Happy Father’s Day to all fathers present and those in different nations! May God bless you greatly, prosper you spiritually and materially, and use you greatly in His Program in this end time. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
A very special greeting for Missionary, Dr. Miguel Bermudez Marin, and to all ministers in different nations; and also for the different congregations and churches and brethren in different nations.
For this occasion, we have the subject: “ASK THE FATHER IN HIS NAME, AND HE SHALL REWARD THEE OPENLY.”
Matthew, chapter 6, verses 6 and on, says:
“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand it.
Our subject for this occasion is: “ASK THE FATHER IN HIS NAME, AND HE SHALL REWARD THEE OPENLY.”
Today, Father’s Day, we remember the heavenly Father above all, the Father of the family, who is God, and through Christ He multiplies Himself, he reproduces Himself in many sons and daughters of God; and that is why Christ came to be the Father of all sons and daughters of God. God through Christ, as the Father, reproducing Himself in sons and daughters of God; that is why Christ is the second Adam.
Just as we came from the first Adam in the midst of a fallen race, we come through the second Adam ⏤through Christ⏤ to the Kingdom of God; where we are born and where Christ reproduces Himself in sons and daughters of God through the second Eve, which is His Church.
Therefore, Christ as Son over His House (says Hebrews, chapter 3), has been placed as head of that race of sons and daughters of God. Chapter 3 of Hebrews tells us the following… Verse 1 and on, says… Let us read from verse 5 and on, to 6:
“And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”
The House of God, the House of Christ, God’s Family, God’s descendants. That is why in Ephesians, chapter 2, verse 19 and on, says:
“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God (members of God’s Family as sons and daughters of God)<em>;
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:
In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.”
The members of God’s Family, the sons and daughters of God, are the ones who form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, who are born in the Kingdom of Christ, in His Church, from stage to stage, from age to age. That is why in Colossians, chapter 1, the apostle Paul tells us… Colossians, chapter 1, verses 12 and on, says:
“Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.”
In other words, He has delivered us from the power of darkness, from the power, the power of the kingdom of darkness, and has translated us to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ the Son of God.
We have come to the kingdom of darkness that is established on planet Earth and rules humanity, through the physical birth here on Earth; a fallen race, a race that lost eternal life there when Adam and Eve sinned.
In this mortal race is where we have come to be tested, to hear the Word of God relevant to the time in which each person written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, has been given to live; the faith be born in their soul, because faith comes from hearing the Word of the Lord (Romans, chapter 10).
Faith is born in the soul of the person when they hear the Word of God; and faith comes by hearing the Word. “For with the heart (the soul) man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” The step of confession is required, of confessing Christ as only and sufficient Savior, for salvation and eternal life.
Consequently, throughout the history of Christianity, millions of human beings have been hearing the Gospel of Christ, Christ’s faith has been born in their soul, they have been receiving Christ as Savior, they have been baptized in His Name; Christ has baptized them with Holy Spirit and Fire, and has brought forth the new birth of millions of believers in Christ in His Kingdom.
Remember that Christ is the heir. Through Christ, Christ being in His heavenly body (called the Angel of the Covenant), in His theophanic body, the Word (called the Word), God created all things through Christ.
Some people think that is something too great for Christ; and it is. There was no other person through which God could manifest Himself and create all things. This is in Hebrews, chapter 1, verse 1 and on. Says:
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things (He is the heir to all of the Creation), by whom also he made the worlds…”
Through whom did He create the universe? Through Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Word that was with God and was God. In other words, He is the heavenly body of God, Christ in His theophanic body called the Angel of the Covenant.
John, chapter 1, also speaks to us. Verse 1 and on, says:
“ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
He was God, because God was in the Word, the heavenly body, the Angel of the Covenant, manifesting Himself. That is the heavenly body of God. Christ in His heavenly body, the Angel of the Covenant, is the image of the living God, the heavenly body of God.
