Obedient to the Heavenly Vision

Good afternoon, fellow ministers in the mystical Body of Christ our Savior. It is a great blessing and privilege to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of fellowship with you around the Word of God and His Program pertaining to this end time.

For this reason, let’s read in the Book of Acts, chapter 26, the words of Saint Paul the Apostle, verses 19 to 23, and it says the following:

“Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:

But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.

For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.

Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:

That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.

And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad.

But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.

For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.

King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.

Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.

And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.

And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:

And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.

Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.”

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

Let’s take verse 19 for our subject, which says:

“Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision.”

“OBEDIENT TO THE HEAVENLY VISION.”

If one is not disobedient, then one is obedient; therefore, Paul was obedient to the heavenly vision that Christ gave him to announce the Gospel of Christ, recognizing Christ as the Messiah, as the Savior, and making Him known to Jews and Gentiles, as Christ had told him in the vision.

For Saint Paul narrates his conversion, and tells him on verse 12 and on of this same 26th chapter, Paul says:

“Whereupon,” (meaning, while searching for Christians, he took letters from the priests to imprison them, to take them prisoner), “as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests,

At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me.

And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.

But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;

Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,

To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.”

Here Saint Paul narrates clearly his experience, his conversion to Christ, and what Christ told him he had to do: he was placed as a minister, a witness to Christ, to announce the Gospel of Christ, to open the spiritual eyes of the people, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God. In other words, He put him to do a very important work among Jews and Gentiles; and in the end, he went more toward the Gentiles than the Jews, because he had been placed as an apostle to the Gentiles. He was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, but obedient to the heavenly vision.

Throughout the history of Christianity, as well as Judaism, throughout history of the Hebrew people as well as the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, we will find men of God who were not disobedient to the heavenly vision, such as Enoch, Noah…

Noah had the Divine revelation of the Divine project, which would be the construction of an ark, and that work was entrusted to Noah,¹ and Noah was not disobedient to the heavenly vision; in the fulfillment or materialization of what he saw in a vision, was the salvation for him and his family. In other words, in the fulfillment, in carrying out the vision that God has given, is the blessing of God.

We also find Abraham, who was not disobedient to the heavenly vision when God told him to leave his country and his kindred for a land that God would show him;² and Abraham was obedient: he left and reached that land, he received that blessing; God told him that everything the soles of his feet treaded on would be for him and his seed.³ He was not disobedient to the heavenly vision and he obtained God’s blessing.

We also find Isaac and Jacob. Jacob was not disobedient to the heavenly vision. God guided him, showed him the things, and he did as God showed him; and he obtained God’s blessing.

Notice, when Jacob was going to the house of his uncle and his cousin, to the territory of Haran, God appeared to him and told him: “I will not leave you, until I have done everything I have spoken to you, everything I have promised you.”⁴

Then, when he had been living there for about twenty years and he was already a rich man, the Angel appears to him again and tells him to go to his land; and he tells his wives and they agree to go with him; they were not disobedient to the heavenly vision that had been given to Jacob either. And they left to the land that God had promised Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all their descendants, and they reached the land.

Jacob with his family, with his wives and children, received God’s blessing; because in the fulfillment of the heavenly vision is God’s blessing.

We find other people, such as Gideon: he was not disobedient to the heavenly vision, he did what the Angel told him and obtained the victory, which was a blessing for him and for the people.

The blessing for a person and for those who are with him is always in fulfilling the heavenly vision.

We also have other men of God. Did we mention Moses? Moses was not disobedient to the heavenly vision he had there on Sinai when the Angel of God appeared to him in that bush and spoke to him; He sent him to Egypt with a Divine mission.⁵ And by being obedient to that Divine vision… mission and vision, because in the vision that he received from God he was entrusted with the mission.

Like with Saint Paul: in the vision he received, he was also entrusted with the commission, in other words, what he had to do.

And now, we also find other people whom God appeared to; like Joshua as well, and He told him: “Moses has died. Now you be strong and of good courage.” And God starts to speak to him, and tells him: “You will divide for an inheritance the land among the tribes.” He was to do that work. Moses had already divided it to two and half tribes before crossing the Jordan, and Joshua would do the rest.

He was not disobedient either to the vision of crossing the Jordan. He was not disobedient to the words of the Angel who met with him and had a sword in His hand⁶: he did not confront him, he did not attack that Angel: it was the Angel of God, it was Christ in His heavenly body.

