Good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren present, and those who are in other nations; it is a great privilege 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 relevant to this end time.
And now, let’s read in Judges, chapter 16, to see this part of the story of Samson. Judges 16, verses 23 and on:
“Then the lords of the Philistines gathered them together for to offer a great sacrifice unto Dagon their god, and to rejoice: for they said, Our god hath delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
And when the people saw him, they praised their god: for they said, Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us.
And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them sport: and they set him between the pillars.
And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand, Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house standeth, that I may lean upon them.
Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.
And Samson called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.
And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein. So the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life.
Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.”
Our subject for this occasion is: “ONCE MORE, LORD.”
We find Samson, God’s Anointed One, to whom He gave strength through the Holy Spirit, and he became the strongest man of that time; and this was because the strength —the power of God— was manifested through the Spirit of God. It was the power and strength of God manifested in a simple man.
Reverend William Branham says that he was a small person;[1] but the great One was God. It was the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, who was in Samson, one of the judges of Israel, who judged Israel for twenty years during the stage of theocracy, in which God ruled the Hebrew people through a man.
The last of the judges was the prophet Samuel. God reigned through a man in each stage, a judge, in whom the Spirit of God was manifested and delivered the people of Israel during those times or stages of theocracy.
Then, later on, after Samuel —who was the last of the judges— the monarchy began with King Saul and continued with King David.
Samson had that strength, that power, because he was the Anointed One of God for that time; and he had seven locks, which are seven curls, since he was a Nazarite: a person separated unto God; and since that was the Nazarite sign that he had, his hair, those seven curls were very important for him.
The Philistines wanted to know the source of that power, that strength. On one occasion, with the jawbone of a mule, he struck the heads, the brass helmets, of soldiers, and he killed them: one thousand of them.[2] That shows there was something supernatural, because a jawbone of a donkey or mule would break when hitting against a brass helmet that was an inch thick; but it was the power of God manifested in the action that Samson was carrying out.
The Philistines wanted to know the source of Samson’s strength in order to defeat him; and since he fell in love with a Philistine woman, problems came his way; because the military and political leaders of the Philistines, wanting to know the source of Samson’s strength, asked or demanded that young woman, Delilah, to figure out the source behind Samson’s strength.
She did everything she knew how to do, but she wasn’t succeeding. Then she said to him: “It’s not true that it’s what you’re telling me (binding him with ropes, or doing this or that to him).”[3]
Samson kept the secret for a long time. But just like when young people fall in love, the young woman manages to get many secrets out of him; and they had offered to pay her a reward for getting that secret out of him. And that’s the problem when people fall in love with those who are not believers like them (men or women); that is why in the Scripture, He teaches us not to be unequally yoked.[4]
But Samson trusted himself, he was unequally yoked, and he had problems, to the point that he revealed where the secret of his strength lay.
Remember, Samson represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the secret of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the secret of the Holy Spirit manifesting His power in Her. The seven locks of hair are the seven ages or stages of the Church, with the seven messengers of the seven ages; in every age there is a manifestation of the Spirit of God in His power.
Now, we find that, in the end, she insisted so much that he tells her: “Well, my power lies in these seven locks that I have.”[5] He opened his heart to her, the place where he kept the secret of his power, which was in his heart; he opened it and said to her: “This is the secret.” And she knew he had told her the truth that time.
And she put him to sleep. She sent for the military leaders, and perhaps some of the politicians, and said: “Now he told me the truth, come.” She made known to them where the secret lay. They brought the tool: a very sharp knife, and they cut his hair while he slept.
Remember that as the Church goes from age to age: they sleep from age to age, they sleep, another age emerges, and so on.
And upon cutting off his seven locks or seven curls, she says (like she always said to him): “Samson, the Philistines!” and he woke up. Because when someone is sleeping and you say the name of his enemy, and you tell him they are there or they are coming, that would wake anyone up; that is the quickest way to wake someone up.
He woke up. And when they were going to take him, he tried to defend himself but he wasn’t able to, and he realized that they had shaved his head; and therefore, he had lost the blessing of the presence of the Holy Spirit in him.
