Good morning, kind friends and brethren present, and those who are in other nations: ministers and churches, brethren gathered worshiping God and receiving the Word of the Lord today, Sunday, an important day among Christianity.
May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and also upon me, and may He speak directly to our soul, and feed our soul and all of our being with His Word. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
For this occasion, let’s read Amos, chapter 8, verse 11 to 12, where it tells us the following:
“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
Our subject for this occasion is: “HUNGER TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD TODAY.”
This prophecy speaks to us about spiritual famine or hunger, and spiritual thirst. Therefore, just as we feed our body with literal food, we must feed our soul with spiritual Food; and the spiritual Food for the soul is the Word of God.
Therefore, just like you have to find food for the body and eat it, you need to find, seek and find spiritual Food for the soul, which is the Word of God relevant to the time in which you are living. In plain words: the Word of God, the Message of God for the time in which you have been given to live.
If you had lived in the time of Noah, you would have had to seek that spiritual Bread, the Word of God, the Message that God put in Noah’s mouth for the people; that was the spiritual Food for the soul of the human beings of the day of Noah.
And now, the Scripture tells us that “man shall not eat by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” God tells us so through the Prophet Moses in Deuteronomy chapter 8, verse 3:
“And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.”
Just like in order for our physical body to live, we give it physical food, in order for our soul to live, we must give it spiritual Food, which is the Word of God for the time in which the person is living, that is, the Message of God for the time in which the person lives.
We also find, when the devil tempted Jesus in [Matthew] chapter 4, verses 3 to 4, when the devil tells Him: “If you are the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread,” Christ tells him: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” In other words, what proceeds out of the mouth of God is the Word of God. Jesus answered and said… It says:
“And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread.
But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”
That is the Word that every person, his soul, needs to eat spiritually, to eat that Word in order to live eternally in the Kingdom of God; it is the spiritual life, the life of the soul in the Kingdom of God; and therefore, you must feed your soul, just like you feed your body.
It is promised or prophesied by Amos, chapter 8, verse 11 to 12, that: “there shall come a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the Word of God.”
Since the human being is created in the image and likeness of God: just as God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the human being is soul, spirit, and body. The soul is what the person truly is; the spirit is the spiritual body or spirit that each person has, which is a body similar to the physical body but from another dimension; and the physical body in which you have already seen yourself and whose face you see in the mirror.
We find that the body, spirit, and soul must be fed: the body with physical food, the spirit with human teaching and spiritual teaching as well; and the soul is fed with the Word of God so that the soul may have Eternal Life.
“He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
Saint John chapter 5, verse 24, Christ tells us.
And now, since the Bread for the soul is required, the manna that was given to the Hebrew people typified the spiritual Bread for the soul that would be given to the human being; that is why it says in Deuteronomy chapter 8, verse 3, that He gave them manna from Heaven, manna, food for the body, and He showed them that man shall not live by physical bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
The Food for the soul is more important than the food for the body; the food for the spirit, for the soul, was typified in the manna; in other words, Christ was typified in the manna. That is why Christ said in Saint John chapter 6, verse 47 and on, He says:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”
And in Saint John chapter 6, verses 39 to 40, He says:
“And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”
All the Father has given Him, Christ says: “That of all which He has given Me, I should lose nothing:” those are the sheep that the Father gave Him, for Him to give them Eternal Life, so that those sheep, those people, are not lost; “but should raise it up again at the Last Day:” in other words, He will raise them up if they have died physically, if they are alive He will change them; and they will all be in the image and likeness of God, like Christ: with a glorified physical body and a heavenly theophanic spirit.
“And this is the Father’s will…” He says: “But should raise it up again at the Last Day,” the Last Day before God; and since a thousand years to human beings is one day to God… and one day before God is a thousand years to human beings; a millennial day to human beings is a day before God. And we find that the days of the week represent the seven days before God, seven days which are seven millenniums to human beings.
We find, from Adam to Jesus, that four days before God were lived, four millenniums; and Christ was born at the end of the fifth millennium—or rather, at the beginning of the fifth millennium, about three to ten years before the fifth millennium began.
