Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present, and those who are in other nations; there in Peru, where missionary Miguel Bermudez Marin is. Greetings to missionary Miguel Bermudez Marin and all the brothers and sisters gathered there, along with ministers also gathered Peru. And also, greetings to all the ministers, brethren, congregations in different countries.
May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and upon me as well. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
As I already mentioned last Sunday, in September the Global Embassy of Activists for Peace will be carrying out a special work directed to the integral formation of the youth, an International Youth Movement that will be promoting all the projects of the Global Embassy of Activists for Peace.
From September 26th to the 29th, the Global Embassy of Activists for Peace in Valencia, Venezuela, will be carrying out the Youth Meeting of international leaders: “Music Bringing Peace and Happiness to our Hearts.” That is the subject that will be discussed in these activities in Venezuela.
The members of the Board of the Embassy, we have selected Dr. Miguel Bermudez Marin, international coordinator of the Embassy, and Ruth Florez de Bermudez as the people in charge of this work field with the youth, globally; a responsibility which has been assigned to them due to their successful trajectory in the work with youth movements during various decades.
It is important to reiterate that invitations to this meeting will only be sent to those people selected by the national coordinator in their respective countries. As for Puerto Rico, the selected youth activists have already received their invitation. This call is directed to the young people, 18 years and older, who have a solid background as activist leaders.
Regarding the invitations, they are being delivered to the youth who have been selected to be at that event; in other words, it is not an invitation for all the youth in every country, but for the youth who have been selected by the coordinator of their country. And as for Puerto Rico, those invited have already received their invitation. In other words, it is a direct invitation for youth in other countries. It is not for anyone who wishes to go. It is for those invited by the coordinator of their country; and in Puerto Rico, for those who the Embassy has invited. And they must be 18 years of age and older.
And regarding the locals in Venezuela, it will be for those who are 13 years of age and older; since they are in their own country. Next Sunday missionary Miguel Bermudez Marin will inform us (when he speaks to us he can tell us the required age in Venezuela, from what age on).
We thank missionary Miguel Bermudez Marin for hosting, in coordination with the Global Embassy of Activists for Peace in Venezuela, this International Youth Movement of the Embassy.
We want the youth to be happy; and through music, joy, happiness comes to the heart of the human being. Even God rejoices with music when we sing to Him and when we… we use the instruments that please Him, He is filled with joy.
When the ark of the covenant was transported, singers were always singing, they accompanied the priests (each one in their respective group), singing, worshipping God.
Music pleases God. That is why when Jesus was born, the Angel Gabriel came with a group of musicians and singers praising God by singing to the Messiah, giving good tidings that the Messiah was born, the Savior; in other words, they came singing good tidings of happiness, of joy for all Israel.
For this occasion, we read in Luke, chapter 21, verses 25 to 36…
On behalf of The Great Tent Cathedral, I want to express my gratitude and appreciation for the support that ministers and their congregations, also brethren as individuals, are giving to the construction of The Great Tent Cathedral in Cayey, Puerto Rico; a very important project in the Divine Program.
And when this project is finished, we want to be able to say: “I have a small part in the construction of The Great Tent Cathedral.” And thus, it will also be registered in Heaven. Because everything we do for the Work of God is registered in Heaven as works of faith we did in favor of the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Christ. Since I mentioned the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Christ, let us read in Luke, chapter 21, verses 25 to 36, which says:
“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.
So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
Taking verse 31 of the same chapter 21 of Luke, which says: “So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.”
And that is: “SUMMER IS NIGH,” as verse 29 and verse 30 say:
“And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;
When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.”
“SUMMER IS NIGH.” Because we are seeing all the signs that Christ mentioned.
Summer is also the time for the harvest; and therefore, the time when: the wheat in the Kingdom of God is gathered, and the tares are gathered to be burned in the fire during the great tribulation.
It is important to know the time we are living in, just as it is important, for people who live in countries where each season is marked, where seasons are deeply marked: when cold weather and snow arrives people must be aware what season they are living in; otherwise they will not buy winter clothes nor will they prepare their homes, and they freeze and die.
And for the hot season, in summer time, it is important for people to know that coats are not used during at that time, but instead wear lighter clothing. And in spring… we must also know that that is an important time in the Divine Program. And autumn is another season in which you cannot expect (in countries where autumn is deeply marked)… you cannot expect to have trees full of green leaves. You must understand and recognize the time you are living in.
And Christ taught that it is important to know the time, the time in the Divine Program.
