New Heavens and New Earth

Good morning, kind friends and brethren present, also ministers present, and those who are connected through the Amazonas satellite or through the internet in different nations; ministers, churches, brethren from different nations.

Happy Mother’s Day over there, to all the mothers there in Bolivia, may God bless you greatly. And may God also greatly bless all the people of God, all the believers in Christ our Savior. And may God bless Missionary Miguel Bermúdez Marín over there, where he is at the moment.

For this occasion, let’s read in Isaiah chapter 66, verse 22, where it says… chapter 66, verse 22, of Isaiah:

“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.”

May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.

“NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH,” that is what is promised here:

“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.”

“NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH.”

The heavens is the atmosphere, where there are spiritual beings, and which the apostle Saint Paul speaks to us about in Ephesians. He tells us in Ephesians and in Colossians… Colossians 2 (I have here) it says [verse 15]:

“… and having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.”

And in Ephesians, chapter 2, verse 2 as well… verse 1 to 2 says:

“And you hath he quickened,” (in other words, Christ), “and you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.”

The prince of the power of the air is Satan.

Now, chapter 6, verse 12, of Ephesians, tells us:

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”

There we can see all these things that are happening in the air and that affect human beings; because mankind, all the nations, have been controlled by the prince of darkness, which is the wicked one, the devil or Satan.

When Christ was in the wilderness, led by the Holy Spirit, He spent forty days and forty nights without eating and without drinking; there, He was tempted by the wicked one, Satan, the devil, who made an offer to Jesus, in Saint Matthew chapter 4, where he tells Him (in chapter 4, verse 8 and on):

“Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;

And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.

Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

(And) Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.”

There we can see that the devil offers Christ the kingdoms of this world. And in Saint Luke, chapter 4, it says the same thing, with something else so that we can understand better. It says in chapter 4, verse 5 and on, of Saint Luke:

“And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.

If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.

And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.”

Here the devil tells Him that all the kingdoms, all that power over all those kingdoms, have been given to him, that power has been given to the devil, to Satan, and he gives that power to whomever he wants. That was a big offer. And he tells Him that if He fell down and worshiped him, all that power of all the kingdoms of the world would be given to Christ; meaning that He would become the king of the world, the One who would rule the entire world.

Being in the time of the Roman empire, which in the statue that King Nebuchadnezzar saw and the prophet Daniel interpreted for him, in chapter 2, verse 1 to 45… The statue that King Nebuchadnezzar saw represents the kingdom of the Gentiles, which began with King Nebuchadnezzar and his empire, represented in the head of gold; then it continued to another stage, represented in the breast and the arms of silver, which was the Medo-Persian kingdom or empire; then it continued and the kingdom of the Gentiles went on to another stage: to the belly and thighs of brass, which was the empire of Greece, beginning there with Alexander the Great; then it went on to another stage, a stage represented in the legs of iron, and the feet of iron and clay.

The legs of iron were the Roman empire, which in the time of Jesus was ruling even over Israel.

The empire of the Caesars were the legs of iron. After the Roman empire fell, then the stage of the feet of iron and clay began; a stage that still remains.

Given that in the days of Jesus the Roman empire was ruling: the Gentile kingdom was in the stage of the legs of iron, a stage which pertains to the Roman empire.

If Christ accepted that proposal from Satan, He would have become the Roman emperor at that time; in some way He would be crowned as the Roman emperor and He would rule the entire world with that Roman empire, He would be the Caesar. Remember that Caesar is the title that passed from one Roman emperor to another Roman emperor.

But in the Kingdom of God there is a very important title, and it is not the Caesar’s, but the title of Son of David; that is the title that pertains to the Messiah the Prince, to Christ, to sit on the Throne of David and reign over Israel and over all the nations; and He didn’t trade that title for the Caesar’s title (or the title of Caesar).

Notice here, Saint Luke chapter 1, verses 30 and on, says:

“And the angel said unto her,” (this is the Angel Gabriel), “Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.

And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.

He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David…”

What Throne will He give Him? The Throne of David; therefore, He is the David of that Kingdom, not the Caesar of the Roman kingdom, but the David of the Kingdom of David and Throne of David; which is why He is the Son of David.

“He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:

And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.”

And this is also consistent with God’s promise through the prophet Isaiah in chapter *9, verse 6 to 7, which 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.

