He who has a greater testimony than that of John the Baptist

Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present in the city of Presidente Prudente, Brazil. It is a great privilege and blessing for me to be with you on this occasion, to give you testimony of the things that in Biblical prophecy must happen in this time.

For this occasion, we have the subject: “HE WHO HAS A GREATER TESTIMONY THAN THAT OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.” And we are going to read in John, chapter 5, verse 30 to 39, where it says:

“I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.

Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the truth.

But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.

He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.

And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.”

Our subject is: “HE WHO HAS A GREATER TESTIMONY THAN JOHN (greater testimony than John the Baptist).”

May God open the Scriptures to us and speak directly to our souls, and may we all understand His Word. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.

The Lord Jesus Christ, speaking of John the Baptist in chapter 11 of Matthew, spoke in a very beautiful way of this powerful prophet, as He also spoke in the reading we had, where it says that John was a burning light, in other words, a candlestick that was lit, a burning lamp, illuminating with his Message the understanding of the people who were receiving it.

And God had spoken about John the Baptist when He said: “…Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.”¹ That was John the Baptist. He came to prepare the way for the Lord.

In Malachi, chapter 3, verse 1, and also in Isaiah, chapter 40, verse 3 and on: God testified of John the Baptist; it was prophesied that that prophet would come.

And that prophet would prepare the people for the coming of another greater prophet; he would be speaking of a prophet, of a man who would come after him, who was greater than him and who would baptize them with Holy Spirit and Fire.²

And when that man appeared —John the Baptist—, we find him preaching and announcing that after him comes another man, another prophet, who is greater than him. And when Jesus appeared, he said: “This is the one I said would come after me. This is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world, whose shoes I am not worthy to untie.”³

All of this is spoken in John, chapter 2; in the Gospel according to John all this was spoken. For Saint John was present when John the Baptist spoke these things about Jesus, because John the apostle was a disciple of John the Baptist. In other words, Saint John the apostle, before being a disciple of Jesus Christ, was first a disciple, a follower, of John the Baptist; and he was waiting for the coming of the man who would come after John. And when John said: “Behold the Lamb of God,” John the apostle, a follower of the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, along with Andrew, Peter’s brother, went after Jesus,⁴ they went after the greater one: [they followed] Jesus Christ.

John the Baptist had said that after him would come one greater than him, who would baptize them with Holy Spirit and Fire.

The disciples of John the Baptist, in order to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire, which produces in the individual the new birth by believing in Christ as our Savior and washing our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit; in order to receive the Holy Spirit one had to follow the one who gives the Holy Spirit: Jesus Christ our Savior.

John’s disciples who didn’t follow Jesus: They didn’t receive the Holy Spirit until after a long time, when Saint Paul taught them that John the Baptist said to believe in the one who would come after him. And they believed in Jesus Christ, in the book of Acts, chapter 19, and were baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ, and then they received the Holy Spirit; but the disciples of Jesus Christ had already received the Holy Spirit years ago.

And in order to receive the Holy Spirit they had to be disciples of Jesus Christ, followers of Jesus Christ; because the promise of the Holy Spirit is for the followers of Jesus Christ, to produce the new birth in the person.

Christ said to Nicodemus: “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God (or Kingdom of Heaven).” He can’t see it. Nicodemus told Him, in John chapter 3, verse 3 and on… then on verse 4:

“Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?

Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.”

To enter the Kingdom of Heaven it is required to be born again; and this is effected in the person by believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior, washing our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit; and thus the new birth is operated in the person, and the person is born in the Kingdom of God, born in the Church of Jesus Christ.

No person can join the Church of Jesus Christ: He must be born into the Church of Jesus Christ by means of the new birth: believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior, washing our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit. There is no other way.

Now, we can notice why Christ was always talking about the Comforter, who would come. But in order for the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, to come, He says: “I must go.”⁵ The disciples were very sad when Jesus Christ told them that He had to leave.

It is as it happens in families when the father or mother knows that they have very little time left on Earth and tells their children: “I have to go soon, I will have to leave; but you behave yourselves. I will see you again when I resurrect from the dead. You be prepared, living according to the Word of God, serving Jesus Christ with all your soul, following the Message of God, being prepared to be transformed; and then you will see me when I come in the new body, in the resurrection; and then we will go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.”

Now, we can see that every father and mother loves their children; and we all want our children to go with us to Heaven, to the House of our heavenly Father, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and live with us all eternity.

Now, it is very important to be serving Christ, serving Jesus Christ our Savior all the days of our life; separated from evil, separated from sin, separated from vices, separated from all evil things, to serve with divine love our Lord Jesus Christ all the days of our life. Christ has said that where He is, there will be also he who serves Him, His servant.⁶

Now, we can see that there are great promises for those who serve Jesus Christ. No other person has been able to make the promises that Christ has made. For example, we read in John, chapter 5, verse 24, where it says:

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”

What other person can make such a promise as that: that those who believe in Him, and hear His Word, have eternal life; and shall not come into condemnation, but have passed from death unto life? Only our beloved Lord Jesus Christ could speak these words; for He is greater than John the Baptist, and greater than Abraham, and greater than Jacob, and greater than Solomon also.

He said: “Behold one greater than Solomon.” He said that on one occasion, in the Gospel according to Matthew He said it; and those words are very big for a man to speak; but He was speaking the truth. And if it was the truth that He was speaking, those words were right. Matthew, chapter 12, verse 4, and Luke, chapter 11, verse 31.

Notice how it says in Matthew, chapter 12, verse 4:

“…How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread,…”

Jesus is speaking here… Let’s see this entire passage that Jesus speaks to us about Him being greater than Solomon… Let’s ask Tirzo over here to get us the other passages also… Let’s see, chapter 12, verse 3 and on, to have a clear picture, it says:

“But he said unto them, Have ye not read what David did, when he was an hungred, and they that were with him;

How he entered into the house of God, and did eat the shewbread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them which were with him, but only for the priests?

Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.”

And now, who is greater than the temple? Our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; He is greater than the temple and He is also greater than Solomon.

Let’s see in another place where He speaks of Solomon: Chapter 6, verse 29, of Matthew, where He tells us:

“…That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.”

Now, Solomon was clothed with much glory, as a king, but the lilies are clothed with more glory than King Solomon himself. And Jesus Christ is the Lily of the Valley; therefore, Jesus Christ is one greater than Solomon.

