Good morning, beloved brethren present, and ministers present, and those in different nations and different cities and places in Colombia, along with your congregations, connected to this activity via satellite or internet.
May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and also upon me, and may He open the Scriptures to us and open our understanding so that we understand them at this end time.
I want to greet Reverend José Benjamín Pérez there in Puerto Rico, Minister of The Great Tent Cathedral in Puerto Rico, and congratulate him and all those who have participated in the “Youth Summer Workshop” in Puerto Rico, which took place this month, and today, Sunday, this “Youth Summer Workshop” in Puerto Rico concludes. It has been a total success, and will continue to be a success every time it is held; a success today and always.
For this occasion, let’s read in Second Peter, chapter 1, verses 19 to 21; and it says the following:
“We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”
And Revelation, chapter 1, verse 1 to 3, tells us:
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.”
And the third Scripture is in Saint Luke, chapter 24, verse 44 and on; and it says: “And he said unto them…,” Jesus speaking with His disciples after resurrecting:
“And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
And ye are witnesses of these things.
And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
Our subject for today’s Sunday Bible school is: “THE COMPLETE FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECIES FOR THE LAST DAY.”
The Work of God has always been to fulfill what He has said He will do, which He has made known through His Prophets; for in Hebrews, chapter 1, it says… Hebrews, chapter 1, verse 1 and on, says:
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high…”
God, who spoke through the prophets… it says: “… hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son.”
The Last Days are the three millennial days before God: the fifth millennium, sixth millennium, and seventh millennium. The seventh millennium before God is the Last Day before God. “For one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day,” it tells us in Second Peter, chapter 3, verse 8; and Psalm *90 [verse 4].
When we say: “One day before God,” that’s one thousand years to human beings; because one day before God is like a thousand years to the human beings.
And now, in Zechariah, it tells us… Chapter 7 of Zechariah, verses 11 to 12, says:
“But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.”
How did God send His Word to the Hebrew people? By His Spirit through whom? Through the prophets; because every Word must come by the Holy Spirit through a prophet; that has always been the Divine order, yesterday, today, and always.
That is why, when we are told about the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, of Revelation chapter 1, verse 1 and on, which also appears throughout the entire book of Revelation, that is a spirit of a prophet that God sends in the midst of His Church to bring the Divine revelation of the book of Revelation, of all the things that will come to pass during the Dispensation of Grace and during the Dispensation of the Kingdom, and then in eternity.
That is the way that the apocalyptic revelation is brought from the Lord Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit through His Angel-Messenger; before whom John the apostle knelt down to worship in chapter 19, and the Angel says to him: “See that you do it not: for I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets. Worship God.”[1]
Because that Angel is not Jesus Christ; that is why He didn’t receive the worship that John wanted to offer Him. It is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; just like in the Old Testament the Scripture tells us that the Angel of the Lord appeared to the different prophets. The Angel of the Lord, who is Christ in His heavenly body, called the Angel of the Covenant, appeared to them. And just like in the Old Testament God has His Angel, His Messenger, in the New Testament Christ has His Angel, to make known through His Angel the things which must shortly be done, as it was said that He will do.
And if He says it will be through His Angel, then it must be through His Angel. Revelation 22, verse 6, says:
“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”
To show His servants the things which must shortly be done, whom does He say He has sent? His Angel, the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; of whom Reverend William Branham says, in the book of The Ages and the book of The Seals… I’ll read to you what he says from the book of Quotations, a quote taken from the book of The Ages; he says… Page 41 of the book of Quotations, paragraph 330,[2] says:
330 – “108 And it was sent to the… ‘And signified this (that is, he conveyed it, he made it known) by his angel unto John.’ We do not know who the angel was. The Bible doesn’t say who the angel was. But we know that it was a prophet, ’cause the Bible later said, that, ‘I Jesus have sent my angel to testify these things which must shortly come to pass.’
