Good morning, beloved friends and brethren present. It is a great blessing for me to be with you on this occasion, to share a few moments of fellowship around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time.
For which I want to read in Exodus, chapter 17, verse 8 to 16, where it says as follows:
“Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.
And Moses said unto Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.
So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.
And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:
For he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
We take our subject for this occasion from verse 15 of this 17th chapter of Exodus, where it says:
“And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi…”
“JEHOVAH-NISSI.”
Jehovah-nissi is one of the compound names of God.
We have seven compound names of the Divinity, which are Jehovah-jireh, the second Jehovah-rapha…
The first one, Jehovah-jireh, which means ‘the Lord will provide’; and He provided Himself with a Sacrifice, to bear our sins and take away the sin of the human being. The Lord provided Himself with a body of flesh called Jesus, in whom and with whom He carried out the redemption.
Now look at how these compound names, which have a meaning, also have a fulfillment in God’s appointed time.
Then, the second one is Jehovah-rapha, which means ‘the Lord heals’; and this refers both to physical healing and also to spiritual healing, for the soul of the person; and in the Last Day He will give us total physical healing by giving us an eternal and glorified body.
The next one is Jehovah-nissi, and it means ‘the Lord is our banner.’ And there, in the Scripture that we read, it tells us that Moses built an altar to God and called its name Jehovah-nissi, which means ‘Jehovah is our banner.’
Then we also have the fourth compound name of God, of the Divinity; it is Jehovah-salom or Jehovah-shalom, which means ‘the Lord is our peace’ or ‘the Lord sends peace.’
That is why Christ said in His First Coming1: “My peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you”; because He is the Prince of Peace according to Isaiah, chapter 9, verse 6 to 7: Isaiah, chapter 9, verses 6 to 7, says:
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
Christ in His First Coming and in His Second Coming is (who?) the Prince of Peace; and He is the one who brings peace to His people, both the Hebrew people and His gentile Church.
Then, the fifth compound name…
You see, He brings us peace through His Sacrifice by giving us salvation: by believing in Christ as our Savior and washing our sins in the Blood of Christ; and thus obtaining the Spirit of Christ and being reconciled to God and being at peace with God.
“For Christ is our peace, who hath made of both one people,”2 that is, He is making one people of the Hebrew people and of the gentiles, called the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is a heavenly people; it is a heavenly nation.
And therefore, each member of this heavenly people is an heir of God and joint-heir with Christ our Lord; he belongs to the heavenly Jerusalem, he belongs to the heavenly Israel; it doesn’t matter that as an individual he is not a Hebrew: nevertheless, he belongs to the heavenly Israel.
And “as many as are of faith in Christ, these are Abraham’s children”3: of that heavenly seed of Abraham which comes through Jesus Christ, the Son of Abraham and Son of God, who is also the second Adam.
See how He is our peace: through His Sacrifice He is our peace; for He has reconciled us to God and we are at peace with God.
Then, the fifth compound name of the Divinity is Jehovah-raah, which means ‘the Lord is my Shepherd.’
In the Old Testament, Psalm 23 says: “The Lord is my Shepherd”; and in the New Testament Jesus, in chapter 10, verse 14 to 16, tells us that He is our Shepherd; because the Lord of the Old Testament is the Jesus Christ of the New Testament, and therefore He is our Shepherd. Chapter 10, verse 14 to 16, of John, 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: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”
And see how it is that Christ in the New Testament is our Shepherd; and He is the one who places us in His Fold, His Flock, and the one who feeds us with the fresh pastures of His Word, and blesses us with the blessings from Heaven.
Also, the apostle Peter speaks to us of Jesus Christ as the Prince of shepherds (and let’s see if Miguel will help us here, in this passage of Saint Peter…). Here it is: First Peter, chapter 5, verse 4 and on, it says:
“And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.”
Because Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd of the sheep, promised to return; Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who shepherded the Hebrew people, who is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
That Angel of the Covenant, which is God Himself in His theophanic body, is the Shepherd in the Old Testament and He is the Shepherd in the New Testament, because He is the same who became flesh and lived among the Hebrew people, in that veil of flesh called Jesus; in the First Coming of Christ, which is the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, of the Angel of the Lord, veiled in human flesh. The Word, who was with God and was God, became flesh and dwelt among human beings.
And for the Last Day we have the promise in Revelation 19 that the Word will return. The Word will come again as the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, as it tells us in Revelation 19, verse 11 and on; it says:
“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.”
It is the Coming of the Word, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant in the Last Day, the same one who came two thousand years ago as the Lamb of God in His Work of Redemption; and there, we find that the name for redemption was placed in that manifestation in human flesh of the Angel of the Lord, of the Angel of the Covenant (which is the Word, which is God Himself with His theophanic body).
In other words, the Word (which is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, God in His theophanic body) had a name, placed in the veil of flesh called Jesus. In other words, Word is not a name, but the Word made flesh had a name in that manifestation of flesh; and Jesus of Nazareth was the Word made flesh: “And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us.”4 And the Word made flesh came as the Lamb of God and took away the sin of the world on Calvary’s Cross.
Now, the Word had a name. The Name of God for Redemption, where was it? In the Word made flesh.
And now, we have the promise for the Last Day of the return of the Word, the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, coming in this end time and manifesting Himself in the midst of His people.
“And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.”
He is coming with the name of King of kings and Lord of lords; but King of kings and Lord of lords is not a proper name; but that white horse Rider of Revelation 19, has a name by coming, which is revealed to the Church of Jesus Christ and then to the Hebrew people in the Last Day.
In other words, the Word coming, will have a name; the King of kings and Lord of lords coming, will have a name; and that is the Eternal Name of God to carry out His Reclaiming Work as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work.
Reverend William Branham, speaking to us about that Name tells us, and speaking about the Coming of the Lord tells us, on page 130 and 131 of the book of The Seals:5
“275 See, nobody knows It. Did you ever know that the Name of ‘Jehovah’ is not correct? (that is, it is not right, um…, it is not written correctly; in other words, the four consonants, called the tetragrammaton, it is not pronounced that way). Anyone knows. Dr. Vayle, you know that’s true. The translators could never translate It. It’s spelled J-u-h-v… J-v-h-u, I mean (that is the way he gives it).”
If we look in biblical dictionaries, we will also find that those biblical dictionaries say: “Y-H-W-H” and they also say: “Y-H-V-H.”
The “y” is also translated or read as “j,” so there is no problem there; and the “w” too, in some nations they pronounce it as “v.”
For example, women or young girls named Wilma are called Vilma in some countries, because they pronounce the “w” as a “v” and they write it as a “v”; but in other nations the “w” is used for that name and it is read as Wilma. And so on there are countless names that in some nations they pronounce it using the “w” and in others they pronounce it using the “v”; but that is not a problem.
That is why the name Jesus is also pronounced using the “J” or using the “Y.” In Hebrew, Jesus is pronounced (in Hebrew) Yeshua or Yoshua, which is Joshua. And then, in Greek or in Spanish or in English, it is pronounced using the “J” (changing the “Y” for the “J”); and, for example, in Spanish it is said Jesus and in other languages also; and in English it is said “ˈJē-zəs,” using the “Y” also at the beginning.6 But this is no problem for believers in Christ: they know that Yeshua or Yoshua is the same Jesus.
And now, let’s continue reading what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, Reverend William Branham, says:
“[275] They couldn’t touch It. They don’t know what It is (let’s see what they used)…”
“[275] The translators could never translate It. It’s spelled J-u-h-v… J-v-h-u (which is ‘Y-H-W-H’ or ‘Y-H-V-H’), I mean. It isn’t “Jehovah (that is, those four consonants is not ‘Jehovah’, it is not read as a name ‘Jehovah’)..” They couldn’t touch It. They don’t know what It is. Called It “Jehovah,” but it wasn’t His Name.
276 Look, every time a victory is won, or something goes on, a name is changed.
277 Look at the days of Abraham. He was, first, Abram, and never could have that baby until his name was changed to Abraham. And Sarra, S-a-r-r-a, could not have nothing but a dead womb until her name was changed to S-a-r-a-h.
278 Jacob means ‘supplanter, deceiver,’ and that’s what he did. He put sheepskin on hisself, and deceived his prophet father, to take the birthrights. He put poplar sticks in the water, speckled them, scare the cattle when they was pregnated with the… with their young, to make speckled cattle and sheep (Genesis 30). Nothing but a deceiver!
279 But one night he caught a hold of Something real, and he knowed It was real. And he stayed with It, and held on until he overcome. And his name was changed, and called Israel, meaning ‘a prince with power before God.’
280 Is that right? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] Every overcomer!
281 Simon was a fisherman. But when his faith caught and knowed that was Jesus, when He told him He was the Messiah, and told him who his name was and what his father’s name was, he was overcome, and changed from Simon to Peter.
282 Saul, good name. Saul, was a king one time in Israel (for the name ‘Saulo’ derives from the name ‘Saul,’ and that is why he mentions it here), but he, a Saul, didn’t fit an apostle. Might be all right for a king, but not an apostle. So Jesus changed his name (from what?) from Saul to Paul. Look at “The sons of thunder,” and on down.
283 And, Jesus, His Name on earth was ‘Redeemer,’ Jesus. When He was on earth, He was the Redeemer, that’s true. But when He conquered death and hell, and overcome them, and ascended on High, He received a new Name. That’s the reason you holler the way they do, and they don’t get nothing.
284 It’ll be revealed in the Thunders. Uh-huh. See? Notice the mysteries. He is coming, riding… There’s got to be Something to change this Church. You know that. There’s got to be Something. Notice, ‘No man knowed, but Himself.’ Now, notice, ‘No man knowed, but Hisself.’
