Good afternoon, fellow ministers in the Mystical Body of Christ our Savior; it is a great blessing and privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of fellowship with you around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time.
For this reason, let’s read in Second Peter, chapter 1, verse 15 and on, where it says:
“Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in (our) your hearts:
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”
May God bless our hearts with His Word and allow us to understand It.
“MINISTERS WHO TAKE HEED, WORKING ON AND WITH THE LIVING PROPHECY.”
Throughout the history of the human race (which, we can see that history here in the Bible), we find that God has spoken to the human being in different times, He has foretold him the things that will come to pass, He has shown him through the prophecies the things that God will do and also the things that the people would do, whether good or bad; in different passages of the Bible, it shows us that God foretold the things that would happen.
And now, how has God spoken to the human being? We have already seen that it’s through the prophets. And how has He spoken to those prophets? And how has He spoken through those prophets? In other words, the part… the mechanics: how does it work? It’s simple: these prophets have said: “Thus, said the Lord.” In other words, they were not speaking of themselves; it was God through them.
It says in Zechariah, chapter 7, verse 11 and on, where it says:
“But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.”
And now, it shows us here that God sent His Word to His people, how? It says that God sent His Word by His Spirit; that is, God the Father, through the Angel of the Covenant, the heavenly body of God, which is Christ in His heavenly body, the Word, which later became flesh, the Word that was with God and was God and created all things. Notice, all things were made by Him, even speaking itself; because all things were made by the creative Word being spoken.
And that Word was spoken by God through the Word, the Angel of the Covenant, which is the heavenly body of God, which is Christ in His heavenly body called the Angel of the Covenant, and which is none other than the Holy Spirit; because a spirit is a body of another dimension, and this Angel of God is a Spirit, a body of another dimension: He is the image of God, of the living God.
That is why the Scripture, in Hebrews, chapter 1, speaks to us about this same thing; and Saint Paul (who is very knowledgeable about this Divine mystery) tells us the following: “God…” Hebrews, chapter 1, verse 1 to 3, says:
“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 (God made the universe through Christ);
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person…”
Who is the express image of God’s person? Christ in His heavenly body, that is the image of God. Remember that when God was going to create man, He said: “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness.”[1]
After “His image” means the heavenly body. And after “His physical likeness” means the physical body, which God would have later on, which He created in Mary’s womb and which was born in Bethlehem of Judea. That physical body is God’s physical likeness, of flesh, the tangible one, and it’s already glorified; and therefore, that body is eternal, it’s for all eternity.
God dwelt in Christ in His heavenly body, and then He dwelt in His physical body (the physical body of Christ); and He dwells in that body which is already glorified. Therefore, God the Father dwells in the heavenly body and in the glorified physical body, and there we have the Divine Trinity. God is triune. There we have Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, just as the human being is triune, because God is triune, and He created the human being in His image and likeness.
Now, what is the greatest thing in the Divine Trinity and in the human trinity? In the Divine Trinity: the Father. And who says so? Christ said: “The Father is greater than I.”[2] If He said so, then that’s how it is.
And in the human being the soul is the greatest thing, because that is what the person actually is: a living soul. Then, the person’s spirit is a body of another dimension. And the physical body is of this dimension; and later on we will have an eternal one, a glorified one.
And now, that is why we can see that the Scripture 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.”
Isaiah, chapter 9, verses 6 to 7; and it goes on to list all the things that He will do.
Isaiah, chapter 7, verse 14, also says: “The virgin shall conceive, and bear a son (a child), and shall call his name Immanuel (which being interpreted is: God with us).”
That is why Christ could say: “The Father and I are one.”[3] Just as you and your soul are one.
And now, we can see why when Christ says: “The Father and I are one…” and the Scripture also tells us that Jesus is the Lord.[4] And Paul tells us in First Timothy, chapter 3, verse 16:
“And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh.”
God was manifested in the flesh. And each one of us as living souls has also been manifested in human flesh, in mortal bodies; and we are going to be manifested in eternal bodies very soon, when we are transformed.
It also tells us in First… – or rather, Saint John, chapter 1, referring to Christ, the Word, it says:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.”
