Good evening, kind friends and everyone who is connected through the Amazonas satellite or the internet in the different nations. May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you.
For this evening, let’s read a Scripture that really gets our attention in the book of Revelation, chapter 10, verses 1 and on, where it says:
“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.
And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven,
And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.
And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
Our subject for this occasion is: “THE ANGEL WITH THE SEVEN THUNDERS FINALIZING TIME.”
According to the Scriptures, God has a time for all things, God has assigned a time for all things: a time to be born, a time to live on Earth, and a time to die, meaning that everything has its time in life.1 And in this passage it speaks to us about the time of redemption, the time in which every human being has the opportunity to obtain salvation and Eternal Life through Christ our Savior.
Therefore, all human beings will be living a time period of opportunity to obtain the forgiveness of their sins through Christ, to be cleansed from all sin, to be baptized in water in His Name, and to receive the Spirit of Christ and obtain the new birth; that is, to be born in the Kingdom of Christ, and thus, be born to Eternal Life; and that is how Christ said that one enters into the Kingdom of God.
When He was talking to Nicodemus, this wise man, a member of the Sanhedrin Council, in chapter 3 of the Gospel according to Saint John, who recognized that Christ had been sent by God, because no one could do the things that Jesus did unless God was with Him. Jesus told Him: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” Except a man be born again, meaning: “Verily, I tell you that you must be born again.”
Nicodemus thought that he had to be born through his mother again. And how old might his mother be if she was still alive? Or what if she had already died? Then it would be impossible for Nicodemus to be born again. That is how Nicodemus thought the new birth would be.
But Christ tells him: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a man be born of Water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.” To be born of water is to be born of the preaching of the Gospel of Christ. That is why Christ said to His disciples in Saint Mark, chapter 16, verses 15 to 16, of Saint Mark:
“Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.”
That is how simple the program for the human being to obtain the salvation and Eternal Life is: he hears the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, where the whole program of salvation is made known, for which Christ came to Earth and died on Calvary’s Cross as the Sacrifice of Atonement for our sins.
Those sacrifices that were carried out there in the temple in Jerusalem, just as they were carried out by the Hebrews in the tabernacle that accompanied them in the wilderness, we find that all those sacrifices represented the Sacrifice of the Messiah, of Christ, which He would carry out in His First Coming, where He would take the sins of the human beings, He would become sin for the human beings upon taking our sins, and He would die as the Sacrifice of Atonement for our sins.
That is what it talks about in Isaiah, chapter 53, verses 10 and on. Notice here, to have a clearer picture, what the Prince Messiah would do in His Coming. Let’s take a quick look to have a clear picture of the Program of redemption by which we are living on Earth, and by which the Gospel of Christ is preached. Isaiah, chapter 53, verse 10, speaking of the Messiah, this Messianic passage says:
“Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.”
This talks to us about the Coming of the Messiah, which would be fulfilled when He was on Earth. And to find the time in which He would come to Earth to lay down His life in Atonement for sin, the Angel Gabriel, the Angel of the Divine revelations, appears to the prophet Daniel in chapter 9, and notice the conversation that He had with the prophet Daniel.
The prophet Daniel was a very important man there in Babylon. Chapter 9, verse 20 and on of the book of the Prophet Daniel, says:
“And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God for the holy mountain of my God;
Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel,” (that is, the Angel Gabriel), “whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.
At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity,” (if reconciliation is made for iniquity, a Sacrifice of Atonement must be made, which pertains to the Messiah in His Coming), “and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks…”
Seven weeks and sixty-two weeks equals sixty-nine weeks, and these are weeks of years, and sixty-nine weeks of years are four hundred eighty three years; meaning that the Prince Messiah would appear in His earthly ministry after this time period of four hundred and eighty-three years has passed, and then the seventieth week would begin, which consists of seven years.
In that seventieth week, it would be the ministry of the Messiah, and the life of the Messiah would be cut off in the middle of that seventieth week, that is, three and a half years into that last week, which is the seventieth week. And then there would be three and a half years left, which pertain to the time called the great tribulation, where God will deal with the Hebrew people again. It goes on to say, it says:
“Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself…”
In other words, the Messiah would have His life cut off after those sixty-two weeks [62], which take place after the seven [7] previous weeks; in other words, in total: after sixty-nine weeks of years [69] the Messiah’s life would be cut off; therefore, it would be cut off in the seventieth week [70]. And that would be to carry out the Sacrifice of Atonement for the human being’s sin. That is why Jesus knew the time in which He had to die.
