Good afternoon, fellow ministers in the Mystical Body of Christ, and helpers present; and also those who are in different nations.
Warm greetings to Missionary Miguel Bermúdez Marín where he is, there with different ministers from different congregations, and helpers. May God bless you, Miguel, and all the ministers and helpers gathered there.
It’s a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of fellowship around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time.
The subject that we have for this morning is: “CASTING THE NET BASED ON THE WORD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”
Saint Luke, chapter 5, verse 1 to 11 (to have a clear picture), says:
“And it came to pass, that, as the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Gennesaret,
And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets.
And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon’s, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship.
Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net.
And when they had this done, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes: and their net brake.
And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.
When Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.
For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:
And so was also James, and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men.
And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all, and followed him.”
May God bless our souls with His Word, and allow us to understand It.
“CASTING THE NET BASED ON THE WORD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”
It is important to understand that fish represent those who would be the believers in Christ, for fish represent all human beings; and the sea represents peoples, nations. And Christ, being the Word that was with God, and created all things, is the Owner of everything, the heir of all Creation.
The disciples as fishermen represent preachers, and the net represents the Gospel. And on some occasions, while they are fishing, when there is a storm: those are the persecutions, problems, that come against the boat, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and they are storms that arise among peoples, nations, and tongues, against Christ and His Church.
The boat represents the Church, because the net represents the Gospel, and of course, the fish are cast (where?) into the boat, on that occasion.
And now, Christ is saying to him: “From henceforth you will become fishers of men”: By the Gospel net being preached, in the first preaching about three thousand people were caught;[1] and that was always without counting women and children, because the wife and children are represented in the man.
We have different occasions where they were catching nothing, and Christ said to them: “Cast the net on the right side, and you shall find.”[2] These are stages of the Church where nothing is caught to form the Mystical Body of Christ, it’s like there are no elect coming at certain times, as if it is… a “dead moment,” as we say; because those are stages in which the Church organized Herself and cannot produce sons and daughters of God, fish, for the boat, the Church or Kingdom of Christ.
But He says: “Cast the net on the right side, and you shall find.” That is when a movement arises from the Holy Spirit for each stage or age of the Church.
And we also have the miraculous catch of fish, after Christ resurrected, where 153 fish… and 153 fish may not seem like much, but if it’s the big kind, one fills up a bucket; you need one person per fish for the big ones; and we don’t know (being big fish) what size they might have been. And the net did not break;[3] the net did not break like it did on the other occasion. Those represent the elect who will be pescados [‘caught’].
Why will they be pescados? Because they are fish underwater; then… The word *peces applies when they are in the sea, in the waters; and peces… pescado… ‘Peces’ when they are in the water, and ‘pescado’ when they are already out, they are already caught, they have been caught.[4]
But there must always be a work carried out for that to happen. And there must be fishermen assigned by God for that work.
Peter was the leader of the fishermen of that time, both literally and (later) spiritually; and then Saint Paul for the Gentiles. And so on from age to age.
And a miraculous catch of fish is coming. Where is it? Chapter 13, verse 47 and on, of Saint Matthew, says:
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:
Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.
So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,
And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”
This catch of fish at the end of the world they’re the same Angels of Saint Matthew, chapter 24, verse 30 to 31, where it says:
“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”
What does Reverend William Branham say about those Angels? Page 458 and 459 of the book The Seals (the version where the last page is 484). And now, on pages 458 and 459, it says… starting from the paragraph that says (from page 458) [“The Seventh Seal,” p. 22 in Eng.]:
“173 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, the two witnesses of the…When the trumpet sounds, is the trumpet of the two witnesses of the age of grace for the Jews. One trumpet sound, you notice, one trumpet sound. He said He’d sound the trumpet. Now notice over here, 31st.
And he shall send forth his angels (not one, see; there’s two of them) with a great sound of a trumpet,…
174 What is it? When God gets ready to speak, there’s a sound of a trumpet. That’s always His Voice. It’s calling to battle, see. God speaks. These angels will come forth with the sounding of the trumpet.
