GOD
DEFERS
HIS ANGER
Rev. William Soto Santiago
Saturday June 9, 2012
Cayey, Puerto Rico
ood afternoon, ministers, ladies, and young people, and everyone present, and all the ones that are in other countries in this occasion, in this activity of ministers and fellow workers and ladies that serve Christ and are working in the Work of the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior, may the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon you all and upon me too.
For this occasion we read in Isaiah chapter, 48. verse 9, and on, where it tells us:
“For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and permit to understand It.
“GOD DEFERS HIS ANGER,” in other words, He delays it, He places it for a future date.
It is as when an activity takes place and it is not transmitted by television, but then they show it one hour or two hours afterwards or the following day by television, that activity was deferred, that which was briefly spoken in that activity, was transmitted afterwards; everyone saw it afterwards.
And that which God has spoken of His wrath coming upon mankind, later on will be seen. Now, when God says: “For so many years, or for such a time,” and then we do not see it being fulfilled at that time, that does not mean that God will not fulfill it, but rather God delays it for another time, that is to defer His wrath ‘which was spoken to fall at a certain time’ and then we see that it is not fulfilled at that moment, but rather in a later date, He defers His anger for His Name’s sake, because the people repent at that time, and seeks God, and God has mercy, because He is a merciful God, and repents of what He said that He would do for that moment and delays it for a future date.
As the case in the time of Jonah, whom God sent to preach, to proclaim that God was to destroy Nineveh, and the people heard Jonas speaking, and even the king repented of his sins along with the people, and they began fasting and praying to God for mercy, and even the animals were not permitted to drink or eat anything along with the people for three days, and God saw what they did, being repented, and had mercy upon them, of that king and his kingdom (the people), and forty days passed and the destruction did not come.
The prophet Jonah, a true prophet of God with the true message of God for that time, was angered, and the Lord prepared a gourd, that it might be a shadow over his head, and waited there for the destruction of Nineveh, and it did not occur. Did the message of Jonah of the destruction of Nineveh which would take place within forty days failed? It did not fail. What happened? God had mercy upon the people, and His anger was deferred for later on.
Later on, in another occasion, the people would be in sin and would not repent, then that Word would be fulfilled. God defers His anger; when the people seeks God, God repents and does not destroys the people at that time, but performs it later on when the people are not repented of their sins.
Look here in Exodus also speaks to us of these things, in chapter 34, of Exodus, when Moses was at Mount Sinai praying for the people, asking God to have mercy upon the people, for God had said to Moses to let Him destroy the people and He would place him upon another people. Chapter 34, of Exodus says, verses…
This was when Moses had to ascend for the second time to Sinai, because he had broken the Tablets of the Law, of the divine Covenant, because when he descended from Mount Sinai he found the people immersed in idolatry in the feast of the golden calf, which is the idol represented in the Babylonish religion which Egypt also had, which represented a Babylonish god, which also represented Nimrod.
Someday I will have to speak on the subject of the golden calf with all it’s details. We will leave that for the time you’ll have the new temple: the Tent Cathedral, to where I have been invited to preach in those days, I have been invited there to preach about these subjects: the topic of the trumpets, of the Vials with the plagues, of those divine judgments, and all these things that will fall during the great tribulation.
Therefore, in this occasion and in other occasions I will only teach a few things without details, of these judgments that are to fall upon the Earth, for I myself do not want them to fall yet, until later on. All these things could have been happening since the decade of the 60th, but God has deferred His anger, He has withheld all the things that are pointed out for the great tribulation, which are the divine judgments that are to fall upon the human race.
What we are seeing taking place upon the Earth are only the signs, the birth pains, that are to come, but truly the divine judgments that are to fall upon the human race, the wrath of God falling upon the human race, that has not yet been fulfilled. God has deferred His anger for the love of His Name’s sake, He will fulfill it later on, because the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is not yet completed.
And the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is working so that the last elect that will form part of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ may come, and thats how the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is completed, and when It is completed, then Christ will come out of the Throne of Mercy in Heaven where He is as High Priest, and will take the Property Deed which is the Book of the seven Seals, will open It in Heaven as a Lion, and will claim back all those that He redeemed with His precious Blood in His Work of Intercession as a Lamb; and will convert Himself into the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, King of kings and Lord of lords and Judge of all the Earth.