And how can it be possible that the Word was with God and was God? He was with God: because that is God’s heavenly body, the image of the living God, meaning, the heavenly body of Christ or Christ in His heavenly body; and He was with God – and He was God: because God was in Him, and He spoke all things into existence through Him. That’s why it says [verse 3]:
“All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”
In other words, all the things God made were carried out by Him in His heavenly body, which is Christ in the heavenly body. God in Christ, God in the Word, which is Christ in His heavenly body, spoke all things into existence. And there isn’t anything —that has been created by God— that hasn’t been through Christ; He brought all things, all of the original Creation, into existence by the creative Word being spoken.
“In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”
It says:
“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
He was not that Light (meaning, John the Baptist was not the Light, he was not the Word), but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”
And how was the Word coming into this world? How did He come into this world? He came in human flesh by creating a body in Mary’s womb; He created the cell of life there, which multiplied cell after cell, until that little body was formed, which was born in Bethlehem of Judea and was given the name “Jesus”; and He was circumcised on the eighth day according to God’s law given through the prophet Moses, because He was born, He was raised, He lived as a Jew.
“He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.”
Notice, the world was made by Him, by the Word, and the Word is the Angel of the Covenant. It was God through His Angel, the Angel of the Covenant, who is Christ; it was God through Christ who created all things.
“He came unto his own (that is, the Hebrew people), and his own received him not.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.”
Meaning, to form part of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ by believing in Christ, being baptized in water in His Name, and receiving His Holy Spirit; and thus being born again: being born into the Kingdom of God as a son or a daughter of God. In the Kingdom of God is where one is born as a son or daughter of God.
“…Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh (meaning, they are not born by a man and a woman having intimate relations), nor of the will of man (see?), but of God (of God: by the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, who is in charge of bringing forth that new birth in the person).”
And since the new birth is from Heaven, the person’s name as a child of God is written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life; the original name; because before God had children, He had already put the names of the children that He was going to have, He put them in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
“And the Word was made flesh…”
The Word, the Angel of the Covenant.
That is why when the Angel Gabriel appears to the virgin Mary, and He tells her that she is a blessed woman, and that she has found grace before God, and that she will conceive and give birth to a son, and she will call His name Jesus, and that God will give Him the Throne of His father David, and He shall reign over Israel, over His people, forever; notice, she was very surprised because never before had a child been born to… a woman had never given birth to a child except through intimate relations with a man.
And now, that was new news, but it was already in the prophecy; and that prophecy had to be quickened, brought to life. And the Angel tells her… when she asks: “How shall this be, seeing as I know not a man?” (In other words, she hadn’t had intimate relations with a man yet), the Angel tells her that the Holy Spirit will come, will overshadow her, and that is how she will conceive.
It says: “And the angel answered and said unto her…” That’s in chapter 1 of Saint Luke; it’s from 30 to 36… or from 30 to 38; here we’re in [verse] 35:
“And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
For with God nothing shall be impossible.”
And if nothing is impossible, then, when God promises something that is humanly impossible: God will fulfill it; because with Him nothing is impossible. When God promises something that is humanly impossible, that’s good, because no man will be able to carry it out; only God is the One who will be able to fulfill what has been promised by God.
How could a man fulfill that promise that a virgin would conceive? Only God could make it a reality.
And then Mary, after hearing what the Angel told her, that her cousin Elisabeth had conceived in her old age and was already six months pregnant (meaning, she had three months left to give birth)… And the Angel says to her… See? By saying that, He is raising her faith, increasing her faith; because faith comes by hearing the Word of God.[5] And when we want to increase our faith, well, we hear more Word of God, and our faith increases.
Then, when the Angel tells her: “For with God nothing shall be impossible,” Mary’s faith anchors on that: “Well, this is humanly impossible, I don’t understand it; but with God nothing is impossible. I believe it!” And when she believed it, it says:
“And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word.”
And that was Word of God; He was sent to speak that Word, He was sent by God.
“And the angel departed from her.”
She had already believed, and the work would then be carried out.
Some people want to see God do something, or they want God to do something through them, but they don’t know that they must receive a Word, a promise from God, and believe it with all their heart; and then that promised Word will come alive for the person.
She conceived, then she gave birth to the child that she had been promised; and the promise she was given, the prophecy she was given, came to life, it became a reality; it was a living prophecy: Jesus.