Now he was no longer there as a Nazarite, not as a Nazarite because he had lost what identified him as a Nazarite: his Nazarite covenant, which was his hair.
They took him prisoner, put him in jail and made him work for the Philistines.
Upon seeing the most powerful man, the strongest man, humiliated, those who saw him mocked him. But the time came when they held an important feast for their god, and in the temple where they once put the ark of the covenant in front of the god of the Philistines, which was Dagon, and at night Dagon fell before the ark, on two different occasions… because the next day they set back up the statue of the idol, Dagon, and put the ark before Dagon, and the next day it was on the floor again.[6]
Remember that the ark of the covenant is God, where God is; and therefore, It represents where the Word of God is.
And then, Dagon is the god of idolatry, and therefore, of the pagan religion that originated there in Babylon since the time of Nimrod, and later went on to the Babylonian empire of Nebuchadnezzar. From there it went on to the Medo-Persian empire, which is the shoulders and chest of silver, just as the head of gold represents Nebuchadnezzar and his kingdom, in the statue that was shown to Daniel in chapter 2, verses 30 to 45.
And from the chest and arms of silver of the Babylonian empire, from there it goes on to the Greek empire with Alexander the Great, in the belly and thighs of brass. And from that empire, later on it goes on to the legs of iron, which is the Roman empire of the Caesars. And from there, it goes on to the feet – legs and feet… feet of iron and clay, which is still the same Roman empire, it’s still the same Gentile kingdom in its final stage, in the time in which the Coming of the Lord will be fulfilled.
Remember, in the time of the legs of iron, which is the time of the Roman empire, of the Caesars, the First Coming of Christ was fulfilled, in the stage of the Cornerstone back then; because He is the Capstone or Cornerstone. He was manifested in His earthly ministry of three and a half years, and it was the Roman empire that crucified Him at the request of the leaders of the Hebrew people, who incited the people to ask for the crucifixion of Jesus.
But all of that was in the Divine Program; it would work together for good, for the salvation of Israel, and for the salvation of the Gentiles who would hear the preaching of the Gospel of Christ and would receive Him as their Savior. That is why Christ said: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”[7]
Therefore, we have nothing to say against Israel for the crucifixion of Christ. It was all in God’s Program.
It was in a Cornerstone Age that the Cornerstone, Christ in His First Coming, came to the people who were under the Covenant for that time, which was the Covenant that God had given through the prophet Moses on Mount Sinai.
Therefore, the Church under that Covenant is the Hebrew people, the called out of Egypt, the Church: the called out in that exodus that was carried out.
Then came Jesus —a prophet like Moses— to carry out the second exodus: to deliver the people from a spiritual condition to a spiritual realm or condition, leading them to the promised land of the Kingdom of God, where God’s children are born again.
And the Church, like Samson… Just like Samson had seven curls or seven locks, the Church has had seven stages or ages, seven curls, seven locks; that is where God’s power was manifested by the Holy Spirit through every messenger, and therefore, through the Mystical Body of Christ.
Once those ages have ended, the Church has been left without the curls, without the locks, but Samson’s hair has been growing in prison; and now, the Church’s spiritual hair has gradually been growing, in the stage of the Cornerstone. As simple as that. She has gone up to the Age of Love Divine, the Golden Age of the Church, the Age parallel to the time in which Jesus lived in His earthly ministry.
The Church, at this end time, just as Samson cried out: “Once more, Lord,” the Church has the promise that God’s power will be manifested in Her in all its fullness.
The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone cries out: “Lord, once more! Once more, Lord! Once more, as it was granted to Samson; once more, as it was on the Day of Pentecost.” For which, at that time, they had to go up where? To the upper room, which represents the Upper Room of the Age of the Cornerstone.
And now, the Church has been crying out for, once more, the Coming of the Holy Spirit manifesting His power as He did on the Day of Pentecost. In other words, She has been crying out for a new Pentecost, which is promised for this end time. It is promised for the 50th year, which is the year of Pentecost, of Leviticus, chapter 25, verse 8 to 13; where God’s power through the Holy Spirit will be manifested in all His fullness, in what Reverend William Branham called the “Third Pull”; which, it was the Angel who told Reverend William Branham about the Third Pull.