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom…”

Here we have the Throne of David and the Kingdom of David, to which this child who would be born, this Son who would be given, would be the heir; who will sit on the Throne of David and reign over Israel and over all the nations.

“… to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.”

In other words, it will be a Work of God that will lead to the Messiah the Prince sitting on the Throne of David and inheriting the Kingdom of David.

Now we saw that there is a struggle against spiritual hosts in the air, which is the atmosphere, also called Heaven, where and from where they influence the human race, all the nations.

But from God and from God’s dimension, going from the seventh dimension to the sixth dimension, God sends angels to the believers in Christ, to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and She is protected by heavenly hosts.

In Hebrews chapter 1, verses 5 and on, it says:

“For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.

And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.”

Then verse 14 of this same chapter 1 of Hebrews says:

“Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?”

In other words, those ministering angels bring the Word to the people of God. And notice:

“… ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?”

In other words, for the believers in Christ, for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And Christ Himself said: “I will be with you always, even unto the end of the world.” (Matthew chapter 28, verse 20.)

Now, we find in the words of Jesus as well, in [John] chapter 12, verse 31, He says:

“Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.

This he said, signifying what death he should die.”

And notice, with His death, lifted up on the Cross, He has been drawing to Himself millions of human beings throughout these two thousand years that have passed from Christ until now.

In chapter 14, verse 30, it says [John]:

“Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.”

Satan, the prince of this world, wanted to have Christ as king of the kingdom of darkness, but Christ refused; therefore, Christ has nothing in the kingdom of the wicked one, nor does the wicked one have anything in Christ or in the Kingdom of Christ.

There is another passage that talks about… Chapter 16, verse 11, says, of Saint John as well:

“… of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.”

Now, we have seen what the Heavens are, which Saint Paul and Saint Peter also speak to us about. Let’s see what Saint Peter says, referring to the atmosphere as Heaven. Second Peter chapter 3, verse 8 and on, says:

“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day,” (Psalm 90, verse 4, also tells us about the same thing).

“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”

It is God’s longsuffering for salvation, it is God’s patience and God’s mercy, because He desires for all to come to repentance: by receiving Christ as their only and sufficient Savior, so that they receive the forgiveness of their sins, and Christ receives them, and with His Blood cleanses them from all sin, and they are baptized in water in the Name of the Lord, and Christ baptizes them with the Holy Spirit and Fire, and brings forth the new birth in people. Therefore, it is God’s longsuffering.

“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”

In other words, there is a prophecy here that the heavens will pass away with great noise and the Earth will be burned up; and the works that are on Earth: buildings, cities, all these man-made things, will be dissolved.

“Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?”

Meaning it will be on fire – the heavens will be on fire, the atmosphere will be on fire; the atmosphere is going to be on fire.

“Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.”

There are a people who know that this Earth will be burned and the heavens too, that is, the atmosphere; but these people are waiting, according to God’s promise, for new heavens and a new Earth.

We already saw what the heavens are. In other words, there will be, after the heavens, the atmosphere, being burned, there will be a new atmosphere for the planet Earth; that will be after the Great Tribulation, and after Judgment Day too.

But before that there will be a thousand-year Kingdom with the Messiah, who will rule over Israel and over all the nations; and that will be the restoration of the Kingdom of David, with the Messiah the Prince on the Throne of David.

In that thousand-year Kingdom there will be death, there will be sin too; that is during the Millennial Kingdom, which is shown in Isaiah, Isaiah speaks to us about the Millennium.

The Scripture tells us that in that Kingdom the child will die at 100 years old. You’ve never seen a 100-year-old child; but if it is a millennium, where you can live 1000 years, then 100 years is one-tenth of a person’s life.

And let’s say that currently one lives 70 to 100 years: one-tenth of 70 is 7 years, a child; and one-tenth of 100 is 10 years, also a child. And one-tenth of 1000 is 100 years: a child in terms of time, of years.

“And the sinner being 100 years old shall be accursed;” in other words, the sinner won’t be able to live more than 100 years. The sinner who manages to live long, the most he will be able to live is 100 years; he will be cursed, he will die.¹

And now… That is the Millennial Kingdom, where Abraham’s seed will receive the Kingdom, according to Romans chapter 4, verse 13; it says:

“For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.”

