Knowing the time of the visitation of God to avoid the jugments that will come

Good morning, kind friends and brethren present, and those who are in other nations gathered in different churches, different congregations, ministers and brethren. 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 and open our understanding so that we can understand them. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

On this occasion, let’s read in Saint Luke chapter 19, verses 41 to 44, where it tells us the following:

“And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,

Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.

For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side,

And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.”

May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

Our subject for this occasion is: “KNOWING THE TIME OF GOD’S VISITATION TO AVOID THE JUDGMENTS THAT WILL COME.”

Knowledge is very important. Knowing is so important that the Scripture says in Hosea chapter 4, verse 6:

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”

And then in the same 4th chapter of Hosea, verse 14, it says:

“I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.”

Whether for the individual or for a people, lack of knowledge makes them perish, it makes them fall. Knowledge is required to avoid destruction.

And now, seeing here the things that have happened to Israel, notice what God tells us through the Prophet Moses, regarding Israel’s situation in those days, when He was leading them through the wilderness. [Deuteronomy] chapter 29, verse 4 to 5, says:

“Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.”

That is what Moses says happened with the people; that is why Jesus says that having eyes they didn’t see, and having ears they didn’t hear.¹ One must hear in order to obtain knowledge and be able to see the things that must be seen at the time in which the person is living. And when it comes to God and His Program, we need to know.

Here Christ told us, in the passage we read at the beginning, that they didn’t know the Day of His Visitation. It is important to know the time in which one is living, the time according to God’s Program for that time; because for each time, for each generation and for each age or dispensation, God has a Program to carry out; and that is the Program we should all know, so that we know God manifested at that time; because God visits His people.

That Visitation of God to His people is the most important visit that the human race receives every certain amount of time; as it happened with Abraham, who had many experiences of encounters with God in dreams, also in a Light. But one day, there in chapter 18 of Genesis, in the heat of the day (let’s say, from 11:00 to 12:00 noon), while he was there at the door of his tent, he sees three People coming towards him and he recognizes that They are beings from another dimension.

He approaches Them, he invites Them to his house, he bows before one of them: Elohim, and tells them to stop there at his house, because that was why they had passed by. Right away, well, he takes responsibility for those visitors and offers Them to sit under a tree, and rest there, and that he will bring them food, lunch; because that is why some people arrive at lunch time to visit others; and if they do it often, then the person says: “I already know why he’s here. He doesn’t come at any other hour except when it’s time to eat.”

Well notice, God came to Abraham at lunch time. And well, Abraham knows that if They came at lunch time, then that was why They had come: to have lunch. Let’s read it. Chapter 18 of Genesis:

“And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day…”

At the door, the fresh air always comes in, and one feels refreshed; it is supposed to be the coolest place, because the breeze blows through there. Which also indicates that it was summertime; and summertime is also harvest time; and harvest time is the most important time, it is the time of joy, because the harvest was good.

When Christ speaks about the Coming of the Kingdom, He says that when we see these things happening, we should know that summer is near, in other words, harvest time.²

“And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground…”

A 99-year-old man running out to meet three very important People; and let’s see:

“And said, My Lord,” (meaning, he recognized One of Them), “if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:

Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:

And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant.” (See?) “And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.

And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.”

In other words, we can see God visiting His friend Abraham here; and this happens when a friend visits his friend; that invitation Abraham made is something friends always do with their friends, to have a barbecue like… or something like that, in their homes, in the yard where they have the grill and all those things, and they share a nice moment.

Now, [imagine] what it must have been like for Abraham with God materialized, with the Archangel Michael materialized, and with the Archangel Gabriel materialized, who could eat! That was a very glorious moment, a meeting of God and His Archangels with Abraham, God’s friend. And all of that is then a type of God’s Visit to the descendants of Abraham, the seed of Abraham; the seed of Abraham after the flesh: Israel, and the seed of Abraham by the faith of Abraham, the faith in Christ: the believers in Christ who form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We saw in the days of Jesus that God was materialized, made flesh in Jesus. The Word was made flesh, “was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and virtue.” Saint John, chapter 1, verse 14.