Let’s see in Luke what it tells us around chapter 11, verse 31, about Solomon (let’s see if it speaks to us here); it says:

“The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.”

Notice Jesus Christ, one greater than King Solomon.

In Matthew, chapter 12, verse 42, it also tells us the same thing about the queen of the South, and it also tells us about the wisdom of Solomon, and it says: “Behold one greater than Solomon.” Jesus Christ, the Lily of the Valley, is greater than Solomon.

And if Solomon, even with all his glory… You see, Jesus Christ says: “Even Solomon was not clothed with so much glory as One of the lilies.” And if Jesus Christ is the Lily of the Valley, much less does Solomon have greater glory than Christ; rather Christ, the Lily of the Valley, has more glory than Solomon: “Behold One greater than Solomon.”

Now, notice that Jesus Christ is not only greater than John the Baptist: He is greater than Solomon, He is greater than the temple that Solomon built, and the temple that Moses built, and the temple that Herod built, and any temple that has ever been built on Earth.

And now, Jesus Christ is building a temple, a spiritual Temple, which is His Church; and Jesus Christ is greater than His Church: He is the head of His Church.⁷ For what is greater: a temple or the one who builds the temple? He who builds the temple is greater.

And now, Jesus Christ building the House of God, that spiritual Temple, is greater than His Church: He is the head of His Church.

And now, we can see that He is also greater than Abraham. He was once asked: “Are you greater than Abraham?”⁸ Of course He is greater than Abraham!

They (the Samaritan woman) also asked Him: “Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well, in which our children, and all our family, and all Jacob’s seed, and also his cattle, have drunk?”⁹ Of course He was greater than Jacob! For He is the greatest man who ever walked this planet Earth.

Greater than our beloved Lord Jesus Christ there is no person who has ever lived on this planet Earth.

And who is Jesus Christ then? Jesus Christ is nothing less than the Word, who was with God and was God. In John, chapter 1, verse 1 and on, it tells us:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men.”

Here we can see that all things were created by the Word, who was with God and was God.

“In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth,” says Genesis, chapter 1, verse 1. This same God, of whom John speaks, says: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. By Him all things were made (that is, created), and without Him nothing was made that has been made.” All Creation was carried out by the Word, who was with God and was God.

And then it tells us, in this same chapter 1, verse 14, of John:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

The Word, Creator of Heaven and Earth, who was with God and was God, is nothing less than God in His theophanic body of the sixth dimension. This theophanic body of the sixth dimension is a body similar to ours, but of another dimension.

In clearer words, God being in the form of a man from another dimension, from the sixth dimension, created the whole universe. It was a man who created the whole universe, but that man is God; and then He became flesh, and dwelt in the midst of the human race, and was known by the name of Jesus. The Lord Jesus Christ is the Word made flesh, God made flesh.

That is why the prophet Isaiah said in chapter 7, verse 14:

“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign (what would be the sign?); Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”

And what does Emmanuel mean? God with us.¹⁰ God was with us in the form of a man, two thousand years ago, in the person of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

God was manifested in human flesh, in the form of a man, and He was a prophet, who was in the midst of the Hebrew people: He was as the Lamb of God, to carry out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross with His body. That is why our beloved Lord Jesus Christ is our Savior: because He saved us.

No other person could save the human being; because the rest of the human beings came to Earth: after the fall of the human being they have come through the union of a man and a woman, they have come by human will, and, consequently, they have come contaminated with sin.

But Jesus Christ, since His body was created by God in Mary’s womb…, God creating a cell of life in Mary’s womb, which multiplied cell upon cell, and thus the body of Jesus was created; and He came to this Earth without sin, because there was no intervention of a man, but it was God who created in Mary’s womb that cell of life; and thus the body of Jesus was formed, who was born in Bethlehem of Judea through the virgin Mary.

That blessing that Mary had was the one that Eve lost when she sinned; and Mary is the first woman to bring into existence a person, a son, by means of divine creation¹¹; that is why she is the most blessed woman of all the women who have lived on Earth.

She brought to this Earth, through divine creation, the Son of God, who would carry out the Redemption and take our sins: and He would take the wages of sin, which had to fall on us, and would fall on Jesus Christ; and it fell on Calvary’s Cross.

The wages of sin, the divine judgment, fell upon Jesus Christ on Calvary’s Cross, so that we may have eternal life and may receive on the Last Day a new body, an eternal body, not through the union of a man and a woman, but by divine creation; because Jesus Christ will create a physical, immortal and glorified eternal body for all believers in Him; and thus we will have a body like that of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, an eternal and glorified body.

Now, is that in the Bible? And is there any promise that believers in Christ will be resurrected? Christ made the promise in John, chapter 6, verse 40, saying:

“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”

There will be a resurrection for the believers in Christ who have physically died, all believers in Christ from the apostles until this end time who have physically died.

And what will become of those of us who are alive when the resurrection of the dead in Christ happens? There will be no problem: we will be transformed, and then we will have an eternal body.

In John, chapter 11, Jesus Christ tells us, in verse… Let’s see chapter 11 of John, where He was speaking with Mary and Martha…, mainly with Martha, Lazarus’ sister; He tells her in chapter 11, verse 23 and on:

“Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.”

Lazarus was dead, and had been dead four days, and was already buried; but Jesus said to Martha: “Thy brother shall rise again.”

These are words of comfort for all those who believe in Jesus Christ and a family member who believes in Christ departs; he will live again, he will resurrect.

“Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”

Martha knew that Jesus Christ had promised the resurrection of believers in Christ for the Last Day.

“Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.”

Do you see the importance of believing in Jesus Christ? Even if his physical body dies, the person will live again: he will be resurrected and will live again on this planet Earth in an eternal body.

But before the believer in Christ is resurrected, when his physical body dies, the person goes to Paradise to live; and he will live in a theophanic body, similar to our body but of another dimension: of the sixth dimension, which he received when he believed in Christ as his Savior and received His Holy Spirit; and there he received a body of the sixth dimension, because he was born in the sixth dimension: he was born in Heaven and from Heaven, and was born in the Mystical Body of Christ.

That is a body equal to the body that Jesus Christ has of the sixth dimension, in which He was when He created the entire universe; and in which He was when He appeared to Abraham as Melchizedek,¹² and also when He appeared to Abraham as Elohim, the day before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.¹³

Now, look, when He appeared to Abraham, we find that He blessed him when He appeared to him as Melchizedek, and He also blessed him when He appeared to him as Elohim.

