JOSEPH AMONG THE GENTILES
Rev. William Soto Santiago
Sunday October 23rd, 2012
Cayey, Puerto Rico
Very good morning kind friends and brethren present, and those who are through the satellite Amazonas or Internet in different nations, ministers and churches also; may the blessings of Christ the Angel of the Covenant be upon you and upon me too. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.
For this occasion we read in Genesis, chapter 45, a passage which was already read today, which shows how Joseph made himself known to his brethren. It says, chapter 45, verse 1 and on, of Genesis:
“Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.
And he wept aloud: and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not:
And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:
And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.
And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you.
And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.
And he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
“JOSEPH AMONG THE GENTILES.”
Joseph was a son of Jacob through his wife Rachel which was Jacob’s beloved wife whom he married, but he was given the one to whom he was not married: Leah, and for whom…and he had worked for Rachel seven years, and when he claimed for her, he was told: “Well, you must work another seven years and you will get Rachel, because in that territory (the father of the young girls said), you can’t give the youngest into marriage first, but the eldest.”
In some territories, in some countries people think that if the young one marries, then the eldest remains unmarried, but we don’t know that they thought when they said that the younger one, “one must not give the younger one into marriage but the older one.”
Therefore, he had married Rachel, the younger one, but he was also given the older one, and then he worked another seven years and he was given Rachel also, with whom he had married, so he worked fourteen years for Rachel.
Through Rachel he had two sons which were, Joseph… when Jacob was about 91 years old, there when he was 91 years old, he had his son Joseph, which is why the Scripture says that he loved Joseph so much, because he had him in his old age in Gentile land.
In other words, Joseph was born in Gentile Land in the midst of Jacob’s family that lived there in Padan-aram, and Jacob had two sons in Padan-aram in Gentile Land, except Benjamin that was born on the way to Bethlehem, in Ephrata, on the way to Bethlehem, Benjamin was born there and Rachel died when he was born.
That is , she had problems when giving birth and died, that’s why she had placed for him a certain name, but his father Jacob called him Benjamin; those are Jacob’s two children by Rachel his beloved wife who he married and worked seven years first and seven years thereafter. He had by Leah other children, and through Leah’s and Rachel’s maids he also had other children.
Now, what’s the importance of Joseph among the Gentiles? And what does Joseph have to do with God’s Program for this end time? Just as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, also Joseph, typify Christ; because Christ reflected Himself through them, and all the prophets God sent represent Christ, because Christ was in them in Holy Spirit being manifested and speaking to His people.
In other words, Christ was reflected in the prophets, they were type and figure of Christ, and therefore, their life typified the life and the stages which Christ in His first and in His second Coming would have, the different stages Christ would go through in His first and in His second Coming.
Here Joseph is the most perfect type of Christ in His first and in His second Coming. Just as Joseph was sold by his brethren for about thirty pieces of silver, Christ was also sold by Judas Iscariot for an amount of silver pieces.
Likewise Joseph was also thrown into a pit, which typifies death, and taken out from there, resurrection; also Christ died, was buried and resurrected, then after Joseph had already been sold and while in Egypt was taken into prison due to a problem and he was blamed, they blamed him, was cast into prison which also typifies death.
There he made known the dreams to two important persons, of the king, of Pharaoh, one was the butler and the other one was the baker. The baker (in the dream he had had) was told that he would die, and the interpretation of the dream that the butler had, was that he would again serve the wine to the king, and thus it was fulfilled.
Wherever Joseph was, whether he was free or in prison, he prospered because he was a son of prosperity, because he typed Christ, and Christ is the Son of prosperity, heir to the Heavens and Earth, to the whole creation.
Joseph among the Gentiles after he is taken out from jail and interprets the dream to Pharaoh, Pharaoh places him in the position of ruler, ruler of the whole house, of all of Pharaoh’s kingdom, in other words, he became prime minister or vice-king in the kingdom of Pharaoh, and he became the second in command in Pharaoh’s empire, kingdom and throne, his name was changed.
Therefore, he was with a new name among the Gentiles, the Scripture says in Revelation, chapter 2, verse 17 and chapter 3, verse 12 that Christ has a new Name. Let us read it so that we may see it, chapter 2, verse 17 says:
“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”
And in chapter 3, verse 12 says, Revelation, verse 11 to 12 says:
“Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.”
