Good morning, “Mighty Women of the Son of David.” How many women here are mighty? Everyone here is mighty: the young women, the little girls too, and also the adult ladies; and the men who are here are also mighty men of Christ, the Son of David, for this end time.
Well, the subject we have for this occasion is: “PRIVILEGES AND DUTIES OF THE WIFE OF CHRIST.” For which we read in Second Corinthians, chapter 11, verse 1 to 2, where it says:
“Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.”
It continues:
“But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.”
And Saint Paul continues speaking to us there.
And in Revelation, chapter 21, verse 1 and on, it says:
“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.”
And in chapter 21, verse 9, it says:
“And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.”
And he continues to explain everything he saw there.
And in chapter 19, verse 7 to 10, it says:
“Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
May God bless His Word in our hearts and bless our hearts, our souls, with His Word and allow us to understand It. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
Our subject for this occasion is: “PRIVILEGES AND DUTIES OF THE WIFE OF CHRIST.”
Saint Paul tells us that he has espoused the Church as a pure Virgin to her husband, in other words, for our Lord Jesus Christ; and this pure Wife is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
As a Church, she has the privilege of being the Lamb’s Wife, and as a Church, she has the responsibility, the duties, that she must carry out. Just like when God created the human being, when He created Adam in the beginning, He then gave him a companion; and she had that privilege of being Adam’s companion, but she also had certain duties to fulfill, and she had to remain faithful to him.
And now, the Church of Jesus Christ, notice, is represented in Eve because Adam is the first man who came to Earth in human flesh and then Eve is his companion. And now, Adam represents Christ; that is why Christ is the second Adam and the Church of Jesus Christ is the second Eve.
And just as God took part of Adam from Adam’s side…; and out of that rib God formed a feminine body in which He placed the feminine spirit that was in Adam, and she was Adam’s companion. And now, Adam named her Ishshah (which means ‘woman’), because she was taken out of man1.
And now, we find that she had the privilege of being the companion, the wife of Adam (she was his bride); and Adam’s children would come through her, who would be the children of God through Adam and Eve. Just as Adam was a son of God, he was going to bring forth children of God.
There, in the garden, were the tree of the knowledge of good and evil… Through the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the human race would die; through the Tree of Life, it would live eternally.
Notice, those trees represent: the tree of the knowledge of good and evil represents the devil, and the Tree of Life represents Jesus Christ. And for the human being to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil or of the Tree of Life, those trees had to become flesh, in order for the human being to eat from one of those trees.
And now, the devil became flesh in the serpent; because the devil is not a creator, therefore, he could not create; so then he went inside the serpent (which is the missing link that science is searching for), which is the animal closest to the human being; and he was like the human being, except that he had no soul, but he had a place for the soul to go inside of him, and the devil went in there; and the serpent’s soul became who? The devil.
And through the serpent, that animal which was so similar to the human being, the devil deceived Eve; and that is why throughout the whole Bible, the devil is called “the old serpent.” He is also called “the dragon,” because the dragon is a giant serpent; and he is the dragon that has seven heads.
And now, it sounds like something from the Chinese, who have dragons and things like that; but in the prophetic symbolism of the book of Revelation and also the book of the prophet Daniel, the devil is represented as the seven-headed dragon in his manifestation on Earth. And he is represented in the old serpent, which was the manifestation of the devil in human flesh through the serpent; that is why, the devil gets the name the old serpent from there; and the children of the devil, well, they get the name serpents.
That is why Jesus spoke to many people, and so did John the Baptist, and said to them: “Serpents, generation of vipers.2” And He told them… When they did not want to hear the Voice of Christ, He told them: “You do not hear my Voice because you are not of my sheep. You are of your father the devil.3”
In other words, that is why He could call them “serpents” and He was right, because they were descendants of the old serpent, through which the devil entered among the human race; and thus, he brought the seed of the serpent into existence, which is the seed of the wicked one, also represented in the tares.
Now, notice that the seed of the serpent (which is the seed of the wicked one), not only was the physical part involved, but also the inside.
On the inside, the spirit, notice, that spirit is from the fifth dimension; and as for the soul, well, it is the devil himself. And therefore, in their spirit, the seed of the devil, the tares have a spirit of the fifth dimension; and in their soul, well, they are a seed or offspring of the devil. And that is why Christ said: “Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be uprooted, and cast into the fire.” Where is that? In Matthew, chapter 15, verse 13.
Now, notice how also in Malachi, chapter 4, verse 1 and on, it tells us about the day of vengeance of our God, and it says: “Behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble. And the day that comes shall leave them neither root nor branch.” It will not leave them a root for another generation to come, nor will it leave them branches (meaning, it will not leave those branches, which are the ones that will exist at that time).
And now, we can see this mystery of the serpent’s seed, which is the tares; because just as there are children of God on Earth, there are also children of the wicked one. This is a truth we cannot deny.
And how did the seed of the wicked one enter or inject himself among the human race? We have already seen that.
And now, notice how Christ, in that parable of the wheat and tares, in that simple way, brings such a great revelation of how the seed of the wicked one, the children of the wicked one, were placed on this planet Earth.
But now, since the human being fell in the Garden of Eden, we find that the seed of God, the sons and daughters of God would not be able to come into existence on this planet Earth with eternal bodies and also with eternal theophanic spirits because they lost the right to pass by the sixth dimension and take the theophanic body of the sixth dimension (which is similar to our body) so that they can then take an eternal body here on Earth.
And that is also the reason that the children of God have also been coming to this planet Earth through the union of a man and a woman, and therefore, they have been coming with a mortal, corruptible and temporary physical body, and with a spirit of the world; and that is why the new birth is required, which Christ spoke to Nicodemus about in chapter 3, verse 1 to 6, when He said [John]: “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God (in other words, he cannot understand It).”