Saint Paul tells us that the lesser is blessed by the greater. That is in the book of Hebrews or letter to the Hebrews, chapter 7, there it tells us about the lesser being blessed by the greater; chapter 7 of his letter to the Hebrews, we find that divine truth.¹⁴ And we can see why Melchizedek was blessing Abraham, the father of faith: because the lesser is blessed (by whom?) by the greater.

Now we see why Melchizedek could bless Abraham. And that blessing, when Abraham believed it, was materialized in the relevant time. Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,¹⁵ and what God promised him materialized.

And now, Jesus Christ, we find that He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, whom Abraham saw and rejoiced.

In John, chapter 8, there was a discussion of Pharisees with Jesus Christ; and Jesus Christ said: in chapter 8, verse 56 and on:

“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art 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.”

Before Abraham was, Jesus Christ says that He was; for He is the Word, who was with God and was God, which was in His theophanic body; and then He became flesh, and dwelt among human beings, and was known by the name of Jesus; but that is nothing less than the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, manifested in a body of flesh called Jesus, to carry out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross.

Jesus was accused that, being man, He made Himself God¹⁶; but the way to understand this mystery is that, being God, He became man to carry out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross.

Now we can see this mystery of who our beloved Savior Jesus Christ is.

Now, what is the most like man? Well, what most resembles God. God made man in His image and in His likeness; and when God visited the human race to carry out the Work of Redemption, He came in the likeness of the human being; because what resembles God the most is the human being, and what resembles the human being the most is God; because God made man in His image and likeness.

And when God came to visit the human race in a physical body, that body had to resemble, to be equal to the body of human beings, to be in the midst of the human race and thus be the Kinsman Redeemer who would redeem the human being; because no other person could do it other than a kinsman redeemer. That is, one from among human beings, but perfect. And the only perfect one is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ: One greater than Abraham, one greater than Jacob too and one greater than Adam too.

He is the greatest of all people who have ever lived on this planet Earth, He is the greatest of all men who have ever walked this planet Earth; because He is Elohim, He is the Melchizedek, He is the Word that was with God and was God, and became flesh, and dwelt in the midst of the human race.

Now we have seen the mystery of who our beloved Lord Jesus Christ is. That is why He could say that He is greater than the temple, and He is greater than Solomon, and He is greater than John the Baptist also.

And of John the Baptist Jesus Christ said that he was greater, the greatest, of those who were born of women¹⁷; but Jesus Christ is greater, He is greater than John the Baptist.

Now see who our beloved Lord Jesus Christ is: He is the greatest of all beings who have ever lived on this planet Earth. And He loved us with divine love from the depths of His heart, to such an extent that He gave His life for each one of you and for me also, so that we may have eternal life and live eternally with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

And when we have the new body, it will be a body just like the body of Jesus Christ: a glorified and eternal body, to live for all eternity. See how great a love Jesus Christ has for each one of you and for me too. He is our elder brother.

In the book of Hebrews or letter to the Hebrews, Saint Paul speaks to us about Jesus Christ, and he says in chapter 2, verse 11 and on or verse 10 onwards… Let’s see… Chapter 2; let’s start in verse 9 so you have a clear picture. He is talking about Jesus Christ and says:

“But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for (us).”

That is, that He might die in our place; for we were the ones sentenced to death, every human being; but now Christ takes our sins and consequently, takes the divine judgment, the wages of sin, which is death,¹⁸ so that we may live eternally.

Christ said: “Except a corn of wheat does not fall into the ground and die, it remains alone; but if it falls into the ground and dies, it bears much fruit.”¹⁹

When a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies, a seedling, a wheat plant, is born; and by the process through which it goes: of sowing, birth, growth, and then bearing fruit, and then passing on to harvest time, we find that that seedling of wheat is the same corn of wheat now in the form of a wheat plant; and there is the life of wheat, in that seedling, to reproduce itself in many corns of wheat.

Some people say: “How good it would have been if Jesus Christ had had children.” The good news is that Jesus Christ is the man who has had the most children; but not by union with a woman, but by divine creation: by means of the new birth that He carries out in people; and there are millions of children of God through Jesus Christ, the second Adam.

Now we can see that the Corn of Wheat, Jesus Christ, by dying, now in His Church, where His Life is, has been producing His Life, and has been producing the new birth of millions of human beings since the Day of Pentecost until this end time: pouring out of His Holy Spirit upon all who believe in Him as their Savior and wash their sins in His Blood, and thus producing the new birth; and thus a new race is being created by God.

And Christ is the beginning of that New Creation, of that new race that He is creating; a race to which, first of all, He creates the theophanic body of the sixth dimension, which we receive by receiving the Spirit of Christ; and thus we obtain a body of the sixth dimension, like the body of Jesus Christ, in which He appeared to the prophets of the Old Testament.

And Jesus Christ being in that body, and appearing to Abraham, we find that it was that Abraham saw His day and rejoiced; it is of that time that Christ speaks to him. But the physical body of Jesus, that didn’t exist, it was not yet in the time of Abraham: He was born through the virgin Mary and came by divine creation, God creating a cell of life in Mary’s womb, which multiplied cell upon cell, and thus the body of Jesus was formed in Mary’s womb, and then He was born in Bethlehem of Judea.

One greater than Abraham was born there, one greater than Jacob, one greater than Solomon, one greater than the temple, one greater than John the Baptist and one greater than any human being who has ever lived on this planet Earth.

That is the greater one, the greatest, of those who have ever been born on this planet Earth; for He is the Word, who was with God and was God, and was made flesh, and dwelt among human beings, to take our sins and taste death for us all, so that He might take away death and give us eternal life.

Now, Saint Paul goes on to say:

“For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.”

Now notice what He calls us, and He is not ashamed: He calls us “brethren.”

He is our elder brother; and that is why all who are born into the Kingdom of God through Jesus Christ are all brothers to one another. That is why we are not ashamed to call one another “brethren” either. If Christ is not ashamed to call us “brethren,” even with all the imperfections we have in these mortal bodies, neither are we ashamed to call those redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ “brethren” or to call them “our brethren.” That is why Christians, the members of the Church of Jesus Christ, are called “brethren.”

And also look, Saint Paul goes on to say:

“And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.”

Now see who all these redeemed ones are: they are sons and daughters of God through Jesus Christ, by believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior and washing our sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ.

