Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present. It is a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, to share with you a few moments of fellowship around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time.
For which I want to read in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 10 and on, where it tells us:
“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;
And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;
The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
Our subject for this occasion is: “A DESCRIPTION OF THE SON OF MAN IN THE MIDST OF THE SEVEN CANDLESTICKS.”
In verse 20 of this chapter 1 of Revelation, it says that the seven stars are the seven angels of the seven churches and the seven candlesticks are the seven churches.
In this apocalyptic revelation of Jesus Christ, sent through the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, we find the prophecies pertaining to the Dispensation of Grace and the Dispensation of the Kingdom; and that prophetic Word even goes into eternity, because when we go to chapters 21 and 22 of Revelation, that is already eternity, where the New Jerusalem is already established on Earth, after the Final Judgment.
This apocalyptic vision, remember, is a far-reaching prophecy, given to John the apostle through the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, sent by Jesus Christ to testify of all these things.
Being a prophecy, as it says Revelation, chapter 1, verses 1 to 3, let’s see:
“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…”
Through whom did this prophecy come to John? Through the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“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…”
You see, it is a prophetic book, which is written in symbols; but these symbols have a meaning.
It’s like in the Old Testament, where we find that God spoke through the prophets in symbolic form on many occasions. We have countless symbols in the Old Testament related to the Coming of the Messiah.
For example, when it says that a sprout, a rod, will come forth from the stem of Jesse,1 you see, that is a symbolism that speaks of a descendant of Jesse coming through King David, which was our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, who came from the tribe of Judah through David’s family.
Now, notice how God uses symbols to prophetically make known things that are to happen; and through the prophetic Word, thus given in symbols to the people, what has God done? God has increased the prophecy.2
For example, we have in Genesis, chapter 3, verse 15, that God spoke there of the seed of the woman: That He would smite the seed of the serpent and the serpent, He would smite him in the head; but the serpent would bruise the seed of the woman (where?) in the heel (in other words, in the heels); but, notice, the wound that the seed of the woman would make to the serpent would be in the head, a mortal wound.
And that seed of the woman is a prophecy that speaks of the Messiah, of Jesus Christ, who on Calvary’s Cross obtained that victory. By dying He was obtaining the greatest victory; because He took all our sins, He became sin for us and paid for our sins; because He had no sin.
That is why He said: “No one takes my life from me; I lay it down for myself to take it up again.”3 He took all our sins; and, as John the Baptist said: “Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world,”4 to take it away, He had to take all our sins and die for our sins.
That is why He also had to go to hell, where He preached to the imprisoned spirits, who were disobedient Noah’s time, when Noah was preparing the ark; He went and preached to them, but not preaching for salvation, but preaching of condemnation, condemning their unbelief, for He didn’t bring out any of those who were there in hell.5
But then He went to Paradise. And, since Christ took the keys of hell and death (He took them from the devil), He left hell: He went to Paradise.
And they were waiting for Him there in Paradise: John the Baptist, His forerunner, who upon arriving in Paradise had announced to all that the Messiah was already on Earth, and —therefore— would very soon arrive in Paradise; because being that John said that Jesus was the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, in order to take it away, He had to die.
As it was represented in the sacrifices of the Old Testament, where both the Passover lamb and the goat and the other sacrificial animals had to die; and they died; and so the goat’s blood of atonement was taken to the most holy place and sprinkled on the mercy seat by the high priest, who with his finger sprinkled it seven times; type and figure of what the High Priest Jesus Christ would do in the Most Holy Place of the Temple.
But which temple? You see, when Christ died and resurrected, He didn’t go to the temple to do what the high priest did (carry the blood there); rather He ascended to Heaven, and in the Temple of God which is in Heaven He carried His own Blood; and as High Priest He has been making intercession there, for all this time, for all those who have their names written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Just as the high priest made intercession in the most holy place for the earthly Israel…
Now, we have to know that there is the earthly Israel, which is the Hebrew people, but also the Bible teaches us that there is the heavenly Israel, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the heavenly Israel, can’t be cleansed with the blood of little animals here on Earth, because the blood of the little animals doesn’t take away the sin, but covered the sin of the Hebrew people; it covered it, it didn’t take it away. That is why He couldn’t make perfect those who kept those rites in the Old Testament.
But look at what the apostle Saint Paul tells us in relation to the sacrifices that were made there and the Sacrifice of Christ. He says… Chapter 9, verses 16 and on, of the book of Hebrews or letter of the Hebrews, he says:
“For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.
Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people,
Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.
Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry.
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these…”
What were the figures of heavenly things? The things that were in the temple; they were a figure, type and figure, of the things that are in Heaven: The heavenly things.
“…but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.”
The heavenly things are purified with the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ; by a sacrifice superior to that of the little animals that the Hebrew people offered to God.
“For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true…”
In other words, Christ didn’t enter the sanctuary made with hands there in the temple that was in Jerusalem, but He entered the true one: The Temple of God which is in Heaven. And He entered the Sanctuary, the Most Holy Place, and placed on the Mercy Seat of the Temple of God in Heaven (placed upon the Mercy Seat: upon the Chair or Seat of Mercy) His Blood; and it became a Chair or Throne of Mercy.
Because while there is Blood on the Throne of Intercession, on the Mercy Seat there in Heaven: There is mercy extended to human beings. Just as when the goat’s blood of atonement was placed in the most holy place, upon the mercy seat, by the high priest: God’s mercy was extended to the Hebrew people.
But remember that all that was happening in the midst of the Hebrew people, and the temple that God commanded Moses to build, and then also the one that Solomon built, and then those that were restored, we find that they are type and figure of the Temple that is in Heaven.
That is why Christ was not a minister of the [earthly] temple. That is why He didn’t come through the tribe of Levi and neither did He come through the seed of Aaron to be a high priest. And yet Christ is High Priest, but of a heavenly order: Of the Order of the Temple which is in Heaven, of the Order of Melchizedek.
For He is the same Melchizedek who appeared to Abraham, and gave him bread and wine; Priest of the Most High God of the Temple which is in Heaven.6 And that is why He ministers (where?) in the Temple which is in Heaven, as High Priest. That is why He says to us:
“For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us…”
“To appear in the presence of God for us,” for the heavenly Israel. And to the heavenly Israel belong all those who are of the faith of Abraham: Faith in Christ Jesus. Through faith in Jesus Christ we are all children of Abraham, descendants of Abraham.
Abraham has the seed according to the flesh, which is the Hebrew people, and he has the seed which is by faith in Christ: the heavenly seed; and those are the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and they come through the second Adam and the second Isaac.
Just as there is a second Adam, which is Jesus Christ, there is a second Isaac; because the son promised to Abraham according to the flesh was Isaac, but Saint Paul teaches us that the true promised Son, that is, the true seed of Abraham, is Christ. That is in his letter to the Galatians, where Saint Paul speaks to us openly about this mystery: In chapter 3, verse 16 (to not to read too much), he says:
“Now to Abraham and to his seed were the promises made. And he saith not, And to seeds, as though he spake of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.”