We find that Joshua was not disobedient to the heavenly vision that was shown to him on different occasions, and he obtained the victory. He even stopped the sun, the sun and the moon stood still by the Word of God in the mouth of Joshua, to obtain the victory in that battle he was fighting.⁷

Likewise, we find many prophets, and many of the judges as well, and many of the prophets, such as Samuel, who was not disobedient to the heavenly vision he was given on different occasions. Notice, he had already anointed… Or the people wanted a king, and God was reigning through Samuel, who was a judge and prophet. That was theocracy: that is God reigning through a man. And now the people wanted a man to reign for God, they wanted a man as king, and Samuel didn’t want that; because the best thing is for God to be reigning over the people through a man; but the people insisted.

Samuel, very saddened, conveys this to God, that the people want a change of government, they want theocracy to be replaced by monarchy; and Samuel knew that God’s perfect will was theocracy, and he was very upset with the people. And he speaks to God, and God tells him: “Give the people what they are asking for.”⁸

Samuel thought the people had rejected him because he was already old, which was their excuse. They could have said: “Well, Samuel, the next person who will be the judge in your place, it would be good for us to meet him and for you to introduce him to us, so we can get to know him;” but instead they didn’t want that, they wanted a king, not a judge.

And then God tells him to give them a king, because they had not rejected Samuel; He says: “They have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them,” that He should not reign the way He was doing so: through a man. Instead, they wanted a king to be the one to reign, and therefore, for that king to reign over the people and reign for God; in other words, for him to make a kingdom, to have a kingdom for God. But the best thing is for God to reign over the people through a man.

And now, although Samuel did not agree with the people’s desire, God had said that when the people wanted a king they could have a king, and he had to be from among the same people.⁹ That is the same sentiment of nations, that their president is required to be from among the same people; he must have even been born in the same country, and therefore, be a citizen of that country.

And now, Samuel was very sad, but he was not disobedient to the heavenly vision; he did as God told him: God showed him whom he had to anoint and he anointed him, and he loved that person with his heart.

Then, later on, the king did not obey the Word that God gave him through Samuel, because Samuel was still alive; and notice the conflict between monarchy and theocracy.

In theocracy, the leader that God uses submits himself to God’s Program, to what God says; but in a monarchy, some leaders, kings, do not submit to what God has said by the prophet through whom God was reigning in theocracy; they do not submit to Moses, to Joshua, and to what He spoke through the judges and prophets; and therefore, problems come upon the people.

David was the best king. And notice, when the people wanted a king, the king who was after God’s own heart had not been born yet; in other words, the people had to wait a few years until the king who would be after God’s own heart was born.

We always find that some people want things ahead of time; and things have a time in God’s Program.

We later find David as a young man; and Saul had already disobeyed God, when he disobeyed what God told him through Samuel.

One can read and see that Samuel was the one who spoke, but he spoke in the Word of God; he was a prophet and he was the last of the judges, and he was a very important man; he even ministered the sacrifices as well; in other words, he had a very great ministry; and he ministered there in the tabernacle from a very young age.

And now, when God tells him later on, after rejecting Saul, He tells him: “Go to Bethlehem of Judea and there you will anoint unto Me the person that I indicate to you.”¹⁰

And now, for Samuel that was a problem, because he tells God: “Well, if I go there, and Saul finds out: he will kill me;” in other words, he knew that the one he had anointed as king was not as friendly now as he was in the beginning.

That king position went to his head, to the extent that even the Prophet Samuel himself knew he could kill him to keep the throne, when God had already rejected him.

And he could have said: “Since God has already rejected me as king, let’s see who God wants as king, and I will hand over my place to him; because I did not act according to what God ordered me to do; and I am going to help him with everything.”

Neither Saul nor Samuel knew who the next king would be; but he already had a military career without a uniform, and he had done more without a uniform than those who had a uniform; he had done more than Saul, because Saul was afraid of the giant, of Goliath, and everyone in his army too; and a young man went and accepted the challenge that was made there.

Now, he had already been anointed, yes, as king; but it is one thing to be anointed as king (in chapter 16 of First Samuel) and it is another thing to sit on the throne.

It is like candidates for presidency or some other position, governor, or municipal president, or mayor, or kings, who have already been identified and elected to be the candidate; but from that moment until they sit on the presidential seat, there is a period of time in which they have to strive a lot, to fight, in order to obtain the victory of sitting on the presidential seat.

