Good morning, beloved friends and brethren present and everyone gathered in different places and countries.
Greetings to all the ministers and their congregations. And Dr. Luis Rodrigo Moreno and his family, receive my greetings and may God bless you greatly and fill you with the knowledge of the Divine Program relevant to this end time. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Today is the 53rd anniversary of the appearance of that mysterious cloud you saw in the documentary from Puerto Rico which was shown today.
If in the days of Jesus reporters and photographers had been present on Mount Transfiguration… which He had spoken about a few days prior, when He said that the Son of Man would come in His Kingdom… Let’s read it. Saint Matthew chapter 16, verses 27 to 28*, 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.”
“And six days later…” Chapter 17, verse 1 and on, says:
“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.
And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.”
Notice, what we saw in the documentary has happened on other occasions, with angelic visits to announce events, such as the case of Angel Gabriel’s visit to Zechariah the priest to announce him the birth, the coming of the forerunner, John the Baptist. And according to Zechariah’s condition and that of his wife, it was impossible to have a child because they were already at an age in which they couldn’t have children anymore, because the stage for them to have a baby had already passed.
And the same thing happened to Virgin Mary, whom being a virgin the Angel told her that she would conceive. “And how will this be?” She asks. It was the prophecy that a child would be born: a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and His Name will called Emmanuel, which translated is: God with us. It would be God’s visit in human flesh to His people of Israel. The One they desired to see, now they would see Him as a human being speaking to them, Emmanuel, the Prince of Peace. Israel wants peace. What they need is the Prince of Peace.
And now, we all know that the coming of Angel Gabriel was this way, like the coming or appearance of Moses and Elijah on Mount Transfiguration at Jesus Christ’s side, one on each side. The evidence is scriptural. Christ had already said that it would happen.
And now, for the end time, we have prophesies that must be fulfilled, which that the believers, who will be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, will see and understand, because it is not just about seeing them, but understanding their meaning.
For instance, if Peter, James and John, were to see what was happening there on Mount Transfiguration, and then the believers in Christ with the apostles and ministers from all times were to read, to see that in the Scriptures without knowing what it means, they would be missing a very great blessing.
First we believe. In order to believe, one hears the Word, because faith comes by the Word of God and “with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”
We need to follow the spiritual and biblical processes established: in order to see and understand, first we must believe; therefore, you must hear what you will believe. The individual cannot make up his own ideas and say: “This is this how I believe it is.” That does not work. You have to believe it the way the Word of God establishes it.
Now, we read chapter 24, verses 29 to 31, and it says [Saint Matthew]:
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
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.”
We take the words of Jesus, who says (verse 30):
“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven.”
“THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN IN HEAVEN.”
May God bless our souls with His Word; may He open the Scriptures to us and may He open our hearts to believe and our minds to understand. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Whenever the Work in the Divine Program relevant to that time is going to be carried out on Earth, a work which has been established in the Word of God, in the Biblical prophecies, there is always a sign in Heaven that is related to that promise or those promises which must be fulfilled. Therefore, before God fulfills it on Earth, He shows it in the sky.
Like the star of Bethlehem that appeared for two years, and the wise men saw it from the territory where they lived, East of Israel, near the land of Ur of the Chaldees, and all that territory of Iran. They were believers in the promise of the Coming of the Messiah. They were familiar with the Scriptures, they knew the Book of the Prophet Daniel and all those spiritual experiences Daniel had, seeing and hearing from Angel Gabriel, who said to him: “I will show you what is written in the Scripture of Truth.” [Daniel 10:21.]
In other words, everything that will happen is written in the Book of Truth, everything that will come to pass in the Divine Program is written in the Book of Truth. And the Angel Gabriel has access to that Book, and he is the one sent to bring good tidings to the human beings.
He was the one who gave good tidings to Zechariah the priest and to the Virgin Mary. Therefore, the Angel Gabriel is a ministering Angel of the Divine Program which is being carried out on Earth from stage to stage. He even intervenes in the changes of the Gentile Kingdom as it is shown in the Book of the Prophet Daniel.
There is also the Archangel Michael*, and when Gabriel needs help, Gabriel asks the Archangel Michael for help, who has a powerful army to fight in favor of the Divine Program, which the Angel Gabriel is working in, in the Gentile Kingdom. The Archangel Gabriel showed the beginning, the trajectory, and the end of the Gentile kingdom.