And when the fifth millennium began, the last days before God began, which are the last millenniums to human beings: the fifth millennium, sixth millennium, and seventh millennium. That is why we find that the Apostle Paul tells us in Hebrews chapter 1, verse 1 and on:
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days,” (notice, in these last days), “spoken unto us by his Son…”
Paul the Apostle says that already in those days in which God was manifesting Himself through Jesus and speaking through Jesus… because Jesus said: “I speak nothing of Myself, the Father who dwells in Me, He does the works.”1 Therefore, He would speak the Father’s Word, it was God speaking through His Spirit through Jesus. And God says:
“…hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.”
And now, since the days of Jesus began the last days before God, which are the last millenniums to the human race: the fifth millennium, back in the days of Jesus…; when He was three to ten years old, the fifth millennium began, and the last days before God began there, which are the last millenniums to the human race, the three last millenniums: the fifth, sixth, and seventh. “For one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” Second Peter chapter 3, verse 8; and also Psalm 90, verse 4.
That is why it has been preached since the days of Jesus Christ that we are living in the last days. Therefore, the preachers who have said in past times: “We are in the last days,” were right; Saint Paul himself said that they were in the last days, and he was also right; and Saint Peter said so, too.
Now, to say that we are at the Last Day, that can only be said since the start of the seventh millennium from Adam to now, which is the third millennium from Christ to now.
According to the Gregorian calendar, two thousand years of the Dispensation of Grace have already passed, which are two days before God.
The two first last days, which are the fifth millennium and sixth millennium, have already passed according to the Gregorian calendar, and the Last Day before God has already begun, which is the seventh millennium from Adam to now or third millennium from Christ to now, and we are already thirteen years into the seventh millennium according to the Gregorian calendar.
But if we calculate based on the Hebrew calendar or Jewish calendar, which has three hundred and sixty days per year, then we are already further into the Last Day, meaning, into the seventh millennium.
And in the seventh millennium, which is the Last Day, is when Christ promised to raise His believers who have died, and to change the ones who are alive.
Therefore, the promise of the resurrection for the two previous last days was a promise that wouldn’t be fulfilled in either of those two previous days before God; it wouldn’t be fulfilled in the fifth millennium nor in the sixth millennium, except for the resurrection of Christ and the Old Testament saints, who rose with Him when Christ rose from among the dead; those were the ones who were under the Covenant of the Old Testament.
But those who are under the Covenant of the New Testament, the promise is that those who have died will be raised at the Last Day, in other words, in the seventh millennium from Adam to now or third millennium from Christ to now.
And now, let’s continue here in Saint John chapter 6, verse 40:
“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
For the believers in Christ, who see Christ as the Savior, the Redeemer, the One who carried out our Redemption through His death on Calvary’s Cross, the One who carried out the Atonement of our sins through His death… the One who carried out the Work of Atonement, which was reflected in the feast of atonement of the tenth day of the seventh month of each year among the Hebrew people, of Leviticus chapter 23, verses 26 to 29.
That is why when Christ was eating with His disciples at the last supper, taking the last supper with them, in [Matthew] chapter 26, verses 26 and on, it says:
“And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
In the bread, He typified the body that He was giving as a Sacrifice of Atonement, and in the wine, He represented, typified, His Blood, which was shed for the remission of people’s sins.
He also says in Saint John chapter 6, referring to His body… chapter 6, verse 48 and on:
“I am that bread of life.”
In other words, the manna that the Hebrew people received each day typified the Bread of Eternal Life for the person’s soul, just like the manna was the bread for people’s bodies, to give them physical life, to keep them alive. But the Bread of Eternal Life, which is Christ, is to give us Eternal Life in our soul, spiritual life, in His Kingdom; to keep us alive, with Eternal Life, in His Kingdom.
“Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die,” (meaning, and live eternally).
“I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
In order to live eternally, we need Christ, who is the Bread of Eternal Life; and whoever eats of that Bread will live eternally.
Since Christ is a spiritual Bread, some people ask themselves the same thing the Jews asked here:
“The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
It’s not by literally eating His flesh, it’s by the faith and with the faith that is in the soul: believing wholeheartedly in Christ as our only and sufficient Savior, recognizing that His death on Calvary’s Cross is the Sacrifice of Atonement for our sins, in order to obtain the forgiveness for our sins, be cleansed with His Blood from all sin, be baptized in water in His Name, and receive His Holy Spirit, and thus, obtain Eternal Life; to be born in the Kingdom of Christ to a new Life: to Eternal Life, and thus, be safe with Christ in His eternal Kingdom.
“Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.”
In other words, he who does not eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink His Blood, has no Eternal Life within, there in his soul.
He who believes in Christ has Eternal Life, because by faith, by believing in Christ, we are eating His flesh and drinking His Blood; and He gives us the Life that is in the Blood, which is His Holy Spirit, and thus, He gives us Eternal Life.
“Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.
These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.”
He gave conferences, He preached in synagogues; He was invited to preach and He would preach to them. He had no barriers.
And now, in that whole message that He preached to them, we find that it was a subject in which there was a bit of controversy for those who heard it, against the Message of Jesus.
It’s because the truth cannot be adjusted to people’s liking, people are the ones who must adjust their way of thinking and believing to the true Word. The truth doesn’t compromise for anyone, the truth is the truth whether you believe it or not, the truth is the truth whether you agree with it or not.
Therefore, Jesus Christ preached the truth whether they believed or not; that is why He said: “And Me, a Man who speaks the truth, you don’t believe.” Around Saint John chapter 8, He speaks about this.2
It is important to seek the truth and never let go of the truth. The truth for the time in which we live is the Word of God for the time in which we live, and therefore, that is the Food for the soul of the person who lives on Earth, and that Word is Christ in Word form, in Message form.
Now, let’s see, when He finishes the preaching and the service in the synagogue ends, notice what happened:
“Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?” (His own disciples are already criticizing the Message of Jesus.)
“When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?
What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.” (They didn’t agree with the Message of Jesus, which was the Divine Revelation for the people at that time).
“Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.” (Peter had that revelation.)
“Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
In other words, He came back with something hard, indicating that one of them, of the twelve, was the one who would betray Him; because if he was a devil, a devil can never do something good.
“He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.”
That is why, among Christianity, no one should be offended or stumble if some devils like Judas Iscariot appear; if there was one with Jesus, and they were only twelve, even more so in bigger groups.
Anyone who is represented in Judas Iscariot is always going to do the same thing Judas Iscariot did: he is going to pretend to be one of the believers, he is going to pretend to be a spiritual person, but he will always be looking for a fault; and even if he doesn’t find it, he will say that he found one or more faults, in order to do what Judas Iscariot did: deliver Christ, the Word, to mockery, and do many other things so that people destroy the Word of each age in which each of those Judas Iscariots is living.
But remember, Judas committed suicide when he realized the mistake he had made, but he didn’t have the opportunity to come back, he had crossed the line between mercy and judgement; he sold the Master. Anyone who sells the Master, Christ, the Word, will have the same thing happen to them.
The Scripture says that Judas went and hung himself, and went to his place, meaning, to hell, which is the place he had come from; and he was the devil’s instrument, in whom the devil incarnated himself to carry out that work of betraying Christ.
In other words, Judas Iscariot was the antichrist of those days. And the antichrist of the Last Day is represented in Judas Iscariot. But we will leave that for another occasion.
Now, the important thing for the believer is what Christ says in Saint John chapter 7, verses 37 to 39:
“In the last day, that great day of the feast…”
That is, of the feast of the tabernacles, because it tells us here that it was the day of that feast of the tabernacles. It says:
“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)”
Jesus was glorified, and on the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit came upon all the believers: one hundred and twenty, who were in the upper room in those days.
It was a very important time, the day of Pentecost, which was reflected in the feast of the fiftieth day, since—counting from the day that the wave sheaf was offered before God until fifty days were counted, and the fiftieth day was the day of Pentecost; because Pentecost is fifty.
And now, in order to receive the other portion that is still needed, which will be the physical adoption, the redemption of the body, that will be in a Fiftieth Year, a Year of Pentecost.
The Year of Pentecost represents the time when the redemption of the body will take place: the resurrection of the dead believers in Christ and the transformation of those who are alive at the Last Day.
Therefore, the time we are currently living in is a very important time.
And all the believers in Christ of all the religious groups long for the Second Coming of Christ, they long for the resurrection of all the dead believers in Christ, and they long for the transformation of those who will be alive on Earth—of those who are alive on Earth; because these are Divine Promises for all the believers in Christ; and therefore, they long to hear the Word of God related to the whole Divine Program relevant to this end time, relevant to the Last Day. And that will be the spiritual Food for the soul of all the believers in Christ.