Then the mercy of God will end, and then He will carry out the divine judgment that will fall upon all those that have rejected the mercy of God, those that have rejected Christ as their only and sufficient Savior; there will no longer be Blood in the Mercy Seat there in Heaven, in the Throne of God, because already Jesus Christ who is the High Priest of the heavenly Temple and then is the Judge of all the Earth, when He ends His Work of Intercession, then He will no longer is the Lamb of God that cleanses every human being with His Blood, but rather He will become the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
That is why when He leaves the Throne of the Father in chapter 5, of Revelation, the Lamb is converted into the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, King and Judge of all the Earth. When the elder says to John: “Weep not, behold the Lion of the Tribe of Judah has prevailed to open the Book, and to loose It’s seven Seals,” John beholds and sees a bloody Lamb. It is that the Lion is Jesus Christ Himself, the Lamb of God, which is converted into the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, King of kings and Lord of lords, so to take the Book of the seven Seals where are written the names of the ones that would be redeemed with the Blood of Christ which would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And Christ can not come out of the Throne of Intercession until the number of His Church is completed, He has to remain there as High Priest in the Most Holy Place of the heavenly Temple interceding with His own Blood for all the ones written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, that would receive Him as their only and sufficient Savior.
Therefore, the wrath of God can not be poured out upon the human race until the number of the Church of the Lord Jesus is completed, which number is known by the Lord Jesus Christ, and that number has been established by God since before the foundation of the world, the time in which the Lamb’s Book of Life was written. Therefore, that is what has been holding back the wrath of God.
If It would have been completed in the decade of the sixties, then at that time Christ would have taken the Property Deed and would have opened It in Heaven and would have done His reclaiming Work, and all the mystery of that Book would have been revealed, the mystery of the Seventh Seal which is the last Seal, which is the Coming of the Lord, and Christ would have resurrected those that have died in glorified bodies as the glorified that Jesus Christ has, and the believers that would have remained alive, He would transform them.
And after a season, let’s say of about 30, to 40, days on Earth, with the ones that died believing in Him already resurrected, and those that live being transformed, wherein a powerful manifestation of the power of God would be carried out in the midst of His Church, in the corresponding stage to that manifestation in the corresponding territory, and from there the whole Earth will be filled by that powerful manifestation of God by means of Christ in the midst of His Church; wherein the power of God will be seen, wherein the things of the times of the apostles will be seen, wherein the Ananias and Sapphiras will appear again.
All that which was seen there in the time of the apostles in the manifestation of God by means of the Holy Spirit, by means of the Spirit of Christ, remember that Christ said: “I will be with you every day until the end of the world.” How would He be? In Holy Spirit. The Church will have again that manifestation of God in the time of the restoration of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We saw that manifestation in the time of the apostles, we also saw a sample in the time of the Reverend William Branham, where the power of God by means of the Spirit of Christ through the Reverend William Branham did great wonders, which impacted North America and also many other nations. It was God through a man, it was God through the Spirit of Christ working in the Reverend William Branham; that was not a man doing those signs, that was not a man raising the dead, it was not a man healing the sick, it was not a man giving sight to the blind, it was God by means of the Holy Spirit of Christ in the Reverend William Branham. Therefore, the glory is of God.
And that was a sample of the things that God is to do in the midst of His Church, in the time of adoption. The adoption of the Church, the adoption of each believer in Christ will be the resurrection of the those that died believing in Christ and the transformation of the living, that will be the adoption or redemption of the body, which is the physical part that is coming for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ: the physical adoption, which is the physical redemption, the redemption of the body wherein we will obtain an eternal, immortal, incorruptible and glorified body that He promised for all the believers in Him.
And when the believers in Christ obtain that new body, then they will be able to go with Christ being raptured to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb. Therefore, they will have the spiritual garment, which is the Holy Spirit, the One that produced the new birth in those persons, and consequently produced the redemption in the spiritual sphere, the redemption of the soul, and then comes the redemption of the body which is the transformation of the living with the resurrection of the dead in Christ in glorified bodies. It is as simple as that.
