Good morning, kind friends, brethren and ministers gathered here and also in different nations. May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and also upon me, and may He open the Scriptures to us on this occasion, and may He teach us His Word through His Holy Spirit on this occasion and always.
Greetings to Missionary Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín, where he is at this time, and to all the ministers who are there gathered with him, and to all the ministers who are gathered in different nations.
For this occasion, let’s read a passage from the Scripture which tells us; in Haggai, chapter 2, verse 1 to 9, it says:
“In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the Lord by the prophet Haggai, saying,
Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,
Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?
Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the Lord (in other words, ‘saith the Eternal One, the Lord’); and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord (or, ‘says the Lord’), and work: for I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts:
According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.
For thus saith the Lord of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.
The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
Our subject is: “PROMISES AND PROPHECIES IN THE GREAT TENT CATHEDRAL.”
In this passage that we read there is a promise of a restoration and of the presence of God being in that house, and that the latter glory of the House, of the Temple of God, will be greater than the former. This speaks to us of the restoration of the temple back then, in terms of the fulfillment of that prophecy in the short term or for the present time relevant to the days of Zerubbabel and the high priest Joshua.
This prophecy has a compound fulfillment; this prophecy has multiple fulfillments just as other prophecies do. When God is going to do something parallel to what He already did in the past, the same prophecy is fulfilled again: with new people, and sometimes in another territory, but it is parallel or equivalent to the territory where it was fulfilled for the first time.
Taking these things into account, we can also see when God says of Israel, in Exodus, chapter 4, verse 21 to 25: “Israel is My son, even My firstborn”; and, therefore, God called Israel out of Egypt and took them to the promised land.
As a nation, as a people, the only nation and the only people (because God deals with Israel as a nation, as a people), the only nation or people that is appointed in the Scripture as His firstborn, His firstborn son, is Israel; and therefore, the Birthright blessings are for Israel in the earthly sense.
And when Jesus, as a small child, was taken to Egypt by Joseph and Mary, because the male children would be sought, the male children who were two years old and under would be sought to be killed…[1]
King Herod commanded that all male children two years old and under should be killed, because the wise men who came to Jerusalem asking: “Where is He that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East…”[2]
While living in the East, they looked to Jerusalem, to Israel; that is, they were looking from there, from the eastern area, from the eastern area or east of Israel, around the Arab world: around Iran, Ur of the Chaldeans, and all these territories. And the wise men (who in those times, like in our time, get together; and in that time astrology and astronomy were combined), they observed the firmament; because before God does things on the Earth, before they are fulfilled, He shows them in heaven, because that is the first Bible. And then once we have the written Bible, it aligns with the first Bible: the sky, all those stars and galaxies, the Zodiac and all these things of the sky.
Remember that God told Abraham that his seed would be as the stars of heaven,[3] and therefore, every seed of God (which is every seed of Abraham) is represented in some star of the firmament.
The Prince Messiah, in the book of Numbers, is also represented in a star. There around Numbers, around chapter 20, it speaks to us about this… 24, verse… This is Balaam speaking; he was a prophet, but he loved money; he was of the seed of Edom, and that is Esau. He says… This was when Balak, the king of that region, wanted him to curse Israel; but he said… For example, in chapter 23 (so that we have a clear idea)… God had told him to speak what God would put in his mouth to speak.
How could Balaam approach God and speak with God, and God with him? For one thing: he was a prophet, he had both consciouses together, to be able to see and hear from the dimension of God; and another thing: he knew how to approach God: he approached Him by carrying out the relevant sacrifices.
Because a person can’t approach God if there is no sacrifice (in the Old Testament) to cover sins; because if he approached God, he would die; just like what happened to the sons of Aaron in chapter 10 of Leviticus.
And in chapter 16 God tells Aaron and Moses that they could only enter the most holy place once a year; and it had to be with blood, the blood of the sin offering, which was carried out on the tenth day of the seventh month of every year; that was the day to enter the most holy place and place the blood of sin offering upon the mercy seat. If they entered the most holy place without blood: they would die; the presence of God, which was there in the Pillar of Fire, would burn them. That happened to the sons of Aaron in chapter 10 of Leviticus.
