The Divine Order for the Resurrection and the Transformation

Good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren present, and also in other countries, ministers and churches connected to this service. May the blessings of Christ be upon each of you, upon missionary Miguel Bermúdez Marín and his wife, and all the ministers and all the brethren in all the countries, and here present. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

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

Let’s read in First Corinthians, chapter 15, verses 42 to 57, which says:

“So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.

As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.”

May God bless our souls with His Word, may He open our understanding and open the Scriptures to us so that we understand them; and thus may we grow in the Word of the Lord, being made flesh in each one of us. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

“THE DIVINE ORDER FOR THE RESURRECTION AND THE TRANSFORMATION.” That is what we will be speaking about on this occasion, because that is the main subject for the Last Day.

The apostle Paul, speaking to us about this same subject in Romans chapter 8, tells us that we cry out for the adoption. The adoption is the transformation of our physical body into a physical body that is immortal, incorruptible, glorified, and young, for how long? For all eternity; just like the glorified body that Christ has, who is as young as when He ascended to Heaven; and when He resurrected not even His own disciples recognized Him;¹ after spending three and a half years with Him in His ministry, now He resurrects and they don’t recognize Him.

It’s like if your grandfather or grandmother, who was Christian, or if your grandfather was Christian, or your dad or your mom, and they died at 50 or 70 years old, and now when they resurrect, a young man or a young woman of 18 to 21 years of age appears to you, saying: “Son, how are you? Because I’m better off than you. I’m as young as Jesus Christ our Savior is.” And you might think: “You can’t be my dad or my mom, because I’m older than you.” Then he would remind you: “Don’t you remember that after – that it was said in Church that we were going to resurrect young, about 18 to 21 years of age? And now you don’t recognize me, just like the disciples didn’t recognize Jesus Christ already resurrected? Didn’t you also read that when Jesus Christ rose His disciples didn’t recognize Him?”

Because when one resurrects: one resurrects in a glorified, young, eternal body, and to be young forever; which is a promise—exclusively—for the believers in Christ our Savior. That’s the body that we all need, and that’s the promise that Christ has made for me. And for whom else? For each one of you too.

So, I’m very happy to see that you believe what Christ has promised, which Saint Paul, Saint Peter, and the other apostles, and also the other prophets, have spoken about.

Look at Job. It is said that the book of Job is the oldest in the Bible. Notice what Job says in chapter 19, verse 25 and on… 25 to 27… chapter 19, verses 25 to 27, Job says:

“For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God:

Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.”

And when Christ resurrected, Job also resurrected; he was in Paradise, there in the Bosom of Abraham. So, when he saw Him enter Paradise (having already left hell, where He left our sins)… He goes to Paradise; and the Father of Faith, Abraham, opens the door and welcomes Him; and there Job could say: “This is my Redeemer, of whom I said: I know that my Redeemer lives.” And he was seeing Him there.

The Old Testament saints resurrected with Him in eternal bodies—in which they are alive in the Kingdom of God—and they appeared to many in the city of Jerusalem;² and they didn’t recognize them. Who was going to recognize Abraham and Sarah if they died elderly? And now some young people appear in Jerusalem, and they are Abraham and Sarah, Isaac, Jacob, the patriarchs, all of them; and after forty days of Christ visiting His disciples… no less than one day a week; we see that He always visited them on Sundays,³ because Sunday was the day that the disciples would gather with all the believers, and that day it is an honor – and in honor of the resurrection of Christ; and on Saturdays, well, they would go to the synagogues to preach, to take the Message.

Now, Christ appeared to them on different occasions and they still didn’t even believe it; and there are always little Thomases around, who say: “If I don’t see, I don’t believe.” But Thomas was a believer: he saw and he believed. But Christ said to him: “Thomas, come here; place your hand here in My side, and look at My hands.” And then Thomas says: “Oh, my Lord, my God.” Christ tells him: “Because you see now you believe? Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.”⁴

We did not see, but we believe. Something that happened two thousand years ago, we believe it with all our heart; because the faith is here in our soul, in our heart: “With the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”⁵ You speak those words of faith, what you believe; you speak it, it is your testimony; you testify of what you believe.