That’s why the born again believers in Christ, born in the Kingdom of Christ, they are sealed with the Holy Spirit until the day of redemption, the adoption, the redemption of the body, St. Paul says in Ephessians chapter 4, verse 30, and also in Ephessians chapter 1, verse 1 to 14; and Romans chapter 8, verses 14, to 31.
That’s the reason why each believer in Christ groans within his soul for the redemption, the adoption, the redemption of the body, which will be the transformation, for which all the believers in Christ since the Day of Pentecost and on, since the day in which the Church was born, they have been crying, groaning in their souls for that physical adoption which will be the redemption of the body, the transformation of the living, in order for them to have an eternal body, and the resurrection of the dead in Christ in physical, eternal, immortal and glorified bodies, equal to the glorified body of Jesus Christ our Savior.
And not until that happens, the wrath of God will be deferred, it will not fall upon the Earth, because Christ is still in the Throne of the Father, in the Throne of Intercession as High Priest interceding for each person that receives Him as only and sufficient Savior, and consequently God looks at the Earth with all the human beings through a covenant, and consequently sees them through the Blood of Christ and does not see sin in them; because Christ is interceding with His Own Blood.
Perhaps that is not understood by mankind, but it is so. But when the Blood of Christ is removed from the Most Holy Place, from the Throne of Intercession, from the Mercy Seat, then God will see mankind, will look at the Earth and will see sin; and to that follows the divine judgment to the human race, because the wage of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal Life in Jesus Christ our Savior.
It is important to be under the Blood of Christ so to be under the new Covenant, because there was a change of covenant with the first Coming of Christ and His death on Cavalry’s Cross. Remember that Christ said in St. Matthew, chapter 26, verses 26, to 29, in the last Supper with His disciples, in the eve of Passover, wherein during the night He was taken prisoner, and then in the morning of the following day He was crucified.
We find that Christ taking bread and breaking it, gives to His disciples and says: “Take, eat, this is my body which is broken for many.” And then taking the cup of wine and giving thanks to the Father, gave to His disciples saying: “Drink ye all of it, for this is my Blood of the new Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
The remission of sins for the human being is by the Blood of Christ our Savior. When the person receives Christ as Savior, the Blood of Christ cleanses him of all sin. He that does not receive Christ as Savior, can not be cleansed from sin, the sins of the person, of the individual remain in him, and therefore some day they will give account to God for their sins. That’s why it’s so important to receive Christ as only and sufficient Savior, for which purpose the Gospel of Christ is preached to every creature:
“Go into all the world and preach the gospel unto 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 Scripture says in Romans chapter 10, verses 1, to 15, that faith comes by hearing the Word, and with the heart one believes for righteousness, but with the mouth one confesses for salvation. And how can they believe without a preacher? And how can they believe if a preacher is not sent? That’s why it says “blessed are the feet of them that publish good tidings,” tidings of peace, of salvation, of eternal Life.
The good tidings are preached by means of the Gospel of Christ, good tidings of salvation and eternal Life by means of Christ our Savior, Who took our sins and died for us on Cavalry’s Cross so that we may have eternal Life; which becomes effective in the person when he receives Christ as only and sufficient Savior, because forgiveness is not forgiveness until the person accepts it; if he does not accept it, he lost the only opportunity to obtain the forgiveness of his sins and to obtain salvation and eternal Life.
It is important to know these things so that faith be born in the soul, in the heart, and the person may receive Christ as Savior. Remember that God does not send judgment to the individual, nor to the world, without first giving a warning. The preaching of the Gospel of Christ is the greatest warning that God gives the human being so the human being can avoid the divine judgment, can avoid being cast into the lake of fire for his sins.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
But whosoever does not believe, well, he will perish. And that must be heard and understood by the persons living on the planet Earth, so that they may understand that to hear the Gospel of Christ and to receive Him as Savior is a matter of life and death.
