Be Prepared for the Coming of the Son of Man

Good morning, beloved friends and brethren, ministers and brethren from different congregations here in the Republic of Colombia, gathered here in Bogota and also in different countries, on this occasion, at Sunday Bible school, to receive the teaching of the Word of God and be edified to reach the stature of a perfect man, just like Jesus Christ our Savior.

Miguel Bermúdez Marín, missionary of the Lord, receive my greetings: May God bless you and keep you, and use you greatly in His Work at this end time; and all the ministers as well.

It is a great blessing for me to be with you on this occasion, at Sunday Bible school, to have the Bible study for today, titled: “BE PREPARED FOR THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN.”

For this reason, as the base Scripture we will take Saint Luke chapter 21, verses 25 and on, which tells us:

“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”

And then verse 36 of this same chapter 21, says:

“Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.”

“BE PREPARED FOR THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN.” That is our subject on this occasion.

May God bless us with His Word, open the Scriptures to us, and open our understanding so that we understand. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

The most important thing that is promised for this end time, for the human race, is the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels.

According to Saint Matthew chapter 24, verse 30 and on, it says:

“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”

Meaning that the Coming of the Son of Man is accompanied by His Angels; the Angels who will gather the elect of God with the Great Voice of Trumpet. This is also consistent with Matthew chapter 16, verses 27 to 28, where it says:

“For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.

Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”

Here He had given more information about the Coming of the Son of Man at the end time, and He says He will come with His angels, and He says He will reward every man according to his works; therefore, He will come as Judge.

And in Revelation chapter 22, verse 12, it tells us:

“And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”

In the Coming of the Son of Man the elect will be rewarded, He will reward everyone according to their work; and He will reward the world according to their works as well. He will come, it says in Saint Matthew chapter 16, verses 27 to 28, that He will come in His Kingdom.

We are going to see what it is in this Bible study for today. In Colossians, chapter 1, verses 12 to 15, says:

“Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light,” (who are the Saints in light? The believers in Christ),

“Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness…”

In other words, He has delivered us from the power of the kingdom of the wicked one, the kingdom of darkness, in which, when we were born on Earth we were born in the kingdom of darkness; because God’s enemy, the devil, took control of the earthly kingdom back in the time of Adam and Eve when he made them sin, and death entered the human race through a man: Adam.

And therefore, the enemy took possession of the earthly kingdom, but without the Title Deed, which is the Book sealed with Seven Seals of Revelation, chapter 5, verse 1 and on, which appears in the right hand of the One sitting on the Throne, who is God.

In other words, when Adam, who had the Book, the Title Deed, which was given to him, where the names are written of all the children of God who would be born on this Earth; if Adam and Eve had not sinned, the children they would have had would be the ones who form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which are God’s sons and daughters. Meaning that Adam lost the blessing of being the father of the household of all of us; he lost the blessing, Adam and Eve, but the second Adam (who is Christ) took back that blessing with the second Eve (which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ). As simple as that.

We had to appear on Earth, and we have appeared; some thousands of years after Adam, but we have appeared, to fulfill God’s purpose with us on this Earth.

And now, it says here that we have been translated… “delivered from the power of darkness,” meaning, from the power of the rule of darkness, from the rule of the enemy, from the kingdom of darkness, to the Kingdom of God; to the Kingdom of God, which is the Kingdom of Christ our Savior.

Remember that He is sitting on the Throne of God; and therefore, the words of Christ in Saint Matthew, chapter 28, verses 16 to 20, are: “All power is given unto Me in Heaven and on Earth.”

In other words, He is the King of the Heavens and the Earth, the King of kings and Lord of lords; because the king is the one who is sitting on the throne, and the one who is sitting on the throne has the power and authority over everything that belongs to that kingdom.

Christ said that He would sit at the right hand of God, the right hand of the Father. (Saint Matthew chapter 26, verses 64 and on). Then, in the book of Acts, Philip and others saw Him sitting at God’s right hand of power, sitting on the Throne of God; they saw the Son of Man sitting on the Throne of God.

In other words, people didn’t let Him sit on the earthly Throne in His First Coming, but God had Him sit on the heavenly Throne, which is greater than the Throne of David; because David’s Kingdom only rules over Israel as Son of David, which is one of the titles of the Messiah.