175 And did you notice, at the last angel’s Message, the trumpet sounds. 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.
176 Notice, ‘Gather His elected Jews from the four parts of the heavens.’”
Here we have what is prophesied in Saint Matthew, chapter 24, verse 31: The Angels with a Great Sound of a Trumpet calling and gathering the elect. The Angels with a Great Sound of a Trumpet, who also cast the Gospel net and draw it out full; and they gather the good into vessels, but cast the bad into the water, into the great tribulation.
And now, we can see how all these parables have a spiritual meaning, which is fulfilled in different times. And the reason why Christ spoke to them in parables was so that the rest of the people wouldn’t understand, only the believers, to whom the Divine revelation comes through Christ; during the stages of the Church: through Christ in Holy Spirit in the midst of His Church.
That is why the Scripture says that “as the Holy Spirit teaches you, abide…” That is around First John, somewhere around there you will find that Scripture. (Search for it later and remind me; because I have it somewhere; and if I don’t have it marked in my Bible, then it’s in the Bible concordance.) It says either: “As the Holy Spirit teaches you,” or “as the anointing teaches you.”[5]
For our time; just like for other stages of the Church there were promises, Scriptures to be fulfilled, which were fulfilled; for our time there are also many promises. For our time there are the most promises from God to be fulfilled.
And when the different ages of the Church have passed, and they were not fulfilled, that is because it wasn’t for them, although they believed those promises. But the promises are for those in whom they are fulfilled; those are the owners of those promises.
And it’s like the little song says: “The promises of the Lord…” are whose? “The promises of the Lord are mine.”[6] The promises of the Lord for the end time, are mine. He will materialize them, quicken them. And we will be instruments in the hands of the Lord to work around those promises, based on the Word of the Lord Jesus Christ, working for Him to fulfill them.
Just as divine healing is for all, but… it’s there, but it’s fulfilled, it’s carried out, it becomes a reality, in those who believe it.
And in our time all the promises are for us, all those promises of great blessings, including the Tent Vision, including the Third Pull.
The Trumpet, the Great Voice of Trumpet, is for us to hear. The Voice of the Archangel and the Trumpet of God, all of that is for us, because it’s for our transformation, it’s to give us the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
When Saint Paul was speaking, let’s say, about us, he said: “And we which are alive.” Even though he knew he wouldn’t be alive by that time, but in our representation, he says: “And we which are alive, shall be changed.”[7]
And remember that each angel represents the messenger who comes after him. In other words, Saint Paul represented the messenger who would come after Saint Paul; and the messenger who would come after Saint Paul represented the messenger who would come after that messenger; but Saint Paul also represented the one who would come after the messenger who followed after Saint Paul.
Meaning, in plain words: Saint Paul and the other five messengers who succeeded him, who followed in succession, represented the seventh messenger; six representations (in each of those messengers) of Reverend William Branham.
And now, with our ears wide open: Moses and all the prophets represented Jesus Christ, because He was the fullness of God; therefore, He was the fullness of all the messengers.
Christ was represented in John the Baptist; but John had a portion, all the fullness was in Christ.
In the last one who comes, there is always the fulfillment of the types and figures, the representations there were in the previous messengers; and therefore, the blessings as well. Thus, in our time, we will have everything that was represented in the messengers at this end time.
Everything that was forerun by Reverend William Branham we will receive it in the stage of the Cornerstone, the Golden Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; just like in the Golden Age of the time of John the Baptist and Jesus they had everything that was promised to crown the Church of the Old Testament, of the Old Covenant.
Likewise, all that has been promised for the Last Day, to crown the Church, to crown Her with the Golden Age, and all that will happen in that Golden Age: will be fulfilled at this time.
