Good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren, fellow ministers in the Mystical Body of Christ, and ladies who support the Work of the Lord, like those ladies who worked in the Work of God in the time of Moses, in the time of the different prophets, and in the time of the Lord Jesus Christ and also of the apostles.
May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you who are present, and those who are connected through the Amazonas satellite in different nations.
There is a very great prophecy related to a Great Tent Cathedral that will appear in the midst of Christianity, and God will be manifested for the blessing of the human family; it will be a manifestation of Love Divine in favor of the human beings.
Therefore, we hope to see that project completely made a reality soon.
All projects take a certain amount of time. You can see government projects: sometimes they take so long that the president in office doesn’t even have time to fully carry it out, but at least he gets it started; and the same happens with governors and mayors: sometimes they don’t have enough time and they have to be reelected in order to continue and conclude the projects they had. All projects are like that because they have requirements established by the law or laws in each country.
Let’s read the Scriptures in Saint John, chapter 13, verses 31 to 35, which tells us, Jesus Christ tells us:
“Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me: and as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come; so now I say to you.
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
“THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE DISCIPLES OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”
Christ says: “By this you shall know that you are My disciples (by what?), by having love for one another.”
The manifestation of love among brethren is evidence that the love of God is in the heart of those people, and that they are truly disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, they follow the teaching of their Master and love their Master: the Lord Jesus Christ.
“THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE DISCIPLES OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”
When Moses built the tabernacle, and then, later on, Solomon built the temple, both of them (the tabernacle Moses built and the temple King Solomon built) are a type and figure of the heavenly Temple; that is why the things that are in the tabernacle and later in the temple that Solomon built, represent the heavenly things, the things of the heavenly Temple.
And now, we find that the most important part of the temple is the holy of holies, where the ark of the covenant is; because in Heaven the most important thing is the place where God’s Throne is; nothing is more important.
It’s just like in an earthly kingdom. What is the most important part of an earthly kingdom? Where is the most important part? Well, where the throne is; because that is where the king is, and from there come the orders to rule the people who belong to that kingdom.
And now, since God is love,[1] notice where the Love of God is manifested: in the Holy of Holies, and from there it goes out to all the other parts of the Temple.
And the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is a spiritual Temple made up of human beings who are believers in Christ; just as each believer in Christ as well, as an individual, is a human temple.
Jesus Christ Himself, standing in front of the temple, there in chapter 2 of Saint John, verses 17 and on, says: “Destroy this temple…,” He was in front of the earthly temple: “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
The Jews said to him: “In 46 years this temple was built, this temple was raised up, and now You say that in three days You will raise it up?”
But He was not speaking of the temple of stones; He was speaking of His body. Why? Because the body is a temple for God to dwell in, and we all know that God dwelled in Jesus Christ in all His fullness.
Therefore, the human Temple of God was Jesus Christ; that is why He said: “The Father that dwells in Me, He does the works. I do nothing of Myself; and as I hear the Father speak, so do I speak.”[2] Meaning, It was the Word of God, of the Father, through Jesus Christ, and it was the Works of the Father through Jesus Christ.
And He also said: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me.”[3] Notice, and if He was the One anointed by the Holy Spirit, Anointed One means ‘Messiah,’ ‘the Christ’; He was the Christ, the Messiah, the Anointed One.
And now, we find that the love of God was expressed through Jesus Christ in all its fullness; He is the person in whom the fullness of God dwelled. In no other person, in no other prophet, did the fullness of God dwell; only in Jesus Christ. And now, we find that —therefore— the Divine attributes were manifested in all their fullness through Jesus Christ (consequently).
And now, Christ says that as the Father loved Him, He has loved us.[4] Christ as Son of David is the Beloved: “This is My beloved Son (God the Father says on the Mount of Transfiguration); hear Him.”[5] Whom must we hear? The Beloved, Jesus Christ. David means ‘beloved’.
