Good morning, beloved friends and brethren present and those in other nations connected to this service via internet or satellite. Greetings to all ministers and their congregations, and warm greetings to everyone here present.
Let us read in Zechariah chapter 14, verses 6 and on, and the prophetic Scripture says the following:
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to comprehend It.
The Bible study for today’s Sunday School is: “THE EVENING LIGHT.” “For at evening time it shall be light,” said prophet Zechariah in chapter 14, verse 7, which we have read.
When God said: “Let there be light,” there was light; and when Jesus Christ was on Earth He said: “I am the light of the world.” [John 8:12.] The Word is the Light. The Light came to the world because the Word was spoken and there was light. And when the Word was made flesh, the Light was there in human form, enlightening the understanding, the soul, the spirit, and the mind of the human beings. There is no Light but through the promised Word incarnated and being spoken to the people. It is spiritual Light for the soul of the human beings.
Now, we find that in order to have light on the Earth, the sun must come out in the East and set in the West. It must travel from East to West to shine upon the human beings and bring life to everything on Earth.
That is also how it is spiritually. Christ the Light of the world, the Light for the soul of the human being, came out of the East to enlighten the path that the human being must have and follow in the Divine Program.
It was in the East where the Light came forth in the First Coming of the Lord. It was the promised Word for that time, the Messianic promise made a reality among the Hebrew people in the East. That is why first, a man came named John the Baptist, a prophet, forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, preparing the people, announcing to them that the Messiah was already on Earth, and when he saw Him said: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” [John 1:29] and John baptized Him.
In other words, John was the last of the prophets, the last messenger of the Old Testament; he was the messenger of the age forerunning the Coming of the Lord.
The Messiah would come after John the Baptist. That is why John would say: “He who is coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchets I am not worthy to unloose.” [John 1:27.] And Jesus, speaking about John, said: “Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than John.” [Luke 7:28.] This is because John belonged to the Old Covenant, to the Covenant of the servants of God, the Hebrew people. And the smallest one in the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to the people of the New Covenant, to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the people whom are the sons and daughters of God.
And then, at the day of Pentecost, which Christ promised, that He would send the Holy Spirit… The Holy Spirit came, and it is Christ in Holy Spirit coming and baptizing His believers in the Mystical Body of Christ.
This began in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost. He said: “Except a man be born again, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.’’ [John 3:3.] And there, He began to bring forth the new birth; through the Holy Spirit, one hundred and twenty believers in Christ were born again at the Day of Pentecost. That is how the sons and daughters of God started being born into the Mystical Body of Christ.
Christ, the Second Adam with the second Eve, which is the Church, reproducing Himself in sons and daughters of God, and all of this through Christ, the Light of the world. Because the Light that appeared in the East, the First Coming of Christ, after that it was shining, reflecting itself in His Church throughout the different messengers that He sent. It was Christ shining through each messenger until the Seventh Church Age was reached. Coming from the East (the land of Israel), walking through Asia Minor in Saint Paul, walking through Europe in five messengers in His Church, reflecting Himself and enlightening the understanding and the soul, the heart of the human beings, and adding to His Church those who would be saved, those who are written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life. And thus forming the Church of the New Covenant, the people of the New Covenant, which is the Church formed by all born again believers in Christ.
Then, when the Light came to the American Continent, Christ in Holy Spirit anointed and sent His seventh messenger for the seventh stage of the Church among the Gentiles, which was Reverend William Branham. And He was reflected through him, He worked through him by the Holy Spirit; He shines in the Seventh Church Age, in the candle of the candlestick for Seventh Church Age and He calls and gathers the elect of that age. Then, we find that he foreruns the Second Coming of Christ.
And everything that was reflected in the different messengers of the Church, we will see it later in the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ, because that was a reflection of the Coming of Christ, a reflection of the Sun of Righteousness, which will shine at the Last Day in a stage or age parallel to the Messianic Age of the First Coming of Christ, which was the Age of the Cornerstone.
Because the Age of the Cornerstone is the Cornerstone Age, the Age of the Coming of the Lord, because Christ is the Headstone, the Capstone, in His First Coming and in His Second Coming as well. Therefore, there must be an age parallel to the Age of the Cornerstone of the First Coming of Christ, an age that follows the Seventh Church Age of the Old Testament, in which John was the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ.