He was a living prophecy in the midst of Joseph and Mary’s family; He was a living prophecy in the midst of the inhabitants of Bethlehem for two years; He was a living prophecy in Egypt: when He was there in Egypt as a young child (where the Angel sent Joseph and Mary with the child because Herod was seeking Him to kill Him);[6] and then, when He returned from Egypt and came to the land of Israel, to the territory of Galilee, to Nazareth, to live there, He was a living prophecy coming from Egypt all the way to Nazareth. “I called my son out of Egypt.”[7]
And now, notice how a living prophecy is none other than the fulfillment of that prophecy.
And His life as a young man – as a child, as a young man, and already as an adult; at 29 and a half years old, His ministry already begins once He is baptized in water by John the Baptist;[8] and the prophecy of the Coming of the Messiah and His ministry is alive there, in the midst of the Hebrew people.
The living prophecy of the promised Messiah was a reality, the prophecy of the Coming of the Messiah was in human flesh; and alongside Him were some fishermen and some farmers and also some tax collectors, working with that living prophecy in the program that that living prophecy had to carry out.
And they could say as Jesus said: “I must be about my Father’s business.”[9] What is the Father’s business? What He has promised for that time, that being carried out by Jesus; and alongside Him: the disciples working with that living prophecy, so that everything the Messiah would do in that time would be fulfilled.
When Peter wanted to prevent Jesus from going to Jerusalem,[10] without realizing it he was trying to prevent the fulfillment of what the living prophecy of the Messiah had to carry out: the Sacrifice of Atonement for the sin of the human being.
And for our time there are great prophecies that must be fulfilled, which we have heard and we have believed with all our soul; and therefore, they must become a reality.
With the heart (that is, with the soul), one believes.[11] One believes with the soul because the soul has a sense: free moral agency to believe or to doubt.
And now, faith comes by hearing the Word. And that is why the promised Word of prophecy for each age is made known: so that the faith is born, so that the person believes It in his soul; and when he believes It: he testifies of It, and It becomes a reality in his life and in the life of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
For our time there is much Word of prophecy to be fulfilled, more than the Word of prophecy that there was for different ages of the past. For our time, it comes together… there is a summary of everything that happened, plus what corresponds to our time.
And it is a time parallel to the time of Moses, also to the time of Noah, also to the time of Adam, also to the time of Seth, also to the time of Jesus; just like the time of Reverend William Branham was parallel to the time of whom? Of John the Baptist. And therefore this is a time parallel to the time of Jesus in every way.
John the Baptist was the last messenger of the seven stages of the Hebrew Church under the Law. And then a new stage appeared: the Age of the Cornerstone of that time; and a messenger baptized by John appeared, whose name was Jesus, and in whom the prophecy of the Coming of the Messiah became a reality.
And to everyone, He was a common man in the midst of the people; but He was the man in whom the prophecy of the Coming of the Messiah had come to life, was made a reality.
He was a man of that time, but He was also a man of eternity: “I came forth from God, and I return to God. I came forth from the Father, and I return to the Father.”[12] “Before Abraham was, I am.”[13] Now notice, He is referring to thousands of years ago. He also says that He returns to God, and says that He came out from God.
Also, praying, He says… chapter 17, verse 15 – verse 5 says [John].
“And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.”
And now, notice, He is speaking before – speaking about before Creation: “Glorify Me with the glory which I had with You before – or since before Creation, that glory which I had with You.”
A man of eternity appears on Earth in a mortal body; for He became mortal upon receiving… or God placing upon Him the sin of all human beings; He came for that purpose: to take the sin of the human race and make Himself mortal, die, and thus He pay the price of our redemption.
And now, there are great promises for our time. It is a time parallel to that of Jesus. “Parallel in every way,” Reverend William Branham says.[14] And if we take into account the ministry of Reverend William Branham, then we have to say: “It is parallel to the time of John the Baptist and of Jesus.”
God sent a forerunner among the Hebrew people, and therefore, he had to be of the Hebrew people; and the One forerun also had to be from there among the Hebrew people under the Law. In plain words, He had to … – they had to come from Judaism.
And now, at the day… at the end time, the forerunner of the Coming of the Lord at the end time is from Christianity; Elijah appears in the midst of Christianity forerunning the Coming of the Lord.