And all the born again believers in Christ are descendants of God, because they come by Christ through the new birth; and therefore, they belong to a new race that God is creating, a new race with Eternal Life, in whom God placed the soul of those sheep of the Father to be restored to Eternal Life, so that they obtain Eternal Life. Those people are written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life; those people are the elect, the chosen ones, the predestined of God. The Scripture speaks to us of the elect, the chosen ones, the predestined.
Since Love Divine is the greatest thing a person can have and express, and God is in the Most Holy Place of the heavenly Temple, on His Throne…
Notice, we find that throughout the ages, different Divine virtues have been manifested in the believers. At this time, the manifestation is the one of Love Divine; because it is the time that corresponds, in the type and figure, to the Most Holy Place in the heavenly Temple, to the most holy place in the tabernacle that Moses built and to the most holy place in the temple that King Solomon built.
Love conquers everything.
And thanks to love, the human race still exists. Without love, we would not exist on Earth; because us appearing on Earth has been a manifestation of our parents’ love.
No other virtue is higher than love; to the extent that love even conquers what cannot be conquered; it will even conquer the devil himself.
Love defeats all things contrary to God.
And therefore, the words of Christ: “Love one another,” and: “By this you shall know that you are my disciples, by having love for one another”; and now, that will show that Christ in Spirit is in the heart of each person.
Love Divine corresponds to the person’s soul. Brotherly love corresponds to the person’s spirit. Those are two very different things.
Human love, phileo love, which may exist between two people, but then they fight and that human love goes away; but Love Divine will remain forever; to the point that Jesus Christ says on Calvary’s Cross: “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.”[6]
That is the identification of the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ; and for that, the Holy Spirit must be in the person; and the person must be in the relevant time in the Divine Program, in the relevant dispensation and age, for that Love Divine to flow from the depths of people’s hearts. And always love God above all things, because heavenly Love, Love Divine is above earthly love.
It is important for each person to understand that the evidence of the Holy Spirit in the person is that he believes the Word, the Message that corresponds to his time; and then the Divine Program and the Work of God flows through the person. It has always been that way.
For the end time we have the promise that the fullness of God is going to be manifested, that a Great Tent Cathedral is going to emerge in the midst of Christianity, that a Third Pull of the Divine Program is going to be manifested, and that the Church is going to receive the rapturing faith, the faith to be transformed and raptured and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
At that time, when that promise is going to be fulfilled, there will be many people who are believers in Christ: ministers, congregations, and individuals, who will catch that Divine Program and will be working in that Divine Program; and that will be God working in them, so that what God has promised becomes a reality, is fulfilled. Because God has to use human beings to carry out His Work; it is through human beings that God works.
Therefore, all nations would desire for it to be in their country; and therefore, in every country, they should desire for it to be in their country; but they should also stand behind the country that is working on that project.
And if it will be fulfilled in a few countries at the same time, well, that is also good. It doesn’t matter in how many countries; if it is fulfilled in 20 or 30 countries, even better; but that will be determined by God. Therefore, the important thing is that everything is ready.
And if someone were to think: “Well, it won’t be in that country though,” then God must have another country.
And a Great Tent Cathedral will be installed in some country. It doesn’t matter where it is manufactured, what matters is where it will be set up.
Therefore, the doors are left open for all countries; but remember, who makes the election? God.
All countries will cooperate; and wherever it is set up, every believer will be able to say: “I have a little part there —that is the important thing—, I supported. I did not oppose this project, even if it wasn’t in my country, because it is a Divine project that was already seen maaany years ago; therefore, I will be like Joshua and Caleb: hand in hand, just as they were hand in hand with Moses. I will not be like other people, who rose up against it and said: ‘It’s not possible for us to conquer that promised land; there are many problems, many obstacles, it’s impossible. And the people who live in those places are giants.’[7] But Joshua and Caleb said: ‘They are bread for us. Yes, we can!”[8]
By faith, based on the Word, promises are conquered.
And therefore, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, those who will be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, will conquer that promise; they will, by faith… they will carry out the works of faith, which is the work that they have to do, for it to become a reality. And I am one of those, and whom else? Each one of you as well.