And that is the time period David went through: he was anointed when he was a young man, and from the field, but he was after God’s own heart; and he was the youngest in the family, the one they had out in the field working with the flock.

Those brothers of David, seven brothers who were older than him, represent the seven angel-messengers of the seven stages or ages of the Church, just as they can also represent the seven messengers of the seven stages of the Hebrew Church under the Law. In that case, in that first typology, the seventh was John the Baptist; and the eighth: who is represented in King David, because Christ was reflected in King David, the eighth is Jesus Christ.

David means ‘beloved,’ ‘the beloved one.’ And on Mount Transfiguration,¹¹ as well as when John baptized Jesus,¹² God said: “This is My beloved Son.” See? The Beloved One, the David.

David, being a type and figure of Christ, is put through a stage of suffering; and then he returns and recovers the throne, and it is a stage of blessing and glory.

And now, Christ later sat on the Throne of God, the most important Throne, more important than the Throne of David. So, they didn’t let Him sit on the Throne of David, but notice how everything works together for good: He sat on a superior Throne, God’s heavenly Throne; but all of that was in the Divine Program.

Therefore, we don’t speak against the Hebrew people, for a Divine Program was being fulfilled; just like we also don’t speak against Adam and Eve. God already knew all of that; and if He didn’t prevent it, who are we to criticize Adam and Eve, or the Hebrew people, for rejecting Jesus? All of that was in the Divine Program, and it was already reflected, typified, in Joseph the son of Jacob, and also in David, and in other prophets.

And now, since the Dispensation of Grace opened, notice… but let’s go a bit further back.

Notice, David also… or Samuel, was not disobedient when he was shown the vision to anoint David: he went, he risked his life, he used the strategy that God gave him, and then he anointed him as king;¹³ and afterwards the young man went back to the field to work with the sheep.

When the war with the Philistines happened,¹⁴ God guided him: God guided everything so that he could be there, so that he could see what was happening; but he went to take cheeses and other things to his brothers. But his brothers, especially the oldest, says: “No, what you have come to do is see the war, because you are rebellious, you are like that…” meaning that he had that type of temperament. And he managed to hear the comments that whoever killed that giant, the king would give him his daughter, he would be the king’s son-in-law, he would give him riches, and things like that; and that caught David’s interest. And who wouldn’t be interested?

And since the Spirit of God was in him and it was in God’s Plan for it to be that way, when he is asking again and again, Goliath appears, and the Spirit of God moved inside him; and… he had already asked: “What will be given to the man who overcomes that giant?”

And now the time came, and they take him before the king, because there was a young man asking around a lot; and when they take him, he says that he will face the giant. He is not being disobedient to the heavenly vision that he is seeing while he is awake; because he is seeing that he will overcome the giant, and he is already seeing where he will hit him, where the giant’s weakness is. In other words, he had a very clear vision that if he was to be king, things had to happen in order for him to obtain that position.

And when they take him over to Saul, and Saul sees him, and they… surely he thought: “Of the great men in my army here, none of them! Not even me,” (he might have said); “and now this young man comes forward… let’s see what he’s got.”

And David speaks to him in such a positive way, and he tells him that the God who delivered him from the bear and the lion will also deliver him from that one, from “that uncircumcised man;” and he raised Saul’s faith. Then they put armor on him, and he can’t walk with the armor on; and much less if it was Saul’s, because Saul was a giant, a tall man, and David was a young man.

But he takes all that armor off, and takes his sling, which he was used to defending himself with, he looks for some stones, five smooth stones, and he goes to face the giant, also with his staff. That is what David put in God’s hands so that God could use him with those simple, rustic war tools; but if with a rod, a staff, Moses went to deliver the people, now David had more equipment: the staff, the sling, and the stones.

Remember that a work of faith is what must always be done for a Divine victory.

He goes, he faces the giant and obtains the victory; inexplicable, but real.

And now surely everyone said to him, as he went to the king with the head of the giant and handed it to him… but he didn’t hand him the sword, he kept the sword as a war trophy.

And now he has to wait for the king to fulfill the reward; and when it comes to that they are evasive; after they have offered the reward, when they have to give it, they are very evasive; but he had to fulfill the reward.