And nowadays, we are in the stage of the feet part of iron and part of clay, which is the time for the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Cornerstone, or Headstone, the Stone cut out of the mountain, which, with His Coming, will smite the image shown to Nebuchadnezzar—and to Daniel so that he could interpret it—in the feet part of iron and part of clay of.
Reverend William Branham said that Gabriel announced the First Coming of Christ, and not only the First Coming of Christ, but the coming of the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ. And he said: “And he will announce the Second Coming of Christ.” In other words, in the Divine Program, for the Second Coming of Christ, the Archangel Gabriel is present with His Army, and if he needs help, he asks the Archangel Michael. On one occasion, Gabriel said to Daniel: “No one helped me, but Michael your prince.”
Now, in everything we have seen, which happened on February 28, 1963, angels appeared, forming a cloud which was even published in Science magazine and Life magazine. This is a scientific proof that helps people. But if that scientific proof were not available, the appearance of those angels to Reverend William Branham would have had the same value; they took him up to where they were, onto that cloud, and there he counted seven angels.
Remember that, for the most part, when someone counts, he doesn’t count himself. He saw seven angels, and if we count him, there are eight angels; so the seventh angel he saw becomes the eighth angel. Because the other angels were the angel messengers of the different stages of the Church, of the seven stages of the Church, beginning with Saint Paul.
Remember that angel means “messenger”. The Angel Messenger of the Church was Saint Paul, in the first stage of the Church, among the Gentiles; and those angel messengers continued appearing in every stage of the Church, anointed with the Holy Spirit, being instruments of the Holy Spirit, receiving the revelation of Christ for His Church through the Holy Spirit, and then revealing It to the people, thus every age and stage of the Church was formed.
Among those messengers we have great men of God who appeared in that cloud… in this cloud, the angel messengers that were there. [Dr. Soto points to the picture – Editor.] The first was Saint Paul; the second was Irenaeus, the third was Martin. Saint Paul in Asia Minor; Irenaeus in France; Martin in France and Hungary; Columbus in Ireland and Scotland; Luther in Germany; Wesley in England; and Reverend William Branham in North America, since the year 53, which corresponds to the first stage of the Church among the Gentiles, represented in the Church of Ephesus in Asia Minor.
In other words, the churches in Asia Minor represent the different stages that the Church among the Gentiles would go through, and the pastors of those churches represent the messengers the Church would have during the seven stages of the Church.
And since the Church of God was Israel in the times of the Old Testament… the Church of the Old Covenant was Israel, and that is why messengers were sent to Israel, and the messengers for that Dispensation of the Law were from Israel. And the two last ones were: John the Baptist, forerunning the First* Coming of Christ as the seventh messenger of the Hebrew Church under the Law, and then the eighth messenger is the Lord Jesus Christ in the stage of the Cornerstone.
In order to have a Cornerstone stage, there must be a Cornerstone-Messenger for that stage.
And keeping in mind that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is a spiritual Temple: it has an Outer Court, a Holy Place, and a Most Holy Place.
The Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ will contain what the Most Holy Place of the tabernacle built by Moses had, and which the temple built by King Solomon had. It had the ark of the covenant and everything contained in the ark of the covenant. And in the temple that Solomon built and Moses built, it had Aaron’s rod that budded, and on top of the ark of the covenant it had the cover (which was the Mercy Seat) of pure gold with two cherubims, one on each side. And in the temple that Solomon built, he later added on two giant cherubims of olive wood laid with gold.
There, in the temple, we have the Two Olive Trees, the Two Olive Trees in the temple that Solomon built, and the Two Olive Trees in the spiritual Temple of Christ are the Angels sent with a Great Voice of Trumpet, with the ministries of the Two Olive Trees, the ministries of Moses and Elijah, which are the Two Olive Trees of Revelation chapter 11, verses 1 to 14.
In other words, in the end time, He comes with His Angels in and to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and He will bring with Him the messengers of the different stages of the Church and all the believers in Christ who have departed, and He will resurrect them in glorified, young, and immortal bodies, like the Body of Christ our Savior, which is as young as when He ascended to Heaven.
We even find that when Mary saw Him, when Mary Magdalene saw Him resurrected, she didn’t recognize Him until He spoke to her. When He spoke to her, she recognized His Voice, His Word. That is also how we will recognize Christ coming with His Angels in the Last Day: by His Voice, His Word. “My sheep hear my voice, and they follow me.” [John 10:27.]
Why didn’t they recognize Him after He had resurrected when they saw Him? Because when the individual resurrects, glorified, his body resembles 18 to 21 years of age. It is a body to live throughout eternity.