Nicodemus thought it meant being born through a woman, and said: “How can these things be? Can a man, when he is old, enter into his mother’s womb and be born?” And when he says: “Can a man, when he is old…?” that is because Nicodemus was already old; otherwise, if he had been a young man, he would have asked: “Can a young man enter his mother’s womb and be born when he is young?”; but since Nicodemus was already an aged person, he asks about a man who is old, whether he can enter his mother’s womb and be born.
But Christ is not telling him about a new birth through a woman, but a new birth through the Spirit of Christ; and through that new birth, to obtain the theophanic body of the sixth dimension, and then, at the Last Day, to have the promise of a physical and eternal body which Christ will give us when the dead in Christ are resurrected in those immortal bodies and we who are alive are changed.
Now, notice how Christ is creating a new race, because the first race fell and lost the right to eternal life.
Therefore, in those mortal bodies we receive through our earthly parents, which come through the seed of the first Adam, we cannot live eternally in these mortal bodies; and that is why the new birth is required.
And through the new birth, we obtain a theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension, which is a body similar to our body but from the sixth dimension, like the body of our Lord Jesus Christ from the sixth dimension, called the Word of God or the theophanic body, and also called the Angel of the Covenant or Angel of the Lord in the Old Testament, which was seen by many prophets; and when they saw Him, they said He was a man, meaning, an angel (a man, but from another dimension); and that man was made flesh and lived among the human beings, and He is known as our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. That is the second Adam.
And now, the second Adam has been sent to Earth to have a seed; and that is why, just as God caused a sleep (in other words, the first anesthesia) to fall upon Adam and took Adam’s companion from his side…; He took part of Adam from there and formed a companion for him, and He put the feminine spirit in that body, and then gave her to Adam.
Adam would multiply through Eve; but God had an order, and according to the original order of divine creation, it had to be through the Creative Word.
Therefore, Adam and Eve had to wait for the Tree of Life, which is Christ, to become flesh; but Eve did not wait, she let the serpent beguile her and brought forth children through the union of intimacy, she brought forth children for the devil and also for Adam.
That is why Cain was so evil, because he was… it says: “Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother (Abel).” Saint John the apostle says that in one of his letters (let’s see which one of those letters), in First John, chapter 3, verse 12, that is where it is.
And now, notice how Cain is a child of the wicked one: through the manifestation of the wicked one, the devil becoming flesh in an animal called the serpent, which was similar to the human being. That is how the devil was able to bring forth his seed and put a spirit of the fifth dimension, a spirit of the world in the human being.
And now, the human race…, since that is when the choice was made of how the seed of the human race would come, it was chosen that the human race would come with a mortal, corruptible and temporary body and with a spirit of the world, in other words, of the fifth dimension. But in the Divine Program, in order for a man to live eternally, he must come with a theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension and an eternal body; and in the Divine Program, in the Program of Redemption for eternal life, in which God restores the human being to eternal life through the second Adam (who is Jesus Christ), we find that Jesus Christ begins a New Creation of which Christ is the head.
And now, just as God gave Adam a companion that He took from his side, when Christ died on Calvary’s Cross, notice what God did there, by Christ dying on Calvary’s Cross…
Now, where was Eve before she was in a physical body? She was in Adam, she was part of Adam. And now, where was the Church of Jesus Christ before she appeared manifested on Earth and was born on the Day of Pentecost? Well, she was where? In Christ. And when Christ was wounded and that soldier pierced Jesus’ side with the spear, and water and blood came out (and there, notice, He was wounded like Adam was wounded), and the Church of Jesus Christ came out of His side. That is why the Church comes from the heart of Christ, just like Eve, the wife of Adam did.
And now, from age to age, the Church of Jesus Christ has had the blessing of being the Wife of Christ to bring into existence (through Christ by His creative Word), bring into existence the sons and daughters in a theophanic body; and this is obtained by believing in Christ as our Savior and washing away our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit.
And that is what has been happening from age to age: God’s sons and daughters have been born through the manifestation of Christ in His Church; but they have been born in the sixth dimension, they have been obtaining a body from the sixth dimension; and thus, through that new birth, what Christ has been doing is creating a new race with eternal life.
That is why Christ says4: “He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” Why from death? Because the race descending from Adam received death; and that is why they do not come into existence on this Earth with eternal life, but with death. That is why when a person is born, he already comes with that death sentence, on some day of his life, he has to die, whether he is a child, a young man, an adult or an elderly person; the end of his physical body is death. And now, this is due to the fall there in the Garden of Eden.
But now, through the second Adam, through Jesus Christ, He is carrying out a New Creation. That is why Saint Paul tells us in his letter to the Galatians, chapter 6, verse 15, he says:
“For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.”
That New Creation, in which the person becomes a new creature who belongs to a New Creation, to that Creation which Christ is carrying out; and through that new birth, the person appears, not as a descendant of Adam, but as a descendant of the second Adam: of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, notice that Christ is doing all of this through His Church from age to age. Therefore, God’s sons and daughters are born in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the second Eve, just as Christ is the second Adam.
Now, the physical birth in an eternal body, that is for the Last Day, when God’s sons and daughters who have departed will resurrect in eternal bodies (the ones who lived in these stages) and some of our own, from our age, who have also departed; and when they resurrect, we who are alive will be changed. And then, physically, the Church of Jesus Christ —which will be completely united with Christ at the Last Day— will be physically giving birth to God’s sons and daughters in eternal bodies.
Now, notice through whom God’s sons and daughters will come into existence in eternal bodies at the end time. It won’t be through any religion or religious sect, but through the Church of Jesus Christ, which will be in the Age of the Cornerstone; because that is the age for the adoption, that is the age in which we will be adopted; and the adoption is the redemption of our body, meaning, the transformation of our body, where we will obtain an eternal body.