109 Then we find out that when John started to worship the angel, the angel said, ‘See that you do it not.’ Revelation 22, I believe it is. And he said, ‘For I am of thy fellowservants and of the prophets.’ It might have been Elijah. It might have been one of the prophets. John was an apostle. But this prophet was sent.
110 And John, being an apostle, look at the nature of the rest of his epistles, prove that it wasn’t John wrote it, because it has no nature like John. Take First John, Second John, so forth, and read it. And look at the nature of that, then look at the nature of this. John was a writer and was an apostle, but this is the spirit of a prophet. It’s a different person, altogether.”
And now let’s read a quote from the book of The Seals, which is found here in this book of Quotations, on page 94, paragraph 811;[3] and it says:
811 – “201 Have you caught anything? (…) I might not have to tell you then, Sunday. Notice. Notice. Wonderful! Now, now, notice now.
202 And then according to the—the time that God was going to deliver the antediluvian world, He sent the eagle (remember that an eagle represents a prophet).
And time He was going to deliver Israel, He sent the eagle (whom? Moses. Before the flood, He sent whom? Noah).
203 Do you believe that the time, even on John, on the isle of Patmos, this Message was so perfect that He couldn’t trust It with an Angel? You know, an angel is a messenger. But do you know the messenger was a prophet? You believe that? Let’s prove it. Revelation 22, let’s see if it was a eagle. Yeah. See, he was a…Sure, he was an angel, he’s the messenger, but it was a prophet that revealed this whole Book of Revelation to him.
204 Revelation, the 22nd chapter and the 19th verse. (…)
205 Watch what John seen here.
…I John saw these things, and heard them.
206 Now he’s closing. This is the last chapter.
…And when I…heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which showed these things, which showed me these things.
207 And, ‘he,’ then, ‘the angel,’ see.
Then said he to me, See thou do it not:…
208 No true prophet would be worshipped, or messenger of any kind, see. (…)
Then said he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them that keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
209 See? Now, the Book was so important, that, It is the Word of God. Now watch. And when the Word of God is brought forth, It’s got to be brought by the prophet, because that’s who the Word of God comes to.
210 I was expecting to get a question on that, in—in this box here. I thought I’d just beat them to it, a little bit, you know. I just feel there’s one in there like that, that’s all. I—I just thought I’d get to it, you see. See?
211 Every Word of God is brought. The Bible doesn’t change the system, at all, see. It’s the same thing. It’s got to come to this seer that we’re expecting to arrive, now notice, Revelation 10:1, 7.”
It has already been established, from the words that the Spirit of God said to Reverend William Branham, that the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ of the book of Revelation —who brings the revelation of Christ— is a prophet-messenger to whom the Word comes. He is the Angel-Messenger of Jesus Christ. Just like in the Old Testament the Angel-Messenger of God was Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, it was the Holy Spirit, Christ in Holy Spirit; and now in the New Testament, the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is a prophet as well.
There is a great mystery there, which will be opened at the Last Day for the benefit of all the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Someday everyone will know who is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, bringing the revealed Word to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Word promised to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We already know that a spirit of a prophet, a prophet in his heavenly body, is the one who was bringing the Word to John the apostle, the revelation of the book of Revelation, which is the revelation of Christ for His Church and the things that would be carried out by Christ in the midst of His Church.
And now, the book of Revelation contains everything that would take place during the Dispensation of Grace, during the Dispensation of the Kingdom, and in eternity. And that comes revealed to the Church through Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in the midst of His Church, and sending His Angel-Messenger to testify these things which must shortly come to pass. It is the Word of prophecy, which is like a light that shines in a dark place.
Mankind is in darkness. That Word of prophecy shines in the midst of mankind, revealing the things which must shortly come to pass: during the Dispensation of Grace, and then during the Dispensation of the Kingdom, and then in eternity.