When the disciples saw Him, some thought He was a spirit, and they had been with Him, in His ministry, for three and a half years. If anyone was called to recognize Christ when they saw Him, it was His disciples and Mary; Mary Magdalene and Mary, Jesus’ mother.
In this end time, we must be knowledgeable of the promises of the Second Coming of Christ so that what happened to the Hebrew people doesn’t happen to us, where the First Coming of Christ was fulfilled and they didn’t recognize Him. Although they asked Him: “What sign do you show us?” After seeing and learning of so many wonders He made, they were still asking for a sign, only to respond: “We do not believe.”
That is why it is important to base ourselves on the Scripture, so that we know what has been promised, what Christ must do in His Coming, as it was in past times.
He said: “I do nothing of myself, but as I see my Father work, these things I do.” In other words, first He would see in a vision, in the spiritual realm, what God would do, in other words, what God would do through Christ; and then He would do on Earth what He saw in the vision. “As My Father has shown me, these things I do.”
In other words, He was not obligated nor called to heal every sick person. What God showed Him in visions is what He would do. For instance, we have the case of Lazarus, Martha and Mary’s brother, who was sick, and he was Jesus’ close friend. And when a person gets sick and calls a close friend or his pastor to come and pray for him, and he doesn’t come, then the person begins to feel bad, and if he dies, his family would feel bad as well.
But Christ did what He saw the Father do: they sent for Him and He did not go. But on the fourth day: “Let us go there. And I am glad I was not there,” Christ said. [John 11:15.] When Lazarus was sick, He was glad He wasn’t over there. Why? Because He would have seen him and healed him. But now, by not being there, Lazarus is type and figure of the believers in Christ who died and will be resurrected in the fourth stage of the Church, in the fourth stage of restoration of the Church.
The first stage started with Luther, the second with Wesley and the third in the time of Reverend William Branham; and now the fourth stage is the Age of the Cornerstone. It was in that fourth stage when Lazarus was resurrected. And that fourth stage corresponds to the Golden Age of the Church, the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the Messianic Age for the Second Coming of Christ, just as that age during the ministry of Jesus was the Golden Age, the Age of the Cornerstone, because the Headstone was there: Christ our Savior.
And now, we were allotted to live in the most important stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the stage that corresponds to the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, and that Temple is His Church.
That is why, just like when Moses worked with his people, built the tabernacle, something was missing… Moses and the people provided everything except one thing, there was one thing they weren’t able to place in the temple. No one could provide what was missing in the temple, and that was the Presence of God to come and dwell in the temple, the tabernacle that Moses built, in the Most Holy Place upon the Mercy Seat, upon the two Cherubims of gold.
This means that people are in charge of doing the physical part, and God has the most important part; and it was a tabernacle for God’s dwelling.
The same thing happened with Solomon, he had everything fixed up, but the most important thing was lacking, which only God could bring, and it was God’s Presence, to dwell among the Hebrew people in the temple, in the Most Holy Place, upon the mercy seat, among the two Cherubims of gold.
And since the Church is the human Temple of God, just as Christ was also the human temple where God dwelt in all His fullness, His Church is His Mystical Body of believers. The presence of the Lord has been there since the Day of Pentecost, but It will come in all Its fullness at the Last Day for our transformation and the resurrection of the dead in Christ.
The Church as a spiritual Temple has been going from one stage to another stage in the construction of that spiritual Temple with living stones, as it says in First Peter chapter 2, verses 4 to 6. It says that we are living stones for the Temple of the Lord. And what Christ said: “God can raise up children unto Abraham from these stones.” is also fulfilled there. [Matthew 3:9.]
Now, we are seeing that the seven stages of the Church among the Gentiles correspond to the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple, the spiritual Temple of Christ; and the Age of the Cornerstone corresponds to the Most Holy Place of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the Golden Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is the Messianic Age for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and it is the time or age or stage for the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Cornerstone, who is Christ our Savior.
It is important to know where we are in the Divine Program. Because he who doesn’t know where he is in the Divine Program, no matter how much he works, if he doesn’t know what stage he lives in, he may be working for a past stage. Some may be building a wooden ark because God said to Noah to build an ark. It was a Divine Project, but for Noah’s time; then it becomes type and figure for other stages of the Divine Program.
It is important to be aware of the time in the Divine Program in which we are allotted to live, and to know what we are in that stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, because he who doesn’t know why he is there, doesn’t do what he should be doing in the time allotted to live.