We are blessed because we believe in the Coming and death of Christ on Calvary’s Cross, which happened about two thousand years ago; and we are the most blessed of all times, because we are living in the time in which we believe things that are going to materialize; and we are going to see them and understand them, because He has promised that He will open the Scriptures to us as He opened the Scriptures to His disciples there in Saint Luke chapter 24, He opened the Scriptures to them.

Notice how He opens their understanding: by opening the Scriptures to them and anointing them with His Spirit so that they understand those Scriptures. In other words, by speaking, by speaking to them the Scriptures pertaining to the time… teaching them those Scriptures, and through them, opening their understanding.

I owe you Psalm 17. Verse 15, says:

“As for me,” (King David says), “I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.”

He woke up. Remember that the believers in Christ don’t die, they sleep; and when they are resurrected they have been awakened. That is why when Christ went to raise Lazarus in chapter 11, verses 21 to 27 of Saint John, Christ had told His disciples: “Our friend Lazarus sleeps,” telling them that he had died physically; and they didn’t understand: “If he sleeps, he shall be well.” Because when one is well, one sleeps well; and they knew he had been sick; and since they didn’t understand, Christ tells them: “Our friend is dead.”⁶

Now, that was the normal term that people understand when a person’s days here on Earth end; but the believers in Christ have been taught that to die physically is to sleep, because they will wake up again, to be resurrected. The resurrection is the awakening from the dead.

And King David knew that he would wake up in the likeness of the Lord, that is, they would wake up young; and King David is still as young as when he was resurrected; in other words, when we see him (he was about 70 years old when he died), when we see King David we won’t see an old man, but a young man of 18 to 21 years of age. It was the same with Job and with all the believers who resurrected with Christ in the past.

And for the believers of the New Covenant, of the New Testament, who are the believers that form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, there is the promise of the resurrection in eternal bodies; and that resurrection is the first resurrection, together with the resurrection of Christ and the believers of the Old Testament, who resurrected with Christ two thousand years ago, about two thousand years ago.

And now, we as a Mystical Body of Christ have been waiting and will continue waiting for the Coming of the Lord for our transformation, if we remain alive; and if we die physically or sleep: we will be resurrected in the image and likeness of Christ our Savior; because He is our Redeemer.

There is no other Redeemer, there is no other Savior; there is only One, and His Name is: Lord Jesus Christ.

And now at this time the Earth is crying out for a transformation. All those earthquakes, tidal waves, volcanoes, and all that, is the Earth crying out; like when a person is crying out with all his heart and is in distress for something, for his health or for his family members, so that Christ calls them to the Kingdom of God; likewise, the Earth is crying out, crying out for a transformation.

And that will lead to the renovation of the planet Earth through volcanoes, which will cover the Earth in volcanic ash, they will renew it (the Earth), and it will then be fertile for the Millennium; and the waters we see now will rise in level, many places will be left under water.

We cannot avoid that, those are prophecies that must be fulfilled. An atomic World War Three will also take place. We cannot avoid it. What is prophetic cannot be avoided; it can only be delayed a little bit, but God already knows how much He can delay it. Like what happened with Nineveh;⁷ but then, later on, He destroyed it.

Now, we find that grave problems will come to the planet Earth, which will impact the human family; but we are safe in Christ, in the unmovable Rock of Ages, which we have been cut out from, we are part of Christ.

That is why Saint Paul and Saint Peter say that Christ is the Capstone, the Cornerstone,⁸ and then Saint Peter says in First Peter chapter 2, verses 4 to 6, that we are living stones. And from where have we been cut out? From Christ, the Capstone, the Cornerstone.

Now, let’s see how the planet Earth is crying out. Romans chapter 8, verses 18 and on, says:

“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.”

The expectation of the creature, the expectation of all Creation—not only of the planet Earth, but of all Creation—waits for the manifestation of the children of God.

And what is that? It is the transformation of the children of God, from mortal to immortal, it is the resurrection of the dead in Christ in glorified, eternal, and young bodies just like the body of Christ, and the transformation of us who are alive. Who is waiting for that? All of Creation, for it is waiting for the manifestation of the kings, judges, and priests of the Kingdom of God; which Christ is the Head of.