“Heir of the world;” that promise was given to Abraham and his seed. The Millennial Kingdom will be ruled by the Messiah the Prince, a descendant of Abraham; a descendant of Abraham.

Let’s look at Revelation chapter 11, where we have more information; verses 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.”

The kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of Christ.

And now, we can see that the Kingdom of the Messiah is very near. It is a glorious Kingdom; but there will be some situations, which will be controlled by the Messiah in His Kingdom. Let’s see here in Zechariah chapter 14, verse 9 and on, it says:

“And the Lord shall be king over all the earth,” (meaning, God through the Messiah), “in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.”

Notice, in the Kingdom of God: God is One, and His Name one.

In the kingdom that Satan offered Jesus, if He fell down and worshiped him, notice, the worship of that kingdom is diabolical, satanic, worship to the devil; paganism, which comes from the time of Nimrod, where his father Cush together with Nimrod founded that kingdom back then,² and the worship, the religion, was diabolical, for the wicked one; everything was aimed for that. They sacrificed children to those pagan gods that they had.

And having countless gods from different nations, main gods, that comes from the time of Nimrod and his father Cush; who was (Cush was) the interpreter of those gods, of those evil spirits that were worshiped through the Babylonian religion; which went from the Babylonian empire to the Medo-Persian empire, from the Medo-Persian empire to the empire of Greece (Greek), and from the empire of Greece to the Roman empire, and from the Roman empire it goes on to the feet of iron and clay.

Because in the feet of iron and clay is where the Stone cut out without hands, which is the Second Coming of Christ, will become a reality at the Last Day; with Christ coming to establish His Kingdom, to claim everything He has redeemed with His Blood: the planet Earth, the human beings, all the believers in Him; and the Kingdom of David, to be restored on Earth, which is the Kingdom of God on Earth. That pertains to the Millennial Kingdom, the thousand-year Kingdom, of the Messiah, of the Anointed One, of the Christ.

But before that comes a time of tribulation; there comes a time where the Earth will be straightened up by nuclear explosions in a Third World War, and also volcanoes erupting, and countless big problems that will come upon the human race, that are appointed as the plagues that will fall upon the human race in the time – in a time period of three and a half years, which pertains to the time of the end or end time.

That is how the kingdom of the Gentiles will end: with the Divine judgment upon the kingdom of the Gentiles in the stage of the feet of iron and clay.

During that stage, the antichrist will be reigning, ruling; and his kingdom, in the feet of iron and clay, will be destroyed by the Divine judgment that God will bring upon that kingdom, which are the plagues contained in the Vials that will be poured out upon the Earth; and especially the seventh Vial, which is the one that pertains to this end time. And this comes together with the Final Trumpet, Great Voice of Trumpet or Seventh Trumpet, which are the Two Olive Trees, the ministries of Moses and Elijah being repeated.

By that three-and-a-half-year time period of the Great Tribulation, the born-again believers in Christ, who form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which will still be alive on Earth: will receive the faith, the revelation, to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; and the dead believers in Christ will be resurrected in immortal bodies, incorruptible bodies, glorified bodies, like the glorified body of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

And thus, the dead believers in Christ resurrected in glorified bodies will gather with the believers in Christ who will be alive at that time; and when we see them, we will be changed. And then, well, we will be on Earth for a short season: 30 to 40 days, and then we will go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb to Heaven, to the House of our Heavenly Father.

It is important to know God’s promises for the believers in Christ; because you can’t believe something you haven’t heard of. “How shall they believe if it is not preached to them? And how shall it be preached to them without a preacher?”³

Therefore, faith always comes by hearing, by hearing the Word of God,⁴ the Message of God relevant to the time in which a person is living.

Before our transformation, we will receive the faith… the faith will go up to such a level that we will obtain our transformation.

Some preachers have called it: rapturing faith;⁵ like the faith Enoch had, who was raptured that he should not see death; like the one Elijah had, who was raptured that he should not see death;⁶ and so on.

We are at a time in which the Voice or Voices, the Seven Thunders of Revelation chapter 10, will give the faith to be changed and raptured to all the believers in Christ who are ordained to be changed and go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; those are the ones who form the Church-Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, those are the elect of God, the chosen of God, the predestinated of God; those are the ones who have their names written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life. Those are the ones of whom Saint Paul 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.” (Philippians, chapter 3, verse 20 to 21.)