That is why in chapter *22 of Numbers it says [verse 41]:
“And it came to pass on the morrow, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal, that thence he might see the utmost part of the people.”
In other words, of the children of Israel, who dwelled in cabins or tents.
Notice the origin of tents, cabins; and even the tabernacle or temple of God among the Hebrews journeying through the wilderness, was a tabernacle, a tent built with skins; and the presence of God was there.
Even Abraham, in his time, also lived in a tent and so did his seed.
In other words, it is connected… the matter of tents is connected to the Hebrew people as well, to the descendants of Abraham, and to Moses.
Moses, coming with the people, led a people who were protected from inclement weather, when they would stop while they lived in tents for that period (be it for a week, a month, or a year); and they gathered the food every morning: the manna, and then also meat: in the form of quails that came down.[4]
Now, Balaam knew how to approach God.
Every person, at all times, has had to approach God (when he has wanted to draw near to God to worship God or make Him a request) with a sacrifice for sin.
For example, in the time of Adam and Eve, after sinning, God gave them animal skins;[5] therefore, there was a sacrifice, the death of an animal, for Adam and Eve, so that God could give them something to cover their nakedness with.
And then, notice, when Cain and Abel were born, as for the revelation of a sacrifice to cover sin, Abel had that revelation. Cain didn’t have that revelation, and he prepared an altar with flowers; but Abel prepared an altar with a lamb, an animal sacrificed to God; that was Abel’s offering.[6] Cain’s offering: his altar looked very nice with flowers and things of the field, fruits of the field. But God had respect unto Abel’s offering, it was the right one: his sins were covered by the blood of that sacrifice; therefore, he could approach God, and God could see him without sin; although they were in him, but they were covered (because the blood of animals doesn’t take away sin).
But Cain shows up with an altar and a sacrifice, a very beautiful offering to God; but his sins weren’t covered by blood, and therefore, God didn’t have respect unto Cain’s offering: The sin hadn’t been covered.
Sin being covered by the sacrifice and the blood of an animal: represented the Sacrifice of the Prince Messiah, which wouldn’t cover sin but take it away completely; and God would see the human being —the person who would have that sacrifice for his sins, having received the Messiah as his Savior— He would see him without sin; because with His Blood, the Prince Messiah has taken away sin, He has disintegrated it, and He has taken it back to its originator, to its place of origin, which was the devil.
And there is no other sacrifice for sin, but the Sacrifice of the Prince Messiah, of Jesus Christ. That is why any person who tries to approach God without believing in the Sacrifice of Christ and without His Blood being applied through the Life of the Blood —which is the Holy Spirit— the person will have his sins in him, and he can’t approach God, there is no way for him to approach God.
Christ Himself said: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; and no man comes unto the Father but by Me.”[7] It’s through Christ that the human being can approach God, there is no other way.
“Whatever you ask the Father in My Name, that will I do,” Christ says.
See? Everything is connected to Christ, His Name, and His Sacrifice on Calvary’s Cross.
There is and there will be no other sacrifice for sin. Why? Because the types and figures: the sacrifices of animals (which were the type and figure), were already fulfilled by the Sacrifice of Christ; the antitype already came.
That was the type and figure; and the Sacrifice of Christ, the death of Christ, is the antitype: the reality, which was being reflected, typified, in those sacrifices made from Genesis until the very days of John the Baptist and of Jesus.
Although, because they didn’t have a temple, they were not valid; because in the temple there… In other words, they didn’t have the original temple; they had a temple there. And although they were temporarily accepted, later on, with the death of Christ, the sacrifices ended. That is why later on, about forty years after the death of Christ, the temple was destroyed by Titus Vespasian and his army, and the sacrifice was taken away.
If there is no temple, there can’t be an animal sacrifice for sin. All of that was the type and figure: those sacrifices; and the types and figures already passed; since the death of Christ, we are already living the reality of what the types and figures were.
That is why when John the Baptist sees Jesus, he says: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”[8]
And now, in order to approach God, the person must have the Sacrifice; and the Sacrifice of the believers in Christ is the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross; and the Blood that cleanses us from all sin is the Blood of Christ shed on Calvary’s Cross. And God sees them without sins, and therefore, they can approach God: pray, ask God their requests, make their requests to God; they can also give offerings or offer sacrifices of thanksgiving to God, praise God, sing to God, bless the Name of God, all of this; and it is received by God.