Of the priests, Christ is the High Priest; of the kings, Christ is the King of kings and Lord of lords; and of the judges, Christ is the Chief Justice. And we are His Cabinet. We are kings, priests, and judges. That is why the Bible says in chapter 6 [1 Corinthians] that “the saints shall judge the world and even the angels.”

Someone may say: “Leave Satan to me so that I may judge him.” Wait, don’t get ahead of yourself; instead be on good terms with God, knowing what awaits the angels, led by Satan or Lucifer, however you want to call him.

It is important to be holding on tight to Christ our Savior. He is our only hope, our only hope of Eternal Life.

And now, let’s continue here. We have seen what the manifestation of the children of God is (we will also find it later in the reading).

“For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.”

(Verse 19, and let’s go to 20.)

“For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

For we know that the whole creation groaneth,” (see? The Creation is groaning. Why is the whole Creation groaning? Let’s see), “and travaileth in pain together until now.

And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”

See? The same thing that the planet Earth and the whole Creation are waiting for: the manifestation of the children of God. The what? The adoption, in other words, the redemption of our body.

We will be redeemed from mortal to immortal. From mortal, temporary, physical bodies, which age, which get sick, which die; bodies which Saint Paul says are a natural body; but he says: “But there is a heavenly body.” We will be physically changed from mortal bodies, a natural body, to a heavenly body, a glorified body, just like the glorified body of Christ our Savior.

We don’t want to have to leave our body, because as long as we have it, we have the opportunity to work in the Work of Christ; and that means that when Christ gives out the rewards, we will have more rewards than if we die ahead of time.

Because whoever dies beforehand, or whoever dies, later looks from over there and says: “It’s nice here but over there is where we lay up – where we work and we lay up treasures in Heaven.”

Christ said: “Lay up treasures,” (where?) “in Heaven.”⁹ Therefore, in order to lay up treasures in Heaven we have to be here, where we are working in the Divine Program relevant to the time in which we have been given to live. We can’t work in the Divine Program that was relevant to the time of Noah; we would have to be building a wooden ark on a mountain.

Each time has its labor, each stage of the Church has its work, it has its messenger to whom God reveals His Program for that time; he makes It known, anointed by the Holy Spirit, he speaks It, and God starts to work with the rest of the people; “for faith comes by hearing the Word.”¹⁰ For with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and then with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

He begins to preach that Divine Message which he received from God, and the faith starts to be born in people’s soul, and people start to say: “This is what I was waiting for; this is what I read and understood.”

Because God then comes through His instrument of flesh, teaching us, opening the Scriptures to us, and opening our understanding so that we understand. And thus, we all begin to work in the Work of God for the time in which we have been given to live, and the things that God said the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ would do at the end time start to be fulfilled.

We have great promises for our time. The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ as a Mystical Body of believers has great promises, and Christ will fulfill them in Holy Spirit in the midst of His Church, by using His Church Itself.

That is what we need to keep in mind to know that it won’t be Christ coming in His physical body and doing things; because He received a helpmate, which is His Church, the second Eve, through which to reproduce Himself into many sons and daughters of God. That is why He sent “to preach the Gospel to every creature; and he that believes and is baptized will be saved, but he that believes not will be,” (what?) “damned.” Saint Mark chapter 16, verses 15 to 16.

He, Christ, the Corn of Wheat who was sown into the ground, reproduces Himself through the Wheat Plant, which is His Church; and He reproduces Himself into many wheat grains, many sons and daughters of God.

And at the end time, well, He carries out the harvest, the gathering of all the elect, and He transforms them, and takes them to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; for which He says that He will send His Angels,¹¹ which are the ministries of Moses and Elijah at the end time.

And to the Jews that is the Sixth Seal, and to the believers in Christ it is what has been promised to bring blessings at the Last Day.

Elijah won’t be the literal Elijah, it is the ministry of the prophet Elijah that was in Elijah the Tishbite, which the Holy Spirit operated in Elijah; because the only One who has ministries is the Holy Spirit; Christ in Holy Spirit is the One who has ministries and gives ministries to the different messengers that He sends.