That is the seed that would have the blessings of God, and through whom all the gentiles would be blessed; because, notice, in the same chapter 3, verse 13 and on, it says:
“Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit (of the Holy Spirit) through faith.”
So as to obtain (what?) the new birth, and become a New Creation by believing in Christ as our Savior, washing our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit; and thus be born again, and belong to a New Creation, a completely New Creation.
Because the old Creation, which has come through Adam, fell; and everyone who comes through that Creation comes to this Earth in a mortal, corruptible and temporary body: He is born, lives on this Earth, then his body gets old and then dies; because that first Creation fell. But now we have the second Adam; and the second Adam gives us eternal life.
That is why Christ said to Nicodemus in chapter 3 of John: “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” Christ, speaking like so of the Kingdom of Heaven to Nicodemus, is showing him a mystery of the Kingdom of God or of the Heavens. Nicodemus then says:
“Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old?”
It seems that Nicodemus was already advanced in age. And how was his mother? So the problem was serious for Nicodemus, if he had to be born again. “How is this to be done, Jesus?”
“…can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”
Nicodemus, as far as we can see, was very interested in entering the Kingdom of God. And who isn’t? We all want to enter the Kingdom of God. And there is one way to enter the Kingdom of God, there is no other way.
Like you, to enter the family to which you belong: You had to what? Be born in that family through your father and your mother. And now, Christ establishes that to enter the Kingdom of the Heavens, which is the Family of God, you have to be born again.
“Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.”
The new birth is required to enter the Kingdom of God and thus belong to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; there is no other way. And this is obtained by believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior, washing our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit; and thus the new birth is obtained: The person is born as a child in the Kingdom of God.
Do you remember that Jesus Christ said: “If you are not as a child, you will not enter the Kingdom of the Heavens?”7 See? Children, well, are born. And one must be born in the Kingdom of the Heavens, and one begins as a child; one begins as children begin: Being born of their mother. And now, here it is by being born of the Water and the Spirit; there is no other way to enter the Kingdom of the Heavens.
Now, notice, when the person is born again, there begins (for the person) the Program of the New Creation to manifest in him; because the Program that had been manifested was the Program of the old Creation, which comes through Adam: and we have come through our earthly parents. They did the most they could: They gave us this body, but they couldn’t give us an eternal body.
Therefore, we have received this mortal, corruptible and temporary body, to live a period of time here on Earth and make contact with the eternal life, which is Jesus Christ.
And in the Program of Jesus Christ is that blessing of being born again to belong to that new race, of which Jesus Christ is the beginning. In Revelation, chapter 3, verse 14, it says that Jesus Christ is the beginning of the Creation of God, in other words, of that New Creation with eternal life.
And now, Jesus Christ is carrying out the creation of a new race: Through the new birth the person begins in that new race, that heavenly Family, that heavenly race. It is not an earthly race, but a heavenly race. It is the Family of God, the Family of Heaven, of which Saint Paul, speaking in his letter to the Ephesians, in chapter 2, tells us… Chapter 2 of his letter to the Ephesians, Saint Paul says, verse 19 and on:
“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God…”
Now, to which family do you belong when you receive Christ as your Savior, wash your sins in the Blood of Christ and receive His Holy Spirit? You belong to the Family of God, to the heavenly Family; just as when you were born into the earthly family, you belong to that earthly family.
For which we thank God: That He has brought us into an earthly family, to then make contact with eternal life and belong to the heavenly Family. And that is by birth: by the new birth.
Saint Paul goes on to say:
“And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord…”
“A holy temple in the Lord.” You see, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Mystical Body is a spiritual temple. And for what? It says:
“In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.”
For God to dwell in Holy Spirit in each person as an individual, and to dwell in the midst of His Church as the Mystical Body of believers.
And now, the promise for all who have been born in the House of God (which is the Church of Jesus Christ, which is the Family of Jesus Christ, the Family of Heaven), the promise is that we will have a body just like the body of Jesus Christ: An eternal and glorified body; and we will be in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ our Savior, with eternal life.
Now, through the new birth, He has already given us a theophanic body of the sixth dimension, called theophany, in which the person —if he dies physically— goes to live in Paradise; a body similar to our body, but of another dimension: of the sixth dimension.
And for the Last Day, do you know what Christ said for the Last Day? Let’s see what Christ said for the Last Day regarding the believers in Him, and mainly those who have departed. John, chapter 6, verse 39 to 40, says:
“And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”
When will Christ resurrect the believers in Him, those whom the Father has given Him? He says it will be for the Last Day.
“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Whom will He resurrect in the Last Day? Those who have believed in Him and have been born again, because they have received eternal life.
And now, if they die physically, Christ will give them a new body, eternal, perfect, immortal, incorruptible, equal to the body of Jesus Christ. And that will be when? He says it will be in the Last Day.
Saint Paul also says in different places, like in First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verses 13 to 17; and also First Corinthians, chapter 15, verses 49 to 56, he says, speaking of the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive, he says that it will be “at the Last Trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first (How shall they rise? Incorruptible, that is, in an eternal body), and we who are alive shall be changed.”
And when did Christ say He will resurrect the dead in Christ? For the Last Day. And after He resurrects the dead in Christ, what else will He do? Well, He will transform those who are alive, who are believers in Jesus Christ who have been born again, and therefore belong to the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, you see, the resurrection happens first and then the transformation of us who live. Both things are for the Last Day.
And now, what is the Last Day? The Scripture speaks to us about the Last Day and it speaks to us about the last days. Jesus Christ spoke to us of the Last Day and spoke to us of the resurrection for the Last Day.
This teaching, Jesus Christ, notice, had already given it before resurrecting Lazarus. And that is why when He was in front of Lazarus’ tomb and Martha, Lazarus’ sister, said to Him… When Jesus said to her: “Look, take away the stone…” Jesus said to her: “Have I not told you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?”
Jesus had said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” Martha, as well as Mary and Lazarus, had the knowledge that Jesus Christ would carry out the resurrection of the believers in Him in the Last Day; and that is why Martha, very happy, very glad, says to Jesus: “Yes, I know that my brother will rise again at the Last Day.” It is in John, chapter 11, verse 24, see, and… 23 onwards, it says:
“Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
She (Martha) saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.”
Martha was a true believer in Jesus Christ.
Now, she believed that Lazarus’ resurrection was for the Last Day, and she was right; but Jesus Christ, since He is taking Lazarus as an example, as a type and figure of what He will do with the believers in Him who have died physically, He is taking him to show…
In this resurrection that Christ will carry out with Lazarus, He will represent the resurrection of all the saints that Christ will resurrect in the Last Day. He will show there that He has the power to do it, and He will resurrect Lazarus; and He will place Lazarus as a type and figure of all the dead in Christ that will be resurrected. For He is the resurrection: Christ is the Resurrection and the Life, and He is the Way, the Truth and the Life.8
Therefore, those who are in Him have no problem: If their physical body dies, he will be resurrected in the Last Day; and if he is alive when the dead in Christ are resurrected, then he will be transformed; and then all the members of the New Creation, who begin by obtaining the new birth and thus obtaining the theophanic body of the sixth dimension, will then also receive the eternal and glorified physical body, in which we will live for all eternity: a body equal to the glorified body of Jesus Christ.