And now… If you have a book of The Seals, one of the ones that end on page 484, and you can lend it to me, I’ll read something to you to… and perhaps I won’t have to explain anything to you. Page 57 of the book of The Seals (of this version) says [“The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages And The Seven Seals,” pp. 5-6]:
“[29] …I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow…upon his head,…
30 If you notice, that’s Christ, see. Cause, He, in the Old Testament, was called the Angel of the Covenant. And He is directly coming to the Jews now, for the Church is finished. See? All right…”
And now, he says He is directly coming to whom? To the Jews. But let’s see:
“[30] …and his face…as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
31 You remember that Angel in Revelation 1? Same thing. Angel is a ‘messenger.’ And He’s the Messenger to Israel. See? The Church has been raptured, see, now, or fixing to be raptured. He comes for His Church.”
And now, the Messenger to Israel, the Angel of the Covenant, the Mighty Angel of Revelation 10, the One who comes with the little Book open in His hand; because He takes It in Heaven, in Revelation, chapter 5, and opens It; now He comes with the little Book open, and He is the Messenger to Israel; but He comes for whom? For His Church. He is the Messenger to Israel, but He comes for His Church; therefore, first He will be in the midst of His Church, because Christ in Holy Spirit has been in the midst of His Church since the Day of Pentecost.
And now, let’s see what has to happen here. Let’s go to page 120 and 121; he says… at the end of 120, and then we’ll turn to 121 [“The First Seal,” p. 26]; and he says:
“[196] …I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud:…a rainbow…upon his head, and his face was…the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
197 Now, we’ve saw the same thing, which was Christ. And we know Christ is always the Messenger to the Church.”
For He has been in His Church since the Day of Pentecost; because He said: “I will be with you always, even unto the end of the world.”[15] He has been there in His heavenly body.
“[197] He is called the Pillar of Fire, the Angel of the Covenant, and so forth.
And he had in his hand a little book opened:…
198 Now, the Seals had done been broke, here. We’re breaking them now. But, this, the Thing is open…”
In other words, when that time comes where what is in chapter 5 is fulfilled (where He takes the Book), when that becomes a reality, then… (uh…) that is when they will be opened in Heaven.
“[198] …and he set his right foot on the sea, and his left…on the earth,
And he cried…a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he…cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. (My! The complete!)
And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I John was about to write (write what?) what they said: and I heard a voice from heaven (God) saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. Don’t write them.”
Further down (to avoid reading too much) he says [“The First Seal,” p. 27]:
“[200] This Angel come down from Heaven (meaning, the Mighty Angel) [Revelation 10:1]. It wasn’t Him; He come from Heaven. But He is speaking here of the voice of the seventh angel, which is a…Angel means a ‘messenger,’ anybody knows that, and the messenger to the church age.”
When he refers to the messenger of the seventh age, he differentiates between the messenger of the seventh age and the Messenger of Revelation 10, who comes down from Heaven.
And now, let’s go to page 131… You can read this one later. Let’s read on 134 [“The First Seal,” p. 40]:
“[302] 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].”
Let’s turn to page 146, the last paragraph says [“The First Seal,” p. 53]:
“402 And at the same time that this devil falls out of Heaven and becomes incarnate in a man, the Holy Spirit goes up and comes down in carnate men.”
Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, who has been in Holy Spirit in the midst of His Church since the Day of Pentecost… notice, he says that at the time when the devil falls out of Heaven and becomes incarnate in a man (meaning, in the antichrist), he says that the Holy Spirit goes up and comes down incarnate in a man.
He has been going up from age to age, and must go up at the end time to the age parallel to the age in which Jesus lived, which was the Age of the Cornerstone of that time.
And now, let’s see page 352, the second-to-last paragraph says [“The Sixth Seal,” pp. 25-26]:
“[202] Just about the time the Holy Ghost is revealing Himself here in the last days, the antichrist is showing his colors, coming up through his politics and things. And just about the time the antichrist moves hisself fully on the—on the scene, God moves Hisself fully on to redeem it all. See, just run, just right together. And they’re, both, side by side (see?). Cain and Abel! The crow and the dove, on the ark! Judas and Jesus!”
The Judas of the end time, which will be parallel to the Judas of back then, the Judas of the end time will be the antichrist. The John the Baptist of that time will be – or was Reverend William Branham.
But now let’s search for page… because there will be a showdown; page 270 and 271 of The Seals here, says [“The Fourth Seal,” p. 39]:
“321 Here we see Life and death coming to the final struggle. The white horse, of true Life; the pale-horse, of mixed creed. They see the thing coming to the—to the real showdown.”