This is a Divine promise given by the Holy Spirit through the apostle Saint Paul.

Therefore, as believers in Christ and the promises He has made through His apostles for His Church, we remain steadfast waiting for our transformation.

And if someone departs or dies physically, well, he waits in Paradise for the resurrection; because Christ will go to Paradise and bring them: all the believers who are in Paradise, He will bring them to the Earth to give them a physical, eternal, immortal, incorruptible and glorified body. That will be the resurrection: the resurrection in glorified bodies, immortal bodies, incorruptible bodies.

And for those who are alive, since our bodies come from the dust of the earth, the earth that Christ will use for our transformation, we already have it. A transformation. And so we will always be with the Lord then.

All of that is before the Great Tribulation.

In other words, we started talking about what pertains to eternity, then we went on to what comes before eternity: Judgment Day, for which there is a resurrection, which is the second resurrection of all those who have lived on planet Earth, and… except the believers in Christ, who will already be in glorified bodies (those who had died will have already been raised), and except for those who rose with Christ when Christ rose in Saint Matthew, chapter 27, verse 51 and on.

In the Millennial Kingdom and for the Millennial Kingdom, before the Millennial Kingdom begins, the resurrection of the dead in Christ, believers in Christ, takes place; and even before the Great Tribulation begins, the resurrection of the dead in Christ takes place, which in Revelation chapter 20, verses 4 to 6, is called: the first resurrection.

And let’s see here what it tells us about this first resurrection, and the blessing there will be for the people who have part in the first resurrection. Chapter 20, verse 4 and on, says:

“And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.”

The first resurrection is the one of the believers in Christ who will reign with Christ for a thousand years, where they will be kings, priests, and judges.

We have seen that this time in which we are living is the end time. And in this end time or cycle is when we have been seeing the promises pertaining to this end time, the signs and prophecies are being fulfilled: “Signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and upon the Earth distress of nations, with perplexity…; for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming;”⁷ that is, the roaring of the sea and the waves, that is, the tidal waves or tsunamis, and so on.

We have seen all those signs; and chariots of fire or flying saucers appearing in the heavens, in the air – in the air, and people having a lot of fear. And with the things that scientists are discovering, about the problems of the environment, of earthquakes… how it has been discovered, made known by scientists: the earthquake for California. Los Angeles, California, Hollywood and all those places will be destroyed with a great earthquake that is being announced by scientists, and that coincides with the Scriptures;⁸ which, most likely, will affect all the coasts of the countries along the Pacific.

The Pacific coastlines of all the Latin American countries will be affected by the tidal waves or tsunamis and the earthquake; meaning that there is a grave danger for the whole continent of the Americas. But “no one can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord; neither life, nor death, nor angels, nor principalities, nor height, nor depth, nothing can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”⁹

“Though the Earth shakes, and the mountains be moved in the heart of the sea, I will fear no evil, for the Lord is with me,”¹⁰ and with who else? With each one of you as well.

If the physical body dies: the person continues living, because the person is a soul, spirit, and body; what dies is the physical body. The spirit, which is another body of another dimension, a heavenly body that the believers have, in that body the soul of every believer in Christ continues to live: they go on to live in Paradise. Therefore, there is no problem for the believers in Christ.

And those who are alive until the Coming of the Lord, upon completing His Church, and rising up from the Throne of Intercession in Heaven, and taking the Title Deed, the Book of the Seven Seals or Seven-Sealed Book, and opening It in Heaven, and bringing It to Earth, in Revelation chapter 10, verse 1 and on…

In chapter 5 of Revelation, He takes the Book, opens It in Heaven (chapter 5, chapter 6, and chapter 8); and brings It to Earth open and gives It to a man: John there, a type and figure of the One who receives that Title Deed at the Last Day. And that is tied to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ to receive the faith to be changed and raptured, taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

What those Seven Thunders of Revelation chapter 10, which is the Voice of Christ, no longer as Lamb but as Lion, crying as the Lion, speaking as the Lion; the content of those Seven Thunders, what it speaks, what those Seven Thunders reveal, which is the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, will be what gives the believers in Christ the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

Just like by hearing the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, where the mystery is made known of the First Coming of Christ and His death on Calvary’s Cross as the Lamb of God, bearing our sins to cleanse us from all sin with His Blood; and to change us: to bring forth a transformation in our lives, to bring forth the new birth, where we obtain the heavenly or spiritual body, called the angel that each person has; and that is, upon receiving the Spirit of Christ, that the person receives the new birth, they are born again.

