Jesus Resurrected, as the Scripture Said

Good morning, kind and beloved friends and brethren present, and also those who are connected through the Amazon satellite or the internet in different nations, ministers and their congregations connected to this broadcast. May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and also upon me, and may He open the Scriptures to us today and our understanding so that we understand the Word of the Lord and the Message from God for this end time. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

It is a great privilege to be with you on this occasion to share some moments of fellowship with you around the Word of God and His Program pertaining to this end time.

Now let’s read in First Corinthians chapter 15, verses 20 and on, where it tells us the following:

“But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.

Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.

And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.”

May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It, may He open the Scriptures to us and open our mind and our heart so that we understand It. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

“JESUS RESURRECTED, AS THE SCRIPTURE SAID.” That is the subject for this occasion.

We have seen that the resurrection of Christ was prophesied and it was shown in the Hebrew feast of Passover, and especially in the wave sheaf, which represents Christ resurrected. The Sacrifice of Christ carried out on Calvary’s Cross is also our Passover. First Corinthians chapter 5, verse 7, says:

“Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us.”

Now, notice how in these Jewish or Hebrew feasts there are prophecies that would be carried out, each one in its due time. Passover, which was carried out there in Egypt when God commanded the Hebrew people through the prophet Moses that each father of a household take a one-year-old lamb without blemish, and keep it for about four days, examining him from the tenth day to the fourteenth day of the month of Abib; we find that that paschal lamb would be sacrificed to preserve the life of the firstborn Hebrews there in Egypt.¹

That was the only way to prevent death upon the firstborn Hebrews. And only Israel had the Divine revelation of how to prevent the death of the firstborn. It was to preserve the life of the firstborn Hebrews. In each family there could be one or two firstborn; because the father of the family could have been a firstborn, and his oldest son was another firstborn, that would be two, and in some cases there was only one in the family. But it —the preservation of their lives— depended on that sacrifice of that paschal lamb, and on its blood being applied on the lintel and doorposts of the home, of that family’s house; and then, the lamb had to be roasted in the fire (by fire, of course), and placed inside the home, and during the night of Passover they had to eat that paschal lamb. That was God’s way.

Perhaps anyone else could think differently, but it was important to do things according to how God revealed it to the prophet Moses. It’s because that paschal lamb was a type and figure of Christ, who would die on Calvary’s Cross to preserve the life of all the firstborn written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

That is why the apostle Paul, in Hebrews chapter 12, speaks to us about the firstborn, and tells us that they are written in Heaven. Let’s read it so that you have a clear picture of who are the firstborn for whom Christ died on Calvary’s Cross, to preserve their lives. Chapter 12 of Hebrews… This was when Moses was on Mount Horeb or Mount Sinai, it says… Chapter 12, verse 21 and on, says… a bit before that, verse 18 says:

“For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

And the sound of a trumpet, 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…”

Where are God’s firstborn written? In Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life. It was for them that Christ died to preserve life, in other words, so that all those sons and daughters of God, which are the firstborn written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, could live eternally.

They are the ones who would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; because the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the general assembly and church of the firstborn of God, the sons and daughters of God; and they come through the union of Christ and His Church.

His Church was born on the Day of Pentecost; and therefore, His Church is the second Eve and Christ is the second Adam, to have sons and daughters of God. Because Jesus Christ the Son of God brings forth or is reproduced in sons and daughters of God through His Church, which, His Church is God’s Daughter; and She is the Wife-Bride or Bride-Wife of Christ the Savior.

Being a member of the Mystical Body of Christ, being part of the Mystical Body of Christ, means that the person is a son or daughter of God written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life; for whom Christ died on Calvary’s Cross as the Paschal Lamb to preserve life, so that they can live eternally. Because they come from eternity, and Christ gives them continuity to that Eternal Life by giving them Eternal Life through His Sacrifice on Calvary’s Cross.

“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.”

And now, the mediator of the New Covenant is not a high priest of the order of Aaron. He is the High Priest of the heavenly Temple, He is the High Priest Melchizedek; because Jesus Christ is Melchizedek. He is the High Priest of the heavenly Temple, who intercedes for us with His Blood, and with His Blood He keeps us cleansed from all sin.

He stands between God and the human being, between God and His children, making intercession; He is the Mediator between God and men.

Therefore, the resurrection of Christ, from the grave, is the victory of Christ. There in hell, He took the keys of death and hell away from the devil; and then He passed through Paradise and brought with Him—in the resurrection—the Old Testament saints, who appeared to many in the city of Jerusalem after the resurrection of Christ. That is in Saint Matthew chapter 27, verse 51 and on, it says… 50 and on, says:

“Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.