Remember that He has a few titles: Son of Abraham, heir… Each one of these titles has an inheritance: Son of Abraham, heir of the promised land, of everything that was promised to Abraham. Son of David, heir of the Throne and Kingdom of David, which will be restored; which was divided in the days of Rehoboam the son of Solomon, due to the sin of Solomon, who got involved with idolatry.¹

There are truths that are hard, but the truth is the truth. And that doesn’t mean that Solomon was lost, but that he received the Divine Judgment, he, his kingdom, David’s kingdom which was in Solomon’s hands, which he succeeded (to the kingdom), and for David’s sake God said that He would not rend it in the time of Solomon, but in the time of Solomon’s son, who was Rehoboam.

In the time of Rehoboam, King Solomon’s son, God divided David’s Kingdom, He gave Jeroboam ten tribes.² Jeroboam is a descendant of Ephraim, and Ephraim is the one who has the Birthright Blessing.

But David’s Kingdom is not complete without the blessing of Ephraim. Without the Birthright Blessing the Kingdom is not complete, it is not a complete Kingdom, because it is missing ten tribes, the majority of tribes. But, according to Ezekiel, the promise is that the Kingdom of David will be restored.

Around chapter 37 of Ezekiel, verses 15 to 28, there is the prophecy that God will join together the northern kingdom, which is the kingdom of the northern tribes, which are ten tribes, called the kingdom of Israel; He will unite it with the kingdom of Judah, which has two tribes: the tribe of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, to which the Levite tribe with the priesthood was added.

But the promise is that at the Last Day God will unite the northern kingdom, also called the kingdom of the lost tribes, of the ten lost tribes… but God doesn’t lose anything. Human beings lose things and don’t see things, but God doesn’t lose anything. The greatest thing is that He came to seek that which was lost,³ and He has found us.

From age to age, in the Dispensation of Grace, He has been seeking all these people whose names are written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, which are the children of God that had to be manifested on Earth; and from age to age, at the time appointed by God, they have been born on this Earth and the Voice of Christ has been reaching them, who said: “And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold,” (in other words, they are not from there, from Israel; meaning that they are not people who would be under the Dispensation of the Law), “them also I must bring; and there shall be one Fold, and one Shepherd.”⁴

He says that they will hear His Voice, in other words, they will hear the Gospel of Christ, which is the Voice of Christ through different messengers and ministers, preaching the Gospel, as Christ said: “Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel. He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believes not shall be damned.” The Lord’s sheep will believe. (Saint Mark chapter 16, verses 15 to 16).

And in Saint John, chapter 8, verses 47 to 48, it says: “And he that is of God hears (what?) God’s Voice.” And those who are not interested, and say: “I won’t hear that,” well, Christ Himself said to those who didn’t want to hear: “You don’t hear because you are not of God.” In other words, the same people identify themselves as not being of God because they don’t hear the Heavenly Father’s Voice, they don’t recognize Him as their Father. So, it’s a simple identification.

It’s like when a child of yours is somewhere and another person tells him: “My son, come here.” Your son won’t even listen to them. But when you call him: “My son, come here,” he knows your voice, he listens to you and comes to you. Such is the situation and the relationship between the children of God and their Heavenly Father, God. “He that is of God hears God’s Voice.” And to those who don’t want to hear, He says: “That is why you can’t hear, you don’t hear.”

And in Saint John chapter 10, verses 27 to 30, it says: “My sheep hear My Voice, and they follow Me, and I know them, and I give them Eternal Life; and they shall never perish. My Father, which gave them to Me, is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of My Father’s hand. The Father and I are one.”

Christ came to do the Father’s will, to carry out God’s Program, God’s Plan for the children of God. Christ is the most important Person on this Earth and also in Heaven; He is the One that is sitting at the right hand of God in Heaven. And when it says that He is sitting at the right hand of God, everything God does in His Kingdom, He does it through Christ.

All power is in the hands of Christ; that is why He said: “All power is given unto Me in Heaven and on Earth.” And was God then left without power? That would be the question. No, because God with all His power is inside Christ, manifesting Himself through Christ and manifesting His power.

Remember that Christ said: “I do nothing of Myself, the Father that dwells in Me…” See? That is why God’s power was in Christ. “The Father that dwells in Me, He does the works. As I see the Father do.”⁵ In other words, the way He would see God working in the Divine vision He had, that is how Christ would work in this earthly dimension.

On one occasion He went to a pool where there were many sick people, because an angel would come from time to time, stir the waters, and whoever went in first would be healed. And there was a man who had trouble walking for many years, and he was lying there on a… on the ground; and for many years the waters of that pool were moved by the angel; but he couldn’t go in, because when he tried to reach that place someone else had already gotten there first, entered the waters, and been healed; and from what we can see, it was one person each time the angel stirred the waters.