Then, with the Divine Revelation of the Second Coming of Christ, of the Seventh Seal, in the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ, when It is fulfilled, we will obtain the revelation and the faith—which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ—to be physically changed and obtain the physical, immortal, incorruptible, and glorified body.

Without what those Seven Thunders said, which is the Voice of Christ speaking as the Lion, the transformation of the living in Christ and the resurrection of the dead believers in Christ cannot take place.

The Voice of Christ crying as when a Lion roars, which is the Mighty Angel that comes down from Heaven in Revelation chapter 10, is: Christ speaking His Last Message for His Church, speaking among His Church at the Last Day; that is what the Second Coming of Christ is promised for. Because our citizenship is in the Heavens, because we have been born again; by being born again we are born of Heaven, because the new birth is not earthly, it is heavenly.

Nicodemus thought it was an earthly birth: by entering into his mother’s womb and being born again; but Christ told him: “Except a man be born of Water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.”¹¹

The born-again believers in Christ have already entered into the Kingdom of God, into the Kingdom of Christ our Savior. In the spiritual realm they are in the Kingdom of Christ; and now they just need the physical realm, the physical body, which pertains to the Kingdom of God physically, which will be the new, immortal, incorruptible, and glorified body.

God says: “Behold, I make all things new”¹²: new Earth, new heavens, new body, and new Kingdom: the Kingdom of the Messiah.

Let’s see it here again, in Revelation 11, verse 15 and on:

“And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,

Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.

And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.

And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail,” (there you have the earthquake again).

We are—physically—in a dangerous time for human beings, which is why it’s good to take precautions.

During a storm season, we have to secure the house, the windows, and have something to secure the doors; and if it is a metal roof: secure the metal panels, so the wind doesn’t take it, secure it with cables that are placed and are tied into the ground or in certain places (using iron stakes that you dig into the ground, to fasten the cables there, or at the bottom part of the house); fasten the cables there so that the wind doesn’t blow the metal panels away, if the house is – if it’s a metal roof. And always be prepared during stormy seasons.

And also now it is – now the stage of earthquakes is at its peak, and that’s all year long; you also have to know how to take care of yourself and take care of your family in the case of an earthquake.

It is better to be prepared and for nothing to happen; than to be unprepared and for something to happen, and you don’t know what to do. We have to protect our family and we also have to protect ourselves as individuals as well.

So, it is important to take all the necessary precautions if you wish to escape at some point from a natural disaster like a storm, earthquake, tsunamis, tidal waves, all these things; volcanoes as well.

Here in Puerto Rico we don’t know of any volcano, but Central America is full of volcanoes, and other countries in Latin America; and North America must also have some volcanoes in some territories.

Therefore, we must be prepared, at least know how to get out of the house if an earthquake happens, know what to do. And if you can’t get out, know how to protect yourself inside the house.

And also, if you buy five pounds of rice, well, then buy a little more in case of a problem; or like we do during stormy seasons: a can of cookies and coffee, bottled water as well, and some canned food; you can never have too much of that. And you can replace it every certain amount of time: bring new ones, and use the ones that have been in the house for a long time. That is, let’s say, buying in advance.

That is in order to be prepared. Those little things should be done for the family’s well-being, for everyone’s well-being; because in the case of a disaster, you shouldn’t be looking to your neighbor: wanting them to give you something, when it was you who wasn’t prepared. You can’t take away from your neighbor what he did to be prepared.

Well, you also can’t expect the rest to be obligated to help you; it is you along with your family who must do your part. And if the neighbor or a friend has extra and can share with you, well, you can be grateful to them; but you can’t take away the food of their children to give it to yourself and your children; although they may only give you a little bit then. If they are going to give you something, you can’t expect them to give you everything you need either; because each person stored according to his needs.

And the one who stored a little more, for his needs and those of someone else who is in a tight spot and who wasn’t negligent… Negligent people always have problems, and then they complain that no one helps them; and then they demand that you are obligated to help them. But everyone is responsible for himself and for his family.