And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.”

In other words, with that earthquake the graves were opened, and the veil of the temple was rent in two, from top to bottom, the day of the crucifixion of Christ; and very early on Sunday morning, Christ went with all those saints of the Old Testament to the city; and they appeared to many in the city after the resurrection of Christ. In other words, it was a victory day for Christ and the saints of the Old Testament, of the Old Covenant; and it is a very great blessing for the saints of the New Testament, the saints of the New Covenant, who have formed the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ from the Day of Pentecost until now.

Now notice how this feast of Passover and of the wave sheaf represent Christ dying as the Paschal Lamb, and Christ resurrecting as the wave Sheaf that is presented before God on Easter or Resurrection Sunday. That is why we commemorate the Day of the Resurrection of Christ by making known what happened that Resurrection Sunday.

Christ’s victory is our victory. Now, if Christ hadn’t resurrected, notice what Saint Paul says here… Chapter 15, verse 17 and on, says… 16 and on. A bit before that: verse 13 says… It’s because in those days of Saint Paul they were saying that there wasn’t a resurrection [First Corinthians]:

“Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?”

(That is verse 12 and on.)

“But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.

Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not.

For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised:

And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.”

Now, “Christ [has] risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.” In other words, the first of the dead to resurrect to Eternal Life. Because there were other resurrections. Lazarus himself was resurrected by Christ,² but he was not the first one to resurrect to Eternal Life. There were others who were resurrected in the days of the prophet Elijah,³ but they were not resurrected to Eternal Life, but to temporary life.

But the first one who resurrected to Eternal Life is our beloved Savior Jesus Christ. And then 7 weeks are counted, which are 49 days, and then the 50th day is the Day of Pentecost.

That is why even though Christ knew when He would send the Holy Spirit, He didn’t want to tell them: “Fifty days after the day of My resurrection, the Holy Spirit will come.” Because there are some people who have the habit that if they know the day, they leave everything for that day and then they arrive late; and they don’t know that one must arrive on time to be at peace and have those moments of preparation.

If you arrive to the service all agitated and the minister is already preaching, you are late; you won’t absorb the whole Message like those who were on time meditating and praying, and then worshiping God, praying to God, singing; because the devotional is part of the worship service to God.

In other words, one must come into communion with Christ before the preaching. And a person enters that stage when he arrives, he calms down, prays upon arriving to the service, when he sits down; and then throughout the devotional he is singing, worshiping God, and also listening to the special hymns, the special songs, and accompanying the prayer or prayers made by the ministers, and then the preaching.

The order of the service is important to be in communion with Christ every time we come to the service; and then during the week, also in the services there are during the week; and also to be in communion with Christ in our daily life, with our minds and hearts set on Jesus Christ our Savior.

And always thinking of and waiting for our transformation. And waiting for the resurrection of our loved ones, of our brethren (whether they were our family members or not) of our time, along with family members who departed in other times, who belong to the Mystical Body of Christ. They are our family; they are our brethren who have the promise of a resurrection in eternal, young, immortal, and glorified bodies, like the glorified body that Jesus Christ our Savior has.

When we are with Him in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, we won’t see an old man, but a young man who will represent 18 to 21 years of age, and that will be our beloved Lord Jesus Christ there.

Remember that when Christ resurrected, not even His own disciples recognized Him. Mary Magdalene mistook Him for the gardener of the cemetery.⁴ And others saw Him and didn’t believe it was Him; something had happened. It’s because the resurrection is in a body that is glorified and young for all eternity.

Jesus Christ is as young as when He ascended to Heaven, and we who are waiting for our transformation will be the same way.

The promise is that there will be a group of believers in Christ who will remain alive until His Coming and until their transformation. And that group will be in a perfect age: the Age of the Cornerstone, the Golden Age, the Age of the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, in other words, of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

They are the ones who will inherit the promise of the Coming of the Lord with His Angels, and the transformation of their bodies into glorified bodies. Although some may leave before that, they will return to our age; they won’t return to another age because the other ages already passed; they will return to our age to be with us, we will meet them; when we see them we will be changed.

It will be very wonderful for those who have family members who were already elderly and died, and when they appear to them and tell them: “How are you… (and call them by their name)?” —“And how do you know me?” —“How are you, daughter, or how are you my granddaughter or grandson?” Perhaps, if they aren’t aware that they resurrected in glorified and young bodies, they will say: “How can you call me granddaughter or grandson, or son or daughter, when I am – I look older than you?” They will say to them: “This is what was being preached: that we would return young, in glorified bodies just like the glorified body of Christ our Savior.” And then we will also be changed.