The Word that was with God, the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, the heavenly body of God, which is Christ in His heavenly body; now He had created Himself a body of flesh in the virgin Mary’s womb, which was born and called Jesus: Savior (Yeshua in Hebrew). And the Angel Gabriel had told the virgin Mary: “And He shall be called the Son of God.”³

And now God, dwelling in all His fullness in that physical body, was visiting His people; just as He had visited Abraham, He is visiting His people there, and He is eating with them just as He ate with Abraham.

And later, on Mount Transfiguration, Christ appears transformed, glorified; and He had said: “Many standing here shall not taste of death till they see the Son of man coming in His glory, coming with power and glory, coming with His Angels.” Saint Matthew chapter 16, verses 26 to 28, tells us:

“For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.

Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”

And now, in chapter 17, He is going to show them the order of the Coming of the Son of man in His Kingdom. Chapter 17 of Saint Matthew:

“And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,

And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun…”

Remember that His Coming will be as the sun: Malachi chapter 4, verse 2: “Unto those that fear My Name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in His Wings.” And also in Psalm 80, in Psalm 80 it also tells us:

“Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us. Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.”

See? And how does the Lord’s face shine? As the sun. That is also how it appears in Revelation. It goes on to say:

“O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.

Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.”

The Coming of the Lord is as the rising sun.

In Hosea, it also tells us something. In chapter 6, verse 1 and on, it says:

“Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

Then shall we know…”

See? This is where the knowledge comes in:

“Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord…”

In other words, at that time they will know and follow on to know: they will continue receiving knowledge through the teaching.

In Habakkuk chapter 2, verse 14, it tells us that there will be very great knowledge on the Earth. Habakkuk tells us:

“For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.”

And also in Isaiah it tells us that the Earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord.⁴ That knowledge comes through the revealed Word for this end time.

Now, it goes on to say in Hosea chapter 6, verse 3:

“Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning…”

As the morning: as the dawn; therefore: the Morning Sun, the rising Sun, the Sun that will come out from the East for Israel, which will be the Coming of the Lord, the Coming of the Messiah as the Sun of Righteousness.

“…and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.”

So, we can see this picture of the Coming of the Messiah, promised for Israel, which will be a Light for Israel. As Isaiah chapter 60 says (verse 1 and on):

“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.”

This is the Messiah’s Coming to Israel; but first the Coming of the Lord is promised for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, coming with all the saints who have departed, raising them in glorified bodies, and appearing to the believers who will be alive at this end time; and when we see them, we will be changed.

Because the Coming of the Lord is for the resurrection of the believers who died physically and for the transformation of the believers who are alive at that time. Notice, in Philippians chapter 3, verse 20 to 21, it says:

“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”

He has the power to carry out the resurrection of the believers in Him who died, He showed this when He raised Lazarus⁵ and also when he raised the son of the widow of Nain or in Nain (the city of Nain). Those who saw that miracle said: “God has visited His people because a great prophet has risen up among us.”⁶

That is God’s way of visiting His people: When God raises up a prophet among the people, God is in that prophet, in that man, visiting His people.

God was visiting His people in and through Jesus. And God partially visited His people through the different prophets, who were then a type and figure of the major Visit that God would carry out with His people Israel through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Messiah; that was the greatest Visit. And God’s Visit has always been that way.

For example, we have the case of God’s promise to Abraham, in Genesis chapter 15, verse 12 and on; it says:

“And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.”

And now, the promise was that the seed of Abraham would be in bondage for 400 years; which took place. But then, notice, God sends Moses when Moses is already 80 years old. Chapter 3 of Exodus says:

“Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.”

And now, notice, God says: “And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians,” that is God visiting Israel and Egypt, and He would visit them in and through Moses.

“Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.”

And now, God said that He had come down to deliver them, and now He is sending a man to go and deliver them; because God visiting His people will go in that man, God will be veiled in that man. Therefore, it won’t be the man working, but God will be working through a man. It is God’s power, God’s Presence in Moses, for the people’s deliverance, thus visiting His people. It says:

“And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

And he said, Certainly I will be with thee,” (there is the guarantee: ‘Certainly I will be with thee’); “and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?