Now, believers in Christ help one another too; but when they see a lazy person… In the time of Saint Paul and Saint Peter, when they saw someone who was lazy, Paul said: “He who doesn’t work, shouldn’t eat.”¹³ He who doesn’t work, shouldn’t eat; because there were people who didn’t like to work and they went from house to house eating, so they would give them food from house to house. In other words, the food that they had for their family, they then had to give to those people who, what they did was lounge around, not wanting to work, living off others. Saint Paul corrected that, and he was stern when he spoke about that problem.

Now, before reaching the new heavens and the new Earth, notice, we have to go through a moment, a time of squeeze; and the fulfillment of the Coming of the Lord will be at that time; at that time the Seven Thunders, the revelation of the Seven Thunders, the Seven Thunders which are the Voice of Christ, Christ will speak to His Church and that will be speaking with a thundering Voice; in other words, the Seven Thunders speaking to His Church, revealing to Her the mystery of His Coming.

At that time the believers in Christ will be going through times of squeeze, and in the middle of that situation the resurrection of the dead in Christ will take place, for which there will be a very great earthquake prophesied, as it was at the time of the resurrection of Christ and the saints who rose with Him. And there will be such a great confusion worldwide that they won’t even realize that there was a resurrection; like it happened in the time of Jesus Christ, that not even His disciples realized that the resurrection had taken place.

Christ rose and so did the Old Testament saints, and they appeared to many in the city: Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob and Rachel, and so on; and Jacob’s children through the different… the resurrection through… In this resurrection, it was the ones of the Old Testament¹⁴: Jacob, Rachel the beloved, whom he married, this beloved bride; Leah also rose and their children; all of them young; Abraham a young man, Sarah a young woman; and so on, that is how it was back then.

And that is how it will be at this end time: the resurrection of the apostles with all the believers of the time of the apostles, the believers of Saint Paul’s time, with all the ministers too, the believers of each stage of the Church, including the believers of this end time who have already died physically: they will rise in eternal bodies; and we who are alive will be changed.

After a short season, let’s say, using the new body for the first time here on Earth, already adopted… because the adoption is the redemption of the physical body, the transformation of our bodies.

And after 30 to 40 days we will be caught up with Christ to Heaven, to the heavenly Father’s House, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, which, the feast of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb will last three and a half years, while on this Earth they will be going through the judgments of the Great Tribulation for three-and-a-half-years, all those who were left on Earth will be going through it: the foolish virgins, who were believers in Christ who had no oil in their lamps, in other words, they didn’t have the Holy Spirit, therefore, they had not been born again; and they didn’t even notice the Coming of the Lord, nor the fact that the wise virgins went in with Him to the Marriage and the Door was shut.¹⁵

Then, we will return with Christ to Earth to begin the Millennial Kingdom with Christ.

Then there will be a battle, because the devil or Satan… who before the beginning of the Millennium, the Kingdom, during that time, at the beginning of the Kingdom, in [Revelation] chapter 20, verse 1 to 3, a Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven with a chain in his hand bound the devil, chained him, and cast him into the bottomless pit for a period of time, that is, for a thousand years.

After the thousand years expire, he will be loosed or released, he will let himself loose – he will be released, and he will deceive the nations again; and he will try to carry out a coup d’état against the Messiah and His Kingdom, but fire will come down out of heaven and destroy them.

And then comes the resurrection of all the dead, so they can be judged, the dead since the time of Cain until now; and they will be judged for all the things they did in their bodies of flesh. They will be raised again in bodies of flesh, they will be just like they were during the time they lived on Earth; and that is why the devil tries to use all those people there: to carry out a coup d’état against the Kingdom of the Messiah.

And then Judgment Day begins; and once it’s over: whoever was condemned is cast into the lake of fire, where the devil, the false prophet, the antichrist, and the beast are; and whoever was not found written in the Book of Life, because he was either blotted out or because he was never written there, will also be cast into the lake of fire, where his body, spirit and soul will be completely annihilated, he will be burned in body, spirit and soul.¹⁶

And then the Earth will also go through fire, to burn every germ, every disease, every evil spirit, all the evil things that there are on Earth; and what is in the air, in the atmosphere, will also be burned; and therefore, the whole kingdom of darkness will be burned and will be completely annihilated: it will cease to exist. All evil will cease to exist.