And therefore, the things which must shortly come to pass will be fulfilled; as were the prophecies for the First Coming of Christ in His Work of Redemption, which He would carry out by dying on Calvary’s Cross. That is why in Saint Luke, chapter 24, He tells His disciples that the prophets and the psalms spoke of Him, and Moses.
Saint Luke… the passage we read from chapter 24, verse 44 and on, which says:
“And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures…”
To understand the Scriptures, God must open our understanding. And Christ was the One who opened the understanding of His disciples, and Christ is the One who opens our understanding so that we understand the Scriptures.
“And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
And ye are witnesses of these things.”
And He also tells them:
“And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.”
In other words, He shows them what the Word of prophecy is, what was spoken about Him, what Moses spoke, what the prophets and the psalms spoke; and He said it was necessary for it to happen that way.
The Word of prophecy is God’s thought spoken by the prophets, regarding the things which must come to pass. Once that Word of prophecy is spoken, It must materialize, It must be fulfilled. That is the Voice of God through human veils, veils of flesh, which are the prophets to whom the Word of God comes.
Whenever there is a promise that God will speak to His people, He will have a veil of flesh, a prophet, to whom the Word will come; and through that prophet, God by His Spirit will speak to His people who are under the Covenant that is in effect for that time.
Therefore, there are great blessings for this end time, for the complete fulfillment of the prophecies for the Last Day. There are many prophecies parallel to the prophecies of the First Coming of Christ; such are the prophecies for the Second Coming of Christ.
Just as there was a Cornerstone Age in the First Coming of Christ… Because if the Cornerstone comes, then the Age is a Cornerstone Age; and therefore the words of prophecy for that age must be fulfilled in that age; and the instrument that God has for that time will receive those words, he will speak them to the people, and they will materialize in the midst of the human race.
That is how it was in the First Coming of Christ, where He had a messenger that He sent before Him, which was John the Baptist, the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ; and he said: “He is greater than I.”[4] And so, at the Last Day there will also be a Cornerstone Age, for the Coming of the Cornerstone, the Coming of Christ to His people of the New Covenant to completely fulfill the prophecies of the Last Day.
The prophecies of the Last Day will be fulfilled in the age parallel to the First Coming of Christ: the Age of the Cornerstone. Therefore, in the midst of the Gentile people, in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, there will be a Cornerstone Age, just as there was in the midst of the Hebrew people two thousand years ago, where the Word of prophecy that was spoken by Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, was fulfilled.
Likewise, there is a Cornerstone Age for the Coming of the Cornerstone, the Coming of Christ to His Church at this end time, for THE COMPLETE FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECIES OF THE LAST DAY; to give us the revelation of the Seventh Seal, the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, with the little Book open in His hand; to feed us that little Book, which the messenger relevant to the Age of the Cornerstone must eat first, so that he then passes It on to us and also feeds us of the same Word that he will eat at that Last Day.
“For man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”[5] And every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God… God’s prophets are the mouth of God, through whom God speaks from age to age and from dispensation to dispensation.
Therefore, it is important to know which are the prophecies of the Last Day, because each one of them will be fulfilled at this end time, in the Golden Age of the Church, the Age of the Cornerstone, the Age of the Coming of the Lord to His Church at the Last Day, in which we are living.
Therefore, it is important for us to be aware that God will be opening the Scriptures to us and opening our understanding so that we understand the prophecies for the Last Day and their fulfillment in the midst of His Church at this end time.
Therefore, let’s be alert, because there are great blessings for us at this end time. Even in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16, it says: “I Jesus have sent My Angel to testify unto you these things which must shortly come to pass.” Let’s read it so that we have a clear picture:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.”
And everything Christ says, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ says it at the Last Day, because She repeats what Christ is saying by His Spirit through His Angel-Messenger at the Last Day, at this end time, in the Age of the Cornerstone. Because the Second Coming of Christ is the Coming of the Cornerstone. Christ is the Cornerstone, the Stone cut out without hands of chapter 2 of the book of the prophet Daniel.