That is when the big fish, those peces would be pescados. And for peces to become pescados, they must be caught; once they are out of the water, they are pescados; as long as they are swimming, they are peces.[8]
And that is what will happen in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, where the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, will move to a small room, and there He will manifest His power under a Great Tent Cathedral, where that little wooden room will be; which will be in the midst of the believers in Christ, in the midst of Christianity, which is the one with the New Covenant; which is the Church of the New Covenant, the Church of the New Testament, to whom He has promised to return, to come, in order to give them the faith to be transformed and raptured, taken with Him in the rapture or catching away of the Church to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; where He will give them the faith to be transformed and to be young for all eternity, with glorified bodies just like the glorified body of Jesus Christ. And those who died will come with Him in His Second Coming, and He will resurrect them in eternal and glorified bodies, to meet us at this end time.
In other words, that is when, in the fulfillment of God’s promises for this time, the Church will be rejuvenated, like Sarah was rejuvenated and like Abraham was rejuvenated in order for them to obtain the promised son. And for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ to have the promised son, She must first be rejuvenated in the spiritual realm, and then in the physical realm: everyone transformed and rejuvenated in eternal and glorified bodies.
All of this is within the program of the request of the Church, which cries out: “Once more, Lord.” In that manifestation, just as Samson regained strength, the Church will have the same power that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ had on the Day of Pentecost; and back then, they received a spiritual transformation, which those who receive Christ as their Savior have been receiving; and we also have the promise of a physical transformation, for this end time in which we have been given to live; which has many problems: problems of war throughout different nations, economic problems, all types of problems that there are; but the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has Her faith in Christ, according to what He has promised for this end time.
All the believers in Christ have been waiting in different ages, since the Day of Pentecost, they have been waiting for the Second Coming of Christ. He came in Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, but the Second Coming of Christ has not yet been fulfilled to the Church, but It will be fulfilled at this end time.
And that is what the Seventh Seal contains: It is the Second Coming of Christ. A mystery that will be revealed to the Church and will give her the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Who received Christ in Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost? The believers in Christ, who were waiting for Him according to what Christ told them: “Do not leave Jerusalem until you are endued with the Holy Spirit, with power from on High.”[9]
And the Church at the end time doesn’t leave the Upper Room, the Age of the Cornerstone, until She is endued with power from on High, and all those who will go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb are transformed.
Therefore, as it was: From the first age they went up to the second age, from the second the Holy Spirit went up to the third, from the third He went up to the fourth, from the fourth to the fifth, from the fifth to the sixth, from the sixth to the seventh, and from the seventh He goes up to the Age of the Cornerstone; because that is where He must be at the Last Day for the Great Victory in Love Divine, where He will give us the faith to be transformed and taken with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. That is where He goes up to at the Last Day, and that is where He will manifest Himself in all His fullness.
In those days of the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, everything He’ll be doing will be shown; which and for which He will give us, He will open the Scriptures to us and open our understanding so that we understand.
The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ that goes up to the Upper Room of the Age of the Cornerstone is the One that will receive that power to obtain the Great Victory in Love Divine against Dagon and the idolatry to Dagon. That is where Christ will obtain the Great Victory in Love Divine for His Church.
Therefore, we always pray: “Lord… Once more, Lord.” Once more: The repetition of Samson regaining strength, Your Spirit coming to Samson; because He had turned away from Samson, just as He turns away from the Church in every age that the Church turns away from Him; then He goes on to another stage, to another age, at some point.
Just as it was also on the Day of Pentecost (when they went up to the upper room to be endued with power from on High by the Holy Spirit): We have come up to the promised place for us to wait and receive the power from on High, to be endued with that double portion of power from on High, to receive the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. As simple as that.
We have already seen where God’s power in His Church will be manifested at the Last Day; because She is represented in Samson, and She is the Mystical Body of Christ our Savior.
Therefore, Christ in His Church is the Samson. Christ said: “I am the Light of the world.” He is also… That is in chapter 8, verse 12 [John]. And in Malachi, chapter 4, verse 2, it tells us: “Unto you those who fear My Name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing, salvation, in His Wings.”