‘And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name was called The Word of God.’
Oh, my! Notice!
‘And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he tread the winepress of the fierceness and the wrath of Almighty God.
And he had on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.’
Revelation 19:13-16
285 There comes the Messiah. There He is…”
How does He come? On that white horse of Revelation 19. That Rider is the Messiah. It is the Coming of the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, coming in the Last Day.
On page 134 of this same book of The Seals it says:7
“302 Glory! Notice! And when this Holy Spirit that we have becomes incarnate to us, the One that’s in our midst now in the form of the Holy Ghost, becomes incarnate to us, in the Person of Jesus Christ, we’ll crown Him King of kings and Lord of lords.”
Here we have the promise of the coming of the Holy Spirit incarnated.
And now we turn to page 146, where it shows us that not only the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit, will come incarnated, but also the spirit of the devil will come in another man incarnated; the devil will also come incarnated, but in another man, in another veil of flesh. On page 146, it says:8
“[401] See, he first…”
Speaking of the antichrist and the devil’s manifestation in the antichrist, it says:
“[401] See, he first started, an antichrist, the spirit; then he become a false prophet; then, later, when the devil is cast out (that is, from heaven), he is incarnate (In whom? In the false prophet, in the antichrist) then with the devil. Three stages! The first, he’s a devil, to begin with, a spirit of the devil; then he becomes a false prophet, teacher of a false doctrine; next thing, he comes as the very devil himself, incarnate. See? There he is.
402 And at the same time that this devil falls out of Heaven and becomes incarnate in a man (what happens; on the other hand, what happens?), the Holy Spirit goes up and comes down in carnate men.”
In other words, on the one hand the devil is incarnated in the antichrist, in the man of sin, in the false prophet; and on the other hand, in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit (which has been ascending from age to age) ascends to the Age of the Cornerstone and comes incarnated in a man; and that man has to be a prophet messenger, the true prophet. And the devil, well, is incarnated in the false prophet; but in the true prophet of God comes the Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh.
And it has to be in the messenger of that age, of the Age of the Cornerstone, where the Holy Spirit comes; because when the Holy Spirit came two thousand years ago incarnated, He came incarnated in whom? In a man named Jesus, in a prophet named Jesus, in the prophet of Nazareth; because the Word always comes to His prophets: It has to come to a prophet.
And it has to be a dispensational prophet, because the First Coming of Christ was fulfilled in a dispensational prophet; so was the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh in Jesus of Nazareth: In the prophet of the Dispensation of Grace, of that sixth dispensation. And for the Last Day the Holy Spirit will come, the Angel of the Covenant will come, manifested in human flesh in the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, of the seventh dispensation.
And now, let’s continue reading: on page 277 of the book of The Seals in Spanish it says:9
“[391] …may the Holy Spirit come down now, the white-horse Rider (Who is the Rider of the true white horse? The Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Word; that is the Rider), while His Spirit, Spirit of Christ, in the face of antichrist, and call His Own.”
And now, on page 469 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, it says:10
“275 And did you notice? ‘That one Angel,’ I said, ‘in there, was a strange Angel.’ He looked more to me than any of the rest of Them.”
He is talking about this cloud made up of angels: the messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church and another Angel that was different from the rest, which is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Holy Spirit, Christ in Holy Spirit here.
There are the seven angel messengers of the seven ages and another Angel that is different from the rest: an eighth Angel, which is called by our brother Branham “the seventh Angel.” Why? Because he is counting the six angels of the six ages of the gentile Church but he is not counting himself there; therefore, he counts only seven angels: six of the six ages of the Church, and one Angel that is different from the rest, which is the Angel of the Covenant. But if brother Branham were to count himself, then he would have to be placed with the seven angel messengers, and he would be the seventh angel messenger of the seventh age of the gentile Church.
But it’s like when sometimes we count people, and they say to us: “Count how many people are here.” And then the person starts counting, and says… let’s say, he says: “There are 700 people.” And if you look closely, he says: “Okay, there are 700 people; plus the one who is counting, there are 701 people.”
And the same thing happens here: when we count… when we look… him being there, he looked and he only saw seven angels, because he is not looking at himself. But now when we look: we see the seven angel messengers of the seven ages in their theophanic bodies, and we see another Angel that is different from those seven angel messengers. Why? Because it is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ there in His theophanic body.
And just as the seven angels of the seven ages, in order to have their ministries (which are here in their theophanic bodies) they had to come manifested in human flesh, come incarnated, come in a body of flesh, to have their ministries in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ…; and the Angel who is different from the rest, which forms the white hair of the Lord here, to have His ministry in the Last Day in the Age of the Cornerstone, after the ministries of the seven angel messengers have finished, He has to come incarnated in the Last Day.
And being that He is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Holy Spirit, He will come incarnate in a man in the Last Day; and that man has to be a prophet, the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom (in other words, of the seventh dispensation) and prophet of the Age of the Cornerstone. He can’t come in another kind of person; it has to be in that person already ordained by God, predestined by God for that purpose. Because the Word becomes flesh in God’s prophets.
And the Word became flesh in Jesus of Nazareth, He came manifested in flesh. The Angel of the Covenant, which is the Word, the Angel of the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, came manifested in human flesh. That is why Malachi, when he spoke of His Coming said that He would send His forerunner, “His messenger before Him, who shall prepare the way before Him; and then shall come to His Temple the Lord, whom ye seek, and the Angel of the Covenant, whom ye delight in.” Malachi, chapter 3, verse 1, testifies of His Coming in that way.
And when the forerunner came preparing the way for Him, it was John the Baptist. And when the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Word, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Lord, came, notice, it was the Angel of the Lord made flesh in Jesus of Nazareth; it was Jesus of Nazareth, the prophet of the sixth dispensation, of the Dispensation of Grace, the man where the Angel of the Covenant was manifested in all His fullness; because He came to His temple, His human temple, because the human being is a temple.
And now, the human temple of God, notice, is Jesus Christ, in whom God was manifested in all His fullness.
That is why, in front of the temple in Jerusalem, Jesus said11: “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” And many people thought that He was speaking of the literal temple; and it was the temple of His body.
They destroyed it, and in three days He raised it up; that is, they killed Him on Calvary’s Cross, and on the third day He resurrected. But Jerusalem’s temple was destroyed by the Roman general Titus, and has not yet been raised; and on top of that, where the temple was, the Mosque of Omar has been there for years.
So, you see, He was not speaking of the temple of stone, but of the temple of His body; a temple of flesh where God dwelt in all His fullness in the fulfillment of the First Coming of the Messiah, in the fulfillment of the Coming of the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, which had delivered the Hebrew people.
And now here we find again the Angel of the Covenant, that Angel different from the rest; the one who delivered the Hebrew people, and who became flesh and died on Calvary’s Cross physically, and who redeemed us with His precious Blood, and has given us of His Holy Spirit, and has produced in us the new birth.
And now, He has been in the midst of His Church manifesting Himself from age to age; and for the Last Day, He ascends out of these ages, goes up, and reaches the Last Day, the Age of the Cornerstone: He ascends to the Age of the Cornerstone; and just as He manifested Himself in flesh in His angel messengers in the portion pertaining to each age, He manifests Himself in human flesh in His Angel Messenger in the Age of the Cornerstone, in the fulfillment of the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19.
Now you see, this Angel, in order to have His ministry in the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, He has to come in human flesh manifested. And He can come in human flesh manifested in any of the members of His Church. Why? Because they are redeemed with His precious Blood, and therefore they can be an instrument of the Angel of the Covenant for His manifestation. But for that manifestation it has to be in a prophet, and it has to be the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom and Angel Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone.
It can’t be just any person, but the one who has already been chosen by God for that purpose; because the Angel of the Covenant will be manifesting in human flesh, through human flesh, the ministries of Moses for the second time, Elijah for the fifth time and Jesus for the second time.
Those three great ministries, which are promised to be manifested at the Last Day, will be being manifested by the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Angel that was different from rest, which is Christ coming there in Holy Spirit, in His theophanic body, here in this cloud; and for the Last Day He will come m#UJHTR54Tanifested in human flesh in His Angel Messenger, operating the ministries of Moses for the second time, Elijah for the fifth time and Jesus for the second time.
Now, notice how the Two Olives are those two great ministries of Moses and Elijah that will be manifested in the Last Day in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ for the blessing of all the sons and daughters of God. Those are the eyes as a flame of fire of the Son of Man; those are the feet of burnished brass, burning like an oven, of the Son of Man; and those are the Two Olive Trees, and also the two arms and hands of the Son of Man; for those are the ministries pertaining to this end time.
And notice how the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ continues to narrate here, everything related to these angels, and especially to the Angel that was different from the rest, who was the most outstanding for him. Why? Let’s see why. He says:12
“[275] They were in a constellation; three on a side, and one on top. And the one right next to me here, counting from the left to the right, would have been the seventh Angel. He was brighter, meant more to me than the rest of Them. You remember? I said, ‘He had His chest out, like that, and was flying eastward’ (you remember) ‘like that.’”
Why? Because that typifies that His Message is a Message from West to East, that is, from the Occident to the East. His Message begins in the West, in the American continent, and will reach as far as the East, to the land of Israel, to the Hebrew people.
“I said, ‘It picked me up; lifted me up.’”
Which of those angels was the one that lifted up our brother Branham and took him to that constellation formed by them? It was the Angel that was different from the rest.
