Good morning dear friends and brethren present, and good afternoon for those in other nations that are past midday, (I don’t know if it’s the same here). Greetings to the missionary Miguel Bermudez Marin there in Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and to the reverend Oswaldo Aparecido and to all the ministers gathered there.
May the blessings of Christ the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and upon me too. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
We are grateful for the words that missionary Miguel Bermudez Marin spoke to us this morning.
For this occasion I read in Zechariah chapter 4, verses 11, to 14, which says:
“Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees, upon the right side of the cnadlestick and upon the left side thereof?
And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches, which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my Lord.
Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”
“GOD PROVIDES BLESSING FOR ELIJAH AND FOR THOSE THAT SERVE HIM,” that’s our topic for this occasion.
Just as God blessed this individual that had helped Elijah, and then also the one that helped Elisha, God blessed both of these persons because they believed, they received and served the messenger of their time.
The ministry of Elijah is well known in the Old Testament and in the New Testament: because the ministry of Elijah is one of the ministries of the Olive Trees of Zechariah chapter 4, and of Revelation chapter 11, verse 1, to 14. In chapter 11, of Revelation, it speaks to us about the two Olive Trees. Chapter 11, verse 3, and on, says:
“And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three score days, clothed in sackcloth.
These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.”
In this Scripture we have the ministries of the two Olive Trees, which are the ministries of Moses and Elijah being repeated at the Last Day. That’s why, when Christ tells His disciples: “There be some standing here, that shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coming in His Kingdom,” then He takes them… That was in chapter 16, of St. Matthew, verses 26, to 28, but most of all verse 27, to 28, says, (of chapter 16, of St. Matthew):
“For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”
He announces that the Son of Man shall come in His Kingdom, He announces that the Son of Man shall come with His Angels. And in Mount Transfiguration, in the following chapter (which is chapter 17), He takes Peter, James and John to a high mountain and was transfigured before them, and there appeared unto them Moses and Elijah, one on each side, and Jesus glorified there. Chapter 17, says:
“And after six days Jesus taketh Peter James and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart,
and was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elijah talking with him.”
Notice, His face did shine as the sun, because Malachi chapter 4, verse 2, says: “But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.” Remember that the sun is a star. Those suns, those stars, around which other planets rotate, notice, those suns have their own planetary systems, around that sun, around that star, other planets rotate, and that sun gives light to those planets.
Now, Christ, the Bright and morning Star is our Sun. “But to you that fear my Name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise (in His Second coming) with healing in His wings.”
The sun, as the evening star, it rises before in the morning, by the East, but it first appeared by the West, in the evening time. And the sun which is seen in the West in the evening time, after finishing its trail, it represents Christ traveling the Day of Grace from the East, wherein the Dispensation of Grace was born, and travels unto the West, where It ends, where the Work of the Dispensation of Grace is completed.
And after that manifestation of the Sun of Righteousness in the evening time, in the midst of Christianity, then It returns to the East…He reveals Himself to the Hebrew people in the West, and will call and gather one hundred and forty four thousand Hebrews; for them the Sun of Righteousness will arise in the East to enlighten them, to give them the Light of a New Dispensation, the Dispensation of the Kingdom, which Kingdom will begin with the Coming of the Lord to His people.
First He will come to His Church and then to the Hebrew people; just as His First Coming was to the Hebrew people and then to the Gentiles, from which He is calling a people for His Name’s sake.
Now, from age to age, God in Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant the Holy Spirit, has been sending His Word to His Church from age to age, by sending a messenger with the Word of God, the Message of God in him, and when he speaks that Word the elect are being called in each age; always using a veil of flesh, a man, because God works by means of the human being, He works by means of a human being here on Earth, to carry out the redemption: by the veil of flesh called Jesus; and for the preaching of the Gospel: it has been done by means of human beings, God working through human instruments.
Now notice, the ministry of Elijah and the ministry of Moses, the promise of Deuteronomy chapter 18, verses 15, to 19, it tells us that God will raise up a prophet like unto Moses, and will put His Word in his mouth. Where does God places His Word to give It to the people? In the mouth of the prophet He sends to the people at the corresponding time.