And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I Am hath sent me unto you.

And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt.”

And now, notice, God Himself is saying: “And I have visited you.” God was visiting His people through a man, through a veil of flesh; God temporarily clothed Himself in a veil of flesh to visit His people, that is how God visits His people; and that is the Divine Visitation to His people who are descendants of Abraham after the flesh, and also to the seed of Abraham, the children of Abraham, by faith.

By faith in Christ, all the believers in Christ are sons and daughters of Abraham.⁷

Therefore, from age to age, from stage to stage, God through His Spirit has been visiting His people, from age to age, through a messenger He has sent in each age, through whom He has spoken, brought the Message relevant to that time, to that age, and has gathered the elect of that time with that Message.

And then, later on, another age opens, another stage of the Church, God sends a messenger, and in that messenger God comes in Holy Spirit speaking to the people, calling His children, bringing them to form a part of the mystical Body of Christ.

We have had those visitations throughout the history of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The last one that was held was in North America, in the seventh stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, reflected, represented, in the Laodicean church of Asia Minor, which represents the seventh age of the Church; and the pastor of that church represents the seventh messenger of the seventh stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ among the Gentiles.

In Rev. William Branham, Christ in Holy Spirit was visiting His Church and showing Her His power through the marvelous works of power that were done under the ministry of Rev. William Branham. It was a very great Visit of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit in His Church.

Those who understood, were blessed; those who didn’t understand, lost the blessing of the Visit of the Lord Jesus Christ to His Church in that stage that pertained to the North American territory, and from there it spread to other nations; because the blessing always comes forth in a territory and from there it spreads to other territories.

We have already seen that Christ has visited His Church, from age to age, in Holy Spirit, through different veils of flesh; but there is still one Visit of Jesus Christ to His Church left, that is the last Visit; and after that Visit or in the midst of that Visit will come the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive.

And then we will spend, after being changed, a short time, 30 to 40 days, as it happened with Jesus Christ. And those who rose with Him, the Old Testament saints, were appearing to their families for about forty days, and Christ to His disciples (they appeared to them from time to time); and then they went to Heaven: the rapture of Jesus Christ with the Old Testament saints; which was a sad farewell for His disciples because they wanted Him to stay with them, but He had to go to Heaven, to sit on the heavenly Throne, at the right hand of God, because He received the heavenly Kingdom, He received the heavenly Throne, as He had said.

He said that He would sit at the right hand of God in Heaven; therefore, He sat; and that is why He also said in Saint Matthew chapter 28, verses 16 to 20: “All power is given unto Me in Heaven and on Earth.” All the power of God is in Christ.

Some people may think: “Then God ended up without power because He gave all His power away?” No. Because since Jesus Christ in His heavenly body is the image of the living God, the heavenly body of God; and since Jesus Christ in His body of flesh is the physical likeness of God: God is inside Christ, He is in Jesus Christ in all His fullness, ruling through Christ, through His heavenly body and His glorified physical body, sitting on the Throne ruling all of Creation.

And in Holy Spirit He has been in the midst of His Church, and He has been making those great visits, where He has impacted Christianity, from age to age.

He said in chapter 28, verse 20, of Saint Matthew: “I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.”

And since He has been in the midst of His Church, He has had those special manifestations and visits to His Church in each relevant stage, where He has impacted the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and that has been in order to reproduce Himself, from age to age, in sons and daughters of God.

That is the time of life in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Just like at a certain time of the month, a woman, which represents [the Church of Jesus Christ], has a time when life can be conceived in her; in that time and that time represents those stages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which are the time of life, for Christ to reproduce Himself through His Church, where He sows the seed of the Word and reproduces Himself in many sons and daughters of God. It is a very important time, where they are known as the revivals that the Church has had throughout Her history.