And the showdown will be where? On Mount Zion. You can find that starting around… – from page 186 to 190 of the book of The Ages (so you can write that down). Page 192 of this version says [“The Pergamean Church Age,” p. 174-175]:
“Then in the latter rain will come a Mount Carmel showdown.”
And further on, he says… (that’s the first paragraph), he says:
“Watch this carefully now to see it in the Word. John was the forerunner of Malachi 3. He planted the former rain and was rejected by the organizations of his day. Jesus came and had a Mount Transfiguration showdown. The second forerunner of Christ will sow for the latter rain. Jesus will be the showdown between the denominations and creeds, for He will come to back up His Word and take His bride in the rapture. The first showdown was Mount Carmel; the second was the Mount Transfiguration, and the third will be Mount Zion.”
“The Church is Mount Zion,” it says in Hebrews, chapter 12. It says: “For we have not come unto Mount Sinai, meaning, the one that might be touched; but we have come (where?) unto Mount Zion, we have come unto the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and Church of the firstborn, which are written in Heaven”; and so on, Saint Paul the apostle tells us.
And now, here we saw that there will be a showdown, a challenge.
The spirit of Judas Iscariot, which is the spirit of the wicked one, notice, will become incarnate in the antichrist; it will be the devil incarnate in a man of the end time. But the Holy Spirit that has been in the midst of His Church will become incarnate in a man, He will come incarnate.
Let’s see. Here he says [“The Fourth Seal,” p. 40]:
“336 I said, if God speaks, or sends you, He’s…He—He backs up what you say. See? Notice, if you’re an ambassador from Heaven, all Heaven is behind you. And Heaven is consisted of the Word.”
Now, let’s see already… We saw that a showdown is coming; that will be in the squeeze.
On page 256 it says, the second-to-last paragraph says [“The Fourth Seal,” p. 25]:
“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. See? That’s just how much different there is in them. That’s the difference of them (that’s the difference between the antichrist and Christ).”
And now, that is the prophecy to be fulfilled in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And if this is what God has said that He will carry out: I’ve believed it with all my soul, with all my heart.
This is what Elijah foreran in his fourth manifestation, and that’s —therefore— what God will make a reality; and that will be the living prophecy in the midst of the people, which we will all be working alongside.
If He promised to forerun, God promised to forerun His Coming for the Last Day, and He did so through a messenger sent to the seventh Church age; and for the Last Day, for the end time, we have the promise of the Coming of Jesus, of Elijah, and of Moses… We find that, in what was forerun, he tells us that Jesus will come, and he also tells us that Elijah will come, and he also tells us that Moses will come. See? He was forerunning the Coming of the Lord with His Angels; because that is what is promised in the Word of prophecy to be fulfilled in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore, in the midst of the human race.
That is why we find Reverend William Branham speaking of Elijah, and also of Moses, and also speaking of the Hebrew people; it’s because the impact of the fulfillment of the prophecy relevant to the end time will not only reach Christianity, but Judaism as well; and it will impact all mankind; and it will impact the sleeping virgins, that is, Christians who haven’t received the Holy Spirit, and therefore, don’t have the Wedding Garment.
That is why Reverend William Branham says that when the denominational world begins to receive the Message, that is the moment, in other words, the hour of His Coming.[16] In other words, it’s under the time of the Seventh Seal that all these things will start coming to life, will start becoming a reality.
Remember that it was also said that: “When the Seventh Seal begins, It will be (what?) a total secret.”[17] But he also tells us that the Seventh Seal will be opened to the public.[18] In other words, first It’s a secret, and then the secret is opened; and It will be understood that, before being opened, there was a period of time when what was happening was a mystery, but the Seventh Seal had already been made a reality.
Like, for example, the Coming of the Messiah: when He began… He was baptized by John the Baptist, filled with the Spirit, and began to preach, He had already been on Earth for almost 30 years; but that was a mystery, His Coming was a mystery.
But He had fulfilled promises, such as the promise that the virgin would conceive and give birth to a son, and He would be born in Bethlehem of Judea, and He would be a descendant of King David; but everything that was being fulfilled was still a mystery, it was sealed, and very few realized what was taking place.
