THE CALL TO COME UP
Rev. William Soto Santiago, Ph.D.
Sunday, September 9th, 2012
Cayey, Puerto Rico
Very good morning, kind friends and brethren present and those that are through the satellite Amazonas or Internet in different nations; may the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant be upon everyone of you and upon me too. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
For this occasion we read in the book of Revelation, chapter 4, verses 1 and onwards, where it says:
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
“THE CALL TO COME UP.”
It is the subject for this occasion.
This is a very important passage because it shows us that there is a door that opens in Heaven, and consequently we ought to know what this means in the Divine Program for our time.
It is so important that when John saw that door open, he heard a Voice that said: “Come up hither,” and this Voice that calls him. is a Voice as of a trumpet; it is not a literal trumpet but a Voice as it were of a trumpet.
Therefore, we need to know what the door is, what that door being opened means. We see that that opened door in Heaven and that which that Voice as it were of a trumpet, which is very important for all the believers in Christ, because John the apostle typifies, represents, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ which will hear this Voice at the Last Day when the time comes for this prophesy to be fulfilled of this opened door in Heaven.
It is so important that the reverend William Branham himself in one of his messages by the title of: “Revelation, chapter 4,” this conference was preached, this conference was given, on the 31st of December 1960 in Jeffersonville, Indiana, he said:
“The same Voice that summoned John, “Come up,” the same Voice that said to John, “Come up,” is the same Voice that’ll summons the Church someday (Amen!)
(he says). Summon the Church. Also, the same Voice that summoned John to come up, is the same Voice that summoned dead Lazarus out of the grave, that same Voice of the archangel (it is the same Voice of Archangel, says here).”
“Christ is the Voice of the archangel, “Voice of the archangel,” see. Oh, that trumpet Voice of Christ summoned John to come up, the same Voice summoned Lazarus. Did you notice at the grave of Lazarus, He spoke with a loud Voice. That same Voice said to John, “Come up here, I’ll show you some things that’s fixing to happen.”That same Voice that shall sound when the dead in Christ shall rise, “For the trumpet… ” The trumpet! What is a trumpet? The Voice of Christ, the same One sounded and summoned him up. He heard the Voice like a trumpet sound and said, “Come up hither!”
This is the Great Voice of Trumpet of First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verses 11 to 21, of which Paul said it will speak, and this is for the end time, for the Last Day, when the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of the believers in Christ who are alive will take place. Paul says in First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verse 14 and onwards:
“For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”
That Voice of Archangel is the Voice of Christ speaking to His Church, the same Voice that called Lazarus out of the tomb, saying: “Lazarus, come forth,” and Lazarus came forth. Lazarus represents the believers in Christ that have died and will be resurrected at the time in which the Voice of Archangel, the Voice of Christ, will be speaking in the Last day. For that purpose is that the Coming of the Lord according to Colossians, chapter 3, and also in Philippians chapter 3, is waited for. Philippians, chapter 3, verse 20 to 21 says:
“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.”
The Coming of the Lord for the Last Day will be with the believers in Christ that passed away, which will be resurrected, and the believers in the Mystical Body of Christ which are living will be changed, and then everyone will be young, immortal; they will be glorified as the Lord Jesus Christ is glorified and young throughout eternity, that will be the physical adoption of the sons and daughters of God for which nature and the whole creation groans for, and we also groan for that adoption which is the redemption of the body.
First Corinthians speaks to us also of this, when it speaks in First Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 49 and onwards:
“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…”
this is a mystery of the Kingdom of God. Let’s see:
Behold, I shew you a mystery We shall not all sleep,
in other words, we shall not all die, there shall be a group of believers at the Last Day that shall not taste of death, but shall be changed when Christ shall raise the believers who physically died. It continues saying…it says:
“…but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump
(here it also speaks of that final trumpet, of that Trumpet of God, which is the Voice of Christ the Voice of the Angel of the Covenant speaking in the Last Day in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ): for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
It is at the time of that Great Voice of Trumpet that the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of the believers in Christ which are alive in the Mystical Body of Christ will take place. Therefore, we can already see that there is a great blessing for the Last Day for everyone who will be hearing that Great Voice of Trumpet which says: “Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”
As time has passed by, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has been always ascending through the different stages or Ages, from one Age into another Age, and from that other age into another higher Age, in the measure God through His Spirit has been calling those who have their names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, to come up to the stage which pertains to the time the person is living in. And that same Voice which is in the midst of His Church since the Day of Pentecost until now and was with the disciples speaking to them through Jesus Christ, is the same Voice that in this end time will be calling the people, the believers in Christ that receive Him as Saviour, to come up to a higher stage or age, higher than the past stages or past ages of the Church; to come up into a higher stage, the Age or stage for adoption which is the Age of the Cornerstone of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, where the resurrection of the dead in Christ will take place; that resurrection will take place in the time of that stage; and the Coming of the Lord will be fulfilled and the born again believers in Christ will be changed.