This is one of the mysteries involved in the second Coming of Christ, because He will come with a new Name, because He says:
“…I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.”
He will write His new Name upon whom? Upon the overcomer, and Revelation, chapter 3, verses 20 to 21 says:
“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”
Just as Christ after He died, He was buried, resurrected victorious, was glorified and ascended to Heaven and sat at the right hand of God, He sat in the Throne of God, He received a New Name; likewise Joseph when he came out of jail and interpreted the dream to Pharaoh, his name was changed to Zaphnath-paaneah, and sat at the right hand of Pharaoh as second in command in Pharaoh’s kingdom with a new name, and consequently with new garments also, different to the ones of the Hebrew people, he received Gentile garments.
And because of that neither Jacob nor Jacob’s children knew that the one who was second in the throne of Pharaoh was Joseph, Jacob’s son, and brother of Jacob’s children; they didn’t know that mystery for many years, neither his father nor his brethren.
His father thought that he had died as his brethren told him, and his brethren knew that he might be alive in Egypt, but now they didn’t know where he was and who he was, and more so with a changed of name and looking different, dressing differently, then less chances they had to recognize him, and let alone speaking another language, Gentile language, and let alone being a prince in Egypt.
Now, what is, and what does Joseph have? It is that he would be the heir to the birthright, as it passed from Abraham to Isaac, and from Isaac to Jacob, and from Jacob it would pass unto Joseph, and that’s why then (later on), when Jacob blesses or is going to bless his children, for they used to do it before they died, he would bless Joseph with the Blessing of the Birthright, which would be directly imparted to Joseph’s children: Ephraim and Manasseh, or Manasseh and Ephraim.
But the blessing which was for the eldest, Manasseh, was passed over to the younger one, Ephraim; but that’s when Jacob was about to die, but we are still speaking about the stage in which Joseph was as a prince in Egypt, he is in charge of the whole land of Egypt, ruling, he manages everything that’s going to be carried out in Egypt.
And when Joseph arose from the Throne, the trumpet sounded, the trumpets sounded and it was proclaimed: “Joseph is coming, bow your knees.” No matter what a person was doing, whether it was important or not, he had to drop what he was doing to bow knees, because Joseph was coming, and whoever wouldn’t do it, well, he wouldn’t bow anymore, and if he would bow it, he would never get up again, because the sentence was terrible. So, Joseph’s position was second in command in the kingdom, which Pharaoh had granted him; Pharaoh there typed God, and Joseph types Christ.
On that occasion when the time came for him to make himself known, to reveal himself to his brethren, notice, throughout the Scripture, since the second Coming of Christ is revealed in type and figure through the various prophets, we find that in one of them, the greatest one of North America, He was reflected in a greater way than in other prophets, to such extent that even his wife typed the Church of his time.
In the message: “Sirs, Is this the time?” he says: “When you…” in other words, in a dream or vision that someone had, in a dream, the reverend William Branham told the person in a dream: “When you see such and such woman, that’s the Church of such and such age,” for…you read it thereafter: “When you see such and such woman, Zipporah, that one is such and such. When you see such and such person (another woman) she is such and such. But when you see my wife, remember, that’s my church, stop there.”
Keep it in mind because the reverend William Branham was told, it was promised to him that he would have a male child; he first had a girl of the second marriage. Of the first one he had a boy: Billy Paul, and a girl by the name of Sharon Rose, she left and from Paradise she told brother Branham when she visited him on one occasion: “I am here waiting for my brother (for Billy) and mom is waiting for you in the house, there in the mountain, on that mountain, she is there in the house waiting for you.”
He went and met his wife Hope, his first wife who received him and there he saw many things: he saw the chair he had and could not pay for it and had to give it back, they took it, and he saw it there. On another occasion he saw, later on, he saw his horse there in Paradise, he also saw his dog.