In the days of the ministry of Jesus, they were living in the seventieth week of that prophecy of Daniel. The Sacrifice of Atonement for the human being has already been carried out, and now every human being has the opportunity to obtain salvation and Eternal Life by receiving Christ as their only and sufficient Savior. By dying on Calvary’s Cross, He is the Sacrifice of Atonement for our sins.
And now there’s no need to go to a temple and sacrifice animals for our sins. The time for animal sacrifices has already passed, because the Lamb of God, whom John the Baptist pointed to saying… upon seeing Jesus; and he said: “Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world.”2 And He took it away there on Calvary’s Cross.
And after His death, burial, and resurrection, and ascension to Heaven, the time of the Dispensation of Grace begins, with the blessing of the Coming of the Holy Spirit for the believers in Christ being opened there, on the Day of Pentecost, and thus, bringing forth the new birth, for all those who receive Christ upon hearing the Gospel of Christ, they are born of the Water, of the Gospel of Christ, and when (after being baptized in water, and after Christ baptizing them with Holy Spirit and Fire) they receive the part of being born of the Spirit.
And that is how the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has been formed: by people who have received Christ as their only and sufficient Savior, which have been entering the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Christ that is in the spiritual realm; and then, when the Kingdom of Christ is literally established on Earth, those people will be there with Christ, as kings, priests, and judges, that is, as the Cabinet of Christ in His Kingdom.
Now, we find that this time period of grace, of mercy, for the human being, began back then with the death of Christ and His resurrection. And on the Day of Pentecost, the Spirit of God through Peter opened the Doors to the Kingdom of Heaven, for the keys had been given to Peter.3 He opened the Door, which is Christ, with the key of Divine revelation, making known the mystery of the First Coming of Christ and His death on Calvary’s Cross as the Sacrifice of Atonement for the human being’s sin.
We have had two thousand years of grace, of redemption, for every human being, receiving the spiritual and inner redemption first; and at the Last Day they will receive the redemption of the physical body, which will be the resurrection of the dead in Christ in eternal, immortal, young, and glorified bodies, just like the body of Christ; and those who will be alive, believers in Christ, will be transformed; and then they will be immortal, they will be young, they will be people with glorified bodies, just like the glorified body of Jesus Christ our Savior.
Now, that time period which we have had, pertains to the Dispensation of Grace: time of redemption for the human being, the time of salvation and Eternal life.
[Mark 16:15-16] “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.”
And now, since Christ ascended to Heaven, He has been in Heaven, on the Throne of God, sitting at the right hand of God as He promised; He is there as High Priest, making intercession with His Blood for every person who receives Him as their only and sufficient Savior.
When the very last person who will enter the Kingdom of God comes in, then Christ will have finished His work as High Priest making intercession with His Blood in the heavenly Temple, and He will take the Seven-Sealed Book that appears in Revelation, chapter 5, He will open It in Heaven… It is the Lamb’s Book of Life, It is the Book where the names of all of those who would receive Christ as their only and sufficient Savior are written.
Do you remember that on one occasion when Christ sent His disciples to preach and heal the sick, when they returned they were very happy telling Christ: “Even the spirits are subject unto us through Your Name”? Christ tells them: “Do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in Heaven.”4 Where in Heaven? In the Lamb’s Book of Life, that is where our names are recorded.
The apostle Paul also speaks to us about this… remember that Christ also spoke about His sheep and that He would call them by their name. And now, the apostle Paul also speaks to us about these people, in chapter 12 of the book or letter to the Hebrews, telling us, verse 22 and on:
“But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven…”
The firstborn who are written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, are all the people who would receive Christ as their only and sufficient Savior; and those people belong to the Mystical Body of Christ, which is His Church. It says:
“… and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.”
We have seen that there is a Book in Heaven that contains the names of all those who will receive Christ as Savior, all those who will live eternally with Christ in His Kingdom.
In the book of Revelation it speaks a lot to us about that Book in Heaven, and it tells us, speaking to us about the people who will worship the beast and its image, it says:
“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”
Now notice, those who are written in Heaven won’t be deceived, those who are written in Heaven won’t worship the beast nor its image. Also… That was chapter 13, verse 8, of Revelation. And Revelation chapter 17, verse 8, also tells us:
“The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.”