And thereafter it is that the literal rapture or catching away of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will take place; everyone will be in that stage or Cornerstone Age, Age of adoption, expecting the adoption, the redemption of the body, and they will be expecting it as they hear, and as they wait they hear the Voice of Christ, the Great Voice of Trumpet, the Final Trumpet, that same Voice which the apostle John heard in Revelation: chapter 4, vese 1 and onwards.
And the things which he saw in Heaven, the believers in Christ shall understand them because they will be seeing, understanding, all that which John the apostle saw in Heaven; for instance, they will be seeing, understanding, this Scripture which he says that he saw twenty four thrones, and twenty four elders sitting in them; those elders sitting in twenty four thrones are the twelve patriarchs, the sons of Jacob or Israel, and the twelve apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ; although Judas lost the blessing to sit on a throne, then Paul the apostle became apostle to the Gentiles.
In other words, the blessing is not lost, but rather the person looses it, but that blessing goes over to another person, as in the parables of the talents and of the pounds, of the pounds or talents which the person did not use, it was taken away from him and was given to one that had more talents.
And now, we find that those who are going to be changed or raptured, carried with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, to Heaven, to the House of the heavenly Father, to the seventh dimension, to God’s presence, they ascend higher than the seventh stage or Age of the Gentile Church, they go up into the stage or Age of the Cornerstone, the Golden Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Age of Adoption for all the sons and daughters of God which in this Church stage or Age, will be hearing the same Voice which said to Lazarus: “Lazarus, come forth,” for It is the Voice of Christ speaking there, that is the Voice of Christ speaking in this end time and showing us the things which must shortly come to pass in this end time. It is the same Voice that said to Lazarus: “Lazarus, come forth.”
Therefore, as Jesus took Peter, James and John, and He took them with Him unto a high mount and was transfigured before them, there He appeared glorified, and on each side of the Lord Jesus appeared two Biblical characters who have lived on this Earth which are Moses and Elijah.
Therefore, there shall be a stage of the Church which shall be the stage for the glorification of the Church, represented there in Mount Transfiguration where the two anointed ones shall appear, the two Olive Trees of Revelation 11, in the midst of Christianity, in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We find that in the time of Jesus not everyone saw Jesus glorified, transfigured, and with Moses and Elijah; only Peter, James and John. Therefore not all Christianity shall see the ministries of Moses and Elijah repeating at the Last Day, not everyone shall see what Mount Transfiguration shall be in the Last Day, because that Mount there types the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ which is the Kingdom in the spiritual realm; and the Lord will be at the top or on the top of that Mount on the Last Day.
It is there where the ministries of Moses and Elijah will appear, the two Olive Trees, according to Revelation, chapter 11, and also Malachi, chapter 4, verse 1 to 6, where it says that Elijah will be sent:
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”
The disciples when they came down from Mount Transfiguration, they asked Him: “Lord, why do they say that Elijah must come first?” Chapter 17, verse 9 and onwards of the Gospel according to Matthew, it says:
“And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.
And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come?
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elijah truly shall first come, and restore all things
(‘Elijah truly shall first come and restore all things,’ He is speaking that Elijah shall come in this end time to restore all things).
But I say unto you, That Elijah is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed.
Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.
Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.”
The ministry of Elijah is always operated by the Holy Spirit in a man, and when one speaks that Elijah shall come, it is telling us that the Holy Spirit will be in another man operating the ministry of Elijah the Tishbite, because the one who has the ministries is the Holy Spirit, Christ, the Angel of the Covenant.
