ATTENTIVE TO THE VOICE OF THE ANGEL THAT WILL TAKE US INTO THE PROMISED LAND
Rev. William Soto Santiago. Sunday, August 11th, 2013. Cartagena, Colombia
Very good morning, kind friends and brethren present, and those through the satellite Amazonas or Internet in different nations.
And a very special greeting to Senator Edgar Espindola, a very good friend of mine, and we hope that God allows him to continue as a Senator for the benefit of the Republic of Colombia.
And also a special greeting for the former governor and presidential candidate, Ignacio Eduardo Verano de la Rosa, also a very good friend of mine, may God bless him and allow him a very high position in the politics of Colombia, for the benefit of all Colombia; success in his political efforts.
And pray much for these people who have in their hearts to bring a big benefit for all Colombia, every country needs people like them in these political positions, to really help the country.
For this occasion … Remember that God helps politicians to help the people through the politicians.
We read in the book of Exodus, chapter 23, verses 20 onwards, where it says:
“Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not, for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice and do all that I speak, I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.
For my angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.”
God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It. Our theme is:
“ATTENTIVE TO THE VOICE OF THE ANGEL THAT WILL TAKE US INTO THE PROMISED LAND.”
To understand this, we need to know who the Angel of God is. This Angel of God, who, in Exodus, chapter 3, appears to the prophet Moses and identifies with Moses in a very special way, see how He identifies with Moses; Exodus, chapter 3, verse 1 onwards, says:
“Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb (in other words, Mount Sinai, Mount of God).
And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed (It is because it was a sacred fire).
And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father (He identifies Himself as God), the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.”
And now the Angel of God, the Angel of the Lord, when He speaks to Moses, He says: “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”
How can the Angel be God? It is that the Angel is God’s heavenly body, it is the theophanic body, the body of God, which is the image of God.
A heavenly body is a spiritual body; a spirit is a body of another dimension. Just as man is soul, spirit and body; the spirit of the person is another body, it is a body but from another dimension; so when the person dies, he still lives in that other spiritual body, which belongs to the dimension of the spirits.
That’s why in some countries, when a person appears and vanishes in front of people, they say, people say: “So and so died,” because he is appearing and disappearing; it is his spirit.
We have a case in the Bible where the apostle Peter was imprisoned, and they had killed one of the apostles, James, and now the next one they were going to kill was Peter; and they held him in jail for to kill him the next day. And the Angel of God appeared to him in the jail in a Light, and delivered him, pulled him out of prison: the gates opened, and Peter thought it was a vision, and continued on walking behind the Angel that guided him, he passed through the different doors that were opened, and when he was in the street he realized that it was a reality. It was the Angel of God, the same Angel who had appeared to Moses, the same Angel who looks after the Hebrew people.
And now we find that this same Angel also appeared to Saul of Tarsus, who was persecuting the Christians at that time, he was not a believer in Christ. And He appears to him in a Light more powerful than the sun, he falls from his horse, and from that Light comes out a Voice from God telling him: “Saul, Saul, why thou you persecutest me? It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. “
And Saul knew that it was the same Voice that had spoken to the prophet Moses; it was the Pillar of Fire, it was God in the form of light, the same Light that had delivered the Hebrew people.
And now, Saul of Tarsus asked: “Lord (recognized Him as the Lord, as the God Almighty) … Lord, who art Thou?” For whom Paul was persecuting were the Christians, and now God says to him: “Why thou persecutest me?” From that Light comes forth the Voice that says: “I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest.”
Now how is it possible that the God Almighty who was in that Light that appeared to Moses and said: “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,” and now It appears to Saul of Tarsus and says: “I am Jesus”? Remember that Jesus said, “I am come in my Father’s Name.”
Now, what is the mystery of that Light which in the Old Testament says to Moses: “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,” and now that Light appears to Saul and says to him: “I am Jesus”?
