The Beast and the Image of the Beast

Good afternoon, ministers, partners in the Mystical Body of Christ, and helpers, and other believers in Christ present, and also in different parts of Colombia, and from 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 open our understanding so that we understand. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

It is a great blessing and privilege to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of fellowship with you around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time.

And now, it tells us in Revelation chapter 13, verse 1 and on:

“And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.

And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?

And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.

And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

If any man have an ear, let him hear.

He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.

And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”

May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand it.

In order to understand this passage of the Scripture from the book of Revelation, we need to understand that the book of Revelation is symbolic; in other words, it puts everything in symbols.

It’s like the book of the prophet Daniel, which speaks to us about these things. In chapter 7 of the book of the prophet Daniel, verses 7 and on, where it speaks to us about the fourth beast… Those beasts of this 7th chapter of the book of the prophet Daniel speak to us about the kingdom or empire of the Gentiles, which began with King Nebuchadnezzar as the head of gold, in the statue that he saw,¹ and that head of gold represented Nebuchadnezzar with his Babylonian empire; then came the breasts or breast of silver and arms of silver, which was the Medo-Persian kingdom; then, as the third stage, came the belly and thighs of brass, which was the Greek empire with Alexander the Great; then, as the fourth stage, came the legs of iron and the feet of iron and clay.

In other words, the fourth empire has two very important parts: The legs of iron, which is the Roman empire of the Caesars; and after that empire was wounded by the Barbarians (a deadly wound), that wound was healed, and the stage of the feet of iron and clay began, where the Roman empire combined the political with the religious; and we find that the stage of the feet of iron and clay began there, which is the part of the statue or image that King Nebuchadnezzar saw, which will be there in and for the time of the Second Coming of Christ.

That stage is the stage of the fourth beast, which we read about in chapter 13 of Revelation, and in Daniel chapter 7, where it says… Chapter 7, verse 6 and on, says:

“After this I beheld, and lo another,” (in other words, another beast), “like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.”

That was the Greek empire with Alexander the Great and his four generals; which after the death of Alexander the Great, they divided the kingdom between those four generals. Verse 7 says:

“After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns,” (that is the Roman empire of the Caesars).

“I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.

I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair,” (or hairs), “of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.

A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.

I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.

As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time.

I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.

And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed,” (that is the Stone cut out without hands, Christ in His Second Coming).

“I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.

I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.

These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.

But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.

Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;

And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.

I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;

Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.

And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.

And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.

And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.”

What we read here is the same thing that is in the book of Revelation.

Remember that a beast represents a power, a kingdom; that is why on nations’ coats of arms we find an animal, a bird or something similar, on many coats of arms of different nations; like in North America, we find an eagle; in other nations we also find eagles or another bird; and we also find animals on some coats of arms, like in Puerto Rico, where we have the lamb.

According to those symbols is how the nation is identified before God, for the Scripture says that shields [coats of arms] belong to God, to the Lord.² God inspires the making of the coat of arms and, therefore, what is put on the coat of arms of each nation.

These beasts that appear in the book of Revelation and in the book of the prophet Daniel, and also in the book of the prophet Ezekiel, we find that they represent powers, they represent nations, and they also represent people. Like, the book of Revelation speaks to us about a lamb; that represents Christ, who was identified by John the Baptist as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, in Saint John chapter 1, verses 27 to 36; and we also find… That is in Revelation chapter 5, verse 1 and on. And in Revelation 22, verse 16, it says:

“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David,” (the Root and the Offspring of David), “and the bright and morning star.”

If the Christ, the Messiah, is the Root and the Offspring of David: the symbol of the tribe of Judah is the lion. That is why in Revelation chapter 5, when the time came for the Seven-Sealed Book to be opened: the call was made for someone to come forward who was worthy to take the Book and open Its Seals; and there was no one, no person, no human being. It couldn’t be an angel, it had to be a man. And no one was found worthy to open that Book, to take It, nor even to read the content of that Book. And if no one appeared to take that Book and open It, everything would be lost; everything would go back to how it was before Creation, everything would disappear.

But the elder, upon seeing John the apostle weeping there in chapter 5 of Revelation, he tells him: “John, weep not. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, who has prevailed, has overcome, to take the Book and to open the Seals thereof.” And when John hears those words he is filled with joy; and when he looks, he sees a Lamb.