He operated that ministry in Elijah the Tishbite, He operated it for a second time in Elisha when they crossed Jordan and a chariot of fire or flying saucer came and carried Elijah the prophet away, Elisha remained weeping when he saw what happened, he took Elijah’s mantle which fell off him and went back to Jordan, he stood before Jordan, and said: “Where is the God of Elijah?” he smote the waters as Elijah did, and they also opened. He crossed over Jordan and when the sons of the prophets saw that, they said: “The Spirit of Elijah has rested upon Elisha,” there we have the ministry of Elijah repeating, being operated by the Holy Spirit in another man, in Elisha.
That was the second Elijah. But it wasn’t the literal Elijah, but it was Elisha, but with a double portion of the spirit which was upon Elijah, because that was the request Elisha made, ‘that a double portion of the spirit that was in you, should come upon me.” And that was the Divine Program: to give him a double portion.
Then in the time of John the Baptist Christ makes known that John the Baptist is the Elijah that was to come preparing the way to the Lord, we find it here in Matthew, chapter 11, verse 9 onwards says, Jesus speaking of John the Baptist says:
“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
(there we have the Elijah who would prepare the way to Jesus, the Messiah in His first Coming).
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.”
Here we have John the Baptist identified as the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, as the Elijah that was to come at that time. That is also in Malachi, chapter 3, verse 1 and onwards, where it says:
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me
(in other words, he will prepare the way to Him who sends him): 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.”
In other words, has saith the eternal One, the Lord. Who would come after the messenger that would be preparing the way to Him that is sending him? The Lord would come then, whom the Hebrew people was seeking, that is, the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, because the promise of the Coming of the Messiah is that He will be Emmanuel, which translated is: “God with us.” (Isaiah, chapter 7, verse 14, and Matthew, chapter 1, verses 17 to 23). In other words, the Lord shall come, and it says:” “and the Lord whom ye seek, and the messenger [Angel of the Covenant] in whom ye delight in.”
And the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Covenant who gave the Law to the Hebrew people through Moses the prophet on Mount Sinai, and the Angel of the Covenant is none less than the theophany or theophanic body or heavenly body in whom God revealed Himself from Genesis until the time of Jesus.
We find that that Angel of the Covenant would come, would come in the midst of the Hebrew people and to the Hebrew people. How would He come? Remember that that Angel of the Covenant is the image of the living God, it is the same Angel that appeared to Abraham, who appeared to him in one occasion as Melchizedek, without father, without mother, and who also… that was in chapter 14 of Genesis, and in chapter 17 and 18 He appeared to Abraham with another two Angels or Archangels which are Gabriel and Michael who accompanied Him the day before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
That Angel or Man to whom Abraham Said: “My Lord, He was none less than God Himself in His angelical body, which materialized there before Abraham, ate with Abraham along with the Archangels Gabriel and Michael (they were in their theophanies, and we find them with Abraham).
After lunch the Archangels stood up (two of the Angels) and went toward Sodom, and one of them remains, which is God, Elohim, speaking with Abraham, and says: “Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do? For the Lord shall do nothing, but He first revealeth His secrets to His servants His prophets. [Amos 3:7].
God always makes the things known before they take place, before God carries things out, He reveals them, makes them known to His servants His prophets, and they make them known to the people of God. That’s why for each time where God will make something known to His people, He will have a prophet on earth in the midst of the people.
Prophets have both consciences together, they can see in the angelic dimension, they can hear, they can also receive the revelation from God, hear the Voice of God, and thereafter make known that which God has told him to speak to the people; that’s how the Word of God has always come to the people. Zechariah, chapter 7, verse 11 to 12 says:
“But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets
(how did God send His Word to the people? By means of His Spirit through His prophets): therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.”
Here we use the name: [Jehovah which is the translation this version of the Bible has], but in other versions is translated or they place it as Lord, as the eternal One or Elohim or as they placed it in the various versions. Now notice here, Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verse 15 and onwards, 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.”
Unto whom, does God say, that the people are to hearken? The prophet God raises in the midst of the people, the prophet God sends, because to that prophet and through that prophet God will speak to the people, will bring His Word through that prophet.