If the person receives Him as Savior, he obtains eternal Life; if he does not receive Him, he already received the warning, and consequently: “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” That’s the warning for the human being, that’s why… that’s in Mark 16, 15-16. And also St. John 3, verse 16 says:
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
And it also says that like Moses lifted the serpent in the wilderness, the Son of Man would be lifted up, for what? So that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal Life. It is by looking at Christ with faith, as it was by looking at the serpent with faith, which was lifted up in the wilderness, so that the poison of death that was injected in the persons that were bitten by the serpents would be annulled, and it is by a faithful look at Christ being crucified for us at Calvary’s Cross, is what annuls every sin of the person , annuls the poison of death placed in the human being in the Garden of Eden by the old serpent.
A faithful look to Christ crucified does that, because the Blood of Christ cleanses us from all sin; every sin that the person confesses to Christ is placed in the Blood of Christ and Christ cleanses him, that sin disappears, and when God looks at that person He does not see sin; that person has been justified. Therefore, it is important to understand these things in order to know what to do to obtain God’s mercy and not to perish.
In the time of Noah was the same, it was by looking with faith to that which God had promised, and to look with faith in the work Noah was doing, and what he did was a work of faith, he obtained the revelation of what was to come and what he had to do so that the wrath of God would not fall upon him and his family. It was a work of faith, and the persons had to see that work, the construction of the ark, with a faithful look; because it did not rain at that time, there were seen clouds filled with water, therefore, he was announcing things that were not seen at that time, but were revealed to Noah, and Noah believed in God.
Notice what it tells us in chapter 34, of Exodus, when Moses ascended for the second time to the Mountain…with stone tables that he prepared, because the first ones were carved from the rock by God; God prepared them, the second tables Moses was commanded to hew them and to prepare them like the first ones; in other words, that was a hard task for Moses, and he did not have much time to do them. Chapter 34, of Exodus, says:
“And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.
And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount.
And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.
And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone (
and they are heavy, depending in their size and width).
And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord (
God proclaiming His Name).
And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed
(in the language in which He proclaimed It, this here is a translation)… proclaimed, the Lord, the Lord God merciful and gracious, long-suffering.”
Long-suffering, see? He gives the human being opportunity. He does not bring judgment hurriedly, but rather He gives the human being time to hear God’s advise, and to think it over, and to repent before the wrath of God comes.
“…long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin…”
And if He says He forgives, then He gives the human being time to repent, so He may forgive him; because that is what God wants: He wants to have mercy unto the people, in order to forgive them.
“And that will in no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the third and to the fourth generation.”
In other words, the sins that the fathers commit, the chastisement of those sins will be received by their children and their children’s children, up to the third and fourth generation; in other words, the consequences of a person’s sin can also come to his children to his grand children or to his great grand children, up to the fourth generation.
Remember that in a person, in a man, the sons that he is to have are in his loins, also his grand children and his great grand children; there is something spoken about the children being in their father’s loins, his grand sons and his great grand sons. We have the case of Abraham when payed tithes to Melchizedek, in chapter 14, of Genesis, when God gave bread and wine to Abraham. In chapter 7, of Hebrews Paul explaining it in chapter 7, of Hebrews, says, verse 1, and on, in order to have a clear picture, says:
“For this Melchzedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;
to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is King of peace (
King of Salem: King of peace. For Salem is peace);
without father (
therefore, if He does not have a father, then He is eternal)…without father, without mother, without descent (in other words, before Him nothing existed, He was without descent; and then who is He? He is God); having neither beginning of days, nor end of life (He is endless, He is the Almighty God, the eternal God); but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.”
He is the High Priest of the heavenly Temple, which is Christ, because the High Priest Melchzedek which appeared to Abraham, is God appearing to Abraham in a heavenly body, and the heavenly body of God is Christ in His heavenly body: the Angel of the Covenant, who then gave the Law to Moses on Mount Sinai, because the Law was given by commission of Angels, the Angel of the Covenant there in Mount Sinai, and angels of God being present there, heavenly Hosts there present. That’s why Christ in chapter 8, verses 56, to 58, of St. John, said:
“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
Then said the Jews unto him, Thou are not yet fifty years old, and has thou seen Abraham?
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.”