Now, see how Lazarus is taken here as a type and figure of those who will be resurrected in the Last Day.
Now, Lazarus to be resurrected in the Last Day, do you know something? Christ had to resurrect him there. Why? Because otherwise Lazarus would belong to the Old Testament group. Because neither Lazarus, nor Martha, nor Mary, nor Saint Peter, nor any of the apostles of Jesus Christ, hadn’t yet been born again; and if they hadn’t been born again, although they were believers in Jesus Christ, they didn’t yet belong to the Mystical Body of Christ; because one enters the Kingdom of the Heavens by being born again.
Now, Lazarus had to be resurrected to be able to resurrect in the Last Day.
And if Christ had not resurrected Lazarus, what would have happened to Lazarus? Well, there was no problem either, but he didn’t belong to the Church of Jesus Christ. He had to belong then to the Old Testament group, and he would have been resurrected at the time when Jesus Christ was resurrected; because when Jesus Christ was resurrected, the Old Testament saints were resurrected with Him.9
But the least of the Kingdom of the Heavens, the least of the Mystical Body of Christ, is greater than John the Baptist and these Old Testament prophets.10
And why is this? Because those of the Old Testament are the servants of God; and those of the New Testament, the heavenly Israel, are the sons and daughters of God. And what is greater, a son or a servant? Children are greater than servants. Therefore, the earthly Israel is the people of the servants; and the heavenly Israel is the people of the sons and daughters of God.
That is why the least of the Kingdom of the Heavens is greater than John the Baptist, who was the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ. And that is truly great. A simple person, who is greater than John the Baptist, such a great prophet, that is truly great; but it is the truth, and Christ said it.
Now, see why any simple person of the Kingdom of the Heavens (in other words, of the Church of Jesus Christ, of the heavenly Israel) is greater than John the Baptist.
And it is the same when it says: “The prophets prophesied until John”11</sup>; that is, the Law and the prophets, reached up to where? Up to John. Some people think: “Then there will be no more prophets.” Of course there will be no more prophets…: Of the Law. But in the New Testament, Jesus Christ is the greatest prophet, the prophet of Nazareth; and the apostles were prophets too, many of them; Saint Paul was a prophet too; look at their prophecies.
And the Scripture says in Ephesians —Saint Paul says— that God has placed in His Church apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers.12
See? It is in a new dispensation and under a New Covenant; but the prophets of the Law have already ended: The last one was John the Baptist. And the first of a new dispensation and of a new Divine Program was our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, the greatest of all prophets, the Prophet of prophets!, because in Him was the fullness of God.
And now, we can see that every Scripture that apparently has a contradiction, there is no contradiction: There is a revelation hidden there, greater than what a person can see at a glance.
And now, see how in the Divine Program God is building a new race; a new race, but He expresses that Work —God— in such a simple way that people look at that work that God is doing as something strange; and in the time of the apostles they called it a way of heresy,13 but what was heresy for those times was the divine truth in the Program of a new creation of a new race.
And when all who have their names written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, are completed in the Mystical Body of Christ, then the dead in Christ will resurrect in eternal bodies and we who are alive will be transformed. And then a new race will be upon this planet Earth standing, with eternal and glorified bodies, equal to the Lord Jesus Christ; and then the words of Jesus Christ, who said: “Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone; but if it fall into the ground and die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”14
The Corn of Wheat, the Son of Man, if He had not died… And He said: “No one takes my life from me; I lay it down of myself to take it up again.” And to lay down His life, He had to take our sins; for the wages of sin is death.15 And Jesus without sin couldn’t die; therefore, He took our sins, paid for our sins and then resurrected. What for? To produce much wheat.
The Corn of Wheat, the Son of Man, if He didn’t die, if He didn’t fall to the ground and die, He alone remained. He continued to live eternally in the body (why?) because He was sinless, He would continue to live; but He says: “He abideth alone.”
And what good was it for Jesus to continue living alone? It would be a very sad life for Jesus; and it would also be a selfish action of Jesus, not to give His life for us, because He knew that He could give His life and then take it again: “I lay down my life to take it again”; and thus He gave eternal life to us.
And now, “if a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it brings much fruit.” When you plant a corn of wheat, it is born in the form of a little plant; and then from that little plant many corns of wheat begin to come forth, to be born; and you only planted one corn of wheat; and when the time of harvest comes, there are many grains of wheat that you gather. And you say: “But I planted one”; but according to the law of sowing and reaping, you sow one and you gather a certain amount. And if the ground is good and the corn of wheat that was planted is good, it can produce a hundredfold (that is, the maximum).
And now, the Corn of Wheat, Christ, was sown in the ground; and now it will produce millions of human beings in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ (His).
And now, for the Last Day is that all that fruit will be seen; but Christ has already been working in that work.
Notice, a corn of wheat that is sown: is born, and when you look at it, what you see is a little plant; but that seedling is the same corn of wheat, which was transformed into a little plant to produce many corns of wheat.
And now, Jesus Christ, you see, has worked in this work of the New Creation. And from the Corn of Wheat that we saw on Earth two thousand years ago, then the Church appeared, the Wheat Plant; because that is the Wheat Plant where the corns of wheat appear, product of the Corn of Wheat that was sown on earth.
That is why by believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior and washing our sins in the Blood of Christ, we are born again; and we are born in the Church of Jesus Christ as part, as members, of the Mystical Body of Christ. That is the Wheat Plant, which is the Church, where the corns of wheat appear.
And for the Last Day, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ that has departed: Those who have departed will be resurrected in eternal bodies (which are millions), and we who are alive will be transformed; and there we will have the many corns of wheat that that Corn of Wheat, Jesus Christ, would produce.
It is the reproduction of Jesus Christ, the Corn of Wheat, in millions of sons and daughters of God. The Son of God, who died and resurrected, according to the law of reproduction, He reproduces Himself in millions of corns of wheat: In millions of sons and daughters of God.
Now look at the beautiful work that Christ is carrying out.
And now, He is in the midst of His Church from stage to stage, from age to age, manifesting Himself; and through His messengers that He has sent: The seven stars, which are the seven angels of the Son of Man, of Jesus Christ, in His Church; which are the seven candlesticks, the seven churches; those seven churches in Asia Minor, which were seven literal churches there in Asia Minor; they are type and figure of the Church of Jesus Christ going through its different stages. That is why they have all the characteristics that would be manifested in the Church throughout time, throughout her different stages through which she would pass.
And since in the parable of the wheat and the tares there was wheat in the field (which was sown by the Son of Man) and then tares appeared, we find that in the midst of Christianity the same thing has also happened. But, for the end of the world, Christ in the parable of the wheat and the tares in Matthew, chapter 13, says that the Son of Man will send His Angels in the end time. What for? To carry out the work of the end time, where there will be a separation of the wheat and the tares. The wheat will be gathered and placed in God’s Storehouse.
That is the same thing that Christ says in Matthew, chapter 24 and verse 31, when He says: “And He shall send His angels with a Great Sound of a Trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect.”