And now, the greatest awakening, the greatest revival that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has had, is promised for this end time, which will shake the world, which will be for the Church-Bride, and will impact the foolish virgins and the entire world.

And the Jews will also see that and say: “This is whom and this is what we are waiting for!” But He isn’t coming for them, He is coming for His Church; and that will be the Coming of the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven in Revelation chapter 10; that will be the greatest Visit.

And He comes with the Title Deed, He comes with the Book that was sealed with Seven Seals, already open; because He takes It in Revelation chapter 5, He opens It in Revelation chapter 6, and in chapter 8 He opens the Seventh Seal; and the Seventh Seal is the Coming of the Lord.

That mystery will be opened in the Third Pull, It will be opened in Christ’s Visit to His Church at this end time, to give Her the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

That Seventh Seal is the Coming of the Lord, which will be revealed to His Church at this end time for the transformation and catching away or rapture of the believers in Christ.

Christ coming down from Heaven in Revelation chapter 10, and crying as when a lion roars, notice that He also has His face as the sun, because that is how the Coming of the Lord is promised: as the Sun of Righteousness.

And Him coming down from Heaven with the little Book open is the greatest news, of blessing, for all the believers in Christ. Chapter 10 of Revelation says:

“And I saw another mighty angel,” (that is Christ), “come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun,” (see? The Coming of Christ is represented in the rising sun), “and his feet as pillars of fire,” (those are the symbols of His Coming and the characteristics that His Coming will have).

“And he had in his hand a little book open…”

That little Book is the Book that is sealed with Seven Seals in the right hand of God, in Revelation chapter 5; that is the Lamb’s Book of Life, where my name is written. And who else’s? Each of yours is too.

It is the Book of Redemption, It is the Book that Adam had and lost the right to have, and It went back to the right hand of God. It is the Book where all of God’s sons and daughters are, whom God would materialize, whom God would have, and He already has your name there beforehand, before bringing you all to this Earth in human flesh. And that is also reflected in parents, who already have names for their children before they have children; and even before getting married, they already have in their minds: “When I get married, I will name the first child this name, the second child that name, and the little girl…” many parents also choose names for little girls, so that they have them beforehand; because once they are born, they get so happy they don’t even know what to name them; so that they don’t give them a name that isn’t suitable because they didn’t know what to name them or because they were in a hurry.

Now let’s see:

“And he had in his hand a little book open…”

That is the Lamb’s Book of Life, that is the Title Deed. And by God having It in His hand, that means God is the Owner of all Creation. But notice this, what it says here. Hebrews chapter 1:

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

Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.” (Appointed what? Heir of all things.)

And that Title Deed is the Deed of all the Divine Inheritance, It is the Book of Life; therefore, the One who has that Book is the heir of all things.

And now, Adam had that Book, that is why Adam was the heir of the planet Earth; but It was taken away from him because he sold the blessing, the devil took it away from him, but he wasn’t able to take the Book, the Title Deed, away from him.

That is why God said: “Lest he put forth his hand and take of the Tree of Life,” then He took him out of the garden;⁸ because if he ate of the Tree of Life and lived eternally, notice, then the Title Deed would be left in the hands of the rule of the kingdom of darkness.

And what would that mean? That all the children of the wicked one would also live eternally. And if in such a short time—compared to eternity—that the devil will exist, he is so bothersome, what would it be like eternally?

So, God took Adam out of the garden of Eden, and Eve too, and the Tree of Life remained protected by cherubims with swords of fire that God put there.

The Tree of Life is Christ. And now, the believers in Christ have been eating of the Tree of Life, and therefore, they have secured their life, their soul, they have secured it with Christ in Eternal Life, by receiving Him as their only and sufficient Savior.

And now, this Title Deed, by Christ taking it, who is the heir… Let’s see here… We always have a Bible study on Sundays, that is why we have to look in different places in the Bible to find the Scriptures. Chapter 8 of Romans, verse 14 and on, says:

“For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”

But notice, verse 9 says:

“Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.”

He who doesn’t have the Spirit of Christ, is not of Christ; he who has the Spirit of Christ, is of Christ. Verse 15:

“For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.”