Christ being resurrected and presented to the Father, presenting Himself to the Father, is typified in the wave sheaf; the wave sheaf that was presented before God by the priest, the high priest at the time in which that feast was carried out every year.

Notice here, chapter 23 of Leviticus… Chapter 23, verse 12 and on, says: “And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf…” Verse 9 and on:

“And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest.”

A sheaf is a bundle of stalks with fruit, and it is one of the first fruits that ripen.

“And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.”

The day after the sabbath, the day after Saturday, is Sunday; on Sunday morning that Sheaf was waved before the Presence of God; in other words, Christ was presented before God.

That is why in Saint John, when He appears to Mary Magdalene, He tells her: “Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to the Father.”⁵ But after He ascended and came back, then they touched His feet and worshiped Him.

“And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the Lord.

And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the Lord for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.

And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath…”

In other words, you will count from the day after the sabbath, meaning, from the Sunday that Christ resurrected, from the Sunday on which that wave Sheaf is presented.

“And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete,” (seven weeks are forty-nine days).

“Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord.”

Forty-nine years pass from the day that the Sheaf is waved, that is on Sunday; and then the fiftieth day, which is after the forty-ninth day, is the Day of Pentecost, because Pentecost is fifty or fifty is Pentecost.

Meaning that Christ, knowing the Scriptures—for He Himself is the One who gave them, because He is the Angel of the Covenant—He knew when He was going to resurrect; He knew when He had to be crucified as the Lamb of God, when He was going to rise from the dead, on the third day, and when He would pour out of His Holy Spirit upon all the believers, upon all His followers who would be waiting for that glorious moment.

That is why He then sent them to tarry in Jerusalem until they were endued with power from on high,⁶ until the Holy Spirit came to bring forth the new birth in them; and then He sent them to preach the Gospel to every creature everywhere, starting from Jerusalem.⁷

The beginning of the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, after He resurrected, was on the Day of Pentecost, in the upper room; they received the Holy Spirit, and from there they went down and testified to the people what was happening, and they announced the resurrection of Christ, the salvation and Eternal Life through Christ.

And when the people who were gathered there ask: “Men and brethren, what shall we do?” Saint Peter, filled with the Spirit, says: “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, and for those that are near; even as many as the Lord our God shall call.” The Book of Acts, chapter 2, verses 31 and on, to *47. And about three thousand people received Christ and were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added.

The preaching of the Gospel began with a great revival, with thousands coming to the Feet of Christ, repented of their sins and being baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and Christ baptizing them with the Holy Spirit and Fire, and bringing forth the new birth in them.

And the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will finish Her work on Earth under a tremendous revival, spiritual awakening, which is promised for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, where Christ will manifest Himself and bring the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive.

So, Jesus resurrected opened the gate of Heaven, He opened the door by bringing salvation and Eternal Life for all the people who would receive Him as their only and sufficient Savior.

Christ is the wave Sheaf, He is the Firstfruits of the resurrection; and then comes the call for the Day of Pentecost, to receive the Holy Spirit. All of that will then become a type and figure of what God will do in His Church.

His Church would then be going through seven stages, which are the seven Church ages among the Gentiles, represented in the seven weeks of years or seven weeks of days, which pertain to forty-nine days, and then the Day of Pentecost.

We are still living in the stage of Pentecost, of the Pentecost that came down back then in Jerusalem on the fiftieth day from the resurrection of Christ until that day; on the fiftieth day the Holy Spirit came down and He has remained with His Church the whole time. Christ said: “I will be with you always, even until the end of the world.” Saint Matthew chapter 28, verse 20. And Saint Matthew chapter 18, verse 20, says: “And where two or three are gathered together in My Name, I will be there.”

Therefore, Christ has been in the midst of His Church in Holy Spirit since the Day of Pentecost, because that was what He promised.

That is why when the Angel of the Lord appeared to Saint Peter, to Saint Paul, he said that the Angel spoke to him or the Angel delivered him; and in other places he might say: “The Holy Spirit spoke to me; the Holy Spirit delivered me.” Because Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, is the Holy Spirit, because a spirit is a body from another dimension.

The Angel of the Covenant is the Holy Spirit, who calls and gathers and seals the elect at the Last Day; He seals them with the Seal of the living God, which is the Holy Spirit. And He will call and gather 144,000 Hebrews, 12,000 of each tribe, and He will seal them. That will be at the end of the Divine Program with His Church.

