GOD VINDICATING
HIS WORD IN EACH TIME
William Soto Santiago, Ph, D.
Saturday July 7, 2012
Cayey, Puerto Rico
Good morning, beloved friends, and brothers, ministers and fellow workers present, brothers and sisters, and also those in other nations, today the first Saturday of the month of July.
May the blessings of Christ the Angel of the Covenant, be upon you all and upon me too, and may He open the Scriptures in this occasion. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
We search in first of Kings chapter 18, where we will read a passage that speaks to us of the prophet Elijah. Chapter 18, verse 17, and on, of first of Kings says:
“And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, art thou he that troubleth Israel?
And he
(Elijah) answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim.
Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel’s table.
So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.
And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
Then Elijah said unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the Lord; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
Let them therefore give us two bullocks; and let them choose one bullock for themselves, and cut it in pieces, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other bullock, and lay it on wood, and put no fire under:
and call ye the name of your gods, and I will call on the name of the Lord: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.
And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.
And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.
And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knifes and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down.
And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the Lord came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:
and with the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.
And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.
And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.
And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.
Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that these people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.
And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook of Kishon, and slew them there.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and may permit us to understand It, and may He open our understanding in this short biblical study that we have on this occasion, titled: “GOD VINDICATING HIS WORD IN EACH TIME.”
God spoke prophetic Word for each time, and those were prophetic words given by God by means of His Holy Spirit to the prophets, and the prophets spoke them to the people being inspired by the Holy Spirit; these are the thoughts of God transmitted to the heart and spirit of the prophets by means of the Holy Spirit.
The divine thought is not the Word until it comes to the heart and mind and mouth of a man, of a prophet, which is then spoken, which is the thought of God being expressed through the Holy Spirit by means of a man, through a prophet. And that is the Word of God, in which Word lays the prophecy for that moment or for a near by time, intermediate, or future time; that’s the way God shows the things He will perform for each age and for each dispensation.
And that’s the prophetic Word, of which the apostle Peter says in his second Letter chapter 1, verse 19 and on, which says:
“We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts…”
In other words, we must be attentive to the prophetic Word, knowing that the things that are to take place are already spoken by God by means of His prophets of the different dispensations and different ages relevant to those dispensations, “surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets,” says Amos chapter 3, verse 7.
And about that same Word also speaks Zechariah chapter 7, verses 11, to 12, when he says:
“But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his Spirit by the former prophets…”
How did God sent His Word? By means of His Spirit. To whom and by whom? By means of His Holy Spirit through the prophets He sent, by means of the prophets. In other words, every divine Word, every prophetic Word of God has come by means of the Holy Spirit through the prophets of God.
Notice, second Peter chapter 1, verse 20, to 21 continues saying, this follows chapter 19, which we already read:
“…knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation…”
In other words, that there cannot come a person of a seminary or a lecturer of a seminary to interpret that prophetic Word. That prophetic Word is interpreted by the One that gave It by means of the prophets: which is the Holy Spirit the One that reveals that prophetic Word, making known It’s meaning, and It’s fulfillment, when It is fulfilled, just as it has happened in past times.
For instance, we have the prophetic Word given to Abraham, that his descendant would be enslaved in a strange land (chapter 15, verse 12, to 19 of Genesis), and they would be in bondage there for four hundred years. But God would deliver them with a strong hand and would come out with great substance, and in the fourth generation they would return to the land of Israel, the land promised to Abraham, wherein Abraham was living in those days.
When the time arrived for the fulfillment of that promise, a child was born of the tribe of Levi, whose father was a descendant of the tribe of Levi: Amram, who was married to Jochebed and had a child, they already had a boy and a girl: Aaron and Miriam, and then they had another child, whom the daughter of Pharaoh named him Moses for “he was drawn out of the waters.”
And when they saw he was a goodly child they did not rendered him to be slain, because there was given a death sentence upon every Hebrew child that would be born. And Moses the deliverer was born in such a dangerous time. They saw him a goodly child and hid him for three months, and for fear they sent him in an ark of bulrushes which his sister placed it in the flags by the rivers brink towards the place where the daughter of Pharaoh would come each day to wash herself at the river.
And his sister stood afar off watching until he arrived to the place where the daughter of Pharaoh was washing herself, Moses arrived there in the ark of bulrushes being a baby of three months of age.
And when Pharaoh’s daughter takes him and saw him a beautiful child, she names him Moses, because she drew him out of the waters, then she recognizes him a Hebrew child because of his clothing, the sheet they placed on him, and she wanted to find a woman to bring him up until a certain age, then his sister Miriam said to Pharaoh’s daughter that she would call a nurse of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for her until a certain age.
Moses returns to his mother untouched, because the daughter of Pharaoh is in charge of the care of that baby, and she will adopt him as her child, and notice, the life of Moses is a life of miracles, just like the life of the Hebrew people is a life of miracles, in the life of the Hebrew people is seeing the intervention of God, in the life of Moses is seeing the intervention of God, in the life of Jacob is seeing the intervention of God, in the life of Isaac, also in the life of Abraham is seeing the intervention of God. And in who else? In the life of each one of us is seeing a divine intervention.