“According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
And the LORD
(in other words, the Lord, Elohim, the eternal One) said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth…”
Where does God place His Word? In the mouth of the prophet He sends. Which is why the Messiah must also be a prophet; both in His First Coming as well as in His Second Coming He has to be recognized as a prophet, because He comes to speak the Word of God and that’s how they will hear the Voice of God those who will have to hear It at the Last Day, the Holy Spirit speaking in the midst of His Church, His people, and thereafter to the Hebrew people:
“…and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.”
In other words, it is not a matter of people saying: “I am not interested in what is being spoken,” he must be interested, because God says: “that whosoever will not hearken unto my words he shall speak in my Name, I will require it of him.” The person did not hear God, didn’t hear the Voice of God speaking by means of His Spirit through a man, a veil of flesh, as He has always done. That’s the reason we have the Bible, because God through His Spirit has been speaking through human beings, through prophets and apostles, different messengers.
We have seen the way God speaks: it is through His Spirit, His angelical body, His theophanic body, within and through a man, through a prophet, a man who has both consciences together; that’s how always every prophet sent by God in the misdst of His people has been.
For the Last Day we have the promise that God will send Elijah, that’s the ministry of Elijah being repeated by the Holy Spirit in different men, messengers, prophets. The Holy Spirit operated first that ministry in Elijah the Tishbite, then He operated it for the second time in Elisha, then He operated it for the third time in John the Baptist, and then He operated it for the fourth time in the reverend William Branham, and He will operate it again at the Last Day according to the promise of Revelation, chapter 11, verses 1 to 14, and also according to Malachi, chapter 4.
It will be the fifth occasion in which the Holy Spirit will operate that ministry in the midst of His people. Therefore, that ministry will be first in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and thereafter with the Hebrew people; the ministry of Moses will also be operated at the Last Day, and that will be the Holy Spirit operating that ministry in another man.
That’s how it is when a prophet is promised that days…already came in another time, when that ministry returns, that prophetic ministry, it comes in another man, that ministry being operated by the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, in the midst of the people of God.
For the Last Day in which we live in, at the top, in the highest stage of the Church which is the final stage, because that’s how the Gentile kingdom started with the golden head in the time of Nebuchadnezzar, and then it went down from the golden head to the breast and arms of silver of the Mede-Persian empire, and then it went further down, to the belly and thighs of bronze in the time of the Greek empire with Alexander the Great, and then it continued going down to the legs of iron, the Roman Empire, and then it continued going down into the feet of iron and clay which is the stage in which we live since hundreds of years; that’s the last stage of the kingdom of the Gentiles.
In the stage of the legs of iron the Roman Empire crucified Christ on the Cross of Calvary. In the time of the feet of iron and clay the second Coming of Christ will take place, and the Messiah, as the stone not cut by hands, will smite the feet, the statue in the feet of iron and clay and the kingdom of the Gentiles will be removed and the Kingdom of God will be established, the Kingdom of the Messiah, because the stone thereafter it grows and becomes a great Mount, a great Kingdom: the Kingdom of the Messiah which will be the restoration of the Kingdom of God on Earth, and it will be the restoration of the Kingdom of David and the Throne of David.
Therefore, the Jews will have a great blessing in this end time because the Throne of David will be in Jerusalem, and Jerusalem will be the Capital of that Kingdom, and all Israel will be the Federal District of the Kingdom of the Messiah, therefore, Israel will be at the head of all nations, just as the head of a country is the capital, and in the capital is the president, and the administration of that government, and so on and so forth.
Therefore, the administration of that Kingdom and those who will belong to the administration of that Kingdom, the members of the cabinet of that Kingdom, will live and work in and from Jerusalem in the administration, in the government, of the Kingdom of the Messiah; they will be reigning with the Messiah the Prince for a thousand years and then throughout eternity.
As the members of the cabinet of a government, they rule, reign, with the president of the nation for the span of time allotted to them, and then, if they are reelected they continue reigning, ruling, the majority of the persons that belong to the administration of that government.
And in the Kingdom of the Messiah they will rule, will reign, with Christ, with the Messiah, a thousand years, and they will continue for a “indefinite term” which is called, throughout eternity, eternally. And who will be reigning with Christ in the administration of that Kingdom and then will come back for another term which will also be eternal, to rule, to reign with Christ? They are all the believers in Christ along with the Hebrew people, because that Kingdom will have its venue in the land of Israel.