Now, it will be in a time of squeeze for the believers in Christ. Therefore, when you see that squeezes or a squeeze may come against God’s people, against the believers, don’t think about the problem, think about what is promised: that the fulfillment of the Tent Vision will be in a time of squeeze. But the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb will be given; and the Plagues – the Vials and the Plagues will be spoken, the Trumpets, all of this, will be spoken of; that is, there will be a lot of spiritual Food.
When everything is fulfilled and the Divine Program is completed and we are transformed, the believers will say: “God fulfilled what He promised; and now we are transformed with glorified bodies, like the one of Jesus Christ.” That will be when we are already transformed.
And whoever did nothing in favor or stood up against it, will say: “I did nothing; and to make matters worse, I stood against it.” And he will be able to say: “I truly deserve the great tribulation.” Because some will go to the great tribulation and others will go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Whatever you don’t understand now, you will understand later; don’t worry, there are things we don’t understand, and that’s fine; because sometimes we understand something and we spread it, and sometimes the enemy hears it and wages war against us. That is why sometimes God keeps a lot of things to Himself without making them known.
And now, it is important that the love of God, Love Divine, flows in and from our hearts towards our other brethren; and that we always have each other’s back. And never lend an ear to the negative things said against the brethren, the congregations, or the ministers, always follow the recommendation that Reverend William Branham gave in these words he spoke to the believers: “Words To The Bride” (that is what they titled these words that he spoke); and he spoke this in the message: “Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed,”[9] preached on July 28, 1963, by Reverend William Marrion Branham. He says:
“80 Love one another, above everything. Love one another. Don’t…No matter what the devil tries to say!”
Remember that the devil will try to use whoever allows himself to be used, to speak ill, against the brethren, or against the ministers, or against the congregations, or against whatever project they are carrying out for God’s glory.
“[80] Now you’re all one great big sweet group now, but remember my warning (but remember my warning), see, Satan won’t let that stay that way (in other words, he won’t let you be at peace). No, sir. He’ll shoot everything, if he has to bring somebody in to make his target. He’ll bring some critic or unbeliever in, and sit him down, and cause him to fellowship with you under the quietness and things, and then he’ll shoot that guy with some kind of a poison stuff, and he’ll start through the church with it.”
With something against someone, or against all the ministers, or against all the congregations, or against all the work that is being done; someone who will begin to criticize, and say: “That is not right, that is wrong,” or “that is not the way it is,” or “that project is not right,” or “it is not of God.” But we already know that the projects that are carried out are based on the Word.
He says:
“[80] … and then he’ll shoot that guy with some kind of a poison stuff, and he’ll start through the church with it. Don’t you take sides with it. Don’t you have nothing to do with anything else.”
In other words, don’t join such people to support them, because then you become part of that group, like the group of Korah, Abiram… Dathan and Abiram: who rose up against Moses and were swallowed up by the earth and went to the place where they belonged.[10]
God’s judgment comes upon those people, sooner or later. They may say: “Nothing has happened to us,” but they are under a curse, at some point it will happen to them; as it happened to those who rose up against Moses, who didn’t want Moses to enter the promised land with the people.
Now, he says:
“[80] You stay right loving and sweet and kind to one another. Pray for that man (or woman), that he’ll be saved too, or that woman, or ever who it is, just pray for them. And stick one with another.
81 And stay with your pastor. See, he’s the shepherd, and you give him respects. He’ll lead you through, and, ’cause he’s ordained of God to do so.
82 Now do you remember that? [Congregation says, ‘Amen.’—Ed.] The enemy will come. And when he does, just cling that much closer together. And the one that the devil is using for an enemy will either get out or come in and be one of you. That’s all.
83 Don’t never clan among one…or—or talk, make yourself clannish.”
Don’t form little groups to make yourselves clans that support a person who is attacking the Work of God, who is speaking ill of the pastors, or the congregations, or the projects that are carried out. Never do something like that. Remember: you would find yourselves forming part of… a group like the one of Dathan, Korah, and Abiram, and other groups who rose against Moses when they were on their way to the promised land.