And then the Earth will be restored to Eternal Life. It will be… there will be new heavens and new Earth, a new Earth and a new heaven; a planet Earth that has received a transformation, and therefore, it is a new Earth, just like the body we will receive: it will be a new body, a glorified body. And I will be there with Christ, and who else? Each one of you too, in that new Earth, where there will be a City called the new Jerusalem.

As for the grounds, that Mountain will emerge from the heart of the Earth through volcanoes. As for its inhabitants, well, they will be the ones who come from Heaven with Christ: His Church and the Old Testament saints, and all those who received Life there on Judgment Day, who were not condemned.

Therefore, it is important to know all these promises of God for the believers in Christ, so that our faith is well founded in Christ and in His promises, knowing that we will live eternally with Christ in His Kingdom.

The new Jerusalem, the City of God, will be in the territory now called Israel. It will be a City of 1,500 miles… about 1,500 miles long, 1,500 miles wide and 1,500 miles high as well;¹⁷ in other words, it is a City that can accommodate quite a few million believers.

That City, that new Jerusalem, the City of God, will have the Name of God;¹⁸ and all the believers in Christ will be there. That is the City that Abraham was looking for: a City whose Builder is God, whose Builder and Maker is God.¹⁹

And in that City, the first will be last, and the last will be first.²⁰ In other words, since It is so high (1,500 miles high) people will be in that City according to the time in which they lived.

The believers in Christ, Christians or Christianity, began in the time of the apostles, that is why it will have gates and walls with names written on there; it says that those gates and those walls will have names. For example, verse 14 of chapter 21 of Revelation says:

“And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb,” (of Christ).

It is important to know these things.

Also notice, verse 12 says [Revelation 21]:

“And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.”

Those twelve gates, each gate has the name of one of Jacob’s sons: Reuben…; from Reuben to Benjamin. And the wall will also have 12 names, which are the names of the apostles of the Lord.

Now, don’t think that the name of Judas Iscariot is going to be there; because he lost that blessing, and therefore, another person, another apostle, was put in his place.²¹ So the position, the place, was not lost; the one who was lost is the one who could have been a good candidate, but he sold the Lord; and the blessing was passed on to another person; another person eventually occupied the blessed position that Judas Iscariot was occupying.

The apostles will also be at the gate of the City; because Christ said in chapter 19 of Saint Matthew, chapter 19, verses 26 to 30; and chapter… and also in Saint Luke. In Saint Luke it was also said that they will occupy 12 thrones and they will judge the 12 tribes of Israel;²² 12 thrones for 12 apostles, who will be judges; because the Kingdom of the Messiah is theocratic and will be merged with David’s monarchy.

Notice, in the time of the judges God reigned through the judges; and in the time of the kings, God reigned – or kings reigned for God.

The Kingdom of the Messiah is going to be glorious, the Millennial Kingdom; but eternity will be even more glorious.

Notice, in eternity and for eternity, it says that there was no temple there, and that there will be no night nor light of the sun there. Why? Because the Pillar of Fire, the presence of God and of Christ, will light that City; there will be no night in that City. And there will be no need to pay for electricity either, nor water; there is a river that proceeds out of the Throne of God and the Pillar of Fire is also shining in that City. There will be no night, it will all be day, all 24 hours, then it will be possible to say: “24 hours a day.”

[Revelation] chapter 21, verse 22 and on, says:

“And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.

And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.

And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.

And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.”

That City is for those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. That is the City of which I am a citizen, and who else? Each one of you too. That City will be on Earth in the territory where Israel is currently located.

The heavens or skies are currently polluted, the Earth is polluted, everything is polluted, but in the new heavens and the new Earth there will be no pollution; everything will be new.

And even our bodies, which have been contaminated since the fall of the human being in the Garden of Eden, will no longer be contaminated, instead, they will be eternal, immortal, incorruptible, glorified bodies, when God fulfills what He says: “Behold, I make all things new;” and He starts with us. It is the same Plan of Redemption for the Earth, for the planet Earth with its heavens, its atmosphere.

We want those new heavens and new Earth to come soon, but there are one thousand and something years left for them to come.

The Millennial Kingdom is not the new heavens and the new Earth, it is a time span where we will be reigning with Christ, where Christ as Son of David takes the Throne and Kingdom of David, to which He is the heir.