And when Christ came to the pool of Bethesda (was it? Or Siloam? Which means: ‘the One sent’),⁶ the man tells Him… there were many sick people there; but in the vision that He received from the Father, Christ saw only one man who would be healed; and that is how it was there, only one person was healed in each movement of the angel’s visit. And the Angel of the Covenant was there, the Angel who stirred the waters was incarnate, and He came to visit for the health of one man, for the healing of one man. And He tells him: “Will you be made whole? Do you want to be healed?”

And if you are sick, and you are asked: “Do you want to be healed?”… That is why he was there, because he wanted to be healed! And he would see the people who were healed in each visit of the angel when he stirred the waters. And he tells Him yes.

Remember that it’s like every human being’s forgiveness. That pardon has been signed with the Blood of Christ, but a pardon is not a pardon for the person until he receives it. He must accept it.

And Christ asked him: “Will you be made whole?”

—“Yes!” He accepted the healing that he was seeking, he accepted it through Christ.

And Christ tells him: “Rise, take up your bed, and go home;” and it was the Sabbath.⁷

The Scripture says that on one occasion the Lord said that the Lord is Lord of the Sabbath;⁸ because the Lord, Christ, is our Sabbath, our rest.

And then Christ left, He didn’t heal other people; such was the order in that place, when the angel would come only one person would be healed; and the Angel came in human flesh, and only one person was healed in that place, on that occasion.

That is what the Father showed Jesus in a vision, and that is what He did; because He did what pleased the Father. He didn’t come to please the human beings, He came to please the One who sent Him: the Father, whom He loved and who also loved Him, and who sent Him out of love.

The First Coming of Christ was the greatest manifestation of Love Divine towards the human race: “For God so loved the world,” (and therefore, the human being), “that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”⁹

If he believes, he doesn’t perish; if he doesn’t believe, well, he perishes: “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” He perishes.

See how simple God makes things? To believe, in order to be saved and live eternally; or to not believe, in order to be damned and no longer exist in life. Those who believe go on to Eternal Life; those who don’t believe can’t go on to Eternal Life, therefore, they will cease to exist. Everything is simple.

And the First Coming of Christ had a Divine purpose, and He came as the Lamb: to carry out the Sacrifice of the Atonement for human beings, and especially, for the firstborn written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Just like the paschal lamb, which was sacrificed by each father of a Hebrew household back in Egypt, the day before the Hebrew people’s departure from Egypt in the Exodus, that sacrifice was to preserve the life of the firstborn;¹⁰ and those who didn’t have that token on the door of the house, the firstborn who were there would die.

And the firstborn of the Egyptians didn’t know, they didn’t have that revelation and they didn’t apply the token; and the firstborn of the Egyptians died that night, even the Pharaoh’s firstborn.¹¹ But the firstborn of the Hebrews who had the token on the door, did not die.

And John the Baptist said, pointing to Christ: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”¹² He recognized Him as the Lamb that would take away the sin of the world through the Sacrifice that He would carry out to preserve the Eternal Life of those firstborn children of God, written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life; who are also typified in sheep, just like Christ is also typified in a sheep that would be sacrificed. And Christ is also typified in the shepherd of the sheep: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.”¹³

And when Christ came, who was God, the Lord incarnate in that veil of flesh called Jesus, He said: “I am the good shepherd”¹⁴ Anyone could have said: “I’m walking with the Psalm that says the Lord is my Shepherd.” And the apostles could have said: “I’m walking with that Psalm made flesh. What David expressed in that Psalm is here.”

It’s as if they were projecting that Psalm on camera, through the projector on a screen, and Jesus passed by here and stood in front of it; and that whole Psalm, instead of being on that screen, would be on the body of Jesus; because it had been made flesh. Now, the screen where God was projecting, manifesting, making that Psalm a reality, that screen was Jesus Christ.

That is why on one occasion, there around Saint Luke chapter 4, there in Nazareth, where He was raised and where He was accustomed to going to the synagogue on Sabbaths; and since it was the customary to read from the Bible, the Torah, which was a scroll, He was given the book of Prophet Isaiah and He searched for where it was written: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me…”¹⁵ And He began to list the things for which He had been anointed: “To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”

And why did He stop? Sometimes when we read a passage, we always finish the verse, we don’t leave it halfway. And Jesus didn’t continue reading. What it said next was: “And the day of vengeance of our God.” Why didn’t He read that? Because the day of vengeance of our God is to be proclaimed by the Messiah in His Second Coming. As simple as that. (That is… Isaiah chapter 61, verse 1 and on; read by Jesus in Saint Luke chapter 4).