Therefore, the Kingdom of the Messiah will be recognized as a Jewish Kingdom, and that’s the only hope that Israel has for it not to vanish off the Earth.
On Mount Transfiguration the order of the Coming of the Lord was seen, which will be with Moses and Elijah, as it was shown there; and therefore Elijah will first appear, Elijah will be seen; in other words, we will see the ministry of Elijah being manifested in the midst of the people of God. The ministry of Elijah will first appear in the midst of Christianity, and that will be for the fifth occasion, and on the fourth occasion where the Elijah ministry was manifested, it was also in the midst of Christianity, in the reverend William Branham who was the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.
Therefore, the Second Coming of Christ will be according to the way it was prophesied through the Holy Spirit through the reverend William Branham, who came with the spirit and virtue of Elijah, that is, the Holy Spirit operating the ministry of Elijah for the fourth time, therefore, the messages or conferences of the reverend William Branham are very important for Christianity and for the Jews, because they will give light concerning the Coming of the Messiah, very important details, which Christians should know and the Jews, for both are expecting the Messiah.
And to be able to see the Messiah, they will first see Elijah and thereafter Moses and then the Messiah; as it was on Mount Transfiguration: Jesus there glorified, transfigured, with Moses and Elijah, one on each side, the Voice of Heaven said: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, hear ye Him.”
Therefore, the Word of God will be in Him for all the people, but first, both in Christianity and in the midst of Christianity and thereafter in the midst of the Jews, will be the ministry of the two Olive Trees, the ministry of Elijah and the ministry of Moses, and the last thing they will see will be the Coming of the Messiah.
Therefore, it is important to know all these things which must shortly come to pass which the Holy Spirit will be making known in this end time: “Come up hither, and I will show you the things that will come to pass after these.” One must come up to a heavenly Age, unto a heavenly stage, which is the stage that crowns the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the stage or Age of adoption, the stage of the Cornerstone, the Golden stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ where the Voice of God will be, the Voice of the Holy Spirit, the Voice of Christ, calling the people to come up to that stage of the Church which is the stage of adoption of all the sons and daughters of God. It is in this stage of the Church where the ministries of Moses and Elijah will appear, will be seen, being repeated in the Last Day.
Mount Zion spiritually speaking is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, as it is also Jerusalem, and consequently it is there where God will bring His Queen, first the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will arrive to that stage of Cornerstone, and then the Hebrew people. As simple as that: the Deliverer shall come to Zion and from Zion; ‘to Zion’ says Isaiah, chapter 59, and ‘from Zion’ says Paul in Romans, chapter 11, verse 21 to 27.
Therefore, we have to be under expectation because we are living in the time that pertains to the Golden Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and it is parallel to the time of Jesus Christ, two thousand years back. That time was a time where the Year of the jubilee was fulfilled, a time where the message of the Year of the jubilee was proclaimed by Christ, and where the Work of Christ was carried out, the Messiah, the Work of Redemption which had to be carried out.
That’s why we give thanks to God because Christ died for us on Calvary’s Cross in the midst of the Hebrew people, and that’s why Christ said: “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.” Christ asked for forgiveness for Israel, for the Jews, because they knew not what they were doing: they were bringing God’s Program to fulfillment for the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross to be carried out.
Therefore, what came with the death of Christ on Calvary’s Cross, was of blessing for the Jews and a blessing for Gentiles also, because from among the Gentiles God has been calling a people for His Name’s sake, taking different persons from among the gentiles for His Name’s sake.
We are in the time where the Church is found in the stage where the Voice of the Holy Spirit, the Voice of Christ the Angel of the Covenant, says: “Come up hither,” we came up to the Age of the Cornerstone, we are no longer neither in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh Church Age, but we are in the stage of Cornerstone, the most glorious stage for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the stage of and for the adoption of all the sons and daughters of God.
This is the stage which all the believers in Christ of past ages wished for to live, but it has been allotted to us, therefore, the “come up hither” in the Mystical Body of Christ as a call in a new stage of the Church, it is to come up into the stage or Age of Cornerstone, the Golden Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ on the Mount of God, the spiritual Mount Zion which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, without taking away the literal part which corresponds to Israel, Zion, a Mount there in Jerusalem.
