the Heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things,” when God will restore the believers in Him into physical Eternal Life, He will restore His Church to how She was on the Day of Pentecost in the time of the apostles, He will also restore the Kingdom of the Messiah, which will be the Kingdom of David restored:
“…Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.”
In other words, every person has the responsibility to hear what that prophet speaks. The Coming of the Messiah was reflected in all the prophets, they were the Messiahs of the time in which they lived, the ones anointed with the Spirit of God; and then at the end comes the Messiah, the One anointed with all the Presence of God.
Christ spoke about this time of restoration of all things in chapter 17 of Saint Matthew, verses 10 and on, 10 to 13, after coming down Mount Transfiguration; it says:
“And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.”
Now notice, for the time of the restoration of all things, Christ says that Elijah will first come and restore all things. Elijah’s ministry comes, the Holy Spirit comes operating Elijah’s ministry in another man at the Last Day. As simple as that.
It is not literally Elijah; it is the Holy Spirit operating the ministry of Elijah in another man.
He operated that ministry in Elijah the Tishbite; He operated it for the second time in Elisha, who was the second Elijah; He operated it in John the Baptist, who was the third Elijah; because Jesus says of John the Baptist: “This is the Elijah which was to come.”6 And then after He operated it —the ministry of Elijah— for the third time in John the Baptist as the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, He operated it for the fourth time in Reverend William Branham, forerunning the Second Coming of Christ.
Just as God sent a forerunner for the First Coming of Christ, the First Coming of the Messiah: He sent a forerunner for the Second Coming of Christ, who was Reverend William Branham, in the spirit and power of Elijah, in other words, the Holy Spirit operating the ministry of Elijah for the fourth time. And the ministry of Elijah will return: for the fifth time, operated by the Holy Spirit at the Last Day.
It is a ministry to restore; just as Elijah the Tishbite restored the tribes of Israel, he restored them to God, he restored them to the one and only God, because they had strayed from God and turned to idolatry (the ten tribes of Israel which formed the northern kingdom), and Elijah the Tishbite belonged to that northern kingdom.
We find that the Lord Jesus Christ says:
“Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.
But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed,” (they even beheaded him). “Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.”
Likewise Jesus Christ, the Son of Man.
When it refers to Son of Man, it refers to a prophet. Whenever ‘Son of Man’ is applied, it is always a prophet where God through the Holy Spirit is veiled and revealed through that prophet; such is the revelation of the Son of Man: it is God veiled in a man through the Holy Spirit speaking to the people, God revealing Himself through that man to the people:
“But I say unto you, That Elijah is come already, and they knew him not…” (they knew him not, they didn’t know that that man, John the Baptist, was the Elijah promised for that time).
“Then the disciples understood that He spake unto them of (whom?) John the Baptist.”
But notice, Christ had already said so on another occasion: Saint Matthew chapter 11, verse 7 and on says:
“And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.
But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.
For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.
Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.”
John the Baptist testified that Jesus was the One who would come after him, and now Jesus testifies that John the Baptist is the one that would come ahead of Him, before Him, as His forerunner; and then the Lord would come to His temple, the Angel of the Covenant, whom the people delighted in. Malachi chapter 3, verse 1, says:
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.”
John the Baptist was that forerunner who would come preparing the way for Him, and then He would come to His temple. There is the temple of stones and there is the human temple: the body of Jesus, which is the human Temple of God, where the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant came, where God the Father came, and the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant came to.
That’s why in Saint John chapter 2, Christ says: “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up;” the Jews tell Him: “In forty-six years this temple was established, built, and now you say that in three days you’ll raise it up?” but He was not speaking of the stone temple, He was speaking of the temple of His body, the Scripture says. And when Jesus was resurrected, then they understood this Scripture, these words of Jesus, because on the third day Christ was resurrected: the temple of God was raised up then, which is the physical body of Jesus, which was glorified.