When He finished that passage, think about how He read it: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me!” And He begins to list the things He had been anointed for in His First Coming. And everyone was looking… at Him, and then He tells them: “This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears!”¹⁶

God was projecting His written Word in Jesus, the Word of Isaiah chapter 61 was being seen in Jesus: “This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears.” That is what the continuation of that verse will be like at the Last Day, in the Coming of the Son of man, which is the only hope for the believers in Christ.

For this reason, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be preparing Herself at this end time: for the Coming of the Son of man; therefore, it will happen just as it did in the First Coming of the Son of Man.

For the First Coming of the Son of man, God sent John the Baptist to prepare the way for Him; and according to the Message given by John came the preparation for those who would receive the Messiah.

And the Coming of the Messiah was God in the Angel of the Covenant, which is the Angel of the Lord, which is the heavenly body of God and which is Christ in His heavenly body, within that heavenly body, inside the body of flesh called Jesus. That was the Coming of the Son of Man two thousand years ago, that was the Coming of the Lord to carry out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross.

John’s Message was the Message that prepared the people to receive, to welcome the Messiah in His First Coming. John said: “The One coming after me is greater than me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.”¹⁷ And he also said: “I knew Him not: but He that sent me to baptize told me that upon whom I saw the Holy Spirit descending like a dove, that is Him, that is the One whose way I am preparing.” And when he baptized Jesus, he said: “I saw It, the Holy Spirit descend upon Jesus. That is the One who would come after me.”¹⁸ He introduced Him, with his Message he introduced Him before the people.

And on one occasion they also said to him: “Look, the One to whom you bore witness, now baptizes more people than you and more people follow Him than you.”¹⁹ And John didn’t get jealous, like some people get jealous if another person achieves more success than them; and they attack him so that he isn’t able to move up, instead of helping him move up more.

John happily said: “He must increase and I must decrease.”²⁰ Which meant that John recognized that he had done a good job of forerunning the First Coming of Christ.

And Christ said when speaking of John the Baptist that John the Baptist was greater than all the prophets: “Among them that are born of women there has not risen one greater than John.” But He also said: “But he that is least in the Kingdom of God, in the Kingdom of Heaven, is greater than John.”²¹ In other words, the least of the mystical Body of Christ, of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, is greater than John the Baptist; because John belongs to the people of the servants under the Old Covenant, and the least of the Kingdom of  Heaven belongs to the New Covenant, which is made up of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is made up of the believers in Christ, who are God’s sons and daughters.

In Abraham’s house, he had a servant who was the administrator of Abraham’s goods; and later Abraham had a son named Isaac. Who was greater in Abraham’s house: that administrator of all of Abraham’s goods or that young child, that baby who had been born? The baby who had been born; because he was the son, the heir of Abraham; which typified the Messiah the Prince, who is the heir to all the territory, to all the promised land and all the blessings promised to Abraham and his seed.

The least in the mystical Body of Christ, of the Church—made up of the children of God—is greater than anyone from the Old Covenant; because a son is greater than a servant.

It is a great blessing to be part of the mystical Body of Christ. The people who belong to the mystical Body of Christ have been written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, before the foundation of the World. Those people cannot be lost; that is why Christ died for all those sheep, for all those children of God, to restore them, reconcile them with God and restore them to Eternal Life. They are the genes of the Divine thought.

Remember that people here on Earth are also the genes of their parents’ thought; as well as their physical genes, materialized in those people.

Therefore, God’s sons and daughters who did not come through Adam and Eve, now come through the second Adam (Christ), and the second Eve, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. As simple as that.

Now, in the First Coming of Christ, at that time people were waiting for the Coming of the Messiah, and the Coming of the Messiah had to be through a virgin. Because Isaiah chapter 7, verse 14, says: “For unto us a child is born…” That is chapter 9 of Isaiah. But chapter 7, verse 14, says: “Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His Name Emmanuel,” (which being interpreted is: God with us).

In other words, the Messiah had to come, be born through a virgin, and He had to be of the tribe of Judah, and He had to be of the seed of David; in other words, the Divine Program for the First Coming of Christ was well specified. And despite all of that, they didn’t recognize Him.