Now, from stage to stage, the Church has had God’s sons and daughters, who have been born into the Kingdom of God, in the Church of Jesus Christ, but that has happened in another dimension (in other words, in the sixth dimension), where we have obtained a theophanic body from age to age; just as all of God’s sons and daughters, when they have received the Word of God for their age.
It has been Christ with His Creative Word carrying out a New Creation; but first, He carries it out in the sixth dimension, and then, out of that sixth dimension that is not visible, He makes what will be seen on this planet Earth, which will be God’s sons and daughters with eternal bodies; because things which are seen have been made (of what?) of things which do not appear5.
First, God created His first son in the sixth dimension, his body of the sixth dimension, his theophanic body, his theophanic spirit, and then, He brought him here to Earth and created him a physical body of the dust of the ground; that is why Adam could have continued living throughout eternity if he had not sinned.
Now, the adoption for Adam would be by taking of the Tree of Life, but he took of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; in other words, he did not eat of the Tree of Life, and that is why Adam and Eve fell there in the garden of Eden.
Now, from age to age, we can see the Church of Jesus Christ going from age to age; and when the time of that age ends, then, what remained there, in that age, no longer belongs to the Virgin-Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, instead, it becomes like something religious; but that is not the group of God’s elect for that age, because God already called them, sealed them, and put them in His Kingdom.
And now, notice what has been taking place from age to age. On page 186 of the book The Ages, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says6:
“Here is what I am trying to say to you. The law of reproduction is that each specie brings forth after its own kind, even according to Genesis 1:11,
‘And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, and the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.’
Whatever life was in the seed came forth into a plant and thence into fruit. The very same law applies to the church today. Whatever seed started the church will come forth and be like the original seed because it is the same seed. In these last days the true Bride Church (Christ’s seed) will come to the Headstone (Where? To the Age of the Cornerstone). And she will be the super church, a super race, as she nears Him. They in the bride will be so much like Him that they will even be in His very image, (the image is the theophany). This is in order to be united with Him. They will be one. They will be the very manifestation of the Word of the living God. Denominations cannot produce this (wrong seed). They will produce their creeds and their dogmas, mixed with the Word. This mongrelizing brings forth a hybrid product.
The first son (Adam) was the spoken seed-Word of God. He was given a bride to reproduce himself. That is why the bride was given to him, to reproduce himself; to produce another son of God. But she fell. She fell by hybridization. She caused him to die (She caused who to die? Adam).
The second Son (Jesus), also a spoken Seed-Word of God was given a bride like as was Adam. But before He could marry her, she also had fallen. She, like Adam’s wife, was put to the test whether she would believe the Word of God and live, or doubt the Word and die. She doubted. She left the Word. She died.
From a little group of the true seed of the Word, God will present Christ with a beloved bride. She is a virgin of His Word. She is a virgin because she knows no man-made creeds or dogmas. By and through the members of the bride will be fulfilled all that was promised of God to be made manifest in the virgin.
The word of promise came to the virgin Mary…”
Now here, the virgin Mary is representing the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the true Church, the pure Virgin that God has given to Christ. And now:
“The word of promise came to the virgin Mary. But that Word of promise was He, Himself, (in other words, it was the First Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Tree of Life made man, made flesh in the midst of the human race), to be made manifest. God was made manifest. He, Himself, acted at that time and fulfilled His own Word of promise in the virgin. It was an angel that had brought her the message. But the angel’s message was the Word of God. Isaiah 9:6. He fulfilled at that time all that was written of Him because she accepted His Word to her.
The members of the virgin bride will love Him, and they will have His potentials, for He is their head, and all power belongs to Him. They are subject to Him as the members of our bodies are subject to our heads.
Notice the harmony of the Father and the Son. Jesus never did anything until it was first showed Him by the Father. John 5:19. This harmony is now to exist between the Groom and His bride. He shows her His Word of life. She receives it. She never doubts it. Therefore, nothing can harm her, not even death. For if the seed be planted, the water will raise it up again. Here is the secret of this. The Word is in the bride (as it was in Mary). The bride has the mind of Christ for she knows what He wants done with the Word. She performs the command of the Word in His name for she has ‘thus saith the Lord.’ Then the Word is quickened by the Spirit and it comes to pass. Like a seed that is planted and watered, it comes to full harvest, serving its purpose.
Those in the bride do only His will. No one can make them do otherwise. They have ‘thus saith the Lord’ or they keep still. They know that it has to be God in them doing the works, fulfilling His own Word. He did not complete all His work while in His earthly ministry so now He works in and through the bride. She knows that, for it was not yet time for Him to do certain things that He must now do. But He will now fulfill through the bride that work which He left for this specific time…”
And why through the Bride? Because the Bride is His Mystical Body of believers, just as a husband and wife become one flesh. And now, we are one flesh with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. And now, all these things He has to do in each age, He does them in and through His Bride in His manifestation through each messenger.
That is also how it is for the Age of the Cornerstone, which we are living in; and all the things that have been promised for God to do at this end time: through His Church, through His Bride, in the Age of the Cornerstone, He will be carrying them out. And where will He have everything He needs to carry out His Work? In the Age of the Cornerstone; that is where He will have His Bride, His Church, and He will be manifested through her.
That is why the ministries of the seven spirits of God have been, where? In the Church, in the Bride; and each messenger in which each of those ministries has been manifested have been part of the Bride; in other words, Christ manifests His ministry from age to age in the Bride and through the Bride, because the messenger of each age is part of that Bride of Jesus Christ.