And now, Christ… we are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ. Everything Christ is heir to, the believers in Christ are also heirs to; that is why He inherited the Title Deed, He takes the Title Deed, opens It in Heaven, and then brings It to Earth to His Church; for which He will have an instrument on Earth to give the Deed to, so that he makes It known, makes known to His Church the whole content of that Title Deed, so that It also becomes flesh in His Church.

Therefore, the heirs, heirs and joint-heirs, will have that Title Deed, by receiving It in Message form at the end time; which will give them the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. That is how that Title Deed will become flesh in each believer.

Let’s see how It will become flesh in the One who receives It; and all the believers in Christ will be represented in the One who receives It.

[Revelation 10:2] “And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,

And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.”

There He already stands as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, by taking the Title Deed; and therefore, He receives all the rights to all of Creation.

That is why also in chapter 5 of Revelation, the elder says to John: “John, weep not. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, who has prevailed to take the Book and to open Its seals;” when John looked, he saw a Lamb: he saw Jesus Christ, whom he knew as the Lamb of God; but the elder is seeing Jesus Christ as Lion of the tribe of Judah. He changes from Lamb to Lion, from High Priest to Judge, to carry out His Claiming Work.

“And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.” (The Voice of Christ speaking as Lion, as King; no longer speaking as He spoke in the seven Church ages.)

“And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.

And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,

And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer…”

The stage where Christ is making intercession with His Blood in Heaven finishes; that stage ends and He leaves the Throne of Intercession to carry out another part of the Divine Program. There will no longer be Blood on the Mercy Seat to cleanse people from sin who wish to obtain the forgiveness of sins and be cleansed from all sin; that stage will have finished. And those who later want to seek God, and even the foolish virgins, who don’t have oil in their lamps, will have to go through the Great Tribulation, where the Divine Judgments will be poured out on Earth.

It goes on to say (verse 7):

“But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.”

And now, the command is given to John the Apostle, who is a type and figure of the Church and of the one who will take that little Book at the Last Day, in the Coming of the Lord.

“Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.

And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me…”

And notice that this is the Lamb’s Book of Life, the Title Deed of all Creation, the Title Deed of Eternal Life.

“And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.

And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.”

And now, the one who eats the little Book will then have the prophetic ministry to prophesy over many peoples, nations, tongues and kings.

“Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.”

And the prophetic ministry that at that time will be bringing the prophecies of all the things which must shortly come to pass, prophesying over many peoples, nations, and tongues, is here, it continues here. It says in verse 3, chapter 11, of Revelation:

“And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies,” (the fire is the Word), “and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.

These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.”

That is the ministry of the one who eats that little Book that Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, gives him, so that he may prophecy over many peoples, nations, tongues and kings; and Christ will be with him, as He was with Moses. He will be a Prophet like Moses, he will be a Prophet like the Prophet Elijah, he will be a Prophet like Jesus.

Then, in verse 15 and on, it says:

“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 speaks to us about the judgment for the world, for the Gentile kingdom; it speaks to us about the Stone cut out without hands, who is Christ in His Coming, where He smites the image in the feet of iron and clay; meaning, the Gentile kingdom, which is the stage of the feet of iron and clay. And it says: “And broke them to pieces. And that Stone became a great mountain that filled the whole Earth.”⁹

Christ fills the whole Earth with His Kingdom, because He is the heir of the Heavens and the Earth; and therefore, the heir of this Earth as Son of man; the heir of the Throne of David as Son of David; the heir of all the things in the Heavens and the Earth. And His Kingdom will literally be established on Earth and cover the whole world.

In that Kingdom is where there will be permanent peace. In the meantime, we seek temporary peace, because peace is good even if it is temporary, until the permanent peace, the eternal peace, comes along; which is very close, because the Kingdom of the Messiah is very close; but before that comes a temporary peace that will be interrupted by a war, it will be interrupted as Saint Paul says in [First] Thessalonians, chapter 5, verse 1, and on: “When they say: peace and safety; then sudden destruction will come, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But you are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.”