Without Christ, there is no way to approach God. Just like in the past: in order to approach God, the person had to carry out the sacrifice of the relevant animals, as established by God according to the Divine laws and commandments given by God through His prophets, who received the Divine revelation.
Adam received it, so did Abel, and so on; that is why they sacrificed animals for sin. And later, Moses then built a temple or tabernacle, where the high priest would take the blood of the sin offering of the tenth day of the seventh month of every year, to reconcile the people to God, so that they would be reconciled to God and have the right to live one more year.
Why one more year and not forever? Because animal sacrifices are not perfect, they are only the type and figure; and every year they had to offer the sacrifice of atonement for sin. This was also a reminder of the people’s sins so that they repent, and so that they could be forgiven that day; although not cleansed from sin, but covered with the blood of that sin offering; also prophetically pointing to the time and Sacrifice of the Prince Messiah, to take away people’s sin and to reconcile the human being to God.
The human being’s reconciliation to God is through Christ, who reconciles us to God; just like the temporary reconciliation that was carried out before the death of Christ, the high priest was the one who performed that work, which was the only one who could enter the most holy place with the blood of the sin offering, to reconcile the Hebrew people to God.
And now, we can see that afterwards, later on, once they enter the promised land already, they continue to use a tabernacle, a tent. The one they had was made of skins, and so on; but later God put in David’s heart the construction of a building, a temple.[9]
It’s because David was a prophet, he had both consciouses together, and he was a man after God’s own heart; and God transmitted the thoughts and desires of His heart to the heart and thoughts of the heart of David.
The temple was built, Solomon built it, the son of David, who is a type and figure of the Prince Messiah; and he also sat on the Throne of David, which is the Throne of God on Earth and the Throne of God’s Kingdom on Earth.
When speaking of the restoration of the Kingdom of God or the restoration of Israel, that refers to the restoration of the Kingdom of David and the Throne of David, to which the Prince Messiah is heir.
And now, after the construction and dedication of that temple, God’s Glory came down, It entered the temple; and He dwelled in the most holy place, upon the ark of the covenant, upon the mercy seat, between the two cherubims of gold;[10] and the sacrifices had to be made in that temple.
When the temple was destroyed for the first time, it was later restored; that is the greatest thing that the Hebrew people could do: restore the temple. The construction was great, and the restoration was great every time the temple was destroyed and then restored. When it was destroyed, it was due to the people’s problems with God: when they turned away from God and also went into idolatry, which is rebellion against God.
And now, since the time of the destruction of the temple there in Jerusalem, which was around the year 70 of the Christian Era or Common Era (as it is called among the Jews), from that point on they have had no temple.
Now, in the time of Zerubbabel, before the destruction by Titus Vespasian, it says that the glory of that temple, which would be built by Zerubbabel and the high priest Joshua, would be greater than the former glory; and that is what would happen.
Likewise, once the Era or Dispensation of Grace begins, we find, looking back, back to the time when the temple was destroyed, we find that there in Israel the Jews haven’t had any sacrifice being offered in the temple, because there is no temple; and therefore, when God looks at their sins, He sees them, because there is no blood to cover their sins; that has been the problem Israel has had since the temple there in Jerusalem was destroyed.
And now, there is a New Temple, made up, built out of human beings, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and It has been built from stage to stage until the end time, where the Holy Place is built out of living stones: human beings who receive Christ as their only and sufficient Savior.
Once It is completely built, once that work is finished, God’s Glory will come down, God’s presence will come down; and that will be God, the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, the Messiah, Christ, the Anointed One, coming to His Church and for His Church.
And since there has always been a place for the believers under the New Covenant, the Church (which is also a spiritual Temple), to gather, at the Last Day we have seen that in the last hundred years they have been gathering in temples and also (since the days of the apostles) in buildings, whether tents or temples made of stone or wood, to hold their services, which they call “churches.” Europe and North America are full of Christian temples, called “churches.”