This is the time for the fulfillment of the Coming of the Cornerstone, the Second Coming of Christ to His Church in the Age of the Cornerstone (the age of and for the Coming of the Lord at this end time); to give us the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; to eat that seven-sealed Book which is given to Christ in Revelation, chapter 5, who opens It; and in Revelation, chapter 10, He brings It open and gives It to John the apostle (who is the type and figure of the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of this end time); and He gives It to him for him to eat It and then prophesy.
And the ones who prophesy in Revelation 11, are the Two Olive Trees, Moses and Elijah, who appear in Revelation 11 to prophesy and bring the Word to the Hebrew people, who are waiting for the coming of Elijah and the coming of Moses and the Coming of the Messiah. But before that He comes to His Church, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone. As simple as that.
Therefore, THE COMPLETE FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECIES FOR THE LAST DAY will be in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone in which we live, to which we have come up, and in which we are waiting for the complete fulfillment of the prophecies relevant to the Last Day, in which we live. That is where we will receive the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Who were the ones that received the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost (where the promise was to be endued with power from on High)? Those who were in the Age of the Cornerstone with Christ in His First Coming.
And who are the ones that will receive the transformation, the physical adoption? Those who will be in the Age of the Cornerstone, in the final manifestation of Christ and in the complete fulfilment of the prophecies of the Last Day.
Today, Sunday, Bible School day, Sunday School day, we want to clearly understand that the prophecies of the Last Day will be fulfilled in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and that it’s to His Church, in that age, that Christ will come in the fulfilment of His Second Coming; and He will come with His Angels. “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,” says Saint Matthew, chapter 16, verses 26 to *28.
And on Mount Transfiguration, in chapter 17 of Saint Matthew (in the same book of Saint Matthew as well), Christ goes with His disciples Peter, James, and John, to a high mountain, He is transfigured before them; and Moses and Elijah appear on each side of Jesus: Moses on one side and Elijah on the other. That is the order of the Second Coming of Christ.
The mountain represents the Church, and there Christ is representing His Second Coming with His Angels, as He said He would come at the Last Day.
His Angels are the Two Olive Trees, Moses and Elijah, coming at this end time with Christ to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then they will go to the Hebrew people for the work that needs to be done with 144,000 chosen Hebrews, who will be called and gathered, and who will be the eunuchs of the Temple. “THE COMPLETE FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECIES OF THE LAST DAY” will be that simple.
And the ones that have to do with us will be fulfilled at this end time, as they are prophesied. Therefore, we always await THE COMPLETE FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECIES OF THE LAST DAY, in which we are living.
We are still living and enjoying the prophecies of the Last Day that have already been fulfilled in His Church at this end time; and we are also waiting for the ones that are still left to be fulfilled, so that we can enjoy them, hear them, understand them, and receive the benefit of the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Last Day, in which we are happily living with Christ in His Church, in His Mystical Body of believers.
And His Church is the second Eve, and Christ is the second Adam, who has been reproducing Himself in His Church from age to age; reproducing Himself in sons and daughters of God according to the Divine Program, for the birth – the new birth of God’s sons and daughters into the Kingdom of God.
In Saint John, chapter 3, Christ said to Nicodemus: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, unless a man is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” Just like in order to see the earthly kingdom in which we live, we had to be born into this earthly kingdom through our earthly parents; and in order to see the Kingdom of God and live in the Kingdom of God, we have to be born again, born of the Water and of the Spirit.
And this takes place in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ through the Water (the Word, the Gospel), and the Holy Spirit, which brings forth the new birth, and thus, we are born in the Kingdom of God as sons and daughters of God. And therefore, we are sealed with the Holy Spirit until the Day of Redemption, which will be the day of the physical adoption, of the redemption of our body, from a mortal body to an immortal and glorified body, just like the body of Christ our Savior.