And now, a prophet like unto Moses is promised for the people, and a prophet like unto Elijah is promised for the people; they are the two Olive Trees, which in Heaven are Michael and Gabriel; on Earth: the ministries of Moses and Elijah for the people.
The ministry of Moses was repeated in Jesus for the second time and will be repeated again in the end time; that’s why the two Olive Trees: Moses and Elijah, appear on Mount Transfiguration. That is the Order for the Second Coming of Christ; on a high Mountain: the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That’s the Mount of God for the New Covenant, where the Temple of God is, which is God’s spiritual human Temple, which is being built with living stones, and when Its finished, when Its construction is finished, It will be dedicated to God, and the fullness of God will come in the Coming of the Lord to His Church, and the believers in Christ that died will be resurrected in glorified bodies, and those of us that remain alive will be changed. And that will be the glory of God manifested in the Third Pull, of which the Angel spoke to the Reverend William Branham. And all that is linked to the construction of the Great Tent Cathedral that was shown to Reverend William Branham; and there is where the Third Pull will be manifested.
That is why when the tabernacle was dedicated there in the wilderness by Moses, the Pillar of Fire, the Angel of the Covenant became present there and entered into the tabernacle and dwelt upon the mercy seat, which is the cover of the ark of the covenant, in the midst of the two golden cherubim.
Then in the construction of the temple that was built by king Solomon, when he did that construction, in addition to the two golden cherubim that were upon the mercy seat (which is the cover of the ark of the covenant), he built two cherubim of olive wood and he laid them with pure gold. There we have the two olives in the most holy place with their wings extended upon the ark of the covenant. The ark of the covenant and the mercy seat with the two golden cherubim, they are the Throne of God.
Now, we do not longer have the tabernacle that Moses built, nor the temple that king Solomon built, but there is a spiritual Temple, which is being built by Christ in Holy Spirit, from age to age, and He is placing stone upon stone, living stones: living human beings that are receiving Christ as Savior, and they are placed in that spiritual Temple which is being built by Christ in Holy Spirit in the midst of His Church.
First of Peter chapter 2, verse 4, and on, speaks to us of this, and it says:
“To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Wherefore also it is contained in the Scripture,
Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, elect, precious:
and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
Unto you therefore which believe he is precious:
but unto them which be disobedient,
the stone which the builders disallowed,
the same is made the head of the corner,
a stone of tumbling,
a rock of offense,
even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.”
That is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is being formed by living stones, human beings that have received Christ as their only and sufficient Savior. He is the Chief Cornerstone, the Main person in the House. He is the Father of the Household. That is the House of God of the New Covenant, with the Pillar of Fire, the Angel of the Covenant in Her midst.
Notice how Paul describes Her in First Timothy chapter 3, verse 15, where it says:
“But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of truth.”
Now, here Paul tells us that the Church is the House of God, the Temple of God. Also in First Corinthians he says in chapter 3, that we are a temple of God; therefore, now the House of God, the Temple of God, the Tabernacle of God under the New Covenant, under the New Testament, is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and that Temple is being built with living stones, and It will be dedicated to God, and God is to dwell in all His fullness in His House, His Temple. His Temple, His House, His Family, are the sons and daughters of God that have been born in the Kingdom of God by way of Christ our Savior.
And then, when that spiritual Temple is dedicated to God in the Last Day, God will dwell in all His fullness in His Church.
What will come to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the fullness of God. God coming to His Church, Christ coming to His Church, which will be His Second Coming to His Church, to His Family, to His House, to His Temple of the New Covenant: His Church. And He will dwell in It in all His fullness, He will resurrect the ones who died believing in Him in glorified, eternal, immortal and young bodies, and to the ones that remain alive He will transform. Then we will all be young like Jesus Christ the Father of the Household, the Father…
Remember that Christ said on one occasion: “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.” They thought He was speaking of the temple of stones, but He was speaking of His physical body as a human Temple of God.
Remember that we are temples of God, as individuals; and as members of the Mystical Body of Christ, we are members of the spiritual Temple, of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is a spiritual Temple. St. Paul speaks to us of that in Hebrews chapter 3, verses 5, to 6, which says:
“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…”
Which is the House of God, the House of Christ? His Church, His House, His Family.