Then, later on he obtains the reward, part of it. And then afterwards he also gets jealous when he hears… Saul gets jealous, because he hears that after the victory Israel obtained, not led by the king but by David, the women, the maidens, started singing: “Saul killed his thousands,” and he got happy, “and David his ten thousands,” ten times more; and then he got jealous; and right away he thinks: “Now what’s left is for them to give him the throne too;”¹⁵ well, that is what was left, because it belonged to David.

Remember that David always represents, because he is the eighth son, the youngest, he will always represent Christ, Christ in His Coming: Christ in His First Coming and Christ in His Second Coming. And He comes in His Second Coming to sit on the Throne of David.

And God will reign—as it has been promised—through the Messiah, He is going to reign over the Hebrew people; and we will have a combination of theocracy and monarchy there. And we will see that later, on other occasions.

And now, what’s left is for the eighth one to appear.

In the time of Rev. William Branham, he was setting his sights on a blessing that is there, and that is why he said that David was number seven; but then, in another passage, he says he’s number eight.

It’s because in the Bible there is a place where it mentions seven sons;¹⁶ but when Samuel went to anoint David, it mentions eight sons, and David was the eighth; and then, later in history, when they write that part where it mentions only seven, well, one died, and there are seven left; because there can’t be contractions in the Bible.

And now, the seventh has to appear at the end time, after the seventh stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, just as the eighth appeared; after the seventh, comes the eighth.

After the seventh messenger of the seventh age appeared, two thousand years ago, of the seventh Jewish or Hebrew age of the Hebrew Church under the Law, then the eighth appeared, and it was John the Baptist. And he was a family member, he came as part of the family, because Mary and Elisabeth were cousins or relatives.

And now, in the house of David, the seed of David, which Christ comes from, now through Christ, all the born-again believers in Christ belong to the house of David. As simple as that. The house of David, the seed of David, through Christ, and that is the seed of David, the seed of Christ, which are all those who form the Church of the Lord.

Now notice, of all the sons of David, not all of them were going to be kings; of all the sons David had, Solomon was the one elected to be king.

Now, what is going to happen at the end time is what happened in the First Coming of Christ: Christ overcame (the eighth will always obtain the victory). He belongs to the eternal age, the perfect age: the Golden Age of the Hebrew Church and the Golden Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and must necessarily sit on the Throne; and notice how.

When Christ was preaching on Earth, He knew that He was the heir to the Throne of David, and He knew that He was going to sit on the heavenly Throne with the Father; that is why in chapter 26, verses 63 to 65, of Saint Matthew, when they are judging Him, He says: “And you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power.” He knew it! And in Mark, He also says the same thing.¹⁷

And now, when He dies and resurrects glorified, then He goes up to Heaven and sits on the heavenly Throne; and therefore, He receives authority, power, over the Heavens and the Earth.

And the Scripture says in First Peter, chapter 3, verses 21 and on, that authorities, and powers are made subject to Jesus; all the heavenly hosts, all the archangels with their heavenly hosts, everything is subject to Him; all the kingdoms of the heavenly world or of the spiritual world or the invisible world are subject to Him; everything is under the rule of the heavenly Throne.

But now, what will be of the Throne of David, to which Christ is heir? Christ says: “To him who overcomes…” He says: “I stand at the door, and knock: if any man opens the door…” Let’s touch on that so we have a clear picture.

Chapter 3, verse 20 to 21, says [Revelation]:

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock…”

It is the door of a dispensation.

The Door of the Dispensation of Grace was opened by Peter on the day of Pentecost; and Christ is the Door.

By opening the mystery of the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God and as the Goat of the Sin Offering, carrying out with His death the Sacrifice of Atonement for our sins, and thus, making known that now everyone has the opportunity to believe in Christ and obtain Salvation and Eternal Life; in that Message that Peter preached, which covers all of that, we find that he opened the Door: he opened Christ. With the revelation he had, which was given to him from Heaven, he opened the Door of the Kingdom of Heaven, which is Christ.

And through that Door, through Christ, we enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, which is in the spiritual realm, but will one day be in the physical realm on this planet Earth.

And that Door of the Dispensation of Grace was opened; but it will be closed, according to Saint Luke chapter 13, verses 25 to 27, when the Master of the House has risen up and has shut the Door.

But also in the parable of the ten virgins, of Saint Matthew chapter 25, verses 1 to 13, it tells us that at midnight a cry was heard: “Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him.”

And the virgins – the ten virgins rose, trimmed their lamps. And the foolish tell the wise: “Give us of your oil; for our lamps have gone out;” they were already going out because they didn’t have oil; and the wise did have oil and they needed to have their lamps burning.