That is the promise, the goal: that we all be in His image and likeness. In His Image: a heavenly, spiritual body; and to His likeness: a physical, glorified, young, eternal, immortal, incorruptible body, like the body Jesus Christ our Savior has.
Therefore, we trust that soon the number of God’s elect in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is completed, so that Christ can leave the Throne of Intercession, where He is High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek, making intercession with His own Blood for all those who have been written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, before the foundation of the world.
Remember that our names have been written in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world; in other words, we were in God eternally. That is why none of the elect written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, can be lost. They come from eternity to have a manifestation in human flesh here on Earth, to come in contact with Christ and obtain the spiritual redemption, and then the physical redemption of the body, and to be restored to Eternal Life.
In other words, we were in God eternally and we have been written in the Lamb’s Book of Life eternally. God is the One who wrote our names there, and that is why we can never be lost. “He that is of God hears God’s Voice.”[6]
And Christ says: “No man can come to Me, unless the Father which has sent Me draws him.”[7] In other words, it is something that was ordained by God before the foundation of the world.
We don’t remember anything from millions of years ago because we weren’t in physical bodies; rather, we are living souls and we hadn’t been manifested in heavenly bodies, like Christ was manifested in a heavenly, a theophanic body, called the Holy Spirit and called the Angel of the Covenant. But that manifestation is obtained when we receive the Holy Spirit, and then we have a heavenly body from Heaven; and that is why Christ says: “In this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you in My Name; rejoice because your names are written in Heaven.”[8]
Remember that the believers in Christ, their citizenship is heavenly, according to Philippians, chapter 3, verse 20 to 21: “For our conversation is in Heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself.” [9]
He has the power to subdue all of Creation unto Himself; and it’s with that power that He will transform our physical bodies, so that we may be physically like the physical body that He has, glorified and young for all eternity.
All of that is in THE COMPLETE FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECIES OF THE LAST DAY, which must be fulfilled. And therefore, we will always be in the Mystical Body of Christ, in the age relevant to us, which is the Age of the Cornerstone.
There, in that age, is where we have been called by the Holy Spirit in His manifestation of the Age of the Cornerstone, just like in each age, the Holy Spirit, Christ in Holy Spirit through the messenger of each age, called the elect of each age to the age relevant to them; He called them and sealed them in that age through the Holy Spirit until the Day of Redemption; in other words, until the day in which we, our bodies, will be physically redeemed; and we will have eternal, glorified, and young bodies for all eternity.
He is still calling and gathering the elect of the Last Day, of the Age of the Cornerstone. That is the place in the parable of the servants who went to look for people to bring to the supper; and then they returned and said: “It is done as you have commanded, and yet there is room.”[10]
The only place left in the Mystical Body of Christ is the Most Holy Place, which is the Age of the Cornerstone. That is where He places them at this end time for the blessing and COMPLETE FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECIES FOR THE LAST DAY, and to bring the blessing to the elect of the Last Day in the most important age of all the stages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, we are grateful to God for the blessing of the prophecies of the Last Day for the complete fulfillment at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone.
It has been a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you about our Bible study subject: “THE COMPLETE FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECIES FOR THE LAST DAY.”
May God bless you and keep you; and we will continue to see each other in the Kingdom of Christ our Savior for all eternity.
“THE COMPLETE FULFILLMENT OF THE PROPHECIES FOR THE LAST DAY.”
[1] Revelation 19:10, 22:8-9
[2] Quotations, p. 41, para. 330: 60-1204M – “The Revelation Of Jesus Christ,” p. 15, paras. 108-110
[3] Quotations, p. 94, para. 811: The Seals, “The Fifth Seal,” pp. 24-25, paras. 201-211
[4] Matthew 3:11
[5] Matthew 4:4
[6] John 8:47
[7] John 6:44
[8] Luke 10:20
[9] The Bible in Spanish reads: “For our citizenship is in Heaven…” —Translator
[10] Luke 14:16-24