We have seen “THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN IN HEAVEN.” And that sign is for believers.
The unbelievers can see it and say: “I see a cloud.” Just as some unbelievers could see a cloud covering Mount Sinai and say: “We have seen it full of fog other times, too.” But Moses and the people knew It was God’s Presence with the Angels of God there. The Angel of the Covenant, who is Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of God, was there.
That is why at the Last Supper He said: “Eat; this is my body.” And after taking the cup of wine and giving thanks, He said: “Drink ye all of it; For this is my Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
And now, upon facing this Sign of the Son of Man in Heaven, many people who hear about this will say: “How can we know this is true?”
How do you know that Moses was on Mount Sinai and that God was with Him, and that He wrote the Ten Commandments in tablets of stone? How do you know that on Mount Transfiguration Jesus was present and Moses and Elijah appeared with Him? How do you know that? By reading, receiving the information, and then faith is born, because it is a matter of faith.
You hear and listen about the subject, faith is born and you believe it. You don’t even need photographs or anything, but rather to hear the Word that relates to that subject, to see that it is a Divine Promise, and know that one day it had to be fulfilled and that we are blessed to live during the time of the fulfillment of that sign.
Everything God will do in this end time will be around the Divine Program relevant to the Golden Age of the Church, the Age of the Most Holy Place, just as everything He did in past ages was according to what was promised for every stage of the Church.
Not everyone will believe, but he who is of God hears the Voice of God, the faith of Christ is born in his soul and he believes with all his heart. He may be asked: “Do you understand all of that?” And the believer respond: “No, but I believe it! I will understand gradually as I continue to read and hear about the subject.”
It is the same way for a believer in Christ. You understand everything that happened in the Life of Jesus, that He was crucified, He was accused of being an evildoer, a false prophet, and so forth. You have also heard that He died for us on Calvary’s Cross and that such was God’s Program. If not, we would not be here (had He not died on Calvary’s Cross). In other words, there was a Divine Program to take place in the First Coming of Christ.
And in the Second Coming, there is also a Divine Program, and it is in the Scripture, to be carried out by the Lord in His Coming, for the adoption of the sons and daughters of God, according to Romans chapter 8, verses 14 to 39. And the adoption is the redemption of the body, wherein we will be changed and we will have a glorified body, a redeemed body, a body that will live throughout eternity, without health problems, without aging problems, without any type of problem. In other words, there is a Divine Plan for the Coming of the Son of Man in Heaven and for the materialization of that entire Divine Program here on Earth.
The Title Deed to eternal Life, the Title Deed to all Creation will come in this end time. The Title Deed that Adam had, since he was given authority over the Earth, he was the King of all the Earth, and God: the King of all the Creation.
He lost the Title Deed, the right to live physically eternally. “Death entered through a man: Adam,” Saint Paul said in First Corinthians chapter 15. But eternal Life entered through Jesus Christ the Second Adam, to restore us to eternal Life, to restore us to the everlasting spiritual and physical life. Spiritual life is first, and it is followed by physical life in the Kingdom of God. The physical part comes in the earthly kingdom, then the spiritual part follows through the new birth.
The Lamb’s Book of Life, the Book of all Creation, the Book of Eternal Life, is the Book sealed with Seven Seals that appears in Revelation chapter 5 at the Right Hand of God, and someone was asked to come to take the Book and loosen those seals.
No one was appearing, until Christ, the Lamb of God, appeared. But when He appears, the elder tells John: “Weep not. Behold, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah has prevailed to take the book and loosen its seals.” And when John looked, he saw a Lamb.
John sees Jesus as the Lamb of God; the elder sees Him as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, because He comes as King. He finished His Work of Intercession as a Lamb and High Priest, and now comes as King and Judge to take the Title Deed, loosen the Seals, and to carry out His Reclaiming Work: to claim back everything He has redeemed with His precious Blood. This includes not only planet Earth, not only a few people, but everyone redeemed with the Blood of Christ our Savior. He reclaims them unto physical eternal Life, too, and to go with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven.
The stay in Heaven will be three and a half years—which consist of the second part of the seventieth week of Daniel chapter 9—in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, while humanity on this planet Earth will be going through the Divine Judgements of the Great Tribulation which the Scripture refers to. Because the only thing that can prevent someone from going through the Great Tribulation is if he is cleansed with the Blood of Christ our Savior; because if he doesn’t have any sin, then he doesn’t have to go through the Divine Judgments of the Great Tribulation.
