Good evening beloved friends and brethren present here in Kerrville, Texas. It is a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of spiritual fellowship with you around the Word of God, and to see the time in which we have been given to live and the Divine Program pertaining to our time.
For that reason, I want to read in Saint John chapter 1, verse 6 and on, where it tells us the following:
“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John,” (meaning, John the Baptist).
“The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
He came unto his own,” (the Hebrew people), “and his own received him not.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”
May God bless our souls with His Word tonight and allow us to understand It.
The subject for this occasion is the same subject published in the newspaper, in the press: “THE CHILDREN OF GOD AND THE END OF TIME.”
In order to understand our subject, we need to know who the children of God are, in order to see the children of God at this end time and recognize them.
The children of God are the descendants of God; who, through the Second Adam, Jesus Christ, have been born in the Kingdom of God.
“As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
In other words, a person is not a child of God because he has been born on this Earth and he thinks (like many people think) that all human beings are children of God.
We find that God put Adam on this Earth; and then gave him a companion, which He took out of his side, by taking out a rib and forming a companion for Adam.1
Now, we find that after the fall of the human being, the human being has not had the opportunity to produce sons and daughters of God; instead, human beings have been coming here to Earth, being born on this Earth, and living for a period of time, and then dying; because with the fall of the human being, the human being lost the right to bring sons and daughters of God. And that is why when a person is born on this Earth, he obtains a spirit of the world and a body in the permissive will of God, which is temporary, and corruptible and mortal.
And now, we find that being born again is required; because by being born through our father and mother, we have been born through flesh and blood.
We have been born through the union of our father and mother; and well, what they have been able to produce is a mortal, temporary and corruptible body; they have done a lot for us.
Now, we find that with the fall of the human being, the human being lost that right to bring sons and daughters of God to Earth; therefore, the human race lost the right to Eternal Life. That is why man is born, grows, gets old, and then dies, because he comes to Earth without Eternal Life.
Now, we find that Jesus Christ came to Earth two thousand years ago, in fulfillment of what in the New Testament was the death of the lambs and the goats for the sin of the human being.
With those sacrifices, the sin of human beings was covered by the blood of those animals, but the sin was not taken away; but those sacrifices, those animals, were a type and figure of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, who would come to Earth and take our sins, and wash us with His precious Blood, and thus take the sin away from us.
Now, we find that the types and figures worked until the perfect Sacrifice came. When the perfect Sacrifice came, God no longer accepted sacrifices and animal offerings, because a perfect Sacrifice was already present.
And when that which is perfect comes, when it arrives, that which is in part is done away with;2because what is in part is a type and figure of what is perfect.
Now, we find that Christ was speaking about a new birth. He tells Nicodemus in the 3rd chapter of Saint John about that new birth, and He tells him that he must be born again. Christ says in Saint John chapter 3:
“There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
Jesus answered and said unto him, 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 saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.”
Now, Nicodemus thought he had to enter into his mother’s womb again and be born; and he says: “Can a man, when he is old…?” because Nicodemus was already at an elderly age, perhaps, and he asks that question.
And what if his mother had died? Well, then it was impossible for Nicodemus to be born again. And if she was already too old, how could these things be? Could he enter into his mother’s womb and be born again? How could this new birth happen?
Because Nicodemus was interested in the Kingdom of God; he was interested in entering into the Kingdom of God. And now Jesus Christ tells him that he must be born again; now, Christ taught him that if he was not born again he could not enter into the Kingdom of God.
Then we find in the Book of Acts, in chapter 2, that on the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit came upon one hundred and twenty people, who—before that day—had not been born again; they were disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, but they had not been born again; for none of the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ had been born again.
But on the day of Pentecost the new birth began upon and for those people who have their names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life and who are ordained to Eternal Life. And one hundred and twenty-people were born again there; and that is how the creation of a new race began, which had already begun with Jesus Christ, who is the beginning of the Creation of God,3 that is, the beginning, the first of that new race.
For the old race that came through Adam is a fallen race, without Eternal Life; but the new race, the race that is unto Eternal Life, comes through the Second Adam, who is Jesus Christ.
And through Jesus Christ, we find that the sons and daughters of God started to be born on the day of Pentecost; and from that point on, thousands or millions of human beings have continued to be born again, who have heard the Word of God, the Gospel being preached, and have believed in Jesus Christ as their Savior and received His Holy Spirit.