And at the Last Day, Christianity, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, made up of the elect or chosen ones of the end time, they have a promise of a resurrection if they already died, a resurrection in glorified bodies; and for those who are alive, they have the promise of a transformation; so that all of them (after that) may be here on Earth about 30 or 40 days —and that would be, so to speak— using the new, glorified body for the first time, just like the glorified body of Christ.
Philippians, chapter 3, verses 20 to 21; also First Corinthians, chapter 15, verses 49 to 58; and also First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verses *13 to *18; and other places, tell us about that subject. And it tells us that it will be “at the Last Trumpet”: “For the Trumpet shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall be raised incorruptible (that is, in glorified bodies), and we who are alive shall be changed.”
For this end time there is also a promise which Reverend William Branham spoke of. And remember that just as God worked through Jesus Christ by carrying out His Program for that time, Christ through His Holy Spirit (that is, God through His Holy Spirit) will be working through His Church, which is His spiritual Temple; and everything He will be doing, He will be doing it through His Church, using different instruments, whom the Church of the Last Day will stand alongside; just as the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ from stage to stage was working in close unity with the messenger relevant to each time, and doing what corresponded to each age according to God’s Program.
For this end time we have the promise that God will work through His Church; in other words, it will be the Holy Spirit using His Church at the Last Day.
Some may say: “That is being done by some people, some believers in Christ”; but the believers in Christ will say: “No; Christ by His Spirit, God by His Spirit, is doing that through human beings,” because that is what God promised; the promised Word, which must be brought to life, to fulfillment, for which He will be using human beings; to the extent that the entire Divine Program will be fulfilled.
And as for constructions, we have the promise that there will be something very important to be fulfilled in the Divine Program.
And I want to refresh your memory. For example, here on page 120 of the book Quotations, paragraph 1068,[11] it says:
1068 – “138 Now, that great gift! Others I’ve tried to explain and say how it was done. This can’t be explained. Just wait. It will not be in operation so perfectly now (meaning, in Reverend William Branham it wouldn’t be in operation fully, perfectly, but instead partially). Wait till that Council of Churches brings on that persecution, that’s when it will happen. That’s the reason I come back among you, to pray for the sick. I have never had but one thing that He ever told me in my life that I know that hasn’t happened yet, that some sort of a building or a tent where there will be a little building setting and I’d have to go into that and pray for the sick. That hasn’t happened yet as far as I know. That’s the only thing that I know.”
And this was in the year 1964, on January 20… January 20, 1964. That is why Reverend William Branham always tried to quicken, to materialize that vision, to make it real by having a Great Tent Cathedral so that everything he saw in that vision could be fulfilled.
Then there’s another place: on page 148 of this book of Quotations, paragraph 1324;[12] it says:
1324 – “[16] And I—I want to get my own tent and my—my stuff, like the Lord gave me a vision to (that is, he wanted to have a Tent Cathedral as God showed him in a vision), and I believe the time is just now at hand (meaning, it was near). And I want to see while I’m here, why we can’t get the tent (he was looking for the explanation as to why he hadn’t been able to get it when he wanted it).
17 And—and then when we go, like come here to Jeffersonville, instead of having just a day or two, or three or four days, we can go out here and put up this tent, and have two or three weeks, you see, and just nobody can say nothing about it. We can either take a ball park, or, if they won’t let us have that, there is farmer (that is, a farm, a farmland, that a farmer has) out here will let us have a farm. We’ll rent the farm and—and put it up (meaning, ‘we will put up the Great Tent’; that vision, that Tent that he saw, set it up). The only thing we’d just have to do there, would be make our—our outbuildings, and so forth, and for our conveniences (that is, the facilities, ‘for our facilities’). And that could be easily done. And then we’ll start having our services like that because that’s according to a vision from the Lord, and it’s to be done that way.”
How must it be done? As it was shown in the Vision. God gave the Vision, and God is the One who will work and anoint His Church (of the corresponding territory) to work on that project. And there are many details there that can’t be spoken yet, but at the Last Day, at the end time, there will be a Church that will be working on that project with all the groups and ministers who will unite to work according to that Vision that was shown to Reverend William Branham.