Remember that we are on our way to the promised land of the new body, of the glorified body, and to the promised land: to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven.
“[83] We are one. I couldn’t say, ‘Left hand, I’m—I’m mad at you, I’m going to take you away ’cause you’re not a right hand.’ He’s my left hand. I want him to stay there. Even the little tip of my finger, I want to stay right there, every little part of my body stay right there. And God wants us, as a body of believers, to stay right exactly with one another, right at with one another.
84 And now you’ve got tapes on that. You’ve got tapes on what we believe. You’ve got tapes on discipline in the church, how we behave ourself in the church of God, how we got to come here together and sit together in Heavenly places.”
We are called to gather for the activities. On Sundays, Reverend William Branham says it is a sin to go and do anything other than being in the service.[11]
He goes on to say:
“[84] Don’t stay home.”
Some say: “I’m tired today, I can’t go, I won’t go.” That is wrong. It’s the day of the resurrection of Christ, Sunday, and we are meant to be gathered, worshiping God, praising God, and hearing His Word. There are Bible schools in the morning at churches.
Now, he goes on to say:
“[84] If God is in your heart, you can’t hardly wait for them doors to open out yonder, to get in here to fellowship with your brothers. If you don’t—don’t feel that way, then I tell you, it’s time you got to praying.
85 Cause, we’re in the last days, where the Bible exalted, or, exhorted us to—to, ‘Much more as we see that day approaching,’ to love one another with Christian love and Divine love, ‘to assemble ourselves together in Heavenly places and—and—and Christ Jesus,’ and love one another. ‘This will all man know you are My disciples, when you have love one for the other.’ That’s right. Stay right together.
86 If the brother, you think he’s a little wrong, or the sister, say, ‘Lord, don’t let me never have the root of bitterness spring up, ’cause it’ll—it’ll affect him, and it’ll take the Christ right out of my life.’ That poison acids of malice, and jealousy, and hatred, that will just take the Holy Spirit right away from you. It will run Him from the tabernacle here. It’ll kill the Spirit of God, or drive It away from here, hurt your pastor. It’ll do everything. See? Don’t you do that.
87 You just wax that much closer together. Draw up the…Take the buckle, as the brother testified, a minister here the other night, about having a buckle, seeing it in a vision.”
It’s like on a plane, where you buckle your seatbelt, and like you buckle your belt as well; that’s also a saying: “Buckle up.”
“[87] … as the brother testified, a minister here the other night, about having a buckle (meaning, a belt buckle), seeing it in a vision. Just, that buckles on the whole armor of God.”
Like those… those old war garments, that had their buckles, which had to be buckled up tight; so, the person must buckle on the whole armor of God, have it buckled up tight.
“[87] Just pull her on, tighten up, move right up close to one another. Love one another, anyhow. Talk nice about one another…”
Sometimes we hear people speaking ill about the brethren. Don’t you do that, that is wrong. Pray instead. Whatever you have to say, say it to God; and ask God to have mercy on your brother.
“[87] Talk nice about one another, say nice things about one another, and then God will bless you.”
With this, I’ll conclude this chat with you in Love Divine, as: “THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE DISCIPLES OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”
May God bless you and keep you. And I’ll leave Missionary Miguel Bermúdez Marín with you to continue.
God bless you, Miguel. God bless you all.
“THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE DISCIPLES OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”
[1] 1 John 4:8-16
[2] John 5:19, 8:28, 14:10
[3] Luke 4:18
[4] John 15:9
[5] Matthew 17:1-8, Mark 9:2-8, Luke 9:28-36
[6] Luke 23:34
[7] Numbers 13:31-33
[8] Numbers 14:9
[9] 63-0728 – “Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed,” pp. 11-12, paras. 80-87
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[10] Numbers 16:1-35
[11] Quotations, p. 136, para. 1209: 64-0823M – “Questions And Answers #1,” p. 45, para. 210 / Quotations, p. 138, para. 1230: 64-0830M – “Questions And Answers #3,” p. 26, para. 124