Because by believing in Jesus Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit, the new birth is brought forth in the person; that is how the person is born of God; and he becomes part of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the mystical Body of believers of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
And that Church, that mystical Body of believers, is God’s seed; God’s sons and daughters through the Second Adam, through Jesus Christ, the first, the beginning of that new Creation.
And Saint Paul, in his Letter to the Hebrews, in chapter 3, tells us the following… and I want to read this passage, it tells us the following… and let’s read it. Hebrews chapter 3, says:
“Wherefore, holy brethren…”
That is why they are called “brethren,” because they are God’s sons and daughters, believers in Jesus Christ as our Savior: receiving the Spirit of Christ, and thus the new birth is brought forth.
And that is how we have become part of the Family of God, of the seed of God; of a new race that has been created by God through the Second Adam, through our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
It’s not through blood and flesh, it is not through the union of a man and a woman; but by believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior and receiving His Holy Spirit. This is how the Scripture teaches us that one is born into the Kingdom of God, into the House of God, as a son or daughter of God.
That is why the members of God’s Family are called “brethren” of one another: because they belong to a Family, they are sons and daughters of God through Jesus Christ the Second Adam.
That is why you find the apostles speaking in brotherly terms; because we are each other’s brethren upon being born as sons and daughters of God in the Kingdom of God. It is one family: the Family of God, descendants of God through our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. It says:
“…Partakers of the heavenly calling…”
And when we hear the Voice of Christ, we are receiving the call from Heaven, the heavenly call, to be born into the Kingdom of God as sons and daughters of God, and thus enter into the Family of God.
It goes on to say:
“…Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after.” (In other words, he was faithful in the House of God as a servant, not as a son but as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after.)
“But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”
Now, let’s see which is the House of God. Saint Paul says: “Whose house are we.”
A house is a family, a seed; and the House of God is the Family of God.
In the House of God is also where Jesus Christ has put faithful and wise servants for each age of His Gentile Church. And at the end of time or Last Day or end of the world, He puts the last Faithful and Wise Servant.
And why does He put those faithful and wise servants in His House? Jesus Christ Himself tells us… Let’s look in Saint Luke, chapter (let’s see), chapter 12, it says… A faithful and wise servant is a faithful and wise steward. Saint Luke chapter 12, verse 41 and on, says:
“Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?
And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?”
To give them what? Their portion, in other words, the spiritual Food for the soul, in the House of God, to God’s sons and daughters; meaning, to the Church, or to the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; because that is the House of God.
“Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.”
This is a promise for the Faithful and Wise Servant, for the Faithful and Wise Steward who at the Last Day will be giving the portion, the spiritual Food, to God’s sons and daughters, in other words, to the members of the mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It is a promise to be fulfilled at the Last Day, at the end of time; and this promise will be fulfilled among God’s sons and daughters, in other words, in the House of God, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, what Food will he be giving them? “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”4 He will be giving them the spiritual Food of the Word of God, the Message of God pertaining to the Last Day, to the end time.
That Message is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, represented in the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet; that is the Message that revolves around the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Claiming Work.
That Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which contains the Divine Revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, is the spiritual Food for God’s sons and daughters at the end time, at the end of time, at the Last Day.
That is the Message that feeds the soul of God’s elect. Where? In the House of God; “whose House are we,” whose House is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
From age to age, Jesus Christ has put a faithful and wise servant in His House. In each age of His Gentile Church, in each age of His Church—going through the seven stages of His Gentile Church, or among the Gentiles—Christ has sent an Angel-Messenger typified in the messenger, in the minister, of each of those seven churches that were in Asia Minor. And each stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has been represented in those seven churches from Asia Minor that were used.
After those seven stages comes the Age of the Cornerstone; and the Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone comes to feed the children of God with the Message of the Second Coming of Christ, the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom; and thus, to receive the faith, the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ, and to be prepared to be changed and raptured at the Last Day; because the faith to be raptured – to be changed and raptured is in the Divine Revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work.
And who is the Faithful and Wise Servant that will be put in the House of God, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, at the Last Day, to give the spiritual Food, the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, to all of God’s sons and daughters?
That Messenger is also mentioned by Christ… Notice that Christ spoke a lot about this Messenger; out of all the messengers of the Lord Jesus Christ for His Church, we find that this is the one He was speaking the most about.
He spoke about the first, the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh, which were the seven angel-messengers for the seven ages of the Gentile Church. But the Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom is the one He has spoken the most about in all His prophecies; because this is the one who will be giving the spiritual Food of the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, with which He will be revealing the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ at the Last Day, at the end time or end of time.