“276 Here It is, the one with the Seventh Seal…”
And the Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant in human flesh in the Last Day. And in order to fulfill the Seventh Seal, He has to come veiled in human flesh at the Last Day in His Angel Messenger.
But His Angel Messenger is not the Lord Jesus Christ; he is only His messenger, His prophet messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom.
But the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who is the same God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who became flesh two thousand years ago and lived in the midst of the Hebrew people in human flesh, and was known by the name of Jesus: that Angel of the Covenant is the one who comes manifested in human flesh in the Last Day, and brings His Final Message, the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet, also represented in the seven thunders of Revelation, chapter 10; for He is the one descending from Heaven clothed with a cloud, with the rainbow around His head, and with His eyes as a flame of fire, and placing one foot, His right foot, on the sea, and His left foot on the earth…
Remember that the feet represent the ministries of Moses and Elijah; those ministries are placed on the earth: on the waters, on the sea (representing peoples, nations and tongues), and the left foot is placed on the earth.
Now, you see, the Latin American and Caribbean continent is the continent that has that blessing for the Last Day. And now Latin America and the Caribbean is the place blessed by God: that has the promise of the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant.
Now, notice that this Angel is the one with the Seventh Seal.
“[276]…the thing that I’ve wondered all my life. Amen! Them other Seals meant a lot to me, of course, but, oh, you don’t know what This has meant, for one time in life!”
Now, notice that the Seventh Seal is the Coming of the Lord, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant; it is the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, of the Holy Spirit, coming incarnated in a man of the Last Day, in His Angel Messenger, and manifested through His Angel Messenger, making known to us all these things that must shortly come to pass, in this end time, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom. That is where He comes, because He comes to His Church first and then to the Hebrew people.
On page 472 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says, Reverend William Branham:13
“[304] Notice now, for the end-of-time Message, this Seal (that is, the Seventh 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 (that is, when it begins), will be absolutely a total secret, according to the Bible…”
The Seventh Seal, when it begins (that is, the Coming of the Mighty Angel, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Second Coming of Christ, when it begins), will be a complete secret.
When the First Coming of Christ began, two thousand years ago, it was a secret to many people, most of the inhabitants of Israel; although God had given much light concerning the First Coming of Christ:
He had given many prophecies that were too clear, with which people could know that the First Coming of Christ would be fulfilled through a virgin, through whom the Messiah would be born14</sup>; and that was according to what God said in Genesis, that He would be the seed of the woman,15 therefore He would come through a woman; and it would be a person who would be born in Bethlehem of Judea,16 therefore He would be a descendant of King David, a descendant of Jesse (King David’s father)17</sup>; and that descendant would come through the line of King David, being born through a woman descendant of King David. So Mary was a descendant of King David; she was a princess, although she was poor.
And now, Joseph, to whom Mary was betrothed (although Joseph had nothing to do with Christ and His birth, but became the adoptive father of Jesus), Joseph was also a descendant of King David; he was a prince, although he was poor and was a simple carpenter from Nazareth.
For the birth of the Messiah, they had to leave Nazareth and go to Bethlehem of Judea, not because they wanted to go there, but because there was a census and it was obligatory for each person to go to the city that corresponded to them; and since Joseph and Mary were descendants of King David, they had to go to Bethlehem of Judea, where King David was from, to be registered in the census18</sup>; and while they were there, Mary’s time to give birth came; and she gave birth in Bethlehem of Judea.
Look at how God works, even when the conditions are not favorable, for they lived first in Nazareth and she was already in the month of giving birth; but, look, there was a census; and God worked in that, so that this census was carried out, so that Mary and Joseph would go to Bethlehem of Judea and the birth of Jesus would be fulfilled there.
And now, they already had the name they were going to give to the child as well: Jesus, which means ‘Redeemer’ or ‘Savior’ (in Hebrew Yoshua or Yeshua or Yashua).
And now, see how everything was fulfilled; and there, in that veil of flesh, was the fulfillment of the Coming of the Angel of the Lord, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, which is the First Coming of Christ. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob made man, made flesh in the midst of the Hebrew people in the form of a prophet; because He had to be a prophet.
Just as the first Adam was a prophet, the second Adam also had to be a prophet; and the first Adam was a dispensational prophet, and the second Adam also a dispensational prophet.
But you see, very few people knew that the birth of the Messiah was being fulfilled in Bethlehem of Judea; except those people who were warned by the Archangel Gabriel with his Army: a group of shepherds to whom the Archangel Gabriel came with his Army, singing (those heavenly hosts singing) and giving the good news, the good tidings, of the birth of the Messiah.19
And also Elizabeth and Zechariah knew that the Messiah was going to be born on Earth and they knew that He was in the virgin Mary’s womb; and Joseph and Mary also knew that the Messiah was going to be born on Earth. But look, He was born on Earth and the Hebrew people didn’t know that He was born on Earth in those days; although the sign of the First Coming of the Son of Man was in the sky, that star called “the Star of Bethlehem” appearing for two years, of which Balaam also prophesied saying that a STAR would come out of Jacob; we find that prophecy in the book of Numbers.
And see how a star would come out of Jacob: Numbers 24, verse 17; and also in Matthew, chapter 2, verses 1 to 12, we have the story of the appearance of that star for about two years appearing in the sky, testifying that the Messiah was already on Earth.
When the sign of the Son of Man appeared in heaven for His First Coming, the Messiah was already on Earth; and God was testifying in heaven to what He was fulfilling on Earth. The wise men followed that heavenly sign, that sign in heaven; because when God is going to do something on Earth, He shows it in heaven.
That is why He said that signs would be seen in the heavens20</sup>; and what those signs in heaven mean, it is important to understand and see them —those things— being fulfilled on Earth.
And now, the sign of the Son of Man in heaven for His First Coming was seen; but many people who saw that sign in the sky, if they could look up in the sky and see that sign, didn’t understand what that star in the sky meant.
And since there are many stars in the sky, then the poets could say or could speak very beautifully of that star; but the wise men, who knew that prophecy of the Coming of the Messiah (and the sign of the Coming of the Messiah being seen in heaven), they said in Jerusalem: “Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east.”
They lived there in the East, over there by Chaldea, over there by Babylon, and they came looking for the Messiah because they saw that sign in the sky; they traveled from the East to West looking for the Messiah, and they found Him.
And the 144,000 Hebrews will be seeing the Coming of the Messiah traveling from the East (them) to the West, because the manifestation of the Son of Man on Earth in the Last Day will be in the West; “as the lightning that cometh out of the east, and shineth (where?) in the occident,”21 that is, in the West, which is the American continent.
The American continent consists of North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. The seventh age of the gentile Church has already been fulfilled in North America, and now only Central America, South America and the Caribbean remain for the fulfillment of the Coming of the Son of Man as the lightning shining in the West.
And now, it is the Coming of the Angel who was different from the rest, in human flesh in the Last Day; just as He came two thousand years ago in human flesh and only a group of people, who could be counted on the hands fingers, knew that the Messiah was born in Bethlehem of Judea. The wise men found Him because they were looking for the Messiah according to the sign that was in heaven, and they found Him. Then Simeon and Anna, when He was presented in the temple, recognized Him as well.22
In other words, very few people knew of the coming of the Messiah in those days: the shepherds, who went and found Him on the day of His birth or the night of His birth; the wise men, who found Him when He was already two years old (because He was already in a house, not in the manger, and they said that the star had already been appearing in the sky for two years); and Simeon and Anna…
That is, Simeon and Anna: 2 people; Joseph and Mary: 2 more, that is 4; Zechariah and Elizabeth, that is 6; the wise men (who say they are 3, but we don’t know the real number; but let’s say they are 3). And the shepherds, we don’t know how many there were.
The shepherds, that what? Who were what? Watching the watches of the night; the shepherds, who were watching the watches of the night, which represent the shepherds of the Mystical Body of Christ, who would be watching the watches of the night. And those who in the Last Day will be watching the watches of the night, in the fourth watch, will be those who will see the Coming and will see the fulfillment of His Coming; because the Angel said to go find the Messiah, to see Him in a manger wrapped in swaddling clothes.
And now, there will also be shepherds for this end time, of the sheep of the Flock of Christ, blessed: who will see the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ.
One born in Bethlehem of Judea!, it was the fulfillment of the First Coming of Christ.
And now, Bethlehem is the House of the Bread of God and Christ is the House of the Bread of God. And all who believe in Christ as our Savior, and wash their sins in the Blood of Christ, and receive His Holy Spirit: they are born again, born in Christ, in the House of the Bread of God; they are born in Bethlehem, in the updated Bethlehem, in Jesus Christ, because He is the House of the Bread of God.
And also the Church, which is born of the Spirit of Christ, which was born on the Day of Pentecost: being born in Christ, born of the Holy Spirit, is also the updated Bethlehem as Mystical Body of believers.
And that is why all those born in Christ have been born in Bethlehem, and all those born in Christ have been born in the Church of Jesus Christ, which is His Church, His Temple, and which is the spiritual Bethlehem as Mystical Body of believers; because it is the House of the Bread of God, where He has placed Christ, the Bread of God, and where the Bread of God is distributed from age to age.
That is why we have Christ’s parable of the faithful and wise servants; and it says in Matthew, chapter 24 and verses 42 and on, as follows, and I want to read that passage, which is very important; it says:
“Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come (in other words, His Second Coming).
But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.”
At what time?, at what time of the watches?
People, during all the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church, didn’t know whether at nightfall, or at midnight, or at cockcrow, or in the morning; there we have the four watches.
The first watch begins from 9 to 12 at night, and contains three hours: from 9 to 10, one; from 10 to 11, two hours; and from 11 to 12, three hours. Each watch consists of three hours.