“Now let us stand like Joshua and Caleb. Our promised land is coming in sight even as theirs did. Now Joshua means ‘Jehovah-Saviour,’ and he represents the end-time leader that will come to the church even as Paul came as the original leader. Caleb represents those that stayed true with Joshua. Remember, God had started Israel as a virgin with His Word.”
In other words, the same thing that happened with Eve, later happens with the Hebrew people as a nation and with the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Why?
The Hebrew people as a nation is Eve as a nation, and the Church of Jesus Christ is the spiritual Eve as a Church. And that is why, notice, the fulfillment of the First Coming of Christ came through Eve as a nation; and through Eve as a Church, the promise of the Second Coming of Christ will become a reality for all the sons and daughters of God; because the Church of Jesus Christ is the one that is waiting for the Second Coming of Christ, just as the Hebrew people, the Hebrew nation, Eve as a nation, was waiting for the Coming of the Messiah two thousand years ago.
“Remember, God had started Israel as a virgin with His Word. But they wanted something different. So did the last-day church. Notice how God did not move Israel, or let her go into the promised land until it was His own appointed time. Now the people might have put pressure on Joshua, the leader, and said, ‘The land is ours, let’s go and take it. Joshua, you are all through, you must have lost your commission, you don’t have the power you used to have (meaning, the people may have said that about Joshua when Joshua was waiting for God’s instructions to enter the promised land). You used to hear from God and know the will of God, and act quickly. Something is wrong with you.’ But Joshua was a God-sent prophet and he knew the promises of God, so he waited for them. He waited for a clear-cut decision from God and when the time came to move, God placed the full leadership in Joshua’s hands because he had stayed with the Word. God could trust Joshua but not the others. So it will repeat in this end day. The same problem, the same pressures.”
And now, on page 189 of the book of The Ages, it tells us here (in the middle paragraph, it says)7:
“Now I want you to be very careful here and see this. God has promised that at the end time Malachi 4 is going to be fulfilled. It has to be for it is the Spirit-quickened Word of God spoken by the prophet Malachi. Jesus referred to it. It is just before Christ comes the second time (in other words, the coming of the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ comes before the Second Coming of Christ). By the time Jesus comes all Scripture must be fulfilled.”
Every Scripture promised for the Second Coming of Christ, all the things Christ has promised to carry out in His Second Coming, those promises must be fulfilled in His Coming.
“The Gentile dispensation will be in its last church age when that messenger of Malachi (chapter 4) comes.”
In other words, when the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ comes, where will the Church be? At the end of the gentile dispensation, that is, at the end of the Dispensation of Grace.
And now, on page 190 (near the bottom of the page), it says8:
“Then in the latter rain will come a Mount Carmel showdown. Watch this carefully now to see it in the Word. John was the forerunner of Malachi 3. He planted the former rain and was rejected by the organizations of his day. Jesus came and had a Mount Transfiguration showdown. The second forerunner of Christ will sow for the latter rain. Jesus will be the showdown between the denominations and creeds, for He will come to back up His Word and take His bride in the rapture. The first showdown was Mount Carmel (that was in the time of the prophet Elijah), the second (showdown) was the Mount Transfiguration…”
This was when Jesus appeared transfigured, with… Peter, James, and John were there (earthly witnesses), and Moses and Elijah were also there, who had already departed in the time of their ministries, but they appeared again with Jesus, talking with Jesus about His departure to Jerusalem.
And now, notice, it says here:
“…the second (showdown) was the Mount (what?) Transfiguration, and the third will be Mount Zion.”
Mount Zion, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, at the top of Mount Zion, which is the Age of the Cornerstone; that is where the showdown happens at the Last Day, because that is the place of and for the Second Coming of Christ, for the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels.
And notice, that is where the showdown of this Last Day will be carried out, that is where everything that is promised for the Second Coming of Christ will be fulfilled, and that is where the enemy will try to persecute the Bride-Church of Jesus Christ; but the enemy will not be in the Age of the Cornerstone, because he cannot go up there; he will be in the seventh age of the gentile Church and he will even be taking control of earthly Governments, as Revelation, chapter 17, verses 11 and on says (11 to 18 says):
“And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.”
And He is King of kings and Lord of lords because He is the white horse Rider of Revelation 19; and this white horse Rider of Revelation 19 is Christ in His Coming, coming in and to His Church at the Last Day.
And notice, when the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ spoke of this white horse Rider of Revelation 19, he said on page 131 of the book of The Seals9:
“And, Jesus, His Name on earth was ‘Redeemer,’ Jesus. When He was on earth, He was the Redeemer, that’s true. But when He conquered death and hell, and overcome them, and ascended on High, He received a new Name. That’s the reason you holler the way they do, and they don’t get nothing.
It’ll be revealed in the Thunders. Uh-huh. See? Notice the mysteries. He is coming, riding… There’s got to be Something to change this Church. You know that. There’s got to be Something. Notice, ‘No man knowed, but Himself.’ Now, notice, ‘No man knowed, but Hisself.’
‘And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name was called The Word of God.’
Oh, my! Notice!
‘And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he tread the winepress of the fierceness and the wrath of Almighty God.
And he had on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.’
Revelation 19:13-16.”
King of kings and Lord of lords, because He is the Son of Man and the Son of David. And now:
“There comes the Messiah. There He is.”
And when he spoke on page 256 about this white horse Rider of Revelation 19, he said10:
“But when our Lord appears here on earth, He’ll be riding on a snow-white horse. And He’ll be completely, fully, the Emmanuel, the Word of God incarnate in a Man.”
That is Revelation, chapter 19, that is the Coming of Christ, that is the Coming of the King of kings and Lord of lords, of the Son of Man and Son of David: It is the Coming of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, of the Angel of the Covenant, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit coming manifested in human flesh at the Last Day.