We are living in the most glorious time of all, in which we work like the messengers worked with their group of each age: around the promised Word for the time in which each one lived. In the same way, we are and will be and will continue working around what is promised for this end time; because that is what will be quickened, brought to life, brought to fulfillment; that will be what the Spirit of God will be confirming, quickening. And then we will have, for example, what Reverend William Branham says on page 120 of the book of Quotations, and 156. In paragraph 1396,[8] he says:
1396 – “167 But, in obedience, this little faith Woman, that lives by faith, the Bride (that is, the Bride-Church of Christ); the person here, there; here, off somewhere else, some other church, some other denomination, whatever it is, in some not…Believes the Word of God, obedient, waiting in love, for the promise of the age to be confirmed.”
“The promise of the age”: the promise for this time. “To be confirmed”: To be made a reality, to be quickened, brought to fulfillment.
1396 – “[167] She is watching for it. She is part of that Word, and She is watching for Her life to manifest that Word.”
The Bride-Church has to manifest that Word. In the Bride-Church is where each promise relevant to the Last Day has to be fulfilled, has to be materialized in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
1396 – “[167] Brethren, can’t you see that? I hope that didn’t go over you.
The Body is waiting for (meaning, the Mystical Body, the Body of Christ, the Church) (which is the Word), waiting for the Life (which is the Spirit) to confirm or make It alive, (that is, make it a reality). That’s what She is waiting for. No other life will work in Her. She can’t come to life any other way. Yet, She feels it out there, and She knows it’s going to happen; then here it happens, then She wakes up. God said, ‘Let there be,’ and She came forth like the first one come forth.”
Remember the vision of the Bride?[9] That group of young women came out after the seven Church ages, that young woman came forth; that is, a group of young women, young ladies, representing the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Bride-Church, after the seven ages of the Church; because the seventh was represented in a woman who was even a witch, because the seventh age had already become a denomination. And when an age becomes a denomination, it dies then; and it can no longer bring forth, produce, sons and daughters of God; it produces denominational children, in other words, it produces denominational and intellectual believers.
But the Bride-Church, going from stage to stage, by uniting in love with Christ in Holy Spirit in Her: Christ reproduces Himself through His Church in sons and daughters of God, in each stage where this spiritual awakening emerges, to produce that revival, that awakening, in the time when the Bride-Church is in the time of life, to produce life. Like a woman: she can conceive at a certain time; that is how it is with the Bride-Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We have seen that there is a great blessing for this end time.
We paused…. let’s see how far we got here.
We saw that the Angels who come with the Great Sound of a Trumpet, sent by Christ, are the Two Anointed Ones. And we’re not going to explain very much about this. They will call 144,000 Hebrews, 12,000 from each tribe; therefore, when you see a closeness of the Jews and a closeness to the Jews, remember: you are close to being called.
We are at a very glorious time for the Mystical Body of Christ our Savior; the most glorious time of all times, the time… Let’s see the time we are in. Page 212 of the book of The Seals, first paragraph, says [“The Third Seal,” p. 22 in Eng.]:
“182 Now that’s what’s the reason today, that, the—the revivals that we’re supposed to have…”
Remember: revivals or awakenings; especially those that correspond to the awakening of each stage, carried out by the Holy Spirit through the messenger of each time. That is God’s awakening or revival to produce sons and daughters of God in each stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“[182] …we have denominational revivals. We haven’t had a real stirring. No, no, no. No, sir. Don’t think we got revivals. We haven’t. Oh, they’ve got millions and millions and millions of church members, but not a revival nowhere. No. No.
183 The—the Bride hasn’t had (received) a revival yet. See? There’s been no revival there, no manifestation of God to stir the Bride yet. See? We’re looking for it now. It’ll take those seven unknown Thunders back there, to wake Her up again, see. Yeah. He’ll send it. He promised it.”
What will produce the awakening at the Last Day for the Bride-Church of the Lord Jesus Christ? The Seven Thunders. And the Seven Thunders are the Voice of God.