That is a project for the last days, or the end time, or the Last Day, which will be seen carried out by the Holy Spirit through human beings, where there will be preaching about the seven-sealed Book, making known the entire content of the Seven Seals, and especially the mystery of the Seventh Seal, which was not made known and of which nothing was made known in the time of Reverend William Branham. That will be the Third Pull, for the manifestation of the Spirit of God in the midst of His Church.
It will be a blessing for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the believers in Christ, for the wise virgins, for the foolish virgins as well; for the wise virgins to have the faith, to receive the faith, the revelation, to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; and for the foolish virgins —who don’t have Oil— for them to receive strength, revelation, so that while they go through the great tribulation (where there will be “weeping and gnashing of teeth”) they give their lives for Christ.
All the foolish virgins have to go through the great tribulation because they didn’t have Oil: the life of the Holy Spirit, and therefore, they had not been born again, even though they were Christians and even though they were virgins; in other words, good people, noble people, people who remained steadfast in Christ.
And it will also be for a testimony to the world: to the lost, who can’t be saved but will see the manifestation of God’s power and the Word that will be spoken in that manifestation, where the plagues will be spoken, that is, making known the things that will come upon the Earth, those Divine judgments that will come upon the Earth.
The ministries of the Two Olive Trees, of Moses and Elijah, will be there. The ministry of Christ, of the Messiah, will also be there, operated by the Holy Spirit, who is the only One that has ministries and operates ministries in human beings.
What will be the Sixth Seal to the Jews, will be the Seventh Seal to the Church, to the believers in Christ. And we won’t explain too much there, until later on, on another occasion, or in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision.
All those who will be working on that Divine project will be blessed. It is a Divine project, and it must be done as it was shown in the Vision, Reverend William Branham says; and he says: “It hasn’t been fulfilled yet.” He was prophesying, speaking what he was shown would be fulfilled, carried out, in the future.
Therefore, in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, that Vision will be fulfilled: There will be a Great Tent Cathedral, which will be a blessing to all the believers in Christ.
And look… and when that is fulfilled, then those who will have been working on that project will thank God that they were instruments of God in that project. It is a unique opportunity, because after that project there is no other physical project to be carried out for the benefit of all Christianity, of the wise virgins; even for the blessing of the foolish virgins or sleeping virgins (as some people call them).
Israel will also see that manifestation; because the latter glory shall be greater than the former glory that we saw in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ among the Jews, back in the time of Saint Peter and of other apostles, in the land of Israel; because Christianity was born there.
It’s one of the blessings that the Gentiles have received from the Jews; for which Christianity is very grateful to God for the Jews, and they pray to God for the Jews: that God helps them, delivers them from all danger, blesses them, and that soon the Prince Messiah of Israel appears, God opens their spiritual eyes, and they see Him and receive Him; so that soon Israel is restored to the Kingdom of God, and the Kingdom of God is restored to Israel; where Jerusalem will be the capital of that Kingdom, which will be global, and the entire territory of Israel will become the Federal District. In other words, as a nation, Israel will be the head of all nations.
Saint Paul the apostle himself says in Romans, chapter 4, verse 13:
“For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.”
Heir of the world. Abraham’s seed is the Prince Messiah, who is the heir of the entire world: “Ask of Me, and I shall give you all the nations for your inheritance (Psalm 2); and He shall rule them with a rod of iron.” That is a Messianic Psalm. Psalm 2, verse 5 and on says… verse 6:
“Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and (all) the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
So, notice the great blessing that Israel and Christianity, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, will have: that the Prince Messiah will be the heir of the entire world; and thus, He will rule over the entire world from Jerusalem; therefore, just like in every country the head of a nation is the capital, and the head of Israel is Jerusalem, the capital.
But since the Kingdom will be worldwide, because the Son of Man, the Prince Messiah, is the heir of the world, as Son of Man He is the heir of the entire planet Earth, therefore His Kingdom will be worldwide; and therefore, the head nation of all nations will be Israel.
Look at the prophetic future appointed in the prophecy of Israel. No matter the problems that Israel goes through, its future in the Biblical prophecy is glorious, and that part of the prophecy is very close to coming true.