And where does He come to? To His Church, in and to the Age of the Cornerstone, to complete the number of His elect by calling them and gathering them at the Last Day; and when they are complete, then He will finish His Work of Intercession in Heaven and He will resurrect the dead in Christ and change us who are alive; and then we will all have the new body.
And thus, we will also physically receive a new physical birth, because that is what it means to be born in a new body. When the dead in Christ resurrect, that is a physical new birth in a new body that is created by God; not through a man and a woman, but through Christ, who will be manifested in His Church at the Last Day, speaking that creative Word to complete the number of His elect and for the creation of the new body that we will all have when the resurrection of the dead takes place and the transformation of us who are alive.
Now, notice how Christ does everything in and with His Church, because He has been given a Virgin-Church, a Bride, which has gone from age to age; and even though the Church fell in past times, by His Church going from age to age, notice, Christ has had a pure Church; and through that Church, in the manifestation of Christ in each age, He has brought God’s sons and daughters into existence in the sixth dimension, He has brought them into existence in that new birth, in that New Creation that He is carrying out.
And at this end time, He completes His Church with the elect of the Age of the Cornerstone. And when the very last one comes in, then Christ must carry out the creation of the new body, of the eternal body He has promised for all of us; but before that happens, He must be in the Work of creation of the theophanic body of each son and daughter of God as they are receiving Christ as their Savior, washing away their sins in the Blood of Chris and receiving the Spirit of Christ; and that is how each person is receiving the new birth, and thus, receiving the theophanic body of the sixth dimension.
Millions have already received Him. And those who have departed from all these ages are enjoying life in Paradise (which is the sixth dimension) in that theophanic body.
And we who are alive, by receiving Christ as our Savior and washing away our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit, we have received that theophanic body; and if we remain alive in these mortal bodies until the dead in Christ resurrect, well, we won’t have to see death (as they saw death in the time in which they lived), instead, we will receive a transformation: we will be changed in our atoms, and then, we will have the new body created by Jesus Christ for each one of us.
And now, notice how God does everything (where?) in His Church.
The new race are the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; that is why their names are written (where?) in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
His Church is the heavenly Jerusalem, and the Hebrew people is the earthly Jerusalem (represented in the earthly Jerusalem there).
And now, notice how through the earthly Israel —which is Eve as a nation, the spiritual Eve as a nation— comes the seed of Abraham after the flesh, and through the spiritual Eve (which is the Church of Jesus Christ) Abraham’s sons and daughters come from Heaven, the heavenly Israel; because the Church of Jesus Christ is the heavenly Israel. And that is why Saint Paul tells us that all of us who are in Christ are Abraham’s seed, in other words, children of Abraham, children of Abraham from that heavenly seed11.
Remember how God told Abraham that the seed of Abraham would be like the sand of the sea and as the stars of heaven?12 Well, like the sand of the sea (that is earthly): that is the Hebrew people; and as the stars of heaven (that is the heavenly): the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, notice, we find the representation of Abraham’s heavenly seed in stars; and that is why Christ also tells us that He is the bright and Morning Star13, the Second Coming of Christ is represented in the bright and morning star.
And now, just as the wise men saw the star of the Messiah, when they were in the East and they were looking towards the West…; because Israel is west of Babylon. And now, when the Hebrews look from the Middle East (or from the East) to the West (that is, towards the West), towards the Latin American and Caribbean continent, they will see that Star; and to see that Star will be to see the bright and Morning Star shining in Latin America and the Caribbean.
“He that overcometh I will give him the morning Star.14” Therefore, the Morning Star will be shining in he that receives It; in other words, Christ will be shining in he that receives Christ at this end time in His Coming.
And by looking from East to West, they will see the Star of the Messiah, which is the Morning Star in the heavenly Israel, represented in the stars of heaven. That is why the seven angel messengers are also represented in seven stars.
And now we can also see why the Church of Jesus Christ is represented in the moon; but we find that for the end time the Church of Jesus Christ, which has been represented in the moon during these ages, will be in the Age of the Sun at the Last Day, which is the Age of the Cornerstone, therefore, she will be clothed with the Sun; she will be clothed with the Sun and not the Moon at the Last Day; the Moon will be under her feet; and the Church will be in a solar age, not a lunar age.
That is why it says15:
“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.”
And now, the Church of Jesus Christ has the privilege of being His Beloved, and for the Last Day, Christ marries His Church.
That is why in the parable of the ten virgins16 it says that while the foolish virgins who had no oil in their lamps went to buy oil, the Bridegroom came (that is the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant), and they that were ready went in with Him (meaning, the wise virgins), and the door was shut.
We are at the time in which all the elect of God are called and gathered together in the Age of the Cornerstone, but at some point, the door will be shut, and no one else will be able to enter.
That is why in Luke, chapter 13, verse 25, tells us that when the master of the house has risen up and shut the door, then many will come saying: “Open unto us,” because they will want to come in; but the door will already be shut.
Not one more person will come in and become part of the Church, the Wife of Christ, the Lamb. No one else will come in and have a glorified body, an eternal body, because everyone whose name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, will have already entered, the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ will have already been completed, the fullness of the gentiles will have already come in, which is the fullness of the Church of Jesus Christ coming into the Mystical Body of Christ.
Now, the Church of Jesus Christ has privileges and duties.
That is why, just as a wife has the privilege of being the wife of the man that she loves and being the woman who that man loves (which is a privilege and blessing), she also has the responsibility of having the children of that man and not another man.
And such is the Church: she was given to Christ by God to have God’s sons and daughters; for them to be manifested in their theophanic bodies first by receiving the new birth and then to be manifested in their physical and eternal bodies, which we will receive at this end time. That is why God has given Jesus Christ a Church, a Bride, a chaste Virgin: to bring forth sons and daughters of God.