What was John seeing? He was seeing the Lamb of God, which is Christ; and he was seeing according to what the elder told him: the Lion of the tribe of Judah, which is Christ, the King of kings, and Lord of lords.

The lamb represents Christ as the Sacrifice of Atonement for the human being’s sin, and the lion represents Christ as King and as Judge. As simple as that. And therefore, as Claimer: the One who claims the Book, He takes It, He opens It, and then He brings It to Earth in Revelation chapter 10, to give It to His Church; His Church represented in John the apostle, a prophet.

Therefore, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ at the Last Day, there will be the Coming, the manifestation of Christ, the Son of Man, bringing us the Title Deed, which is that Seven-Sealed Book, where the names of all those who would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ are written; and therefore, those are God’s chosen ones, God’s elect written in Heaven before the foundation of the world. Written where? In that Title Deed. God’s thoughts are there.

The elect are genes of Divine thought, they are the ones who form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and they are the ones who were supposed to come through Adam and Eve if they had not sinned; and since they sinned, then they brought forth mortal, temporary children to live on Earth. But later on, God would send the second Adam, who is Christ, and the second Eve would be in Him… just like the first Eve was in Adam, in the first Adam, and God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and He took a part of him out of his side, a rib, and from there, He formed Adam’s companion; and she was called Woman, because she was taken out of man.³

Likewise, the second Adam and in the second Adam, which is Jesus Christ, in whom was the second Eve, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, with the death of Christ on Calvary’s Cross, water and Blood comes forth from there; and from there then comes the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, She is born on the Day of Pentecost.

The Church comes from whom? From where? From Christ. And the sons and daughters of God, who are written in Heaven in the Lamb’s Book of Life, are born of Christ and His Church.

During the Dispensation of Grace, since the Day of Pentecost until now, they have been born of Christ and His Church, of the manifestation of Christ from stage to stage, where He calls and gathers His sheep which form His Church by being born again and receiving Eternal Life; and notice how sheep represent the souls or people who would receive Christ, the Lamb of God. If He is the Lamb, then the believers in Christ are the sheep that the Father gave Him to give them Eternal Life.

Now, we can see how these symbols of Revelation are the same ones of the book of Daniel, and also of the words of Saint John chapter 10, Christ comparing His believers to sheep; and Christ, who is the Lamb of God, also comparing Himself to the Good Shepherd.

In biblical symbols we find the realities that would be lived in the midst of Christianity. Just like the biblical symbols that were effective for the Hebrew people in animal sacrifices… such as the paschal lamb that delivered the firstborn in Egypt from death by applying the blood of that paschal lamb sacrificed by every father of a household, and he applied the blood of that paschal lamb on the lintel and the posts of the home, of the front door of their house; and they would roast the lamb and bring it inside their house and eat it during the night of Passover.⁴

We find that this worked because it was a type and figure of Christ the Paschal Lamb, the Lamb of God, who said: “He who does not eat My flesh and drink My blood, has no life abiding in him.”⁵

Back then it was important for the Hebrew people to have the blood and the flesh of the lamb and apply it on the lintel and doorposts of the home; and for the lamb, the meat, to be roasted and eaten by the Hebrew people; which in spiritual terms means that we must eat, believe in Christ and His Sacrifice at Calvary’s Cross, and His Blood must be applied in our soul, in our heart.

By receiving the Spirit of Christ, we have received the Blood Life, because life is in the blood, and the Blood Life of Christ is the Holy Spirit.

Therefore, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is represented in symbols of the Old Testament, and even in symbols of the Book of Revelation, and also in symbols of the Gospel; as the sheep which the Father gave Christ to seek and give them Eternal Life; and the Church, as the Mystical Body of believers, is the Fold of the Lord Jesus Christ where these sheep are placed.

We are seeing the positive side, the positive part of these types and figures, of these beasts or animals and fowls that appear in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. What I spoke of the book of Revelation, we also find it in the book of the prophet Daniel.

Where are we…? Since, in regard to the Gentile kingdom, represented in the statue that King Nebuchadnezzar saw and that the prophet Daniel interpreted to him, and in the four beasts of Daniel chapter 7, the Gentile kingdom is in the stage of the feet of iron and clay, it is in that fourth stage.