Chapter 1 of Saint Matthew, verse 20 and on… verse 18 and on, so that you have a clear picture, says:

“Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.

Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.

But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,

Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:

And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name Jesus.”

And now we ask ourselves: “And what does this have to do with the Second Coming of the Son of Man?” More than you can imagine. Because just as Adam typifies Christ (the second Adam), and Eve typifies the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ (the second Eve), Eve also typifies Mary, who conceived of the Holy Spirit, who conceived without having intimate relations with a man; which Eve was supposed to wait for, but she did not wait.

And now, just as Eve also represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, Mary represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ as well. And just as the First Coming of the Lord had to be through the Hebrew people, through a virgin… Because the Hebrew people were the ones under the Covenant in effect at that time, and that is why the First Coming of Christ had to be in the midst of the people who were in the Covenant in effect, because the Coming of the Lord to His people is to the people who are in the Covenant that is in effect.

That is why the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has been waiting for the Second Coming of Christ, because It is the people who are in the New Covenant, covered with the Blood of the New Covenant. And in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is where Christ will come in His Second Coming, the Son of Man will come, as it is promised: for His Church, to give Her the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

I am going to read to you something that the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said, because the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Son of Man at the Last Day, will be as it has been said by the Holy Spirit through the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.

He is the one who, with his Message, introduces the Second Coming of Christ. The introduction to the Second Coming of Christ is the Message that was brought by the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ; just as the Message that prepared the people and that introduced the First Coming of Christ was John the Baptist, forerunner of the First Coming of Christ.

The Second Coming of Christ also has a forerunner, whom we all know was Rev. William Branham, in whom the Holy Spirit operated the ministry of Elijah for the fourth time; just as He operated the ministry of Elijah for the third time in John the Baptist.

When they ask Jesus in Saint Matthew chapter 17, after coming down Mount Transfiguration, they (His disciples) ask Jesus: “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come?” Jesus tells them: “Elijah truly shall first come, and restore all things. But I say to you, That Elijah has come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed,” (speaking to them about John the Baptist).²²

In other words, Jesus vindicated, confirmed that John the Baptist was the messenger forerunner of His Coming. If the Messiah didn’t come after John, John was not the forerunner; if the Messiah came after John, John was the forerunner.

In the Book An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages, Rev. William Branham says on page 325:

“John got the fathers ready for Jesus to welcome the children into the fold. Now this prophet upon whom the Spirit of Elijah falls will prepare the children to welcome back Jesus,” (to welcome the Second Coming of Christ).

And on page 326, it says:

“John witnessed that Jesus was coming, — and so will this man,” (meaning Rev. William Branham), “like John, witness that Jesus is coming. And the very return of Christ will prove that this man indeed was the forerunner of His second coming. This is the final evidence that this indeed is the prophet of Malachi 4, for the end of the Gentile period will be Jesus, Himself, appearing. Then it will be too late for those who have rejected him.”

The Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, with Moses and Elijah, with the Two Olive Trees, is what the Holy Spirit foreran through Rev. William Branham, in whom He operated the ministry of Elijah for the fourth time; and the ministry of Elijah will be operated for the fifth time; and the ministry of Moses will be operated for the third time (if we count the ministry of Moses in Jesus as the second time).

In other words, in the Coming of the Son of Man at the Last Day, we will see the Coming of the Lord with His Angels, with Moses and Elijah. And I will not openly explain that to you on this occasion, because there are things that are for the time of the fulfillment of the Tent Vision.

We saw the Son of Man manifested, the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, in a prophet in North America known as the fourth Elijah, forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ. We saw Him—the Holy Spirit—operating the ministry of Elijah for the fourth time, as He operated it for the third time in John the Baptist, and as He operated it for the second time, previously, in Elisha.

The same Holy Spirit also operated that ministry in another man, in Elijah the Tishbite; and it will be operated for the fifth time, as one of the olive trees of Zechariah chapter 4, verses 11 to 14; and Revelation chapter 11, verse 1 to 11.

In other words, in the Coming of the Lord we will find a threefold manifestation: Moses, Elijah, and Jesus. The Son of Man coming in His Kingdom with His Angels.

Therefore, He will have a direct relationship with Christianity, with the Bride-Church, which is represented in the wise virgins; with the foolish virgins, which also belong to Christianity, but don’t have oil  (the Holy Spirit) in their lamps; and there will also be a manifestation with the lost ones, among the lost.