And the physical body of God is the physical likeness, called Jesus, or Jesus Christ. That is why Jesus Christ said: “I and my Father are one. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.” They were seeing the Father manifested in His physical body, His body of flesh, called Jesus Christ; Emmanuel, according to Isaiah, chapter 7, verse 14; Emmanuel, which translated is: God with us.
If the Gospel is preached then one has to preach who God is, who the Angel of the Covenant is, who the Word is, who Jesus Christ is, and how Jesus Christ was before coming to the Earth in a human body. Because Christ says in John, chapter 8, verses 54 to 58: “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.” The Jews say to Him: “Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?” Jesus Christ tells them: “Before Abraham was, I am.” He was the I Am, He was none other than the Angel of the Covenant who would come to the people as it was promised.
Some will ask: “It was promised that the Angel of the Covenant would come?” Of course it was; and that would be the promised Messiah for the Hebrew people. That is in Malachi, chapter 3, verse 1 and on, where it speaks of John the Baptist (the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ) and of the foreran: the Lord Jesus Christ.
This prophecy was fulfilled there… It says:
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me (we all know that that messenger was John the Baptist forerunning, preparing the way for Christ in His First Coming, the Messiah, preparing the way for the Angel of the Covenant): and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in.”
See? The Lord God Almighty will come to His Temple and the Angel of the Covenant, who is Christ, the Angel of the Lord or Angel of God. God would come… just as He came for the creation of a new race, or original race, which was the one planned out for the planet Earth to inherit and all of the Creation as joint heirs with Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, which then came to be the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, who are born in the Kingdom of God.
“shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.”
It was promised that the Angel of the Covenant would come, and the same Angel that appeared to Moses; and through Moses delivered the Hebrew people, came in human flesh. He was veiled in Moses, a temporary body for God to dwell in Spirit, the Pillar of Fire was veiled in Moses; and it was God speaking through human lips to the Hebrew people, and also to the Pharaoh and the Egyptians.
But the human body of God is Jesus Christ; body that is already glorified and sitting at the right hand of God in Heaven. Christ Himself said that He would sit at the right hand of God; and the one sitting on the throne is the one with the power, the king.
And then, what of God’s power and God as King? God with His heavenly body and His physical body, called Jesus Christ, is sitting on the heavenly Throne; it is then, God in human form in the person of Jesus Christ our Savior, but with a glorified body since He was resurrected and ascended to Heaven and sat at the right hand of God.
All of the believers in Christ will also have glorified and eternal bodies, and they will live eternally as kings, as priests and as judges in the Kingdom of God on Earth, in the Kingdom of Christ, as heirs and joint heirs with Christ, of the earthly Kingdom of God; and they are also heirs of the Kingdom of all of the Creation, they are the administrators that will be ruling all of the Creation with Christ.
[Romans 4:13]:
“For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.”
And now, the Heir of the Earth, the entire solar system and all of the galaxies with their solar systems and planets, is Christ; and the believers in Christ, that form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, are heirs and joint heirs with Christ of everything Christ is heir to. And He is the Heir of all of the Creation, because all things were created by Him and for Him. [John 1:3]:
“All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”
Remember that it says:
“The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
And now we can see who the preaching of the Gospel of Christ is about, the Gospel of the Grace, the Gospel of our salvation: It is about the Angel of the Covenant, in whom God dwelled and dwells, who is His heavenly body, the image of the living God.
The Scripture tells us that Jacob struggled with the Angel, the Angel of the Lord, in Genesis, chapter 32, at a place called Peniel. Chapter 32, verse 24 of Genesis, says:
“And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
And he said (the Angel; the Angel tells Jacob), Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.”
And every person must hold on tight to Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, to receive the blessing of Christ. Because the blessings are for the brave: that hold on tight to the Angel of the Covenant and never depart from Him, but rather they remain steadfast believing that the blessing is for them.
Because when the person reads and captures a divine promise, they believe it wholeheartedly: that promise belongs to them. The rest is a lapse of time while it is materialized, where God fulfills that promise He has made in His Word.
“And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.”