He operated that ministry in Elijah the Tishbite, it was Christ in Elijah; then Christ in Elisha operating the ministry of Elijah for the second time. That is why Elisha said: “I want a double portion of the spirit that is in you to come upon me.” And when that double portion came upon Elisha and he parted the Jordan as Elijah had done, the sons of the prophets said: “The spirit of Elijah rests upon Elisha.”¹² Which is the spirit of Elijah? The Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, operating the ministry of Elijah for the second time.

Then when John the Baptist was preaching, he identified himself with the promises relevant to that time. But many of the disciples of John the Baptists who later became disciples of Christ, asked: “Doesn’t the Scripture say that Elijah will come first and restore all things?” Christ said to them: “Elijah came already and they knew him not, and they did unto him whatsoever they listed;” and then they understood that He had spoken to them of John the Baptist.

That is in chapter 17, verse 1 and on [Matthew]; and also in chapter 11 Christ had already told them, that John the Baptist was the Elijah that had to come, and perhaps they didn’t remember that; and perhaps they didn’t have, like we have nowadays, a pencil or pen and paper, or cell phones, where we write everything down.

Young people hardly use notebooks anymore. You ask them for a pencil or notebook, and right away they search: “No, I have it written here.” But that’s what technology does.

That’s why sometimes there are young people who don’t know how to multiply using a pencil and a paper, or write; it also affects their grammar. But that’s what technology does.

Now, we stopped here:

“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit,” (which already have the spiritual heavenly body, the Holy Spirit; and now we need the physical glorified body, the second part of Redemption), “even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”

So we hope for our transformation in less time than the apostles waited for it, because they have already been waiting for about two thousand years: they went to Paradise, the waiting room; but they don’t get tired there, they don’t have to work, nor eat, nor sleep, there’s no night there either; and everything is peace, tranquility, and happiness there; they’re safe there.

But they said something to Brother Branham that shows that they want to eat. Perhaps they look over here and see us eating, we don’t know. And they told him: “Here we neither eat, nor sleep, nor work…”¹³ But they don’t get tired of being there; nor do they have to leave very early in the morning, wake up early to take a car or a bus to get to work, and then return tired in the evening to shower, eat, and go to sleep (there is hardly time to do anything else). Those problems don’t exist there.

And from there they look and see the activities we have: preaching the Gospel of Christ, gathering, singing, worshiping God; and they wish they were among us in physical bodies; because in heavenly bodies… I don’t know if they pass by and manage to come down, because they’re about 12 feet away, from that point starts that dimension where they dwell, where they are, and that is about four meters high. They are already at that height, but I don’t know if they come down and walk among us. They would like to. And perhaps when they see us eat, they say, they might say: “That looks good;” and we can’t even give them a little taste.

They have to return in physical bodies, like Christ did: He returned in a glorified physical body; and then they didn’t believe that it was physically, rather they thought it was a spirit. And Christ tells them: “A spirit does not have flesh or bone like I do, nor blood. Do you have any food?” They gave Him a piece of fish and a honeycomb, and He ate before them;¹⁴ and they remember that. So, they want to come back and be with us, and they tell Rev. William Branham: “And when we go back, we’ll eat there.” They are invited.

So, we are going to have a visit from the believers of past ages, to be among the believers of the end time. So, we will see what that will be like. It will be something so glorious that our mind can’t manage to understand it; but we know that the biggest revival will be at the Last Day, and the majority will be as young people; because when they return, they will come back young; and there are millions of them. But with the glorified body there is no problem, because it is interdimensional; in other words, they won’t have any problem; and when we are changed we won’t have any problems either.

We are already living at the end time. We don’t know how much time is left for the second part of the seventieth week of Daniel’s prophecy to begin, which are three and a half years that have to do with the Hebrew people; but we can only tell them to wait a little bit. Their part will come in that cycle, although their introduction may be a bit sooner; but they’re waiting.

And when we receive all the faith for each one of us to be transformed, before our bodies are transformed, then the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive will come.

For our spiritual transformation of the soul, to be transformed on the inside and have the Spirit of Christ, and thus, have the heavenly, theophanic body that pertains to us, we had to believe, hear the Gospel of Christ—the preaching, the revelation of the First Coming of Christ, and the Work that He did in His three-and-a-half-year ministry—and receive Him as our Savior, be baptized in water in His Name, and receive His Holy Spirit; and thus, we obtained that spiritual, inner transformation.