That pertains to the Third Pull, which Christ, the Son of Man, will manifest at the end time; and that manifestation of the Third Pull will be in a Great Tent Cathedral, as it was seen by – as it was shown to Rev. William Branham. Page 548 of the book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals.

And there we will see that manifestation of the Coming of the Son of Man to His Bride-Church; we will see that threefold manifestation, which will have three important parts for the Bride: the ones who will be changed… who will receive the faith to be changed, they will receive the revelation of the Seven Thunders, which is the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels. Which, when it was opened in Heaven (in Revelation chapter 8), the Seventh Seal: caused silence, there was silence in Heaven. That is so that no one would understand, so that no one could make an imitation.

That is why Rev. William Branham, in the message “Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed,”²³ page 15 to 16, says that the Seventh Seal is the Coming of the Lord, and it is not known yet, how He will come and when He will come; and it’s a good thing that it is not known. Why? Because there are always many impersonators, there are many Dathans and Korahs and Abirams, and there are many who also like Aaron and Aaron’s sister, Miriam or Mary, want to put themselves in the same position as Moses.

Therefore, just as there were impersonators before the Coming of the Lord two thousand years ago, Theudas and Judas, impersonating what the Coming of the Messiah would be, Christ said: “Those who came before Me are robbers, thieves, and the sheep did not hear them.” So, notice how Christ classifies them: thieves and robbers; they want to steal the revelation to come across as the people in whom what is promised is being fulfilled; which does great harm to the people.

But to avoid confusion, Rev. William Branham says there will be no imitation of that Third Pull, because the devil doesn’t know what it is. That is why for so many years or thousands of years the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, of the Coming of the Son of Man at the Last Day, has been kept a secret.

And so that we are prepared, I told you that He comes with His Angels: Moses and Elijah: the Two Olives Trees. In other words, in the Coming of the Lord we are going to see the Lord, we are going to see Moses, and we are going to see Elijah.

On Mount Transfiguration, the Vision of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels was given. Christ in chapter 16, verses 27 to 28, of Saint Matthew, promises… He says:  

“For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels,” (See? He comes with His Angels), “and then he shall reward every man according to his works.”

The unbelievers, with what they deserve: judgment, announcing to them the judgment of the Great Tribulation; and the believers: announcing the blessings to them, and giving them the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

Revelation chapter 22, verse 12, says:

“And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”

And let’s turn to verse 28 of the same 16th chapter of Saint Matthew. It says:

“Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”

Where is He coming? In His Kingdom. The believers in Christ have been translated to the Kingdom of the Son of God, of Christ, and where is He coming? To His Kingdom. Therefore, He comes to His Church, which is the One that is the Kingdom of God and in which It is being manifested in the spiritual realm. It’s to that Kingdom that the Son of Man comes at the Last Day.

And in chapter 17 He shows the vision to Peter, James, and John, whom He took and led with Him to a high mountain; that high mountain represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, because on that high Mountain, at the top of the Mountain, is where the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels will be fulfilled.

He didn’t come in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh age, instead He comes in the Age of the Cornerstone; that is where the Son of Man will reveal Himself with His Angels, with Moses and Elijah, and from where He will call 144,000, 12,000 of each tribe; where the Message will go on to the Jews.

Remember that Jacob, in the vision he had or dream he had there when he was going to Haran, there in Bethel, he saw a ladder set up on Earth and the top part of it reached heaven; and he saw angels ascending and descending on it, and he saw God at the top of the ladder, who said to him: “I am the Lord,” He identified Himself.²⁴

That is where Israel will see the Coming of the Son of Man, the Coming of the Messiah at the Last Day, and where angels of God have been seen ascending and descending: the messengers with the group of each age. Those are the angel-messengers with the group that God has given them in each age; and angels too, who have been sent to the Church to take care of Her, to protect Her; ministering angels, ministering angels who minister the Word from age to age through the Spirit of God.

Now let’s see what Peter, James, and John saw on Mount Transfiguration:

[Matthew 17:1] “And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,

And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.”

Malachi chapter 4, verse 2, says: “To them that fear My Name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise, with healing in His Wings.” And here we see the Sun, Christ as the rising Sun, shining like the sun. Remember that He said: “I am the light of the world.”²⁵ He is the Sun of Righteousness.

“… and his raiment was white as the light.

And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.”

This is the vision of the Second Coming of Christ, of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels. That is why Moses and Elijah appear there, because those are the Two Olive Trees, through whom God will call and gather the elect from among the Hebrew people, which are 144,000, 12,000 of each tribe.