We are living in the most glorious time of all times where all the things which must come to pass are promised to be made known in that heavenly stage, in that stage of adoption for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; after that stage there is no other stage for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; the other stages have already passed by, transpired, and the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of the living did not take place, because it is not for those past ages but for our time.
But we don’t know the year the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of them which are alive will take place; we don’t know the year, therefore, every year we keep ourselves waiting for the return of Christ with the saints believers in Him who died physically and that will return in this end time in this glorious stage of the Golden Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, the call of Great Voice of Trumpet, of Trumpet of God, the call of Christ, is to come up, to come up to a higher stage, and therefore to a higher dimension in the Mystical Body of Christ, to see and understand all the things that must come to pass in this end time, and to receive faith to be changed and carried with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.
We are in the time of an open door in Heaven: the door is Christ, He is the door of His spiritual Temple, He said: “I am the door, whosoever enters in by me, shall be saved.” (John, chapter 10, verse 9).
Therefore, for the Last Day he that is of God will hear the Voice of God, the Voice of Christ calling him to come up higher, into a higher stage or dimension in the Mystical Body of Christ; because the Kingdom of God, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, just as the kingdom of the Gentiles represented in the statue Nebuchadnezzar saw, it went through different stages from the top (the golden head) to the bottom, to the feet of iron and clay; the Kingdom of Christ, the Mystical Body of Christ, has been going through stages, but not from the top to the bottom, but from the bottom to the top: from the time of the apostles there in Israel, from the time of Paul among the gentiles, and from the time of each messenger and each stage of the Church among the Gentiles, has been ascending from stage to stage, from Age to Age, until reaching the Golden Age, the Head of Gold, of the Mystical Body of Christ.
This is the most glorious stage of all stages in the Mystical Body of Christ our Saviour.
While the kingdom of the gentiles has been in decadence, the Kingdom of Christ has been going up going from glory to glory, until reaching the Age of Gold, the Head of Gold, of the Mystical Body of Christ. Christ is the Head of Gold, gold represents deity, divinity.
Therefore, Christ in the Age of Gold in the end time in the midst of His Church, is the Head of Gold with His Kingdom; His sons and daughters in the Last day. These things which must come to pass that John the apostle saw when he ascended in Revelation chapter 4, cannot be seen, cannot be understood unless one ascends to the stage of the Church wherein the Holy Spirit is revealing them, and that stage is the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, the stage of Gold of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“THE CALL TO COME UP.”
If there is someone who has not come up yet, the call of Christ is: “Come up, come up hither, and I will show you the things which must come to pass after these things.” Therefore, Christ through His Spirit will be speaking in the midst of His Church all these things which John the apostle saw when he ascended to Heaven. Jesus Christ says in revelation, chapter 22, verse 16:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches…
of which things? Of all these things that must come to pass, and it continues saying:
“…I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.”
And in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 6, also the Lord 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.”
Therefore, one must come up in response to the call of Christ through His Holy Spirit in this end time in the midst of His Church in the Golden stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; it is there where Christ through His Spirit will be speaking to His Church, just as He spoke through His Holy Spirit in past ages of the Church through the different messengers He sent.
Therefore, in the Last Day, blessed will be those who will come up, because they will be hearing thus saith the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of His Church and in His Church in the Last Day, in the Age of Gold of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and He will be giving them faith, revelation, to be changed and carried with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb; it is there in that stage where the Seventh seal will also be revealed, will be opened to the believers in Christ.
And it is in that stage of the Church where will also be fulfilled the Vision of the Tent-Cathedral that was shown to the reverend William Branham; and it will be there where the Third Pull will also be fulfilled, which will be for the Church Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, it will be, of course, for the wise virgins, it will also be for the foolish virgins which will go through the great tribulation, and it will also be for the world.
In other words, that Third Pull will cover the whole of mankind and consequently it will also be for the Jews, it is in the fulfillment of the Vision of the Tent where the Holy Spirit will be speaking and there each believer in Christ will be hearing the Voice of Christ, the Voice of the Angel of the Covenant, the Voice of the Holy Spirit, and will be receiving faith to be changed and to be carried with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb; and it will be also there where the Jews will be hearing the Voice of the Angel of the Covenant, the Voice of God, the Voice of the Holy Spirit, making known all these things and carrying out all the things which He said He would be doing in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, it is there where the Jews will say: “This is the one we are waiting for. This is what we are waiting for.”
