Good morning beloved friends and brethren present, ministers, collaborators and brethren present, and also those in different nations. My special greetings to minister and Missionary Miguel Bermudez Marin and his wife Ruth Flores there in Venezuela. May God bless you Miguel, and may He use you greatly in His Work in this end time.
For this occasion… next Saturday and Sunday we will already be in Cartagena. Greetings to the minister, Reverend Ceballos and the entire congregation there, and all the congregations and ministers from the coast area of Colombia.
On this occasion, we have three very important Scriptures. One of them is in Amos chapter 4, verse 12 to 13, and it says:
“Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The Lord, The God of hosts, is his name.”
“The Lord, The God of hosts, is his name.”
In Revelation chapter 22, verse 12, it says:
“And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”
And the other Biblical quote is Philippians chapter 3, verse 20 to 21, which 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.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It; may He open the Scriptures to us, and open our hearts and minds in order to comprehend. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
“PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE ENCOUNTER WITH JESUS CHRIST.”
Just as God appeared to Moses and the Hebrew people on Mount Sinai, and Moses brought the people out to receive God, we also find that Amos says: “Prepare to meet thy God,” the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the creator of the heavens and earth, who through His Spirit, which is His heavenly Body, the image of the living God, which is Christ in His heavenly Body (also called the Angel of the Covenant), created all things and spoke to the Hebrew people through the different prophets. “Surely the Lord God will do nothing before revealing his secret unto his servants the prophets.” (Amos, chapter 3, verse 7.)
It is important to understand these things to be able to know God and be able to meet the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It is important to know God and to receive God when He manifests Himself.
We find throughout the Scripture from Genesis to Revelation, that many people said that they saw God. For example, Adam received God when He appeared to him there in the Garden of Eden. Also the rest of the prophets, like Abraham, who even invited God and His archangels Gabriel and Michael, who were materialized and were able to eat.
In chapter 18 of Genesis they visited him in tangible bodies and had lunch with him, and then the two angels Gabriel and Michael went to Sodom and there they met Lot, and Lot invited them to have supper (in other words, they didn’t only have lunch, but supper too).
They were materialized because God created a body for Gabriel, a body for Archangel Michael, and a body for Himself for that time, for that moment. And as it was in the days of Lot, Christ says, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of man, the day when the Son of man will be manifested, will be revealed. And that will be an encounter with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, an encounter with Christ at the end time.
We find that God appeared to Jacob in chapter 32, verses 24 to 32, and He appeared to him in a form of an angel, in a heavenly body, in the Angel of the Covenant, who is Christ in His heavenly Body. God was inside that heavenly Body called the Word that was with God and was God.
Jacob wrestled with that Angel all night long, and when the day was breaking, the Angel told him: “Leave me, let me go because the day is breaking.” He had to go, and Jacob tells Him: “I will not let thee go until you bless me.”
And for this time, the day is about to break or the day is breaking in the East, in Israel, but we aren’t going to let go of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, until He blesses us with the blessing of the transformation of our bodies. Jacob wanted the blessing of a change, and we also want the blessing of a change: our transformation.
For Jacob, the blessing was in the Words that the Angel had to speak to him, and they were: “Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.” [Genesis 32:28.] The overcomer is the one who receives the blessing. He had an encounter with God, God clothed in a veil of a heavenly Body which is the Angel of the Covenant, Christ in His heavenly Body.
The Scripture also tells us that he called the place where he had that encounter with God “Peniel”, because he said: “For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.”
Then we find in chapter 13 of the book of Judges, Manoah and Mrs. Manoah meeting the Angel of God, the Angel of the Covenant, and they did not know it. They did not have the revelation yet that He was the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, that He was God in His heavenly Body.
The Angel tells him that they would have a child and they would name him Samson, and he would deliver Israel (he would be one of the judges of Israel). And Manoah tells Him: “I invite you to eat,” he offers him a kid-goat. The Angel tells him: “I will not eat of your bread, but if you want to offer it, sacrifice it to God.” And that prepared kid-goat he brought, he gave it in offering to God, the Angel who was there present when Manoah brought the kid-goat.