His elect is the wheat of God, the sons and daughters of God; and the tares, Christ said they were the children of the evil one.
We can’t deny what Christ said, because if we deny it then we would be denying our faith in Christ, and we would be saying that Christ was wrong in saying that there were wheat and there were tares in the field.
Now, notice, Christ also, in Matthew, chapter 15, verse 13, said that “every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up and cast into the fire.” He is speaking of the tares; because the tares, Christ in the parable of the wheat and the tares says that the one who sowed the tares is the devil.
And John the Baptist, preaching, said on one occasion in chapter 3, verse 9 and on, he says… let’s see here… here John preaching: Verse 7 and on, he says:
“But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
Now look at what a tremendous Message John the Baptist had; in other words, he knew what Christ would be carrying out in His Program.
Now we must also understand that the wheat, which represents the sons and daughters of God, are also represented in the sheep of Christ; and Christ said: “My sheep hear my Voice and they follow me.”16 Why? Because “he that is of God hears the Voice of God.”17
And now, from stage to stage, from age to age, Christ has been in the midst of His Church, that is, in the midst of those seven golden candlesticks, which represent the Church going through its different stages; and what has Christ been doing? Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit has been in the midst of His Church calling and gathering His elect of each stage, and producing in them the new birth.
That is why the same thing that happened on the day of atonement, when the high priest offered the goat and took the goat’s blood to the most holy place, and placed it on the mercy seat: The people repented of their sins and the people were afflicted.
And now, look at Leviticus, chapter 23, where God says… let’s see how He says it here, for the day of atonement… Chapter 23, verse 26 onwards, it says:
“And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.”
And now, Christ is our Atonement, as He is also our Passover.18
And that is why when people hear the preaching of the Gospel, and it reaches the depths of their soul; and people, who have their names written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, when they hear the Voice of Christ calling them; their souls are afflicted, they repent of their sins, they receive Christ as their Savior, they wash their sins in the Blood of Christ and receive the Spirit of Christ. See, the same thing that happened on the day of atonement.
And anyone who doesn’t afflict (and this happens when the person receives Christ as his Savior and washes his sins in the Blood of Christ), anyone who doesn’t afflict, what happens? Well, he hasn’t repented and hasn’t received Christ as his Savior; therefore, he has no eternal life: He will be uprooted from the people; his time living here on Earth has been lost.
“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”19 It has been of no use to him to live on this planet Earth.
God has sent us to live on this planet Earth, to this planet Earth, to make contact with eternal life: To receive Christ as our Savior, to wash our sins in the Blood of Christ and receive His Holy Spirit; and thus receive the new birth and enter the Program of Eternal Life.
And for the Last Day we have the promise that we will obtain the eternal and glorified physical body, equal to the body of Jesus Christ, we who are alive and also those who have died in Christ. And this will be for the time when the Last Trumpet is sounding: That Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet is sounding at the Last Day.
And that Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet, which John heard on the Lord’s Day (which is the Last Day), said to John: “I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last”20</sup>; it is the Voice of Jesus Christ speaking to His Church at the Last Day.
And now, what is the Last Day? The Scripture speaks to us of the last days and Jesus also speaks to us of the Last Day.
And Saint Paul, speaking to us about the last days in his letter to the Hebrews, he tells us in the following way [Hebrews 1:1]:
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets…”
Through whom did He speak in the Old Testament? Through 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…”
And it says He spoke through whom? Jesus Christ, His Son. When? In the last days. And two thousand years have already passed from Christ until now. Was Saint Paul wrong in thinking that those were the last days? He was not wrong.
Saint Peter also said that those were the last days. In the book of Acts, chapter 2, Saint Peter, in the first message he preaches, says: chapter 2, verse 14 and on:
“But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day (that is, from 8 to 9 in the morning).
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy…”
When does Peter say here that God promised through the prophet Joel that He would pour out of His Spirit upon all flesh? For the last days; and there He is already pouring out of His Holy Spirit upon all flesh that had repented and had received Christ as their Savior and washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ; there were 120 people who had received the Holy Spirit, and had thus been born again. The first group of God’s children who are born again, and are believers in Christ.
You can’t be born again if you are not a believer in our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; and having washed away your sins in the Blood of Christ you can be born again.
Now, notice how Saint Peter says that in the last days God would pour out of His Holy Spirit; and he is showing that God is pouring out of His Holy Spirit (why?) because the last days have begun.
Then, what are the last days? Second Peter, chapter 3, clarifies this mystery, because it is a mystery of the Kingdom of God. Chapter 3, verse 8, of Second Peter, says… And this he says can’t be ignored; he who ignores it, then never knows what the last days are:
“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
Also the prophet Moses in Psalm 90, verse 4, testifies to this truth: One day before the Lord, for human beings is a thousand years.
When God speaks of the last days, for human beings they are the last millenniums, for the human race. And that is why when God was speaking through Jesus Christ two thousand years ago, He was speaking (when?) in the last days; and we are still in the last days.
When Jesus was 4 to 7 years old, the fifth millennium began; and the fifth millennium is the first of the last days before God, which for human beings is the first of the three last millenniums.
Just as the three last days of the week are Thursday, Friday and Saturday (that is, the fifth day, the sixth day and the seventh day), for human beings the last millenniums are the fifth millennium, the sixth millennium and the seventh millennium; these millenniums where God would be carrying out a Program and would be pouring out His Holy Spirit.
And now, we have seen what the last days are.
And from Christ until now two thousand years have already passed, if we add to the calendar the years it is behind; and if we don’t add the years it is behind, then there are very few years left. There is still a year and a half (we would say), maybe less, but we are going to… until 2000; when 2000 is completed, then the six thousand years have already been completed, and also the first two last days before God have been fulfilled, which are the first two thousand years or first two millenniums of the last three millenniums.
And now, has God’s calendar fallen behind? I think not. And if it hasn’t fallen behind, we are already in the Last Day since some time ago, for which Christ said that He will resurrect the dead in Christ and transform us who are alive.
Now, in which of the years of the Last Day, in which of the years of the seventh millennium? That we don’t know, but when the dead in Christ are resurrected we will know when – in which year it would be; we will look at the calendar and say: “It was in this year that God was going to resurrect the dead in Christ.”
But you see, He said that before the resurrection of the dead in Christ and our transformation, the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet will sound.
And the Great Voice of Trumpet that John heard on the Lord’s Day… And the Lord’s Day is the seventh millennium, that is the Lord’s Day; just as Saturday in the midst of the Hebrew people under the Law was the Lord’s day, the Sabbath, the seventh day.
And now, the seventh millennium is represented on Saturday, in the seventh day of the week; and that is the Lord’s Day, where Christ comes with a Great Voice of Trumpet speaking to His Church in this end time.
Just as the Archangel Gabriel was speaking and revealing to Daniel all those things to him, the Holy Spirit comes to the Church (to His Church) to reveal to her all these things that must happen soon; and thus to make known to us all these mysteries of the Last Day, of the seventh millennium, and to call and gather all of God’s elect with the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, revealing to us the greatest mystery of all mysteries: The mystery of the Seventh Seal, which caused silence in Heaven for about half an hour.