In the sixth dimension there are flowers, there are lakes, fish, there are birds, there are also animals of that dimension in spiritual or theophanic bodies; and that dimension existed before this earthly dimension, because that which can be seen was made of that which could not be seen. In other words, we could say that the human being is an alien, he comes from another dimension to this Earth where he puts on a physical body, and God’s children, where do they come from? from God, from God’s dimension.
So, when the believers in Christ finish their earthly life, they go to Paradise, and there in that dimension everything they loved here on Earth and those who loved them, they will be with them in Paradise; that’s why we pray for our relatives so that God may have them in Paradise and in the Kingdom of God, and consequently in eternal Life. The same faith you used for your salvation, use it for the salvation of your children, believe it with all your heart, within the soul, and it will come to pass.
Now, I told you that the reverend William Branham was promised that through his wife, his second wife, Meda, God was going to give him a child, a boy, and He told him to call him Joseph. If his wife represents the Church, Joseph represents the second Coming of Christ, that’s why he says in one occasion: “Dear, Joseph is coming, Joseph is coming.” Which, being Joseph a type of Christ in and for His second Coming, two prophetic events are being announced: the coming of Joseph his son which God promised him, and the second Coming of Christ, both at the same time.
As Joseph came to the wife of the reverend William Branham, our Joseph will come, Christ to His Church which is His Wife, His beloved Wife, Christ’s Wife or Christ’s Bride; and I cannot speak to you of that more plainer, else the mystery of the Seventh Seal would be opened and it shouldn’t be opened yet.
We are at a time in which Christ…we are going to touch here something, remember that our subject is: “JOSEPH AMONG THE GENTILES.” Page 23 of the book: “The Seven Church Ages,” by the reverend William Branham, it says:
“It was now time for God (Messiah) to come back to claim His bride and then present Himself (make Himself known) to Israel. Thus we see God again stepping forth to assume a physical relationship to man as the “Son of David, King of Kings and Lord of Lords
(how will our Joseph come, Christ in His Coming to His Church? As “Son of David, as King of kings and Lord of lords’), and Bridegroom of the Gentile Bride.” And now, page 36 of the book: “The Seven Church Ages,” also, the last paragraph says:
“Now, when is the Gospel returning to the Jews? When the day of the Gentiles is finished. The Gospel is ready to go back to the Jews. Oh, if I could just tell you something that is about to happen right in this our day. This great thing that is about to happen will carry over to Revelation 11 (in other words, will carry over to Revelation 11) and pick up those two witnesses, those two prophets, Moses and Elijah, turning the Gospel back to the Jews.”
How will the Gospel return to the Jews? Through the ministry of the two Olive Trees, of Moses and Elijah, the ministries that have been promised and were seen on Mount Transfiguration, Moses on the one side of Jesus and Elijah on the other side of Jesus, when Christ was transfigured (in Matthew, chapter 17).
“We’re ready for it. Everything is in order. As the Jews brought the message to the Gentiles, even so the Gentiles will take it right back to the Jews, and the Rapture will come.”
The Gentiles will take the Gospel to the Jews, and he had said that Moses and Elijah, the two Olive Trees; it is that the ministries of Moses and Elijah, the ministries of the two Olive Trees will be in the midst of the Gentiles; and consequently they will know the Gospel of Christ, they will know the New Covenant, they will know all the details of the Gospel of the Dispensation of Grace, and everything related to the New Covenant and the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross, the work of Atonement that Christ carried out on Calvary’s Cross.
We already know how the Gospel is returning to the Jews and consequently how the Holy Spirit will return to the Jews, how God will turn again to the Jews to deal with the Jews in the Last Day.
And now, page 40 of the book of “The Church Ages,” it says, of “The Seven Church Ages” by the reverend William Branham says:
“Now getting back to the story of Joseph meeting his brethren. You recall that not all the brethren came
(in other words, because Benjamin his brother had not come who stayed behind with his father, Jacob). Joseph knew that and insisted that all the brethren appear before him, or he could not make himself known unto them. Finally they brought the one that was missing, little Benjamin. It was little Benjamin, the full brother of Joseph, that set his soul on fire. And when our Joseph, even Jesus, will come to the people who have kept the commandments of God and who have gone back to Palestine (in other words, to Israel, the land of Israel), His soul will be set on fire. Little Benjamin typifies the 144,000 Israelites from all over the earth who have gone back to Palestine (in other words, to the land of Israel) for their redemption. They will be standing there ready to receive Him, Whom to know aright is Life eternal.”