Manoah had asked Him: “What is Your Name?” Because everyone wants to know the Name of the Angel that God sends, and if He is the Angel of the Covenant, even more so. Because by knowing the Name of the Angel of the Covenant we are learning the Name of God, because where does God place His Name? In His Angel. We are going to read here so we have a clear picture: Exodus, chapter 23, verse 20 and on it says:
“Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.”
Where does God say that He has placed His Name? In His Angel, the Angel of the Covenant which is Christ in His heavenly Body, which is Christ, the image of the living God, in His heavenly Body, and which is Christ, the physical likeness of God in His Body of flesh which is already glorified. That is why Jesus Christ could say: “I and my Father are one,” and He could also say: “If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.” Saint John chapter 10 and Saint John chapter 14.
We know then that Jesus Christ is the most important person not only of earth but of heaven as well. Because He is none other than the physical and heavenly Body in whom God dwells.
Jesus Christ is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. That is the Name of God for salvation, for redemption. Because there is no other name given unto man by which we can be saved, there is only One and that Name is: Lord Jesus Christ. [Acts 4:12]
Manoah wanted to know the Name of the Angel that appeared to him and told him about the things that would happen in his home: that he would have a child who would become an important man, one of the judges of Israel, a man who–when God would manifest Himself, the Spirit of God in him–was the strongest man.
That is why when there is a strong man, sometimes we say: “This man is like Samson.” It was the strength, the power of God manifested in him. Without the Spirit of God in him, he would not have that strength. The same thing with King David, when he was a shepherd he fought with bears and lions and defeated them.
Now, just like Jacob wanted to know the Name of the Angel with whom he was wrestling, Manoah also wanted to know It. Just like Moses wanted to know God’s Name, and he tells God, who was in the Angel that was speaking to him… Remember that in chapter 3 of Exodus the Scripture says that the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a pillar of fire there on Mount Sinai, in Horeb, and spoke to him saying: “I am the God of thy father (the father of Moses was Amram), the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob,”
Why did the Angel speak in first person saying He was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob? Because the Angel is the heavenly Body of God, it is the image of the living God. Those who saw God, what they were seeing was the Angel of God, the heavenly Body of God.
This also happened with Manoah, who wanted to know the Name of the Angel, and when He ascended in the flame of fire of the offering, the sacrifice that Manoah offered God, and the Angel ascended in that flame of fire, then he knew that it was the Angel of God, the Angel of the Lord, and he tells his wife: “We will surely die because we have seen God face to face.” This is because whoever sees the Angel of God is seeing God, that is why Christ, being the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of God, tells Philip: “Have I been with you for so long, Philip, and yet hast thou not known me? Don’t you know that he that hath seen me hath seen the Father? And how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?” Because, who sees the heavenly Body of God or the physical Body of God, which is Christ, is seeing God in the form of an angel or in the form of a man. In other words, he is seeing the heavenly resemblance of God or the physical resemblance of God. As simple as that.
It is the same thing with you and I. When we are seeing each other physically, we say: “I am seeing you,” and I tell you: “I am seeing you too.” But then you may tell me: “But you are not seeing me, because I am a living soul,” and I will tell you: “You are correct. You are not seeing me either. You are seeing my physical body, my earthly house. I am inside this physical body and you are inside the physical body that you have.” That is how it is with Jesus Christ.
Notice, after searching the Scriptures and noticing that many people saw God by seeing the Angel of the Covenant, which appeared in the form of a man or an angel… an angel, a person, a body of another dimension, or sometimes in the form of a flame of fire… and therefore, they were seeing God.
But in Saint John chapter 1, it says: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (That Angel of the Covenant, the heavenly Body, the Word, which is Christ.) And it says: “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.” Christ, the Word, the Angel of the Covenant, was made flesh and dwelt among us, and that is Emmanuel: God with us, inside His heavenly Body, inside His physical Body called Jesus.
In this same chapter 1 of Saint John verse 18 it says:
“No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son of the Father, the only begotten Son of God, he hath declared him.”