“…but Christ as a son over his own house; which house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”
Here we can see that the House of God, the Family of God is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And in Ephesians chapter 2, verse 19, and on, says:
“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.”
We are members of the Household of God as sons and daughters of God, members of the Royalty. That’s why the believers are kings; they belong to the highest position in the Kingdom of God: princes and princesses, kings of the Kingdom of God. God is the King.
He has also made us unto our God: priests. The Priesthood Order of the New Covenant under the New Temple, pertains to the believers in Christ; they belong to the Priesthood Order of Melchizedek, the Heavenly Priesthood Order which is eternal, of Which Christ is the High Priest after the Order of Melchizedek of the heavenly Temple.
And Christ is also the Judge of the living and of the dead, the Supreme Judge; and the believers in Christ, members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ are also judges.
In chapter 6, of First of Corinthians, says: “Know ye not that the saints shall judge the world and even the angels?” In other words, the members of the spiritual Temple of Christ belong to the judicial power as judges, they belong to the priesthood order as priests, and they belong to the political power of the Kingdom of the Messiah. In other words, the believers in Christ have the highest position in the Kingdom of God, because they are the sons and daughters of God, they are heirs to the Kingdom of God. The children are always the heirs.
So therefore, the promise for His Church of the end time, is the Coming of the Son of Man, the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels. His Angels are the ministries of Moses and Elijah, which were the ministries promised for to call and gather together the elect of the end time, the calling of the Hebrews, which are one hundred and forty four thousand: but first are called and gathered the elect of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the end time; just as the elect of each age have been gathered by the Holy Spirit manifested in the angel messenger of each age, or each stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
So therefore, we are aware that for the end time, just as there was the first Elijah: Elijah of Tishbite, and then his successor came: Elisha, with a double portion, and then a third Elijah: John the Baptist, forerunning the First Coming of Christ, and then a fourth Elijah forerunning the Second Coming of Christ, there will be a fifth Elijah, there will be an Elisha; an Elisha that will receive the double portion as messenger: the spiritual portion of the new birth, the Spirit of Christ, and then the physical portion, which will be the transformation of our body; and therefore, he will be adopted in the Kingdom of God. He is the one that will receive the adoption at the Last Day, he…he will receive great blessings for himself and for his group of the Last Day, which group will be in the Age of the Cornerstone.
With that messenger the Tent Vision will be fulfilled, with that messenger with his group of the Last Day, which group will be in the Age or stage of the Cornerstone; which is parallel to the Cornerstone Age of the First Coming of Christ. The Reverend William Branham said in the “Quotations Book”: “Everything will be parallel.”
Therefore, let’s be prepared, but not with our arms crossed, but rather working in every promise of the Work of the Lord, every promise pertaining to this time, working, so we are counted as partakers of the work, and also of the blessings of the promise, or of the blessings that were made for this end time.
In the promises that were made for time will be working the elect of the Last Day and the messenger of the Last Day, the promised Elijah with the fifth manifestation of the ministry of Elijah, who will be the Elisha; in other words, the one who will receive the double portion along with the elect of the Last Day, who will also receive the double portion: Spiritual eternal Life, and physical eternal Life, which Life we need so that we don’t get old.
That promise of the transformation and of the resurrection of the dead in Christ is so close that it will not pass our Age. Remember that our Age is eternal, and that promise will be fulfilled in our Age. And why in our Age? Because it was not fulfilled in past ages; it was reserved for our time.
Therefore, let us be persevering, prepared, and working in the Work of the Lord, and may God reward each one according to his work, as He has promised: “Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me to reward each man according to his work.” (Revelation 22:12).
It has been for me a great privilege to be with you all on this occasion, in this greeting, and chat among ourselves.
May God bless you, and we will meet again very soon in the next service. And Miguel and Oswaldo Aparecido: may God bless you and all the ministers and collaborators gathered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
May God bless you and keep you all and until tomorrow, God willing (this is for the ones that are in another country); for those that are present here: we’ll meet again within a few minutes.
May God bless and keep you all.
I leave you all with the reverend Andres Cruz Gallegos.
“GOD PROVIDES BLESSING FOR ELIJAH AND FOR ALL THE ONES THAT SERVE HIM.”