And here we are going to stop for a little while; we are already having a clear picture of what will be happening in this end time, as the Jews brought the Gospel to the Gentiles through Saint Peter in the house of Cornelius and through Saint Paul in Minor Asia, remember that Saint Peter and Saint Paul represent and typify the two Olive Trees, Moses and Elijah; as they brought the Gospel to the Gentiles, the Gentiles will bring it back to the Jews and the rapture will take place, and the Gentiles bringing the Gospel to the Jews is the ministry of the two Olive Trees, of Moses and Elijah bringing the Gospel to the Jews.
Christ Himself speaking of the gathering of the hundred and forty four thousand, which will be called in the Last Day, it says page 494 of the book of “The Seals” by the reverend William Branham says:
“When the Light once struck them, that settles it right then. They see the–see it happen, and then see it vindicated and proved, and like that, and they look down here in the Bible and see that Word just going.
(In other words, the Word has become a reality) … Oh, you–you just might as well just quit fooling with them, ’cause they believe it. That’s all. That’s all. Though they can’t explain it, but they know they got it. I… As I say, “There’s a lot of things I can’t explain, but I–I know it’s real anyhow. Uh-uh. All right.
This time was between the Sixth and Seventh Seal that He calls these people, spoken of by Jesus in Matthew the 24th chapter and the 31st verse, that we’ve just read. See? Trumpets here, or the two witnesses of the… When the trumpet sounds, is the trumpet of the two witnesses of the age of grace for the Jews.”
That’s going to be the feast of the trumpets for the Jews becoming a reality, being fulfilled, with that feast God will start to deal with the Jews, making the Feast of the Trumpets a reality in its prophetic way pointing out to what God will do in this end time for Joseph the Messiah, to reveal Himself to the Jews in this end time:
“One trumpet sounds; you notice, one trumpets sounds. He say, “And sound the trumpet.” Now, notice over here: 31st.And he shall send forth his angels… (not one, see, two of them)… with a great sound of a trumpet,…What is it? When God gets ready to speak, there’s a sound of a trumpet. That’s always His voice calling to battle. See? God speaks. These angels
(in other words, the ministries of Moses and Elijah, the two Olive Trees)… will come forth with the sounding of the trumpet. And you notice, at the last angel’s message, the trumpet sound: the first angel’s message, a trumpet sound; second angel’s, a trumpet sounded when he sent it out. Notice, but when the Seals were announced, they were all in one great Divine thing to call out a group of people. There was one trumpet sound and Seven Seals were broke.
Notice, gather His elected Jews from the four parts of the heavens…”
There with that trumpet sounding, fulfilling the Feast of the Trumpets, sounding the trumpet of the feast of the trumpets, the trumpet of the Jewish new year sounds, we find that with the sound of that trumpet the Divine Program opens for the Jews, and it is there where Joseph will reveal Himself, as Joseph revealed himself to his brethren there in Egypt among the Gentiles, He will be revealing Himself to the Jews.
And what will happen in this time when that occurs? We are going to see what it says so that we have a clear picture: page 43, of the book of “Quotations” of messages of the reverend William Branham, paragraph 176 says:
“And there’s them two witnesses
(in other words, Moses and Elijah, the two Olive Trees). And when they tormented the church, or the world, by their preaching (in other words, because they will be making known the things that will be happening in this time, that is, the divine judgments that will come upon the Earth); and receiving back the Jews…”
And in that same message the Jews will be called, that is, hundred and forty four thousand Hebrews, twelve thousand of each tribe. At present they are all called Jews, but to make it plainer, Hebrews, the elect of the twelve tribes of Israel, twelve thousand of each tribe according to Revelation, chapter 7, where the Angel with the Seal of the living God, with the Holy Spirit calls and gathers together and seals hundred and forty four thousand, twelve thousand of each tribe; and then in Revelation, chapter 14, they appear already sealed with the Name of God and of the Lamb written on their foreheads, already sealed, and will follow the Lamb wherever He goes:
“And receiving back the Jews and bringing them back to repentance, bringing them back to believe on… When they see Jesus coming for the Bride, they’ll say, ‘Lo, this is our God whom we waited on. That’s Him!’ But He’s not coming for them; He comes for His Bride.”