It is that He is the Angel of the Covenant, and the Angel of the Covenant is Jesus Christ, who came to Earth to establish a New Covenant. So when taking Holy Supper or the Last Supper with His disciples, He breaks the bread and gives to His disciples, saying to them: “Eat, this is my body,” then takes the cup of wine, gives thanks to the Father and gives to His disciples, saying: “Drink of it all, for this is my Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
See? He is the Angel of the Covenant which comes to establish the New Covenant that He had promised in Jeremiah, chapter 31, verses 31 onwards. It’s the same One that had given the Covenant to the Hebrew people through Moses on Mount Sinai, the same who gave the commandments there, the tablets of the Law
And now, what is the mystery of that Angel of the Covenant in the Old Testament, and now in the New Testament is known as Jesus Christ? It is that back there He was in His heavenly body, in His theophanic body. That’s why we find that Moses, in one occasion in which he wanted to see Him, he saw the back parts of the Angel of the Covenant as the back of a man.
Many of the prophets of the Old Testament met with the Angel who appeared to them and spoke to them; it was a Man from another dimension. The scholars of aliens would say: an alien: and sometimes people are afraid when aliens are mentioned, but human beings are aliens, because the soul is not earthly, and neither the spirit of a person is earthly, it is from another dimension; the physical body is what is earthly.
Therefore, we are all aliens, we are from another dimension and we have come to this dimension to live a season, to make contact with the Divine Program and obtain eternal Life through Jesus Christ.
Now, I told you that Jesus Christ is the Angel of the Covenant. We saw, in what I said in relation to the Last Supper of Jesus, that He said that He came to establish a New Covenant: “This is my Blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
Now, many people ask themselves: “If Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea and at the age of 33 years died on the Cross of Calvary, how can He be the Angel of the Covenant? How can that be?” In John, chapter 8, we have the answer to this question. St. John, chapter 8, verses 56 to 59, says Jesus speaking to the Jews:
“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
Then said the Jews to him, Thou are not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.”
Here Jesus is saying that He was before Abraham. He had said unto them: “Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it and was glad.” That was when Jesus Christ in His angelic body was materialized, and the Archangels Gabriel and Michael also; and they appeared to Abraham, who was already about 99 years old and Sarah was 89 years old. He came to confirm the promise that they would have a son, and that it would be the next year that they would have the promised son.
Abraham prepared a calf, a tender calf, also butter, bread, and made a lunch to a very special guest, who was accompanied by two very special characters: the Archangels Gabriel and Michael.
When these Archangels appear on Earth, something great is going to happen according to the Divine Program. For Abraham it was a blessing. For Sodom and Gomorrah it was divine judgment that was to come and it would burn Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities with all its inhabitants, because of sin. They did not have the Covenant, did not keep the divine ordinances, and therefore they were enemies of God.
And now, every person who is not in the Divine Covenant, he is outside the will of God, outside the Divine Covenant for the time he is living; and therefore he appears as an enemy of God, he is not reconciled with God, his sins have not been removed, they are not blotted out, and therefore he stands as an enemy of God. St. Paul speaks in these terms, and he makes known to us the position of each human being before God.
Now, we have seen that Jesus was before Abraham. It is that Jesus Christ is the Angel of the Covenant. Jesus Christ in His heavenly body, in His theophanic body, is the Angel of the Covenant; He is the image of the living God according of the teaching of the apostle Paul in Hebrews, chapter 1, verse 1 to 3.
Some people, when they hear about the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, and to receive Jesus Christ as Savior … and that it is an unique opportunity which the human being obtains by receiving Him as Savior, so that his sins may be blotted out with the Blood of Christ and for the person to receive eternal Life. Because the person does not receive eternal Life or enters to live forever because he is good, but because he has received Christ as Savior, and Christ with His Blood has cleansed him from all sin.