And now, we have the promise that the Seventh Seal is the Coming of the Lord.
And the forerunner says: “It’s a good thing that He hasn’t made that mystery known, how He comes and when He comes”;[19] how He comes and when He comes; but he had said in The Seals that it would be the Word.[20] Revelation 19 says that it’s… His Name is called: the Word of God: The Word, the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, the Word made flesh.
And now, all those promises will become a reality in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ, and the Jews will say: “That is what we’ve been waiting on for many centuries!”
So, you can leave them alone, they are going to see. They don’t like it when people pressure them. They will see, the way Jacob did: when he saw that his brother Esau was coming with 400 or 450 of his servants,[21] and they were armed, he said: “This is the end of me;” because his brother had said that when his father Isaac died, then Esau would kill his brother Jacob.[22]
And now, Jacob divided his family in two: he put the servants first, with their children; then he put Leah with her children; and he stayed further back with Rachel and her son Joseph and the one who was in the womb, and he was at the very end; and then he also has them go forward, and he stays behind alone. And he wrestled all night with a Man, and he didn’t let Him go until he received His blessing.[23]
He knew that He was a being of another dimension, he knew that He was the Angel of the Covenant, and he tells Him: “I won’t…” when the Angel says to him: “Let Me go, for the day is breaking (in other words, He has – He had to leave),” Jacob tells Him: “I won’t let You go until You bless me.”
The Angel asks him: “What is your name?”
The Angel knew it, but there are things that we have to speak even if God knows them. God knows our needs; but Jesus taught us to pray, so that we pray to God and make our requests to Him, and also worship God and glorify Him.
And now, Jacob doesn’t let go of the Angel, and the Angel has to leave. He asks him for his name, and Jacob says to Him: “My name is Jacob” (‘supplanter’).
And the Angel says to him: “Your name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel, for as a prince you’ve had power with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
And Jacob asks Him: “What is Your Name?” Notice, the human being has always been interested in knowing what the Name of God is. And the Name of God is in the Angel.
Remember that He told Moses what His Name was, because Moses asked Him (and in chapter 23 as well…) and in chapter 3 [Exodus]. And in chapter 23 He told him that the Angel [Name] was in His Angel.
That is why when the Angel speaks with Moses and says to him: “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (meaning, it was God inside the Angel, in that heavenly body),” and Moses asks Him what His Name is, the Angel tells him what His Name is; He gives him the letters YHW. That is the translation of the words that were given in Hebrew. And in English it’s also explained in a certain way. And in some explanations or translations it says: “I Am.” And there are also others that say: “I Will Be.” Let’s leave that alone there. That’s also a mystery; not only God, but His Name as well.
And now, since the Name is in the Angel, that Angel who appears to Jacob has the Name of God; and that is why Jacob wants to know what the Name is, because Jacob recognized that it was God in His heavenly body. And that is proven by Jacob’s words, when he named that place… What did he name it? Peniel, which means (what?) ‘Face of God’; he said: “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”[24]
See? He had the knowledge that God appeared in His heavenly body, that that Angel was God veiled in a heavenly body; it was God veiled in His image: His heavenly body. Remember, the image is the heavenly body. And these Old Testament saints, these patriarchs, had that knowledge.
On many occasions, God appeared to Abraham in the form of an Angel as well: He appeared to him as Melchizedek;[25] and He also appeared to him when those three Angels, three Men, appeared to him in chapters 17 and 18 of Genesis, before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
For the Last Day, we have the promise of three characters: Jesus, Moses, and Elijah. In other words, that is parallel; because Christ said that “as it was in the days (of who?) of Lot, even so shall it be in the day when the Son of Man will be manifested, will be revealed.”[26]
And the promise is that the Son of Man will be manifested, will be revealed, He will come with His Angels,[27] just as God came to Abraham back then.
And it also says that it will be as it was in the days of Noah, where there was a dispensational prophet, and where the end of… of the antediluvian world had come.[28]
And at the end time, the end of the kingdom of the Gentiles will have come; the end of the kingdom or the kingdoms of this world will have come, to then make way for the Kingdom of the Messiah.