I will be in that Kingdom. Other people will be in the Millennial Kingdom. Who are they? You too, together with the saints of other times, of other ages and of other dispensations. And I will also be on the new Earth. And that is by Divine election.

The believers in Christ, the wise virgins with Oil in their lamps, will be there; and therefore, the… Christ is the King and His Bride-Church is the Queen, the help meet of Christ, the second Adam, to assist Him with all the things of the Kingdom.

In plain words: His Church is the Cabinet of the King, of Christ, part of His Cabinet, of the political power of the Kingdom, of the religious power of the Kingdom. Of the political power, well, the born-again believers in Christ are kings and priests; of the spiritual or religious field, they (the believers in Christ) are priests of the Priestly Order of Melchizedek, the Priestly Order of Heaven, of the heavenly Jerusalem.

And Christ is the Judge and the believers in Christ are judges with Him. In other words, they will be the Cabinet of the Judge who will judge the living and the dead, of Christ; and therefore, they are the Cabinet of Christ’s judicial power, of Christ’s Kingdom. “Because the saints will judge the world, and even the angels,” it says there around the 3rd chapter of First Corinthians, or 2nd chapter. I am going to give you the exact quote so that… it was the 6th: First Corinthians chapter 6, verse 1 to 3.

“NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH,” where Righteousness and Peace will dwell.

And in order to be there, the person will have received Christ as his only and sufficient Savior; that is why he will know, he will be aware that he will be in that new Earth under those new heavens, in an eternal Kingdom with Christ; which will not only be an earthly Kingdom, but a Kingdom that will cover all of Creation; a Kingdom that will cover the earthly, It will cover all the planets, all the galaxies, and It will also cover the physical world and the spiritual world, the invisible world. That is why we need the new body, glorified body.

When we are changed, we will still be here on Earth. If someone goes beforehand, he will have no problem: he will take a little trip to Paradise, and see it, and then come back in the resurrection. The only thing is: that he can’t work at this end time, if he goes beforehand; he won’t be able to carry out the work-related things there are in the Work, because he will already be in Paradise resting from earthly labors.

So, let’s stay healthy, always taking care of our health; not making bad choices that affect our health, but instead taking care of it. And if we have enough to buy vitamins, let’s also give it vitamins, because in a common meal you don’t get all the vitamins and minerals the body needs; and whoever is able, can then give a little more vitamins and minerals to his body so that it’s much better. But that is for whoever can and whoever wants to; the benefit is for the person, and the person is the one who decides how he is going to use his money.

This is a time when people who don’t know Christ will want to die sometimes; but whoever knows Christ will want to continue living in order to work in the Work of the Lord until he is changed, and then go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

“NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH.”

We have traveled, in the message, from our time, from time, from Genesis to Revelation chapter 22. We have gone throughout the Scripture to see this blessing promised for all the believers in Christ.

When we go into eternity, no one will have to build their house there, for the believers in Christ: God will already have it prepared. In the Millennium houses will be built; but we don’t know if the believers in Christ will be able to build, if they will need a house, because in a glorified body the person doesn’t get tired, he doesn’t need to sleep or eat, if he doesn’t want to; although he can eat, if he wants to eat, or he can lie down, if he wants to lie down; it doesn’t matter, he has no limitations.

“NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH.”

Be steadfast in Christ; never turn away from Christ for any reason, not because of anything you hear, nor because of anything you see, nor because of anything someone else does, nor because of anything someone tells you to take you out of Christ.

Never leave Christ, never turn away from Christ. Jesus Christ is the only hope of Eternal Life for the human being. He is the only hope of glory, He is the only hope of transformation and rapture for the believers in Him.

Therefore, hold on tighter to Christ every day; it’s not that Christ is going to leave you, but just like in a time of storm, where there are strong winds, if you are outside your house, you hold on tight to a tree, not so that the tree doesn’t go away, but so that the wind doesn’t carry you away. You hold on tight to Christ so that you are not carried away by a wind of wrong doctrine or a wind of an attack against the faith of Christ in you, by some kind of wind of wrong doctrine, or criticism, or anything else.

Hold on tight to Christ, He is our only hope. Without Christ, the human being is lost; with Christ, the human being is saved, with Eternal Life, with countless glorious promises to be made a reality for the believers in Christ.

May God bless you and keep you; and continue having a happy afternoon, filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.

“NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH.”