In other words, Christ coming for His Bride, the Lord coming for His Bride and they will see Him coming for His Church Bride, and will say: “This is Him whom we waited on.” Further below it says:
“And when he makes Himself known to these Jews, there’ll be nobody there but the Jews. There’s them who killed Joseph
(or requested his death), standing there ‘ and he said, ‘Well, I’m Joseph, your brother.’ And he wept. And they said, ‘Now we know we’re in for it, because we killed him.’ The same thing, those Jews will have that great time of trouble just before the coming now, of the persecution running them back into the homeland. It shooting them like a bunch of sheep back to Mount Carmel yonder. When The Lord Jesus shall come for His Bride, and they see Him, they’ll say, ‘That’s the One we’ve waited on, there He is!’ He’ll rise with healing in His wings.”
Healing, salvation and also divine healing, but the most important one is the healing of the soul, salvation. There is also another passage…we are going to see here in page (A4), last paragraph says, I’m going to read here a portion, it says:
“For there’s going to be an elect who’s going to live through the Millennium age. And will go in and out with Christ for a thousand years, and they shall go up into Glory with Him and return again. When the resurrection of the wicked is brought forth, then the Millennium will set… After the Millennium is over, then Christ will go up with the Church, and at the end of a thousand years He will return with the Church. Christ comes three times. The first time, He came to redeem His Church. Is that right? The second time, He comes to receive His Church…”
His Coming to His Church is a mystery, His Coming to His Church will be a secret for the world, and the one who has to see it and understand these things will be His Church, because He comes with His Church to resurrect the dead believers in Him which died and to change them which are alive.
“…He comes to rapture her and be caught away, in the time of the plagues and so forth
(in other words, before the plagues fall); returns back for the Millennium…”
In other words, He takes Her and has Her for the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, for three and half years, and then the third time he comes, when?
He comes to rapture her and be caught away, in the time of the plagues and so forth
(and then, what else does it say?)); returns back for the Millennium (what happens thereafter? After the Wedding Supper of the Lamb?) returns back for the Millennium, lives through the Millennium. And then the great King and Queen comes down for the judgement (for Judgment Day after the millennium).”
Now, we have seen that the Angel of the Covenant is Christ in the Holy Spirit, which are the two Olive Trees, the Angel that comes with the Seal of the living God, He is the one that calls and gathers one hundred and forty four thousand and seals them on their foreheads, they are sealed with the Holy Spirit. In the same page, 147 (1A), paragraph 15 says:
“The same Holy Ghost that fell on the day of Pentecost is right here for you!’ And the power of the Gospel goes back to the Jews right there at that time. Then there’ll be a revival amongst those Jews right there that’ll carry thousands and tens of thousands and …. 144,000 into the Kingdom of God, will be sealed by the Sealing Angel…. And right there, as soon as that Sealing Angel begins to seal that 144, 000 the Gentile Church door is closed and the Jews take the Holy Ghost to the Jews. And they’ll have a revival that’s sweep the entire world! Hallelujah! And the power of God will be manifested amongst the Jews.”
So, notice the great blessing that’s coming for the Jews, and most of all for one hundred and forty four thousand Hebrews, twelve thousand of each tribe; that’s what we have in the divine promises for Israel, when Christ, the Messiah, Joseph, which Joseph, Jacob’s son represented, whom represented Christ, was the most perfect type and figure of Christ.
And now, for the Last Day Joseph is coming to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and when the Jews see Him coming to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ to give Her faith to be changed and carried with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, the Jews will say: “This is Him whom we are waiting for,” but let’s see that which I was going to read to you of the book of “The Seals,” page 57, preached by the reverend William Branham, it says:
“This seven-sealed Book is revealed at the time of the Seven Thunders of Revelations 10. If you’re marking it down… Let’s turn to Revelations 10 just a moment, so you’ll get a understanding before we get into it. Now, this is at the end time, for listen.
