Good evening beloved friends and brethren present here in Panama, Panama, and all the ministers here and their congregations, also the ministers in different nations and their congregations who are connected to this broadcast.
And warm greetings to missionary Dr. Miguel Bermudez Marin and the minister in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Jairo Ordoñez, where Missionary Miguel Bermudez Marin is now, and the entire congregation there. May God bless you all, keep you, and may He open the Scriptures to us and our understanding in order to comprehend.
I want to extend my condolences and the condolences of the Church The Great Tent Cathedral in Cayey, Puerto Rico for the departure of Mr. (Gil) Gilberto Rivera Rodriguez, to his children… his wife Raquel Vazquez Santiago de Rivera, and their children: Gil Alberto Rivera (Gilito), Gabriel Rivera, Obed Rivera, Saralis Wons and Iliadelis Hernandez; and to his grandchildren: Elizabeth Rivera, Sharon Rivera, Sharelly Rivera, Jennifer Rosario, Jessica Hernandez, Jalissa Guerra, Aaron Guerra, Kiana Rivera, Gabriel Rivera, Julian Rivera, and to all the other relatives of Gilberto Rivera Rodriguez, who passed away a few days ago.
Receive my condolences and the condolences of the Church in Cayey, Puerto Rico, The Great Tent Cathedral; and know that when an individual departs from this Earth he remains alive, but in another body, waiting for the resurrection. Therefore, all the believers in Christ, when they die they go to Paradise, they wait for the resurrection to live again in a physical, eternal and young body throughout eternity.
Therefore, Paul says that the believers in Christ are comforted with these words of God, from Paul, that there will be a resurrection of all the believers in Christ in eternal, glorified and young bodies for all eternity.
May your hearts be comforted with these words, for all the relatives of Gil (as we affectionately call him), Gilberto Rivera Rodriguez, father of Gilito, whom we love very much, Gilito too; Gil Alberto Rivera. May God bless all of you and comfort your hearts.
Now, let us read the Scripture in Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verses 15 to 19, which says the following:
“The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the Voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my Name, I will require it of him.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
Today, Friday, March 24, 2017, we will have the introduction to the subject of next Sunday’s Bible School for March 26, 2017, which is: “A PROPHET LIKE MOSES.”
Amos, chapter 3, verse 7, says: “Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.” This is what God spoke about in Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verses 15 to 19, which we read tonight.
Prophets are predestined before the foundation of the world, to be prophets in some part of the Divine Program, which He will be carrying out here on Earth.
That is why God sends His prophets with both consciousness together, so that they can hear from God what they have to speak to the people of God who are under the Divine Covenant relevant to the time in which God sends that prophet messenger with the Word that He reveals to him, which He gives to him, which God places in his heart, in his mind and in his mouth, so that he may speak, anointed with the Holy Spirit, that Word of God for the people under the Divine Covenant.
There are prophets sent for the Hebrew people and there are prophets sent to all nations, as God said to Ezekiel, and also as He spoke to prophet Jeremiah; and as it was for prophet Isaiah, who also prophesied unto gentile nations; prophet Elijah was a prophet for Jews and gentiles as well.
Therefore, we find that just as there are prophets for a single people (which is Israel, or Christianity or Church of the Lord Jesus Christ), there are also prophets who are for both Jews and gentiles at the same time; just as prophet Elijah was, and Elisha as well, prophet Jeremiah was also one of them. Jeremiah says, chapter 1, verse 4 to 10:
“Then the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
But the Lord said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak.
Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.
Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.”
In other words, Jeremiah was also a prophet to all nations.
There are also prophets for ages (such as these prophets) and there are prophets for dispensations. An age is a period of time in which God deals with the people that is under the Divine Covenant for that time, for a part of the Program of God relevant to that time of God’s Covenant with the people; but there are dispensational prophets, that cover a whole dispensation. There are seven prophets for seven ages of a dispensation.
Therefore, a dispensational prophet brings the Message of God for the entire dispensation. A prophet for an age, one of the ages or stages of that dispensation, brings the Message of God (of that dispensation), the part that corresponds to the age in which that messenger is living. Therefore, a dispensational Message is greater than a messenger… A dispensational Message and messenger are greater than a messenger and his Message for a stage in that dispensation.
There are also seven dispensations and seven dispensational messengers. When one speaks of a prophet like Moses, he must be a dispensational prophet; but the prophets from an age represented, typified him temporarily. In the end, the one who has the ministry of a dispensational messenger is the messenger for that dispensation.
For example, the last three dispensations are: the Dispensation of Grace, and its messenger is the Lord Jesus Christ with the Message of Grace, the Gospel of Grace; and within that dispensation, different messengers have come for the Dispensation of Grace with the gentiles, beginning with Paul and ending with Reverend William Branham.
Then, comes the interlace of the Dispensation of Grace with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom; and the Dispensation of Grace joins or interlaces with the Dispensation of the Kingdom. Therefore, the last messenger of the Dispensation of Grace also interlaces with the messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom. It is as simple as that.