Here in Saint Matthew, chapter 24, verse 42 and on, it tells us:
“Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.”
In other words, he has the promise to be adopted at the end time or Last Day; so that, through that Faithful and Wise Servant, Jesus Christ may manifest Himself and fulfill His promises for the Last Day; because he will be the administrator of all the things Jesus Christ will be carrying out at the Last Day.
And Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be in him, carrying out His Works pertaining to the Last Day; and He will be putting His Word in the mouth of that Faithful and Wise Servant, He will be putting His Last Message in the mouth and in the heart of that Faithful and Wise Servant.
And since all Divine Revelation must come through a man, through a prophet, he will be the prophet through whom all Divine Revelation pertaining to the Last Day, to the seventh millennium, will come.
And the things that were not revealed in past ages and dispensations by the prophets and messengers that God sent, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, will be revealed by Jesus Christ through His Angel Messenger, through the Faithful and Wise Servant who will be on Earth in the Coming of the Son of man.
Now, all of this is to be fulfilled among God’s sons and daughters.
And we have seen that the sons and daughters of God are the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which are the believers in Jesus Christ who have received Him as their Savior and have received His Holy Spirit; and therefore, they have been born again, they have been born into the Kingdom of God, they have been born into the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And they are no longer strangers and foreigners (Saint Paul the Apostle tells us), but fellow citizens with the saints. Let’s look at Ephesians chapter 2, verse 19 and on; Saint Paul tells us:
“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God…”
To be a member of the Household of God, well, the person must be born into the Family of God; and this is through the new birth, by the person believing in Jesus Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit. This is how one is born into the Kingdom of God, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; this is how the person is born in this new Creation that began with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
Now we can see that on this Earth, since the day of Pentecost, human beings who belong to the old creation, descendants of Adam, have been living here; and others are also very mixed with another seed as well: the seed of the wicked one.
But since the day of Pentecost, a new race has started being created, being formed, by God through Christ. And notice the simple way this new race has been appearing: by believing in Jesus Christ as their Savior and receiving His Holy Spirit; that is how the creation of that new race has begun and how it has continued; and they have been obtaining the theophanic body, that theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension that those people could not obtain when they were born through their father and mother.
That is why a new birth has been required. Without that new birth, the person cannot obtain his theophanic body, nor will he be able to obtain his physical and eternal body that Christ has promised.
Now, for Eternal Life, notice the order for the person to appear: the new birth is required, and that is when the person obtains his theophanic body; that is when the person, upon obtaining his theophanic body, finds himself the way Jesus Christ was before appearing in human flesh here on Earth.
In other words, the first thing Christ obtained was His theophanic Body, and then He obtained His Body of flesh, which was created by God in Mary’s womb.
And every son and daughter of God born into the Kingdom of God, upon believing in Christ as their Savior and receiving His Holy Spirit, are in the stage of the theophany; and they already have Eternal Life because they obtained their theophanic body: they have received the Spirit of Christ, the Spirit of God, and the person already has Eternal Life.
Therefore, if the physical body that he has dies, the person is not lost, he goes in that theophanic body (which is a body similar to our physical body but from another dimension), he goes on to live in Paradise; and he remains there until the time of the resurrection of the dead in Christ, who will rise in eternal bodies; and then we who are alive will be changed.
And this way, we will obtain the second part, in other words, the eternal body promised to be obtained at the Last Day, in the seventh millennium; so that this way, we all have an eternal body too, and live for all eternity, and are in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, we have seen that since the person has believed in Christ and received His Holy Spirit, he is no longer a stranger in the Kingdom of God, nor is he a stranger in the Family of God, rather, he is a fellow citizen of the saints and he is a member of the Family of God; because he has been born into the Family of God, in the House of God, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the seed of God.
And that Family grows from age to age; just like an earthly family grows as they have more children in that family; as the married couple have more children, well, the family grows. And as the ages of the Gentile Church have passed, the Family of God, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the seed of God, has been growing.
It started with one hundred and twenty, and then it has continued until this end time. In other words, we could say, it started with one: with Jesus Christ, the first One; and then it continued with one hundred and twenty people; and since then, the new Creation has continued to produce more sons and daughters of God up to our time, when those ordained to Eternal Life are called and gathered at the Last Day, and put in the mystical Body of Christ, in the age relevant to the end time, which is the Age of the Cornerstone.
In each past age, through the Message of each age, through the messenger of each age, where were God’s elect put? In the age relevant to that time; and that is how they were put in the House of God, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, we are living at the end time or end of time, or Last Day.