It is through Jesus Christ in His heavenly body that God was made known to Adam, and to all the descendants of Adam: Abel, Seth, Enoch, Methuselah, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Manoah and the rest of the judges, and also to prophets that God sent.
Then we find in Malachi chapter 3 the promise that the same God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in His Angel, in His heavenly Body would visit His people of Israel in human form, in human flesh, and the people had to be prepared for that, to receive their God, made flesh, in the midst of Israel.
That is the promise of the coming of the Messiah, the coming of Emmanuel, which means: God with us, God with us in the Messiah, in the Anointed One, in a body of flesh who would be born of a virgin, which was Virgin Mary. The most blessed woman of all, physically, because she is the only woman through whom a child was born by divine creation, and that child is Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
And therefore, He came without sin and He lived without sin, but He took our sins to die for us on Calvary’s cross, and this is how He took away the sin of the human being; and now every person is responsible for his own sins.
We find that the people had to be prepared to meet their God, who would come in human flesh in the midst of His people: Israel, for which, notice the preparation that the people of Israel would receive. In chapter 3 of Malachi says:
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me…”
God, speaking of His coming in human flesh, says that He will first send His messenger before Him, who will prepare the way for Him, He will prepare a people to receive Him and welcome Him, so that they may receive the blessing of the coming of God in human flesh, and that would be the coming of the Messiah promised in the Scripture.
That messenger was John the Baptist, who came preparing the way for the Lord. He came with the spirit and virtue of Elijah, as the Archangel or Angel Gabriel told priest Zechariah in Saint Luke chapter 1, that Zechariah and his wife (who was barren), would have a child who would come with the spirit and virtue of Elijah to turn the hearts of the people to God, and he would be great before God.
There are many great people on this planet Earth, great before the rest of the human beings, but John the Baptist was great before God, and who is greater than him? Jesus Christ.
Remember that John was the one who said that Jesus was greater than him: “He who is coming after me is greater than me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to loosen.” [John 1:27.] It continues saying:
“…and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple…”
Christ is the human Temple of God.
Remember in chapter 2 of Saint John that Christ said: “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” People thought He was talking about the temple made of stones, and that is why they accused Him of saying he would destroy the temple of Jerusalem, and then that He would raise it up in three days, but He was talking about His physical Body, because the physical body is a temple of God. That is why Saint Paul says: “Don’t you know… Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
“The Lord shall suddenly come to his temple…”
The physical or human Temple of the Lord is the physical Body of Jesus Christ, in whom God dwelled in all His fullness. And He also went to the temple of stones in His physical Body, and when He would go to that place He would preach there, and He also took the sellers, the merchants out of the temple.
When John the Baptist baptized Jesus, the Holy Spirit came suddenly upon Jesus, the human Temple of God. Just like God in Spirit, in the Pillar of Fire and Cloud that accompanied Israel, came upon the tabernacle that Moses built. And when Solomon built the temple and dedicated it to God, God came in that Cloud, that Pillar of Fire, and He dwelt in that temple, in the Most Holy Place, between the two cherubims of Gold upon the mercy seat.
“Even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in”
Who would come? God the Father, and the Angel of the Covenant. God the Father, and His heavenly Body.
“…behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.”
For which, He sent His messenger preparing the way for Him, who was John the Baptist. That is why he said: “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord.”
The people must always be prepared to receive God in His coming, in His manifestation promised for the time in which a person is living.
For the second coming of Christ, He would also send a messenger with the spirit and virtue of Elijah, preparing the way for the Lord. And just like John the Baptist had to be from the people that were under the Covenant given by God on Mount Sinai, that messenger had to be from the people of the Covenant. Now, for the second coming of Christ to His Church to change the believers in Christ and resurrect into glorified bodies those who have died: He has a messenger prophet, a forerunner of the second coming of Christ, preparing the people. It is with the Message of the forerunner that the people are prepared for the encounter with Christ in His second coming.
“And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” (Revelation chapter 22, verse 12).