And now for the physical transformation we will receive the revelation, the faith, the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ in His Claiming Work as King of kings and Lord of lords, and Judge of all the Earth; and thus, we will obtain the faith. Because faith comes by hearing the Word, the Word revealed for the day in which you are given to live; and thus, we will then receive that faith we need to receive our physical transformation and be taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

Therefore, we must be on the lookout, because we are already reaching the climax of the Divine Program promised for this end time, where Christ will manifest Himself in all His fullness in the midst of His Church; and that will be the Third Pull, and that will be in a Great Tent Cathedral. In other words, all that has to come together in a stage of the Church; and it can’t be in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh stage; because the seventh already had its messenger and its messenger left. He tried to have the place where the Third Pull would be manifested: a Great Tent Cathedral, and a little wooden room. He tried, but it wasn’t for his time.

Therefore, it wasn’t for the seventh age of the Church. It is for the Age of the Cornerstone, the Golden Age of the Church, which is represented in the most holy place of the temple that King Solomon built, where the ark of the covenant was, and the two cherubims of gold, one on each side, and where the two giant cherubims of olive wood overlaid with gold were,¹⁵ where the Presence of the Lord came in a cloud, a Pillar of Light, inside that most holy place between the cherubims of gold.

And also in the temple or tabernacle that the prophet Moses built, in the most holy place, which was overlaid with gold, the ark of the covenant was there; and the Presence of God entered there in that Pillar of Fire, which looked like a cloud by day and was a light by night;¹⁶ It entered there and positioned Itself between the two cherubims of gold.

Therefore, since the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the Temple of the New Covenant, of the New Testament, It also has a Holy Place and a Most Holy Place. The Holy Place pertains to the past ages, and the Most Holy Place pertains to which time? To our time.

Therefore, what was represented in the two cherubims of gold and what was represented in the two cherubims of olive wood overlaid with gold, will be there. Just by saying “olive” that already refers to the Two Olive Trees. The ministries of the Last Day, of Moses and Elijah, will be in that Most Holy Place of the Church, which is the Age of the Cornerstone; and the Presence of Christ will also be there in the Pillar of Fire, as It was in the temple that King Solomon built, and as It was in the tabernacle that the prophet Moses built.

Notice, the promise in chapter 18 of Deuteronomy, verses 15 to 19, and also in chapter 13 of Deuteronomy, it speaks to us about a prophet like Moses, whom God will raise up. That prophet was Christ two thousand years ago in His manifestation in human flesh, and it will be Christ at the Last Day in His Coming; and therefore, His Coming will be to bring blessings to His Church. And when the Jews see Christ in His Coming in the midst of His Church, they will say: “This is the One we are waiting for.” That is why the Jews are keeping their eyes wide open.

Now, how will all of this happen? In the Third Pull, in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision is when that whole mystery will be opened; and that is the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery that caused silence in Heaven for about half an hour,¹⁷ the mystery of His Coming. And to whom does He come? To His Church. Just as He came to the Jews in His First Coming, He comes to His Church at the Last Day.

He came to the Jews, which is the Church of the Old Testament, of the Old Covenant, two millennia ago. And He will come to His Church, which is His Church of the New Covenant, which was born on the Day of Pentecost, and His work is concluded; and He completes the Claiming Work at the Last Day, by coming to His Church and claiming all the believers and transforming them; and resurrecting those who died as believers in Him in glorified bodies; to take them to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, where His Church will be endued as Queen and Christ as King, for the Millennial Kingdom, to be with Him here on Earth, as kings, priests, and judges; in other words, His team, His Government Cabinet.

Now, many people would like to work in their country’s government, and they would like to have a good position there; but in the Government of the Lord Jesus Christ for the Millennial Kingdom we will have the best position; and not because we asked for it, but because we were elected, predestinated by God to occupy that position.

Notice, when James and John, the sons of Zebedee, went to Jesus Christ because they had already seen on Mount Transfiguration (in chapter 17 [Matthew]), where Christ showed them what and how His Second Coming will be, with Moses and Elijah, they knew that those ministries of Moses and Elijah would be manifested in the midst of His Church.