“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same (that is, just as we have come in a body of flesh and blood, He also came in a body of flesh and blood, to take our sins and die on Calvary’s Cross); that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil.”

Through the death of Christ on Calvary’s Cross, He obtained the victory against the devil, which had been given in Genesis, chapter 3, verse 15, when God said that the seed of the woman would bruise the serpent, and therefore the devil, in the head; although the devil would bruise the Messiah, the seed of the woman, in the heel (in other words, in the heels).

Now, we can see that this was fulfilled on Calvary’s Cross, where Jesus Christ was wounded in His heels and also in His hands when He was crucified; but there Christ wounded the devil in the head, and there Christ obtained the victory for each one of us.

We find that Christ then resurrected victorious, ascended to Heaven and sat at the right hand of God; one greater than John the Baptist, and than Jacob, and than Solomon, and than Abraham; and even one greater than Adam, the first man God placed on Earth.

Now, Jesus Christ, being one greater than anyone who has ever come to Earth, He is the only one who can bless other human beings, because the greater blesses the lesser. You can’t get God’s blessing in anyone other than our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, because He is the greater; and He is our elder brother, who blesses us every day.

Now, Jesus Christ, through the Work that He has carried out, we find that He has been pouring out His blessing upon the human race; and He has been calling and gathering His children from stage to stage, which are the sheep of our heavenly Father, which have been given to Christ to give them Life through His Sacrifice on Calvary’s Cross and His Spirit being poured upon the person; for which He calls and gathers, from stage to stage, from generation to generation and from age to age: He calls and gathers those sheep.

John, chapter 10, verse 14 to 16, Jesus says:

“I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold (that is, they are not of the Hebrew fold: they are from among the gentiles): them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.” 

Now, how will Christ, dying, resurrecting and ascending to Heaven, how will He call and gather His sheep, if He went to Heaven and sat at the right hand of God? He, in Holy Spirit, has been on Earth manifested from stage to stage; and we find Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in the midst of the Church in the time of the apostles among the Hebrews, and then we see Him among the gentiles in Asia Minor; and we find that He was in Saint Paul manifested.

Saint Paul said: “I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.”²⁰ Christ in Saint Paul was speaking His Word, His Message; and He was calling and gathering His sheep, His elect, from stage to stage; because He is calling and gathering those who are ordained to eternal life; and those are the sheep of God, the sheep of Christ, which are ordained by God to receive eternal life.

You see, on the Day of Pentecost, when they received the Word, there were three thousand people who received the Word; and around three thousand people were added to the Church, who were ordained to eternal life.²¹

We also have other places in the Bible where it speaks of those ordained to eternal life; these are the sheep of the heavenly Father, who have been given to Jesus Christ to give them eternal life.

In the book of Acts, chapter 13, verse 47 and on (47 to 49), Saint Paul says:

“For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldest be for salvation unto the ends of the earth.

And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.”

Who believed? Those who were ordained to eternal life.

That is why Jesus, to those who didn’t want to believe in Him, said: “You don’t believe in me because you are not of my sheep.” It is a harsh word, but it is the truth that Jesus Christ is telling to those people, who were unbelievers, although they had the Old Testament Bible, where He told them that God would send the Messiah; and there He was in their midst, and they couldn’t believe. Jesus Christ says to them: “You can’t believe, because you are not of my sheep. My sheep hear my Voice, and they follow me.”²²

And now, from stage to stage… Notice, in Saint Paul’s time, among the gentiles, the sheep of Jesus Christ are being called and gathered; and those who are ordained to eternal life are believing. Those are the sheep of Jesus Christ; because God has given all those people to Him to give them eternal life.

From age to age, notice, Christ in Holy Spirit has been manifested through the messenger of every age, calling and gathering His sheep:

He was manifested through Saint Paul among the gentiles in Asia Minor; and Saint Paul spoke, anointed by the Spirit of God, by the Holy Spirit; and those that were of God heard the Voice of God, and were called and gathered into the Mystical Body of Christ. And so it has been from age to age.

Then the second age was fulfilled in France and the messenger was Irenaeus, through whom Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit spoke, and called and gathered His sheep.

And so on and so forth we find that He spoke through Martin, through Columba, through Luther, through Wesley and through the Reverend William Branham, during the seven stages or ages of the Church of Jesus Christ among the gentiles.

These stages pertain to the Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, that is, of the Mystical Body of Christ.

The first age was fulfilled in Asia Minor; and five ages: the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth, were fulfilled in the European territory; and the seventh was fulfilled in North America.

And now the Age of the Cornerstone is fulfilled in Latin America and the Caribbean, where He is calling and gathering all His elect, all His sheep of the Last Day, and making known to them all these things that must take place soon, in this end time.

That is why the Scripture says in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16:

“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”

This Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ is the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom; that is why he comes making known all things that must happen in this end time. And to John the apostle he revealed —in these apocalyptic visions— all things that were going to happen from the time of the Church of Jesus Christ, from its beginning there, until this end time, and the things that are to happen in the Millennial Kingdom, and the things that are to come to pass after the Millennial Kingdom.

That revelation of the Angel of Jesus Christ goes into eternity. That is the prophet called the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, who comes bearing witness of all these things that are to happen soon.

That is why in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 10 to 11, John the apostle says:

“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day…”

In other words, he was caught up and transported to the Lord’s Day, which is the seventh millennium; because “one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” First Peter tells us… And in Second Peter it tells us, in chapter 3, verse 8, that “one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” And in First Peter, chapter 1, verse 18 to 21, also speaks of the last days, and points out that it is for the last days that God would send Jesus Christ.

But the last days are not three days of 24 hours each, but they are three days before God, which for human beings are three millenniums; each millennium is a thousand years.

That is why the words of Saint Paul in Hebrews, chapter 1, verse 1 to 2, are correct when he said:

“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son…”

And two thousand years have already passed from Christ until now; and God was speaking through Jesus in the last days. It is that the last days, for human beings are the last millenniums; and when Jesus was 4 to 7 years old, the fifth millennium began, which is the first of the last millenniums; that is why He was already living in the last days.

Saint Peter also, when he speaks of the Coming of the Holy Spirit, says that God through the prophet Joel said that God would pour out His Spirit upon all flesh in the last days. The book of Acts, chapter 2, verse 14 to 20, Saint Peter said it.