We have the promise of the coming of the Lord to His people, the people of the New Covenant, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is awaiting Him for the transformation and rapture or catching away. Therefore, he must be from among the people who are within the Covenant that is in effect during the Dispensation of Grace: the New Covenant.
The forerunner had to be part of the New Covenant; he had to be within the New Covenant, and that forerunner was Reverend William Branham, a messenger vindicated by God who was accompanied by the Pillar of Fire, the Presence of God, the Presence of the Holy Spirit. An Angel accompanied him and would tell him and show him the things he had to do.
In Malachi chapter 4, verse 1 to 6 says:
“For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.”
That is the great tribulation that will come upon the human race on the day of the Lord, in the seventh millennium; let’s say… in the first 100 or 200 years of the seventh millennium. The great tribulation comes to root out the sinners from the Earth, those who disregarded the opportunity that God gave them through the preaching of the Gospel of Christ to receive Him as their only and sufficient Savior.
“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness (that is the second coming of Christ), arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.”
He will save us from the great tribulation, from the coming judgment, because He comes, like it was said in the Scripture that we read in Philippians, where it says:
“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ…”
From where do we look for Christ? From heaven, from the dimension where He is as a High Priest making intercession. And when He finishes His intercession there, as the High Priest, He will become the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the coming King, to reclaim everything He has redeemed with His precious Blood: all the believers in Him.
“Who shall change our vile body…”
Do you see? What is the purpose of the coming and our encounter with Him in His second coming? To receive our physical transformation. And when we see Him and see the dead believers in Christ resurrected in glorified bodies, then we will be changed, and it is then that we will all be together.
Before that, each person is in his own country, in his own nation, he hears the Word, the message that prepares us to meet Jesus Christ in His second coming, and when we are changed, then we will all be together with Christ, with those who died and were resurrected and with those who are or will be changed in this end time.
And then we don’t know how much time will pass after we are changed, using our new body here on Earth for the first time, and afterwards we will go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. It may be forty days that the dead in Christ will be resurrected, walking through the Earth (especially with us); and we will also be changed, because when Christ resurrected He appeared to His disciples for forty days. In other words, this happened when Christ resurrected.
That stage will have a global impact on this planet Earth. And in those days, the planet Earth will be very nervous, with earthquakes, seaquakes, volcanoes erupting, and so forth, because the great tribulation will start immediately after we are raptured, caught away with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
We have seen why Jesus comes to His Church in His coming: to carry out the adoption, which is the redemption of the body, the transformation of those who are living in Christ and the resurrection of those who died, resurrecting them in eternal, immortal and glorified bodies, like the glorified body of Christ, which is as young as when He left. And we will become young again, but not in this physical body, in a new body that will not grow old; it will have everlasting youth. And the thing is, Christ has the power to do all of that. He says:
“…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.”
With that power. That is why we are waiting for Him, and we wish for it happen be as soon as possible (at least I do). I don’t want… I don’t want to reach an age where I need to walk with a cane. I want to reach an age like the age of Jesus Christ: young for all eternity. And that is what has been promised for all the believers in Christ, members of the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is His Church, His Bride, His Virgin Church that will be living at the Last Day, which those from past ages who formed part of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will meet with.
Let us continue reading what Malachi chapter 4 tells us, we will continue in verse 3:
“And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.”
And then when we return from the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, we will return from that heavenly dimension to this earthly dimension to begin the Millennial Kingdom of Christ.
And it says that the wicked ones will be ashes under the soles of our feet, in other words, they will be burnt. They will be turned into ashes and we will walk upon this planet Earth, and the evil ones will already be ashes, and we will be walking upon them, those who will be made ashes due to the radioactivity of the atomic bombs that will be used in a Third World War, and surely even the ones that aren’t used will explode too, but they will explode due to the radioactivity that will spread throughout all the nations, volcano fire and volcanic ashes, the seaquakes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and all those things that will come during the great tribulation.