Therefore, the messenger of the seventh age of Grace has to introduce the messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom; just as Jesus was introduced by John the Baptist, who was the seventh messenger of the Dispensation of the Law.
The entire Divine Program is simple; and that is why sometimes some have not understood it, because they see it from an intellectual point of view, but it is simpler than what people imagine.
A prophet like Moses is a dispensational prophet. And that is the subject for the Bible School and Bible study for next Sunday, God willing.
Through that prophet like Moses, as Moses was and as Jesus was, it is that among Christianity there will be a great revelation from God to give the believers in Christ of the end time the faith to be transformed, who will be called, gathered, and prepared to be transformed, receiving rapturing faith or faith of transformation relevant to this end time, in the Age of the Cornerstone; age parallel to the age of the First Coming of Christ. That is how it will be in this end time.
That is why God sent the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, Reverend William Branham, just as He had sent John the Baptist to forerun the First Coming of Christ in the Age of Cornerstone for that time.
Therefore, the dispensational messenger at that time, Jesus Christ, was the Cornerstone rejected by the builders, the Stone that crowned the Church of the Old Testament under the Covenant that was given under the Law.
Now, Jesus Christ was a prophet like Moses, a dispensational prophet; that is why His Message covers the entire Dispensation of Grace, just as the Message of Moses covers the entire Dispensation of the Law.
The Message of the messenger who will come at the Last Day, of which Reverend William Branham was the forerunner of that messenger who would come at this end time ⏤who will be a prophet like Moses⏤, his Message will cover all the Dispensation of the Kingdom. It is as simple as that.
That will be a dispensational message, what that messenger like Moses will bring, that messenger, that messenger like Moses.
Next Sunday, God willing, we will have the study; today we only had an introduction; but next Sunday, in the Bible study for our Bible School, we will have more details about this subject: “A PROPHET LIKE MOSES.”
May you all have a wonderful evening. But first, if there is anyone who has not yet received Christ as Savior, you may do so at this time; and we will be praying for you so that Christ receives you in His Kingdom.
Those in other nations can also come to Christ our Savior to receive Him as your only and sufficient Savior, so that Christ receives you in His Kingdom and places you in His Mystical Body of believers.
Remember that Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, in the midst of His Church, is the One who receives and places in His Kingdom those who receive Him as their only and sufficient Savior; for there is no other name by which we can be saved except in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ [Acts 4:12]. That is how it is in the Dispensation of Grace.
Let us stand to pray for the people who have come to the Feet of Christ our Savior.
With our heads bowed, and our eyes closed:
Heavenly Father, I come to You in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ with all these people who, both here and in other countries, are receiving Christ as their only and sufficient Savior. Receive them in Your Kingdom. I pray to You in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Now, repeat after me this prayer I will be making for all of you:
Heavenly Father, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I come to You, I bring before You, Lord Jesus Christ, all these people who are receiving You as their only and sufficient Savior.
I pray may You receive them in Your Kingdom, forgive their sins and with Your Blood may You cleanse them from all sin, and may You give them eternal life. I pray to You in Your Eternal and glorious Name, Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Now, those who have received Christ as Savior will ask: “When can you baptize us? For Christ said: ‘He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.’” (Mark, chapter 16, verse 15 to 16). Therefore, those who have received Christ as their only and sufficient Savior may be baptized.
In the baptism in water, remember that what takes away sin is the Blood of Christ, but the baptism in water was commanded by the Lord Jesus Christ because in the baptism in water the individual identifies with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection.
Remember, we were in Christ, as genes of the divine thought, just as we were physically in our earthly father, likewise, we have also been in Christ eternally; that is why baptism in water identifies us with Christ our Savior.
Jesus Christ Himself was baptized by John the Baptist; and when He rose from the baptismal waters, the Holy Spirit descended upon Him, He was anointed with the Holy Spirit. Likewise, first the person is baptized and then God baptizes him with Holy Spirit and Fire.
On some occasions, people received the Holy Spirit first and then they were baptized, but typically, baptism comes first and then God fills them with the Holy Spirit.
You may be baptized when… The minister here informs you that you can be baptized today; therefore, it is possible for you to be baptized.
Remember that in the early Church, immediately after believing, they were baptized; and when the eunuch was with Philip, and Philip spoke to him, because he wanted to know what a prophecy, a Scripture, meant; he spoke to him about the fulfillment of that Scripture, the fulfillment in Jesus Christ, and asked him: “Can I be baptized? There is water there.” Immediately after believing, he saw the waters where he could be baptized, and Philip baptized him [Acts 8:26-39].
So, is there water? Yes, there is water, you may be baptized; and may Christ baptize you with Holy Spirit and Fire, and bring forth the new birth in you. And until next Sunday, God willing, at the Bible study for our Sunday school.
God bless you and may you all have a wonderful evening.
I leave Minister Ariel Cerrud with you now.
“A PROPHET LIKE MOSES.”