Remember that there are always struggles in order to receive blessings, there is a struggle to remain steadfast; because people will come who will try to discourage the person, or they will see things that can discourage them; but the person must have their sight on the divine promise, believing it wholeheartedly, without turning to the right or to the left of the Word of the Lord.
Remember that the enemy rips out the Word that was sown in the heart, the soul of the person, if the person lets the enemy use another person to rip it out or using things that happen in order to discourage the person.
“And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
He says that he saw God face to face; and who he saw was the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of God; he was seeing God dressed in His heavenly body, called the Angel of the Covenant or Angel of God, which is Christ in His heavenly body; He whose back Moses saw on one occasion.
It is important to know that God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit; and therefore, one must know the difference between God as Father, and also God as the Angel of the Covenant, and God as human flesh called Jesus, who is already glorified. If the person does not know how to make that differentiation, they will always be confused with the knowledge of who God is.
Now, it says that Jacob said: “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” And in Judges, chapter 13, Manoah and his wife, what was her name? Mrs. Manoah. It says [Verse 15]:
“And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.”
Remember that every time the Angel of the Lord is mentioned, it is the heavenly body of God in whom God is, and through which God spoke the Creation into existence.
“I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the Lord. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the Lord.
And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?
So Manoah took a kid with a meat offering, and offered it upon a rock unto the Lord: and the angel did wonderously; and Manoah and his wife looked on.
For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
But the angel of the Lord did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. (This was when He spoke to them about a the son they would have, who was Samson). Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the Lord.
And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
But his wife said unto him, If the Lord were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these (in other words, that they would have a child).
And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him.”
Now, we have that Jacob saw the Angel of the Lord, wrestled with Him, and the Angel told him: “For as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.” He was wrestling with God manifested in His Angel, His heavenly body; that is why he could say he wrestled with God. And Manoah and his wife also say they saw God.
Also, in the ladder Jacob saw, in chapter 28 of Genesis, verses 1 and on, it tells us that he dreamed there was a ladder placed upon the land, that reached Heaven; and he saw Angels of God going up and down on, and God was on the top of the ladder, from where He spoke to him.
After Jacob awoke, it says… Verse 12 and on, of Genesis 28, says:
“And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.”
This seed is the Prince Messiah, Christ, in whom all families on Earth are blessed by hearing the preaching of the Gospel of Christ and receiving the blessing of salvation. That is why Christ said: “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” (Mark, chapter 16, verses 15 to 16).
“And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.
And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”
Where did Jacob find God? At the top of the ladder, at the House of God; because that is God’s dwelling place.
He was found in His First Coming in the midst of His people Israel, the earthly House of God, the earthly Family of God. And we find Him manifested from age to age in the midst of His people, which is in the current Covenant for each age or each dispensation. That is where we find God manifested through the biblical history, which shows us the different stages of God’s manifestations.
We also find God in His temple, the tabernacle that Moses built; we find Him in the temple that King Solomon built, in the Most Holy Place, in the midst of the Two Golden Cherubim on the Mercy Seat, under the Covenant given by God to the Hebrew people through Moses, under the Law.
And then we find Him in the New Covenant in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, manifesting Himself from age to age, going from the Atrium to the Holy Place (the seven Church ages), and from the Holy Place passing in the Last Day, in the Age of Cornerstone, which is the Most Holy Place of that spiritual Temple formed by human beings, who are also individual human temples where God dwells in their souls, in their hearts. That is why Paul says: “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” [First of Corinthians 3:16]
Consequently, it is important to know these details in order to see God throughout history in the midst of the people under the current Covenant for their time; be able to see Him in His Temple in the Old Testament, and be able to see Him in the new Temple, formed by human beings, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and be able to see in which stage of the Temple, which part of the Temple of God, the Church of Jesus Christ, we are found in this place.