But it doesn’t matter what dreadful things may happen, that should not worry you or me, why? Because we will not be here. We will be in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
But if there is something we should worry about, it’s that we don’t want our family members to go through that stage, which is why we invite them to hear the Gospel of Christ so that the faith of Christ is born in their souls, because faith comes, faith is born by hearing the Word, the Gospel of Christ: “and with the heart one believes unto righteousness, but with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” [Romans 10:10.]
Therefore, everyone who is written in heaven, in the Book of Life, in both sections: in the Lamb’s Book of Life (which is the part of the chosen ones, those who would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ), and in the other section: the Book of Life, where the names of the human beings who are written there can be blotted out of that section of the Book, or remain there. In that section we find the foolish virgins who did not receive oil, the Holy Spirit, in their souls.
Whether our family members are chosen ones who will form part of the Church, or they are from the other virgins who are in the Book of Life, we want them to receive the Word, and therefore not perish but instead enter into eternal Life with Christ. Even if they cannot be changed at the first resurrection and transformation, but may they be secured so that in the final judgment they come out to everlasting life. And if they are from the chosen ones, even better.
That is why Christ commanded to preach the Gospel to every creature, and: “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” [Mark 16:15-16.]
Everyone makes their own decision before Christ: if they want to live eternally they receive Him as Savior, if they are not interested in eternal Life, they don’t receive Him, they don’t believe. And he who believed will live eternally, and he who didn’t believe will be condemned. And by being condemned, his future is the lake of fire.
But we don’t want our family members to be condemned and to have to go to the lake of fire, we want them to receive eternal Life, even if it’s at the final judgment. But if they are chosen ones, then they receive eternal Life by receiving Jesus Christ as their Savior, and when they are changed they receive the physical eternal Life that we need so much, so that there be no more deaths among the sons and daughters of God.
We are living in a very important time in which the Voice of God through the forerunner of the second coming of Christ has called upon us to prepare ourselves to receive Christ our Lord, our God, in His second coming, in which He is coming to His Church of the New Covenant, to His people of the New Covenant, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet (behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet) before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord (before the great tribulation).”
The promise is that God will send Prophet Elijah to His people of the New Covenant, to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The ministry of Elijah, which was in Elijah of Tishbite, and then for the second time it was upon Elisha with a double portion, and then for the third time in John the Baptist; that is why when Jesus descends from Mount Transfiguration in chapter 17 of Saint Matthew, He tells His disciples: “Don’t tell anyone the vision until the Son of man is risen from the dead.” Then the disciples say to Jesus: “Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?” Why did they ask Him that question on that occasion?
“Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?”
Because when they were on Mount Transfiguration, they saw Elijah and they saw Moses, one on each side of Jesus Christ, who was transfigured there before His disciples.
“And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.”
That was not the time for the fulfillment of this Elijah who has restored all things.
“But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed, Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.”
Now Jesus tells them: “Surely Elijah will come first and He will restore all things, but I tell you he is already come…” In other words, the third Elijah came, who was John the Baptist, and they did to him whatever they pleased: they beheaded him in jail. But Elijah, the next Elijah, the fourth Elijah, the fourth prophet with the ministry of Elijah operated by the Holy Spirit, he will come. He is the forerunner of the second coming of Christ, and that was Reverend William Branham. And then, Elijah will also come for the fifth time for the Hebrew people, and they are expecting him, and Moses will also come, because they were seen there on Mount Transfiguration.
That is why on page 340 of the Book Quotations, Reverend William Branham says that he was worried, and he was already getting older. And notice what he asks himself, or what he asks God, on page 340 of the Book Quotations, abstracts of the messages of Reverend William Branham, it says:
“Now, there’s… I was… getting pretty old, and I thought, ‘Will I…. Will there be another revival (in other words, another spiritual awakening), I’ll see another time? And just remember, from the west…”
In other words, that is the West. Israel is in the Middle East, there in the East, in the Middle East. And the West is the American Continent, which consists of North America and Latin America.
In the northern part He sent the forerunner of the second coming of Christ: Elijah, the ministry of Elijah for the fourth time, but it is promised that Moses will come, and also that Elijah will come and that Jesus, or Christ, will come, the Angel of the Covenant, the Anointed One with the Spirit of God; because Christ means “Anointed One”, and Messiah means “the Anointed One”.