And He did not explained them. They thought He was insane, because if you say: “Before Abraham was, I am,” they will say you are insane. But all the believers in God, all the believers in Christ, they were in Christ when Christ was here on Earth, all the believers in Christ were in Christ before Christ coming to Earth. That is not understood humanly, but it is biblical.
We were in God since before the foundation of the world written in Heaven in the Lamb’s Book of Life, which is the section of the Book of Life where the ones that would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ are, and consequently those are the ones that would receive Christ as only and sufficient Savior, which are the ones that can never perish at no time, those are the persons of whom Christ says in John, chapter 10, verses 27, to 30: “My sheep hear my Voice…” which Voice? It is the Voice of the Gospel being spoken by the Holy Spirit trough them that preach the Gospel of Christ, the Gospel of our salvation anointed by the Holy Spirit.
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
My Father, which gave them me, is greater all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.”
Here we can see that they will not perish, they are the elect, the chosen, the predestine, by God’s foreknowledge. God knew us since before the foundation of the world, where were we? We were in the divine thought, because that which God does, we find that God has it in His thought. It is not like some people say: “I did that without thinking,” that’s why they commit errors. But God thinks of that which He is to do.
No one knew the mind of God but the Spirit of God which is in Him, and the Spirit of God is the Angel of the Covenant, because a spirit is a body of another dimension. The Spirit of God is Christ in His heavenly body, that’s why the Scripture says: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and all things were made by Him; without Him nothing that was made was made.” (St. John chapter 1, verse 1, and on). “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us,” the Word, the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, became flesh and dwelt among the human race in the midst of the Hebrew people.
That was God in His heavenly body dwelling in a body named Jesus, God with us, Immanuel. “God has visited His people because a great prophet has risen among us,” said the people that saw Jesus resurrecting the son of the widow of Nain, of the city of Nain; God visiting His people within a veil of flesh named Jesus.
The body of Jesus, was resurrected glorified, that’s why we no longer know Him after the flesh, but rather glorified. He was neither Jew not Gentile, He was the Word made flesh, that body of flesh was created by God, so that by means of that body to carry out the redemption of the human being; in order to carry out the Sacrifice of Redemption for our sins, typified in the goat that Abraham sacrificed to God in Isaac’s place.
That was the paschal lamb that was sacrificed in the eve of Passover for the preservation of the life of the Hebrew firstborns, as it was sacrificed in the eve of Passover there in Egypt for the preservation of the Hebrew firstborns that were in the Hebrew homes.
The Egyptians did not have the sacrifice of atonement for their sins, they did not have a sacrificial lamb, because that revelation was given to the Hebrews, which was given by God through the prophet Moses, and that came from the time of Adam, where the sacrifices of little animals for sins began, in order to obtain forgiveness and to be covered with the blood of those sacrifices, which blood did not take away the sins but covered them, because a perfect Sacrifice had not yet arrived, because the animals do not have soul, therefore those sacrifices were not perfect.
But Christ was introduced as the Lamb of God that would take away the sin of the world by John the Baptist, that’s how he presented Him, He was the perfect Sacrifice, the perfect Lamb, that would be slain in order to take away the sin of the world, for the preservation of the sons and daughters of God, in the spiritual exodus that would be carried out, (the second exodus); the first one was literal, which God performed through the prophet Moses delivering the Hebrew people from bondage in Egypt so to bring them to the promised land.
The second Exodus is spiritual: Christ delivering His people, His elect written in Heaven in the Lamb’s Book of Life, delivering them from the kingdom of the darkness, the kingdom of the wicked one, and placing them in His Kingdom.
And then the third Exodus is for this time, and it is to enter into the promised land of the new, immortal and incorruptible body, to enter into the promised land of the Kingdom of Christ, the Kingdom of God, to enter it physically; we have already entered It spiritually, we have been transferred from the kingdom of darkness, the kingdom of the wicked one, to the Kingdom of the Son of God (Colossians chapter 1, verses 12, to 25.
Now comes the second part of the redemption, the second part of the adoption, so to enter physically into the Kingdom of God with eternal Life, with a physical eternal body.