And the Angel who comes with the Seal of the living God, with the Holy Spirit, will call, gather, and seal 144,000, according to Revelation chapter 7, verses 1 to 17.

It is important to know these Scriptures, so that we are all prepared to welcome the Son of Man in His Coming; just like those who were prepared by John the Baptist welcomed the Son of Man in His First Coming.

What were Moses and Elijah speaking to Jesus about? About His departure to Jerusalem and the things He had to fulfill in Jerusalem. In other words, just as it was back then, the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels will also be the same now, where we will see the relationship there will be between the Second Coming and the Angels of the Son of Man, and Israel, to call and gather and seal 144,000 Hebrews, 12,000 of each tribe. As simple as that.

The Message of the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ will prepare those who will welcome the Son of Man with His Angels, In His Coming at the Last Day.

And the last vindication that Rev. William Branham was the Elijah who had to come forerunning the Second Coming of Christ, will be the Coming of the Lord with His Angels; and He Himself will vindicate him, He will indicate that he was His forerunner, that he was the one who prepared for the people the way for His Coming. Therefore, He must come according to how it was forerun, to what the Message of the forerunner says; and the Message of the forerunner says how it is in the Bible that the Coming of the Lord will be.

The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says in the message “The Feast Of The Trumpets,”²⁶ pages 15 and 16 in English; and in Spanish, 19 and 20; and in the book of Quotations, page 128, paragraph 1140; it says [Quotations]:

1140 – “112 Go into the prophet’s chamber and watch them seven steps.”

And that pertains to the seven ages; seven steps, seven ages in the Church, ascending like the ladder that Jacob saw.

It’s like the play Romeo and Juliet, where he sets a ladder to bring out his bride and take her away. With that ladder, where God’s elect have been ascending from age to age with His messengers, there at the top part (and in the stage of the top part of the Age of the Cornerstone), He will take the elect of that end time, and also the elect of past ages; because everyone is going to be in that age when they resurrect.

1140 – “[112] Where did the—where did the guard meet the challenge to bring the comer into the presence of the king? At the top of the steps; was in the seventh (age).”

In other words, the forerunner was in the seventh age to take them, to bring them up with his Message, so that they go up to the Age of the King’s Chamber, which is the Age of the Cornerstone.

1140 – “[112] … was in the seventh step. There shows that we’ve got to come again with that same Spirit that was on John;” (in other words, the ministering spirit of Elijah in the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ). “He introduced the Messiah,” (meaning, John did). “He was greater than all the prophets; he introduced It. And we’ve got to come to a place, again, to something that’s going to introduce the Messiah.”

And what is that? The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, who will be in the seventh age forerunning, announcing the Second Coming of Christ with his Message; and preparing the people with His Message; to welcome the Messiah with His Angels, in His Coming at the Last Day.

1140 – “113 And how will the Messiah… the people that’s believing Him know it unless they’re constantly in the Word, to know what He is!”

In other words, He will be doing what Christ was two thousand years ago: showing them the Word that spoke of Him, and fulfilling It. “This is what is written of Me,” He said to those who went to Emmaus. “This is what the prophets said must be fulfilled.”²⁷ And that is why at any time He could say: “This day is this Scripture fulfilled before you.”

Therefore, just as the Scriptures promised for the First Coming of Christ were seen being fulfilled in Jesus, in the promised Messiah coming to Israel, being born through the virgin Mary, a descendant of King David, of the tribe of Judah; it will also be seen in the Second Coming of Christ with His Angels; in the Coming of the Son of Man, the Scriptures will be seen being fulfilled at the end time.

And people will say: “But what I am seeing taking place is what has been promised.” And they will be able to hear: “Today, this Scripture and this Scripture and this Scripture is fulfilled.”

We are going to be seeing the Scriptures of the promises of the Second Coming of Christ being fulfilled in the One forerun by the fourth Elijah, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.

And notice what the forerunner says (he speaks like John the Baptist). Page 551 to 553 of the book of The Seals that has 564 pages.

On page 540 and 541, it says… At the end of 540, and beginning of 541, it says:

“[233] …at the end of this Seventh Seal…”

In other words, the Seventh Seal, the Coming of the Son of Man to Earth, has a beginning and an end. At the end we go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. At the beginning we won’t know what the end will be, but at the end we will know what the beginning was.