Remember He said: “I am the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father but by me.” No one can come to God because he thinks he is good, but because he has received Christ as only and sufficient Savior. He is the Mediator, the Intercessor between God and men. He is the High Priest of the heavenly Temple, who is interceding with His own Blood interceding for every person who receives Him as Savior, and for those who have already received Him: when they make an error, fault or sin, and confess it to Christ, Christ cleanses them with His Blood of that sin, and thus He keeps the person clean, keeps him clean with His Blood.
And now, let’s see what Paul says in Hebrews, chapter 1, verse 1 onwards:
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets …”
How has God spoken? By the prophets.
“… Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son (in other words, through Jesus Christ), whom he hath appointed heir of all things (the heir of all creation is Jesus Christ), by whom also he made the worlds (all things ).”
It was through Christ in His heavenly body that God spoke into existence all the Creation, for Jesus Christ in His heavenly body is the image of Almighty God, it is God’s heavenly body.
For that reason is that when different men of God, God’s prophets, messengers of God, judges and kings met with the Angel, as Jacob met with Him in chapter 32, verses 24 to 32 of Genesis, and wrestled with the Angel, and did not let Him go until He blessed him, he held fast to the Angel to receive the blessing of God. He is the One who brings the blessing of God to man. And Jacob called the name of the place “Peniel” the place where he had that experience, he said: “I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” Peniel means “face of God,” therefore, he saw God face to face.
Also Manoah and his wife, Mrs Manoah (in chapter 13 of the book of Judges) saw the Angel of the Covenant, which said to them that they were going to have a child, which was Samson. And when He went up in the flame of the sacrifice which Manoah made, which sacrifice he had lit with fire for it to come before God, the Angel went up in that flame, then Manoah knew that He was the Angel of God.
It was nothing less than God in His heavenly body, that’s why he says to his wife: “We shall die, because we have seen God,” and the Scripture says that no one can see God, because whoever sees God, dies, whoever sees God cannot continue living. Other people also saw Him and did not die.
And then in John, chapter 1, verse 18, says: “no one has ever seen God, the only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him (that is, He has made Him known).”
There is no contradiction in what it says in St. John, chapter 1, verse 18, to what these prophets of God said, who said they had seen God.
God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. People saw God in His heavenly body, in His theophanic body, which is the image of God, but the soul of God, God as soul, they did not see It, but they saw God in His heavenly body.
It’s the same as you and me. I can say to all of you: “I do not see you, and you are not seeing me.” And you all will say to me: “I do see you.” Well, you are not seeing me, because I’m a living soul; and I’m not seeing you because all of you are living souls. But I’m seeing you and you are seeing me, because I’m seeing the physical body you have, and you are seeing the physical body I have. We are seeing each other in the physical body that we have, and we know that we are inside the body. See? As simple as that.
That’s how it is with God. God could not be seen. “No man shall see me and live,” says God to Moses when Moses wanted to see God’s glory. And now, we see each other, the physical body, and say: “I’m seeing so and so.” So it was with the prophets, with these people who saw the Angel of the Covenant: they were seeing God in His heavenly body, God’s heavenly body, God’s theophanic body, a body like the body of angels.
You all have also spiritual bodies, angelic bodies. So when a believer dies, he continues living; what died was his physical body, and if he was a believer, he goes to Paradise; if he was not a believer, he does not go to Paradise. Paradise is the place of waiting, another dimension, another world, we would say another Heaven.
And that first Heaven is a place where there are people in spiritual bodies, theophanic bodies that cannot die; the mortal body is the earthly one. They continue to live in there, they do not have to work, they do not have to get up early to go to work and get into the traffic, so difficult which all the cities have, they have no need to eat, have no need for sleep, there’s no night there, so it’s a resting place, a Paradise.
That place is where the believers in Christ go to, and they wait there; they have their activities according to what is appropriate to that place, and wait there for Christ to finish His Work of Intercession in Heaven in the seventh dimension, there in the heavenly Temple, in the Throne of God.