That day cannot take us by surprise, Saint Paul says, because we are not in darkness but in Light, in the Light of God, in the Light of the Word enlightening our understanding, knowing the time in which we live: the time of God’s Visitation to His Church to avoid the Divine Judgment that will come upon the human race.

“But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.”

We are children of light, children of the day, children of Christ who is the Light of the world, and children of the Light, of the Kingdom of Light, of the Kingdom of Christ, which is the Kingdom of Light. We are not of the darkness, we are not of the kingdom of darkness, but of the Kingdom of Light, the Kingdom of Christ.

Therefore, we are getting to know the time in which we have been given to live in order to stand before the Son of man, and avoid the things that are to come. That is what Christ said in Saint Luke 21:34 and on; it says:

“And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

Watch,” (watch for what? Watch for the Coming of the Lord, be vigilant for the Coming of the Lord),

“Watch ye therefore and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass,” (to escape the judgments that will come to pass in the Great Tribulation), “and to stand before the Son of man,” (to stand before the Son of man).

Remember that Christ, the Son of man, will visit His Church at this end time; and we will stand before Christ in His last Visit to His Church; because the Son of man will come in the Kingdom of His Father with His Angels, which was shown there on Mount Transfiguration: Christ glorified with Moses and Elijah, one on each side; those are the Two Olive Trees.

Therefore, in Christ’s Visit to His Church, the Two Olive Trees will also be there, the ministries of Moses and Elijah; that is why Rev. William Branham says that the miracles take place with Moses and Elijah.¹⁰

This 21st chapter of Saint Luke tells us in verse 27:

“And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”

Our redemption is our transformation, the glorification of our body; that is the adoption, the redemption of the body, which Romans chapter 8, verses 14 to 39, tells us about. And Saint Paul in Ephesians chapter 4, verse 30, says:

“And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption,” (that is, until the day of the glorification, until the day of our transformation).

The Son of man is promised to come, which is Christ; and it is mentioned in Saint Matthew, chapter 16, that He will come with His Angels, as it was shown in Saint Matthew, chapter 17, on Mount Transfiguration. Chapter 24 of Saint Matthew, verse 30 to 31, says:

“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”

Those elect are the 144,000 Jews, 12,000 of each tribe.

There are many blessings for the believers.

Notice, chapter 24, verse 27, of Saint Matthew, says:

“For as the lightning cometh out of the east,” (that is, the Middle East, Israel), “and shineth even unto the west,” (the West is the continent of the Americas, the territory where the sun sets), “so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”

Christ began in the East, there in the East: the land of Israel, and He has been journeying through the world from the land of Israel, to Asia Minor, Europe, North America; and now it is important to know where Christ in Holy Spirit is among His Church, in which territory.

That is why it is so important to know the time of God’s Visitation in order to avoid the judgment that will come. It is important to be aware of, to know, the journey that Christ has had among His Church, throughout the history or trajectory of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and then to know where the territory is, which territory is the one where He will be visiting His Church at this end time; because that is where the blessing of the Presence of Christ in Holy Spirit will be, and from there the blessing goes out to other nations.

There was always a territory where Christ’s visitation to His Church took place, through a messenger He rose up, and through whom He revealed Himself to His Church in that visit of Christ, from age to age, from stage to stage.

The biggest Visit is appointed for this end time. The greatest Visit is for this end time. Therefore, let’s know the time of God’s Visitation for this end time.

It won’t be in the first age, because that age already passed, nor in the second, nor in the third, nor in the fourth, nor in the fifth either, nor in the sixth either; the sixth was the Wesleyan Age; nor in the seventh either, which was the Pentecostal Age. Those visits were already carried out by Christ in Holy Spirit through the messenger of each age to His Church.

Now it will be in the golden stage of the Church: the Age of the Cornerstone, which is parallel to the Age of the Cornerstone of the Coming of Christ, two thousand years ago, to Israel.