“… from the west will come a white horse rider. (In Revelation 19 it speaks to us of a white horse rider, and His name is called the Word of God.) We’ll ride this trail again…”
If Elijah is going to ride the prophetic ministerial trail (the ministry of Elijah), and he is speaking there in his fourth manifestation, if he will ride that trail again, it is for the fifth time. And Elijah rides the ministerial trail for the fifth time with Moses.
And what the Seventh Seal is for the Church (the coming of the Lord), that is the Sixth Seal (Moses and Elijah) for the Jews. In other words, what the Church will see is the same thing that Israel will see when the time comes for Israel to see it. And they will say: “This is what we have been waiting for,” when they see the Lord coming for His Church. But He isn’t come for them, He is coming for His Church, to change the believers in Him who will be alive and to resurrect the dead in eternal and glorified bodies, and take them with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; because His Church is the One that is within the New Covenant.
Israel is missing… from what God told Daniel, out of those seventy weeks, from the seventieth week (which are weeks of years)… Christ in His earthly ministry fulfilled the first three and half years of that seventieth week, and that week paused there and a gap was opened to enter into the Dispensation of Grace, for the calling of those who would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ under the New Covenant.
But Israel is still missing three and half years, which are the same three and half years that the great tribulation will last, wherein God will deal with the Hebrew people.
They are not the ones who form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ under the New Covenant, except those who receive Christ as their Savior, whether they be Jews or Gentiles.
When they see Christ coming for His Church, they will say: “This is the one we have been waiting for.” But He doesn’t come for them, He comes for His Church. In Revelation chapter 10, the Mighty Angel descends with the book open in His hand and crying like when a lion roars and seven thunders uttering their voices. That is Christ coming for His Church with the Title Deed, the Book sealed with Seven Seals that He took from heaven, and He opens it, the Title Deed of the heavens and Earth, the Title Deed where our names are written, they were written by God before creation, before the foundation.
That is the coming of Christ for His Church, although He is the Angel of the Covenant, He is the messenger to Israel, but He comes for His Church, and afterwards He will reveal Himself to Israel.
“…We’ll ride this trail again. That’s right. Soon as…. we’re about ready (this translation is not very clear). Soon as… we’re about ready. It’s a promise, you see.”
And if it’s a promise it must be fulfilled.
We are in the time in which we must be prepared, waiting for that encounter with Jesus Christ in His second coming, the coming for His Church.
That is why the Message that God spoke through Reverend William Branham has called His people and is preparing them, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ which is under the New Covenant, covered with the Blood of the New Covenant, the Blood of Christ, for the encounter with our God, Jesus Christ our Savior.
Remembering that Christ said: “I and my Father are one.” “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.” Saint John chapter 10, and Saint John chapter 14.
We are in the time for the fulfillment of these things. And those who will be prepared will see it, will receive it, will believe it, and they will be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
That is why it is important that every person at least has the Book of The Seven Seals preached by the Reverend William Branham, and the Book of The Seven Church Ages, the Book of The Seventy Weeks of Daniel as well, and the Book of Quotations, with excerpts of different messages preached by Reverend William Branham, and the rest of the messages you are able to obtain in booklets, which are always available for the believers in Christ, because that is the Message that prepares us to be ready for the coming of the Lord, and to welcome Him in the midst of His Church.
It is the Message that says how He will come, and that prepares us to welcome the Lord in His second coming. It is the Message like that of John, which introduced Christ in His first coming, because it was the ministry of Elijah being repeated in John the Baptist. And the ministry of Elijah being repeated in Reverend William Branham for the fourth time is what introduces the second coming of Christ, his Message. Let us read this on page 242 of the Book Quotations, the second paragraph, says:
“I may be building a platform for somebody else to step on (Just like John built a platform with his Message, for the person who would come after him, which was Jesus Christ). I may be taken before that time… (meaning, before he presents himself and steps onto that platform he prepared for him) But I do believe that we are so close, that I would never die with old age.”