“231 We must remember that this Seventh Seal is the end of time, of all things. That’s right. The things written in the Seven-Seal Book, sealed up, of the plan of redemption from before the foundation of the world, it every bit ends. It is the end; it is the end of the struggling world. It’s the end of struggling nature. It’s the end of everything. In there, it’s the end of the Trumpets. It’s the end of the Vials. It’s the end of the earth. It’s the…It’s even the end of time.

232 Time runs out. The Bible said so. Matthew, the 7th chapter…I mean, Revelation, the 7th cha-…10th chapter and the…and 1 to the 7th verse. Time runs out. The Angel said, ‘Time will be no more,’ when that, in the days of this great thing to happen.

233 Everything runs out, in this time,…”

When the Seventh Seal happens, when the Coming of the Lord, the Coming of the Son of Man, happens, is fulfilled.

“[233] …at the end of this Seventh Seal…”

Remember, the beginning of the First Coming of Christ was when the Angel appeared to Mary and when she conceived of the Holy Spirit; and the end: when He was crucified, buried, resurrected, and He ascended to Heaven with the Old Testament saints, forty days after His resurrection. That was the end of the First Coming of Christ to Earth. We saw the beginning and the end. That is the history of the Gospel of Christ, which is compiled in the four Gospels, called the four Gospels.

The four Gospels are the same Gospel shown from the point of view of each of the writers, anointed by the Holy Spirit.

“[233] …at the end of this Seventh Seal. Notice. It’s the end of the church age.” (Now notice what will be the end of the Seventh Seal). “It’s the—the end of the Seventh Seal. It’s the end of the Trumpets. It’s the end of the Vials, and even end the ushering in of the Millennium. That’s on the Seventh Seal.”

And remember that the Seventh Seal is the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels. And there he shows that it’s like firing a rocket, one of those fireworks used in celebrations, where it explodes, it goes up, and then it starts to make explosions and blows out little stars, and out of one star others blow out, it makes another explosion and blows out more stars. That’s what he says the Seventh Seal is like.

“235 That’s, what, the Seventh Seal. It just ends the time for the world. It ends the time for this. It ends the time for that. It ends the time for this. It ends the time. Everything just ended up on that Seventh Seal.

236 Now, how is He going to do it? That’s what we don’t know. Isn’t it? We don’t know.

237 It’s even the time for all these things, and the ushering in of the Millennium.

238 Notice, the breaking of this Seal was so great, that, Heaven was hushed by It, ‘in silence, for the space of a half hour.’”

In other words, there was silence in Heaven. The Seventh Seal is the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, It is what Rev. William Branham foreran anointed by the Holy Spirit with the ministering Spirit of Elijah.

And on page 552 of this same book of The Seals, it says:

“326 I’m only telling you what I seen and what has been told to me. And now you—you do whatever you want to. I don’t know who is going to…what’s going to take place. I do not know. I just know that those Seven Thunders holds that mystery. The Heavens was quiet. Everybody understand? [Congregation says, ‘Amen.’—Ed.] It may be time, it may be the hour now, that this great person that we’re expecting to rise on the scene may arise on the scene.

327 Maybe this ministry, that I have tried to take people back to the Word, has laid a foundation; and if it has, I’ll be leaving you, for good. There won’t be two of us here the same time. See? If it is, he’ll increase; I’ll decrease.”

Just as it happened in the days of John the Baptist, they say to John: “Look, now the One that you – to whom you bore witness, now He baptizes more people than you, and more people follow Him than you.” John says: “He must increase, and I must decrease.” That was good news to John.

And now, the second forerunner of the Coming of the Lord, of the Coming of the Son of Man, says the same thing; he says that he must decrease and the One who comes after him, for the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, must increase.

Therefore, all those who will be working in the Program of the Second Coming of the Son of Man have the success of their work guaranteed: “He must increase!” In other words, they will be working in the Work of God that has the promise to increase; because God is the One who gives the increase. He sends His Word and prospers It, makes It increase.

Therefore, “BE PREPARED FOR THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN.” Working! Not sitting and waiting, but working in the Program pertaining to the Last Day, which will have the children of God in His mystical Body of believers working in the Divine Project that is being carried out at the Last Day, to welcome the Son of Man in His Second Coming, coming with His Angels.

Everything that was shown on Mount Transfiguration is the prophetic vision of what the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be seeing at this end time, and what the Hebrew people will see afterwards.

Therefore, be prepared, for what? For the Coming of the Son of Man, the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels.

May everyone continue having a happy evening, filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.

May God bless you and keep you all.

“BE PREPARED FOR THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN.”