And in chapter 20, verses 20 and on of Saint Matthew, they go…. (and in Saint Mark it also speaks about that) they go with their mother, and Jesus asks her: “What do you desire?” She says to Him: “I desire that in Your Kingdom my two sons, one be on Your right and the other on Your left.” They weren’t asking Him for much: just the two most important positions after the position of Christ.

Remember that many people say: “This man is my right hand, the most important one, the one I trust about everything, the one I allow to do everything I have to do; and the other one is the one on my left.”

And then Jesus tells them: “Are you able to drink the cup that I shall drink of?” And they say: “Yes,” because whoever is seeking a blessing in the Kingdom of God can’t look to see what the problems are. He has to see what the blessing is and believe that it will come. That is the believer’s goal.

And Christ tells them: “To sit on My right hand, and on My left, is not Mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared. In other words, you can’t come to Me asking Me to give you that position, because I can only give it to those for whom that position is assigned.” That is Moses and Elijah’s position.

They appeared there and that was the position they wanted. Remember that also on one occasion, when they didn’t receive them in Samaria, James (who is Jacob) and John tell Jesus: “Do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven, like Elijah did, to burn them?” Christ tells them: “You know not what manner of spirit you are of.”¹⁸ See how they wanted to be like Elijah? And who wouldn’t? And to be like Moses, and who wouldn’t?

And those are promises for the Last Day. Christ will give that position to someone. But we won’t speak about that now, that is under the Sixth Seal, which is the ministry of the Two Olive Trees, of Moses and Elijah; but someday, when we are in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, that is where that ministry will be completely opened. The mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Lord with His Angels, with Moses and Elijah, will be opened. And it will be simple, because the greater the things of God are, the simpler they are.

Who would have thought that the Messiah in His First Coming would be a carpenter, a construction worker, and a poor person? The Owner, the Creator and Owner of all Creation, now comes as a simple, poor person and a carpenter; not a man with a college education, but with a carpenter’s trade.

And then, it seems, from what we can tell, that He also learned to fish or already knew how to fish, more than Peter; because Peter (and His disciples) struggled to catch fish a few times and they weren’t able to catch anything with the net; and Christ tells them: “Now cast the net on the right,” they cast it on the right and the net comes back full of fish.¹⁹ Who was the better fisherman? Christ. And He tells them: “Follow Me and I will make you fishers of men.”²⁰ In those catches of fish that He led, He is showing the catch of souls for the Kingdom of God, which Christ would carry out through the ministers, the messengers, the apostles.

For the Last Day there is also a promise in Saint Matthew chapter 24, verses 47 to 50, where it tells us… Chapter 13… 47 to 50 of chapter 13 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,” (in other words, that is how it will be at the end time), “the angels shall come forth,” (those are the Two Olives Trees), “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,” (in other words, they will be cast into the Great Tribulation).

Now notice how the mystery of the Kingdom of Heaven is contained in these parables that Christ gives; and since it is not for everyone to understand them or to understand the Kingdom of God or Kingdom of Heaven, the apostles tell Christ, around chapter 13, verse 11 and on… Verse 9 and on, of chapter 13 of Saint Matthew, says:

“He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.”

Anyone may say: “But we all have ears…” But not everyone has ears to hear the Word of the Lord. They have ears to hear music on one side, soccer games on another, political messages on another, different things, to hear many things; but to hear the Word of the Lord we must have ears to hear from God. Which depends on you hungering and thirsting in your soul for the Word of the Lord, or for the spiritual Food; then the person has ears to hear, and thus, that person’s soul is fed with the Word of the Lord.

“Because man shall not live by bread alone, but,” (by what?) “by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”²¹ The soul lives by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God; that is the Food for our soul; just like rice and beans and all those things are the food for what? For our bodies.

“And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?

He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.”

Therefore, it is a privilege, a great blessing, that God has allowed us to have ears to hear the Word of the Lord; to have that privilege that has been given from God: to have the privilege to hear, and have our mind be opened to understand the Word of God, the Scripture, the prophecies, God’s Program for the time in which we have been given to live.