…I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow… upon his head,…
If you notice that’s Christ (See?), ’cause He in the Old Testament was called the Angel of the Covenant, and He’s directly coming to the Jews now, for the Church is finished.”
Now notice, He now comes directly, to whom? To the Jews who are waiting for Him for “the Church is finished.”
See? All right.
… and his face… as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
You remember that Angel in Revelations 1? Same thing
(in other words, the Angel of Revelation, chapter 1, which is Christ, it is the same Angel of Revelation, chapter 10, that comes down from Heaven with a little Book opened in His hand, with the Book of the Seven seals, the Book, the Title Deed of heavens and Earth, the Book of redemption. Now…). Angel is a messenger, and He’s a Messenger to Israel. See? The Church has been raptured. See? Now, or fixing to be raptured…”
In other words, before the Church is raptured, the Mighty Angel comes down from Heaven, because the thunders utter the Voice of the Mighty Angel when He speaks as a Lion and seven thunders utter their voices, it is the message that gives faith to the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ to be changed and carried with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb. He is coming for His Church, but He is the messenger to Israel, the Angel of the Covenant, the same One which gave them the Law there on Mount Sinai, that’s the promise of the Coming of the Messiah according to Malachi, chapter 3: “…and will suddenly come to His temple, the Lord whom ye seek, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in.” That’s the promise of the Coming of the Messiah:
“…the Church has been raptured. See? Now, or fixing to be raptured. He comes for His Church. Now, watch.
And he had in his hand a little book open:…
Now, here it was closed
(in Revelation, chapter 5 was closed, here… now here was closed) here, and sealed, and here it’s open (now in Revelation, chapter 10 is opened, He brings It opened in His hand); it’s been opened. Since that time of the sealing we’re getting into tonight, now the Book’s opened.”
It was sealed for thousands of years, and then when Christ finishes His Work of Intercession in Heaven, He leaves the Throne of the Father where He is as Intercessor between God and men or between men and God, as High Priest, as Joseph was also between the people of Egypt and Pharaoh, Joseph was.
Now, Christ since He ascended to Heaven, He sat at the Right Hand of God, He said in one occasion, John, chapter 14, verse 6: “I am the way, the truth, and the life; and no one comes to the Father, but by me,” there is no other way to come to God; the ideas some people have that one can come to God in any way, Christ doesn’t support it, and those that think that all the ways lead to God, Christ doesn’t support that either, Christ said: “I am the way (there is no other way), I am the truth (therefore there is no other truth), and I am the life (therefore, there is no other life, Christ is eternal Life and He imparts It with everyone who receive Him as Saviour).”
“And no one comes to the Father…” many want to come to God in their human ways, but there is one way: “No one comes to the father, but by me,” therefore Christ says: “Everything you ask the Father in my Name, I will do it.” He taught that when praying in His Name, we should ask everything we desire, and Paul said: “Everything you do, whether by word or deed, do it in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
There is no other Name in which and whereby we can approach God to ask Him or praise Him. Therefore, the way of salvation is Christ; it is the way God promised through Isaiah and other prophets, that God would open, would open a Way of life, an eternal Way, that’s the New Covenant through Christ our Saviour. The way of eternal Life which is Christ establishing the New Covenant under which the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is.
And now, we saw also here in the book of “The Seals,” that Christ, the Messiah coming to His Church, the Mighty Angel coming for His Church, He is also the messenger to Israel. Therefore, there will be something very important taking place in this end time: just as Jacob wrestled with the Angel and did not let Him go until he received the blessing from Him, likewise Israel will hold onto the Angel and will not let Him go until it receives God’s blessing; and there shall be the two Olive Trees, Moses and Elijah calling and gathering the Jews, and most of all one hundred and forty four thousand, twelve thousand of each tribe which are the relics, the elect ones of Israel.
It will be a glorious time when Christ reveals Himself to the Jews in this end time, therefore, when you find them looking for food, spiritual food for the soul, just as they were looking for physical food, wheat represents spiritual food, when you see them looking for food, because there is no food there in Israel, as there was no food in the territory where Jacob was with his children and grandchildren, and the food was in Egypt where Joseph was married (Joseph’s wife represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ , and Joseph represents Christ), and where Christ is with His Church, it is there where the spiritual food from age to age is.