And now, as for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, Her end will also be glorious: The Glory of God will be in the midst of His Church at the Last Day, in the fulfillment of the Great Tent Cathedral that was shown to Reverend William Branham, where the Third Pull (as called by Reverend William Branham), and the Angel who appeared to him and guided him, will be a reality. It says: “A Voice come…” Page 471 of the book of The Seals, says [“The Seventh Seal,” p. 36]:
“298 A Voice come, said, ‘You can’t teach Pentecostal babies supernatural things.’ Said, ‘Now, let them alone!’
299 And just then He picked me up. He took me up, and sit me way up high, to where a meeting was going on. Looked like a tent or a cathedral, of some sort. And I looked, and there was a little box, like, little place over in the side (that is, a little room).”
In a giant tent, a little room measuring 20×12, or 12×20, 12 feet by 20 feet (12 feet wide by 12 feet long), approximately, would look very small inside a Great Tent Cathedral, as he saw in that vision.
Now, remember that the promise belongs to he who materializes it, he who fulfills it. There are many promises in the Bible, but… and when we sing, we say: “Every promise in the Book is mine”. They belong to everyone; but whoever materializes them, crystalizes them: they belong to him, they become a reality in his life.
“[299] And I seen that Light was talking to somebody, above me, that Light that you see there on the picture. It whirled away from me, like that, and went over that tent. And said, ‘I’ll meet you there.’ And said, ‘This will be the Third Pull, and you won’t tell It to nobody.’”
“You won’t tell It to nobody.” Why and for what reason? So that there are no impersonations, although impersonations can always arise, but they will not be able to make a total impersonation; they will fail in some way.
“[299] And in Sabino Canyon…”
This was when the sword fell into his hand;[13] of course, it was not a literal sword, of this Earth, rather it’s in a vision and it’s a sword of another dimension; and the sword represents the Word of God.
“[299] And in Sabino Canyon, He said, ‘This is the Third Pull.’
300 And there’s three great things that goes with It. And one unfolded today, or, yesterday; the other one unfolded today; and there’s one thing that I cannot interpret, because it’s in an unknown language.”
A language unknown to Reverend William Branham, so it wasn’t English. The Thunders utter their voices consecutively, and it’s in an unknown language; therefore, if it’s unknown to Reverend William Branham, then it’s not English.
And the Thunders of the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven in Revelation 10, it’s the Voice of Christ, of the Messiah, of the Holy Spirit, speaking at the Last Day to His Church and in the midst of His Church, and then to all of Christianity and to all of mankind. That will be the Voice of Christ speaking consecutively at the end time.
Therefore, there has to be a stage of the Church, an age… let’s say an age, a stage; and the seven past ones among the Gentiles already ended. Then we go on, then we go up (as we have been, going up from one age to another), we go up to an eternal age: the Age of the Cornerstone, the Age for the Coming of the Messiah, the Age for the Coming of the Capstone, Jesus Christ, the Stone that the builders rejected, which has become the Head of the corner.[14] It’s what crowns the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ: the Coming of the Lord at the Last Day.
“[300] But I stand right there and looked right straight at It. And this is the Third Pull coming up. And the Holy Spirit of God… (in other words, what is coming is the Holy Spirit of God carrying out the Work corresponding to the Last Day; it will be a Work of the Holy Spirit). Oh, my!
That’s the reason all Heaven was silent.”
That is the Coming of Christ to His Church to give Her the faith to be transformed and taken with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
And now we can see how the Third Pull, that manifestation where the power of God in all His fullness will be manifested, we find that It will be in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision.
There will be a Tent Cathedral, in which all these promises of a Great Tent Cathedral, and of the manifestation of God in all His fullness, will be fulfilled; and then the latter glory, at the Last Day, will be greater than the former, than what it was in the time of the apostles.
That’s why in the restoration of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ comes the crowning of His Church with the Glory of God, the Glory of Christ, manifested in all His fullness. When the Jews see that, they will say: “This is what and this is whom we were waiting for.”
Therefore, the Vision of the Great Tent Cathedral has a purpose with the Bride-Church of the Lord Jesus Christ (those who are going to be transformed) and the foolish virgins from the parable of the ten virgins that the Lord gave around chapter… (I will give you the exact chapter) chapter 25 of Matthew, verses 1 to 13; and at the end, it says:
“Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.”