There it shows us that there is a Book that contains the names of all the people who will live eternally. Those are the people who hear the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, and they receive Him as their only and sufficient Savior; those are the Father’s sheep, which have been given to Christ for Him to seek and give them Eternal Life. That is why Christ said in Saint John, chapter 10, verse 27 and on: “My sheep hear My Voice, and they follow Me, and I know them, and I give them Eternal Life.”
You were in God since the foundation of the world, you have come from God, your soul has come from God; that is why on this occasion you are hearing the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, the Gospel of our salvation.
Redemption is carried out in and for those that were eternally with God, because when the person is redeemed, they are brought back to their original place, to their place of origin, they are brought back to Eternal Life by the Redeemer, which is Jesus Christ our Savior.
And now, when that time period of salvation for those who receive Christ as their Savior ends, then Christ will change from High Priest to Judge and King, and therefore, He will take the Seven-Sealed Book of Revelation chapter 5, will open It in Heaven, and will carry out His Claiming Work: He will claim everything that He has redeemed with His precious Blood. He will no longer be Lamb but Judge; He will be King of kings and Lord of lords.
That is why the elder tells John: “Weep not, behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, who has prevailed to take the Book and open Its Seals.” Chapter 5 of Revelation.
And after He opens those Seals, after He opens that Seven-Sealed Book, in Revelation chapter 10, He brings It to Earth in His hand, having It open, and He cries out as when a lion roars and seven thunders utter their voices.
That Mighty Angel who comes with the little Book open in His hand in Revelation chapter 10 (the reading we had at the beginning), is Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, Christ coming to Earth, the Angel of the Covenant, Christ coming in Spirit with the little Book open in His hand; and after He cries as when a lion roars, because He cries as a lion, as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King, then He gives that Book to a person for him to eat It and prophesy before many peoples, nations, and tongues; and that will be the ministry of the Two Olive Trees, of Moses and Elijah, of Revelation 11, which is what follows after the opening and the giving of that Book, of that Title Deed.
Therefore, we have already seen that the Mighty Angel is Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit coming at the Last Day with the Title Deed, the little Book open in His hand, to give that Deed to a man, for him to eat It and proclaim, prophesy before many peoples, nations, and tongues, the things that will come to pass at this end time, and to make known that the time for redemption has ended, that time is no longer, which Christ, the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven, says.
Therefore, all the things that Christ will make known to human beings, He will do so through the one to whom He will be giving that Title Deed; and that is why we have the promise that the Two Olive Trees of Revelation chapter 11, verses 3 and on, which are the same two olive trees of Zechariah chapter 4, verse 1 to 14, will be prophesying before many peoples, nations, and tongues, all things that will come to pass on this planet Earth.
We are about to reach that moment in which Christ will finish His work as Intercessor in Heaven and He will become the Lion of the tribe of Judah, King of kings and Lord of lords, and He will take the Title Deed, this Seven-Sealed Book, open It in Heaven, and carry out His Claiming Work.
Therefore, let’s be very attentive to the prophetic events, Biblical events, relevant to this end time; and especially, secure with Christ in His Kingdom, so that we are not taken by surprise by that moment when there will no longer be an opportunity to obtain salvation and Eternal Life.
The most important thing for the human being is life. And if this earthly life is so important, even much more so Eternal Life. Without life, nothing has value. For example, a person can have an important profession, but if he loses his life, the profession is of no use to him. Therefore, the most important thing is life; and now, even more so Eternal Life!
Let’s be aware that we exist, that we are living beings, and know that there is the opportunity to live eternally; if we don’t take advantage of that opportunity, then we will have missed out on Eternal Life.
How can we obtain Eternal Life? Though Christ our Savior. “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; and no man comes unto the Father, but by Me,” Jesus Christ said in Saint John, chapter 14, verse 6.
And He also said: “I am the Resurrection and the Life: he that believes in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.” Saint John chapter 11, verses 25 to 27. This was when He was speaking with Martha, the sister of Lazarus, when He went to resurrect Lazarus.
So, we have to secure our eternal future with Christ in His eternal Kingdom. And we have to do this before the Mighty Angel appears coming down from Heaven and saying that time is no longer. When this happens, time will be no more for the person to obtain salvation and Eternal Life.
Continue having a happy evening, full of the blessings of Jesus Christ our Savior.
“THE ANGEL WITH THE SEVEN THUNDERS FINALIZING TIME.”
1 Ecclesiastes 3:1-9
2 John 1:29, 1:36
3 Matthew 16:13-19
4 Luke 10:17-20