Now, let us finish this passage of Exodus… I already told you that the sons, the grand sons, and the great grand sons can inherit the consequences of the sins committed by their great grand fathers. That’s why when they fill out documents for an insurance or in a hospital, or something, they ask: “Did your father, or anyone, your grand father, or anyone had cancer? Had diabetes? Had such and such a disease? Why? Because those things are inherited, the consequences of the problems that someone had, and above all, the problems that entered the human race at the fall of the human being.
In some other occasion I will speak to you about the health problems that entered into the human being back there in the time of Adam and Eve, and how those problems arrived, how they entered the human race, we will see it with more details.
Today we are in this biblical study, also tomorrow, for Sunday is dedicated to biblical studies, biblical schooling in all the churches that believe in Christ, no matter the denomination, no matter the group. Notice:
“…visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, (the generation of the grand sons) unto the third (the grand sons generation) and to the fourth generation (which are the great grand sons).
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
And he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
And he said…”
Now notice, Moses knowing the people, and God also, Moses asked for mercy and asked God to take them as His people and inheritance; a people filled with problems, there was a promise from behalf of God for the seed of Abraham; therefore, Moses is being based in God’s promise, in the divine promise for that time; Moses was not looking at the people’s problems, which was a problematic people, which wanted to kill him on several occasions, (not less that ten).
“And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people…”
And now He tells him: “Your people,” because they had not been adopted yet as a people, He had not yet taken them as His people, because the covenant had not been given yet.
“Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land wither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
but ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
for thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.”
Now notice all the things God commanded Moses to tell the people. And now, that of the third and fourth generation, see here chapter 7, of Hebrews, where we had stopped briefly, now we return to it, we read that passage again, let us take verse 4, and on, of chapter 7, of Hebrews, where we were reading, it says:
“Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.
And verily they that are of the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham:
but he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.
And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better
(in other words, God who is the better, blessed Abraham).
And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom is witnessed that he liveth
(In other words, that He is alive, that He lives eternally, does not die).
And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.
For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him.”
It says that he is in the loins of his father, and yet Jacob, who was Levi’s father, was not yet born; and Jacob’s father was whom? Isaac, neither was yet born. Isaac was in Abraham’s loins, and Jacob was in Abrahams’s loins, and Levi was in Abraham’s loins. See?
There we have, we can count: Abraham, (the first generation), Isaac (the second), Jacob (the third) and Levi (the fourth); in the fourth generation, the fourth generation corresponds to the sons of Jacob, counting Abraham as the first generation.
But notice, that’s how the blessings that were given to Abraham and the deliverance of his seed, was fulfilled in whom? In the descendant of the sons of Jacob which formed the tribes, they formed the Hebrew people there in Egypt, because when they left Caanan they consisted of 70, to 76, persons, also counting Joseph and his sons with that group, plus the servants Jacob had, which had to be counted (if one wishes), but if they are not counted, then they are 70 and some, 70, to 76, persons.
And they multiplied so fast that they became a people stronger, there they became a people stronger than the Egyptians themselves; and for that reason king Pharaoh who was there in the time of Moses became scared, and when Moses was born he commanded all the children to be killed; and Moses is type of Christ; when Christ was born Herod also commanded all the children of two years and younger to be killed. And we will leave it alone, we will not explain much on this, maybe we will leave that for the Seventh Seal, when It is unloosed.
Notice how are inherited, that is why the promises given to Abraham, they pass from Abraham to Isaac, from Isaac to Jacob, and from Jacob to the patriarchs, and consequently to all the descent of the patriarchs, of the twelve sons of Jacob. And the blessing of the Birthright since It has a double portion, what belonged to the older then was given to Joseph by means of his sons. So the blessing of Reuben, who was the firstborn, since he defiled his father bed, he was not faithful to his father, in something that is written here in first of Chronicles, chapter 5, verse 1, and on, it says:
“Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons Joseph son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s)…”
That’s why the blessing of the Birthright being a double portion, the tribe of Joseph is composed of two tribes: the tribe of Benjamin, and the tribe of Manasseh. See how simple it is? And the blessing of the birthright is required for the establishment of the Kingdom of David. That’s why when the Kingdom of David was divided, ten tribes were given to Jeroboam, a descendant of the tribe Ephraim, and there were only two tribes left for the tribe of Judah, for the Kingdom of David in the time of Rehoboam son of Solomon.