Because He will be fulfilling what He has promised for the stage of our time, which is the stage of the Age of Cornerstone, just as He fulfilled what was promised for each age or stage of the Church in past ages; for which, God came, Christ in Spirit, and revealed Himself to the messenger of each age, and gave the promised Word to the messenger of each age for each age; and when He brought it, the corresponding age of the Church under the New Covenant was created by the spoken Word.
Thus it is also for our time. God will fulfill the promised Word for the Age of Cornerstone. That is where God’s great blessings for the Church are in this end time, because the other ages have already passed and their messengers have finished their labor on Earth, and they are in Paradise with the group that was given to them for their age, waiting for the completion of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Age of Cornerstone, and Christ finish His labor as High Priest interceding in the heavenly Temple, on the Mercy Seat, and the Door of the Dispensation of Grace is closed, and Him being the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, King of kings and Lord of lords, and Judge of all the Earth.
Because this is what is promised for Christ to do in His Second Coming, coming to His Church for the resurrection of the dead believers in Him, with which He will come; because He will pass on to the sixth dimension (Paradise) from the seventh dimension, where the messengers with their corresponding groups of each age are; and He will come from there with them, He will resurrect them in glorified bodies, the messenger and his group (after having a judgment for the messengers there in Paradise); and when we see them resurrected, us that are alive in this end time will be changed; and then we will have young bodies, immortal bodies, glorified bodies just as the body that Jesus Christ our Savior has.
Things that are promised to be fulfilled in this end time, well those are the corresponding promises for our transformation.
And there is a very important promise, which is that the Pillar of Fire, Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, will move to a Great Tent Cathedral, to a small place made of wood which was shown to Reverend William Branham.
And on page 40 of the book of “Quotations,” [Book of “Quotations” in Spanish – Editor] he asks… A quote from one of the messages. He asks… When he was taken to that place and was in the air, he saw the Pillar of Fire move from where he was to the small room; the Angel tells him: “I will find you there.” In other words, they are going to be there, at least the messenger of the seventh age in a way, and may all of the seven messengers from the different ages. There will be a great blessing there for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in this end time.
He saw the Pillar of Fire move there, and he also saw miracles and wonders, a prayer line; he also saw preaching, calling to the altar, all of those things. And he was told: “This is the Third Pull and you will tell no one.”
Of course, so that it wouldn’t be interrupted, because imitators always come out first trying to take advantage and saying they have personal revelations, and the enemy deceives them. But he said: “This will not be imitated, because the enemy does not know what this is.”
The Third Pull will be a full manifestation of the power of God, the creative Word being spoken. And that is why in the reading that Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin spoke about, he showed that Reverend William Branham says that faith will reach a higher level; and the faith of those who have little faith, there won’t be problems, because it will be a stage by the creative Word being spoken. That is very close to happening.
The Program of God is sealed with the fulfillment of that Vision, and it seals it with the transfiguration or glorification of God’s elect who will return in the resurrection in glorified bodies, and the transformation of those who are alive, believers in Christ of the Last Day, of that stage of the Church. The ones who will be changed are the ones from that stage of the Church; the ones who will be resurrected will be from past ages and some of ours who have also departed.
Consequently, there is no problem if a believer in Christ from the end time departs: they will return in a glorified body. But if they remain alive until the end time (for which they must have been chosen by God for that purpose), will be changed, in order to be just as Christ in a glorified body, eternal body, immortal and young for all of the eternity.
That is where we will obtain the eternal life of the physical body. We will have the eternal life in the physical body in the glorified body; but we already have an eternal spiritual life. Therefore, we first have the spiritual eternal life, and then eternal physical life in the resurrection and transformation of those who will be alive, and the resurrection of those who have physically departed.
Now, God will do all of that through Christ our Savior in the end time in which we are living in. But we do not know in what year, neither do we know in what month, or which week or day. But as an age, it is the day of the Age of the Cornerstone, which corresponds to the Eighth day or Sunday of the week, which was the resurrection of Christ our Savior, the first day of the week, which is Sunday.