When it is nighttime, and there is no light and it is dark, anyone can appear to you and you won’t know who has appeared. Therefore, by the foolish virgin not having Oil in their lamps, they will be in darkness, they will be in the dark, and they won’t be able to see the Coming of the Lord. As simple as that, just as it happened two thousand years ago. They couldn’t see that He was the Messiah. They didn’t have the Oil: the Spirit, to have Light from God related to the Coming of the Lord.

But the wise will see the Coming of the Lord, they will receive Him and go in with Him to the Marriage; and the Door of the Dispensation of Grace will be shut.

But there is another Door. Every dispensation has its entrance door. And a key is required for that.

In Revelation chapter 3, verse 7, it says:

“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth.”

Now, at the end time the key of David will be required, to open the Door of the Dispensation of the Kingdom; and the Kingdom of God on Earth is the Kingdom of David.

In order to open that Dispensation of the Kingdom, to enter into the Dispensation of the Kingdom, to obtain the blessing of the physical transformation, that will require the Door being opened, and the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ being preached, being announced; because He comes to reign, He comes to claim His earthly Throne and earthly Kingdom, which is the Kingdom of David and Throne of David.

And in the (previous) reading we had, notice, says… it says:

[Revelation 3:20] “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me,” (someone has to open the Door).

“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”

The one who will overcome is the one who has the key of David and will open that door: the Door of the Kingdom of David, the Door of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, to enter into that dispensation, and physically enter into the Kingdom of God obtaining the transformation of their bodies, and the dead in Christ receiving the resurrection in eternal bodies.

It also tells us that it will be in the same way as it happened with Him, for He says:

“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne,” (the Throne of David; that is the Throne of Christ), “Even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”

In other words, the same thing the Father did with Jesus, Jesus Christ will do with the Overcomer.

And we are not going to explain a lot there because the mystery of the Seventh Seal would open up too much; remember that the mystery of the Seventh Seal is there.

Remember that the Jews are waiting for a man. They will see the Overcomer, the one who will open the Door of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, the one who will open the Door of Kingdom of David; and they will recognize him; but the wise virgins will also recognize him.

So, just as Christ then said: “All power is given unto me in Heaven and on Earth,” the Overcomer will also be able to say that; for He says:

[Revelation 2:26] “And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:

And he shall rule them with a rod of iron…”

He will receive that authority and power over the planet Earth, just as Christ obtained it over the whole universe. It says:

“… as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers…”

So, all of that, notice, the same thing Christ received at a universal level, at the level of the entire universe, of the entire heavenly Kingdom of God, which also includes the one on Earth, Christ will give it locally; as He gave it to Adam in the garden of Eden, where He made him king in the garden of Eden to rule over the whole Earth. And he was given the Title Deed, but later It was taken away from him; just like Saul, who was given the throne and then it was taken away from him.

But that Title Deed, Christ already brings It to Earth in Revelation 10; for He takes It in Revelation 5, He opens It in Heaven in Revelation 6, 7, and 8 (that whole part around there); He is opening… those are things contained in those Seals; and then He brings It to Earth to give It to a man.

The Title Deed of the Heavens and of the Earth, the Title Deed of Eternal Life, the Title Deed of the earthly kingdom, which Adam lost, and of the Kingdom of David; all of that is included in that Title Deed; and He gives It to a man so that he eats It.

Christ, notice, obtains It in His First Coming, carries out the Work to obtain that Title Deed, He obtains It in Heaven after finishing His Work as Intercessor, and then He brings It to Earth to give It to a man; he will be the one who will sit with Christ in His Kingdom. As simple as that.

And Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, the Seal of the living God, will be in him, manifesting Himself at the end time, and obtaining the victory in all the things that are promised for God to carry out.

At this end time, we read among the Divine promises that there is a vision of God, that is a heavenly vision; and the Overcomer, the one who will overcome, will believe in that heavenly vision, he will not be disobedient to that heavenly vision, and he will work so that it becomes a reality; he will obtain the victory together with all the ministers and all the believers in Christ of the end time.

So, we will not be disobedient, but obedient, to the heavenly vision.

If we are asked: “Why are you building a Great Tent Cathedral?”: because we are not disobedient to the heavenly vision that was already given.