And the first was from 9 to 12 at night (that is the first watch of the four watches), and the second is from 12 to 3 in the morning, and the third is from 3 in the morning to 6 in the morning (in that watch is where the cock crowing is heard)…
That is why (let’s see) in… let’s see Mark and Luke, it must be in one of the two… Mark, chapter 13, verse 34 to 37, it says:
“For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.”
In other words, Christ went far away, to the House of our heavenly Father; but He left His servants in His House, and gave authority to His servants: those are the angel messengers of each stage.
“…and commanded the porter to watch.
Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing (see?, the crowing of the rooster falls on the third watch), or in the morning…”
The morning is the fourth watch, because the fourth watch is from 6 to 9 in the morning. It is the only watch that is by day, it is in the morning; the other watches are at night. And the three watches that correspond to the night: they correspond to the seven ages of the gentile Church.
Those seven ages of the gentile Church are framed in those three watches that are from 9 at night to 6 in the morning; but the Age of the Cornerstone is framed in the fourth watch, which corresponds to the time or hours from 6 to 9 in the morning.
And it is in the fourth watch where the Son of Man comes, and it is in the fourth watch where the saints are called and gathered with the Great Voice of Trumpet, and where we receive the faith to be transformed and raptured, and where the dead in Christ will be resurrected in eternal bodies, and where we who are alive will be transformed; and where we all, already with the new body, will be caught up to Heaven and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, to the House of our heavenly Father.
Now can you see why in prophetic words, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, speaking of the watches, said that the Church goes up, is caught up, in the morning, from 6 to 9 in the morning?23 Because that is the fourth watch.
And if we are also literally caught up to Heaven on some morning, then it is according to the prophecies. But the most important part there is the fourth watch, which corresponds to the time from 6 to 9 in the morning, where the Church of Jesus Christ ascends to the Age of the Cornerstone; that is a rapture or catching away of the Church of Jesus Christ in the spiritual realm.
And those who will be in that spiritual catching away, in the Age of the Cornerstone, are those who have the promise to be transformed and raptured and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb with Christ, us being with the new body (when we receive it), and the dead in Christ have been resurrected in their new body, eternal, glorified body, equal to the body of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
Now see, no one knew at what hour of the four watches, no one knew at what hour of the four watches the Son of Man would come.
And now, one day before the Lord is as a thousand years before God – one day before the Lord is as a thousand years for human beings.24 So when God speaks of one day before Him, it is a thousand years for human beings, that is, a millennial day, a millennium; and He speaks to us of the last days, which are the last millenniums for human beings: fifth, sixth and seventh millennium.
The last days began in the days of Jesus, when Jesus was 4 to 7 years old, where the fifth millennium began, which is the first of the last days before God; that is the millennium, the first of the last millenniums. And two thousand years (that is, two millenniums) have already passed from Christ until now, and before God only two days have passed; two days for God, which are two thousand years for human beings. And only the Last Day before God remains, which is the last millennium for human beings, which is the seventh millennium; for which Christ said, speaking of the believers in Him, in chapter 6 of John and verse 40. He says:
“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.”
When does Christ say He will resurrect him? In the Last Day, the Last Day before God, which is the last millennium, that is, the seventh millennium; that is the Lord’s Day. Just as for the Hebrew people the Sabbath is the Lord’s Day, now the seventh millennium is the Last Day before God and it is the Sabbath before God as a millennial day.
That is why there are great promises of peace, of rest, of repose and of prosperity for planet Earth for the seventh millennium, that is, for the Last Day, where Christ will establish the Kingdom of God on Earth under the government of Christ, the Messiah, sitting on the Throne of David, to which He is heir.
The Archangel Gabriel told the virgin Mary that the child she would bear would be the one to sit on the Throne of David. Luke, chapter 1, verse 30 and on, says:
“And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.”
Who will sit on the Throne of David? Christ.
And now, in His First Coming He didn’t sit on the Throne of David, because He came in His First Coming (what for?) to carry out His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross; but He comes as King of kings and Lord of lords for His Second Coming: He has written on His thigh and on His vesture King of kings and Lord of lords; therefore He comes with His Name of King to reign over the Hebrew people and over all nations.
And it is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, which comes in the Last Day manifested; and for that manifestation He will have a new age: the Age of the Cornerstone, and a new dispensation: the Dispensation of the Kingdom, and a new dispensational messenger: the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a new dispensational Message: the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and a new name: the Eternal Name of God, which is the New Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, see all the new things that He will have to manifest in the Last Day, in order to carry out the Work relevant to the Last Day.
And now, you see, concerning the faithful and wise servants, He has placed in the different ages a faithful and wise servant in each age to give the spiritual food of the Word of God to all the children of God, to all the members of the Church of Jesus Christ; for “man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”25
Therefore, from the mouth of God for each age (the messenger of each age, who was the mouth of God for each age) came forth the Word of God for each of those ages. And in the Age of the Cornerstone, where does the Word of God come from? From the mouth of God, from the Angel Messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ; and that is also the two-edged Sword that comes out of His mouth: it is the Word of God, the spiritual food for the soul of all the elect of God.
Now, it continues saying, in chapter 24, verse 44 and on, it continues [Matthew]:
“Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.”
And now, you see, at the hour that no one thought of.
At which hour of those four watches?
They were expecting Him in the first hour, but He didn’t come. They were expecting Him in the second hour of the first watch, but He didn’t come; although He came in Holy Spirit in the first fruits of the Spirit, but as for the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ, He didn’t come manifested in that form. And they were expecting Him in the third hour of the first watch, and He didn’t come either; for He was carrying out a Work from age to age, calling and gathering His elect through the messenger of each age; He was manifested in Holy Spirit in each age, in the messenger of each age, in the portion relevant to each age, as the first fruits of the Spirit for each age.
Now, it says [Matthew 24:45]:
“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?”
Now He asks which servant is it.
It was Saint Paul in the first age, Ireaneus in the second, Martin in the third, Columba in the fourth, Luther in the fifth, Wesley in the sixth, and Reverend William Branham in the seventh.
And now, who is the faithful and wise servant, whom his Lord has placed over His House in the Age of the Cornerstone? Well, it is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And if the Second Coming of Christ was not fulfilled in any of these stages or ages, where the angel messenger of each age was, the faithful and wise servant in each age, then His Second Coming is to be fulfilled (where?) in the Age of the Cornerstone.
And in the Age of the Cornerstone, in the fourth watch, which is in the daytime, where the morning of the day begins: the morning of the seventh millennium begins, of the seventh millennial day; which is the seventh millennium, for which Christ said: “…and I will raise him up at the last day.”
And just as the resurrection of Jesus Christ was on Sunday morning, and the resurrection of those who resurrected with Him, rose with Him on Resurrection Sunday, in the fourth watch: And now the resurrection for the dead in Christ will be for the Last Day (that is, for the seventh millennium), in the Age of the Cornerstone.
The Age of the Cornerstone is the eighth age, because eight represents eternity; and that is why Sunday represents eternity; and that is why Christ was resurrected on Sunday, the eighth day, which is also the first day of a new week.
And now, in the seventh millennium, in the morning of the seventh millennium and in the morning of the Age of the Cornerstone, is where these promises have to be fulfilled.
Now, being that a day before the Lord is as a thousand years, how is an hour then? If a day is a thousand years (a day before the Lord is a thousand years for human beings), and a day has 24 hours: we divide 24 hours by 1000 years and we get (how many years?) 41 years with 8 months. That is one hour before God, according to this divine rule that one day before the Lord is like a thousand years, this prophetic table.
This is the same prophetic table used in these watches. And these hours of these watches, of which Christ asks and also says that no one knows at what hour the Son of Man will come, He is referring to these hours of the watches, in relation to the fact that one day before the Lord is like a thousand years for human beings.
And if 1 hour before the Lord is 41 years with 8 months, the 3 hours of the fourth watch of the Last Day, of the seventh millennium…; the first 3 hours of the seventh millennium are…; those first 3 hours before God of the Last Day, are 125 years for human beings; because 41 years with 8 months, multiplied by 3, is 125 years. That is the fourth watch of the Last Day and in the Last Day. And that is the divine cycle where all these promises, promised by Christ for the Last Day, have to be fulfilled: in those first 125 years of the seventh millennium.
Now, the calendar that is currently used, the Gregorian calendar, indicates that we are in August 30, 1998; and there are 2 years and 4 months left for the 20th century to end and also the 6th millennium to end, and then the 7th millennium to begin and the 21st century to begin; but the calendar is behind schedule.
And has God’s calendar been delayed? I think not. Even if human beings have fallen behind in their calendar, God has not fallen behind.
The Gregorian calendar has 365 days and a quarter of a day [365¼] each year. The calendar that God uses in Daniel’s prophecies and in the prophecy of Revelation consists of 360 days. That is why the amount mentioned in Revelation, chapter 11, which corresponds to the time of the great tribulation, and the great tribulation, will be three and a half years.
The seventieth week and the seventy weeks of Daniel’s prophecy26 are seventy weeks of years; in other words, each week is composed of seven years, and 7 x 70 is 490 years; in other words, those seventy weeks of Daniel’s prophecy are 490 years.
And when the Messiah came to Earth and had His ministry, He would be living in the seventieth week; and that is why, when Jesus began His ministry and then ended it, half of that seventieth week was fulfilled, because the Messiah’s life would be taken away in the middle of the week27</sup>; and so it happened when Christ died on Calvary’s Cross.
And what happened with the rest of that week number seventy, the other three and a half years?