The age that precedes the Age of the Cornerstone is the Laodicean Church Age, the Seventh Church Age among the Gentiles. Just as the Seventh Church Age of the Church of the Old Covenant was an age that preceded the Messianic Age of the Coming of Christ two thousand years ago.
Now, the messenger of the Seventh Church Age departed in 1965. And what is left for Christianity? What is left for the people of the New Covenant, for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ? Well, the Age of Cornerstone. The age parallel to the First Coming of Christ, the Messianic Age, the Messianic Age which Reverend William Branham spoke about and said: “Now, look at the age coming now right up to the Headstone.”
That is the age in which God makes the last call to all the sons and daughters of God, to all the children of the Light, all the children who will receive the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
That is the Age of the Light of the Last Day. That is the Age of the Light of the end time. That is the Age of the Light of the Cornerstone. That is the Age of the Sun Light that will be shining in this end time among the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, through the last manifestation of the Holy Spirit among the people of the New Covenant, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, where all the sons and daughters of God of the New Covenant are born, whom written in Heaven in the Lamb’s Book of Life since before the world was founded.
God is still calling and gathering His elect in the Messianic Age, the Age of the Cornerstone. And when that number is completed, then Christ will have risen from the Throne of Intercession, and He will take the Title Deed and claim back all those whom He has redeemed with His precious Blood from past ages and from our time as well. And He will resurrect them in glorified and everlasting bodies, and He will transform us who are alive.
That is the Divine Program for this end time.
And after a total manifestation of God in a Great Tent-Cathedral that was shown to Reverend William Branham, He will give us… We will obtain the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, where the Bride-Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be invested as Queen with Christ, the King of kings and Lord of lords, to reign in the Millennium and throughout eternity. That is how simple the Divine Program for our time is.
Therefore, we have a promise that the promised Word for our time will be made flesh in the people of God of this end time, in the messenger He has for this end time. And He will fulfill everything that has been spoken, everything that has been promised for His Church in this end time.
And thus the evening Light, which is the Light that intertwines the previous Day with the next Day… because for the Jews days end in the evening, at sunset, but there is still light, and that light pertains to the new day that is overlapping there at the evening time. That is why there salll be light in the evening time. The Light of an age and a dispensation ends, and the Light of the new age and dispensation begins.
Therefore, the Light of the Dispensation of the Kingdom also begins in the evening. When the evening Light of the Day of the Dispensation of Grace ends, the Light of the Dispensation of the Kingdom will intertwine, for the beginning of a new dispensational Day, and it will travel from East to West. The Evening Light will return to the East, to Israel.
That is how the morning Light, the Light of the First Coming of Christ came: from East to West, to enlighten the souls and minds of the human beings; and in the Last Day THE EVENING LIGHT will travel from West to East to enlighten the Hebrew people as well.
“THE EVENING LIGHT” always pertains to the American Continent, to the West, because the evening is always in the West, the morning is in the East. It is that simple.
Now, we have been granted to live in the West to see the evening Light shining, the Light that will later reach the Hebrew people, the East, and they will see It. All of this is tied to the Second Coming of Christ for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is waiting for the Second Coming of Christ.
And when the Jews see Christ, the Messiah, with His Church, they will say: “That’s the One we’ve waited on,” but He comes for His Church, to give her faith to be changed and taken with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
We are living in the relevant time and in the territory to see the evening Light, shining in the midst of His Church in this end time. And that will be the Holy Spirit taking the promised Word, what has been promised for His Church for this end time, and making it a reality, fulfilling His promised Word. And His promised Word being fulfilled will be “THE EVENING LIGHT” shining in the West, among the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone. It is that simple.
Therefore, He continues to call and gather His elect of the end time as living stones, to place them in His spiritual Temple which is His Church. His Church to which He has promised to come at the end time, to enter into His Church, which is a spiritual Temple, and enter the Most Holy Place and be in between the two cherubim’s laid with gold upon the mercy seat, and between the two cherubims of olive wood laid with gold, which are the ministries of Moses and Elijah at the end time among the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and then, among the Hebrew people.
We are in the greatest times of all times for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore let’s be prepared, because every promise He has made to His Church for this end time, He will fulfill it. He has already fulfilled a lot of promises that pertain to this end time for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Age of the Cornerstone, and those which remain will also be fulfilled.
He will give us the faith to be changed and taken with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; and that faith will revolve around His Second Coming, around the Seventh Seal, which is His Second Coming. The Thunders, which is the Voice of Christ speaking in the midst of His Church in this end time will reveal to us the mystery of His Second Coming at this end time. And that will be through the Light, through the Holy Spirit enlightening the understanding, through His promised Word made a reality in the midst of His Church, in the people of the New Covenant of this end time.