That is the greatest mystery of all mysteries of the Kingdom of God or Kingdom of the Heavens: The mystery of the Seventh Seal. That is the mystery of the Coming of the Son of Man for the Last Day, of which Christ said it would be as the lightning that comes out of the East, and where does it show itself?, and it shows itself where? In the West.21
The First Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Son of Man two thousand years ago, where was it? In the East, that is, there in the Middle East, in the land of Israel. And the Hebrew people were waiting for Him.
He came, but He came in such a simple way that it went right over their heads. They were expecting a very important king, and when that king came, He came in the form of a carpenter from Nazareth, humble, simple: Speaking not in terms of high society, but speaking in terms of a man of the field: of trees, of axe, speaking of wheat, speaking of tares, speaking of fish and all these things, speaking in a parabolic form.
For He would open His mouth in parables and reveal things hidden since the foundation of the world, according to Psalm 78, verse 2 (it’s somewhere there); and also Matthew, chapter 13, verses 10 and on.
And now, the disciples say to Him (they say to Jesus): “Why do You speak to them in parables?” Christ says to them: “For to you it is granted to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of the Heavens, but to them it is not granted.”22 And it is a great blessing and blessedness when a person is granted to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of the Heavens; that is by the election (of whom?) of God.
And now, for the Last Day all the sons and daughters of God will be blessed, all of God’s elect who will be living on Earth, for Christ says in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
Blessed will be all the people who can see and receive that Angel, because he will come testifying of all these things that must soon happen.
This same Angel, who was sent by Jesus Christ to John the apostle with all this apocalyptic revelation but in symbolic form, will be on Earth for the Last Day in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ.
And that is the only one who can open to the Church of Jesus Christ all these things that must happen soon, in this end time. And so, with his Message from Jesus Christ, which is the Voice of Christ for the Last Day, that Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet will be opening all these mysteries, and then we will understand all these things.
Now, how many of you knew that the last days were the fifth, sixth and seventh millennium? You didn’t know, but now you do.
Some people may have thought: “The last days may be 2 days, may be 3 days of 24 hours each, may be 5 days.” But look, Saint Paul and Saint Peter spoke of the last days already in the days of Jesus Christ, that they were already in the last days; and they couldn’t be wrong. And Peter says: “For one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
For human beings two thousand years have already passed from Christ until now, which are only two days, two millennial days; but before God (how many days?) only two days have passed.
Now, how many knew that the Last Day was the seventh millennium? You did not know, but now you do. Why? Because the Spirit of God is moving in the midst of His Church. Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, is moving in the midst of His Church, and He is making known to us all these things that must happen soon.
And now, look, in Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1, it says:
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”
Where are we going to go up to (because the invitation is to go up)?
It is that from stage to stage, from age to age, we have been climbing from one stage to another stage in a progressive and ascending way: The Church of Jesus Christ has been growing like a mountain, from the bottom to the top; and at present we are at the top or summit of the Mount of God; and the Mount of God is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Of that Mount is that King Nebuchadnezzar and the prophet Daniel saw a Stone cut without hands that came and smote the image in the feet of iron and clay.23
Just as the First Coming of Christ, where did it come from? From the midst of the Hebrew people; in the midst of the Hebrew people emerged, the First Coming of Christ, was fulfilled. Why? Because the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, came veiled in human flesh in the veil of flesh called Jesus.
He was none other than the Word, who was with God and was God, who became flesh and dwelt among human beings.
And that Word became flesh and dwelt among the Hebrew people as one of the children of Israel, born in Bethlehem of Judea through a virgin named Mary; the most privileged woman of all, because she had the privilege of having a son through divine creation, the first woman. The blessing that Eve disregarded, Mary received.
Now, you see, for the Last Day, who is waiting for the Second Coming of Christ? The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the heavenly Israel. And in whose midst must the Second Coming of Christ appear and be fulfilled? Well, in the midst of His Church, in the midst of the heavenly Israel.
And the Hebrew people will see the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ and will say: “This is the one we are waiting for!” And it will be strange for them that He is in the midst of the gentiles; but this was already represented when Joseph, the brother Jacob’s sons, they sold Joseph,24 as the Hebrew people sold Christ.
And then he was placed as second on the throne of Egypt25</sup>; and now, you see, Christ ascended to Heaven and was placed on the Throne of God.
Joseph also had a new name,26 which he received when he ascended the throne; and he had the king’s seal as well; and he was the one who was in charge of the administration of all the king’s goods. And all that was for the preservation (of what?) of life, Joseph said.27 And all that happened to Jesus has been (for what?) for the preservation of eternal life for the sons and daughters of God.
Now, when the Hebrew people there, Joseph’s brothers saw Joseph, they didn’t know him at first; he was dressed like the gentiles, he had clothes like the gentiles, his appearance like the gentiles, and he spoke the language of the gentiles: The language of the Egyptians; but he was the Joseph they had sold.
The First Coming of Christ was in the midst of the Hebrew people; the Second Coming of Christ is in the midst of His Church, in the midst of the gentiles: “As the lightning which went forth in the east (in the midst of the Hebrew people there, which is the Middle East) and is manifested, is shown (where?), in the West.”
The West is the American continent, which consists of North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. The Latin American and Caribbean continent is the one that holds the promise for the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels.
Christ has been in the midst of His Church all the time, from age to age, as He was in the midst of the Hebrew people all the time; but then He manifested Himself in human flesh, the Word became flesh in the midst of the Hebrew people, and appeared in the form of a man, of a prophet. And the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, has been in the midst of His Church all the time in Holy Spirit.
For the Last Day, He will have the greatest manifestation that there has ever been from Jesus Christ in the midst of His Church. The Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, which is Jesus Christ, will be manifested in the midst of His Church at the Last Day, making known to us through His Angel Messenger all these things that must happen soon; just as through the different ages He made known to His Church the things that they should know in different stages through which the Church of Jesus Christ has gone through.
For example, in the time of Saint Paul, he made known many important things, and established the Church of Jesus Christ in the Dispensation of Grace: well established.
And now, for the Last Day, Jesus Christ, the Son of Man (who has always been in the midst of His Church in Holy Spirit), will have the greatest manifestation of all times in the midst of His Church; for all of God’s elect to be called and gathered with the Great Voice of Trumpet, the Voice of Jesus Christ calling and gathering all His elect; and then the dead in Christ will be resurrected in eternal bodies and we who are alive will be changed.
Now, remember that Christ is building a spiritual Temple. It started there in the land of Israel, then it went to Asia Minor, then it went to Europe, then it went to North America, and now it has gone to Latin America and the Caribbean. See the trajectory from East to West; because Christ is building a spiritual Temple.
And what does this have to do with the West, where we live?
Where was the most holy place of the temple that Moses built and the temple Solomon built? In the west was the most holy place. And that is the most important place of the temple that Solomon built and of the tabernacle that Moses built; because that is the place where the ark of the covenant was, and where the mercy seat was, over the ark of the covenant; and where the glory of God was, manifested upon the mercy seat, in the midst of the two golden cherubim.