Now, we had seen that Jacob says that he saw God face to face; and where it says that “this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven,” he saw God at the top of the stairs. And it is there, in the Age of the Cornerstone, where God will be seen manifested in all His fullness in the Last Day, where Christ or God in all His fullness will be manifested for the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive.
Now, if we see what John, chapter 1, verse 18 says, any person could think that there is a contradiction. After all of these men, like Manoah and Jacob, have said that they saw God face to face, see what John, chapter 1, verse 18 says here:
“No man hath seen God at any time…”
And they said they saw God face to face.
“No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.”
Remember that that is Jesus Christ. He is the image of the living God. Through the divine image, which is the heavenly body of Christ, called the Angel of the Covenant, is that God made Himself known from Genesis throughout the Scripture.
All of those who said they have seen God face to face, what they saw was the heavenly body of God, which is the image of the living God. And then those who saw Jesus Christ were seeing God, God veiled in a body of flesh, God in His physical body, Who is already glorified.
Therefore, when we meet with Him, with Jesus Christ, we will be seeing God in a human form but glorified body; and all of the believers in Christ with glorified bodies, all of the Family of God, the children of God already glorified for the beginning of the Kingdom; but first the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, where Christ and His Church will be invested as Kings upon Earth and all of the Creation.
And then, at the end of the great tribulation, we will return for the beginning of the Kingdom of God on Earth, called the Kingdom of David. And the Throne of David will be occupied by Christ at the Last Day for the Millennial Kingdom.
There is a mystery there, which for now we are going to leave it alone because there are great blessings for all of the believers in Christ of this end time.
No one ever saw God. And those who saw God, what they were seeing was the heavenly body of God, called the Angel of the Covenant, who is Christ in His heavenly body. That is why He could say: “Before Abraham was, I am. Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.”
It is important, in the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, the Gospel of the Grace, to know God and recognize who the Angel of the Covenant is, and know who Jesus Christ is, which was manifested on Earth in three and a half year ministry, which ended… ended at 33 years.
It began when He was around 30 years old when He was baptized by John the Baptist. See, God is never late: for the messianic ministry of three and a half years, the veil of flesh through which God would manifest the promise of the Messiah, the Coming of the Messiah, was already on Earth, for twenty-nine and a half years; where He shared culture, Israel’s religion and all of the daily life of the Hebrew people, as one of the citizens of Israel. God having fellowship with the human beings that were under the Covenant in the effect of the Law of that time.
It is always important to know that the Coming of the Lord is for the people under the Covenant in effect of that time. It is important to know that because then we know where the Lord has to come to; where He had to come in His First Coming and where He has to come to in His Second Coming.
Israel was the one waiting for the Coming of the Messiah, and He came and fulfilled what He had to fulfill for that time; because it was the people that was under the Covenant in effect for that time. And the people that is under the Covenant in effect for the end time is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which was born on the Day of Pentecost. That is why it is the Church the one who waits for the Second Coming of Christ; and He comes as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work.
And when the Jews see the Lord in the midst of His Church, they will say: “This is the One we are waiting for!” In other words: “What is He doing with the believers in Christ?” It is that Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has the Covenant in effect under the Dispensation of Grace; and they are promises corresponding to the New Covenant, to be fulfilled in the Last Day in the midst of Christianity.
The Jews will be incredulous until there. From there on, God will open their minds, hearts and Scriptures, to comprehend all of the history of the First and Second Coming of Christ, and the New Covenant, which the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is in. Therefore, what we have to do is pray for the Jews, because they have their time; and they are going to be awaken according to Hosea, chapter 6.
Christ says under the New Covenant (for those of the New Covenant): “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find.” [Matthew 7:7] He also says: “And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do.” He also says: “Whatsoever you shall ask, the Father may give it you.” (John, chapter 14; John, chapter 15; and John 16). All of those promises… And Mark, chapter 11, verses 23: “Whosoever shall say unto this mountain: Be thou removed and nothing will be impossible.”