And when He completes His Church, then Christ will have finished His Work of Intercession, will have cleansed with His precious Blood everyone that is written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life; and He will leave the Throne of Intercession, and become the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, King of kings and Lord of lords, and Judge of all the Earth; He will take the Title Deed, the Title Deed of eternal Life, where the names of all who would be cleansed by the Blood of Christ are written, which would be redeemed; He takes that book, called the Book sealed with seven seals, which appears in Revelation, Chapter 5, and then He opens It in Heaven, and carries out His Reclaiming Work: He claims back everything He has redeemed with His Blood; and passes through Paradise, and will bring with Him all believers in Him who died physically, and will give them physical, eternal, immortal, glorified bodies, like the glorified body Jesus Christ has; and those of us that remain alive, He will transform us.
Of that it speaks to us… It is important to know what the divine promises are, to know the inheritance we have been bestowed in the Divine Program. Notice what it says about the Coming of the Lord, which Christianity has been waiting for over two thousand years. Philippians, chapter 3, verses 20 to 21, the apostle Paul says:
“But our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”
That is what the Second Coming of Christ is for: to transform our bodies, from mortal bodies into immortal bodies, into glorified bodies, equal to the glorified body that Jesus Christ has. which is as young as when He ascended to Heaven. Remember He was so young in the glorified body, when He resurrected in a glorified body, that not even His own disciples recognized Him.
And believers who have departed from this earthly life, if they were 50 or 70, or 80, or 90 years old; when they return, the people who knew them when they were old are not going to know them. And if he says to you: “I am so and so,” or “daughter (or granddaughter), how are you?”
–“Why do you call me granddaughter or grandson, if you’re younger than me?”
— “It is because I am now in the glorified body, the eternal body that Jesus Christ has given me in the resurrection as He promised,” as we have read here.
And this is what Jesus preached and what St. Paul preached and other apostles; therefore, this is what will happen in the Last Day according to the words of Jesus. Notice, John, chapter 6, verses 39 to 40, Jesus 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 at the last day.”
When will Jesus Christ resurrect the believers in Him who died physically? At the Last Day. A day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. A day: the Last Day before God, which for the human beings is the last millennium. And as the week has seven days and the last day of the week is Saturday, the seventh day in the Program of God, the Last Day, is the seventh millennium for the human beings: seventh millennium.
And when speaking about the last days, it refers to more than one day before God, which for human beings is more than a millennium; they are three millennia, the last three millennia, which are the fifth millennium, sixth millennium and seventh millennium. This is why the Apostle Paul says: “In these last days God has spoken to us by His Son (by Jesus Christ).” Back in the days of Jesus the last days before God had already begun, which are the last millenniums for the human beings. As simple as that.
Now, we have more promises that identify the things that will be happening in this end time. First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verse 13 onwards says, this was (as one can see) on one occasion an important believer departed or died, and Paul is writing his words of condolence to the church and family of the person who left:
“But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep (in other words, to sleep is the death of the physical body), that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him (those who slept in Him, that is, those who died being believers in Christ).
For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”
These are words of encouragement to all believers in Christ, because it shows that our relatives believers in Christ who have died physically are in another dimension, there in Paradise, and will return in the resurrection, they will return with Christ, with eternal, immortal, glorified bodies; and then we are going to be changed, when we see them.
First Corinthians also gives us more information about this subject, First Corinthians, chapter 15, verses 49 onwards, says:
“And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.”
In other words, we cannot live forever with these mortal bodies, because these mortal bodies do not inherit incorruption; they must be transformed in order to inherit immortality, inherit incorruption; they must be changed, transformed in our atoms.
“Behold, I shew you a mystery (it is a great mystery which St. Paul will open here): We shall not all sleep …”
So we are not all going to die: there will be a group of believers in Christ at the time of the Coming of the Lord who will not have to taste death, will not have to die, but rather they will be changed when believers in Christ who died are raised. It says:
“… But we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump…”
“At the Last Trump.” When it is spoken of a trumpet, it is speaking of a message: the final Message, at the last Trump.