There that calendar of the seventy weeks stopped, that Program of the seventy weeks stopped, without fulfilling the second part of the seventieth week; in other words, there are three and a half years left for God to deal with the Hebrew people and confirm the Covenant to the Hebrew people. Those are the three and a half years of the great tribulation, where God will turn to the Hebrew people; and the Hebrew people will receive Christ in His Second Coming, the Hebrew people as a nation will receive that blessing: 144,000 Hebrews will receive Him.
Now, see why Christianity has tried to convert the Hebrew people to Christ (as a nation) and has not been able to: why? Because the Hebrew people will be converted to Christ at that time when God will confirm the Covenant to the Hebrew people.
And now, for that, it is required that God finishes dealing with the gentile people, with the gentiles, to deal with the Hebrew people. God stopped dealing with the Hebrew people (He stopped in the middle of that week) and began to deal with the gentile people; but God has kept those three and a half years for the Hebrew people, to deal with them during the time of the great tribulation.
Now, you see, in Revelation, chapter 11, verse 3 and on, it says:
“And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.”
And 1260 days are three and a half years, placing 30 days for each month and 360 days for each year; and thus that time span of 1260 days gives three and a half years.
Now, we have a few years of delay in the calendar, that if we add them to the calendar we would find ourselves (let’s say) from the year 2020 to 2030, more or less. In other words, we would be in the first third of the 21st century and we would be in the first hour of the Last Day before God, which are —the first hour of the Last Day before God— are the first 41 years and 8 months. And look where the calendar would be if we add to the calendar the years it is behind.
And for the Last Day, for the fourth watch of the Last Day, these prophecies of the Coming of the Mighty Angel, the Angel of the Covenant, which is Jesus Christ coming with His theophanic body and veiling Himself in human flesh in His Angel Messenger; for the fourth watch of the Last Day, of the seventh millennium, that promise must be fulfilled.
And now, that is in the Age of the Cornerstone, which corresponds to the Last Day and corresponds to the fourth watch.
And for this end time… Notice, just as there was a faithful and wise servant in each of the gentile Church Ages, giving spiritual food in time to all the sons and daughters of God; for this end time, there must be a faithful and wise servant in the Age of the Cornerstone, giving spiritual food to all the sons and daughters of God who go up to the Age of the Cornerstone, where the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, would be in this end time calling and gathering all His elect with the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom: Through His Angel Messenger.
And now, Christ asks [Matthew 24:45-46]:
“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.”
To whom, when his Lord comes in His Second Coming (when the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, comes in the fourth watch, in the Age of the Cornerstone): blessed shall be the faithful and wise servant who is here, giving the Food of the Word of God in time to God’s children; giving them the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which is the Message pertaining to the Last Day, to the seventh dispensation, to the seventh millennium and to the Age of the Cornerstone.
That is the Message that 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. That is the Message that revolves around this Angel who is different from the rest, which comes in the Last Day veiled and revealed in human flesh in His Angel Messenger.
And the faithful and wise servant who will be in the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, in the fourth watch of the Last Day before God, which is the cycle of 125 years, the first 125 years of the seventh millennium; that faithful and wise servant who is there feeding the sons and daughters of God with the divine revelation of the Coming of the Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven wrapped in a cloud, the Coming of that Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven coming to Earth later, and manifesting Himself, veiling Himself in human flesh, and through human flesh revealing Himself to His Church and giving them this spiritual food; that faithful and wise servant that will be in this end time giving that spiritual food will be the faithful and wise servant mentioned here.
And now it says… And he will be blessed. He says:
“Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.”
Now let’s see, in the blessing, the blessings that he will have:
“Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.”
In Luke it says that these faithful and wise servants are stewards; they were the stewards who administered the goods of their Lord, each in his own age.28
And now, this wise and faithful servant is mentioned as the steward of the Last Day of the goods of his Lord, in the Church of Jesus Christ; and it says that He will place him over all His goods.29 He will place him over all His goods, and that speaks of a very important administrative position in the glorious Millennial Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
That is why He also says30: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my Throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in His Throne.”
Christ sat with His Father on His Throne in Heaven when He conquered and ascended victoriously to Heaven; and there He received a new name, as He sat with His Father on His Throne, the Throne of God in Heaven.
And now, Christ has a Throne here on Earth, and that is the Throne of David.
And now, Christ, the same as He received when He ascended to Heaven victorious and sat at the right hand of God: He sat on the Throne of God in Heaven and received a new name, He received authority in Heaven and on Earth; now Christ does the same with His wise and faithful servant who will be in the Last Day giving spiritual food to all the children of God in the House of God, in the Age of the Cornerstone.
In other words, what Christ does is the same thing that the Father did with Him in Heaven. And that is why Christ has been administering the business of our heavenly Father, those of Heaven and those of Earth also; but now He will be on Earth, on the Throne of David, because that is His Throne, the Throne of Jesus Christ; and now He says that He will sit on His Throne and the Overcomer will sit with Him on His Throne. That is that Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ of the Last Day. He says:
“Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.”
That is the same servant of whom He says: “To him that overcometh…”, what I quoted to you of the Throne of Christ; that is in Revelation, chapter 3, verse 21.
And Revelation, chapter 2, verse 26 to 27, says:
“And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken (smashed) to shivers: even as I received of my Father.”
Notice, the same authority He received from the Father in Heaven and on Earth (that is, authority over the Heavens and the Earth), Christ now gives authority to the Overcomer over all the Earth, over every people, nation and tongue.
“…And he shall rule them (that is, He will govern them) with a rod of iron…”
And now, notice:
“…as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.”
In other words, the nation that has to be broken, shattered, will be broken.
Now, let’s also see in Revelation, chapter 2, verse 17, where it says:
“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna…”
That is the revelation of Jesus Christ for the seventh millennium and for all eternity: the revelation of 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.
“…and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it (in other words, the Overcomer, the one who will be receiving it, because he will be receiving that little white Stone).”
That little white Stone is the same Stone cut without hands that Daniel the prophet saw in the dream that he interpreted to King Nebuchadnezzar, who saw a stone cut without hands, cut out of the mountain, which came and smote the image in the feet of iron and clay…31
The feet of iron and clay is the kingdom of the beast, of the antichrist, in the Last Day, which will be established over the kingdom of the gentiles; that is, the kingdom of the gentiles will be ruled by the antichrist in the end time.
The kingdom of the gentiles has been that kingdom which began with King Nebuchadnezzar, which was the head of gold in that statue which Nebuchadnezzar saw; and the breasts of silver and the arms of silver was the Medo-Persian empire; and the belly and thighs of bronze was the kingdom of Greece; and the legs of iron was the Roman empire, and the feet of iron and clay is the empire or kingdom of the antichrist.
And, notice, all those stages of that kingdom are the stages of the kingdom of the gentiles, which has come from the head of gold to the feet of iron and clay, that is, it has been losing value.
What is a head of gold worth? Who would like to have a head of gold…? And they would really want it to be big; they would want it to be like the heads they have in monuments in the state of Tabasco and also in Veracruz; a head like that is what we would all want if it is a head of gold. But iron feet covered with clay, who wants them? Nobody wants them.
When children are playing in the yard and it is raining, and they are playing without shoes, they get mud and dirt all over their feet; and when they go to the houses, when they go up to the house, they are not allowed to go in with mud all over their feet, but they are told: “Wash your feet outside before going in. Get rid of that mud on your feet. You are not going in with those feet like that.”
Well, look, the feet of iron and clay are all muddy, the feet of iron are covered with clay. That is the kingdom of the antichrist that will be established in the Last Day; and the book of Revelation, in chapter 17, describes it as follows; verse 11 and on, it says:
“And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful (that is, they are the members of the Church of Jesus Christ; those are the elect and faithful to the Word of God).”
Now notice how the empire or kingdom of the gentiles, in its final stage of the feet of iron and clay, which is the empire or kingdom of the beast, of the antichrist, where those ten kings will give their power and authority to the beast… That is the clay: those ten kings joining the beast, the iron; and they will give their power and authority to the beast; and they will fight against the Lamb, against the Second Coming of Christ, against the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant; but they don’t learn.
Look at what happened to the pharaoh with his army, with all his Government; and look at what has happened throughout biblical history, where, when God’s people have been faithful and obedient to God and His Word, God has given them the victory over every kingdom and every king that has risen against the Hebrew people.
And now, watch how Christ comes with the called, elect and faithful; therefore the victory will be of Christ with His elect and faithful and called ones, which are the members of His Church, which by that time will be in their eternal bodies, therefore they will be invincible.
In other words, there will be no kingdom, nor Government, nor king that can rise against Christ and His Church, and obtain victory; because victory will always be obtained by our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, the King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work.
That is why in Revelation, chapter 11, we can see the victory there, where it says: chapter 11, verse 15 and on:
“And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.
And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail (that is, the divine judgment coming from Heaven, from the Throne of God).”
Now we can see what will happen in this end time; but first all the elect of God are called and gathered in this end time, and are prepared to be transformed and raptured; and the dead in Christ will be resurrected in eternal bodies and we will be transformed.
That is so in the Divine Program for this end time, for the Age of the Cornerstone, where the Angel of the Covenant will be, the Angel of the Lord, the Angel that was different from the rest (which is found in this cloud), which in the Last Day would be manifested in human flesh in His Angel Messenger, making known to us all these things that must happen soon, and calling and gathering His elect, His sheep, with the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and preparing us to be transformed and raptured in this end time.