Let’s see it here: Page 57 of the book of The Seals. Halfway through that page it says [“The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages And The Seven Seals,” pp. 5-6 in Eng.]:
“29 This Seven-Seal Book is revealed at the time of the Seven Thunders of Revelation 10, now, if you’re marking it down. Let’s turn to Revelation 10, just a moment, so you’ll get an 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 (that’s Revelation 10)…
30 If you notice, that’s Christ, see. Cause, He, in the Old Testament, was called the Angel of the Covenant. And He is directly coming to the Jews now (therefore, he will attract their attention), for the Church is finished. See? All right.
…and his face…as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
31 You remember that Angel in Revelation 1? Same thing. Angel is a ‘messenger.’ And He’s the Messenger to Israel. See? The Church has been raptured, see, now, or fixing to be raptured (that is, it happens before the rapture). He comes for His Church.
And he had in his hand a little book open…”
Now, it says that “He is directly coming to the Jews, for the Church is finished”; and then it says that he is a “messenger to Israel,” that he is the Messenger to Israel. It says:
“[31] See? The Church has been raptured, see, now, or fixing to be raptured. He comes for His Church.”
So, there is something there, because the Messenger to Israel comes for the Church first.
On page 22, paragraph 176,[10] (starting from the middle, let’s say)… This talks to us about Joseph. Let’s read it from the beginning:
176 – “[729] And there’s them two witnesses.
730 And when they tormented the church, or the world, by their preaching, 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 Who we waited on. That’s Him!’ But He’s not coming for them; He come for His Bride. And His Bride…
731 When Joseph went into Egypt, he did not take his brethren with him, but he got his bride there. Absolutely! But when he made hisself known to his brethren, there was nobody present. That’s exactly right. And when He makes Hisself known to these Jews, there’ll be nobody there but the Jews. There’s them who killed Joseph, standing there; and he said, ‘Well, I’m Joseph, your brother.’ And he wept.
732 And they said, ‘Now we know we’re in for it, because we killed him.’
733 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 shooing them like a bunch of sheep back to Mount Carmel yonder.
734 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.”
That is what is promised. We see it spoken in 1957 and then also in 1963, and on different occasions.
Something great will draw the attention of the Jews, something great that God will be fulfilling with His Bride, with His Church. Therefore, His Bride-Church and with His Bride-Church, the Net will be cast to fish where there was nothing. But She will cast it on the right side. Therefore, the miracle will be performed. It will be a miracle, just like the awakening or revival of each time has been a miracle.
The spiritual revival or awakening of the end time will be produced by Christ, the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven, crying, speaking, no longer as Lamb but as Lion of the tribe of Judah; because the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven cried as when a lion roars —meaning, not as Lamb but as Lion— and seven thunders uttered their voices (Revelation 10).
And John says that when he was going to write, he heard a Voice from Heaven that said to him: “Don’t write what the Thunders have uttered.”
It is very important to know, to understand, God’s promises for our time, because those are the things that God will be doing: fulfilling what He promised. And those are the things that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be working on: working around the promised Word for our time; She will be casting the Net based (the Bride will be based) upon the Word of the Lord Jesus Christ, just as Peter let down the net based on the Word of Christ: “We will cast the net…” or “I will let down the net at Your Word.”
Therefore, by making known the Word relevant to our time, the Net will be cast. And the Seven Thunders will bring the awakening of the Last Day and the faith to be transformed and raptured at the Last Day.
Page 128 of The Seals tells us (halfway down the page, it says) [“The First Seal,” p. 34 in Eng.]:
“[258] Seven Thunders of Revelation! May He show the Bride how to prepare for the great translation faith!”
There will be no rapturing, translating, transforming faith, except by receiving, listening to, the Voice of the Seven Thunders, the revelation of Christ coming for His Church. Which, the Jews will see and say: “This is what, this is whom, we’re waiting for.” Therefore, it will draw their attention, it will attract them.
In none of the seven Church ages was there an attraction of the Jews, but at the end time in which we are living something is going to attract them, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will have something that will attract their attention. And then they will say: “This is what we’re waiting for.” With our eyes wide open we will see that attraction, we will see them interested, we will see something that will be happening.