And now, at this end time… that is why it says that who came at this end time? The Bridegroom; because He comes for His Bride, for His Wife, to carry out the Marriage of the Lamb, and then, the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven. The Marriage is here on Earth and the Supper is in Heaven, the Reception, the Supper, where the Church receives many gifts, in other words, the rewards for all the work we have carried out in the Kingdom of God.
Now, the Church has the responsibility to bring sons and daughters of God to and through the new birth, as well as the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive. Where will that happen? In the Church of Jesus Christ. And when they resurrect in eternal bodies and we who are alive are changed, the Church will have given birth to sons and daughters of God with eternal bodies.
And now, notice how the Church, how the Wife of Christ, also has the responsibility of teaching Her children, of the education of Her children.
The Scripture says17: “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old (or when he is older) he will not depart from it,” from that teaching. And the teaching has to be the teaching of the Father coming through the mother, through the Church; because the teaching of our heavenly Father must be in the midst of the Church. And the works that the Church must carry out in our heavenly Father’s business, she has to be carrying them out from age to age, taking the Word of God to every place, so that God’s sons and daughters can come to the bosom of the Church and be born in the Church.
That is why she has the commission of the evangelization of human beings, and she has the responsibility to educate her children with the Word of God. And just as Jesus grew in stature and also in wisdom and knowledge and grace of God, so does each son and daughter of God.
And a mother is called to help her children, both earthly mothers and the Church of Jesus Christ are called to help the sons and daughters of God. And she is also responsible for the care and nourishment of all the sons and daughters of God; she must give them Food in the relevant age, which is given by Christ. Because the husband brings the groceries, the food, but the wife is the one in charge of everything being well prepared and she is in charge of feeding her children.
And now, from age to age, Christ has been bringing the groceries, the spiritual food for His children in each age. And for this end time, He says: “I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.” And Jesus… That is in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16.
And Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1, says (with that Great Voice of Trumpet): “Which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.” (Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1).
And in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 6, it says: “And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent His Angel to testify unto you these things…”, “to testify…”; let’s read it: “to testify these things which must shortly be done…” To whom does He testify? To His servants. Let’s read the whole thing. It says, chapter 22, verse 6:
“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”
Through whom are the things which must happen soon shown to all the servants of God, to all the children of God? Through the Angel of Jesus Christ, in whom Jesus Christ will be manifested at the Last Day; because he is the one sent by God for —through him— Christ have His last manifestation in the Age of the Cornerstone; and through him, He makes known all these things that must happen soon.
And when He makes known to us all these things that must happen soon, He is bringing the groceries, the spiritual food, to all the children of God, to the Church of Jesus Christ, to the Wife, the Bride-Wife of Christ, and to all the sons and daughters of God in the Church of Jesus Christ; He is bringing us the spiritual food, because “man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.18” And it is the responsibility of the Church that His children eat that Food.
And out of all the Food He has given His Church, that is the most concentrated Food. It is the same Word, but for the Last Day, It is concentrated with all the revelation of all the promises relevant to the Last Day. That Food is so concentrated and so powerful that It calls and gathers together all the elect of the Last Day and prepares them to be changed at this end time.
But one has to eat that spiritual food; and that Food has to become flesh in each one of us, that revealed Word has to become flesh in each one of us, just as the physical food we eat becomes flesh in us, it becomes part of the cells in our body.
If a person stops eating, what happens to him? As time passes for the human being, from one hour to another and from one day to another, his body’s cells start dying; and if he does not feed the body, how will new cells form? The person becomes weak or thin, and he gets sick, and then he dies. We have to feed the body. And it is good to eat, because a person who does not eat will die; and that is how it is spiritually.
Now, it is the responsibility of the Church that all of God’s sons and daughters, whom He has brought by divine creation, through the new birth, have the spiritual food. And that is why He has given us so much spiritual food at this end time: it is recorded in videos and also in booklets, and it is recorded on cassette tapes, so that God’s sons and daughters are not deprived of the spiritual food of this Last Day.
Therefore, it is the responsibility of all the congregations to have the spiritual food in booklets, videos and cassettes for all the sons and daughters of God; so that when they come to the services they can watch the videos, and thus, hear the Word, and so that they can also take the messages in booklets and read in their homes, and so that they can also have the cassette tapes and also have the Message in their cassette players, in their homes, and listen to it during the week; this way, they do not have to wait until the day of worship, until the service, to hear the Voice of God, the Word of God.
When we all gather together we come to worship God and pray to God, and hear His Voice; but when we are in our homes, we can also sing to God, and also pray to God and worship God and hear His Voice.
But when we all unite, then it is the Mystical Body of Christ gathering together in that congregation as a group of believers in Christ, which a person should uphold; he should always gather when there are services. “Not forsaking your congregations,19” Saint Paul says, like some people did in those times, who thought it was not necessary to gather and they would stop gathering, and then, they would start becoming spiritually cold and they would start straying from God’s way.
Spiritual fellowship with other brethren is very important, because otherwise, you become a spiritual hermit.
And notice, a hermit goes to the mountains and he goes and lives alone, and before his family members realize it, he becomes wild; he even forgets his language because he has no one to talk to; and his way of thinking changes and he starts to lose his mind.
Fellowship with one another keeps us sane, keeps us mentally healthy, and also spiritually healthy, and it gives us the opportunity to express to our brethren the divine love that is inside of us.
We cannot isolate ourselves, because God’s will is for us to be united and to always gather when there are services.
A person who isolates himself and becomes a hermit, notice, will also not go in the rapture to Heaven, to the Marriage of the Lamb, because the Marriage of the Lamb will be full of people, and since he is a hermit, well, he can’t be there. See?