The two sticks must unite again: the stick for Judah, and the stick for Joseph (or stick for Ephraim), the stick for Judah represents the two tribes that remained of the Kingdom of David; and the stick for Ephraim or for Joseph which represents or corresponds to the ten tribes that were given to Jeroboam.
In all of that there is a mystery for the restoration of the Kingdom of David, which is not simple, it is not because the nations want the Kingdom of David to be restored, it is a divine Program, and God will establish It according to the way He programed it since before the foundation of the world, and that is in chapter 9, of Isaiah where it says that “the zeal of the Lord shall perform this,” in other words, it will not be a human work, but a divine Work; for which when the Messiah is received by the Hebrew people, He will perform these things.
Meanwhile… and will bring peace. In the meantime there will be no peace for Israel, there will be no peace for them from behalf of God, because the peace of God for Israel lays in the Kingdom of David and will be brought by the Messiah the Prince, for which Elijah in his fifth manifestation will come proclaiming the imperishable peace that God will give Israel in the restoration of the Kingdom of David. That’s why Israel is waiting for Elijah. And when they explain about Elijah coming proclaiming the imperishable peace, they say that it will be a man of this time, a man of the time in which that prophecy is fulfilled, who will not be Elijah literally.
So then… and also the reverend William Branham, in page 428, of the Seals Book, it says it will be a man of this time. Every time a prophet came to Earth with his ministry, when it was announced that that ministry would come again, it would be the ministerial spirit of that man being operated by the Holy Spirit in another man, it has always been so.
Now we can see this theme: “GOD DEFERS HIS ANGER.” Since there have been occasions in which He has done it, therefore it is not strange that He has done it also in our time; thank God for that, for that reason we are still here on Earth alive. If He did not deferred His wrath, already since the decade of the sixtieth we would have no cities, we would have no people living; but because of the elect, notice, God has been deferring His anger.
As in the time of Noah, God told Noah that He was going to destroy the Earth and the human being, but from the time He told him until the time it happened a hundred and twenty years transpired: the patience of God waited until the Ark was prepared so that the persons that would begin a new generation would be saved: Noah and his family.
Thus it is happening in our time. Remember that Christ said: “As it was in the days of Noah, thus will be in the Coming of the Son of Man, they were eating and drinking, marrying and given in marriage and knew not.” What did they not know? God’s Program, and knew not and the flood came and took them all away; the wrath of God came, the divine judgment came, which judgment is type and figure of the judgments of God that will fall in the great tribulation, it’s type and figure of the wrath of God that is to fall upon the human race as it happened at that time. And He also said that it will be as the days of Lot, the days of Sodom and Gomorrah; neither did they understand, and fire fell from Heaven and burned them all.
Fire will fall from Heaven, so much as with atomic bombs which are prepared, were prepared for that purpose, and also the volcanoes will be erupting, and the problems of the global warming, which will arrive to a moment in where the sun will become so hot, or will be so hot… remember that the ozone layer is already broken, and the hole that was created grow bigger each day because of the gases of the chemicals of the factories, and other problems that cause damage in the ozone layer.
There is no tailor or seamstress that can mend it.
Each day is bigger, and it is known that in Latin America, throughout all the route of Latin America where that hole is, the rays of the sun are coming out without being filtered and that area of Latin America is being affected gravely.
Therefore, that is a great sign, a sign in Heaven of sore danger that is increasing each day. That’s the reason why you see the temperature increasing on planet Earth, each day the planet Earth gets hotter, and that’s a bad sign, it’s a sign that judgment is arriving.
It is as when you drive your car and it overheats in the traffic, that’s not a good sign, and you see the needle in the heat meter rising to the danger zone and you see the light turning on, (if there is a warning light) that’s not a good sign. The liquid of the radiator whether it be water or any coolant, disappears, because the water pump is damaged, or something happened, or if the water comes out from the bottom, or even through the cap, because of the pressure rising and the valve of the cap is damaged and the liquid comes out through there.