“… For the trumpet shall sound…”
And when the trumpet sounds, the people are called to gather, to a meeting.
The Scripture speaks to us in Matthew, chapter 24, verse 31, where it says: “And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet …”
Not saying that it is a literal trumpet, but a message as of a trumpet: a Message that summons the people, as in nations; for example, as the army is summoned with a trumpet at certain times; if it is for a war the sound of the trumpet is different than the sound that is for a feast or something else.
“… And the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”
A change will occur in our physical bodies, in such a way that all of our bodies, our whole body will be transformed and will be young, immortal, like the glorified body that Jesus Christ has, who is as young as when He ascended to Heaven. So shall it be, that is the promise for all believers in Christ.
Christ is the Angel of the Covenant, He is the most important person who ever walked this planet Earth; and He is in Heaven sitting at the right hand of God, He is the most important person in Heaven too. And God is in Him
The Lord Jesus Christ in Matthew, chapter 28, verses 16 to 20, said: “All power is given unto me in Heaven and on Earth.” It is that the One who sits on the Throne is the One with the power, and He said He would sit at the right hand of God in Heaven, and He did.
That’s why all the divine power for the administration of all creation, is carried out by God through Jesus Christ, through Jesus Christ who is in His glorified body there on the Throne, as High Priest, making intercession for everyone who receives Him as Savior.
He is the King, the Judge and the High Priest, the most important person, not only on Earth but also in Heaven. The Scripture tells us that He is above all power, above every power, above every dominion, above every principality.
Remember that in other dimensions, as in the sixth dimension, there are principalities also, there are forms of government, but Jesus Christ is above all these forms of government, that is, that everything is subject to Him
Of course, we know that there is a prince who rebelled against God; and he is the one who has been making war on the Kingdom of God; he has been called the Devil, Satan or Lucifer (however you want to call him), but that’s the one who has been bringing so many problems to the entire creation; not only to this dimension but to another dimension; for the war, the rebellion, began in Heaven, in another dimension.
And now, that will completely end when he will be bound and cast into the bottomless pit for a thousand years, and the Messiah will reign in His Kingdom for a thousand years, then the devil will be loosed for a short time, and he will rebel. He does not learn his lesson, he does not learn his lesson being a thousand years imprisoned, and he will do the same again: he will deceive the nations again to plot a coup against the Messiah, against Christ, who will be ruling on the throne on this Earth, but fire will come down from Heaven and will burn them. In Revelation chapter 20, verses 1 onwards, lays that whole story, in advance, of what will happen.
Therefore, we must ensure our eternal future with whom? With Christ in His eternal Kingdom. There is no other way provided by God to live forever.
It is important to understand these things to know what is the Divine Program for our time, and we all have the opportunity to obtain eternal life through Christ, in the Program that He has established.
It’s not just to say: “I know that Jesus Christ is the Savior.” It’s not just to say: “I believe that Jesus Christ died on the Cross of Calvary for salvation.” It is to believe it of all heart and receive Him as our only and sufficient Savior. Otherwise, it does not work.
Salvation is available to everyone: Christ already paid the price of our redemption on the Cross of Calvary, and it’s up to the person to receive Him as Savior in order to obtain eternal Life. That’s why the Gospel of Christ is preached to all nations, it was commanded by Christ Himself, and He said:
“Go 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.
The preaching of the Gospel of Christ and to receive Him as only and sufficient Savior is a matter of salvation and eternal Life.
He also said in John, Chapter 10, verses 27 to 30: “My sheep hear my voice and follow me, and I know them.” Since when does He know us? From before the foundation of the world, because our names are written in the Book of Life.
“And I know, and I give them eternal life.” What does He give us? Eternal Life. “My sheep hear my voice (the preaching of the Gospel of Christ), and they follow me (is not a matter of only hearing, but to hear and follow Christ), and I give them eternal Life.”