In nature, God shows what He would do in the spiritual realm. For example, when it is spoken about the moon and its phases, in the spiritual field the moon is the Church, which has different stages. The Church passing through seven stages is shining in a way that it is increasing its Light; and in the Church, the Light of the Sun ⏤who is Christ⏤ He is reflected in the Moon, shines upon the Moon; and the moon reflects Him upon the human race through the preaching of the Gospel. The Light of the Gospel shining on behalf of the Sun, Christ, through His Church, which is His Bride, His Wife, His helpmeet in the Divine Program.
Also when it is spoken about stars, there are literal stars and people who are stars. Even when we talk about the artistic world, the most outstanding people are also referred to as “stars”; and also in sports, in baseball, we call the most outstanding players “stars.”
And Christ calls “stars” each of His messengers. Each messenger is the star through which Christ reveals Himself to His Church: Through His Spirit, Christ reveals to the messenger-star of each age; and he, anointed with that same Holy Spirit, speaks to the people, to the Church, and therefore he brings the Message relevant to the age he is allotted to live in. And that Message reaches the heart of every person who is a seed of God, who is wheat, and is awaken unto eternal life, and where does He place him? In the Mystical Body of Christ.
And all that is a Work of Christ, which He promised in John, chapter 10, when He said [verse 16]: “And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold (in other words, who are not Jews, they are gentiles): them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice (the Word, the Message, the Gospel)<em>; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”
The sheep are those who hear and receive Christ as Savior; they are the sheep that the Father gave to Him since before the foundation of the world, to seek them and give them eternal life. “For the Son of Man is come to seek (and to what?) and to save that which was lost (they are the sheep of the Father).” “Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.1” That is what Christ said in Matthew and also in Luke.
It is important… Luke, chapter 19, verse 10, says: “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” In other words, He came to look for human beings that had been lost and now He comes to give them eternal life.
In Matthew is where it says that it is not the will of our Father that one of these little ones should perish. It is because their names are written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life since before the foundation of the world.
It is important that every person knows that if he has heard the Gospel of Christ and has received Him as Savior, it is because his name is written in Heaven, in the Book of Life.
Christ said in John, chapter 8, verses 47 to 48: “He that is of God hears the Voice of God.”
And in John, chapter 10, verses 27 to 30, 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.”
In other words, your name is written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life since before the foundation of the world.
If Eve, and then Adam, would have not committed sin in the Garden of Eden, the children they would have had would have been those who are forming the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ from the Day of Pentecost until now. It is as simple as that.
And now, it is on this Earth that God through Christ has placed His children, and Christ came to redeem them, to restore them to eternal life paying the price of redemption on Calvary’s Cross with His own life, laying down His life in Atonement for all the sons and daughters of God.
And every child that is born on Earth, if the child dies he goes to Heaven. John the Baptist said [John 1:29]: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” Therefore, everyone should repent of their own sins, but children do not have anything to repent for: they have not sinned and do not have a conscience of good and evil to decide.
Since they do not have conscience, we present them to God, to Christ, just as children were presented to Christ in those days, and as they presented the children to the priest, to the priests, the high priest in the temple and then in synagogues.
The Kingdom of God was among the Jews during the time of the judges and at the time of king David – king Saul, king David, and king Solomon; for which the Scripture says that the Throne of God and the Kingdom of God is the Throne and Kingdom of David; that is the Kingdom of God on Earth.
And that Kingdom with that Throne will be restored in the Last Day; for which in Luke, chapter 1, verse 30 and on, says:
“And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.”
Christ is the heir to the Throne of David and Kingdom of David; and it is for this end time that with the Coming of Christ, the Kingdom of God is introduced.
And the signs showing that we would be in the time of the Coming of the Kingdom of God is the sign of the fig tree. The fig tree is Israel and the other people are the other nations, which have been forming themselves and have also been liberated.
And we have seen Israel blooming, becoming a free and sovereign nation on May 14, 1948, when Ben Gurion read the Act of Independence of Israel. It was on that date that Israel was born as a free and sovereign nation. The flag of Israel was also raised and the Proclamation of Independence of the establishment of Israel as a free and sovereign nation was made.
And what does that have to do with us? And what does that have to do with the Hebrew people? I am going to read some things that Reverend William Branham said, but without explaining them; and we will explain them next Sunday. Therefore, you should not make conjectures.
Since the Declaration of Independence by David Ben Gurion on May 14, 1948, he also became the first Prime Minister of Israel.