Approximately two thousand years have already passed since Christ; if we add to the calendar the years it is behind, then we are already in the twenty-first century, and therefore we are in the seventh millennium, which is the Last Day before God; the Last Day in which Christ has said that He will raise His believers who have departed.
For in Saint John chapter 1… Saint John… let’s see here. Saint John chapter 6 (let’s read), verses 39 to 40, says:
“And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”
What will the Father give Him? He will give Him the people who are ordained to Eternal Life. And He says:
“That of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing…”
Those are the people who have their names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. No man will pluck them out of the hands of Jesus Christ.5
“…But should raise it up again at the last day.”
Those people that He mentions here, if their bodies die, they will be raised in eternal bodies at the Last Day. And if we are alive when the dead in Christ rise, then we will be changed.
Who are the ones that will receive the transformation? The ones who will be in the age pertaining to the Last Day, which is the Age of the Cornerstone; and they will be hearing the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which is the Message of the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet.
It is the Voice of Christ speaking to His children, to His Church, to the House of God; speaking what to them? Speaking the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom to them, which is the Message that reveals the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work; the Message that reveals the Coming of the Son of man with His Angels at the Last Day.
And this mystery is opened to God’s sons and daughters, where? In the House of God, in other words, in the mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ. And in which age? In the Age of the Cornerstone.
Jesus Christ goes on to say:
“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
It is a promise of Christ for all His believers who have been born again; in other words, who receive His Spirit, and thus obtain their theophanic body and come into Eternal Life; even though the physical body is still a mortal body. But at the Last Day we have the promise of a resurrection for the dead in Christ and a transformation for us who are alive; this is for God’s sons and daughters, who are the members of the mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, from age to age Christ has been manifesting Himself, revealing Himself, through each angel-messenger; and thus, calling and gathering His elect, the ones ordained to Eternal Life, written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. For Christ says in Saint John chapter 10, verses 14 to 16:
“I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold,” in other words, they are not of the Hebrew Fold, they are not of the Hebrew people; therefore, they are from among the Gentiles. He says, “them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”
Those sheep that are of another Fold, are God’s sons and daughters from among the Gentiles, who would believe in Jesus Christ as their Savior and receive His Holy Spirit; and thus would enter into the Fold of the Lord, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; that is the Fold of the Good Shepherd, of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
He tells us that he that is of God hears the Voice of God. It says in [John] chapter 8, verse 47:
“He that is of God heareth God’s words,” (and those who did not want to hear Christ, He tells them), “ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God,” (He said to those people who did not want to hear Him).
Some people may have thought: “Christ is not having success with these people.” The reason was actually that they were not sheep of the Heavenly Father given to Christ; therefore, they could not hear the Voice of Christ.
The Scripture also tells us regarding the death of Christ, when Caiaphas spoke about the death of Christ. In chapter 11 of Saint John, verses 47 to 52, it tells us:
“Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council,” (that is, the Council of the Hebrew religion), “and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles,” (meaning, Jesus).
“If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him,” (and that was great: for all people to believe in Him; but they didn’t want people to believe in Jesus Christ), “and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.”
Now notice the purpose of the First Coming of Christ and His death on Calvary’s Cross: to gather together in one, in one mystical Body of believers, all of God’s sons and daughters, bringing forth the new birth in all those believers in Jesus Christ as our Savior.
Now we can see who God’s sons and daughters are: they are the believers in Jesus Christ who have received His Holy Spirit, and therefore, have been born again. They have had their names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world; Christ died for them on Calvary’s Cross.
In First Peter, chapter 1, [verse 18], it tells us the following (Saint Peter speaking to us about how we have been redeemed, says):
“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world…”
Since when did the Divine Program of the Coming of Christ and His death on Calvary’s Cross exist? Before the foundation of the world, before creation.
“…But was manifest in these last times for you…”
But the First Coming of Christ and His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross was made a reality among human beings, when? In the last times, which are the Last Days; because in the time of Jesus Christ dying on Calvary’s Cross, the Last Days had already begun, the last times had already begun.
Because the last times are the Last Days; and the Last Days before God are the fifth, sixth, and seventh millenniums to human beings.
That is why it tells us that in the days of Jesus Christ they were already living in the Last Days. And the Program of Redemption, notice, was appointed for the Last Days.
“…Manifest in these last times for you.”
And for me too. For all of us, Jesus Christ came in the last times, in the Last Days (in the first of the Last Days), and died on Calvary’s Cross shedding His Blood for each one of us, and thus cleansing us from all sin.