So, a time is coming where they will wish for that spiritual wheat of the revealed Word for our time, which our Joseph will have with and in His Church. The food which Joseph, His wife and His children will be eating.
So we are in a very glorious time wherein, when the Angel begins to seal the one hundred and forty four thousand, He will not seal all of them on the same day: he starts sealing one by one, and when that happens, the door for the Gentiles is closed.
Christ will be as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of Lord carrying out His Reclaiming Work, He will claim back those hundred and forty four thousand, only Christ through His Spirit operating the ministries of Moses and Elijah, will be able to call and gather one hundred and forty four thousand Hebrews, twelve thousand of each tribe, there will be Christ, the greater Joseph which will be the Messiah, revealing Himself to the Jews, and that’s is very, but very, very close.
When you see the Jews looking for food, food for the soul, it is marking the time when God will turn again to the Jews, because since the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem, the Spirit of God moved away because God’s dwelling place was in the temple, in the Most Holy Place upon the ark of the Covenant; the glory of God left and then we find It in the days of Jesus on Mount Transfiguration, and we also see when He was baptized and then we find that when the temple was destroyed in the 70’s, the glory of God left Jerusalem because the place for His glory was destroyed.
And His glory has been with and in the midst of His Church from age to age, going through from the Outer Court, to the Holy Place, and in the Most Holy Place in the Last Day which corresponds to this end time; it will be there where they will see the glory of God manifested, it will be there in that stage of the Church where He will reveal Himself to the Jews, it will be there where they will see the Lord, the Messiah coming for His Church, the Mighty Angel that comes down from heaven coming for His Church and they will say: “This is Him whom we have been waiting for.”
They will ask themselves why is He in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, they will understand it later on, and you will understand up to that which you have understood until now, and that which you are lacking to understand, you will also understand later on.
We are very close to the Third Pull, which pertains to the fulfillment to the Tent Vision where the Pillar of Fire was seen, the Holy Spirit being manifested, there shall the glory of God be seen in the fulfillment of a Great Tent-Cathedral, and there we cannot explain much so that no imitations may appear, otherwise it would interrupt the Divine Program.
Even many imitators have arisen and after a short time they disappear from the scene, like Theudas and Judas, Theudas and Judas who came and drew away many disciples before Christ came there, Jesus Christ, and they died and it vanished, their group was dissolved; and Gamaliel told them: “Leave these apostles alone because if this is like the issue of Theudas and Judas, it will also vanish; but if it is from God, you will be found resisting God, so leave it alone, leave these people alone, if it is from God you will not be able to stop it and you will be found resisting God.” It was a wise advice of Gamaliel, a wise man, of whom the apostle Paul was a disciple.
So, Saul of Tarsus should have also taken that advice because he was persecuting the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and that’s why he was ashamed all his life, all his life because he had persecuted the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We are in a very important time in the Divine Program, the glory of God is going to be manifested in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the stage pertaining to our time, the golden Age of the Church, the Age of the Cornerstone: God will be manifested in all His fullness in that which the reverend William Branham called the Third Pull which will be wholly fulfilled in a Great Tent-Cathedral which he saw in a vision showed to him.
Somewhere, in some country of the planet Earth the vision of the Great Tent-Cathedral will be fulfilled and consequently everything he saw will also be fulfilled, and they will see Joseph coming. Joseph coming as the literal Joseph, son of Jacob, came and the way Joseph the son of the reverend William Branham came, and just as in the past Rachel represented the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and consequently that which the reverend William Branham spoke of his wife, she also represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of his time, and consequently it is type and shadow of what is going to happen in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in this end time.
The Church is about to…the Church has birth pains to give birth to Christ, our Joseph; we will leave it there alone, and who knew Joseph as king first, as prince at the right hand of Pharaoh? Well, his wife which he married and had two sons with him; thereafter she could have had more children, but the more outstanding are the first two: Manasseh and Ephraim, upon whom the Blessing of the Birthright came, and most of all the Blessing of the Birthright came upon Ephraim, the most important part; and Manasseh represents the Jews and Ephraim represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“JOSEPH AMONG THE GENTILES.”