Therefore, they are waiting for us, for the group of the Church to be completed so that they can come into the Divine Program where God will send His Angels with the Great Voice of Trumpet: “And they shall gather together His elect, from one end of Heaven to the other.” Saint Matthew chapter 24, verse 30 to 31.

Those Angels are the Two Olive Trees of Zechariah chapter 4, verses 11 to 14, and also Revelation chapter 11, verse 1 to 14. Those Two Olive Trees are the Two Candlesticks that stand before the God of all the Earth; they are the ministries of Moses and Elijah, which will be manifested on Earth again. It’s under those ministries that Israel will be called and gathered together at this end time: the ministries of Moses and Elijah; Elijah and Moses or Moses and Elijah.

Moses was the lawgiver, a dispensational messenger. And the Messiah was a prophet like Moses, a major prophet; the prophet of the Dispensation of Grace is a prophet like Moses, the prophet of the fifth dispensation, of the Dispensation of Law.

And at the Last Day, the Coming of the Lord will again fulfill the second part of the Coming of the Lord as Judge. He has already been as High Priest during the Dispensation of Grace, calling and gathering together the elect who would form His Church; and then, His Second Coming will be as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work, to claim everything He has redeemed with His Blood: each one of us who are alive, and those who departed in past ages.

Therefore, that gathering, that call will happen at this end time, once the seven Church Ages have passed, and the Church will be gathering in the Golden Age, the Age of the Cornerstone, to receive the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

Therefore, let’s be prepared because we don’t know when the last elect will come in; or if all the elect are already in the Mystical Body of Christ, but they still need to be prepared for the transformation.

The faith for the transformation and rapture will come as it is promised; the faith for the rapture will come through the Voice of the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven in Revelation chapter 10, verse 1 to 11; and that is the Coming of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, coming to His Church at the Last Day, and crying as when a Lion roars; no longer as Lamb, but as Lion; to carry out His Claiming Work and change the living, after raising the dead believers in Christ.

Christ crying out as Lion and Seven Thunders uttering their Voices, that is the Voice of Christ speaking to His Church consecutively, and giving Her the revelation of the Seventh Seal, giving Her the revelation of His Second Coming with His Angels.

That is what was shown on Mount Transfiguration when Christ said to them that there were some who would not see death until they saw the Son of Man coming in His Kingdom;⁸ and He brought them up to a high mountain apart, there on Mount Transfiguration, and He was transfigured before them showing them in advance what His Coming will be, what the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels will be; meaning that Moses, Elijah, and Jesus will be there.⁹

That is what Mount Transfiguration shows, that is the order of His Second Coming, that is the mystery that will be opened to the believers who are going to be changed at the Last Day, and He will give them the faith to be changed and to go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

But that revelation will come in the fulfillment of the Vision of a Great Tent Cathedral that was shown to Rev. William Branham, where the Third Pull will be manifested.

The Third Pull will bring that manifestation of Christ revealing to us the mystery of His Second Coming, and that will give us the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

Just as the revelation of the First Coming of Christ being revealed through the preaching of the Gospel, gives us the faith to receive salvation and Eternal Life; likewise, the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ gives us the faith to be changed, which will be made known, revealed, by the Voice of the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven, by Christ the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, speaking to us, revealing these things to us, in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, where the Third Pull will be manifested.

In other words, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ started in an upper room and will end in a Great Tent Cathedral. As simple as that.

The trajectory of the Church began on the Day of Pentecost, and It will end on the Year of Pentecost, which the year of Pentecost reflected. The year of Pentecost reflects the Age of the Cornerstone, that is the Upper Room of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. As simple as that.

Therefore, let’s be prepared because very soon something will take place in the Divine Program.

Be in the Mystical Body of Christ, let’s be preparing ourselves for what is coming from God: a great blessing from God that will give us the faith to be changed and raptured with Christ, and to go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, to enjoy there, in God’s Presence, every day of our lives.

The feast of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb will last three and a half years, where Christ and His Church will be endued as Kings; and after the Great Tribulation they will come to rule over the planet Earth, and thus physically establish the Kingdom of God on Earth. And that will be the beginning of the Millennium, and we will be there with Christ as kings, priests, and judges, ruling that Divine Kingdom with Him.

I will be there, and who else? Each one of you as well.

May God bless you and keep you all.

“JESUS RESURRECTED, AS THE SCRIPTURE SAID.”