And now, we can understand what the last days are: they are the fifth millennium, sixth millennium and seventh millennium. The seventh millennium is the Last Day, for which Christ will resurrect the dead in Christ, believers in Christ who have departed, and transform the living born again believers in Jesus Christ; and the Last Day is the seventh millennium.

If we add to the calendar the years of delay that it has, we are already in the seventh millennium; and we are in the time of the final call of Jesus Christ, where He is calling and gathering His elect in the Age of the Cornerstone; and that call is taking place in Latin America and the Caribbean, because the Age of the Cornerstone is fulfilled in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Christ is building a Temple, which is His Church. And in the temple that Moses built or tabernacle that Moses built, and the temple that Solomon built, where was the most holy place? In the occident, which is the west. And in the spiritual Temple of Christ, which began its construction in the East, with human beings…; because it is a Temple with living stones, with human beings.²³

Now, for this end time we have seen the journey of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit from age to age. He was in the midst of the Hebrew people; then He went to Asia Minor, through Saint Paul; and then He went to Europe, through the messengers He sent, through whom He called and gathered His elect, and placed them in His spiritual Temple; and then He went to North America, and used the Reverend William Branham, and through him He was calling and gathering His elect of the seventh stage or age of the gentile Church, and thus building that part of His spiritual Temple.

And now for the Last Day He has passed to Latin America and the Caribbean, for the construction of the Age of the Cornerstone, the construction of the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple. The Age of the Cornerstone is the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, it is the most important part of His Temple.

And now, through whom is it that He calls and gathers His elect in the Last Day? Remember that for the Last Day we have the promise of the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet.

And now, apostle Saint John tells us that he was in the Lord’s Day, that is, in the seventh millennium, receiving this divine revelation:

“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet (it was on the Lord’s Day that he heard that great voice as of a trumpet),

Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last…”

Who is the Alpha and who is the Omega? Our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; He is the first and He is the last. It is the Voice of Jesus Christ in the Last Day in the midst of His Church, speaking to His Church.

And now, in Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1, John tells us:

“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”

And the things that will happen after those that have already happened in the seven ages of the gentile Church will be made known by Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit in the Age of the Cornerstone; the things that will happen in the Age of the Cornerstone in the Last Day, in the seventh millennium will be made known.

And now, we can see that Christ calls His children to go up. We have to go up to the Age of the Cornerstone; just as each person who lived in each of these ages went up to the age that corresponded to him and heard the Voice of Christ in the Holy Spirit manifested in the angel messenger of the age that was allotted to each of God’s elect to live in. And that is how Christ has been calling and gathering His sheep from age to age, and has been placing them (where?) in His Fold, which is His Church, His Mystical Body of believers.

And now, Christ in the Last Day, just as He spoke through every messenger, and thus they heard the Voice of Christ, the Trumpet of Jesus Christ, of their age, and followed Christ in His age; for the Last Day we have the Great Voice of Trumpet, the Voice of Christ, making known to us all these things that must shortly come to pass.

And now let’s see through whom Christ will be manifested in Holy Spirit in the Last Day making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass. Revelation 22, verse 6 and on; it says there:

“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”

Through whom does He make known to us the things that must happen soon? Through His Angel Messenger. It is Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd, in Holy Spirit manifested in His Angel Messenger, speaking to us all these things which must shortly be done, in the Last Day, in the seventh millennium.

Revelation 22, verse 16, tells us:

“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”

It is the Voice of Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd, through His Angel Messenger, making known to us all these things in the Last Day, in the seventh millennium, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ is being built with living stones: with Latin American and Caribbean human beings.

Now, we have seen this mystery of the one greater than John the Baptist: our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, manifested from stage to stage through each one of His messengers, calling and gathering His elect.

The messenger of each age is not the great one: the great one is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, who is manifested in the angel messenger of each age calling and gathering His elect; the great one is Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord.

And when He has been manifested in each age in the angel messenger of each age, one greater has been present, one greater than John the Baptist, one greater than Jacob, one greater than Solomon, one greater than Abraham, one greater than Adam also, one greater than any human being; but He has been manifested in a human being redeemed by His precious Blood and filled with His Spirit; and therefore, Christ can use him to manifest Himself through him and speak to His people, and call and gather His elect in each age.

Now, we have seen how Jesus Christ manifests Himself in Holy Spirit from stage to stage; and He speaks to His people, to His children, to His Church, and calls them and gathers them into His Fold, which is His Church, from age to age.

And now, we have reached the end time, the Last Day, the seventh millennium, if we add to the calendar the years of delay it has. What for? To hear the Voice of one greater than John the Baptist, to hear the Voice of one greater than Solomon.

And if the queen of Sheba came from so far away to listen to a man who had wisdom from God…²⁴; and he did have it, because God gave it to him: he asked for it and God gave him that wisdom²⁵; and it was with that wisdom that he was able to build the temple. Because there is no other wisdom with which one can build a temple for God, but with the wisdom of God. And that temple that he built represented the Temple that is in Heaven and also represented the Church of Jesus Christ; because the Church of Jesus Christ is the spiritual Temple of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

Moses had built the tabernacle with that same wisdom; and with that wisdom is that Jesus Christ is building a Temple for God, with human beings redeemed with His precious Blood, who from stage to stage have been listening to His Voice: The Voice of one greater than Solomon and one greater than John the Baptist.

And for this end time, that Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet, making known to us the things that must happen soon, is the Voice of the Alpha and Omega, the Voice of the first and the last, the Voice of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ through His Angel Messenger; it is the Voice of one greater than John the Baptist speaking through His Angel Messenger.

It is that God places His Word in His prophets, in His messengers. That is why in Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verse 15 to 19, the prophet Moses tells us that God will raise up a prophet like him (like Moses). Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verse 15 and on:

“The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken…”

To whom does God tell the people to listen? The prophet God sends. Let’s see why. That same chapter 18, verse 18 and on, it says:

“I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, (in other words, a prophet like Moses); and will put my words in his mouth…”

Where does God place His words? In the mouth of the prophet He sends. That is why He says “him ye shall hearken”: because whoever listens to that prophet, is listening to the Voice of God, the Word of God, for the day in which he is living. And whoever doesn’t want to listen to him, well, he didn’t want to listen to the Voice of God.

And what will be the consequences for those who don’t hear the Voice of God, and what will be the blessings for those who hear the Voice of God, the Voice of Christ? Christ said: “He that heareth my Word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life.”

Let’s continue reading; it says:

“…and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.”