We have to be in fellowship with one another, and speaking with one another, and telling one another of the great blessings that Christ has given us, sharing God’s blessings and glorifying God together when we gather and we sing; and working united.
Notice, a hermit does not go out and distribute booklets, he does not go out and take the Message. Why? Because he wants to be alone and he thinks he is the only saint. But what has happened to him? An individual who acts this way is badly affected spiritually and mentally.
When brother Branham wanted to do this on one occasion, he said that in the Old Testament, well, a prophet would be in the wilderness, in remote places; and he wanted to do the same thing, knowing that he had the ministry of a prophet in him; and God told him that because we are in a higher dispensation, God’s messengers of our time must be among the people, not like a hermit in the mountains or on a mountain, or in the wilderness.
He used to say: “I want to live like that; and when God gives me a Message for the people, I will come and give It to them, and then leave.” And God showed him in dreams, and also spoke to him through someone else’s dream, and He told him…, He showed him a campfire20 and he showed him two people; and in the dream, one of them was his brother-in-law, and when he saw the other one, it looked like him; and he says that his brother-in-law found him a place there in the campfire where he could spend the cold night, to keep warm there, and everyone was all ragged.
And God told him: “That is what you would be like, (or “will become”) you’ll be like that if you carry out your plans to isolate yourself and go alone to the mountain over there or to the wilderness, like you say you want to do”; and He told him: “And your wife won’t go with you either (in other words, she will not agree to that) and you’ll become a bum.21”
He got scared; and then, brother Branham says: “I wanted to leave like that because I like to hunt and I like the country life,” and then, he recognized that it came from himself, that he wanted to leave like that and he wanted to isolate himself from people; but God told him: “Now, the prophets are to be among the people; that is where they can help the people. And they have something greater than what the prophets of the Old Testament had, because they are in a higher dispensation.”
Where should God’s prophets be? Among the people, to help the people, and bring the Word to the people; and they must be among those who will receive that Word.
And now, where has God placed His messengers? Well, among the people, among His Church; and there He will have, just as He had Paul and the other messengers in His Church among the people, He will have His Angel Messenger in the Age of the Cornerstone.
So, he will not try to isolate himself, he will be among the people; he will suffer with the people and he will also enjoy the blessings of Christ with the people; and he will sing with the people, and he will worship God together with the people, because he will be someone from among the people, someone redeemed by the Blood of Christ. And we cannot be separated from one another, we must be closely united in divine love.
Well, we have seen the privileges and also the responsibilities or duties of the Wife of Christ, just as the wife of every man has those responsibilities on a relevant scale.
That is why it says that wives must raise their children in the fear of God, teach them well, and fight for them, like the mother of James and John the apostle (James is Jacob).
She came to the feet of Jesus with her two sons and said to Him: “Lord, we would like You to grant something that we desire, we want You to grant us a request22”; and the mother and her two sons came with that same request. But they came like when children come to their parents, and tell them:
—“Daddy, I want something, I have a request for you; but say yes.”
—“But, son or daughter, tell me, what is it?”
—“No, no, first say yes.”
And this is how James and John came with their mother; they sought help. And when children cannot do something on their own, they should seek their parents’ help so that God’s blessing upon them is more abundant.
Now, James and John had seen Moses and Elijah on Mount Transfiguration, one on each side of the Lord, and they knew that Christ was showing them the Coming of the Kingdom of God there. Therefore, in the Coming of the Kingdom of God, Moses and Elijah would be the Two Olive Trees, therefore, those ministries of Moses and Elijah would be manifested in human flesh here on Earth. Therefore, John wanted to be one of those Two Olive Trees and James wanted to be the other of the Two Olive Trees.
Remember that they always wanted the ministry of Elijah and Moses. How did they show that they wanted those ministries? They knew Elijah would come and restore all things; Christ spoke to them about Elijah’s coming, in addition to Elijah’s coming that had already been fulfilled in John the Baptist. And on one occasion, when Jesus wanted to go into a Samaritan city and they did not receive Jesus, James and John his brother said to Jesus: “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down upon them from heaven, like Elijah did, and destroy them, burn them all?” Jesus told them: “You do not know what manner of spirit you are of.23” See? They wanted to do what the prophet Elijah had done; they wanted the ministries of Moses and Elijah.
But now they come with their mother seeking those ministries, and they tell Him: “Lord, we want You to grant us this request.” Let’s see what it says here… (Miguel, what time is it? We don’t want to exceed our time. It seems like there is going to be an overlap with the next service at 2:00, anytime now). Matthew, chapter 20, verse 20 and on, says:
“Then came to him the mother of Zebedees children with her sons (that is, with James and John), worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.
And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.”
Now, notice, she is ordering Christ and telling Him: “Grant that in Your Kingdom these two sons of mine may sit, one at Your right hand, and the other at Your left.” She was hardly asking for anything (!).
The Scripture says that when Christ ascended to Heaven, He sat at the right hand of God. And now, the mother of James and John wants one of her sons to sit at the right hand of Christ in His Throne, in His Kingdom; she wants one of her sons to be at the right hand of Christ in the glorious Millennial Kingdom.
Christ said in Revelation, chapter 3, verse 21: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne.” That is, to sit at the right hand of Christ in His Kingdom, on the Throne of David.
Now, in this passage, Christ does not say it was impossible for that to be fulfilled, but that He could not make that promise to the mother of James and John, because that promise would not be given to them, for that position was ordained by God; and let’s see for who it is ordained by God. It says:
“But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.”
Because when a person is seeking God’s blessing, he cannot look at the obstacles and say: “I can’t obtain that blessing”; he must always say: “Yes, I can!” and start moving forward, and ask God for help to obtain that blessing; walk by faith and be a follower of those who conquered promises through faith24. Those promises were made to people and there were people who obtained the fulfillment of those promises, through faith.