It is a matter of eternal Life to receive Christ as only and sufficient Savior; that’s why the motive for the preaching of the Gospel of Christ is so that God, under the New Covenant He said He would establish, has opened the door to every human being, the door of the Kingdom of God, so that the person can enter the Kingdom of God and have eternal Life.
If this earthly life is so good and we struggle not to lose it, because as soon as we feel sick we go to the doctor, and it is right to look after this earthly life, we must not be careless. If this earthly life is so good, how would life be in a young eternal, glorified, immortal body, like the glorified body of Jesus Christ? And that is what Christ has for me, and for whom else? Well, for each one of you also.
And you can not buy eternal Life, and Christ already paid the price for our salvation to give us eternal Life. There is no other Savior, no other Redeemer; there is only One, and His Name is Jesus Christ.
In First John, chapter 5, verses 10 to 13, says: “God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son (that is in Jesus Christ). He that hath the Son hath life (that is, he has eternal life).”
Because the human being when he is born through his earthly parents, obtains life, but it is a temporary life, mortal life, and to obtain eternal Life he must be born again as Christ said to Nicodemus in John chapter 3: “Verily, verily I say to you, except a man is born again he can not see the Kingdom of God. “
Nicodemus thought he had to enter into his mother’s womb and be born again, and says: “How can this be done? Can a man enter his mother’s womb and be born again? “
Jesus said to him: “Verily, verily I say to you, except a man is born of water and the Spirit he can not enter the Kingdom of God.”
And the Kingdom of God is the eternal Kingdom, the Kingdom of Christ, and we all want to enter the Kingdom of God to live eternally with Christ in that glorious Kingdom.
“Born of water” is to be born of the Gospel of Christ; “born of the Spirit” is to be born of the Holy Spirit, to receive the Holy Spirit.
Therefore, we all have before us life and death. “Choose life (says God) so that you may live, and therefore you can do something for your family too, so that they may also live, to guide them in the path of God.” The only opportunity we have to obtain eternal Life is through Christ while living on this Earth.
When a person dies, he does not longer have the opportunity to seek eternal Life. If He received It when he was alive, he has It; if he did not receive It when he was alive on Earth, it is too late to ask for another opportunity.
Take the case of Lazarus the beggar and the rich man. Christ already said that it is when we are living on Earth that we have the opportunity to obtain eternal Life. After the person dies, his chance is already over.
Everyone should understand that the purpose of living on this Earth is that we all have the opportunity to obtain eternal Life, that we may all have the opportunity to hear the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, and to receive Him as our Savior and to be sprinkled with the Blood of Christ and to be cleansed from all sin. First Peter, chapter 1, verse 2 says:
“… Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ …”
For that purpose is that we are here on this Earth: to be sprinkled with the Blood of Christ and to be cleansed from all sin. And we must take heed of this opportunity while we live on this Earth.
Some people say: “When I become older, I will receive Him.” You do not know how many days you have been assigned to live on this Earth; because children die, young people, adults and elderly people die; and you do not know if will die when you are and old man/woman, or when you are in middle age, or as a young man or as a child; that’s why we also present the children before the Lord for Christ to place them in His Kingdom; because we want to ensure our future life with Christ in His Kingdom. It is the only Kingdom and the only Life that will exist: eternal Life with Christ in His Kingdom, and we all want to get into that eternity with Christ in His Kingdom.
The Angel of God is Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant. To be attentive to the Voice of the Angel, is as in the time of Moses, it was to be hearing what God communicated to Moses, and Moses communicated it to the people; and then that same thing, thereafter, the prophets would speak it to the people, God spoke to them and increased the prophecy, giving them more information related to the same issues that He had given Moses.