And Joseph, our Joseph, coming for His Church will be seen by Israel and Israel will say: “This is him whom we are waiting for,” but He doesn’t come for them, but He comes for His Church, but they will also receive Him.
It has been for me a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, giving you testimony of: “JOSEPH AMONG THE GENTILES.”
If there is someone who has not received Christ as Saviour, you can do it right now and we will be praying for you, and those in other nations that have not received Christ as Saviour, you can do it right now and we will be praying for you, for which you can come in front to be prayed for. And the children ten years and older can also come to the Feet of Christ our Saviour. In all the countries you may come to the Feet of Christ and also those who are present can also come to the Feet of Christ if you have not received Him as Saviour.
At any time the door to the Gentiles will be closed, the door of salvation, Luke, chapter 13, verses 21 to 27 says:
“When once the master
(which is Christ) of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are.”
Christ is the Master of the House. He has been put, placed, as Son over His House, which is the seed of the second Adam, which are the believers in Christ and the descendants of the second Eve which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, who will occupy in the Kingdom of Christ the Messiah, the highest position of kings, priests and judges, kings and priests of the Order of Melchizedek and also judges of the Order of Melchizedek.
Therefore, the judiciary and the religious order and the political order pertain to the Messiah and His Church, and the hundred forty four thousand with be the eunuchs that will serve the King and the Queen.
We are going to stand on our feet to pray for the people who have come to Christ in different nations. With our hands raised to Christ, to Heaven, with our eyes closed, here and in all countries:
Heavenly Father, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I come to you with all the people that have come to the Feet of Christ right now to receive Him as Saviour, I pray You receive them in Your Kingdom. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I pray.
And now repeat this prayer after me, those who have come to the Feet of Christ:
Lord Jesus Christ, I heard the preaching of Your Gospel and Your faith was born in my soul, in my heart, I believe in You with all my soul, I believe in Your first Coming, I believe in Your death at Calvary’s Cross as the Work of Redemption, the appointed work of Atonement in Leviticus, chapter 23, verses 26 and onwards; I believe in Your death on Calvary’s Cross as the Sacrifice of Atonement for our sins, I believe in Your Name as the only Name under Heaven given unto men whereby we must be saved.
I recognize that I’m a sinner and I need a savior, a Redeemer, I bear public witness of my faith in You and Your faith in me and I receive You as my only and sufficient Saviour. I pray, forgive my sins and cleanse me with Your Blood from all unrighteousness and baptize me with Holy Ghost and Fire after I am baptized in water in Your Name and may the new birth be produced in me.
Lord, make the salvation You purchased on Calvary’s Cross a reality in my life, for me and for everyone who would receive You as only and sufficient Saviour here on earth. Lord, save me, make Your salvation a reality in me. I pray in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Your glorious and eternal Name to whom be the glory and the honor forever and ever. Amen and amen.
And with our hands raised to Christ, 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.
The Blood of Christ has cleansed us from all sin because we have received Him as only and sufficient Saviour. You who have received Christ as Saviour right now will say to me: “Christ said: ‘He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved.’ When can I be baptized?”
In water baptism the person identifies with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection. Water baptism doesn’t take sins away, it is the Blood of Christ that cleanses us from all sin, water baptism is typological, it is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ, which has been obeyed since the times of Jesus Christ and the apostles, and it continues being obeyed by those who receive Him as only and sufficient Saviour, which then are baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and Christ baptizes them with Holy Ghost and Fire and produces in the persons the new birth.
When the person receives Christ as Saviour, he dies to the world. When the minister immerses him in the baptismal waters, typologically, symbolically he is being buried. And when he raises from the baptismal waters, he is being resurrected unto a new life, unto eternal Life with Christ in His eternal Kingdom.
As simple as that is the symbolism, the typology of water baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. 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 Jesus Christ our Saviour.
I leave you with the relevant minister in each country to let you know how to do to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and here I leave with you the reverend Jose Benjamin Perez to continue with the service.
May God bless you and keep you, and until next Sunday God willing. May you continue spending a happy afternoon, full of the blessings of Christ our Saviour.
“JOSEPH AMONG THE GENTILES.”