That period of time of three and a half years for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the redeemed, those born again, will be in Heaven.
Anyone may think: “Well, after we are in Heaven we won’t want to come back to Earth.” But we will return with Christ for the establishment of the Millennial Kingdom, the Kingdom of David, the restored Throne of David, for one thousand years as kings, priests, and judges in the Kingdom of the Messiah.
In other words, the believers in Christ of past ages and from our age will be the Cabinet of Christ in His Kingdom.
That is why James and John… They had seen Jesus glorified on Mount Transfiguration with Moses and Elijah, one on each side, portraying how the Coming of God’s Kingdom to Earth would be. They, James and John, whom on one occasion, when they were not welcome in Samaria, said to Him: “Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven, as Elijah did?” In other words, to consume them. Jesus said: “You do not know what manner of spirit you are of.” But they were attentive to the ministries of Moses and Elijah.
That is why after Mount Transfiguration, they spoke to their mother, they tell her everything, and she went with her sons, they asked her to help them. Those are the two most important positions in the Kingdom of the Messiah. She said to Him… She went with her sons to Jesus and told Him: “Lord…” Saint Matthew chapter 20, verse 20 and on: “Lord, Rabbi.” He said: “Woman, what do you want?” Because if we come to the Lord, we want something. If you approach the Lord in prayer it’s because you want something, you want to receive or give praise in gratitude to Christ, or you have a request.
And now, James and John went well prepared, with their mother, and Jesus tells them: “What do you want, woman?” She said: “I want that in Thy Kingdom…” This means that here she is declaring to be a believer in the Kingdom of the Messiah which will be established on Earth. “You are the King of Israel,” many said.
And now, she acknowledged Him as King. “You are the King. I want my two sons to be in Your Kingdom, one at Your right hand, and the other on the left.” Well, she was hardly asking for anything, we would say.
And Jesus said to them… He asked them: “If they can drink from the cup that He drinks, would they drink it?” And they say: “Yes. Yes we can.”
Because whoever is seeking a blessing must never say “no”. He must believe that he is able, otherwise, why seek something if you don’t believe you can do it. We seek what we think we can obtain, for which we are believing it.
“Yes we can!”
-“Can you do this or that?”
-“Yes, we can!”
-“To drink from my cup that I am to drink?” “You will… You can drink, and you can do these other things, too, but to sit on my right hand and on my left, that is not granted to you except unto those whom it is prepared for.” In other words: “This position is not for you.”
Then what position do they have? Christ had also said to them in chapter… around chapter 18 and 19 of Saint Matthew; and in Saint Luke chapter 22: “You which have followed me, will sit upon twelve thrones in my Kingdom.” James and John wanted more. Therefore, they already had the position that belonged to them, promised by Christ.
What happens is that when an individual receives a blessing, he wants more. And they wanted the most they could get. They didn’t think like Judas Iscariot, who being an unbeliever or a make-believer, he had a promise of a throne and he didn’t want it more. Instead, he expressed his unbelief and lost the blessing, and then someone else was appointed as an apostle, who will occupy that throne in the Kingdom of Christ our Savior. In Revelation, chapter 20, those who are given the power to judge appear seated on thrones.
Now, to sit at the right and left of Christ is a prophetic truth. We ask ourselves how we can obtain that blessing. It is not of him that will, nor of him that runs, but for those who it is ordained for by God, by the Father, says Christ our Savior.
Revelation chapter 3, verses 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.”
All of this takes place in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It’s because the seventh age, represented in the church of Laodicea, had shut the door to Christ in His manifestation through the messenger of the seventh Church Age: Reverend William Branham. When a door is shut to the messenger of an age, the door has been shut to Christ in that age. And therefore, they have shut the door to Him in His Church, as they did in His First Coming.
Now verse 20 to 21, says:
“To him that overcometh (in other words, someone will overcome)…”
“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne (that is what John and James wanted), even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”
Just as Christ had said that He would sit at the Right Hand of God, when Christ was being judged in Saint Matthew chapter 26, verse 4*, and He said that they would see the Son of Man seated at the Right Hand of God in the Kingdom of God; and here He says that He is already sitting there. And in his letters, [Hebrews chapter 8] Saint Paul says that Christ is seated at the Right Hand of the Majesty in Heaven. And when Stephen was stoned, before he died he said: “I see the Heavens opened, and Jesus Christ seated at the right Hand of God.” [Acts 7:56.]