He would be 115 years old if he were still on Earth… (If someone can add that up quickly) How many? 105 years. Yes, because he was born in 1909. Let’s take away 9 years from 2014, and we have the number there: he would currently be 105 years old.
The Seventh Seal will be open to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. When it is opened, then we will better understand what Reverend William Branham said, what he foreran.
“Yet at 54 years of age (at that time), I would never die with old age until He is here. Unless I am shot, killed, or something, or other, some way killed—just old age wouldn’t kill me, until He comes… I may not do it, but this Message will introduce Jesus Christ to the World…”
Do you see? The Message introduces the second coming of Christ to the world. As the Holy Spirit says through Reverend William Branham (through the Message he brought), that is how the fulfilment of the second coming of Christ will be.
“…For as John the Baptist was sent to forerun the first coming, so is the message to forerun the second coming.’ And John said, ‘Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.’ So it paralleled it in every way, and I know it will be (parallel in every way).”
John was the messenger of the seventh stage of the Hebrew Church under the Law, of the seventh age or stage, and Reverend William Branham was the messenger of the seventh age of the Gentile Church, of the Gentile Church under the New Covenant.
Then back there in the time of John, the Cornerstone came, that was an Age of Cornerstone, the time of the first coming of Christ. And for the second coming of Christ it will be in the time of the Age of Cornerstone. Because the One who comes is the Cornerstone, Christ our Savior, the Stone rejected by the builders, which became the capstone. [1 Peter 2:7]
With all this information we have, we will not overlook the second coming of Christ, because He comes for us, to change us and take us with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Therefore, we are being prepared by the Message of God revealed by the Holy Spirit through Reverend William Branham for our encounter with Jesus Christ in His second coming.
Remain prepared for the encounter with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, for the encounter with our God, who was made flesh and His body is now glorified. And in His second coming He will come to seek us, change us, and take us with Him to the greatest Feast that has ever taken place in heaven: to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
If there is anyone who is not yet prepared for this encounter because you have not received Him as your Savior, you may do so at this time and we will be praying for you so that Christ receives you in His Kingdom, forgives you, and with His Blood cleanses you of all sin. May you be baptized in water in His Name, and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire and produce in you the new birth. For which you can come to the front, and we will be praying for you.
And those who are in other nations, you may also come to the front, wherever you may be: in other nations, other cities, and other congregations and other churches, so that you are included in the prayer we will be making for all those who are receiving Christ as their only and sufficient Savior. Children ten years of age and older can come to the Feet of Christ so that Christ may receive them in His Kingdom. Remember that He said: “Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” [Mark 19:14.]
In other words, children also have the opportunity to receive Him as their Savior when they are conscious of good and evil. We all want to live eternally, and that is what Christ wants for you and me: that we live eternally, which is why He gives us eternal Life. “For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Eternal Life is what God wants to give us through Christ our Savior. (Saint John chapter 3, verse 16). And First John chapter 5, verses 10 to 13 says: “God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son (in other words, in Jesus Christ). He that hath the Son (in other words, Jesus Christ, because you received Him as your Savior), hath life (What life? Eternal Life); and he that hath not the Son of God (Christ) hath not life (he does not have eternal Life).” What he has is a temporary life, and he doesn’t even know when it will end. And if it ends without receiving Christ as Savior, if his temporary life ends without receiving eternal Life, he cannot live eternally, because if he doesn’t have eternal Life he cannot live eternally.
That is why Christ says: “My sheep hear my voice, and they follow me and I know them. And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one.” Saint John chapter 10, verses 27 to 30.
That is why He said: “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature (giving the opportunity to every human being). He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” [Mark 16:15-16]
No one wants to be condemned. Everyone wants to be saved, blessed with eternal Life. And we all have the opportunity to obtain eternal Life through Christ, receiving Him as our only and sufficient Savior. That is why the Gospel of Christ is preached to every creature: so that they have the same opportunity to obtain eternal Life, receiving Christ as their Savior, being baptized in water in His Name, and by Christ baptizing them with the Holy Spirit and fire, and producing the new birth in each person.