And now, for the end time we have the promise of the coming of Elijah for the fourth time and the coming of Elijah for the fifth time. For the fourth time: forerunning the Coming of the Lord to the Church, for the Lord to come to His Church; and for the fifth time that ministry will be working in favor of the Jews together with the ministry of Moses.
It will be the Holy Spirit operating those ministries of Elijah and Moses. Just as the instrument where the ministry of Elijah operated was always another man: it will be another man, at the Last Day, in whom the ministry of Elijah will be operated for the fifth time.
Where did we see Elijah on one occasion? On Mount Sinai,7 God speaking to him there and sending him to anoint Hazael to be king over Syria, Jehu to be king over Israel, and Elisha to be prophet in his place (instead of Elijah), the successor prophet of Elijah; who then received a double portion of the spirit of Elijah,8 a type and figure of the double portion that Elijah will have in his fifth manifestation.
And now, we find that Elijah who was told to go anoint Hazael to be king over Syria, Jehu to be king over Israel, and Elisha as prophet in his place. He met the last one that God spoke to him about first: he met Elisha when he came down Mount Sinai and reached the place where Elisha lived, who was a herdsman, he was a farmer, and he was plowing with oxen; he was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen, and he was on the last one.
And Elijah cast his mantle upon Elisha, and Elisha says to him: “Let me say goodbye to my family and then I will follow you.” Elijah says to him: “But, what have I done to you?” As we might say: Hardly anything! Casting Elijah’s mantle upon Elisha; with that alone he is already being appointed as the successor of Elijah.
Then Elisha kills the oxen with which he was plowing, he gives it out, he makes a farewell party, he shares it, in a meal, and he leaves with Elijah.9 He left everything behind, he doesn’t leave anything to come back to; he didn’t leave the yoke of oxen or anything, not even the plow, to say: “If it doesn’t go well with Elijah, I will come back.” No, he left to continue with Elijah to the end.
That is how the Hebrew people came out of Egypt, that is how God brought them out, to stay along the whole path with Moses. Some wanted to go back, they had kept in their hearts the meals from Egypt: onions and garlic and all those things; and in the wilderness, throughout the stages of trials that they were going through, they remembered those meals there and wanted to return.
But notice, one has to go through different stages of trials so that what is in the person’s heart may come out. And if the person notices that something bad wants to come out, he can override it by saying: “I will continue moving forward until my transformation, until I enter the promised land of the new glorified body.”
You can’t entertain the thought, saying: “No, it’s better for me to turn away, because now a very difficult time has begun in which there are problems.” There were always problems in Egypt, there are always problems wherever people have been; but the biggest problem would be the future of the individual: if he is not a believer, his future would be in the lake of fire, where he would cease to exist; and no one wants that future.
Therefore, the believers in Christ have come out with Christ to reach the promised land of the new body, the promised land of the adoption, the promised land of the Kingdom of God to live eternally in the Kingdom of Christ; and “he who puts his hand to the plow and looks back, is not fit for the Kingdom,”10 Christ says.
Therefore, one cannot look back. Those who went out with Moses looked back and then they wanted to return to Egypt and they rebelled against Moses.
That always happens: those who want to look back rebel against the Lord, they rebel against God’s Program for the time in which they live; they start to complain and find fault in what is happening in the Divine Program; and that is because they are unbelievers, they stopped believing; they were make-believers, intellectual believers, not wholeheartedly, and that is why problems arise among the people.
Notice, all of that happens, and it’s God testing every believer so that what is in his heart comes out. He should ask Christ for help: “Lord, help me, I came out to reach the transformation, to reach the Kingdom of God, to be with Christ eternally in Your Kingdom. Take away all unbelief.”
Faith is born, faith comes by hearing the Word; therefore, by hearing the Word every day, by being filled with the Word more, unbelief leaves. By believing the Word, by the faith being born, then unbelief has to leave.
Notice, in Deuteronomy chapter 8, verse 1 and on, it says:
“All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers.
And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.”