And now, we have the promise that there will be a full manifestation of God in the midst of Christianity, and that this manifestation was identified by the Angel who appeared to the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ as the Third Pull; and it will happen in a language that is not English, because when he saw or heard the Voice of the Seven Thunders, he says it was in a language unknown to him, therefore, it was not English.[29]
It has to be in the language relevant to the messenger that God has for that time, because Christ in Holy Spirit in every messenger, has spoken in the language of the messenger.
When He became flesh, well, He spoke in the language of the Angel-Messenger, the Angel of the Covenant made flesh, which was the Hebrew or Aramaic that He spoke (and they spoke) at that time, that was the language of Jesus.
And now, we have the promise of that Third Pull, called the Third Pull, where the fullness of God will be manifested; therefore, the Word will be in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Word manifested. And he will also have a Name that no one knew, but He Himself, “and His Name is called: the Word of God.”[30]
“And on His vesture and on His thigh He has this name written: King of kings and Lord of lords,”[31] because at that time He will be manifesting Himself as King. And therefore, He will finish His Work of Intercession in Heaven and become King, become the King of kings and Lord of lords and Judge of all the Earth. He will no longer be as High Priest, He will no longer be as Lamb and High Priest, but as Judge and King.
We have the promise of a large building: a Tent Cathedral, where there will be thousands of people, and where great wonders and signs will be carried out; and there will be a little wooden room —which will become “the secret closet,”— where Christ, the Holy Spirit, the Pillar of Fire, will be working those wonders. And He will have a veil of flesh, because it will be the Word coming in His final manifestation in the midst of His Church.
And Reverend William Branham said (in – there you can have page 136 of the book of Quotations[32] and also the book of The Seals) that the signs and wonders, the great miracles, are under Moses and Elijah; therefore, the ministries of Moses and Elijah, and of Jesus, will also be there, repeating once again; the Holy Spirit, Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, operating them again. Because the only one who has ministries is the Holy Spirit, He is the only One that has operated ministries.
And now, that Divine project of a giant Tent Cathedral is the Program for the end time, where the full manifestation of God will be manifested, and the prophecies relevant for this end time will be fulfilled for the blessing of the Bride-Church, for Christianity, and for the world to see that manifestation where God will shake this world; and the Jews will also see that manifestation.
God will shake this world in His final manifestation. They will know there is a God, and they will see His manifestation in the fulfillment of the living prophecy of the Tent Cathedral; where I will be. And who else will be participating in those blessings? All of you as well.
And since it was said that the miracles – the great miracles will be – great international miracles will happen with Moses and Elijah, well, there will be cameras, there will be satellite broadcasts and television screens in different countries; and no matter what country it is, miracles will also happen in the different countries, even though the manifestation of God, of Christ, will be taking place in one place; but He won’t have limitations.
Didn’t He, Christ, say to the Roman army officer when he spoke to Him about his son who was sick, and the Roman officer said to Him: “Speak the Word and my servant will be healed”? And according to the Word that He spoke, the servant was then healed.[33] He had not found such great faith in all of Israel as He found in that man, where he saw that Christ had no limitations, there was no such thing as distance for Christ, He didn’t have to go lay hands on the sick, just speaking the Word was enough.
And that is how the Third Pull will be in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision: it will be the creative Word being spoken; that is where the secret will lie. And it won’t be a public show, to avoid imitations; it will be something reserved, but it will shake the world.
The living prophecy of the Tent Vision must rise up somewhere; that Vision has to come alive, become a reality. That’s why we are working hand in hand with Puerto Rico in that project of that large auditorium, of that Tent Cathedral that they are already having built, and also the lands they are purchasing so that there is space… because you can’t set up a giant tent on a small piece of land that… that borders the road; no.
If the building is large, well, it has to have a large area, and it has to have a place for the parking of buses, of cars, and also for people to walk; because they aren’t going to be inside the building all the time, instead, when they arrive, they also have to walk to get to the building. And when there are breaks to eat, they also have to go outside to eat and buy things.
I’m hand in hand with Puerto Rico, with La Carpa Corporation of Puerto Rico, on that great project they are carrying out. And even though I’m not there, rather I’m traveling all the time, despite that, I’m hand in hand with them on that project.
And I also greatly appreciate that you as ministers along with your congregations, have joined hand in hand with Puerto Rico on that project of that Tent Cathedral.
And we hope that will be the Tent Cathedral that Reverend William Branham saw. It must be in the territory where the age relevant to this time is being fulfilled.