Now, all that Divine Program that we find in the prophecies that correspond to this end time to be fulfilled in the Church of Jesus Christ, notice, it has a beginning; and it is the beginning of the Seventh Seal, the beginning of the Coming of this Angel of the Covenant in the Last Day; and it is required that He has His veil of flesh for that, in which He has to be veiled and revealed, manifested, in the midst of His Church.
For that He must be born in Bethlehem: in Christ, and in Bethlehem: His Church; because Christ is the House of the Bread of God: He is our Bethlehem; and the Church of Jesus Christ is the House of the Bread of God. That is where the spiritual food for the soul is; because “man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”
Therefore, one has to be born in the House of God, one has to be born in Christ: by believing in Christ as our Savior and washing his sins in the Blood of Christ and receive His Holy Spirit; one has to be born there, a person has to obtain the new birth there in Christ: and that must be and has to be the Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ for the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom. And he has to be born in the House of God, the Church of Jesus Christ, which is also Bethlehem, it is the House of the Bread of God.
And by believing in Christ as our Savior, and washing our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit: we are born in Christ. And “if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.”32
And, therefore, one born in the Mystical Body of Christ (the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, which is His Church) is born in the Church of Jesus Christ through the new birth: He is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, in whom Christ will be manifested in the Last Day, and He will be sending him to make known all these things that must happen soon, according to Revelation, chapter 22 and verse 16, where it says:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
And in Revelation, chapter 22,verse 6, it says:
“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.”
Who does He send? His Angel Messenger. What for? To make known all these things that must shortly come to pass; to testify of all these things in all the churches; for every human being; and especially for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and then for the Hebrew people.
Now, notice, this Angel Messenger is not the Lord Jesus Christ, but Christ is in him manifesting Himself; and that is why John wanted to worship him on two occasions. See, here it continues saying:
“Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book (blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book brought by the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ).
And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.
Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.”
He doesn’t accept John the apostle’s worship, why? Because this Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is not the Lord Jesus Christ. He is a prophet: the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom and the Age of the Cornerstone, with the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, revealing the mystery of the Seventh Seal: revealing the mystery of the Coming of the Mighty Angel, of the Angel that was different from the rest, coming in the Last Day in human flesh in His Angel Messenger.
That is the mystery that the Angel of Jesus Christ reveals, anointed with the Holy Spirit, to give them the faith, the revelation, to the children of Jesus Christ, to the Church of Jesus Christ, the faith, the revelation, to be transformed and raptured and taken to the House of our heavenly Father in Heaven in this Last Day.
That is why the promises: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me on my Throne,” will be fulfilled in that faithful and wise servant that will be giving the spiritual food in due time to the sons and daughters of God in the House of God. That is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one who receives that little white Stone with a new name.
The little white Stone is the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Angel who was different from the rest. He is the Stone not cut with hands, He is the Cornerstone, He is the Stone that the builders rejected33 two thousand years ago, when He came in human flesh in the veil of flesh called Jesus.
They rejected the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord that had delivered them back in Egypt through the prophet Moses. They rejected the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Angel that has the Name of God.
“Behold, I send My Angel, who will go before you and bring you into the land which I have prepared. Beware of Him; be not rebellious against Him: for He will not pardon your rebellion (why?), because my Name is in Him.” Exodus, chapter, what? Exodus, chapter 23, verse 20 and on.
“Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
For mine Angel shall go before thee…”
Now you see where the Eternal Name of God is: in the Angel of the Lord. Where the Angel of the Lord is, there is the Eternal Name of God.
And that is why, when He came in human flesh two thousand years ago, the Name of God was there; and that is why He manifested the Name of God for Redemption on Calvary’s Cross.
And now, for the Last Day, Jesus Christ, the Mighty Angel, the Angel of the Covenant, comes; because He is that Cornerstone that came two thousand years ago, the Stone that the builders rejected; for this end time He comes manifested in His Angel Messenger. That little white Stone will be given to him, which is the Second Coming of Christ, with a new name; and he will be the one who will receive that little white Stone with the new name; and he will be the one who will understand that new name that is in that little white Stone, which is the New Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
There are people who don’t know that Jesus Christ has a new name; but if He says it, He has it. And He said it in Revelation, chapter 3, verse 12, where it says:
“Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God (the Eternal Name of God, that Name which is in the Angel of the Covenant), and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God…”
That New Jerusalem has a name; and there is no other better and more important name for that city, the City of our God, than the Eternal Name of God; it is that Eternal Name of God.
“…which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.”
There you have Jesus Himself saying that He has a new name.
And the little white Stone comes (with what?) with a new name. The Second Coming of Christ is with a new name; and that makes the Second Coming of Christ an even more mysterious event.
And now, the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, notice, He has a name that no one understands but Himself; and that Name is the Word of God; and on His garment and on His thigh is written King of kings and Lord of lords, because He comes as King of kings and Lord of lords; and it is the Coming of the Mighty Angel, the Angel of the Covenant, this Angel that was different from the rest, which forms the white hair, the white wig of the Lord here, in this cloud that forms the face of the Lord.
And there we have the sign of the Son of Man in heaven; for Christ said that the Son of Man would come in the clouds34 with power and great glory, in a cloud35: this cloud formed by angels: the angel messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church and also by the very Angel of the Covenant or Angel of the Lord; who, in order to have His ministry here on Earth, has to come in human flesh manifested in the midst of His Church, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And there He has, in that manifestation, His New Name; and thus that Stone comes, the Stone that the builders rejected, comes in His Second Coming with a new name to be manifested in His Coming, in His manifestation in human flesh, for He will place, He will write upon the Overcomer that name. Therefore, the Eternal Name of God, Name of the New Jerusalem and New Name of the Lord Jesus Christ will be written upon the Overcomer.
Now we can see that that is the mystery of the New Name of Jesus Christ and the Eternal Name of God, which, for the Last Day, the Church of Jesus Christ will obtain the revelation of that Name, and of His Coming in human flesh, veiled and revealed in human flesh in His Angel Messenger.
Now, the beginning of the Seventh Seal would be a complete mystery; just as the birth of Christ and His life as a child and His life as a young man was a mystery until He was about 30 years old, where He revealed Himself, manifested Himself to Israel as the promised Messiah, and fulfilled all the promises and ministry of the Messiah for those first three and a half years.
And it had not been a promise in which the First Coming of Christ would be a complete mystery, but nevertheless it was a mystery for the theologians of that time; it was a mystery for the Council of the Hebrew religion, the Sanhedrin Council; it was a mystery for the priests of that time; it was a mystery for the high pontiff, to such an extent that the high pontiff said to Jesus: “If you are the Christ, don’t trouble our soul any more; say it already.”
And when He said: “I have already said it, and you have not believed,” instead of the high priest saying: “Now you speak clearly, now we receive you,” he rather said: “He has blasphemed!” That was why he wanted Jesus to say that He was the Son of God: to condemn Him and ask for Jesus’ death.
There are people who want to know the fulfillment of what God has promised, there are people who want to know who the Anointed of God is, what for? To condemn him, to persecute him and to kill him. That was what those people who didn’t love Him wanted at that time; but the people who loved Him wanted all good things for the Messiah.
So it will be for this end time: the beast will seek Christ manifested, veiled and revealed in the Last Day, to persecute Him, as Revelation, chapter 17, verse 14 says; and Revelation, chapter 19, verse 19, where the beast and the kings of the Earth will make war against Him who rides the horse of Revelation, chapter 19.
Now let’s see what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says that the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19 will be; and he says that the white horse Rider of Revelation 19 is the Holy Spirit; but now let’s see how the Holy Spirit comes in the fulfillment of His Coming: Page 256 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, Reverend William Branham says:36
“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.”
If we find that veil of flesh where the Word of God will be made flesh, we will be finding the white horse Rider of Revelation 19; we will be finding the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, clothed in human flesh in the Last Day and manifested through human flesh, making known to us all these things that must happen soon, thus revealing to us His Coming, the mystery of His Coming; and He will be manifesting His Name there, in that manifestation; because it will be the manifestation of the Eternal Name of God, and New Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and Name of the City of our God, in His Coming: The Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, of the Angel of the Lord, in the Last Day; because where the Angel of the Lord is, there will be the Eternal Name of God.
And now notice how for this end time these great promises would be being fulfilled in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And now, we have seen that the Coming of Christ is the Coming of the Stone not cut with hands, the Coming of the Cornerstone, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord that delivered the Hebrew people thousands of years ago, from bondage in Egypt.
And now, for the Last Day He comes for that glorious deliverance of God’s children, for that deliverance of God’s children, where the dead in Christ will resurrect first in eternal bodies, and we who are alive will be transformed, and then we will all go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven.
And now, in Isaiah, chapter 59, verses 17 to 21, it says:
“For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.
So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west…”
And why will they fear “from”? In other words, from where does one begin to fear the name of the Lord in the Last Day, the Eternal Name of God and the New Name of Jesus Christ?
From the West, which is the American continent, where the manifestation of the Son of Man will be, the Angel who was different from the rest; where the Angel of the Covenant, Jesus Christ, will be manifested in His Angel Messenger making known to us all these things that must happen soon. And therefore (what?) the Name of God, the Eternal Name of God, will be in the West in the manifestation of the Son of Man relevant to this end time.
“…and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him.”
The enemy, the devil, who will manifest himself through the antichrist, the beast, the man of sin, will come like a river: for he will come with the armies of all those nations that will give their power and authority to the beast; therefore, he will come like a river to try to destroy the Church of Jesus Christ and also to destroy the Hebrew people. But it says:
“…and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against (against) him.”
That standard raised against the enemy is the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Mighty Angel, the Angel that was different from the rest, coming veiled and revealed in human flesh through His Angel Messenger.