It will also be parallel to God’s visit in the time of Noah, through Noah; it will also be parallel to the visit of Elohim and His Archangels to Abraham; that is why it says that the Coming of the Son of man will be like in the days of Noah and like in the days of Lot;¹¹ that is how God’s Visitation at this end time will be to His Church, and then to the Hebrew people.

It will be the Lord’s Visit to His Church in the fulfillment of the Third Pull, where He will reveal Himself to His Church, give Her the faith to be changed and taken with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

That is the stage where the Title Deed returns to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ, the second Adam, obtains It and brings It to share that Title Deed and Its blessings with His Church.

Therefore, let’s always obtain the knowledge of the time in which we are given to live, which is the time of God’s Visitation to His Church, to bring all these blessings that He has promised for His Church.

It is the time for which there are the most blessings promised for the believers in Christ; to the extent that even the transformation and rapture are promised for this end time, for the last Visit of Christ, the Mighty Angel, the Angel of the Covenant, to His Church.

That is why it is so important to get to know this time, and that is why it is so important to be conscious of what God has promised to His Church for this end time. And that is what will prevent us from having to go through those Divine Judgments of the Great Tribulation.

If not knowing brings problems, due to the lack of knowledge people and nations perish, then with knowledge nations are saved and people are saved, those disasters that are to come are avoided.

If you want to see a brief picture of the things that will be happening, I am going to read a little part here. Chapter 6, verses 12 and on, of Revelation (this will be happening during the Great Tribulation), says:

“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.

And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.”

Because of that earthquake, notice what happened; and that is also for this end time.

“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?”

And now notice what is coming for this Earth: the wrath of the Lamb, the Divine Judgments that will fall upon the Earth. That why this Angel that comes here in Revelation chapter 14, verse 6, says the following:

“And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.”

And now notice, if this messenger, this Angel, brings the Everlasting Gospel, then he is a preacher; and if he is talking about the judgments that will come, about the day of wrath or the hour of wrath, he is announcing the Divine Judgments that will fall upon the Earth, the plagues that will come upon the Earth, just as Moses was the one who announced the plagues that would come upon Egypt.

Therefore, that season that the Earth will go through, we don’t want to go through it here; there is a better place, which we have been invited to: the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. That place is where we will be while the Earth is going through the Great Tribulation.

Chapter 19, verses 9 to 10 (of Revelation), says:

“And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.”

Notice, those who are called to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb are blessed. And the call is there. The last call is to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, being invited to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

The Message is the invitation we receive to go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

“And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

And now, John wanted to worship the Angel who had that Message, but the Angel told him: “Don’t do it. I am your fellow servant.”

Rev. William Branham says that Angel is a prophet; therefore, it is important to be conscious of these things, and to know the time of God’s Visitation, to avoid the judgments that will come. Just as Noah and his family, who knew the time of God’s Visitation for that occasion, escaped the judgment of the flood and then became the originators of a new generation; a new generation began with Noah and his family once they came out of the ark.

Therefore, let’s be prepared, knowing the time of God’s Visitation, to prevent the coming judgments, to stand before the Son of man in order to avoid the things that will come

“KNOWING THE TIME OF GOD’S VISITATION.”

The greatest knowledge that a person must have is the knowledge of God; and thus, with that knowledge, to know the time they were given to live in and why they live on this Earth: it’s to hear the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, receive Him as a Savior, be sprinkled with the Blood of Christ, and be cleansed of all sin; that is why we live on this Earth; and thus come in contact with Eternal Life and secure our eternal future with Christ in His Eternal Kingdom.

I received Him as my Savior upon hearing the preaching of His Gospel, and I secured my eternal future with Christ in His Eternal kingdom. Who else has done so? Well, then we will avoid going through those Divine Judgments that will come upon Earth, because we are aware of the time in which we are living.

Continue having a joyful evening, filled with the blessings of Christ, those who are present, and those who are in other nations through the Amazonas satellite or internet.

Continue having a joyful evening, filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.

“KNOWING THE TIME OF GOD’S VISITATION TO AVOID THE JUDGMENTS THAT WILL COME.”