And if we ask them: “And you, who have had so many years, so much time to do it, why haven’t you done it?” The answer is: they have been disobedient to the heavenly vision, they haven’t believed in the heavenly vision, they haven’t believed that it is literal; even if it also has a part in the spiritual realm, it is fulfilled there, it can be fulfilled both ways; but one of the ways, necessarily, is the literal way.

And now, we can say that the group of the Last Day in the Age of the Cornerstone, which is relevant to the number eight, and which is relevant to the one David will be representing at the Last Day: that group of God’s elect will obtain the victory and will conquer all the Divine promises, including the materialization of that Great Tent Cathedral.

So, we don’t have the slightest doubt about that, not even a little bit: that is how it was prophesied, that is how it was said, and that is how it will be; and everything is being prepared for the materialization of that heavenly vision.

And no one else will be able to make it a reality, only God through all the elect in the stage of the Cornerstone Age, under the ministry of the Last Day, under (let’s say) the eighth ministry.

And now, we will be seeing God’s support, as we have always been seeing it, for 30 to 40 years; I have been seeing it for almost 50 years; and Miguel has also seen the hand of God working in his entire life, in the ministry that God has placed in him. I have also been seeing the mighty hand of God working in the ministry He has placed in me, and I have been seeing the blessings that God has been pouring out upon His Church

Of all the times of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, this is the best: it is the Golden Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is the age, the stage, where the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive will take place.

None of the past stages existed at the Last Day, only the stage we are in. And we have recognized our place in the mystical Body of Christ, which is not the fifth age: the Lutheran age, it is not the sixth Wesleyan age, nor is it the seventh Pentecostal age; it is the Age of the Cornerstone.

We have recognized our position, and therefore, what Rev. William Branham said: “When the Bride, the Bride-Church, recognizes Its position, then the rapture will come.”¹⁸

So, as for that, we are at peace, secure, and grateful to Christ for what He is doing in our time. We thank Christ for all the blessings He is giving us, and we expect more blessings from Christ.

In the fulfillment of the Tent Vision will be the Name of God, the Name of the City of our God, and the new Name of the Lord; He was the One who said it; therefore, He has to fulfill it, because it is a promise; and He said that He will write It upon the Overcomer.”¹⁹ Therefore, that is how it will be

What will that be like? Well, let us let all of that be completely opened for us to understand it; and if we do not understand it while we are in these bodies, when we have the new ones we will understand it.

So, to sit on the heavenly Throne of God, Jesus had to have the Name of God in Him. “I have come in My Father’s Name,” Christ said.²⁰

To sit on the Throne of David with the Lord, the one who will sit with Him on the Throne will have the Name of Jesus Christ, the New Name of Jesus Christ, the Eternal Name of God and of the City of our God; and he will have to be in the age after the seventh age, he has to be in the age after the age of the forerunner. The forerunner said: “He must increase, and I must decrease.” This is what John the Baptist said²¹ and Rev. William Branham said.²²

So, it will be parallel to what happened in the past. What happened with Jesus and John the Baptist would be repeated in a new dispensation and in a dispensational overlap, where the Dispensation of the Kingdom overlaps with the Dispensation of Grace, just like back then the Dispensation of Grace was overlapping with the Dispensation of the Law; and the Message of Jesus was overlapping with the Message of John. So… And Jesus testified of John, identifying him as the Elijah who was to come at that time.

The one who will come after Rev. William Branham will testify that Rev. William Branham was truly the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, he was the Elijah who was to come in the fourth manifestation of Elijah’s ministry for the fourth time.

Remember, on page 119 of the Book of Quotations, around there you will find that he says [paragraph 1058] [63-1229E – “Look Away To Jesus,” page 7, paragraphs 50-52]: “It will be parallel in every way.” At the end of the paragraph (it is on the right side), of the Book of Quotations, near the end, it says somewhere: “It will be parallel in every way,” when he speaks about the Third Pull, and when he says: “I won’t die with old age, until He’s here.” He would already be how old? 100 years old.

He also says in other places that the seventh Angel will be on Earth at the time of the Coming of the Mighty Angel of Revelation 10, who comes down from Heaven with the little Book open. It may be the seventh angel of the seventh age or the seventh angel of the angels of the Seven Trumpets, to avoid making things difficult for the group of the seventh messenger, whom we love, both his group and the seventh messenger; although he is already gone, but we continue to love him with all our hearts; and we are going to see him young when he returns, and he will visit us. Just like the saints of the Old Testament, when they resurrected with Christ, they visited many of their family members. This is in Saint Matthew, chapter 27, verse 51 onwards.