In other words, there is another dimension, which is the real one. This dimension is temporary, but the real one, the eternal one is the dimension of God, the dimension of the angels. That is why God works His Program in this earthly dimension from the eternal dimension. And that is why from time to time He sends out angels to carry out the works in His people, ministering angels.
Now, we have seen that the promise for the overcomer is here. From age to age, the messengers, along with the group they were given to minister, have struggled, but the great victory in Love Divine takes place in this end time. The great victory in Love Divine corresponds to the Age of the Cornerstone, the Age of the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ. In the meantime, the spiritual Temple is being built with living stones, human beings that are being added to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, just as each one of us has been called and placed in the spiritual Temple of Christ our Savior. And not only in the Temple, but in the stage of construction of that part of the Temple, because if you are placed in a part where the construction has already taken place, it will not work out properly.
From age to age, the elect of each age of the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ have been called and gathered. Now, the promise is that Christ says it is not His to give, but it shall be given to those for whom it is prepared. And here it says: “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.”
For the government of all Creation, Christ has been seated in the heavenly Throne of the Father, and in the Throne and earthly Kingdom, the Kingdom and Throne of David to which Christ is Heir to. Gabriel the Angel said: “In that Throne,” he said: “God shall give him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Israel forever.” And now, He promises that the overcomer will sit with Him on His Throne, in His Kingdom.
The overcomer will appear in an age parallel to the Messianic Age of the First Coming of Christ, the Age of the Cornerstone back then. It is in the Age of the Cornerstone in this end time, after the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church have passed. He will appear… where? In the Golden Age, the Age of the Cornerstone. And there, all the elect of God will be called and gathered, and there will be a great manifestation of God’s fullness in His Church, to receive the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
And Christ in Holy Spirit, which has been in His Church will have the overcomer of the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone. And therefore… Notice, Peter, James, and John were on Mount Transfiguration and they saw Jesus transfigured with Moses and Elijah, one on each side. That is what James and John wanted. They wanted that position. There, they saw the Order of the Coming of the Kingdom of God on Earth, in that vision.
And Revelation chapter 10, verse 1 and on… the Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven, who is Christ with the little Book opened in His Hand (which He took and opened in Heaven in chapter 5 and chapter 6 and in other Scriptures) now comes with the Title Deed open to bring it to His Church, and therefore to the messenger who will be in that stage of His Church, calling and gathering the elect of that age.
If the Mighty Angel of Revelation 10 had come in the time of Saint Paul, Saint Paul would have had to be the messenger for that time, and that time would have had to be the time of the Age of the Cornerstone.
In order to sit on the heavenly Throne, he had to be the messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone, which was Jesus, to sit in the heavenly Throne. In order to sit on the earthly Throne he must be the messenger of the Last Day, whom God will place, and therefore, he will have the blessing that James and John (or Jacob and John) wanted: to be at the Right Hand. Just as Christ is the Right Hand of God, and everything God does, He does it through Christ. Just as Joseph in Egypt was the right hand of Pharaoh, he was the administrator; and that is why Egypt was spared from the famine there was for the last seven years.
And now, when Christ places at His Right Hand in His earthly Kingdom… He said: “To them… to those for whom it is prepared.” It is prepared in God’s Program.
Someone will receive that blessing: the messenger of the Last Day, who will be calling and gathering with the Great Voice of Trumpet—the Last Message of God—the elect of the Last Day from among the Gentiles, those which are remaining for the Church to be completed in the Age of the Cornerstone.
And then, since the blessing of Moses and Elijah, the ministry of Moses and Elijah, also deals with the Hebrew people, then they also have the blessing of sounding the Trumpet, the Last Message, for the Hebrew people, and calling one hundred forty-four thousand Hebrews, twelve thousand from each tribe. It is that simple.
No one else can do that work, because it will not be a human work, but rather, it will be God working through the overcomer, and through the one… He will place him in His Kingdom at His Right Hand, and He will grant him to sit with Him on His Throne. He says: “Even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his Throne.”
In other words, the blessing of Moses on one side and Elijah on the other belongs to the one whom Christ will sit on His Throne.
Let’s put it this way: Christ in Heaven was seated at the Right Hand of God on God’s Throne, and He is the administrator of all Creation. There is no other administrator, it is Him; but in the earthly Kingdom, He will place someone in the administrative part.
Christ speaks about this in the parable of the talents and the mines and the faithful servant: “Who then is the wise servant whom his lord has made ruler… (over what?) over all his goods,” over all His wealth here on Earth. Christ will have an administrator just as He promised. It seems that James and John also remembered that promise. [Matthew 24:45-48.]