On Sunday at 4:00 perhaps we will talk about that; or we will be seeing something connected to the Jews. And to be comfortable in that activity, be on time, so that we don’t miss anything we will be seeing.
And tomorrow, Sunday morning, well, we will have the morning service, in which we expect great blessings from Christ for His Church. We will be going through the seven stages or ages of the Church; and then we will reach our age, and we will look at how we got there.
There are promises for the past ages: of a resurrection of the members of those ages, of the elect of those ages; and a judgment as well, in the sixth dimension, for each messenger with their group; and the resurrection in glorified bodies. That is what there is for them.
And for us who are alive at this end time: there are great blessings that will be materialized in addition to those that have already been materialized; because many have been materialized and many have a fulfillment period from the time they started until we are transformed, or until we are at the Marriage of the Lamb; and beyond that; and many until we return to Earth to begin the Millennial Kingdom.
Therefore, let’s be wide awake. Remember that Isaiah, chapter 60, tells us: “Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from…” That is Ephesians 5:14; and it is taken by Saint Paul, from Isaiah, chapter 60. And it tells us [verse 1]:
“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.
For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.
And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.”
That prophecy has a double fulfillment: it was fulfilled partially in the days of Jesus, in the First Coming of Christ; and it will be fulfilled in the Second Coming of Christ as well. And in Ephesians it tells us:
“Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”
Because Christ is (what?) the Light of the world: “I am the Light of the world; he that follows Me will not walk in darkness, but will have the Light of Life.” Saint John, chapter 8, verse 12.
Therefore, let’s be awake. The Word of the Lord awakens us, the Trumpet of the Lord awakens us, to receive everything that has been promised for our time; promises that are there and that correspond to our time.
Therefore, let’s be conscious of which are the promises that God has made for His Bride-Church for this end time; and let’s believe them wholeheartedly, so that we are also instruments, working in all the work that is done around those promises, which are the Word of the Lord. And this way, we cast the Net based on the Word of the Lord, and we also work on those things that are promised for this end time.
We are not going to be working on a literal ark, because that was a promise for the time of Noah. We have to work around, based on, God’s promises for this end time, the promises of Christ for His Church for the end time. Around those promises we will see Christ in Holy Spirit in the midst of His Church fulfilling them, using people just like He used them in past times.
There are many promises. The Church of the end time is the One that will have the most promises of blessings to be fulfilled. The same Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, that began on the Day of Pentecost, will have the majority of the great blessings at the Last Day: of the faith to be transformed, of the Coming of the Angels with the Great Sound of a Trumpet, of the Coming of the Lord, of the Voice of the Seven Thunders being revealed (what was spoken being revealed); and receiving the faith to be transformed and raptured, in order to be at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb with Christ in the dimension of God.
While Earth goes through (will be going through) the great tribulation: we will be safe with Christ in Heaven, in the seventh dimension, the dimension of God, enjoying the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
It’s “CASTING THE NET BASED ON THE WORD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.” That has been our subject. And we have moved throughout the Scripture to see the things that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be doing, according to what has been promised for this end time.
It has been a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you about the Word, upon which we base ourselves to labor in the Work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and also upon me; and may He use us greatly in His Kingdom in this end time.
“CASTING THE NET BASED ON THE WORD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”
[1] Acts 2:14-42
[2] John 21:4-6
[3] John 21:11
[4] In Spanish there are two words for fish: peces when they are under water, and pescados when they have been caught and are then out of the water —Translator.
[5] 1 John 2:27
[6] Dr. Soto is quoting the Spanish version of the hymn known in English as “Every Promise in the Book Is Mine” —Ed.
[7] 1 Corinthians 15:51-52
[8] Quotation 1396: 65-0801M – “The God Of This Evil Age,” pp. 37-38, para. 167
[9] 64-0705 – “The Masterpiece,” pp. 32-35, paras. 186-196
[10] Quotation 176: 57-1006 – “Questions And Answers Hebrews Part III,” p. 26, paras. 729-734