This Program was in God’s Mind before the foundation of the world; and there, in God’s Mind, Jesus Christ had already been sacrificed; in other words, everything was in God’s Mind. And each one of us was also there, because He was dying for each one of us.
Saint Paul, in his Letter to the Hebrews, chapter 1, verse 1 and on, says:
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,” (when? In these Last Days).
And two thousand years have already passed, and we are still in the Last Days; because those are the Last Days before God, which began when Jesus Christ was four to seven years old. For one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day; in other words, one day before God means or represents a thousand years to us.
Saint Peter also says this in his Second Letter, chapter 3, verse 8; and he tells us that it is something we cannot be ignorant of. Saint Peter says the following, and I was to read it so that we have a clear picture of what a day before the Lord is. Second Peter chapter 3, verse 8, says:
“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing,” (we can’t be ignorant of it), “that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
The Prophet Moses also tells us in Psalm 90, verse 4, about the same thing, indicating to us that one day* before God is like yesterday when it has passed.
Now, we find that we are living at the Last Day; in other words, of the Last Days, we are living in the last of the Last Days; in other words, we are already living in the seventh millennium.
“For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past…”
Moses tells us in Psalm 90, verse 4.
I had said one day* before God is like yesterday, but it’s: “A thousand years is like yesterday.” In other words, to God, one of God’s days is a thousand years for us.
Now, with us seeing that the Last Days or last times began in the days of Jesus Christ… and we are still living in the Last Days.
Of the three Last Days before God, two have already passed; and for us, two thousand years have already passed since Christ; and we have the Last Day left, which is the seventh millennium, where God’s sons and daughters have the promise to be raised if they already departed in past ages, or if they have departed in this time in which we live they have the promise to be raised.
Who are the ones that will rise? Well, all those who have believed in Christ and have received His Holy Spirit; for they have been born again, and they have the right to obtain an eternal body according to the Divine Promise. They already have their theophanic body, and they are living in it there in Paradise; but they will come back to Earth in eternal bodies.
And we who are alive, who have received His Word, received His Gospel, and received His Holy Spirit: we will be changed at this Last Day.
And in order to be changed: the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet calls us and gathers us at the Last Day, and reveals to us the mystery of His Second Coming. It is the mystery of the Second Coming revealed that gives us the faith to be changed and raptured.
Just like by receiving, knowing and receiving the mystery of His First Coming, that gives us the opportunity to receive a theophanic body; because when we receive Christ as our Savior, we then receive His Holy Spirit, and thus, we obtain a theophanic body.
And now, at the Last Day, by receiving the revelation of His Second Coming in our hearts, in our souls, we will then receive the physical and eternal body He has promised; in other words, we will receive the other change; because first we receive a change, with the new birth: we are born into the Kingdom of God and we obtain the theophanic body.
And then, at the Last Day, those who departed, well, they have the promise to hear the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet, the Voice of God, the Voice of the Son of God. In Paradise, they hear His Voice; because from Paradise they can hear what Christ is speaking to His Church here on Earth.
And we who are alive, well, we have the promise to receive a transformation, an eternal body, and that requires obtaining the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Claiming Work; and thus, we will see that mystery, so that we have this revelation in our soul, believe that revealed mystery with all our soul, and await the transformation of our bodies. This is for God’s sons and daughters, who are the members of the mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Christ said in Saint John chapter 6, verse 40, which we had read a few moments ago, He said:
“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Whom is this promise for? For the believers in Jesus Christ; the promise of the resurrection is for them if they have died, if they have departed. And the promise of the transformation is for those who have believed in Him too, but will be alive at the Last Day when the dead in Christ rise; this promise is for them.
In other words, there will be a group of children of God (which will be millions: those of past ages and some of our own who have departed), who have the promise of a resurrection in eternal bodies; and for a small group who will be living at this time, and who will be called and gathered with a Great Voice of Trumpet, as Christ said:
[Matthew 24:31] “And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect.”
Those are God’s elect from among the Gentiles first, in other words, the members of the mystical Body of Christ of the Last Day; and then the elect of the Hebrew people.
For the elect from among the Gentiles, to be part of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ as sons and daughters of God, the promise is a transformation, to obtain the eternal body that He has promised us; although some of our own can depart and go to Paradise, and then when they come back in eternal bodies they will be witnesses of the resurrection.
Now, how many of you would like to be witnesses of the resurrection? You stayed quiet; because you know that in order to be witnesses of the resurrection, in the sense of coming with an eternal body, rising with an eternal body, well, one has to depart.