That is why Reverend William Branham couldn’t carry it out, make it, or obtain it, because it wasn’t for the seventh age; it is for our age. And therefore, it’s up to us to work so that this prophecy comes to life, becomes a reality.
And if someone tells us: “But you’re doing something that North America is supposed to do.”
Well, why haven’t they done it?
And why are we doing it? Because we believe it with all our heart and we know where we stand.
We know that it’s connected to a language that isn’t English, and we know that it’s connected to a dispensational Message promised for this end time: the Gospel of the Kingdom, together with the Gospel of Grace. We know all those things, and therefore, we work so that the prophecy of the Tent Vision becomes a reality as soon as possible.
And all of that is connected to the great wonders that God has promised for this end time. And it’s connected to the preparation for the transformation and the rapture; and I don’t want to explain too much about that, but it’s connected to that Divine Program. And it’s also connected to the Hebrew people.
And we should always avoid having conflicts with one another, we should get along with each other. And anything we don’t understand each other on, well, we should talk to resolve it, and figure out the best way to do things; without imposing anything on one another, but instead by everyone working in mutual agreement in the Work of the Lord. And seeking the appropriate or most appropriate way to do things; and we should try to economize as much as possible in the Work of the Lord, knowing that everything He provides is the Lord’s, and we have to answer to Him for everything He provides.
Remember, on one occasion, when He multiplied the loaves and the fish, He said: “Now gather up everything that remains.”[34] What for? Not to throw it away, but to use it later on.
And on one occasion, when He says something after that, they seem to have forgotten what they’d gathered, something happened, and they thought He was saying those things because they hadn’t brought food (I don’t know if it was part of what had been left over; we can look into that later).[35]
But remember: Christ doesn’t waste; He spends, but He doesn’t waste. He spends what is necessary, and that is how we should be as well.
We shouldn’t think as some people say: “I don’t value what came at no cost to me”. No. Christ paid a very high price for everything: He had to give His life for all of us and for the entire world.
Therefore, everything belongs to Him, and we have to know how to use the things He provides us, always economizing as much as we can; even if they say we’re stingy, but we are accountable to Him, and therefore, we must give a good account.
Well, these are pieces of advice so that we know how to make the most of what He provides us.
Well, may God bless you and keep you. And let’s leave Reverend Epifanio here now, to continue.
(Here we have the two books: one of The Seven Seals, and another of The Seven Ages. You may come up, because it’s getting late).
May God bless you and keep you. And see you tomorrow, God willing.
“MINISTERS WHO TAKE HEED, WORKING ON AND WITH THE LIVING PROPHECY.”
[1] Genesis 1:26
[2] John 14:28
[3] John 10:30
[4] Philippians 2:9-11
[5] Romans 10:17
[6] Matthew 2:13-15
[7] Hosea 11:1
[8] Matthew 3:13-17, Mark 1:9-11, Luke 3:21-22
[9] Luke 2:49
[10] Matthew 16:21-23, Mark 8:31-33
[11] Romans 10:10
[12] John 16:28
[13] John 8:58
[14] Quotations, p. 119, para. 1058: 63-1229E – “Look Away To Jesus,” p. 7, para. 52
[15] Matthew 28:20
[16] Quotations, p. 10-A, para. 99: 61-0427 – “Only Believe,” p. 19, paras. 119-120
[17] The Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” p. 36, para. 304
[18] The Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” pp. 47-48, paras. 393-395, 398-400
[19] Quotations, p. 106, para 923: 63-0728 – “Christ Is The Mystery Of God Revealed,” pp. 15-16, paras. 105-107
[20] The Seals, “The First Seal,” p. 37, paras. 283-286
[21] Genesis 33:1-3
[22] Genesis 27:41
[23] Genesis 32:22-29
[24] Genesis 32:30
[25] Genesis 14:18-20
[26] Luke 17:28-30
[27] Matthew 16:27
[28] Matthew 24:37-39, Luke 17:26-27
[29] The Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” p. 36 paras. 299-300
[30] Revelation 19:13
[31] Revelation 19:16
[32] Quotations, p. 136, para. 1208: 64-0823M – “Questions And Answers #1,” pp. 37, 39, paras. 186, 197-198
[33] Matthew 8:5-13, Luke 7:1-10
[34] John 6:12
[35] Matthew 16:5-12, Mark 8:14-21