Why did the Hebrew people go through all these problems, these difficult situations, for forty years? It was God trying them in order to know what was in their heart: whether they were going to serve God or they were not going to serve God. Those who weren’t going to serve God were going to die in the wilderness.
“And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord (God) doth man live.”
And what proceeds out of the mouth of God? His Word, the Word of God. The Word of God are the Divine Thoughts, which are conveyed by the Holy Spirit through the prophets to the children of God, to the people of God.
“Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.
Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.”
Here we can see the reason for the problems that have arisen in the midst of Christianity from the time of the apostles to now. As believers in Christ, we have been going through stages of trials for two thousand years through the trajectory of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
When things are going well, people say: “God is blessing me, God is so good! I will never leave Him;” but when the problems come along, some turn away from the Lord. Not only when the person has problems, but when other people have problems, some look at those problems and say: “I’m not going to follow the Lord,” and they turn away from the Lord because of problems that other people or other believers have; instead of saying: “I am going to pray for my brother or my sister, so that God helps them get out of the problem they have.”
It is important to be aware that for a son of God or a daughter of God to be adopted, they must have gone through the different trials that God gives or allows every believer in Christ to go through. Each person has his own trials, it is an individual matter between Christ and the person.
And now, it is important that, being aware that we are at the end time, we are preparing ourselves to meet the Lord Jesus Christ in His Coming at this end time, to be adopted, transformed, and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; therefore, this is a wonderful time, in which He is opening the Scriptures to us and giving us more revealed Word every day so that our faith continues to grow day by day.
Don’t stop listening, or don’t stop… Don’t stop listening to the Word at the end time, because that’s how faith grows, that’s how the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb comes; our transformation will come around that revealed Word, that’s how we receive the transforming and rapturing faith, and that is how we prepare ourselves for the fulfillment of all Divine promises relevant at this end time to the believers in Christ, in other words, to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Message of the Great Voice of a Trumpet or Last Trumpet, the rapturing faith, the Coming of Christ, the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet, the transformation, rapture or catching away, Marriage Supper of the Lamb: all those are prophecies for this end time; for which we must be prepared to receive the blessing that there is in the fulfillment of those prophecies, whereby the believers in Christ will be blessed with the transformation and catching away to Heaven to be at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, which I have been invited to, and who else? Each of you as well.
Therefore, we must be, what? Prepared, prepared for our encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ in His Coming in this end time, for the redemption of our body, which is our transformation.
There are great blessings in the Coming of the Lord at this end time; and therefore, God’s elect of the Last Day will be, what? They will be loving Christ and loving what? Let’s see what Saint Paul tells us that they will be loving: Second Timothy chapter 4, verse 7, says:
“I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.”
We love His Coming, we want It to come soon: may His Coming be fulfilled and may He give us the crown of righteousness, the crown of Eternal Life, may He give us the transformation, the adoption of the body, meaning, may He give us the glorified, immortal, eternal body, just like the glorified body that He has, which is as young as when He went to Heaven, and will remain as young as it is now; it has never gotten old.
That is also how it will be for me, and for who else? For each of you as well. As simple as that. Therefore, what are we doing? We are preparing ourselves to meet the Lord Jesus Christ, for our redemption, the redemption of the body, that is, our transformation.
“PREPARING OURSELVES FOR THE FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECIES,” that is preparing ourselves for the fulfillment of the prophecies.
Well, may God continue to bless you all; and let’s continue preparing ourselves, for what? For the fulfillment of the prophecies that will be for the fulfillment of the Coming of the Lord, to transform us and to take us with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
May God bless and keep you, and until next Sunday, God willing.
“PREPARING OURSELVES FOR THE FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECIES.”
1 Matthew 13:24-30
2 John 14:10
3 Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-11, Luke 19:28-40, John 12:12-19
4 Romans 10:17
5 Romans 10:10
6 Matthew 11:14
7 1 Kings 19:7-18
8 2 Kings 2:9-15
9 1 Kings 19:19-21
10 Luke 9:62