When did you choose to live at this time? Never, you did not decide that, it was by divine intervention. For which we thank God for the body He has given us, for the earthly life He has given us, so that we can make contact with eternal Life and we be adopted in the spiritual as sons and daughters of God, which is obtained when the person receives Christ as Savior, is baptized in water in His Name, and Christ baptizes him with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produces in the person the new birth; there he received the spiritual adoption, he already has eternal Life, he was already restored unto eternal Life, his soul has eternal Life.
Now we are lacking physical eternal Life, which will be the adoption, the redemption of the body, which will come with the resurrection of the dead in Christ in glorified bodies, which will be their adoption, and the adoption of the believers which are alive will be our transformation, so that we may have incorruptible, immortal bodies, the body which God thought of since before the foundation of the world for each one of us: a body with eternal Life which God thought for us.
That’s the goal of God, and of whose else? That’s our goal also: to be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, which will be in the image and likeness of God; being equal to our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, our elder Brother.
And now, Almighty God is who has been carrying out His Program, His Plan with each one of us, with His Church and with all the Universe.
A short time ago they discovered that the particle of God, scientifically they have discovered something important, for surely something very small but very large concerning a discovery; because with that, they can discover the origin of Creation. It is an equipment, a very huge equipment, a huge metal tunnel they prepared, which length consists of many kilometers, in which they are trying to produce a Big Bang, the explosion that they say happened for the creation of the Universe.
If science has already reached that level, it is because in the spiritual field Jesus Christ and His Church are in the highest level concerning the heavenly Science, the divine Science, heavenly Knowledge, concerning to the fulfillment or process for the fulfillment of promises corresponding to this end time; wherein God will be vindicating His promised Word for our time, as He has vindicated and has fulfilled and has made a reality the Word He promised for each past stage of His Church, and for each past dispensation. He fulfilled His Word for the time of Noah, He fulfilled His promised Word for the time of Abraham, that which corresponded to that time, and He fulfilled the promised Word to the time of Isaac, the promised Word for the time of Jacob, and that which had to do concerning the future, has been in process for it’s fulfillment according to how God has promised it.
But when the last promised Word is fulfilled, is vindicated, then the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of those that remain alive at that time will come, and then will come the rapture or catching away. And all that is linked to the fulfillment of a great promise that there is for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ which is: the appearance of a Great Tent Cathedral in the midst of Christianity, where the presence of the Pillar of Fire, the Light that appeared to Moses, the Light that led the Hebrew people, that delivered the Hebrew people, Whose presence then appeared on mount Sinai, Christ, the Angel of the Covenant in that Light, that Pillar of Fire which will be in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision.
It is the same Light, the same Pillar of Fire that appeared to St. Paul, a Light stronger than the sun, and It blinded Paul, and he fell from his horse, and the Light says to him: “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?” That Light was the Angel of the Covenant, the Pillar of Fire, Christ speaking to Saul of Tarsus.
Saul of Tarsus knew that that Light that spoke to him was the same Light that had spoken to Moses, and had said to him: “I am the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob,” and now Saul of Tarsus is found persecuting the God of Abraham of Isaac and of Jacob; but he did not understand why, because he was persecuting persons that had been sentenced with their leader, when Jesus their leader was sentenced, how could it be possible for Saul to be persecuting the God of Abraham of Isaac and of Jacob? And Saul tells Him: “Lord (he recognized Him as the Lord, the same One who had spoken to Moses), Who art thou Lord?” And from that Light comes out a voice and tells him: ” I am Jesus of Nazareth whom thou persecutest.”
See? It was Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the One who gave Moses the two tables of stones with the ten commandments written by the finger of God. Because the Law was given by commission of Angels, and there was the Angel of the Covenant with heavenly hosts that accompanied Him.
It is important to know that the Angel pf the Covenant is Christ, Christ in His heavenly body. The Word that was with God and was God, Who created all things; God by means of His heavenly body which is Christ the Angel of the Covenant, spoke into existence all things, and He is the One who vindicates His promised Word for each age. For each age, dispensation or stage of the Church no other word functions except the Word the that is promised for that time. God does not vindicate any other word except the Word He has promised for that time.
And that which God has promised for that time, He makes it a reality, and that is the Light for the people living in that time, It lightens them, and fills them with the knowledge of the divine Program, and when the believers receive and believe in that Word, they are receiving the Light for their age and dispensation, they are receiving the vindicated Word of God for that time.
The people of the time of Jesus could not receive for their time the Word corresponding to the time of Noah; the Word for Noah was already in the past, that was already history. Only eight persons received that Word and were saved. Therefore, that which is spoken or thought by the majority, is not the correct thing, is not the truth. The true thing is the Word that God has promised for the time in which the person is living, that is the divine Truth for that time, and that is the Word God vindicates, and fulfills for that time, and it is the Word that God supports; and with that promised Word for that time it is that God makes the corresponding Work for that time. And he who is of God, well, he hears the Voice of the Good Shepherd and follow Him, and He gives them eternal Life.