And in the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ, in its construction, for this end time He would be building the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple. And that is where the full manifestation of Jesus Christ will be carried out, in the midst of the Latin American and Caribbean people; because He is calling and gathering Latin American and Caribbean people, and placing them in that spiritual Temple, in the most important part: In the Most Holy Place. And it is in the Western part, to which Latin America and the Caribbean belong, that Jesus Christ will fulfill His promises pertaining to this end time.
And the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is in the Golden Age or Stage, the most important stage of the Mystical Body of Christ, the stage of the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple, in this end time will receive the great blessings that Christ has promised for her. And it is in the midst of Latin America and Caribbean people that the greatest blessing of all the blessings that Christ has given to His Church will be manifested; that is in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Just as He has been giving great blessings from stage to stage in different continents, great spiritual awakenings, great revivals; but the greatest of all is for the Latin American and Caribbean people, although we can’t understand it at the moment; but that is one of the mysteries of the Kingdom of the Heavens, that is one of the mysteries of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Remember that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is represented in the tabernacle built by Moses and the temple built by Solomon, because the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the one that represents the Temple of God which is in Heaven.
We no longer need the temple of Moses nor the temple of Solomon, and the Hebrew people no longer have a temple here on Earth; but Christ has a Temple, and it is His Church. And in that Temple is where Christ has been from stage to stage, from age to age, walking in the midst of His Church, in the midst of the seven stages or ages of His Church; and for this end time He will be manifested in the midst of His Church.
And here in Revelation, where we read at the beginning, where we find Him with a long garment down to the feet (from the neck to the feet) and we find Him with the golden girdle on His chest, that represents Christ in the end time as Judge of all the Earth; because He has the golden girdle on His chest, not on His waist. On His waist, well, it represents Him as High Priest; but for the Last Day He will change from High Priest to Judge of all the Earth.
It is in this end time where He will be making that intertwining; and that will be when He finishes cleansing with His precious Blood the very last of God’s elect, that is, until the last of God’s elect enters the Mystical Body of Christ. That is what Saint Paul spoke of in his letter to the Romans, chapter 11, verses 25 and on, when he said:
“For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.”
Until the fullness of (what?) the gentiles have entered, that is, until the last of God’s elect has entered the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ.
“And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.”
Now we can see that God can’t deal with the Hebrew people until every last one of God’s elect has entered into the heavenly Israel, that is, into the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ.
That is why many good preachers have tried to convert the Hebrew people since the time of the apostles until now and have not been able to do so. Why? Because first God has to complete the Mystical Body, the Church of Jesus Christ, and then He will deal with the Hebrew people.
And now, we have to pay attention to the Church of Jesus Christ and work in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ until the number of God’s elect is completed. Then the Hebrew people will see the full manifestation of Jesus Christ in the midst of His Church, and the dead in Christ will be resurrected in eternal bodies, and we who are alive will be transformed. And if you have not seen before that the manifestation of Christ in His Church, you will see it when we have the new body; because we will be here on Earth from 30 to 40 days before we go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
We will be here on Earth with the new body, and the dead in Christ when resurrected will be with the new body, from 30 to 40 days; just as Jesus was 40 days here on Earth appearing on different occasions, before going to Heaven.28
Now, we can see that also the saints who were resurrected with Christ then went with Christ when He was raptured or caught up to Heaven. Thus it will also be for all of us.
Now, Christ in this end time, when He finishes His Work of Intercession in Heaven, which will be when the very last one of God’s elect enters… And He is calling and gathering His elect with the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom in this end time, in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the bulk, the largest number of God’s elect is… Europe and Asia Minor already had their opportunity, and North America also; now the opportunity in the Divine Program has been given to Latin America and the Caribbean.
That is the great blessing that Latin America and the Caribbean have, where the Most Holy Place of the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ is materializing in human beings, the Most Holy Place of that spiritual Temple; because Christ is building a Temple; and a temple without a Most Holy Place, for God to dwell in all His fullness in it, is not a temple for God.
And now, in Latin America and the Caribbean is that He is building the Most Holy Place of that spiritual Temple, of His Church, where He will manifest Himself in all His fullness and where He will fulfill all His promises of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels.
And now, when He leaves the Throne of Intercession in Heaven, there will be no more Blood there in Heaven, therefore there will be no more opportunity for people to wash their sins in the Blood of Christ; and he who is dirty, remains dirty; and he who is clean, well, he is clean and continues forward with Christ.29
Now, we can see that we are living in a very, very important time; and the blessing of Christ for this end time has been given to the Latin American and Caribbean people. It is to the Latin American and Caribbean people that Jesus Christ sends His Angel Messenger to give testimony of these things, and to open our understanding, to open the Scriptures, to be able to understand all these things that must happen soon, in this end time.
Look, we already know what the last days are; we already know what the Last Day is: The seventh millennium. And so, gradually, as we hear the Word of God, the Voice of Christ in this end time, we are understanding many things that we didn’t understand before.
Notice, we already understood why the least of the Kingdom of the Heavens is greater than a prophet as great as John the Baptist; and we also understand why the prophets prophesied until John, the prophets and the Law: The prophets of the Dispensation of the Law. But in the New Testament there are prophets too, and Jesus Christ is the greatest of all prophets.
Now, for this end time, see, we have also seen that this Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ… Look, at the beginning we read in chapter 1, verse 1. Chapter 1, verse 3, let’s read verse 3; it says:
“Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy…”
And who brings the words of this prophecy? The Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. And what do the prophets of God bring? The divine prophecies.
This Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is bringing the most far-reaching prophecy that any prophet has ever brought; he is bringing a prophecy that covers from the days of the apostles to eternity, because it takes us to eternity in chapter 21 and chapter 22 of the book of Revelation.
That is why also in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 6 to 7, it 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.”
Who has He sent? His Angel. What for? To show His servants the things that must shortly be done; the things that Christ said: “Come up hither, and I will shew you the things that must shortly come to pass.” And now He shows them through His Angel Messenger.
“Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.”
In other words, the words of this book are prophecies, prophetic words; and all prophecies come through the prophets of God.
This is the second man who, before coming to Earth in a body of flesh, ministers in spirit. The first was Jesus, and the second is His Angel.
That is why you will also find many promises in the book of Revelation, where Jesus Christ says: “To him that overcometh will I give authority over the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; and they shall be broken in pieces like the vessels of a potter: even as I have received of my Father.” Just as He has received from the Father, He now gives that authority to an overcomer.
And He also says: “To him that overcometh, I will…” (That was in Revelation, chapter 2, verse 26 to 28). And also Revelation, chapter 3, verse 21, 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.” In other words, the same thing that the Father has done with Jesus, now Jesus does with an overcomer.
And what is the Throne of the Father? The Throne where Christ sat when He ascended to Heaven to make intercession for all those who have their names written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life. And which is the Throne of Jesus Christ, where Christ will sit the Overcomer? Well, the Throne of Jesus Christ…
In Luke, chapter 1, verse 31 and on, the Archangel Gabriel to Mary says:
“And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.”