In other words, the Samson of the Last Day will be Christ in His Second Coming in His Church, coming to His Church; because Christ and His Church are one, one flesh. That is why it’s through members of His Church that Christ is manifested from age to age. Everything Christ does in Holy Spirit in His Church, He does it through the members of His Church.
That is why, at the Last Day, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Golden Age of the Church will have everything prepared so that, once again, the Lord manifests Himself in all His fullness; and so that the latter glory to His Church, to His spiritual Temple, is greater than the former, greater than what it was in the time of the apostles.
That is why it is important to know these promises that belong to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; for which the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be preparing the place where Christ will manifest Himself in all His fullness at the Last Day, according to the Divine Blueprint shown in His Church, His Mystical Body of believers, by that Vision shown to Reverend William Branham, where he was shown where and how it would be: in a Great Tent Cathedral; and inside a little room, where Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, in the Pillar of Fire, would go and would manifest Himself in all His fullness on different occasions, from the moment He whirls away to that place.
In other words, days, months, or years may pass with the place ready, until He begins to manifest Himself; but there will be preaching, people will be given the opportunity to receive Christ as their only and sufficient Savior. And then comes that stage of the manifestation of wonders and miracles that were shown. In other words, everything has its time.
Miracles and wonders will come as a testimony that the Spirit of God is the One fulfilling His promises at the Last Day in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision.
Just as there was a tabernacle in the wilderness, the Hebrew people were journeying with it, led by the Holy Spirit through Moses; and just as there was a temple in Jerusalem built by King Solomon, where the presence of God was in the Pillar of Fire, in that Holy Spirit, between the two cherubims of gold that were on the mercy seat; just as It was in the most holy place of the tabernacle that Moses built; likewise, It will be in the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ. And His spiritual Temple is His Church, Saint Paul says, saying: “Don’t you know that you are the temple of God?”[10] That is: the believers as individuals are a temple of God, and the Church as a Mystical Body of believers is also a Temple of God. Hebrews, chapter 3, verse 1 to 6, and Ephesians, chapter 2, verses 11 to 22, also tells us that the Church is a Temple of God.
In other words, just as He manifested Himself in the tabernacle (a temple of God) and manifested Himself in the temple that Solomon built (a temple of God as well), all of that is typifying Christ as a human Temple. That is why He said: “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up (I will resurrect it).” Chapter 2 of Saint John [verse 19.] And the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is also a Temple of God.
Therefore, the Temple of God is where He has been manifesting Himself from age to age; and from there, the Message has come forth for all human beings, as well as the call, to call and gather together the elect of each age, and place them where? In the spiritual Temple of God, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the Sheepfold of the Good Shepherd.
Mankind, all of Christianity, has desired to see the apostolic days again; and they will see them, because it is promised that God will manifest Himself in all His fullness in His Church, and the days of the apostles will be seen again, being repeated.
That is why the ministries of the Two Olive Trees, of Moses and Elijah, will come forth from among Christianity with the power of God manifested in all His fullness. And therefore, the Jews will also see, once more, the power of God, as the Gentiles saw it in Samson; and as the Jews saw it manifested through the apostles, and also through Christ, manifested in the days of Jesus among the Hebrew people. And they will say: “This is the One we are waiting for!”
Therefore, there is a promise that we will see the power of God manifested in all His fullness just as it was seen in the manifestation of the power of God in Elijah the Tishbite, in Elisha, in John the Baptist, and in Reverend William Branham. For the fifth time, the power of God will be seen manifested by the Holy Spirit among the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and then among the Hebrew people. In other words, there will be a man like Elijah at the Last Day, in the midst of Christianity, who will then go on to the Jews.
And we will also see the days of Moses; because just as there was a Moses and then a second Moses: Jesus Christ (a prophet like Moses), there will also be a prophet like Moses, which is one of the Two Olive Trees, who will appear among Christianity in the Age of the Cornerstone, and will then go to the Hebrew people; a prophet like Moses, in whom the Spirit of God will be manifesting Himself in all His fullness; because the ministries of Moses and Elijah are the ministries of the Two Olive Trees of Zechariah, chapter 4, verses 11 to 14; and Revelation, chapter 11, verse 1 to 14.