Then… that was under the Covenant, the Old Covenant. And then under the New Covenant we find that under the preaching of the Gospel of Christ the will of God is being made known, the will of Christ. And through Christ manifested in the midst of His people, which is the Angel of the Covenant, He has been speaking to His Church and through His Church to all humanity, so that everyone may seek God and for everyone to hear the Voice of the Angel of the Covenant, the Voice of Christ, and obtain the blessing of Heaven, the blessing of eternal Life, which is the greatest blessing a person can obtain.
That’s why the soul of each person cries out for eternal Life, because it knows that there is eternal Life and the soul of every person wants to live forever. If the physical body dies, you will receive a new eternal, immortal and glorified body.
Nobody wants to cease to exist. We are aware that we exist, that we are people created by God, created in the image and likeness of God. Just as God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, man is soul, spirit and body; but he is the only creation made in the image and likeness of God, therefore man is the crown of creation.
And that’s why when God became flesh to dwell among the human race, His physical form was human, because that is the divine likeness; and the image: well, the spiritual or angelic body; and God created the human beings like that also, and gave them free moral agency. That’s why no one can put the blame in anyone else if you do not receive salvation and eternal Life; each person is responsible for himself: he has free moral agency to choose between eternal Life or death. He who does not choose eternal Life, he automatically chose death, and his end is in the lake of fire. And this is important for everyone to know, it is better to face the Scripture, to that which the Scripture says while we are alive, than facing it thereafter and say: “I did not know things were so.”
This is so because it is promised, prophesied, revealed in the Word of God. And therefore, you and I have to face the offer, the opportunity God gives us to choose eternal Life by receiving Christ as our only and sufficient Savior.
Remember: “God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son (in Jesus Christ). He who hath the Son (Christ, because he has received Him as Savior) hath life (what does he have? eternal Life), who does not have the Son of God hath not life (he can say: ‘I have life, ‘but it is a temporary life that is going to end, and he does not know when it will end).”
Therefore, we must make good use of the opportunity to obtain eternal Life through Jesus Christ our Savior. I’ve already received Him as Savior, and therefore I have received eternal Life, and in my soul I have eternal Life, I am only lacking physical eternal Life, which comes in the transformation of our bodies. It is important to be aware of these things.
Since we have free moral agency, God has placed, as He placed in the Garden of Eden the Tree of Life, which is Christ, and placed the tree of knowledge of good and evil; and He recommended the human being not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Therefore, just as Adam had free moral agency, we also have free moral agency; it is our responsibility to choose between life and death. I chose life, eternal Life with Christ in His eternal Kingdom when I received Him as my Savior. And who else? I congratulate you, we will see each other eternally in the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
If there is someone who has not yet chosen eternal Life with Christ in His eternal Kingdom, you can do at this moment and we will be praying for you, for which you can come forward and we will pray for you.
You may come forward, and those in other nations can come to the Feet of Christ to pray for you, those who have not yet received Christ as only and sufficient Savior.
Only through Jesus Christ we can obtain eternal Life, there is no other Savior. When the person has received eternal Life through Christ, the existential anguish vanishes: he knows where he came from, he knows why he is here on Earth, and he knows where he is going when his days are finished on Earth in these earthly bodies.
So, when his physical body dies, the person knows that he is going to God’s Paradise to be where all the believers in Christ are, where the apostles are, and where all these people are who have received Christ as only and sufficient Savior in different times in which people have lived in.
God has many people here in Cartagena and around the province and throughout the Republic of Colombia, and He is calling them in this end time to place them in His Kingdom with eternal Life. It is because your names are written in Heaven, in the Book of Life.
In the Book of God, the Book of Life, is our name, that’s why He said His sheep hear His Voice, and that He would call them by their name (John, chapter 10).
That’s why He also said in John, chapter 8, verse 47 onwards: “He that is of God heareth God’s words.” And the Voice of God is the Voice of the Angel of the Covenant, the Gospel of Christ.