Let’s remember the interview Nicodemus made to Jesus, in which Jesus was direct and immediately said: “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God, he cannot understand it.” Nicodemus tells Him: “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?” He was thinking physically, in human terms. Christ told him: “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, except a man be born of water (in other words, of the Gospel) and of the Spirit (meaning, the Holy Spirit) he will not enter or cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.” And we all want to enter into the Kingdom of God to live eternally, because the Kingdom of God is eternal.
Let us stand up to pray for the people who have come to the Feet of Christ on this occasion, so that Christ receives them in His Kingdom.
With our hands raised to Christ, to heaven, and with our eyes closed:
Our Father which art in heaven, I come to You in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ with all these people who are receiving Christ as their only and sufficient Savior. I beg You to receive them in Your Kingdom. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I beg You. Amen.
Now repeat this prayer with me after me, those who have come to the Feet of Christ:
Lord Jesus Christ I heard the preaching of Your Gospel, and Your faith was born in my heart, in my soul. I believe in You with all my soul.
I believe in Your first coming and I believe in Your Name as the only Name under heaven given unto men whereby we can be saved. I believe in Your death on Calvary’s cross as the Atoning Sacrifice for our sins. I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I need a Savior, a Redeemer. I give public testimony of Your faith in me and of my faith in You, and I receive You as my only and sufficient Savior.
I beg You to forgive my sins and with Your Blood may You cleanse me of all sin, and may You baptize me with the Holy Spirit and fire after I am baptized in water in Your Name.
Make a reality in me the Salvation that You obtained for me on Calvary’s Cross. I beg You in Your Eternal and glorious Name, Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
And now with our hands raised to Christ we say: THE BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST HAS CLEANSED ME FROM ALL SIN! THE BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST HAS CLEANSED ME FROM ALL SIN! THE BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST HAS CLEANSED ME FROM ALL SIN! AMEN.
Christ has received you in His Kingdom, He has forgiven your sins, and with His Blood He has cleansed you from all sin, because you have received Him as your only and sufficient Savior.
You may tell me: “I want to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, because He said: ‘He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.’ When can I be baptized?” That is the question from the bottom of your hearts.
Water baptism doesn’t take away sins, because water has no power to take away sins; it is the Blood of Christ that cleanses us from all sin. But in water baptism, the person identifies with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection. And water baptism is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ, because He said: “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.”
Christ Himself went to John the Baptist where he was baptizing at Jordan, so that John could baptize Him. John said to Him: “I have the need to be baptized by You and you come to me so that I baptize you?” Jesus tells him: “We need to fulfill all righteousness,” and then he baptized Him. And when He came up from the baptismal waters, John saw the Holy Spirit descending upon Jesus in the form of a dove, and remained upon Jesus.
And if Christ had the need to be baptized by John to receive the Holy Spirit afterwards (like it happened there), and then say: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me…” Saint Luke chapter 4, verses 11 and on, and Saint John chapter 1.
John said: “This is He, who is coming after me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to loosen. This is the One I told you about.” And if He needed to be baptized by John the Baptist, our need is much greater, in order to fulfill all righteousness, being aware that we are identifying ourselves with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection.
When the person receives Him as Savior, he dies to the world; when the minister immerses him in baptismal waters, he is typologically being buried, and when he is raised up from the baptismal waters, he is resurrecting unto a new life: unto eternal Life with Christ in His eternal Kingdom. Water baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ gives testimony of that. Therefore, you may be baptized, and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire, and produce in you the new birth. And we will continue seeing each other eternally in the Kingdom of Christ our Savior.
Continue having an evening filled with the blessings of the Lord Jesus Christ. And on Sunday you will be broadcasted the activities in Cartagena. In the rest of the countries you may also be baptized, those of you who have received Christ as your Savior, for which I leave the minister, Reverend Mauricio Vivas, so that he may let you know what you must do to be baptized. And in each country I leave the minister in charge to let you know what you must do to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior. May God bless you and keep you all. “PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE ENCOUNTER WITH JESUS CHRIST.”