Miguel Bermúdez Marín, there in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, receive my greetings.
On this occasion we have the introduction to the subject of next Sunday’s Bible School, God willing, which will be: “GOD’S PROMISE TO ABRAHAM.”
For this reason, let’s read chapter 15, verses 1 to 6, of Genesis, which says:
“After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
And Abram said, Behold, to me thou hast given no seed: and, lo, one born in my house is mine heir.
And, behold, the word of the Lord came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
And he said unto him, I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it.
And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to comprehend It.
The subject for next Sunday’s Bible school, to which we will have a brief introduction, is: “GOD’S PROMISE TO ABRAHAM.”
Abraham, the father of faith, a dispensational messenger, he has great blessings obtained for all the believers in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Abraham was promised a son.
In Abraham’s life we find Divine cycles shown, from which we can learn a lot about God’s Program. For example, the promised son, the one who seemingly couldn’t come due to the old age of Abraham and Sarah, who had waited for twenty-five years for God to fulfill His promise of a son that He would give them, in whom all the nations would be blessed.
Abraham waited patiently and went through different stages until the time came in which the promised son was to come.
If we look carefully, there is a time in the Divine Program for everything;[1] and there is also a time for God to fulfill His Promise.
Abraham spent his first 50 years without receiving the promised son; there, his first year of jubilee passed, which is the 50th year of his life.
Then, we find that when he was 75 years old, he was made the promise that he would have a son;[2] and he waited. And when he reached the 99th year of his life, God was there to announce to him that the following year he would have the promised son.[3]
And why did God wait so long to give him the promised son? Because the Coming of the Messiah was represented in the promised son (which would be Isaac); it is represented there to be fulfilled in the 50th year, the year of jubilee; in the second jubilee of Abraham’s life the coming of the promised son would be fulfilled; in other words, it would be in the second year of jubilee, which is the 100th year of Abraham’s life. That is why we can see Abraham’s wait and we can see why God didn’t give him the promised son before Abraham’s 100th year.
There are two jubilee cycles: the first, the 50th year; and the second, the 100th year as well, which is the second 50th year of jubilee, which corresponds to this end time.
In the Coming of Christ two thousand years ago the cycle of the Year of Jubilee was being fulfilled. That is why He said: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me; because He has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor;” and He also said: “To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”[4] Isaiah, chapter 61, verses 1 to 3; and He stopped there. If he had continued reading, it would have said: “And the day of vengeance of our Lord.”
The day of vengeance is for the second Year of Jubilee, which is the one that corresponds to this end time; in which the Messiah the Prince is to proclaim, preach, announce the day of vengeance of our Lord; and He will do so as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, and Judge of all the Earth.
And that will fulfill the type and figure of the 100th year of Abraham’s life, in which he received the promised son. The promised son typifies the Prince Messiah coming at the Last Day.
Therefore, we find that it’s within the cycle parallel to the time of Jesus Christ back then, the cycle in which the Coming of the promised Son must be fulfilled in this end time, which will be the Coming of the Lord for the believers in Christ and then for the Hebrew people. As simple as that.
Now we can see why the Coming of the Lord, the Second Coming, couldn’t be fulfilled in past times, but rather in the 100th Year of Jubilee, represented in the 100th year, Abraham’s year of jubilee, in which the promised son was born: Isaac.
Therefore, the Isaac, the Son of Abraham at the Last Day, coming in the cycle of Jubilee Year, corresponds to this end time; and thus, corresponds to the Age of the Cornerstone, which is always the Age of the Year of Jubilee.
It was in a Year of Jubilee back then, in the days of Jesus, fulfilling Isaiah 61, verse 1 and on, to preach “the acceptable year of the Lord”; and the 50th year (which would be the 100th year of Abraham’s life) is the Divine cycle of the Age of the Cornerstone.
A Cornerstone Age always corresponds to the Year of Jubilee. Therefore, there are great blessings from God for me. And for whom else? For each one of you as well.
The ministry of the Messiah two thousand years ago was in a Year of Jubilee, and the time of the ministry of the Lord in His Coming at this end time, to proclaim the day of vengeance of our God, and to give us the faith to be transformed and taken with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, must be in a Year of Jubilee.
Now, how, when, will the promised Son be born in this Divine cycle represented in Abraham’s 100th year of life?
All of that will be fulfilled at this end time in the midst of Christianity, in the Age of the Cornerstone. Because the Church ages have already passed, the seventh stage or age has reached the end; and what comes after the seventh age is the breach, where the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ appears; and then we reach the Age of the Cornerstone, where the messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone must appear, through whom God will be fulfilling the prophecies of the Last Day.
And we will have the promised Son, the promised Isaac, the one who Isaac represents at this end time, in the Year of Jubilee, the 50th Year of Jubilee, which is represented in the 100th year of Abraham’s life.