Well, Saint Paul said, “I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision.” And I also say that I was not disobedient to that heavenly Vision of the Tent, but obedient to the heavenly Vision. And who else? Each one of you too, because we are believing and acting hand in hand.

Because many people say: “I believe,” but they don’t do anything; those are the ones who believe in word, meaning, they say it in words, giving lip service, but in here, they have not believed.

Today if you hear His Voice, harden not your heart. He said it and He will fulfill it; therefore, we believe it with all our heart.

I believe with all my heart, not this year, rather for years I have been telling you and showing you that this Vision—which is heavenly, and there is no doubt that it came from Heaven—will be fulfilled. And that is where God’s glory will be manifested in all Its fullness, and where many great blessings will come.

It’s connected to the faith for the rapture, it’s connected to the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the Third Pull is fulfilled there. And the Third Pull is the creative Word being spoken. Around the creative Word being spoken, that Third Pull will be fulfilled and It will operate everything in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision.

“OBEDIENT TO THE HEAVENLY VISION.” And in plural: “[WE ARE] OBEDIENT TO THE HEAVENLY VISION.”

That’s why we are working together, because we are obedient to the heavenly vision.

It’s been a great blessing and privilege to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you about the heavenly vision, the Tent Vision, and all the other visions that have been given to the different prophets: to Jesus also, to the apostles, and to the seven angel-messengers of the Lord.

We are not disobedient to the heavenly vision that God has shown, and we work in favor of the heavenly vision or visions relevant to our time, just as others worked in favor of the heavenly vision or visions relevant to the time in which they lived, the prophets and messengers of God.

Well, may God bless you and keep you.

Pray a lot for tomorrow, we will be here again to receive the blessings of Christ our Savior. Pray a lot for tomorrow’s service and for all the ones that will be carried out in different places in Mexico, which missionary Dr. Miguel Bermúdez Marín will be traveling to; and I will also be traveling there to fulfill some commitments to have services.

Well, Miguel here… he’s waiting for dessert; but it’s been a while already, Miguel, we ate it a while ago. You can come up here.

Remember that in the spiritual realm we eat, and we eat more than in the physical realm.

Well, also notice, Ezekiel ate a roll or scroll,²³ a book (at that time sacred writings were in scrolls); and notice, in Revelation, the Book is brought for one person to take It and eat It. And that’s what he has to speak to the Church and the entire world about: the content written in that Title Deed that is eaten.

That’s why he then says: “Thou must prophesy again.”²⁴ See? He must be a prophet in order to prophesy. “Prophesy again before many peoples, nations, and tongues;” therefore, he has to be on Earth to prophesy before peoples, nations, and tongues.

He is the same one who in Revelation chapter 14, verses 6 to 7, appears with the Everlasting Gospel, to preach It unto them that dwell on the Earth; he appears with the Gospel of the Kingdom, of which Christ said in Saint Matthew 24, verse 14: “And this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached, for a witness…”. Let’s read it correctly, I quoted It here like this without reading it directly; let’s read it directly so that it is recorded. Chapter 24, verses 13 to 14, of Saint Matthew, says:

“But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”

And the Gospel of the Kingdom is preached to witness and for a witness to all the nations by the Holy Spirit in the messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom with the Gospel of the Kingdom.

And what will He be speaking about when He is preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom? Well, He will be speaking about the Kingdom, the Kingdom of God that will be established on Earth; of which Christ said that when we pray, we should say: “Our Father which art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, as in Heaven, so on Earth,” (or here on Earth).²⁵ And that will be in the Kingdom of the Messiah where the will of the heavenly Father shall be done here on Earth.

Because nowadays, for thousands of years, people’s will is being done, the human will is being done; but in the Kingdom of the Messiah the will of God shall be done, because he will be a man after God’s own heart, and God’s thoughts will be conveyed to him to rule over the Hebrew people and over all nations.

So, glorious times are coming for believers in Christ at this end time. Although problems are coming upon the planet Earth, but we are going to leave before the judgments, before the Divine Judgments fall upon the Earth; and we will spend that time period, which will be three and a half years long, having a good time at the feast of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

Well, may God bless you and keep you.

We already had the second dessert, Miguel. Let’s have you come forward, Miguel.

And may God bless you and keep you all.

“OBEDIENT TO THE HEAVENLY VISION.”