And in Saint Luke, it says: “Pray that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things which are coming on the Earth, and to stand before the Son of Man” Luke, chapter 21, verses 25 to 36. And also in chapter 18, verse 8, it says: “When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the Earth?”
In other words, for this end time, we have great promises from God, which will be fulfilled in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ for the blessing of Christianity, Judaism, and all people who will awaken to reality. “Awake, you who sleep, arise from among the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”[15]
Since human beings (Adam and Eve) sinned in the Garden of Eden: they died to Eternal Life, and they were only left with temporary life; therefore, human beings have been dead. And they obtain a spiritual resurrection when they receive Christ: they awaken to Eternal Life by receiving Christ, and then they receive Eternal Life, a resurrection to Eternal Life for the soul, a spiritual resurrection; and then comes the physical resurrection, for the physical body, where every believer will obtain physical Eternal Life; they already have Eternal Life in the soul and the spirit, and they still need physical Eternal Life, that is, physical redemption: the adoption, which is the redemption of the body.
With the First Coming, we find that the Program for the redemption of the soul was carried out; in the spiritual, inner part.
And now, the second part of the Program of Redemption is the physical one; for which we will receive the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, which will be connected to the Lord’s Coming to His Church, which is the Seventh Seal. When it is opened to the Church, then those who are going to be transformed while they are still alive will receive that knowledge, and they will be prepared for the transformation, they will have the faith to be transformed.
That is why the apostle Paul teaches us that the Coming of the Lord to His Church will be for our transformation. Philippians, chapter 3, verses 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.”
Why do we wait for the Coming of the Lord? For our transformation, the adoption of the body, the redemption of the body.
And at that time, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, Christianity, will have the fulfillment of the Tent Vision —as simple as that— where the Glory of God will be manifested in the midst of His spiritual Temple, His Church, at the Last Day; and that will be the manifestation of the Third Pull, where the spoken Word will be fulfilled.
How will it all begin? We don’t know. But it must begin by laying the foundation: the Word first, and then the signs will appear —in God’s time— backing up that promised Word, the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet or Great Trumpet, of Isaiah, chapter 27, verse 13; and Great Voice of Trumpet of First Corinthians, chapter 15, verses 49 to 58; and First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verses 13 to 18; and Philippians, chapter 3, verses 20 to 21.
We have been seeing the promise of the Tent Vision and God’s purpose for the fulfillment or materialization of that vision of the Great Tent Cathedral.
If God showed it to Reverend William Branham in operation, then it will appear; because “what is seen is made of that which was not seen”[16]: first it is made in another dimension, and then it materializes in this earthly dimension. As simple as that.
“PROMISES AND PROPHECIES IN, AND FOR, AND ABOUT THE GREAT TENT CATHEDRAL,” and about the vision that was shown to Reverend William Branham.
So, there are great blessings for all the believers in Christ throughout the world, for the Jews as well, and for all who will believe, at the Last Day, in the Coming of the Lord, when that mystery is made a reality and opened to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and the entire world will experience the impact of those prophecies.
With that manifestation of the Glory of God, the Glory of the Messiah, in the spiritual realm, the entire world will be shaken, whether they understand or not.
Not everyone will understand, just as it happened in the time of Adam, in the time of Abel and Cain.
Adam… the teaching that Adam brought was understood by Abel by Divine revelation, but not by Cain; later Seth also understood it, but Cain’s seed did not.
In the time of Noah, he understood the Divine revelation, Noah understood God’s Program, but the antediluvian world did not understand it, and they perished.
“As the days of Noah were and as the days of Lot were, so shall the Coming of the Son of Man be at the Last Day, so shall the Coming of the Son of Man be,” Christ says in Saint Matthew, chapter 24, verses 34 to 39; and Saint Luke, chapter 17; and also chapter 21 of Saint Luke.
We are in the time when the Biblical prophecies relevant to the Last Day have started to be fulfilled, and these Biblical mysteries contained in the prophecies of the Old Testament prophets and also in the messages of John the Baptist and of Jesus and of the apostles, up to the book of Revelation, and the messages given by the Holy Spirit through Reverend William Branham in prophecies relevant to the Last Day, have started the process of fulfillment.
Therefore, we can see that the only hope for the human being is the Coming of the Lord.