There is a mountain that needs to be moved: the mountain of the gentile kingdom. According to Daniel, chapter 2, verse 30 and on, that mountain will be moved, that kingdom; and the Stone not cut by hands will be established, which will grow and form a great mountain, a great Kingdom: the Millennial Kingdom of the Messiah. It is as simple as that.
And that is more than a literal removal of a mountain; because a literal mountain cannot be moved with a machine; but the mountain of the gentile kingdom can only be removed by God with the Stone not cut by hands, which is the Second Coming of Christ for the establishment of the Kingdom of God on Earth, the Prince of Peace of Isaiah, chapter 9, verses 1 to 11.
Therefore, there is a glorious future for the believers in Christ; and there are promises from behalf of God, reason to pray for those blessings that He has promised, those promises there are for the believers in Christ.
Any person may say: “But it is already promised, I do not have to pray for that anymore.” Think of it as home, which is the most familiar thing to oneself: The refrigerator is full, the stove has electricity or gas (the same thing happens in a restaurant); and you are hungry and you get home; you may tell your wife: “I want such a thing, and such and such thing.” It is as if you were praying, making a petition. Or asking for the menu at a restaurant; there you say what you want, but they will not bring it if you do not ask for it.
And the blessings that are promised, the promised promises, they will not be granted if you do not ask for them. That is why we pray. He knows our necessities, He knows the petitions we are going to ask for, but we must ask. “Ask, and it shall be given you.” [Matthew 7:7]
Christ taught us to ask God for what He has promised, to ask according to God’s will, which is to ask according to the divine promises. You must ask. That is… one is reclaiming what He has promised, it is for us; but if we do not ask for it, then it is because we do not need it. Therefore, Christ tells us: “Ask. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do.”
Since you see it written, what is promised, God’s promises, you believe them and pray, ask for them: the process of materialization begins, which we do not know how much time it takes, comparing one person to another; it is going to depend on the faith of the person.
Remain steadfast, asking, and steadfast believing that you will receive what you have asked for; because you will examine it with the Word and you will know that you are asking according to God’s will; and thus God will be glorified and Christ will be glorified in us, and we will glorify Christ.
Because He is the true Vine; we are the branches where the fruit is carried. “Herein is my Father glorified (says Christ), that ye bear much fruit.” (John, chapter 15).
Some say: “I settle for a little bit.” Jacob did not settle with little, neither did Abraham. The believer in Christ settles with everything that God has promised for them. Therefore, God is not scarce with us; there is abundant blessings for all of us. The only one that settled with not asking and not have anything was the negligent servant, and the blessing was taken away and given to another person; and he could not enter into the Kingdom.
“ASK THE FATHER IN HIS NAME (in other words, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ), AND HE SHALL REWARD THEE OPENLY.”
The Vision of the Tent will also fulfill those words of Christ; because the closet where Christ says for one to enter into our secret closet, which could be the main room or the office of the person, where they pray to God in the Name of the Lord, as a custom of all of Christianity and Judaism as well; that secret closet is type and figure of the Most Holy Place of the tabernacle Moses built and the temple that King Solomon built; and it is also a type and figure of the soul of the person, which is the secret place where God dwells, in the interior of the believer; and it is type and figure of the Most Holy Place of the Age of the Cornerstone, the spiritual Temple of Christ, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which has gone up in this end time, to the Age of the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ.
That is why the full manifestation of God will be in the Age of the Cornerstone, the Age of the Most Holy Place, just as it was in the temple that Solomon built and the tabernacle Moses built.
In order to give the spiritual blessings to the believers in Christ, to His disciples, they had to go up to the upper room. For the blessing that is coming for the believers in Christ: the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, one must go up to the Upper Room of the Age of the Cornerstone (it is as simple as that), to receive the spiritual and material blessings, the physical transformation of our mortal bodies. It is as simple as that.
That is where the Final Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet sounds, which will give us the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; which will revolve around the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords; as Revelation, chapter 10, shows us, the Mighty Angel descending from Heaven, who is Christ crying as when a lion roars, and Seven Thunders uttering their voices.