Reverend William Branham says… Any person may ask: “Why quote Reverend William Branham?” Because he spoke about this subject and he is the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, and he is the Elijah that was to come in the fourth manifestation of the ministry of Elijah, forerunning the Second Coming of Christ.
I told you that we were going to read this passage that is found in… it is an abstract of the message “His unfailing Words of Promise,” preached in Phoenix, Arizona on January 20 of 1964, on page 4 to 6 of this version in Spanish.
He is speaking about Christ on Mount Olive, when they asked Him when… when His coming would take place… it says:
“He left from the temple, and went up on top of the mountain, Mount Olive.
…sat upon… Mount Olives, his disciples came to him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? (in other words, the destruction of the temple and the city) …what shall be the sign of thy coming (in other words, what sign will there be that testifies of the Coming of Christ?), and the sign of the end of the world?”
And what will be the sign of the end of the world?, that in the time in which the sign appears people will be living in the end of the world, what sign will there be?
“They asked Him three questions, and He answers them as they asked Him. Three questions, see…”
Now… we will pass on to another page…
“But here is what Jesus was speaking, to my most humble opinion, was that He said, that, ‘This generation,’ (in other words, when He said: ‘This generation will not pass’; let us see) in other words, ‘the generation that saw the fig tree putting forth his buds.’ See, He said here, ‘And when the fig tree is beginning, is tender, and putteth forth its, his branches, you say summer is nigh.”
In other words, He said: “Summer is nigh.” Meaning: “The Kingdom of God is nigh. The Kingdom of the Messiah is nigh.” This is also the time of harvest.
“Likewise, see, when you see all these things, know the time. When you see all these three questions fulfilled, the time is at the door. ‘That generation that sees the fig tree!’ And the fig tree is always ‘Israel.’ ‘And when Israel goes back to her homeland and becomes a nation, that generation will not pass away until these things are all fulfilled.’
And Christian friends, tonight, in this great scruple in the Scriptures, that people think is scrupled, we are now living to see the very… Everything that He has said here is fulfilled, just the next thing is for His Coming.
Israel is in her homeland. She is her own nation. She got her own money, own flag, a member of the U.N. She is just a nation; the first time, for about twenty-five hundred years, since she has been a nation. And Jesus promised that, ‘The generation…’ And, in the Bible, a generation is allotted to forty years. From the time that Israel become a nation, until forty years, somewhere within that time, He will come. And if that is true, then that brings the Coming.
Well, and another thing, every two thousand years, something has happened on the earth, and politics and everything give out, God had to send help from Heaven. And the first two thousand years, the world was destroyed with water; the second two thousand years, Christ come; and this is 1964 (he is speaking in 1964), and they claim that we’re seventeen years short on that.
Now you see it’s at the door (What is at the door? The Kingdom of the God. What is at the door? Also the Coming of Lord). The next thing, is, watching for the Coming of the Lord. All the other signs are blending right in with it. So that’s why, tonight, that I try to get the people to stay exactly on the promised Word. Just what the Word says, stay right with That.”
And now, next Sunday we will fully enter into the study of our subject. “SUMMER IS NIGH,” in other words, THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NIGH, and therefore, the Coming of the Lord is near, because He is the one who is going to establish the Kingdom of God on Earth.
That is the biggest mystery of the entire Bible: the mystery of the Coming of the Lord for the Last Day, and therefore there are things He will be doing in this end time, in the fulfillment of His Coming.
It has been a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, in the introduction of next Sunday’s Bible school, God willing.
Pray a lot for next Sunday’s Bible school, so that God gives us what we must hear and receive in our hearts; and pray so that God gives me everything that I must speak; and pray so that you are prepared to receive the Word of God. And that He may open the Scriptures to all of us and may He open our understanding and our hearts: the understanding to understand and the heart to believe; because we do not want to stumble with any Divine Word, we do not want to stumble in the Divine Program.
If God helps us, next Sunday we will see how the things that Jesus said have been being fulfilled, and the things that Reverend William Branham said and Saint Paul and Saint Peter said, and the things that the prophets of the Old Covenant, the prophets that God sent to Israel said.
May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you here present and those in other nations. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
I leave with you Reverend Jose Benjamin Perez to continue and finalize; and in each country I leave each minister.
May God bless you. And continue having a happy evening, filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.
May God bless you and keep you all.
“SUMMER IS NIGH.”
1Matthew 18:14