What will this prophet sent by God speak? Whatever God commands him to speak. All the revelation of God for that time will be given through that prophet; because God has placed His Word in the mouth of that prophet and in the heart; and that prophet is the Word of God for the people, that Divine Word manifested in human flesh and through human flesh.

And he who listens to that prophet, receives the reward of a prophet: “He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet, receives the reward of a prophet”²⁶; he receives all the blessings, all the benefits for which God has sent that prophet.

And those who don’t receive him, what will happen? Whoever receives the prophet whom God sends, receives the one who sent him.²⁷ He who rejects him doesn’t receive the one who sent him, even if he says that he believes in the one who sent him.²⁸

Those who received Christ when He came in human flesh, were receiving Him who had sent Jesus, who came inside that veil of flesh; and those who rejected Him, were rejecting God: Him who sent Jesus, who was within Jesus.

And now, those sent by Jesus Christ are the instruments of Jesus Christ from age to age, and Christ is in them manifested in Holy Spirit; and those who reject Him, have rejected Him who comes within that messenger; and those who receive Him, are receiving Jesus Christ speaking to them through that messenger, and receive the blessings that Christ brings in that manifestation through that messenger.

And now, those who don’t receive him, notice what will happen:

“And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.”

And Saint Peter quoting this passage, in the book of Acts, chapter 3, verse 18 to 23, says: “…I will uproot him from the people.” God will uproot from the people those who don’t listen to that messenger, that prophet that God sends.

And those who didn’t listen to the messengers that God has sent, have lost the right and privilege of belonging to the people of God, and therefore, have lost the right to eternal life; because they didn’t listen to the Voice of God through the messenger that God sent.

And now we can see the importance of receiving the messenger and hearing his voice; because his voice, his Message, is the Voice of Jesus Christ, which is in that messenger speaking to His people and making known to them the things that Jesus Christ places in the mouth of that messenger to speak; He comes anointed with the Spirit of Christ to speak that Divine Word.

Now we have seen how He who is greater than John the Baptist manifests Himself: He manifests Himself through His messengers from age to age. He manifested Himself through the prophets in the Old Testament, He manifested Himself through Jesus, and then He has manifested Himself through the apostles and through the seven angel messengers; and for the Last Day He would be manifested through His Angel Messenger, making known to us all these things that must happen soon.

And these mysteries pertaining to the Last Day would be opened, made known, and above all, the greatest mystery of all mysteries: the mystery of the Seventh Seal, which is the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ.

Now, this is the greatest mystery of all the mysteries of God. It is the mystery that in Revelation, chapter 8, verse 1, when it was opened in Heaven caused silence in Heaven for about half an hour (or half an hour of Heaven). And that mystery, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ (which was preparing the people for the manifestation of that mystery, for the fulfillment of that mystery) said that that mystery to be fulfilled would be the simplest thing that a person can imagine: it would be in simplicity.

He said that when that Seventh Seal, the Seal of the end time, would be manifested, it would be a complete mystery in the beginning; just as the First Coming of Christ was a mystery to more than 99% of the people: Only Mary, Joseph, Elizabeth and Zechariah, Simeon and Anna, the shepherds who were at the birth of Jesus and the wise men who went to see Jesus when He was about 2 years old; these were the people the Bible tells us that were aware of the Coming of the Messiah.

The Messiah was already on Earth as a little child, a baby, but the high priest didn’t know it; neither did the Council of the Hebrew religion.

So when the wise men came to Jerusalem saying: “Where is the King of the Jews, who is born? For we have seen His star in the East,”²⁹ they had seen that sign in the sky, the sign of the Coming of the Son of Man; that was a star that was seen in the sky, they call it “the Star of Bethlehem”; and for them, that was the sign that the Messiah was already on Earth.

But many people could say: “When the Messiah is on Earth, He will be preaching.” But they had to understand that first He had to be born, and He had to be born in Bethlehem of Judea; and He had to be a child, then a young man and then an adult to begin His ministry.

And it was a mystery hidden from the wise and knowledgeable: from the high priest, from the doctors in theology, in divinity, from the Sanhedrin Council (composed of seventy Hebrew wise men in theology); it was a secret, a mystery, the First Coming of Christ. His coming was concealed from those wise men.

And look, the wise men asked where the Messiah was, the King of Israel, the King of the Jews; and the high pontiff couldn’t tell them: “He is already here. He is already two years old.” They didn’t even know that the Messiah was already on Earth, they didn’t know that the First Coming of Christ was already fulfilled.

Will the same thing happen with the Second Coming of Christ? That is a good question.

Now, look at how the Messiah grew up, became a young man, and when He was about 30 years old, He became a believer and follower of John the Baptist, the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ.

And anyone who saw Him with John the Baptist, following his Message and being baptized by John, said: “One more believer of John the Baptist, one more follower, one more disciple of John the Baptist.” But John the Baptist said: “This is the man of whom I said He would come after me.”³⁰ For John the Baptist it was a privilege that the one for whom He was preparing the way was one of his disciples.

That is the greatest privilege that the forerunner can have: That the one foreran be one of his disciples! That is the greatest pride of a good teacher: that one of his disciples be the one to take the great prize.

Now we can see how one of John’s disciples, believers in John’s Message, was the one foreran.

Will the same thing happen with the Second Coming of Christ?; because that prophecy has to be fulfilled for the Last Day, and God has already sent the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.

Now, why was the Messiah a follower of John the Baptist two thousand years ago? Because he had to make the intertwining. He couldn’t come out of another group: He had to come out of the group of John the Baptist; because the group of John the Baptist was the group of the seventh age of the Hebrew Church, of the elect of the seventh age of the Hebrew Church under the Law.

For the Last Day, the seventh age of the gentile Church, we find that it would be with a messenger who would come with the spirit and power of Elijah forerunning the Second Coming of Christ. And there, in that divine cycle, is where the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ must be manifested, and the believers in the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ must begin to come.

Shouldn’t the foreran also come among those who will be coming to the forerunner? Won’t a believer of the forerunner be the one in whom the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, of the Angel of the Lord, of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, will be fulfilled at the Last Day?

Let’s see what will be the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, of the Angel of the Lord, of the Word, for the Last Day; because two thousand years ago it was the Coming of the Word, the Angel of the Covenant, the Word made flesh, the Word made flesh two thousand years ago.