Therefore, all of this will take place in the Coming of the Lord to His Church at the Last Day, to take Her up higher, to take Her up to the Age of the Cornerstone; and that is a spiritual rapture. And then a physical rapture will come for those who will be in that Age of the Cornerstone, just as the rapture, the resurrection and rapture of the Old Testament saints took place in the days of Jesus, where He and His disciples were in the Age of the Cornerstone.
The Age of the Cornerstone is always number fifty, because it is the stage of the Fiftieth Day of Pentecost, and it is also the stage of the Fiftieth Year of Pentecost.
Therefore, let’s be prepared, with our lives consecrated to Christ, crying out so that, once more, Christ manifests Himself in Holy Spirit, and manifests all His power in the midst of His Church and through His Church at this end time.
“Once more, Lord,” that is my prayer to Christ so that His power is manifested again, as He did on the Day of Pentecost; and that has to do with the Coming of the Holy Spirit to transform us and to resurrect the dead believers in Him.
The disciples had to wait ten days. We don’t know how many days, months, or years we will have to wait; but it’s certain that He will come, because it’s a Divine promise: that the power of God will be manifested in all its fullness.
And then we will have a double portion: the portion of the new birth (the Holy Spirit) and the physical portion of the glorification or transformation of our bodies. And then all of God’s power will be manifested in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in all its fullness.
Some might ask whether they will have that power and whether they will use it. Wait until you have it, wait until you are transformed. Once you are transformed there will be no limitations in terms of what can be done when it is necessary and according to God’s Plan.
The Two Olive Trees, Moses and Elijah, of Revelation 11 and Zechariah 4, will have all that power; that is why they will be able to shut the heavens so that it doesn’t rain or open them so that it does rain, as the prophet Elijah did;[11] they will be able to speak what they want and it will come to pass. All of that has to do with the Title Deed.
Remember that after Revelation 10, when the Title Deed is received: the Church receives It (because the Church is represented in John the apostle)? She receives the Title Deed of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, who comes with It open in His hand (that little Book of the Seven Seals) and gives It to a man.
That means giving It to His Church at the Last Day, in the person that He has in His Church, who will share It with the believers in Christ of that Golden Age, of that Age of the Cornerstone.
In other words, the Title Deed that Adam and Eve lost, that Adam lost, and which has been in God’s hand until chapter 5 of Revelation, where Christ takes It (in other words, it has been in God’s hand for six thousand years): will return to the human race; and that is why the rapture, transformation and rapture will be able to come, and the Marriage Supper of the Lamb will be able to come, and then the Kingdom of the Messiah will be able to come.
That is why it is so important that once more, the power of God be manifested in all Its fullness, that the power of God be manifested by the Holy Spirit in the midst of His Church and through His Church.
“ONCE MORE, LORD,” that is my request before God.
And now, how many of you also want the power of God to be manifested once more as it was in the days of Jesus and as it was in the days of the apostles, and as it had been in the days of the prophets, and as it was in the day of Samson?
I desire that. The future of all of us depends on that, us being transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb depends on that.
It will be for a short time, but the power of God will be manifested here in all its fullness, Reverend William Branham said.[12]
It has been a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you about this subject of this Bible study: “ONCE MORE, LORD.”
Continue having a happy afternoon, filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior. And we will see each other on Friday and Sunday, God willing.
May God bless you all, keep you, prosper you spiritually and materially, and always open the Scriptures to you and open your understanding so that you understand.
God bless and keep you all.
“ONCE MORE, LORD.”
[1] 64-0619 – “Perseverant,” p. 13, para. 78
[2] Judges 15:9-17
[3] Judges 16:4-15
[4] 2 Corinthians 6:14-18
[5] Judges 16:16-22
[6] 1 Samuel 5:1-5
[7] Luke 23:34
[8] In Spanish there are two different words for ‘fish’: peces when they are underwater, and pescados when they have been caught and are then out of the water —Translator
[9] Luke 24:49
[10] 1 Corinthians 3:16
[11] 1 Kings 17:1, 18:41-45
[12] Quotations, p. 34, para. 286: 60-0313 – “Hear Ye Him,” pp. 13-14, paras. 84, 87-92