That is the Throne of Jesus Christ, which the Father will give Him here on Earth; and that is the Throne of David; and that is the Throne where Christ will sit with Him the Overcomer, just as the Father has given Jesus to sit there in Heaven on the heavenly Throne.
The same thing that the Father did with Jesus, Jesus does with His Angel Messenger, who will be the overcomer of the end time; for it says in Revelation, chapter 2, verse 26 and on, it says:
“And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works (until when?) unto the end…”
The one who will be in the end keeping the works of Jesus Christ will be the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, the prophet messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom. He is a dispensational prophet, that is why he brings the most far-reaching prophetic revelation that any prophet has ever brought; and that is why Christ says that he is His Angel Messenger, and He says:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
He is the one sent by Jesus Christ to give testimony of all these things that must happen soon. He is the one who will be showing the Church of Jesus Christ all these things, and he will be revealing Jesus Christ to all the churches and to all human beings living on this Earth.
He will not bring any revelation of himself, but the revelation (of whom?) of Jesus Christ. He is the one sent by Jesus Christ, and through the Message of this Angel Messenger will be that the Church of Jesus Christ will be obtaining the knowledge of all these things that must happen soon:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
Any person can say: “I can also explain these things.” Anyone can explain them, but the one sent is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; and he is the only one that will be giving a clear and complete revelation for the Church of Jesus Christ, to be called, gathered and prepared to be transformed in this end time.
Now, this Angel will not come fighting with the people: He will come bringing the revelation of Jesus Christ for all the children of God; and he who is of God will hear the Voice of God.
He is not going to worry because someone may have an opinion against him, and say something against him; he will remain giving all this revelation of Jesus Christ, because on Earth will be all those who will be transformed in the Last Day, who will hear the Voice of Jesus Christ through His Angel Messenger and will know all these things that must happen soon.
And when we are transformed then we will say to Jesus Christ: “Thank You, Jesus Christ, that You sent Your Angel Messenger to give us testimony of all these things that were going to happen.”
When we look in the book of Revelation at the Son of Man with all these attributes, anyone can look at it and have a wrong interpretation or a wrong understanding. For example, here, see, it says: Chapter 1, verse 13 and on, it says:
“And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.
His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow…”
That represents experience, maturity, and maturity to judge, because He comes as Judge of all the Earth; like the ancient judges in England and France and all those countries, they put on a white wig when they went to court, because that white wig represents authority, experience, maturity and wisdom to judge correctly.
And now you see there the symbolism that is being used, in this view or vision of the Son of Man in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ.
And for the Last Day it is not that Christ, because two thousand years have passed, has white hair; no: He has His glorified body and He is young, because it is an eternal body that He has. When you and I have the new body, which will be eternal, we will not have gray hair or wrinkles, nor will we grow old.
This white wig or white hair is the symbolism, it represents experience, maturity and wisdom, to judge as Judge of all the Earth in this end time.
Then we find Him with “his eyes were as a flame of fire.” It is not that the eyes of Jesus Christ have changed and now what He has are two flames of fire, no; these symbols are type and figure of the ministries of Moses and Elijah, the ministries of the Two Olive Trees.
Just as the eyes, the seven eyes in the seven horns of the Lamb, represent the seven angels of the seven churches; because eyes represent seers, represent prophets; they are the seven eyes that travel throughout the Earth during the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church.30 And for the Last Day the Son of Man appears with His Two Eyes as a flame of fire, which are the ministries of Moses and Elijah, the ministries of His Angels; the ministries relevant to the Last Day, with which all of God’s elect are called and gathered.
Then we also find “and his feet like unto fine brass.” Brass represents divine judgment, and divine judgment are the prophets of God. These two feet of fine brass are the ministries of Moses and Elijah of Revelation, chapter 11, the ministries of divine judgment.
“…and his voice as the sound of many waters.”
We saw in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 10 to 11, that the Voice of Christ was also as a Great Voice of a Trumpet sounding.
Here we have the Voice as the sound of many waters, because it is the Voice of all those who have preached the Gospel anointed with the Holy Spirit; and for the Last Day that Voice will be in the manifestation and Coming of the Son of Man.
We also have that: “in his right hand (He has) seven stars.” The seven stars are the seven angel messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church, who will be resurrected together with the group they had in each age; and they will be with Christ and under the orders of Jesus Christ in this Last Day, and for the Millennium, and for all eternity.
“…and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword…”
It is not that it will be a literal sword, because the Sword of the Spirit is the Word of God.31 That is the Sword that comes out of His mouth: It is the Word of God that comes out of His mouth, as a two-edged sword; and the mouth of God has always been the prophets of God.
“…and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.”
On Mount Transfiguration, His face shone like the sun, where He showed the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels. Moses and Elijah also appeared there, who are the Angels of the Son of Man, the messengers of the Son of Man, the ministries that will be in the Last Day manifested in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ and later in the midst of the Hebrew people. Those are the ministries of the Two Olive Trees of Revelation, chapter 11, and of Zechariah, chapter 4.
His face shining like the sun is also shown in Malachi, chapter 4, where it tells us (verse 1 to 2, it says):
“For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch (that is the great tribulation).
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.”
That is the Second Coming of Christ as the Sun of Righteousness.
Christ said: “I am the Light of the world.”32 He is our Sun of Righteousness. And in His Second Coming He comes as the Sun of Righteousness shining, as seen on Mount Transfiguration; for He comes as King of kings and Lord of lords.
The sun is the king star, and the Coming of Jesus Christ for the Last Day is as the King of all the Earth, King of kings and Lord of lords. That is why these symbols are used, which represent Christ or present Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords.
In Revelation, chapter 10, we also find Him with His face like the sun descending from Heaven, and it says:
“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.”
It is the Angel of the Covenant, Jesus Christ descending from Heaven, to manifest Himself on Earth. He comes with His face like the sun, because He comes as King of kings and Lord of lords; He comes with the rainbow over His head or around His head, because He comes with the Divine Covenant; and He comes clothed in a cloud, a cloud of glory, as He also said in Matthew, chapter 24 and verse 30, where He said that “the sign of the Son of Man shall appear in Heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the Earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds, with power and great glory.”
And now, here He comes with His face like the sun, because He comes as King; and He comes with His feet like pillars of fire, that is, like fine brass, as it was seen in Revelation, chapter 1.
Now, we can see that since the Old Testament these attributes that would be manifested in the Son of Man were mentioned. And both the gentile Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will see the manifestation of those attributes of the Son of Man, of Jesus Christ, being fulfilled, as well as the Hebrew people will see them manifested.
In Hosea it also tells us that He will come as the dawn; and also… let’s see, He will come… Chapter 6 of Hosea, it says (verse 1 to 3):
“Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
After two days will he revive us (this is so for the Hebrew people): in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning (like the dawn, where the sun rises, and rises and rises until the day is perfect)<em>; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.”
The Former Rain was the First Coming of Christ, and the teaching of the Former Rain is the teaching of the Gospel of Grace; and the Latter Rain is the Second Coming of Christ, and the teaching of the Second Coming of Christ is the teaching contained in the Gospel of the Kingdom.