He said: “I have other sheep that are not of this fold (that is, the Gentiles): them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”
His Voice is the Gospel, the Fold is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, what about the sheep? Well, it is us, what about the shepherd? The Lord Jesus Christ.
And the words of the Psalmist which say: “The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want,” in the New Testament we can call Him by His Name: The Lord Jesus Christ is my Shepherd. He Himself said: “I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep.”
We’ve seen who Jesus Christ is: He is the Angel of the Covenant; He is the most important person, not only on Earth but also in Heaven. He is where was, is and will be forever the fullness of God, the fullness of the Godhead. That’s why He could say: “I and the Father are one,” and He could also say, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father,” because Jesus’ physical body is the physical body of God, where God dwelt, dwells and will dwell forever; and It is glorified and young for eternity. When we meet Him, that’s how we will see Him. And we will also be young in the new body, representing from 18 to 21 years old.
Let’s pray for the people who have come to the Feet of Christ on this occasion, those present and those in other nations. With our hands raised to Christ to Heaven, our eyes closed:
Heavenly Father, in the Name of Jesus Christ I come to You, bringing to you all these people who are receiving Christ as only and sufficient Savior. I pray You receive them in Your Kingdom, and give them eternal Life. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I pray, oh Father. Amen.
Now repeat after me this prayer that we will be doing, those who have come to the Feet of Christ:
Lord Jesus Christ, I heard the preaching of Your Gospel and Your faith was born in my heart.
I believe in You with all my heart. I believe in Your first Coming, and I believe in Your Name as the only Name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. I believe in Your death on the Cross of Calvary as the Sacrifice of Atonement for our sins.
I acknowledge that I am a sinner and need a Savior. I give public testimony of my faith in You and receive You as my only and sufficient Savior. I pray forgive my sins and cleanse me with Your Blood from all sin, and baptize me with the Holy Spirit and Fire after I am baptized in water in Your Name.
Lord, make a reality in my life Your salvation You purchased for me on the Cross of Calvary. I pray in Your eternal and glorious Name, Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
And with our hands raised to Christ, we all say: The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! Amen.
Now you will say to me: “I heard the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, the faith of Christ was born in my soul, and I received Him as my Savior.” He said: “Go 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. “
You will say to me, “I heard the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, I believed in my heart, and I received Him as my Savior, and I want to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ as soon as possible. When can I be baptized?” It is the question from the depths of your heart.
Inasmuch as you have believed, you may be baptized, remembering that water baptism is typological. Water does not remove sin; it is the Blood of Christ that cleanses us from all sin, but water baptism is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ. Even Christ Himself was baptized by John the Baptist, John did not want to baptize Him, and Jesus says to him: “We should fulfill all righteousness,” and then he baptized Him.
It is that when a person receives Christ as Savior, he dies to the world, and when he is immersed in the baptismal waters, typologically he is being buried, and when he is lifted from the waters of baptism, he is being resurrected unto a new Life, unto eternal Life with Christ in His eternal Kingdom. That is the type, the symbolism of water baptism.
That’s why in water baptism the person is identified with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection; that’s why water baptism in the Name of the Lord is so important, and that’s why Christ gave the command to baptize every person who receives Him as only and sufficient Savior; it has been so since the time of the apostles, and it remains in the same way.
Therefore, you can be baptized, and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produce in you the new birth; and you may thus enter the Kingdom of God with eternal Life.
It has been for me a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, giving testimony of: “THE VOICE OF THE ANGEL THAT WILL TAKE US INTO THE PROMISED LAND OF ETERNAL LIFE.”
I leave with you the Rev. Ceballos, to let you know what to do to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produce in you the new birth, and we will continue to see each other throughout eternity in the glorious Kingdom of Jesus Christ our Savior.
Continue having a happy afternoon, filled with the blessings of Christ.
“ATTENTIVE TO THE VOICE OF THE ANGEL THAT WILL TAKE US INTO THE PROMISED LAND.”