The fourth stage has two parts: The part of the Roman empire of the Caesars, and what came after the kingdom of the Caesars or empire of the Caesars. The Gentile kingdom is in the feet of iron and clay. And then, in the fourth beast, which has some characteristics of the previous beasts, of the previous kingdoms, we have been in that time (for a long time now, nearly two thousand years), in the time of the fourth beast of the Gentile kingdom). That was the kingdom that the devil offered to Christ if He would fall down and worship him.⁶ In the time of Christ they were living in the time of the fourth beast: the kingdom of the Caesars, which has two parts.

And now, living in that time, Christ would have been crowned as the king of the Roman empire. That was the kingdom, because that kingdom had the Babylonian throne, which it was granted in a will: the will made by the Babylonian king and priest who went to live in Pergamos: Attalus III. And therefore, since… You can read that on pages 196 to 197, of the book of The Ages.

And since the Babylonian kingdom is the head of the Gentile kingdom, which has been going from stage to stage… It began with the head of gold, continued with the breasts and arms of silver: the Medo-Persian kingdom; and then it continued with the belly and thighs of brass, which is the empire of Greece, with Alexander the Great; and then it continued with the legs of iron, which is the Roman empire of the Caesars; and after that, in the same fourth stage, the feet of iron and clay.

Therefore, if Christ had accepted the kingdom that the enemy offered Him, He would have received the throne, not of David, but the Babylonian throne; just like it was received by the Caesar of that time, to whom it was given by the Babylonian priest-king who had fled to Pergamos and had established his kingdom there, his pagan religion there; and then, later on, he granted him the inheritance title of that Babylonian kingdom.

That is the kingdom of the antichrist, of the man of sin; but Christ did not accept that kingdom because the promise for Christ is that God will give Him the Throne of David, and therefore the Kingdom of David, and He will reign over Israel forever.⁷ And that is the Kingdom and Throne that has the promise to rule the world during the Millennial Kingdom. And the kingdom of the Gentiles will be removed, which for years already (about two thousand years) has been in the stage of the feet of iron and clay.

Therefore, let’s be awake; because just like there was a fight from the enemy and his kingdom, which was in the stage of the legs of iron, and persecuted and crucified Christ, the King of the Kingdom of God… not of the kingdom of the Gentiles, but of the Kingdom of God, which is the Kingdom of David, which Christ is the heir of: the heir to the Throne and Kingdom of David.

In other words, it was a battle that many people did not understand was taking place; but Christ did understand it, and that is why He spoke about the prince of darkness, the prince of the airs, the prince of the forces of nature, the prince of the kingdom of darkness.⁸ And that kingdom of darkness was led by Caesar; that is why they had to worship him, they had to serve him, because he was the priest-king.

When the people said: “We have no other king…” When Pilate said to them: “What shall I do with your king?” (In other words) “Shall I kill your king?” The people said: “We have no other king but Caesar; Caesar is our king.”⁹ And Caesar is the king of the Babylonian kingdom, which was inherited by the Roman empire. Notice the king that Israel and its religious leaders at that time came and said was their king; and indeed, he was reigning not only over Rome, but over Israel as well.

Two kings: Caesar, king of the Gentile kingdom in the stage of the legs of iron at that time, he rose against the King of the Kingdom of David, the Kingdom of God, which is the Kingdom of David on Earth. In other words, the Babylonian throne in the stage of the legs of iron, the Roman kingdom, the Roman or Babylonian throne, rose against God’s Throne on Earth, against the Throne of David and Its King and His Kingdom: Jesus, the King of the Jews, according to the Kingdom of David.

Remember, when the throne of the Caesars was in the legs of iron, it became the throne of Satan, which he offered to Christ; and therefore, Christ didn’t accept it; and then he rose against Christ, the King of the Throne of David. That was a fight at the time. That is why Christ said: “The prince of this world is going to come; the prince of this world will come,” in other words, the prince of the Gentile kingdom.

And then, in the stage of the feet of iron and clay, that inheritance continues; and that is what pertains to the antichrist, notice… of Second Thessalonians chapter 2, verse 1 and on.

And at this end time there will be a great persecution against God’s elect, of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and that persecution will come from the Gentile kingdom, from the stage of the feet of iron and clay. On another occasion, I will be giving more information about the things that will take place.

Rev. William Branham said that when that squeeze comes down: we should not worry (in the sense of being afraid), because at that time is when God will manifest Himself in all His fullness,¹⁰ and that the Third Pull that was shown partially through Rev. William Branham, speaking the creative Word, will be fully manifested when the squeeze comes down.