Now we say what Saint Paul said: “I would like to depart, and be present with God; but it is better for me to be present here.”6
It is better for us to be here working in the Kingdom of God; because we work in the Kingdom of God here. If you go to Paradise, the work that you were carrying out here does not continue over there; while we are here, we are working in the Work of God.
So, it is better for us to be here; even if we have struggles, problems, difficulties, and even if the nations are fighting with each other, and there are wars, and there is scarcity, despite all of that, it is better to be here; because here is where God is carrying out His Program pertaining to the Last Day.
And He is calling and gathering His elect at this Last Day, at the end time, to complete the number of His elect; in other words, the number of the mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And just like the first age of the Gentile Church was fulfilled in Asia Minor; and then the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth ages were fulfilled in Europe in different territories where God sent different messengers; then the seventh age: the Age of Laodicea, was fulfilled in North America, where He sent His seventh angel-messenger: Rev. William Marrion Branham, with the Spirit and power of Elijah, and as the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.
And then, the Age of the Cornerstone, represented in the number eight (and the number eight represents eternity) is fulfilled in Latin America and the Caribbean, where Jesus Christ sends His Angel-Messenger to testify these things which must shortly come to pass at the Last Day.
And thus, Jesus Christ shows us through His Angel-Messenger who the children of God are and where they would be at the Last Day, and with whom the group of the children of God would be completed; in other words, with whom the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ would be completed: It would be completed with the last elect.
And where would the last elect of God be? In Latin America and the Caribbean; and even if they have traveled to other nations and continents, if they are children of God, well, the Message will reach them, just as It has reached you here in North America.
Because the call of God reaches God’s sons and daughters no matter where they are; but the Work is carried out in a certain territory, and from there, that work spreads to other nations, to other territories, to reach all of God’s sons and daughters, no matter where they are.
Now, we can see that the Work of the Last Day pertains to the territory of Latin America and the Caribbean; and from there, it spreads to other nations and other continents.
And it will reach the Hebrew people; where one hundred and forty-four thousand Hebrews will be called and gathered; and they will be put in and with God’s elect, for they are elect of God written in the Lamb’s Book of Life; therefore, they will receive Christ as their Savior, they will understand the Divine Program of the Second Coming of Christ, and they will also understand the Divine Program of the First Coming of Christ; first they will understand the one of the Second Coming, and then they will understand the one of the First Coming of Christ.
Now we can see who God’s sons and daughters are at the end of time.
He is calling and gathering all His children: they have had their names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world.
“Today if you hear His Voice, harden not your heart;”7 for Jesus Christ is calling you to give you Eternal Life, and to prepare you to transform you at this Last Day. Open up your heart and receive His Voice; hear His Voice today, speaking to you and to all of God’s sons and daughters.
We have seen who the children of God at the end of time are; we have also seen where the last sons and daughters of God would be, and where the Work of the Last Day would be carried out; and we have also seen what God’s sons and daughters would be hearing at the end of time or end time: they would be hearing the Voice of Christ, that Great Voice of Trumpet, making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass; because the Voice of Christ would be speaking to His Church through His Angel-Messenger.
We are at the end time, we are at the most glorious time for God’s sons and daughters; we are at the time in which, at any moment, the dead in Christ will rise and we who are alive will be changed.
When the last of the elect comes in, the number of God’s elect of the mystical Body of Christ will be completed; and then we who are alive will be changed, with our transformation preceded by the resurrection of the dead in Christ.
“THE CHILDREN OF GOD AND THE END OF TIME.”
It has been a great privilege to be with you tonight, testifying to you about: “THE CHILDREN OF GOD AND THE END OF TIME.”
We have seen what the end of time is: it is the end of the century, the end of the world; and we have also seen who God’s sons and daughters are, and the blessings that they would be receiving at this end time.
Thank you very much for your kind attention, beloved friends and brethren present, and have a good evening, everyone.
I will leave Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín with us again to conclude our participation by thanking God for His blessings; and thus, we will conclude our participation tonight. I leave with us again: Miguel Bermúdez Marín.
May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon each one of you and also upon me.
Good night.
“THE CHILDREN OF GOD AND THE END OF TIME.”
1Genesis 2:18-22
21 Corinthians 13:10
3Revelation 3:14
4Deuteronomy 8:3; Matthew 4:4; Luke 4:4
5John 10:28
6Philippians 1:23-24
7Psalm 95:7-8; Hebrews 3:7-8