When Jesus said: “I have come down from Heaven,” they said: “We know that He is the son of Joseph and Mary; he is from Nazareth (!). He was born on Earth and says that he has come from Heaven.”³¹ But the one who was within Him came from Heaven: the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, descended from Heaven in human flesh, became flesh and lived in the midst of the Hebrew people. That is the one who descends from Heaven; and that is the Mighty Angel of Revelation, chapter 10, coming in the Last Day.

Now let’s see what will be the Coming of the Mighty Angel, the Coming of the Angel who was different from the rest, who appeared in this cloud with the seven angel messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church. That is the Angel that forms the white hair of the Lord in this cloud that forms the face of the Lord.

That Angel that is different from the others is the one that has the Seventh Seal, says the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ on page 469 of the book of The Seals in Spanish. Therefore, the Seventh Seal, which is the Coming of the Lord, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, is the Coming of that Angel who was different from the others.

For the seven angel messengers of the seven ages, who are here in theophanic bodies, to have their ministries on Earth, they had to come manifested in human flesh at the time God sent them. And for this Angel who is different from the rest, to have His ministry of the Last Day in the fulfillment of the Seventh Seal, He has to have a veil of flesh here on Earth; just as He had a veil of flesh two thousand years ago to carry out the Work of God as the Lamb of God and take away the sin of the world on Calvary’s Cross.

Now, notice, of this Angel, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says that that Angel was the one who raised him up, lifted him up and placed him in that cloud, that cloud formed by angels. That is not a cloud of water: that is a cloud of glory, formed by angel messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church, and an Angel that was different from the others: the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel that has the Seventh Seal. He says:³²

“²⁷⁶ Here It is, the one with the Seventh Seal…”

That Angel is the one who has the Seventh Seal. For the Seventh Seal to be fulfilled on Earth, that Angel has to come to Earth dressed in human flesh, have a body of flesh through which to manifest Himself and speak to His Church and make known to her this mystery of the Seventh Seal.

Notice what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, the Reverend William Branham, told us in relation to the Seventh Seal and the opening of the Seventh Seal, in other words, the opening of the Coming of Christ. He says on page 482 and 483:³³

“^[399] So we see that It is a complete mystery, therefore the hour is not yet for the mystery to be known (the mystery of the Seventh Seal). Therefore, we’re this far, and the rest of It will be known right around about the time that Jesus appears on earth again, for His Bride…”

Why does the Angel of the Covenant come, the Angel of the Lord? To take His Bride, His Church redeemed by His precious Blood: those of us who are alive and the dead in Christ, whom He will resurrect in eternal bodies.

And now, notice what he tells us on page 474 and 475 of the book of The Seals in Spanish:³⁴

“^[326] It may be time, it may be the hour now, that this great person that we’re expecting to rise on the scene may arise on the scene.”

He is speaking of a person who will come; as John the Baptist said: “After me comes one, a man, who I am not worthy to unloose the latchet of His shoe.”

“³²⁷ Maybe this ministry, that I have tried to take people back to the Word, has laid a foundation (the foundation for the Coming of the one who will come after the forerunner is the Message of the forerunner); and if it has, I’ll be leaving you, for good. There won’t be two of us here the same time (he is talking about someone else). See? If it is, he’ll increase; I’ll decrease.”

He said the same thing that the prophet John the Baptist said when they were both on Earth and they told him about Jesus: “Now he to whom you bore witness, more people follow Him than you, and He baptizes more people than you.” John says: “It is good for Him to increase, and for me to decrease.”³⁵

Christ is the Sun of Righteousness. He said: “I am the Light of the world”³⁶; and of John the Baptist He said: “He was a burning light,”³⁷ because he was the light of the seventh age of the Hebrew Church under the Law; but that light had to go out, as the other lights had gone out, the other messengers of the previous ages; just as the seven angel messengers have been the lights lit in each lamp, in every age, of the gentile Church, and have been shutting down as their physical bodies have died.

But notice, Jesus said: “I have a greater testimony than John.” In other words, He had more light and more prophecies; and greater, more important prophecies were given in the Bible in relation to Jesus: in relation to the one foreran. The prophecies contained a greater blessing, those that spoke of Jesus, than those that spoke of John the Baptist.

John the Baptist, being the light for the seventh age of the Hebrew Church under the Law, was like the light of the sun in the evening: it falls, it wanes, until it disappears, until the sun dies; but the morning sun is born and it is good for it to grow: it is born and it grows, and it increases its light until the day is perfect. So it is with the one foreran: it is convenient for him to grow.

It is good for the Morning Sun to grow. It is convenient for the Evening Sun to decrease: it wanes until it disappears. And those who follow the Evening Sun must then follow the Morning Sun; if they don’t follow it, they remain in darkness.

This happened to the disciples of John the Baptist. When Saint Paul meets them in Ephesus (in chapter 19), and asks them: “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They said: “We didn’t even know there is a Holy Spirit.” They were in darkness, even though they were followers of John the Baptist. They couldn’t understand what God was doing: that He was filling believers in Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit; not John’s believers; Jesus Christ’s believers. And John’s believers who later believed in Jesus Christ: they were blessed to be filled with the Spirit of God.

Now we can see the importance of believing in the forerunner and then walking forward and seeing the one foreran, and believing in the one foreran, and receiving His Message, to receive the blessings that God has for that time.

And what blessings does God have for the Last Day with the Coming of the foreran, which the Reverend William Branham, forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, spoke of? The blessings are that you will hear the Voice of Christ making known all these things that must happen soon.

The Voice of Christ will be manifested speaking to His Church; and they will be prepared to be transformed and raptured in the Last Day; they will be placed in the Age of the Cornerstone, the Eternal Age of the Church of Jesus Christ; and therefore those who remain alive until the dead in Christ are resurrected in eternal bodies will receive the transformation of their bodies.

They will be hearing the Voice of Christ for the last time on Earth before being transformed, because they will be hearing that Great Voice of Trumpet, the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work. They will be hearing the Voice of one greater than the temple, one greater than Jacob, one greater than Abraham, one greater than John the Baptist and one greater than the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ as well.

One greater than the seven angel messengers; that is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, which was manifested in past ages; and for this end time He would be manifested through His Angel Messenger making known to us all these things that must happen soon.

And now, the mystery of the Seventh Seal. The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says, page 472:³⁸

“^[304] Notice now, for the end-of-time Message, this Seal. After all, He—He has revealed all the six Seals, but He don’t say nothing about the Seventh. And the end-time Seal, when It starts, will be absolutely a total secret, according to the Bible, before knowing That.”