The planet is in grave danger: earthquakes, tidal waves, tsunamis, volcanoes… wars and rumors of wars in the nations; everything is having labor pains to give birth to a new world: a new Earth for the Messiah and His Kingdom. And the Church is having labor pains to give birth to Christ.
Everything that is happening are labor pains, which, when that happens to a woman who is pregnant and the time comes for her to give birth, no one wants those pains; just like the nations don’t want the labor pains of the planet Earth; the nations don’t want earthquakes, tidal waves, volcanoes, and all those problems, and wars and rumors of wars, and violence among the human race.
In other words, the end of time or end time is the time of great problems, but also of the great blessings of God.
Therefore, we can’t look at the problems and get discouraged, but instead at the blessings that are promised for the believers in God, the believers in Christ, the believers in the prophetic Word, which promises us, announces to us, great blessings for all the believers in Christ, and great blessings for the Hebrew people as well.
If the nations, if the leaders of the nations knew, understood, and believed that Israel will be the head of all the nations, they would all be – their political leaders would be asking Israel: “What do you need? What do you want? What should we bring you?”
Because even the global stock market will be in Jerusalem; the Scripture says that the nations will bring their wealth to Jerusalem.[17] So, it will be the richest nation of all nations. And this is by Divine Decree, because God will be in Jerusalem, ruling through the Prince Messiah in the Kingdom of the Messiah, and then for all eternity.
“PROMISES AND PROPHECIES IN, OR RELATED TO, OR ABOUT THE GREAT TENT CATHEDRAL.”
It has been a privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you of these promises, of these prophecies related to The Great Tent Cathedral, showing all the blessings that will come when the Vision of The Great Tent Cathedral is being fulfilled.
And where those who will work on that Divine project will say: “I have a small part in that project; I worked in this way or that way,” each one according to what God has given them to work with.
No one wants to be left out of that blessing, therefore, all the believers will be working to the fullest; being strong and courageous, because that is important, just as God said to Joshua: “Only be strong, and be very courageous.”[18]
When one must be very courageous, that is because there will be problems, there will be struggles; and one must be strong, because the work relevant to the end time must be carried out with a strong effort.
It was before entering the promised land, a few days before entering, about three days before entering the promised land, that God told Joshua, Moses’ successor: “Moses My servant is dead,”[19] and then He gives the commission to Joshua and says to him:
“Only be strong and very courageous; you will bring the people into the promised land.”
And Joshua typifies the Holy Spirit, who will bring the believers in Christ to the promised land of the new and glorified body, and to the promised land of the Kingdom of God, of the Kingdom of Christ.
Well, continue having a happy afternoon, those of you who are present and those who are in other nations as well.
And given that we are at the end time: well, let’s work in the Work of the Lord, because the instruments that God will be using are the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and all those who join to work in the Divine project relevant to the end time, and in all the other projects that are to be carried out in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I leave Reverend José Benjamín Pérez with you to continue and conclude on this occasion.
May God bless and keep you. And we will see each other tomorrow, God willing, when I will be with you again.
May everyone continue having a happy afternoon, filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior. God bless you.
“PROMISES AND PROPHECIES IN THE GREAT TENT CATHEDRAL.”
[1] Matthew 2:13-18
[2] Matthew 2:1-2
[3] Genesis 15:5
[4] Exodus 16:1-31
[5] Genesis 3:21
[6] Genesis 4:1-5
[7] John 14:6
[8] John 1:29
[9] 2 Samuel 7:1-3
[10] 1 Kings 8:10-11, 2 Chronicles 5:11-14; Exodus 25:10-22
[11] Quotations, p. 120, para. 1068: 64-0120 – “His Unfailing Words Of Promise,” p. 17, para. 138
[12] Quotations, p. 148, para. 1324: 65-0711 – “Ashamed,” p. 3, paras. 16-17
[13] The Seals, “The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages And The Seven Seals,” pp. 2-3, paras. 6-15
[14] Psalms 118:22
[15] Ephesians 5:14
[16] Hebrews 11:3
[17] Isaiah 60:11, Revelation 21:24-26
[18] Joshua 1:6-7, 1:9
[19] Joshua 1:1-2