“For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.

Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.”

Then verse 16 of this same 13th chapter says, it goes on to say:

“But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.”

He who has ears to hear the Word of the Lord for the time in which he is given to live is a blessed person. He has ears to hear and eyes to see God’s Program.

“For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.”

To see and to hear the First Coming of Christ, and to hear that the Scriptures were being fulfilled, all those Scriptures that Christ would quote His disciples. And at this end time—just like for every stage of the Church—all those who have seen and heard the Word of the Lord, and have received Christ as Savior, have been blessed.

And at the Last Day the blessing is twofold; that is why He will give us the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Because at the Last Day, in addition to receiving and having the revelation of the First Coming of Christ and His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross, and having received Him as our Savior and having received that inner transformation; Christ will give us the revelation of His Second Coming and He will transform us physically, and take us with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

In the meantime, we are placed in heavenly places in Christ Jesus in the spiritual realm; but soon it will also be in the physical realm: the glorified body, in the Kingdom of God, going to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb with Christ, to receive the enduement as literal kings here on Earth, in the Kingdom of the Messiah. Christ: the King of kings and Lord of lords, and His Church: the Queen. Formed by whom? By the believers in Christ our Savior.

And now James and John wanted the main part (in the Kingdom): to sit on the right and on the left. That is what is in Revelation chapter 3, verse 20 to 21, where it tells us: “To Him that overcomes…” Chapter 3 of Revelation, verse 20 to 21, says:

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.”

If it were for the time of the apostles, He would have had to say: “I will have breakfast,” because they were there in the Middle East, in the Near East, in the East; and supper is in the evening, and “in the evening time it shall be light.”²²

The light came out of the East and traveled towards the West, which is the continent of the Americas, consisting of North America, the Caribbean, and South America.

North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. That is the territory of God’s manifestation for the end time, for the seventh age and the Age of the Cornerstone; and from there He will then turn to the East at the relevant time; and then, in the Kingdom of the Messiah, all His Church will be in the East; and from there It will spread or Christ will lead them, He will give them the territory that they are to rule.

“… I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne…”

That is what James and John wanted: to sit with Christ on His Throne up there; they wanted more Throne. Christ had also already told them around chapter 19 that they would sit with Him on His Throne, on twelve thrones. And… Chapter 19, verse 27 and on, says [Matthew]:

“Then answered Peter and said unto him, Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore?”

Jews always want a reward for anything they do. The believers in Christ work without expecting a reward, but Christ has promised to reward every person according to his work. The believers in Christ work out of love.

“And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration,” (that is in the Millennial Kingdom), “when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory…” (that is the Throne of David).

Remember that the Angel Gabriel tells the virgin Mary in chapter 1, verses 30 to 36 of Saint Luke, that the Holy Ghost will overshadow her, and that the Holy Thing which shall be born will be called the Son of God; “and God will give Him the Throne of His father David, and He will reign forever.” Over whom? Over Israel; and therefore, over all the nations. Because the capital of the Kingdom will be Jerusalem, and the Federal District of that Kingdom will be all of Israel.

“Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”

They already had their throne secured in chapter 19; and by chapter 20 they each want to sit next to Christ; or to have the throne that was already offered to them placed there, or to be given the Throne of the Two Olive Trees. But it was not granted to them.

“Then came to him the mother of Zebedees children with her sons, worshipping him,” (chapter 20, verse 20 and on of Saint Matthew), “and desiring a certain thing of him.

And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.

But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.”

They had heard that Christ said: “Nothing is impossible to him that believes; all things are possible to him that believes.”²³ And they had also heard that Christ told them that if they believed, they could say to this mountain: “Move from here to there,” and it would move.²⁴

“And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.

And when the ten heard it, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren.”

In other words, they got angry: “These… He has already promised us that we will sit on twelve thrones and now they want more.” It’s because when we begin to receive God’s blessing, we want more every day. And if we know that there is a possibility, we try to get Christ to give it to us.

Remember, Brother Branham saw the Tent Vision, he had the Tent Vision, and he wanted that blessing; but it was not granted to him because it was not for him.