So he comes with both Rains for the Hebrew people: He comes revealing to them the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, which is the first thing they will know, and then they will also know the mystery of what the First Coming of Christ has been. There are both Rains: The former and the latter.
Now notice that in order to fulfill all those promises, those attributes that are seen in the Son of Man, will be manifested in this end time; so that both the Church of Jesus Christ will see those attributes manifested and also the Hebrew people.
We will be transformed when the dead in Christ are resurrected, because we will be hearing the Voice of the Son of Man, that Great Voice of Trumpet, the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom revealing to us the mystery of His Coming, the mystery of the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, which is Jesus Christ; and thus we will obtain the faith to be transformed and raptured; and the dead in Christ will be resurrected in eternal bodies.
And then it will be the Hebrew people’s part, where Christ will then reveal Himself to the Hebrew people in this manifestation of the Son of Man: That manifestation in the midst of His Church. Just as the Gospel of Grace has shown us, has revealed to us, the manifestation of the Son of Man in His First Coming in the midst of the Hebrew people, and the Work that He carried out there.
And now, in the Last Day, in the Coming of the Son of Man in the midst of His Church, the whole Program that He will carry out afterwards will be made known to the Hebrew people; and they will then receive the blessing of God, and their sins will be forgiven.
It says: “When God takes away their sins,” says Saint Paul. Why? Because they neither have sacrifices for sin, they no longer have a temple, they no longer have the sacrifice of atonement; therefore, their sins are not covered. And they rejected the Sacrifice of Christ, which takes away sin; therefore, their sins have been uncovered.
And that is why the divine judgment has been falling upon the Hebrew people during these two thousand years approximately; and Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and countless other dictators almost exterminated the Hebrew people: Because their sins have not even been covered with the blood of little animals, but have been uncovered. And having a blood that takes away sins, the Blood of Christ, they have rejected it.
And that is why, since the wages of sin is death, death has been persecuting the Hebrew people; and they don’t know it, but they will know it; and then their sins will be taken away, and then God will confirm the Covenant to the Hebrew people, the New Covenant.
The New Covenant will be confirmed to the Hebrew people; and then they will awaken, they will cry out; and then it will be fulfilled in them that of the day of atonement, where they all had to afflict themselves. And that will happen with the Hebrew people, according to Zechariah, chapter 12, where God will give the spirit of prayer, and they will seek God, and then they will awaken. They will awaken, and what happened on the day of atonement will be fulfilled in them: They will grieve as a person grieves for a firstborn or only begotten son.
That will be fulfilled in them, but it will have already been fulfilled in the Church of Jesus Christ and in every member of the Church of Jesus Christ, who has been afflicted when he has received Christ as his Savior.
Now, we have seen, in this description of the Son of Man in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks (which represents the Church of Jesus Christ in her seven stages), we have seen these attributes of Jesus Christ: The white hair and His white head, we have seen His eyes as a flame of fire, we have seen His feet as fine brass, we have seen from His mouth coming out a sharp sword, and so on, we have seen all those attributes.
And now, we have seen that it is not a literal sword, nor are they literal feet of brass; because then, what would we have if all that were literal? We would have a robot, it would be a description of a robot; but no, they are all attributes that represent, typify, the things that Christ will be doing in the Last Day, and the way He will be doing it and the attributes that He will be manifesting.
Now, we have seen that this apocalyptic vision of the Son of Man in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks is greater and more glorious than anyone could imagine.
And therefore for the Last Day, where must the Son of Man come? In the midst of His Church; in the midst of His Church, which has been represented in those seven candlesticks during the seven ages of the gentile Church.
Now, we have seen: “THE DESCRIPTION OF THE SON OF MAN IN THE MIDST OF THE SEVEN CANDLESTICKS.”
And we have lacked time; we have only seen as much as possible tonight, but this is a subject that takes (to develop it well and clearly see everything that is there, and all the blessings that are there for each one of you and for me also), it would take us one night for each one of these attributes, to speak with all the details and thus make the most of those attributes that He in this end time will be manifesting in the midst of His Church.
And now, notice that it is for all His Church. That is why we are in a time where we can’t look at ourselves through which group or to which group we belong, but through what Christ or what God looks at us: Through the Blood of Jesus Christ. And we see ourselves through the Blood of Jesus Christ, redeemed with the Blood of Christ, being prepared to be transformed and raptured in this end time.
That is why Jesus Christ says:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to (give) testify unto you these things in the churches.”
He is the Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ for all the churches, for all the groups, for all Christianity; and He comes with a Message for all, to make known all these things to them, so that all may be prepared and be transformed in this end time.
And no one wants to stay here on Earth, because what comes after the resurrection, transformation and rapture of the elect, what comes after is the great tribulation.
And here no elect wants to stay, no child of God wants to stay here, because there is a feast in Heaven that has been announced for thousands of years: It is called the feast of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, of which the book of Revelation speaks; and he is blessed, blessed are those who are called to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.33
So that is the great feast to which we have been invited. And that is why we are going to be clothed with a new garment, with a new body, because we are going to the most important feast: It is the feast of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, to Heaven, to the House of our heavenly Father.
May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and upon me also; and may soon the number of God’s elect be completed; and may soon we all are transformed and taken to the House of our heavenly Father, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
And may we all remain united in divine love, serving our beloved Lord Jesus Christ with divine love, and always departing from evil; serving our Savior with all our soul, and always working in His Work, all the days of our life.
May God continue to bless you all, may God keep you.
Thank you very much for your kind attention, beloved friends and brethren; and I leave again with us Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin to continue and finish our part in this occasion.
And onward, serving Christ, because soon we are going to be transformed; and we are going to meet in that great feast of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
We are going to ask Miguel, the Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin, to come to continue and finish our part in this occasion.
It will be until next time when I will be with you again, giving testimony of these great blessings that Christ has for each one of you and for me as well.
May you all have a very good evening.
“A DESCRIPTION OF THE SON OF MAN IN THE MIDST OF THE SEVEN CANDLESTICKS.”
1 Isaiah 11:1
2 Hosea 12:10
3 John 10:17-18
4 John 1:29
5 First Peter 3:19-20
6 Genesis 14:18-20
7 Matthew 18:3; Mark 10:15; Luke 18:17
8 John 14:6
9 Matthew 27:52-53
10 Matthew 11:11; Luke 7:28
11 Matthew 11:13, Luke 16:16
12 Ephesians 4:11
13 Acts 24:14
14 John 12:24
15 Romans 6:23
16 John 10:27
17 John 8:47
18 First Corinthians 5:7
19 Matthew 16:26, Mark 8:36, Luke 9:25
20 Revelation 1:11
21 Matthew 24:27
22 Matthew 13:11, Mark 4:11, Luke 8:10
23 Daniel 2:27-35
24 Genesis 37:12-36
25 Genesis 41:40
26 Genesis 41:45
27 Genesis 45:5
28 Acts 1:1-3
29 Revelation 22:11
30 Revelation 5:6
31 Ephesians 6:17
32 John 8:12
33 Revelation 19:9