That’s the way established by Christ to give eternal Life to the human beings. God through Christ gives us eternal Life, there is no other way to receive eternal Life.
He said: “I am the way, the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father but by Me.” We arrive to God by means of Christ, there is no other way. It is a narrow way, but it is the way that leads to eternal Life.
“GOD VINDICATING HIS WORD IN EACH TIME.”
Throughout the Bible we can see which was the prophetic Word given by God to be fulfilled in each stage of His Church. And we have seen that the promised Word for each past age or stage of His Church was fulfilled. And what is there lacking? Well, the materialization, the fulfillment, the vindication of what God has promised for our time. And already much promised Word for our time has been fulfilled, and there is still Word to be fulfilled which in process.
For instance, the Vision of the Tent-Cathedral is a promised Word, it is a prophetic Word that has to be fulfilled to and in the midst of Christianity in the end time. And when we are seeing that promise being fulfilled, we will be seeing the promised Word in relation to that promise being vindicated, being made a reality; and the believers will be enjoying all those blessings, the blessing of seeing the things that were promised by the Holy Spirit by means of the reverend William Branham.
They will be enjoying the blessings that God will be giving in the fulfillment of that promise, because God will be giving many great blessings to His Church. For instance, the faith to be transformed and raptured will be obtained in the fulfillment of the Vision of the Great Tent-Cathedral, wherein the seven Thunders of Revelation 10, will be speaking to His Church and will be revealing to Her the Seventh Seal, in other words, the mystery of the second Coming of Christ.
And concerning the things the Seven Thunders will be revealing, that will give faith, (because comes by hearing the Word of God), faith will be born, faith will rise to the highest level that any believer in Christ has had throughout the history of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. It will rise to the level or height that is needed to be taken by Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, which many preachers have called “the rapturing faith, faith to be transformed and raptured” that’s how they call it, and so forth.
And just as we have seen God vindicating His Word in each time, in each age, and in each stage of His Church, and in each of the different dispensations, we will be seeing It also being vindicated by God and being made a reality in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the midst of Christianity.
And when the last Word is vindicated, is made a reality, is fulfilled, then the dead in Christ will resurrect in glorified bodies, and we who remain will be transformed, and then we will be taken by Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb. That’s why is so important to be attentive to the prophetic Word which God has promised for out time, so that we may not overlook the vindication of what God has promised, in other words, that we should not overlook the fulfillment of that which God has promised for our time; because as He has promised, thus will He do in this time in which we live.
He will bring to fulfillment that which He has promised for our time, and the rest of the things that have not yet been fulfilled, He will fulfill then later on.
Therefore, attentive to the promised Word of God for our time, working in the divine Program, so that God may vindicate, make a reality, and fulfill all the things promised for our time. As He has promised, thus He will do in our time.
At some moment will be fulfilled the promise of His Church being completed, and when He completes It, then His Work of intercession in Heaven will end, and He will turn into the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, will take the Property Deed, the Book of the seven Seals, of which we will be speaking tomorrow, He will open It in Heaven and will bring It to Earth, and there He will fulfill the things that correspond to that time. In that Book are written the names of all those that form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in that Book are also the things that would take place in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Everything is there, in that Book sealed with seven Seals, and then He will perform His Reclamation Work, He will claim back everything He has redeemed with His precious Blood.
And there is where the believers in Christ that belong to the Mystical Body of Christ of the Last Day, those that died will be resurrected in eternal bodies, and we who remain will be transformed.
Therefore, ministers in the Gospel of Christ, in the Mystical Body of Christ: onward, brothers and sisters, onwards, serving Christ our Savior, holding on tight to Christ the Angel of the Covenant, as Jacob did, who held on to the Angel, to Christ, and did not let Him go until he received the blessing spoken by the Angel of the Covenant, which is Christ.
There are great and marvelous promises for the believers in Christ of this end time, therefore, hold on tight to Christ, do not depart from Christ at no time, and for no reason. Remain holding tight to Christ, with your faith firm in Christ, with your faults errors and sins confessed to Christ, so that the Blood of Christ may take away every sin, every fault, or error, so that you may be found as if you have never sinned in life; that’s the way to remain cleansed before God, having no spot, nor wrinkle before God, as individuals and also it is the same for the Mystical Body of Christ.
Therefore onward with the vindicated Word of God for our time, because we have seen God vindicating His Word in each age. And we must be alert in order to see God vindicating His Word for our time, the Golden Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the age for the adoption of all the believers in Christ in glorified bodies.
May the blessings of Christ the Angel of the Covenant be upon you all and upon me, upon those who are present and upon those that are in other nations.
Until next Sunday, in other words, tomorrow, today is Saturday, tomorrow is Sunday, God willing, we will be here again together to glorify God, to praise God, to sing to God, and to hear His Word, tomorrow’s theme is related to the Lamb’s Book of Life, in other words, the Book sealed with seven Seals of Revelation 5, verse 1, and on, and Revelation 10.
May God continue blessing you all and continue having a happy afternoon filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.
I leave with you the reverend Jose Benjamin Perez to continue and to finalize.
May God bless and keep you all.
“GOD VINDICATING HIS WORD IN EACH TIME.”