“When it starts,” and all that has to do with its beginning; but the time will come when the fulfillment of the mystery of the Seventh Seal will already be identified; but before that it is not revealed.

Now, let’s see what the mystery of the Seventh Seal is; because the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says that He comes as John the Baptist came and as Jesus came. Right there, in that page we were reading, it says:

“³⁰⁵ The other day, last Sunday, a week ago today, when I was preaching on ‘Be humble! Be humble! Remember, God deals in little things.’ I didn’t realize what it really was talking about. And now I see it. It is in such a humble way! You would think that something like that would be revealed to the Vatican or… But It comes just like John the Baptist. It comes like the birth of our Lord, in a stable. Glory to God! So help me, the hour is at hand! Amen! We’re here. Oh, my!”

Now, notice, He comes as John the Baptist: John the Baptist came with the ministry of Elijah in his third manifestation; and He comes as John the Baptist with the ministry of Elijah in his fifth manifestation. And He comes as the birth of Jesus Christ: He comes with the ministry of Jesus the second time; and He comes with the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Jesus, manifested in the Last Day. That is how the Seventh Seal is coming.

Now, let’s see what the Seventh Seal is: The Seventh Seal is the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19; and let’s see who is that Rider of that white horse of Revelation 19. On page 277 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, it was said by the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, speaking of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, praying says:³⁹

“^[391]…may the Holy Spirit come down now, the white-horse Rider (it is the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, the one who is coming), while His Spirit, Spirit of Christ, in the face of antichrist, and call His Own.”

And now let’s see how the Angel of the Covenant, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, will come in the Last Day, in the fulfillment of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19. Page 256 of the book of The Seals says (in Spanish):⁴⁰

“¹⁹⁶ But when our Lord appears here on earth, He’ll be riding on a snow-white horse. And He’ll be completely, fully, the Emmanuel, the Word of God incarnate in a Man.”

And if we find that man, we will be finding the white horse Rider of Revelation 19; we will be finding Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh in a man of this Last Day; we will be finding the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, through whom Christ will be in Holy Spirit manifested in the Last Day: the Word, the Word incarnated in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the mystery of the Seventh Seal.

That is why John the apostle wanted to worship the Angel of Jesus Christ on two occasions: Revelation 19, verse 6 to 10, and Revelation 22, verse 6 to 9, and the Angel told him not to do it; because the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is not the Lord Jesus Christ; he is only the prophet of the Last Day: the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, testifying of all these things that must happen soon, in this end time.

And he doesn’t need people to say that he is Jesus Christ. He is not Jesus Christ: he is the Angel Messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ, of the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, sent to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in this Last Day.

And it is the first occasion that the Lord Jesus Christ sends to His Church a dispensational prophet messenger, the first occasion; who, as a messenger, is greater than the seven angel messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church: he is greater than Saint Paul, he is greater than Irenaeus, he is greater than Martin, than Columba, than Luther, than Wesley and the Reverend William Branham; because all of them were messengers of ages, none of them were dispensational messengers.

God only has seven dispensational messengers, which are Adam, Seth, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and the Angel of Jesus Christ. Those are the seven dispensational prophet messengers.

And the seven angel messengers, none of them was a dispensational prophet. That is why the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is greater than any of them; and he is the messenger in whom Jesus Christ comes manifested in Holy Spirit in the Last Day. It is in him that the Word comes, the Word made flesh in the Last Day.

That is the mystery of the Seventh Seal. That is the mystery of the Coming of the Angel who was different from the others, the Angel who has the Seventh Seal: It is the Coming of the Angel that has the Seventh Seal, the Angel of the Covenant, Jesus Christ coming in Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh in His Angel Messenger, making known to us through His Angel Messenger all these things that must happen soon; and thus calling and gathering His elect in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, and preparing us to be transformed and raptured and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in this end time.

We have seen the greatest mystery, which caused silence in Heaven for half an hour and which would be revealed to the Church of Jesus Christ in this end time.

And now, we have also seen who is greater than John the Baptist and greater than all the prophets of the Old Testament and all the prophets of the New Testament: It is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant. And in His manifestation of the Last Day, He is still the greatest: The Lord Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, is greater than His Angel Messenger.

Now, we can see that His Angel Messenger will not try to occupy or take the place of Christ that corresponds to Him; he will only be giving the Message of Jesus Christ.

And Jesus Christ is the one who will honor him, bless him, use him and place him in the right position that corresponds to him in the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; and then, in the Millennial Kingdom, He will place him in a position so high and so important that no other person can occupy, but the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, who will be placed with Christ and by Christ in that glorious Millennial Kingdom. But in that Kingdom, greater than the Angel of Jesus Christ is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, we have seen this mystery.

And now, who should we listen to? The Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, which is the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, who has been speaking from age to age and from dispensation to dispensation through human flesh through His prophet messengers. And for this end time He would be speaking to us through His Angel Messenger all these things that must come to pass soon, in this end time; and thus we will be listening to one greater than John the Baptist: we will be listening to our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, manifested in human flesh through His Angel Messenger.

We have seen who is “HE WHO HAS A GREATER TESTIMONY THAN THAT OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.”

It is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who became flesh and was known by the name of Jesus; and has been manifested in Holy Spirit, from age to age, through His angel messengers. And in this Last Day He would be manifested through His Angel Messenger in the midst of His Church, in the Age of the Cornerstone, making known to us all these things that must happen soon.

That One is greater than John the Baptist and all the prophets that God has sent. That One is greater even than the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. But He who is greater than all human beings, will be manifested in the Last Day through His Angel Messenger, making known to us all those things which must shortly come to pass, and calling and gathering all His elect of the Last Day with the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom.

And he that is of God, hears the Voice of God, in the time he has been allotted to live. And thus they are hearing the one who is greater and has greater testimony than John the Baptist.

It has been a great privilege for me to give you testimony of “HE WHO HAS A GREATER TESTIMONY THAN THAT OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.” That is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

May the blessings of Jesus Christ our Savior, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon you all and upon me also; and may He soon complete the number of His elect; and may the dead in Christ soon be resurrected by Jesus Christ and may we who are alive be transformed, and may we be caught up to Heaven and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven in this end time. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.

Thank you very much for your kind attention, beloved friends and brethren present, and may you all have a good evening.

May God bless you and keep you all.

“HE WHO HAS A GREATER TESTIMONY THAN THAT OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.”