The mystery of the Seventh Seal is contained in all of that, the mystery that will give us the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
That is the greatest mystery of all the mysteries in the Bible. It is so great and so important that God commanded John the apostle not to write what the Thunders spoke,[5] in order to avoid impersonations and interruptions of the Divine Program that would be carried out. That is the greatest mystery in the entire Bible, and it is the mystery which, once revealed, will give us the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
In plain words: the faith to be transformed and raptured is based on the revelation of the Seventh Seal: the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ coming to His Church to give Her the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
And the revelation of the Seventh Seal, the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ, is in the Seven voices of Revelation, chapter 10. In other words, the Seven Thunders of Revelation, chapter 10 (which is the Voice of the Mighty Angel who comes as the Lion of the tribe of Judah), is the Message of God that contains the revelation of the Seventh Seal, the revelation of the Coming of the Lord to His Church at this end time.
And it will also show us how He will reveal Himself to the Hebrew people; because the Divine cycle of the Cornerstone Age is the one that we are in and the one in which the fulfillment of all these promises must take place.
For example, the resurrection of Christ with the Old Testament saints took place in a Cornerstone Age, in the Age of the First Coming of the Lord; and the rapture also took place in that stage. And not only that, but the Day of Pentecost: the Coming of the Holy Spirit, also took place in a Cornerstone Age; and those who were in the Age of the Cornerstone with the Lord were His disciples. In other words, all of that will repeat itself in this end time in the Cornerstone Age.
That is why Reverend William Branham said on one occasion: “Look up, look at the age coming now: the Age of the Cornerstone.”[6]
And now we are living in the Age of the Cornerstone, we are living in the time of the Year of Jubilee, of the second part of Abraham’s life, of the 100th year of Abraham’s life; and the 100th year was the second jubilee year of Abraham’s life, that is, the second cycle of jubilee year in Abraham’s life.
Now we can see why he had to wait so long; but he didn’t despair, he waited with patience, knowing that the One who had made the promise was mighty to fulfill what He had promised. And that is why He appeared to him later on, before he reached the age of 100, when he was 99 years old, He appeared to him for the last time to give him the good news that the next year the promised son would already be with him.
That’s good news for Abraham, a 99-year-old elderly man; which is why he had to be rejuvenated, transformed; and Sarah, being 89 years old, also had to be transformed, because her time to have children had already passed. Who would expect an 89-year-old elderly woman to have a child? Anyone would have to say: “She has to be transformed, she has to go back to being young to expect to have a child.”
That’s what happened to Sarah and Abraham: they were transformed, rejuvenated, with the Coming of the Lord there among them when He appeared to them and said: “Next year you will have… the child will come.” In other words, the Coming of the Lord to them the day before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was also a great sign for the coming of the promised son.
And for those who are going to be transformed at the end time, the Church made up of the believers in Christ, we find that they have the promise to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; that is why they come up to the Age of the Cornerstone, they go up to that Divine cycle of the Year of Jubilee. Just as it happened in order for Abraham and Sarah to have the child: they had the child in the year of jubilee, the 50th year, the second 50th year of Abraham’s life, which is the 100th year of Abraham’s life, which represents all the believers in Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone.
Abraham had two Cornerstone Ages; in the second one was when he had the promised son. And the believers in Christ at this end time have the Age of the Cornerstone, the Age of the Year of Jubilee, to receive the blessings promised for the Year of Jubilee at the end time.
For this reason, let’s hold on tight to Christ, let’s be spiritually prepared; let’s prepare our soul, our spirit, and our body to be ready to receive our transformation soon; we don’t know what year, but we know it’s soon; we know that it’s for the Age of the Year of Jubilee, the Age of the Cornerstone.
We cannot go from there to another age. That is where we will receive the faith, the revelation to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, that is where we will receive everything we need in order to be ready to be taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
And just like on the Day of Pentecost, in a Cornerstone Age, there was a spiritual transformation in those who received the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit (and during that apostolic age they were receiving great blessings and spiritual transformation, in which they obtained the new birth); in the Age of the Cornerstone at the Last Day, the physical transformation will be received (which did not take place in the days of the apostles, because back then it was the spiritual transformation), which would only take place until the end time.
And now we are waiting for the second portion. The first is the spiritual transformation, where the person receives the new birth; and the second is the physical transformation, where people will receive the new, eternal, immortal, incorruptible, glorified body, just like the glorified body that Jesus Christ our Savior has; a young and eternal body for all eternity. That is what God has for me, and for who else? For each one of you too.
May you all have a very good evening.
And greetings to Puerto Rico, God bless you all there in Puerto Rico. May everyone there in Puerto Rico have a good evening.
“GOD’S PROMISE TO ABRAHAM.”
[1] Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
[2] Genesis 15:1-21
[3] Genesis 18:1-10
[4] Luke 4:16-21
[5] Revelation 10:4
[6] Quotations, p. 37, para. 311: 60-0522E – “Adoption #4”, pp. 9-10, paras. 34, 36