And that the Third Pull will be in a Great Tent Cathedral that will have a little building, a little wooden room; and the Angel of the Covenant, Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Pillar of Fire, will be there, carrying out a Divine Work in favor of the believers.

That is why we want the Tent Vision to be fulfilled soon; because we know that is where the Pillar of Fire Itself, the Angel of the Covenant, Christ in Holy Spirit, who has been in His Church from age to age since Jerusalem, and all of Judea and all of Israel, and then Asia Minor among the Gentiles, and then Europe in five ages, and then North America (and in North America in the seventh age already, accompanying Rev. William Branham and accompanying the believers in Christ); He will go on to a full manifestation at the Last Day in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which will have the fulfillment of a Great Tent Cathedral somewhere, where the Presence of God, the Presence of Christ in Holy Spirit, in the Pillar of Fire, will be; and from there, that whole Divine revelation, that whole Divine manifestation, will spread through the internet, satellite, television, and so on, for all the believers in Christ of all the nations.

Therefore, it won’t be necessary for everyone to be present, because through the television, through the internet and satellite broadcasts, it will reach them as clearly as it will be seen in the place where that prophecy is being fulfilled.

It can’t be fulfilled in the first age, because it already passed; nor could it have been fulfilled back in the time of the apostles in Israel, because that age already passed; nor can it be fulfilled in the second age, or third, fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh age either, because those ages already passed. A stage is coming of which Rev. William Branham said: “Look up, at the age coming now, the Age of the Cornerstone.”¹¹ That is where the Tent Vision will be fulfilled, that is where the Third Pull will be fulfilled; and therefore, that is where we all want to be working. Not in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth or seventh age, but in the Golden Age, the highest age, the Age of the Cornerstone.

That is the age for the fulfillment of all the promises of the Last Day, that is the age that Rev. William Branham foreran with everything that will be taking place in that age. That is what he was referring to when he spoke about the future, about the future manifestation that God would have in the midst of His Church in all His fullness.

Therefore, we will come to receive that full blessing of God, that full manifestation of God, where the Third Pull (called the Pull in which all of God’s power will be manifested for the blessing of the people) will be fulfilled in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

But remember that whenever a blessing is promised, the enemy tries to prevent the people from receiving that blessing, and he tries to attack from all sides and from everywhere so that the promise isn’t fulfilled. That is what happened in the time of Jesus Christ, that is what happened in the First Coming of Christ; and that is what will happen at the Last Day in the Second Coming of Christ.

But the people who know their God: will act, will work, will fight. As God said to Joshua: “Only be strong and courageous, very courageous!”¹²

And if one has to be strong and very courageous, that is because there will be problems, there will be struggles; because it will be difficult to get there. But it is promised that the people will get to that Third Pull, the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, and therefore, to receive the faith to be changed, which is contained in what the Voice of the Seven Thunders will be speaking to the people.

That is why Rev. William Branham says, on page 148 of the book of The Seals, that the Voice of the Seven Thunders will give the Church the faith for the rapture, the rapturing faith; because the Seven Thunders contain the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ; which is why there was silence in Heaven when the Seventh Seal was opened in Revelation chapter 8. And in Revelation chapter 10, Christ comes with the little Book open in His hand, crying as when a lion roars.

Therefore, just as He spoke throughout the ages through each messenger, from age to age, Christ in Holy Spirit will be speaking to His Church consecutively in that Golden Age, the Age of the Cornerstone; and that will be Christ as a Lion speaking to His people the content of those Seals; and especially, the content of the Seventh Seal.

The content of the Seventh Seal will be in the Voice of the Seven Thunders consecutively, revealing to His Church the Seventh Seal, revealing to His Church the mystery of His Second Coming, which will give us the faith to be changed and raptured, the faith to receive that physical adoption, to receive the redemption of the body; just like the revelation of the First Coming of Christ being made known by the Holy Spirit, from stage to stage, to His Church, and contained in the Gospel of Christ, gives us – has given us the faith to receive the redemption of our soul, to receive the faith to receive Christ as our only and sufficient Savior, and obtain the salvation of our soul, spiritual redemption.