And they have been drawing out the petroleum from the Earth, and much water has been drawn out, and since under the ground it’s like a radiator, wherein rivers flow, and all that, and the petroleum lakes are under the ground, all of that causes the temperature to rise on Earth, and the volcanoes erupting, and a great number of things, and the sun is becoming hotter, getting hotter because of the hole in the ozone layer, (it has a great hole), and other problems, the planet is as a car that overheats. And a good chauffeur stops the car and corrects the problem before the motor gets damaged.
An now, have the governors of the planet Earth done that? Did they stop all the things that caused the global warming so that the planet Earth may not continue overheating? If they have not done it, it will happen with them like the chauffeur that did not stop to fix his problem, and then to continue his trip. They say that the motor of the car will blow up, and if they do not prevent those problems, the planet Earth will be burned and more so with the atomic bombs that are prepared, and if they explode the global warming will increase.
But remember, all those bombs will explode, and on the other side, the Earth will be straightened out. In other words, in a sense, the third world war which will be a great problem, that will cause for the Earth to be straightened out, and then the temperature in the Millennial Kingdom will be, let’s say, 70 degrees Fahrenheit, which would be 20 degrees Celsius, not more than 25 degrees in the planet Earth, as it was in the time of Adam and Eve, as it was in the time before the flood.
In other words, at the end everything will work out for the good of the Kingdom of God and for all the believers in Christ and for everyone who will live in the Kingdom of the Messiah. Thanks to God that He has deferred His anger and for that reason we are still living here on Earth.
But when the number of the Church is completed and the dead in Christ are resurrected and those that remain are transformed, the waiting time has ended. Then the rapture or catching away of the Church will come, and the wrath of God will fall upon the Earth. But before that a warning is given on planet Earth of what will come. God has deferred His anger, but until a certain time.
So therefore, onward working in the Work of the Lord, carrying out the divine Program, evangelizing, with the Gospel of Christ, taking the Word so that the elect that are lacking to be called and gathered may enter the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and It may be completed, so that the blessing of God may come upon many persons, many communities, many peoples.
We know that there is a great blessing promised for Christianity, for the Church of the Lord. We know that there will be a great manifestation of God in the midst of Christianity, and the power of God will be seen in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. There is a great promise also of the Coming of the Lord for the resurrection of the dead in Christ and a transformation for the living, and the rapture or catching away of the Church, for which it is required for us to have faith, faith to be transformed and raptured; faith is revelation.
One cannot have faith without a revelation from Heaven. That was shown by Peter when he said: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” and Christ tells him: “Blessed are you Simon Barjona for flesh nor blood has revealed to you, but my Father who is in Heaven.” Why did Peter believed Jesus to be the Messiah? Because he had received the revelation from Heaven; he had that revelation and that’s why he believed, because faith is revelation; without revelation, the person cannot have faith, because faith comes by hearing the Word of the Lord, and there the divine revelation is obtained.
May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon everyone of you and may use you greatly in His Work in this end time; and may we soon see the power manifestation of the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of His Church.
There are great promises for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed are those who work based in the corresponding promises to this end time, that is to be working as Christ said: ” Know you not that in my Father’s business I must be?” How was He in those businesses? He was working in them. What were the Father’s business? It was to work in that which God had promised, fulfilling that which God had promised, that’s what Christ did: fulfilling that which God had promised for that time, and to be working in the promises of God, that is to be working in the Father’s business.
It is important to know which are the promises of God for the time in which the person lives and to work in them. Whoever is working in the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, by taking the Gospel everywhere, that person is working in Christ’s business, in the Father’s business, which work is done by the Holy Spirit through the persons that are evangelizing, and so forth, because they are taking the Gospel being led by the Holy Spirit. That’s how things are in the Kingdom of Christ, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Well, may God bless you, and until tomorrow God willing, where we will see each other again in the conference for tomorrow, God willing, which will also be a biblical study as always, as it is done on Sundays in the churches of Christianity, always on Sunday, excepting some that do it Saturday, the majority of them have it Sunday morning.
May God bless you and keep you, and continue having a happy afternoon filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior. With you again the reverend Jose Benjamin Perez to continue.
“GOD DEFERS HIS ANGER.”