It will be a Kingdom of blessing in which Christ is the King, but He will sit someone with Him on His Throne, someone who will receive the blessing of Mount Transfiguration, of the left and right hand, the blessing of the right, let’s say of Moses; and the blessing of the left, Elijah.
It is promised that Elijah will come for the fifth time for the Jews, and that Moses will come; he will be a prophet like Moses. That is also what the Rabbis say. He will not be Moses and Elijah literally, but a man like Elijah was and like Moses was: a prophet. A prophet who will operate those ministries by the Holy Spirit in the Last Day.
We have seen that this entire Divine Program is tied to the sign of the Son of Man in Heaven, which we have been speaking about.
It is important to know what the Divine Program is according to our time, and thus, to receive the blessings of God that there are for our time.
The Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet is the Voice of Christ giving us His Last Message through the one who will sit with Christ on His Throne.
Now, for many people it sounds strange to say that He will place a king over His Throne, but remember that the Scripture says that God has made us unto our God, that Christ has made us unto our God kings and priests. And it also says that the saints will judge the world. Chapter 1, chapter 5, and chapter 20 of Revelation, and First Corinthians chapter 6 (there, it says that the saints will judge the world).
Remember that to judge the Jews, Christ said: “You, twelve, will sit upon twelve thrones and judge the twelve tribes of Israel.” [Matthew 19:28] That is the Cabinet regarding Israel. And regarding the Church, the Gentiles or the Universal Kingdom, there we have the saints, the believers in Christ who form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ as the members of the Judiciary, and Christ is the Supreme Judge. And if there is a Supreme Judge, there are judges in other categories, too.
And Christ is also the High Priest according to the Order of Melchizedek. Therefore, there are more priests. We are made kings and priests for God. And the priesthood Order of the Millennial Kingdom will be carried out by Christ and His Church.
As far as having priests besides them… we will see that when we are in the Millennium. It is possible that they are helpers, or whatever it may be.
Now, the “kings” part follows. The political part will also be directed, ruled by Christ and His Church. That is the political Cabinet of Christ. And the Judicial Cabinet is also made up of the believers themselves; and the religious Cabinet, the priesthood Order: the believers themselves.
It seems like a lot of work, but in glorified bodies we can travel with our thoughts, at the speed of thought, which is so fast that it would take you the same amount of time to come, to think… to think to come from where you are to where I am, as it would to go from where you are to Jupiter; it takes the same amount of time to think it.
Therefore, we will not have problems in the Kingdom of the Messiah. We have problems being in the earthly Kingdom, which is the kingdom ruled by the evil one; but when we are in the Kingdom of the Messiah here on Earth, it will be the Kingdom of God coming and being established as it was promised.
“THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN IN HEAVEN.” That is the subject of today’s Bible study.
We have seen that sign and we see the story of the Church since the apostolic times or since the times of the apostles; and we see the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ reflected in the Hebrew people, which is the shadow, the type and figure, of the Church of the New Covenant.
Israel is the Church of the Old Covenant, and there are three and a half years left for God to deal with them in the second part of the seventieth week of the prophecy of Daniel chapter 9.
That time has not come yet because there was a breach in the seventieth week, in the middle of it, and that’s the Age of the Dispensation of Grace, where the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ was born, is alive and reaches the crowning stage in this end time.
God continues to call those remaining, to complete His Church, because He can’t leave the Throne of Intercession until He completes His Church, until He has interceded for even the last one person who will form a part of His Church.
If there is anyone who still has not received Christ as his Savior, you can come up to the front and we will be praying for you so that Christ receives you, forgives you, and with His Blood cleanses you from all sin, baptizes you with the Holy Spirit and fire, and brings forth the new birth in you; and thus you are born in the Kingdom of Christ our Savior.
In other nations and places you can also come to the Feet of Christ so that you are included in the prayer we will be making for all those who are coming to the Feet of Christ on this occasion.
Children ten years and older can also come to the Feet of Christ our Savior. Christ said: “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” [Matthew 19:14.] And babies are presented to the Lord by bringing them to the front and praying for them.
When the last one written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, enters into the Mystical Body of Christ, Christ will have finished His Work of Intercession in Heaven. And He will come to carry out His Reclaiming Work, to claim back, to take the Book of Eternal Life, where our names have been written since before the foundation of the world.