That is God’s standard raised in the Last Day. That is JEHOVAH-NISSI for the Church of Jesus Christ in the Last Day, and for the Hebrew people in the Last Day, which was reflected back then.
Now, for the First Coming of Christ we find God’s standard raised on Mount Calvary, being crucified there. And whoever looks at that standard, and believes in Jesus Christ as his Savior, and washes his sins in the Blood of Christ: he receives deliverance, salvation; he is delivered, and receives the new birth; and is thus born in the Kingdom of God.
This is a second exodus, just as there was a first exodus in the midst of the Hebrew people. And the third exodus is in this end time, in the Coming of the Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven; where God’s standard is raised in this end time, the Second Coming of Christ is raised in this end time.
Now, see Israel’s flag, which is white and blue, it has a six-pointed star in blue called “the Star of David.” That star is formed by two cornerstones, that is, two triangles that are joined together (one facing downward and the other upward) and form the Star of David.
There we have the First Coming of Christ, the Stone not cut with hands: a Cornerstone, the Cornerstone; and the Second Coming of Christ: the Cornerstone, the Stone not cut with hands. And the First Coming of Christ and the Second Coming of Christ form what? The Star of Bethlehem, the star that is placed on Israel’s flag.
That star also has other meanings for the Hebrew people.
We also have the ministries of Moses, Elijah and Jesus.
And all of that is in that flag, the standard that God raises in this end time: the flag of 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.
In the march of the Hebrew people in the first exodus, it was Judah with his standard who began the exodus of the Hebrew people37</sup>; and the symbol of Judah is the lion. “The Lion of the tribe of Judah,” that is why the Second Coming of Christ is called so.
And now, notice that Christ comes as the Lion of the tribe of Judah. And that is why the march in the third exodus is with the Lion of the tribe of Judah: with the standard of God raised up high to march in the third exodus to the promised land of the new eternal and glorified body, and to march to the Great Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and to also march to the glorious Millennial Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; the new land of the new body and the new land of the glorious Millennial Kingdom, of the new Kingdom that will be established in the seventh millennium (it will be established in the seventh millennium).
Now, we have seen the standard that God raises in the Last Day for the blessing of the Church of Jesus Christ and for the blessing of the Hebrew people. That is the protection for the Church of Jesus Christ and the Hebrew people; and He raises it over Zion.
In Jeremiah, chapter 4, verse 6, let’s see what it tells us. It says… Let’s start a little bit before [verse 4]:
“Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, and take away the foreskins of your heart (in other words, he is talking about a new birth there; and for that, it is required to receive Christ as our Savior and wash our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receive His Holy Spirit), ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.”
Notice how this also agrees with what the prophet Isaiah says, where —with that standard of God raised up— the Deliverer will come to Zion, and then He will go to the Hebrew people from Zion.38 But let’s read here:
“Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.
Set up the standard toward Zion (Where is the standard of God raised? In Zion): retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.”
Now see how the standard is raised (where?) in Zion.
Zion is the Church of Jesus Christ and also typifies the Hebrew people. So the standard is raised in Zion, in the Church of Jesus Christ.
And just as in the times of the conquerors and colonizers (or colonizers): when they arrived in a territory, they placed their country’s standard; and that meant that that territory was already theirs.
And when God places His standard in Zion, that testifies that that territory is God’s. That is a territory of Christ, the Messiah, the Angel of the Covenant! That territory is sealed as the Messiah’s territory, with the Messiah’s standard, God’s standard raised: in Zion, the Church of Jesus Christ, and then in the Hebrew people, as territories belonging to Christ.
And Latin America and the Caribbean, since it is the territory where in this end time Christ is carrying out His Final Work, is claimed: we pray for Latin America and the Caribbean, and its inhabitants, so that it enters the glorious Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ.
And God’s standard being placed on Mount Zion, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, in the Latin American and Caribbean territory, where the Age of the Cornerstone is being fulfilled and the Dispensation of the Kingdom is being opened; then we claim all of Latin America and the Caribbean for the glorious Millennial Kingdom of Christ, as a territory where the standard of God has been raised.
And then the Hebrew people: where God’s standard will be raised, the Messiah’s standard, the Second Coming of Christ; and thus that territory will be claimed with its people as well, for the glorious Millennial Kingdom of Christ; and the Throne of the Messiah will be there, the Throne of Christ, which is the Throne of David, to be restored, the Messiah sitting on the Throne of David and with Him the Overcomer.
Now, let’s also look at another passage that tells us about the Messiah: Isaiah, chapter 11 tells us:
“And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth: with the rod of his mouth (that is with the two-edged Sword of Revelation, chapter 19, verses 11 to 21), and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked (the Spirit of His lips is also the Word that comes out of His mouth).”
“…shall he slay the wicked.”
That is the antichrist, in whom all the wicked are represented. And the antichrist will not be able to pass into the Millennial Kingdom of Christ; and the wicked (represented in the antichrist) will not be able to pass into the glorious Millennial Kingdom of Christ either; nor will the kingdom of the antichrist be able to pass into the glorious Millennial Kingdom of Christ.
It will be a new kingdom: the Kingdom of God, which will be established on Earth; and it will be Christ who will rule; and with Him will be the faithful and wise servant and all the elect of God, the members of His Church. It says:
“And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.”
Now we see that it will be a Kingdom of justice and faithfulness, where there will be justice, there will be peace, there will be prosperity, there will be joy and there will be divine love in the soul of every living being, manifesting it towards God and towards all his fellow beings:
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart (that is, with all your soul), with all your mind (that is, with all your spirit), with all your strength (that is, with all your being: in soul, spirit and body); and your neighbor as yourself.”39
And that will be in full fulfillment in that glorious Kingdom of Jesus Christ. And the wicked, the antichrist with all the wicked, will not pass into that Kingdom.
In Second Thessalonians, chapter 2, it says that Christ… From here, from this chapter 11 of Isaiah, was that Saint Paul took this prophecy of Second Thessalonians, chapter 2, where it says [verse 3]:
“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come (that is, the Lord’s Day), except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time.
For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”
Now you see, Saint Paul takes from Isaiah, chapter 11, those prophetic words, and brings them to the Church with more light, to make known in more detail that mystery of the coming of the antichrist, of the man of sin, of that wicked man whom the Lord will kill in His Coming with the Spirit of His mouth (that is, with the Word) and with the brightness of His Coming; and all the other wicked men are represented in that wicked man, whom will be destroyed during the great tribulation.
In Malachi it speaks of that destruction for the wicked, where the prophet Malachi says: Malachi, chapter 4, verse 1:
“For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.”
That is the same thing we read in Revelation, chapter 11, verse 15 and on, where God will destroy those who destroy the Earth.
And in chapter 6, verse 12 to 17, of Revelation, it also shows us what will be the great tribulation or day of vengeance of our God, in which there will be a worldwide emergency, because of the divine judgments that will be falling upon the planet Earth. It says, chapter 6, verse 12 to 17:
“And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind (see, ‘and the stars of heaven fell unto the Earth’; this, when fulfilled literally, will bring great disasters upon the Earth).
And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?”
Notice, Christ has been offering mercy, His mercy, to the human beings for two thousand years; but the Bible says that the day of vengeance of our God will come, the day of the wrath of the Lamb: the vengeance of Jesus Christ upon all those who have persecuted His Church and also those who have persecuted the Hebrew people; and upon all those who have not repented, believing in Christ as our Savior and washing their sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit. In other words, that divine judgment that will come upon the human race during the great tribulation will be for all of them.
Now, it goes on to say in Isaiah, chapter 11 (let’s continue on verse 6):
“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.”
And here you see how he speaks to us of that seventh millennium, where there will be peace and where even the animals of the field will not eat one another. The lion shall not eat the lamb, nor the wolf the lamb, but it says that the wolf shall lie down with the lamb, and the leopard with the goat; and the calf and the lion and the fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. This speaks of peace even for the animals.
“And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox (the diet for meat-eating animals will be changed as well).
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den (and it will not sting him, rather there will also be peace between human beings and animals, and animals and human beings).
(It says) They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.”
“The Earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea,” this is through the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which will be preached to every human being living on planet Earth during the Millennial Kingdom; and they will obtain the knowledge of God and His Program, and therefore, they will be at peace with God, and they will have peace and divine love; and nothing will harm in the Mount of God, in the Kingdom of God.
The prophet Habakkuk in chapter 2, verse 14, says:
“For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.”
In other words, it gives more details and speaks of the glory of God, which is manifested in this end time; and mankind during the Millennial Kingdom will be filled with the knowledge of the manifestation of the glory of God in the Last Day, it will be filled with the knowledge of the Second Coming of Christ, the manifestation of the Angel of the Covenant in the Last Day.
“And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.”
That is, the root of Jesse shall be set up for a standard among the peoples, for here “ensign” is “standard”: It shall be set up for a standard, for an ensign, among the peoples, and shall be sought after by the people; and his habitation shall be glorious.
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.
And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.”
In other words, we will be living in a new exodus for the Hebrew people as well: in the same way that He worked to liberate the Hebrew people and take them to the new land, to the promised land, to the land of Israel. And all this, notice, will be because God will raise a standard, God will raise an ensign (that is the standard of God): the Second Coming of Christ.
See, it says it here:
“And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people…”
What is that standard that will be placed, that ensign for the peoples? The root of David.
And let’s see that root of David: in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16, it says:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.”
Christ is the root and the offspring of David. Christ is that ensign, that standard, that will be raised at the Last Day in His Second Coming. It will be raised on Mount Zion, the Church of Jesus Christ first, and then in the midst of the Hebrew people.