There is the secret for which there was silence in Heaven for about a half hour. That is why John was told: “Do not write what the thunders spoke”; if not, we would have imitations, many imitations that would cause much harm even to the elect. Because the elect, if it were possible, they would be deceived by imitators. If it were possible. But it will not be possible because the Voice of Christ will be in the Age of Cornerstone, just as He was in past ages in the messengers in the midst of the Church in the corresponding age. But the secret will be much more closed for this end time, to avoid imitations from imitators, which in order to take advantage, they will take advantage, and to fight the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, let us be prepared because something great is prepared to happen in this end time, for the blessing of the believers in Christ under the New Covenant in the dispensation that corresponds to us, where the Dispensation of Grace and the Dispensation of the Kingdom intertwine.
“ASK THE FATHER IN HIS NAME, AND HE SHALL REWARD THEE OPENLY.”
If there is a person who has not yet received Christ as Savior, you may do so in this moment; and we will be praying for you so that Christ may receive you in His Kingdom and bring forth the new birth in you. For which you may come to the front here, and those that are in other nations may come to the front where you are, so you may be included in the prayer we will be making for those who will be receiving Christ as Savior.
And also the children 10 years of age and on, you may come to the Feet of Christ. Christ said: “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” [Matthew 19:14] In other words, Christ did not discriminate against children or against women. There were many sisters who accompanied Jesus in His ministry, and they helped Him, worked, supported the ministry of Jesus Christ.
There is room for everyone in the Kingdom of Christ. And for our time, the servant that was sent from age to age to seek the Holy Spirit, seek those who would enter into the Supper, and in the end said: “It is done as you said (said the father of the family), and yet there is room.” And seven Church ages have passed and there is still room, where? In the Age of the Cornerstone. There is room for those who listen and the faith of Christ is born in their soul and receive Christ as Savior. There is still room.
Thank God there is still opportunity of salvation for the people that are left to come to the Kingdom of God, written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Let us stand to pray for the people that have come to the Feet of Christ on this occasion:
Heavenly Father who art in Heaven, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I come to You with all these people present here and in other nations, who are receiving Christ as only and sufficient Savior. I pray You receive them in Your Kingdom. I pray to You in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, for whom be the glory and honour, for ever and ever. Amen.
And now, those who have come to the Feet of Christ our Savior repeat this prayer with me:
Lord Jesus Christ, I heard the preaching of Your Gospel and Your faith was born in my soul, in my heart.
I believe in You with all my soul. I believe in Your Name as the only Name under Heaven, given among men whereby we must be saved. I believe in Your First Coming and I believe in Your death on Calvary’s Cross as the Sacrifice of Atonement for our sins.
I heard the preaching of Your Gospel and Your faith was born in my heart. I believe in You with all my soul. I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I need a Savior.
I give public testimony of Your faith in me and I receive You as my only and sufficient Savior.
I pray you forgive my sins and with Your Blood cleanse me from all sin; and baptize me with Holy Spirit and Fire after I am baptized in water in Your Name, and bring forth the new birth in me.
I want to be born in Your Kingdom. I want to live eternally with You in Your Kingdom. Make a reality the Salvation You won for me on Calvary’s Cross. I pray to You in Your Eternal and glorious Name, Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
And now, those that are present and in other nations that have received Christ as Savior, will ask: “When can I be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord?” As it was done in the time of the apostles, it was preached and in that same moment, they asked for the baptism and they were baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
For which you have believed wholeheartedly, you may very well be baptized; and may Christ baptize you with Holy Spirit and Fire, and bring forth the new birth in you.
The baptism in water is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ for all who receive Him as Savior. That is why He said: “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” [Mark 16:16] It is as simple as that. It is this way in the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Christ, the Kingdom of the Messiah.
In the baptism in water we identify ourselves with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection; Christ Himself was baptized by John the Baptist. It is that in the baptism in water we identify with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection. It is because we were in Him, in Christ eternally, as the genes of the divine thought; just as we were in our earthly parents, in the genes of our father.