God has many people here in Quito and in the entire Republic of Ecuador, and in all Latin American nations, and in North America, Africa, India, Canada, Alaska, in all countries; and He is calling them in this end time to place them in His Church, in His Mystical Body of believers.
“If today you hear His Voice, harden not your heart.” He is calling you because your name is written in the Book, the Title Deed, in the Book of Eternal Life.
When you hear the preaching of the Gospel of Christ and the faith of Christ is born in your soul, it’s because your name is written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
“My sheep hear my voice, and they follow me, and I know them, and I give unto them eternal life.” Why does Christ call His sheep? To give them eternal Life. He is the only One who can grant us eternal Life. We cannot pass through this Earth without making sure that we will live eternally in the Kingdom of Christ our Savior.
Life on this Earth is the only opportunity we have to live eternally. It is the only time where we are given an opportunity, the opportunity to live eternally, by hearing the Gospel of Christ, believing in Christ, receiving Him as our only and sufficient Savior.
When an individual dies, he has lost the opportunities. Therefore, we must take make use of our time on Earth to secure the most important thing, which is eternal Life.
Christ said in Saint Mark chapter 16, verses 15 to 16:
“Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.”
When it comes to the preaching of the Gospel of Christ there is one of two things a person can do: believe or disbelieve. Believe and receive eternal Life, or disbelieve and be condemned and cease to exist for all of eternity. The only opportunity one has to live eternally is to receive Christ as our only and sufficient Savior.
Let us stand to pray for the people who have come to the Feet of Christ, here and in other nations, so that Christ may receive them in His Kingdom.
With our heads bowed and our eyes closed:
Heavenly Father, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I come to You with all these people who have come to the Feet of Christ on this occasion. Receive them in Your Kingdom. I pray to You in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Now, repeat this prayer after me which we will make so that Christ receives you in His Kingdom:
Lord Jesus Christ, I heard the preaching of Your Gospel, and Your faith was born in me.
I believe in You with all my soul. I believe in Your First Coming. I believe in Your Name as the only Name given unto man whereby we must be saved. I believe in that Name given unto men under Heaven whereby we must be saved, obtain salvation and eternal Life.
I acknowledge that I am a sinner and that I need a Savior. I believe in Your death on Calvary’s Cross as the Sacrifice of the Atonement for our sins, and I give public testimony of my faith in You, and of Your faith in me, and I receive You as my only and sufficient Savior.
I pray You forgive me and with Your Blood cleanse me from all sin; and may You baptize me with the Holy Spirit and fire after I am baptized in water in Your Name. I pray to You in Your Eternal and glorious Name, Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Now, the question from the depths of your heart is: “When can I be baptized?”
Just like Peter and the apostles were asked on the Day of Pentecost, when about three thousand people who heard and believed wanted to know what to do: “What should we do to be saved? What shall we do?” Peter answered: “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” [Acts 2:38] And about three thousand believers were baptized that day, three thousand souls entered into the Kingdom of God.
Now, “when can I be baptized?” That is the question of each one of you here present, and those who are in other nations that have come to the Feet of Christ on this occasion.
You may be baptized, and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire, and bring forth the new birth in you; keeping in mind that water baptism is typological. When an individual receives Christ as Savior, he dies to the world; when the minister immerses him in the baptismal waters, he is dying… he is spiritually being buried; and when he is lifted from the baptismal waters, he is resurrected to eternal Life.
All of this is typological, because water does not take away sins, it is the Blood of Christ that cleanses us from all unrighteousness; but water baptism is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Even when John the Baptist was baptizing people who were coming and believing, Jesus Christ went to be baptized by John the Baptist, and then the Spirit of God came down in a form of a dove when Jesus rose from the waters.
Therefore, you may indeed be baptized and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire and bring forth the new birth in you.
We always find that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is followed by the preaching and water baptism for everyone who receives Him as their Savior. And the Gospel of Christ, salvation through Christ, the baptism in water for all those who believe continues to be preached. And we find that the Church has been growing a lot since the time of the apostles; and the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ continues to grow.
May God bless you and keep you, and continue having a joyful evening full of the blessings of Christ our Savior.
I leave the minister here with you to let you know what you must do to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And in every city, in every place in Ecuador, and in every country and place in different nations, I leave the minister concerned to do the same.
And we will see each other in the Kingdom of in glorified bodies when the Kingdom of Christ is established on this Earth. But first, we will be changed and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Therefore, we will continue to see each other eternally in the Kingdom of Christ our Savior.
“THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN IN HEAVEN.”