And the revelation of the Seventh Seal, the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ given by the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, crying as when a lion roars, will give the Church the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, it will give the faith for the redemption of the body; which Saint Paul speaks about in Romans chapter 8, verses 22… or 14 to 39, when he speaks to us about the adoption, the redemption of the body. And also in Ephesians chapter 4, verse 30: “… grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption,” (in other words, of the redemption of the body).

That is what we are waiting for: the redemption of the body, which will be our transformation (for us who are alive) and the resurrection in eternal and glorified bodies (for the believers in Christ who already departed), to be able to go from this Earth, from this earthly dimension, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb with Christ.

Without the new body, without the glorified body, without the redemption of the body, there is no rapture, there is no catching away; and therefore, one can’t go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; because you can’t go to the airport, to ask for a ticket to get on a plane that will take you to the Heavenly Father’s House, to go to God’s greatest feast: the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

Only Christ is the One who gives us the Wedding garment to go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. He comes to give us the garment of the new, eternal, immortal, and incorruptible body, just like the glorified body that He has. That’s the outer garment; the inner garment is the Holy Spirit.

Just like you are a living soul, but you have a body, an inner garment, which is your spirit; and you have an outer garment, an outer body, which is the body of flesh. Just like God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: God has an inner garment, invisible to the human being, which is the Holy Spirit, the heavenly body; and He has the outer garment, which is the body called Jesus, which is already glorified.

Therefore, let’s be prepared, because soon the Tent Vision will be fulfilled; and in It, the Third Pull; where He will give us the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; where Christ will speak to us as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work. Let’s be prepared.

On this occasion we have spoken about the positive part, about the positive beasts: the Lamb of God, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the sheep that the Father gave Christ for Him to give them Eternal Life, and so forth; and the Eagle, which speaks to us about the Age of the Eagle, which is the stage of a prophet.

Therefore, let’s be prepared. On another occasion we will speak about these other beasts; today we only spoke a little bit about these beasts. But read the book of The Seven Ages by Rev. William Branham, and the book of The Seven Seals by Rev. William Branham, and in the book of Quotations; and then we will speak about those beasts; so that you already have a foundation on what we will speak about, and then we can say: “Now I do see it clearly, now I understand better.”

Remember that he is the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ and of all the things that would be happening after his departure, all the things that would be happening in the time of the Second Coming of Christ.

It has been a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, sharing these moments of spiritual fellowship around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time.

We will see each other tomorrow, God willing, very early, so that we have enough time; and then I will be in Cartagena next week, Saturday and Sunday.

May the Lord Jesus Christ continue to bless all of you who are present, and those who are in other nations; and you, Miguel Bermúdez Marín, there in Venezuela, and your wife Ruth Flórez de Bermúdez; and all ministers present, and also those who are in other nations.

And may God always open the Scriptures to us, and open our understanding so that we understand the Scriptures, and —therefore— so that we understand the things which must shortly come to pass, at this end time. And may He strengthen us and guide us in His path, in His Divine Program at this end time. And may He change us soon. And soon may the Tent Vision be fulfilled, and may the Third Pull be fulfilled, where the manifestation of God through the creative, spoken Word will become a reality in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ at this end time, in the fulfillment of the Great Tent Cathedral. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And soon may He take us with Him, may He change us and take us with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

On Earth, in the Gentile kingdom, we have no future. Our future is in the Kingdom of the Messiah, in the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ promised to be established in the seventh millennium, in the Millennial Kingdom. But before that we will go to a feast: to the greatest feast in Heaven, which is the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Because the Earth will be going through the purification time (which will be three and a half years long), also called the time of the Great Tribulation or Jacob’s trouble, of Revelation chapter 11, verses 1 and on; and Revelation chapter 7, verse 1 to 17, as well; and Revelation chapter 12 verses 1 to 17; and also Revelation 13, which we read; Revelation 16, Revelation 18, and Revelation 19 as well.

So, at this end time the book of Revelation is being fulfilled very quickly; but the most important thing to us is that it speaks to us of the resurrection, of our transformation, of the Coming of the Lord, the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, the feast to which we have been invited: “Blessed are those who are bidden to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.”¹³ I have been invited by Christ, through the Holy Spirit. And who else? Each one of you as well.

And we will be with Christ in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, in the Supper of the union between Christ and His Bride-Church in Heaven, in the House of our Heavenly Father.

Well, may God continue to bless you all. And we will see each other tomorrow, God willing.

“THE BEAST AND THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST.”