Now look here, now we turn to chapter 3, verse 21. We already read verse 20:

“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”

Christ in Holy Spirit is speaking this promise, and now He is promising that, to the Overcomer, to Him that overcomes, will He grant to sit with Him on His Throne. “Even as…” Which is the Throne of Christ? The Throne of David. “Even as …” It says: “Even as I also overcame, and am set down with My Father in His Throne,” the heavenly Throne.

It is a promise that the beloved disciples, James and John, wanted to take hold of as well. And if they would have let them and Christ allowed them to, they would have taken hold of that blessing. That is the greatest blessing of all the blessings that there are in the Kingdom of Messiah. Someone is going to receive it.

And why didn’t Saint Peter, Saint Paul, and all those apostles, and James and John, receive it? Because it was not for them. But Christ said: “It is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared.” In plain words, that is for the Two Olive Trees. That is why the Two Olive Trees, which are Moses and Elijah, appeared on Mount Transfiguration.²⁵

And therefore, from where will those ministries emerge? They will emerge in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, of the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the Most Holy Place; where they were represented back then in the temple that King Solomon built, and he knelt, he placed two giant cherubims of olive wood overlaid with gold. Olive wood speaks of humanity and gold speaks of Divinity. And there we also find the two cherubims of solid gold; which shows us how it is in Heaven too; and there in Heaven Gabriel and Michael are the main ones, therefore, they are the ones at the right hand and the left hand.

The divine order for the resurrection and transformation is in the Age of the Cornerstone, where, for that resurrection and transformation of us who are alive there will be the manifestation of Christ in His Coming to His Church with the Two Olive Trees; and then the Hebrew people will see Him and say: “This is what we were waiting for.”

Therefore, we pray for the Jews; because they have promises from God to be fulfilled in the second part of the seventieth week, which corresponds to the last three and a half years of the seventy weeks of Daniel, because the first three and a half years were fulfilled in the First Coming of Christ, and the second will be at the Last Day, which will be in the Great Tribulation; at that time is when the second part of the seventieth week will be fulfilled.

But something will happen before those three and a half years in the midst of the Church, that they will see and say: “This is what we are waiting for.” And we are also waiting for Him. First the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will receive Him and then the Jews.

Rev. William Branham says, speaking about the Seventh Seal, he says… and speaking of what the Second Coming of Christ is, he says: “How He will come and when He will come? That hasn’t been revealed. And it’s a good thing that it hasn’t been revealed.”²⁶ It’s because there are so many imitators who would then come trying to imitate in order to destroy the Divine Program. That is why the mystery of the Seventh Seal will remain… it will be opened at the end, and it will give us the faith to be transformed and raptured.

“THE DIVINE ORDER FOR THE RESURRECTION AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CHURCH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”

That is in Saint Matthew chapter 17, verses 1 to 13. There we have the order of His Coming, the Two Olive Trees coming with Him; and that also fulfills Saint Matthew chapter 24, verses 30 to 31, where it says: “And He shall send His Angels with a Great Sound of a Trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect…” The elect of the Hebrew people, which are 144,000, 12,000 of each tribe.

In other words, there are great promises for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ at the Last Day, and for the Jews too.

We have seen the order for the resurrection and the transformation. Moses represents those who have died and will be resurrected; and Elijah, those who will be raptured without seeing death.

It has been a great blessing for me to be with you, speaking with you all like in a Bible school; but the Bible school is tomorrow. So, tomorrow is a very special day for all of us, where we will be in the Bible Study for tomorrow, God willing, where those who want to sit towards the front will arrive early.

Pray a lot for me so that God gives me under tomorrow’s subject everything that we need to know from God; so that the Scriptures are opened and our understanding is also opened in order to understand the Scripture; like what happened with the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ two thousand years ago, when Christ resurrected and was with them again, but glorified.

May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you who are present and those who are in other nations, and also upon you, Miguel Bermúdez Marín; and may God use you greatly in the Divine Program pertaining to this end time; and may He bless everyone there in San Felipe, and may He spiritually and materially prosper everyone there in San Felipe, and in all the countries, in all the nations. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

“THE DIVINE ORDER FOR THE RESURRECTION AND THE TRANSFORMATION.”