That is the Food that mankind, the believers in Christ, hunger and thirst for: they hunger and thirst to hear the Word of the Lord, the Word of the Lord for this end time, to obtain the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
And that Word, which the believers in Christ hunger for, is the Word of Christ, the Voice of Christ, which is promised to be spoken by the Holy Spirit at the Last Day; and that will be the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet speaking to His Church, speaking to Christianity, and speaking to all mankind.
There was spiritual Food throughout the stages of the Church, throughout the journey of the Church, in which the Holy Spirit was speaking through the different messengers that He sent; because He has always had a messenger through which to speak. “Surely the Lord God will do nothing without first revealing His secrets to His servants, His prophets.” (Amos, chapter 3, verse 7.)
Therefore, there will be a territory and a people who will be hearing the Word of the Lord for this end time; and therefore, they will be hearing the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet, the Last Message of God, the Message that will prepare us to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. There will be a people who will be eating that spiritual Food, the Word of the Lord for this end time, for the Last Day.
All the dead will hear the Voice of the Son of man and rise, resurrect to Eternal Life. All the believers in Christ, from past ages and those who are alive, will be changed to go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Therefore, it is important to know that in a territory and in a new stage of the Church, there will be spiritual Food for the soul; because man shall not live by physical bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
And It always proceeds out of the mouth of God, throughout the different stages, from Adam to now, It proceeds out of the mouth of God, which are God’s instruments, God’s messengers, God’s prophets; they are the mouth of God. From the heart of God to the heart of a man, and from the heart of a man to the people; that is the Divine Order. It is a Food for the soul, for the heart, of each human being.
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
“HUNGER TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD,” to hear the Word of God for today, for our time, to hear the Word of God at the Last Day; which will be the Voice of Christ, the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven crying as when a lion roars and Seven Thunders uttering their Voices.
That is the Voice of Christ as a Lion, to give us the spiritual Food for the soul, after the time of the Dispensation of Grace ends, and after the time of the Message pertaining to the different Church ages ends. Then comes the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet, the Message of the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven, and that will be the spiritual Food for the soul of all the believers, to give them the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
There is hunger and thirst on Earth to hear the Word of God, the Last Message of God, just like there was a drought in the time of the Prophet Elijah, which he announced by Divine Order in First Kings chapter 17, verse 1 and on. And in chapter 18, verse *41 to 46, he then announced the rain when he was told that an abundance of rain would come upon the Earth.
Elijah had said in chapter 17, verse 1 and on: “There shall not be rain, nor even dew, but according to my Word.” That is also how it will be at this end time: There shall not be spiritual Rain, nor Water, and therefore, there shall not be spiritual Food either, but by the Word of Elijah. Elijah is promised in Malachi chapter 4 [verse 5]:
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
(…) lest I come and smite the earth (with destruction)…”
Therefore, there will be Word of God, there will be a Great Rain that will bring a great revival to the soul of the human beings; and It will give them Life. That Rain will be a spiritual Rain that will bring Life to the believers in Christ, It will bring a revival; and Christ will materialize all the promises He has made for the Last Day.
And many of us who are alive will have the privilege (the way things are going) of seeing the Second Coming of Christ and the saints who will come with Him from Paradise being raised in glorified, eternal, immortal bodies, like the glorified body of Jesus Christ our Savior.
And we who are alive and see them, the promise is that we will be changed.
And I am waiting for my transformation, I am waiting for that glorious moment promised in the Word of God.
I long for my transformation, therefore, I long for and wait for the Second Coming of Christ with the resurrected saints, as it has been promised, so that we who are alive are changed and taken with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
In what time are we living? We are living in the time where there is hunger and thirst to hear the Word of God, the Word of the Lord, for this end time, the Message that pertains to this end time.
I will leave each minister in each country, and here I will leave the minister, Rev. José Benjamín Pérez, to continue. And we will see each other next Sunday, God willing, in whichever form it may be (I’m expecting to be here; but if I’m not, then by satellite).
Sundays are a very important day to praise God, to hear His Word, to receive the blessings, and to see what is happening in the Divine Program.
May God continue to bless you all, and continue having a happy evening filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.
“HUNGER TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD TODAY.”
1 John 14:10
2 John 8:40