That is why Hebrews, chapter 7, says that when Jacob – when Abraham tithed to God, Melchizedek, Levi who was not born yet, was also tithing; because Levi is the son of Jacob, Jacob is the son of Isaac, who was not born yet. And see how in four generations, the fourth generation before, there was Levi in the loins of Abraham as a gene.
We were as genes in the loins of the physical fourth generation, our physical body; which goes on from the great grandfather to the grandfather, from the grandfather to the father and from the father to what one is physically. That is why one also inherits health problems that come from our parents, grandparents and great grandparents; and blessings as well.
The baptism in water is a requirement established by Christ our Savior, for all who receive Him as their only and sufficient Savior. And Christ is the example: when John the Baptist was baptizing in the Jordan, Jesus arrived; and when it was His turn, John tells Him: “I have need to be baptized of Thee, and you come to me to baptize you?” Jesus tells him: “For thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness.” And then he baptized Him; and the Holy Spirit descended – when He arose from the baptismal waters, the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus in the form of a dove.
Look at what John the Baptist was preventing when he tells Jesus: “I have need to be baptized of Thee.” He wanted Jesus to baptize him, and John had to baptize Jesus so the Holy Spirit could come upon Jesus and be anointed as the Prince Messiah in the fulfillment of the First Coming of the Lord.
And when a person prevents or does not want to be baptized, they are preventing the Holy Spirit from coming upon the person to bring forth the new birth; they are losing a great blessing to be born in the Kingdom of God.
There is no other different way to be born in the Kingdom of God: you must be born of the Water and Spirit, says Christ to Nicodemus in John, chapter 3. “Except a man be born of Water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God,” says Christ. Being born of the Water is being born of the Word; and born of the Spirit is being born of the Holy Spirit.
So we have a clear picture of the baptism in water, of the First Coming of Christ and of all the promises relevant to this end time, the age in which are found.
It has been a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, giving you testimony of the Word of the Lord under the topic for today’s, Sunday Bible study: “ASK THE FATHER IN HIS NAME, AND HE SHALL REWARD THEE OPENLY.”
The manifestation there will be in the fulfillment of the Vision of the Tent will be God publicly rewarding what He will be saying, the petitions and prayers that will be made in that small place of wood that was shown to Reverend William Branham. And there is also a Name there.
May God bless you and keep you. And I leave with you Reverend Jose Benjamin Perez to continue, so he may tell you what to do in order to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord; and in each country I leave the corresponding minister to do in the same way.
May God bless you and keep you; and until next Friday and Sunday, God willing, where I will be with you again.
Pray for me very much and for yourselves as well. Pray for one another, those present and those in other nations. Pray for one another, so God may bless us with the fulfillment of the things He has promised us to ask, and He will give them.
Christ Himself prayed and asked God; He asked according to God’s will. And when it wasn’t according to God’s will, He said: “Let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.” [Matthew 26: 36-39]
“If it cannot be passed, it is fine; may it be Your will if I have to go through this tough stage of death and suffering, which I am going through,” or He was already going through since the Mount of Olives.
May God bless you and keep you; and continue having a joyful evening, filled the blessings of Christ our Savior.
And pray very much for Friday and Sunday’s activities, God willing, so that God may give me much open, revealed Word, and our understanding is opened to all this Word He will give us.
Remember that the disciples were with Christ for three and a half years, and they still did not understand that He had to go through death to later be resurrected; until their senses, the Scriptures and their understanding was opened in order to comprehend. That is in Luke, around chapter 24 of Luke.
Well, may God bless you and keep you; and continue having a joyful evening, filled with the blessings of Christ on this Father’s Day.
For which, I reiterate my congratulations to all fathers present and those who are in other nations. Happy Father’s Day to all!
With you, Reverend Jose Benjamin Perez, and in each country the corresponding minister.
“ASK THE FATHER IN HIS NAME, AND HE SHALL REWARD THEE OPENLY.”