All that will be in the fulfillment of the Third Pull, where the Word which is the Sword of the Spirit, will be manifested in all Its fullness, and making known all these things which must shortly come to pass and thus giving us faith to be changed and carried with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, opening to us the Seventh Seal and consequently giving us faith to be changed.
The Seventh Seal is the Coming of the Lord, the Second Coming of Christ.
“THE CALL TO COME UP.”
It has been for me a great privilege to be with you making known to you this subject: “THE CALL TO COME UP.”
If there is someone who has not received Christ as Saviour yet, you can do it right now and we will be praying for you so that Christ may receive you in His Kingdom, may forgive you and may cleanse you with His Blood from all sin, and you may be baptized in water in His Name and may Christ baptize you with Holy Ghost and Fire and may He produce in you the new birth, for which you may come in front and we will be praying for you.
Those in other nations may also come in front wherever you are so that you may be included in the prayer we will be making, and children ten years and older can also come forward to receive Christ as only and sufficient Saviour.
We are going to stand on our feet to pray for the people that are coming to the Feet of Christ in different nations.
God has much people in Puerto Rico, in all the Caribbean, in all Latin America, in North America also, and in all the countries, and He is calling them in this Last Day to come up higher, to come up unto a new stage, unto a new dimension in Christianity, unto a new dimension in the Mystical Body of Christ, where all these things which must shortly be done are revealed, opened to everyone who comes up to the stage or Golden Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, where Christ in Holy Spirit will be making known to us all these things which must shortly be done, and thus we will be prepared to be changed and carried with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.
With our hands raised to Christ, to Heaven, and our eyes closed, we will be praying for those who are coming to the Feet of Christ in different nations:
Our Father who art in Heaven,
hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come and Thy will be done as it is in heaven also on earth, and give us today our daily bread, and forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for Thine is the Kingdom, the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.
Eternal God, heavenly Father, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I come to You with all these people that are receiving Christ as only and sufficient Saviour. Receive them in Your Kingdom, I commit them in Your hands. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I pray.
And now, those who have come to the Feet Christ right now, repeat after me this prayer:
Lord Jesus Christ, I heard the preaching of Your Gospel and Your faith was born in my heart. I believe in You with all my soul, I believe in Your First Coming and I believe in Your death on Calvary’s Cross as the Sacrifice of Atonement for our sins. Lord, I recognize that there is no other name under Heaven whereby we must be saved, only in Your Name.
I recognize that I am a sinner and I need a Savior. I bear public witness of my faith in You and I receive You as my only and sufficient Saviour. I pray forgive my sins and cleanse me with Your Blood from all sin and baptize me with Holy Ghost and Fire after I am baptized in water and may the new birth be produced in me.
I want to be born in Your Kingdom, I want to live eternally, save me Lord. Make the salvation you purchased for me on Calvary’s Cross a reality. I pray in Your eternal and glorious Name, Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
And with our hands raised to Christ, to Heaven, we all say: The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! Amen.
It is the Blood of Christ that cleanses us from all sin, water baptism is typological, water does not take sins away, it is the Blood of Christ that cleanses us from all sin, but water baptism is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ. He Himself was baptized by John the Baptist to fulfill all righteousness. And if He was baptized, how much more we need to be baptized. Christ Himself said:
“Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized, shall be save; but he that believeth not shall be damned.”
Those are words of Christ our Saviour, it is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ whereby we identify with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection.
When the person receives Christ as Saviour, he dies to the world, and when the minister immerses him in the baptismal waters, typologically he is being buried; when he raises him from the baptismal waters, he is raising to a new life, unto eternal Life with Christ in His eternal Kingdom.
That’s why in water baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ the person identifies with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection. therefore, you may well be baptized and may Christ baptize you with Holy Ghost and Fire and produce in you the new birth, and we will continue to see each other throughout eternity in the glorious Kingdom of Christ our Saviour.
May you continue having a happy afternoon, and we will meet next Sunday God willing as usual.
I leave with you the reverend Jose Benjamin Perez to continue and finish. May God bless and keep everyone of you. In each country I leave with the minister concerned. Well, may God bless you and keep you, and may you continue having a happy afternoon, full of the blessings of Christ our Saviour.
“THE CALL TO COME UP.”