And that standard will also be raised over all peoples; because for the Millennial Kingdom every people, nation and tongue will belong to Christ. The kingdoms of this world will come to be of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And look, in a continent or in a nation that has many states, the standard that is raised in the capital —which is the standard of the nation— is the same standard that is raised in all the other states, as the standard of that kingdom or of that country, of that nation.
And the same standard that is raised over the Church of Jesus Christ is the same standard that will be raised over the Hebrew people and over all nations, for the glorious Millennial Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
The Second Coming of Christ and the benefits that He brings in His Second Coming for His Church, for the Hebrew people, for the foolish virgins (who go through the great tribulation) and for all the nations that will enter the Millennial Kingdom will be up high.
In that standard raised in the Last Day come all the blessings of God, which He has for His people for this end time. And that is Jehovah-nissi for the Church of Jesus Christ, and for the Hebrew people, and for all the nations that will enter the Millennial Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ.
“JEHOVAH-NISSI,” ‘THE LORD IS OUR STANDARD.’
So, the Second Coming of Christ will be represented in the standard that we will have during the Millennial Kingdom. And since it is Christ Himself who will determine how things will be done, He will determine or has determined them in the correct way.
So that standard raised in the Last Day, in the Church of Jesus Christ, and then in the midst of the Hebrew people: then literally, in the standard that will be used in the Millennial Kingdom (Christ will use in His Kingdom) and will be placed over all nations as well, will be represented the First and Second Coming of Christ and the Work that He has done; because He is our standard.
Therefore, He will be the standard of His glorious Millennial Kingdom; and in that standard will be all the symbolism, all that is representative of what has been the First and Second Coming of Christ; because He is our standard.
There are still more places in the Bible; but with what we have already heard, I believe we have enough to know that JEHOVAH-NISSI is for the Last Day the Second Coming of Christ in the midst of His Church and then in the midst of the Hebrew people; because the Second Coming of Christ is that standard that God will raise in this end time in favor of His Church and in favor of the Hebrew people.
Because the enemy will come like a river, to destroy the Church and also the Hebrew people, but God will raise a standard against the enemy, against the antichrist. And with that standard raised in this Last Day, the Great Victory in Divine Love will be the result for all the sons and daughters of God: we will be transformed, along with the dead in Christ, who will be resurrected in eternal bodies, and we will go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven; because JEHOVAH-NISSI.
THE LORD IS OUR STANDARD.
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS OUR STANDARD.
And He in His Second Coming is our standard, promised to be raised in Zion, His Church. Galatians, chapter 4, verses 18 to 31; and Hebrews, chapter 12, verse 22 to 23.
Let’s only read Hebrews: Hebrews, chapter 12, verse 18 and on, it says:
“For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched (that is, to Mount Zion), and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest (look how Mount Sinai was: with fire, with darkness, with gloom and with tempest),
And the sound of a trumpet (there was the sound of the trumpet there), and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.”
Now you see how we have neared the heavenly Jerusalem, Mount Zion; and it is there, in the heavenly Jerusalem, Mount Zion, the Church of Jesus Christ, where that standard is placed, raised.
“Lift up a standard (where?) in Zion”; and that is where the standard of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah is raised, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work; for He is the root and offspring of David, which has been set up as an ensign, as a standard, for all nations, and for all peoples, and above all for the Church of Jesus Christ and the Hebrew people.
That is JEHOVAH-NISSI for us and for the Hebrew people. That is the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, which comes in Holy Spirit and veils Himself in human flesh in His Angel Messenger, and makes known to us all these things that must happen soon, in this end time.
But its beginning is a mystery, since he is born in our Bethlehem: Christ, and our Bethlehem: the Church of Jesus Christ, where the Angel of Jesus Christ obtains his new birth; and then he grows spiritually, as he grows physically; and he is anointed and sent in the ministry relevant to the end time; and, from a certain time onwards, the mystery that God had veiled, sealed, in that Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ is made known; and the mystery of the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in His Angel Messenger is revealed.
And this is how Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel who was different from the rest (who appears here, in this cloud formed by angels), manifests Himself on Earth; and thus fulfills the Seventh Seal on Earth. But the beginning is a mystery and a complete secret; but then this mystery is opened to the Church of Jesus Christ, in the Last Day: when God raises that standard and fulfills that promise in the Last Day as Jehovah-nissi for His Church and for the Hebrew people, and then for all nations.
Now, we can see that great mystery that was hidden in God’s mind, and that would be revealed in this Last Day through the manifestation of Christ in His Angel Messenger.
But His Angel Messenger is not the Lord Jesus Christ; he is only the instrument of Christ, the veil of flesh, the messenger, the prophet messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, that Jesus Christ uses to come manifested in Holy Spirit in His Angel Messenger as Jehovah-nissi, as ‘Lord, Jesus Christ is our standard’: as the standard that God raises in this Last Day in favor of His Church and also of the Hebrew people.
“JEHOVAH-NISSI.”
We have seen what is contained in this compound name of the Divinity. Of the seven compound names of the Divinity, this one, Jehovah-nissi, look at all that it contains to be fulfilled in this end time, which was reflected back in Moses’ time.
And that is why at this time, the Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven: just as Moses had his hand raised to Heaven, the Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven raises His hand to Heaven, and He has the little Book open in His hand, and speaks the creative Word, and speaks that time will be no more.
We have reached the most glorious time of all times, where we would be seeing the standard of God raised on Mount Zion, in the Church of Jesus Christ; and then we will see it raised in the midst of the Hebrew people.
And so we will be seeing Jehovah-nissi on Mount Zion, with His arms raised to Heaven, with the rod of Moses – or the Rod of God (which is the Word, the Title Deed, the Book of the Seals) in His hand. We will be seeing all that in this end time or would be seeing in this end time, in the manifestation of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, as Jehovah-nissi, in the standard of God raised in this Last Day.
“JEHOVAH-NISSI.” ‘The Lord (who is Jesus Christ) is our standard.’
Jesus Christ in His Second Coming is our standard; Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who is the same God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
The Lord is our standard, Jesus is our standard: the standard of God raised in this Last Day. That is Jehovah-nissi in this end time, for the Church of Jesus Christ and for the Hebrew people.
We will be in the next activity again, to continue to see all that God wants to make known to us this afternoon, under the subject: “A PEOPLE BROUGHT UPON THE EAGLE’S WINGS.” It is a subject that at the moment one doesn’t find much revelation; but we hope that God will open His prophetic Word to us and show us all the revelation that is in this subject: “A PEOPLE BROUGHT UPON THE EAGLE’S WINGS.”
It will be until the next activity, God willing, when I will be with you again, in 1 or 2 hours; Miguel will tell us in how much time. He will maybe give us a recess, like school children; because we are studying the Word of God, but we need a break (maybe 1 hour or a little more, depending on the time we have), to go and have something to drink and eat something, and be back for the next Bible lesson: “A PEOPLE BROUGHT UPON THE EAGLE’S WINGS”; and we will see what that means for the Church of Jesus Christ and for the Hebrew people.
Now, in our subject this morning: “JEHOVAH-NISSI,” there Moses saw God as the standard of the Hebrew people; and the Hebrew people seeing Moses on the mountain, the top of the mountain… Where Jehovah-nissi would also be for the Last Day: on the top (of what?) of the Mountain, of the Mount of God, which is the Age of the Cornerstone.
And now, I have seen Jehovah-nissi on the summit of the Mount of God, in the Age of the Cornerstone, in this end time. And where are those who would see Jehovah-nissi in this end time? Well, here we are gathered, on this occasion here in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexican Republic, and in different places of the Mexican Republic, and in different places of Latin America and the Caribbean.
May the blessings of Jehovah-nissi, ‘The Lord is our standard,’ ‘Jesus Christ is our standard,’ be upon you all and upon me also; and may the dead in Christ soon be resurrected in eternal bodies and may we who are alive be transformed, and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, to the House of our heavenly Father in Heaven. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
With us again Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin, to continue and finish our part this morning; and then we will continue in the next activity.
May God bless you and keep you, and with us, we have here Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin.
1 John 14:27
2 Ephesians 2:14
3 Galatians 3:7
4 John 1:14
5 The Seals in English, page 154
6 The phonetic pronunciation of Jesus in Spanish begins with a “Y”
7 The Seals in English, page 158
8 The Seals in English, pages 172-173
9 The Seals in English, page 327
10 The Seals in English, page 558
11 John 2:19
12 The Seals in English, page 558
13 The Seals in English, page 562
14 Isaiah 2:19
15 Genesis 3:15
16 Micah 5:2
17 Isaiah 11:1
18 Luke 2:1-7
19 Luke 2:8-14
20 Psalm 19:1
21 Matthew 24:27
22 Luke 2:21-38
23 The Rapture – December 4, 1965
24 Second Peter 3:8, Psalm 90:4
25 Matthew 4:4, Luke 4:4, Deuteronomy 8:3
26 Daniel 9:20-25
27 Daniel 9:26-27
28 Luke 12:35-40
29 Luke 12:42-44
30 Revelation 3:21
31 Daniel 2:31-45
32 Second Corinthians 5:17
33 Matthew 21:42, Mark 12:10, Luke 20:17, Acts 4:11, Psalm 118:22
34 Matthew 24:30, Mark 13:26; Matthew 26:64, Mark 14:62, Revelation 1:7
35 Luke 21:27; Revelation 10:1, 14:14
36 The Seals in English, page 303
37 Numbers 10:14
38 Isaiah 59:20, Romans 11:26
39 Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30, Luke 10:27, Deuteronomy 6:5, Leviticus 19:18