And now, they said: “Yes, we are able.” When you seek God’s blessing, never think you cannot obtain that blessing, because then you will never obtain it because you do not have faith.
“And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.”
In other words, that position was prepared to be granted by God, but John and James wanted it for themselves.
And it is good for them and also for their mother to think that way. Why? Because they want the biggest blessing for themselves; and every mother who loves her children wants the greatest blessing for her children. That was very good, a good example of a good mother and a good wife who was raising her children the right way; and the spiritual part for her children was the most important part for her and for her children. And that is how it should be for every wife, for every mother, so that the main goal of her children is the Program of God and the blessings God has in His Program: the eternal life.
Now, that place at His right hand and His left was not available for them; but Christ said: “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.”
Just as He sat with His Father on the Throne and was given authority, likewise, that blessing will be given to him that overcomes; the same thing He received in Heaven, He then will give It in His Kingdom here on Earth.
That is why to the faithful and wise servant… Christ says25: “Who is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord, when he comes, shall find him so doing? Verily I say unto you, that he shall make him ruler over all his goods.”
`Now, the faithful and wise servant, who will be giving God’s children the spiritual food in the House of God (here in the Age of the Cornerstone), will be the one to receive that blessing; because this is the age for the Coming and of the Coming of the Son of Man, in which the faithful and wise servant who is there feeding the children of God with the Word, bringing the children of God the Message of the Word, will be the one who will receive that blessing, that blessing will materialize in him.
And now, that is the blessing of the right hand and the left (that is, of the right and left hand) on the Throne of Christ, the Throne of David, for the glorious Millennial Kingdom.
And just like on the mercy seat, there was one cherub on one side and another cherub on the other side, and God was in the center, in the Light of the Shekinah…, in the tabernacle Moses built and then in the temple that Solomon built. In addition, Solomon put two giant cherubim of olive wood, overlaid with gold, which is also a type of those who will sit at the right hand and the left on the Throne of the Lord and Kingdom of the Lord.
And who were on one side of the candlestick and on the other side of the candlestick with its seven lamps? One olive tree was on one side and the other olive tree was on the other side.
And the ark of the covenant was in the temple, in the temple Moses built, and there was one olive tree here on one side and another olive tree on the other side, which are those two cherubim of olive wood overlaid with gold. The part of olive wood represents humanity, and the part of gold represents Divinity.
And now, notice who are the ones that will sit, one at the right hand and the other at the left in the Millennial Kingdom of Christ, and this will be fulfilled in them: “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.”
Those ministries of Moses and Elijah are the ones that inherit that blessing; the Two Olive Trees and the Two Candlesticks of gold, which are the ministries of Moses and Elijah, that will be manifested in human flesh in the Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ, where Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant will be manifested.
And now, the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels… Wherever the Son of Man is, His Angels will be there as well.
In the same veil of flesh where the Son of Man, Jesus Christ is manifested in Holy Spirit, and where the ministry of Jesus Christ is manifested in human flesh, the ministries of Moses and Elijah will also be manifested there, the ministries of the Son of Man. Those three great ministries will be there at the Last Day: in His Angel Messenger.
“PRIVILEGES AND DUTIES OF THE WIFE OF CHRIST.”
There is much more we can speak about, but I think what we have discussed is enough to get a clear picture; and we have seen the position of the Wife of Christ, His Church, and the duties she has at this end time.
And soon, she will see her children in the prime of their youth, in eternal bodies; and she will be the happiest and most joyful Church, because she will be in her Golden Stage: the stage of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, the stage of the Age of the Head of Gold, the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the Golden Age of the Church of Jesus Christ.
Just like mothers who have had children that have departed: when they welcome them resurrected in eternal bodies, they will be the happiest mothers with their children.
It is a privilege to have an eternal child with an eternal body. And what will the Church of Jesus Christ, the Wife of the Lamb, be like with eternal children in eternal bodies as kings and priests to reign with Christ for a thousand years and then throughout eternity?
Now we can see the great joy of the Church of Jesus Christ; but she must occupy her position in the age relevant to us in the Mystical Body of Christ; and appreciate the privileges that she has and honor those privileges that she has; and fulfill her duties in our age and in our dispensation so that the Church of Jesus Christ may be adopted in this end time, in the Age of the Cornerstone, and so that the members of the Church of Jesus Christ may all be adopted at this end time.
It has been a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you about: THE PRIVILEGES AND DUTIES OF THE WIFE OF CHRIST, which is His Church.
May God bless you, may God keep you; and I leave Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin with us again to continue and conclude our participation on this occasion.
May God continue to bless you all. Here we have Miguel with us now.
“PRIVILEGES AND DUTIES OF THE WIFE OF CHRIST.”
1 Genesis 2:23
2 Matthew 23:33, 3:7, 12:34; Luke 3:7
3 John 8:43-44, 10:26
4 John 5:24
5 Hebrews 11:3
6 The Ages in English, page 171
7 The Ages in English, page 174
8 The Ages in English, page 174
9 The Seals in English, page 155
10 The Seals in English, page 303
11 Galatians 3:28-29
12 Genesis 22:17
13 Revelation 22:16
14 Revelation 2:28
15 Isaiah 60:1
16 Matthew 25:1-13
17 Proverbs 22:6
18 Matthew 4:4; Luke 4:4; Deuteronomy 8:3
19 Hebrews 10:25
20 Standing in the gap – 63-0623M, paragraph 67
21 Standing in the gap – 63-0623M, paragraphs 67, 68, 99, 105, 106, 113-129
22 Matthew 20:20-28; Mark 10:35-45
23 Luke 9:51-56
24 Hebrews 6:12
25 Matthew 24:45-47