Therefore, if someone has not yet received Christ as Savior, you may do so at this time and we will be praying for you so that Christ may receive you, forgive you, and with His Blood cleanse you from all sin, baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire, and bring forth the new birth in you.
He is completing His Church at this end time. Therefore, you who have listened on this occasion and you are here or in another place, another city or another church, and you haven’t received Christ yet, you may do so at this time and we will be praying for you. Therefore, you may come to the front, those of you who are here, and those who are in other countries may come to the front to be included in the prayer we will be making for you.
When the promised Word becomes flesh, when the promised Word is fulfilled, that is the Light of the age, of the dispensation for the people.
God has many people in beautiful Colombia, and He is calling them at this end time. He has many people in all of Colombia, and He has many people in all of Latin America. He has many people in Puerto Rico too, and in the United States as well. He has many people in the entire American Continent and He is calling them in this end time. He has many people in other nations, in Europe too, and He is calling them in this end time. Because it is the time for the calling of the elect, it is time for the calling of the elect of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and it is time for the calling of the Jews as well.
Therefore, “To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.” [Hebrews 3:15.] He is calling you because He wrote your name in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the world was founded. That is why you have been hearing the Word, the Gospel of Christ, and the faith of Christ has been born in your soul, because your name is written in Heaven, in the Book of Life before the foundation of the world. That is the best news a person can receive from God: that his name is written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Therefore, Christ died for us so that He could redeem us and restore us to eternal Life and take us to glory with Him, in everlasting, immortal, and glorified bodies, and young bodies like the Body of Christ, which is as young as when He ascended to Heaven, and it will never become old. That is how it will also be for each one of us, the believers in Christ our Savior.
Let’s stand to pray for the people who have come to the Feet of Christ on this occasion.
With our heads bowed and our eyes closed:
Heavenly Father which art in Heaven, blessed be Your Name forever. I come to You in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ with all these people who are receiving Christ as their only and sufficient Savior. Receive them in Your Kingdom. I pray You in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen
Now, repeat this prayer after me which I will be making for each one of you:
Lord Jesus Christ, I heard the preaching of Your Gospel and Your Faith was born in my heart, in my soul.
I believe in You with all my soul. I believe in Your First Coming. I believe in Your Name as the only Name under Heaven, given unto man whereby we must be saved. I believe in Your death on Calvary’s Cross as the Sacrifice of Atonement for our sins. I believe in You with all my soul. Your Faith was born in me.
Lord, I acknowledge that I am sinner and I need a Savior.
I give public testimony of Your Faith in me and I receive You as my only and sufficient Savior. I pray that You forgive my sins and may You cleanse me from all sin with Your Blood and baptize me with the Holy Spirit and fire, and bring forth the new birth in me.
I want to be born again, I want to be born in Your Kingdom, I want to live eternally with You in Your Kingdom. Make a reality in my life the salvation You purchased for me on Calvary’s Cross. I pray You in Your Eternal and glorious Name, Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Now, those who have come to the Feet of Christ at this time may ask: “When can you baptize me? For Christ said: ‘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.’” [Mark 16:15-16.]
You may say: “I heard the Gospel of Christ, I believed, I have received Him as my Savior, and now I want to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ; because He said: ‘He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.’ When can you baptize me?” That is the question from the bottom of your heart.
Water baptism is typological. Water does not take away sins, but rather, the Blood of Christ is what cleanses us from all sin, but water baptism is typological, wherein we identify with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection.
That is why water baptism is so important, because we identify ourselves with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection. When Christ died, was buried and resurrected, we were with Him, and we will continue with Him throughout eternity.
Therefore, you may be baptized and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire, and bring forth the new birth in you. And we will continue seeing each other throughout eternity in the Kingdom of Christ our Savior.
I leave the minister here with you to inform those who have received Christ as Savior what to do to be baptized in water. And in each congregation and each country I leave each minister to inform you what you must do to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And may Christ baptize you with Holy Spirit and fire, and bring forth the new birth in you.
I leave Mr. Ivan Sarmiento with you to inform you what you must do to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, those who have received Christ as their only and sufficient Savior today.
May God bless you and keep you and continue having a joyful evening filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.
“THE EVENING LIGHT.”