Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present here in Panama, Panama, and all the ministers present here and their congregations, and also the ministers in different nations and their congregations, which are tuned into this broadcast.
And warm greetings to Missionary Dr. Miguel Bermúdez Marín and the minister there in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Jairo Ordónez, where Missionary Miguel Bermúdez Marín is, and the entire congregation there. May God bless you all, may He keep you, open the Scriptures to us, and open our understanding so that we understand.
Now, let’s 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 comprehend It.
Today, Friday, March 24, 2017, we will have the introduction to the subject of the Bible school on Sunday, March 26, 2017, which is: “A PROPHET LIKE MOSES.”
Amos, chapter 3, verse 7, says: “Surely the Lord God will do nothing without first revealing His secrets to His servants, His prophets.” This is what God spoke of in Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verses 15 to 19, which we read tonight.
Prophets are predestined before the foundation of the world to be a prophet in some part of the Divine Program that He will be unfolding here on Earth.
That is why God sends His prophets with both consciouses 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, that 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 to the Hebrew people and there are prophets sent to all peoples, as God said to Ezekiel, and also as He spoke to the prophet Jeremiah; and as the prophet *Elijah was, who also prophesied unto Gentile nations; the prophet Elijah was a prophet for Jews and for Gentiles as well.
Therefore, we find that just as there are prophets for one people (which is Israel, or Christianity or the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ), there are prophets who are for Jews and Gentiles at the same time; as the prophet Elijah was, as the prophet Elisha was also, the prophet Jeremiah also. Jeremiah, chapter 1, verses 4 to 10, says:
“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 for all nations.
There are also prophets of ages (like these prophets were) and there are prophets for dispensations. An age is a period of time in which God deals with the people who are under the Divine Covenant for that time, for part of God’s Program for that time of God’s Covenant with the people; but there are dispensational prophets, who cover the entire dispensation. There are seven prophets for seven ages of a dispensation.
Therefore, a dispensational prophet brings God’s Message for the entire dispensation. A prophet for an age, one of the ages or stages of that dispensation, brings God’s Message (of that dispensation), the part relevant 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 of that dispensation.
There are also seven dispensations and there are seven dispensational messengers. When referring to a prophet like Moses, he must be a dispensational prophet; but the prophets of ages represented him, typified him, temporarily. But the one who ends up with the ministry of a dispensational messenger is that messenger for the corresponding dispensation.
For example, the three last dispensations are the Dispensation of Grace, and its messenger is the Lord Jesus Christ, with the Message of Grace, of the Gospel of Grace; and within that dispensation, different messengers have come for the Dispensation of Grace with the Gentiles, starting with Saint Paul, and ending with Reverend William Branham.
Then comes the overlap between the Dispensation of Grace and the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom; and the Dispensation of Grace merges or interlaces with the Dispensation of the Kingdom. Therefore, the messenger of the Dispensation of Grace, the last one, also interlaces with the messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom. As simple as that.
Therefore, the messenger of the seventh age of Grace is 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 people haven’t understood it, because they see it from the intellectual point of view, but it’s simpler than 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, among Christianity there will be a great revelation from God to give the faith to be transformed to the believers in Christ of the end time, who will be called, gathered, prepared to be transformed, receiving the rapturing faith or transforming faith relevant to this end time, in the Age of the Cornerstone; an age parallel to the age of the First Coming of Christ. That is how it will be at 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 Cornerstone Age of that time.
Therefore, Jesus Christ the dispensational messenger at that time, was the Cornerstone rejected by the builders, the Stone that crowned the Church of the Old Testament under the Covenant that It was given under the Law.
And 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, which, Reverend William Branham was the forerunner of that messenger who will come at this end time, who will be a prophet like Moses, his Message will cover the entire Dispensation of the Kingdom. As simple as that.
That will be a dispensational Message, what will be brought by that messenger like Moses, that messenger, that prophet like Moses.
Next Sunday, God willing, we will have the study; today we only had an introduction; but next Sunday, in the Bible study of our Bible school, we will have more details about this subject: “A PROPHET LIKE MOSES.”
God bless you, and have a wonderful evening, everyone.
I’ll leave Minister Ariel Cerrud with you now.
“A PROPHET LIKE MOSES.”