Good morning beloved brethren and friends present, and those who are via the internet and different means of communication.
May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and upon myself as well, and may He speak to us directly to our soul, and reveal to us what He desires for us to know about THE WORK OF THE LAMB AND THE WORK OF THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH; and thus teach us His Word, and fill us with the knowledge of all His Program relevant to this end time; and prepare us to be transformed and raptured and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven in this Last Day. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
We read in Revelation, chapter 5, verse 1 and on, where it says:
“And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.
And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?
And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.
And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.
And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
In this passage we have seen that, in Heaven, God sitting on His Throne, has a little Book sealed with seven Seals in His right hand, in His hand; and the time came for that little Book to be opened, which is the Book of Redemption, which contains the names of all those who would be redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb.
That is the Book of Redemption, the Lamb’s Book of Life; and while Christ is in Heaven making intercession for all those whose names are written there, Christ remains as High Priest in Heaven, in the Most Holy Place, where He entered with His own Blood, which was shed here on planet Earth when He died on Calvary’s Cross as the Lamb of God.
When John the Baptist saw Jesus in one of the activities or services that John the Baptist held, when he saw Him, he said: in John, chapter 1, he says [verse 26]:
“John answered them…”
To whom? To those who were sent to him, which were sent by the Pharisees… Notice, let’s see this question here… Chapter 1, verse 19 and on (so we have a clear picture), it says:
“And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.
And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.
Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?
He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?
John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not…”
John, by that time, by that day, John had already baptized Jesus previously, and had also presented Him as the one who would come after him. And now, here he says:
“…but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not;
He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me…”
And how did He come after and was before him? And He was born after John the Baptist: John the Baptist was about 6 months older than Jesus. But before being in the body of flesh, Jesus was already in His theophanic body: He was before John the Baptist, and He was before Abraham, and He was before Adam also; for He is the Melchizedek who appeared to Abraham1 and the Elohim who appeared to Abraham2</sup>; the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who appeared to Moses in that Pillar of Fire.3
He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who delivered the Hebrew people in Egypt and brought them to the promised land; who would become flesh and live among the Hebrew people; who, the Scripture says in Malachi, chapter 3, verse 1: “Behold, I will send my messenger…” Let’s see… Malachi, chapter 3, verse 1:
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me:…”
That messenger was John the Baptist, who came with the spirit and power of Elijah4</sup>; but he was not Elijah literally, but, the ministry of Elijah was in John the Baptist; just as the ministry of Elijah after being in Elijah the Tishbite passed on to Elisha, who asked for a double portion of the spirit that was in Elijah.5
And now, it is found in John the Baptist for the third time; but John the Baptist was not literally Elijah; it was rather the ministry of Elijah in another man, called John the Baptist.
That is why when asked if he is Elijah, he says that he is not Elijah. He was not Elijah literally; neither was he the Elijah who would come in the final day, in the end time, to preach to the Hebrew people; nor was he the Elijah who would forerun the Second Coming of Christ. He was the Elijah that would forerun the First Coming of Christ; and that is the messenger that would be preparing the way.
Now, we have to see that the things that God will do, are first reflected, and we have the types and figures, which give testimony of what God will do; because the things that God did, which are the type and figure, are the shadow, they show what He will do. The shadow shows what God will do, which will be (what?) the reality.
And now, the Messiah in His Coming was being reflected in the prophets of the Old Testament. That is why those who lived in the time of the prophets of the Old Testament lived in the shadow of the Coming of the Messiah, because they lived in what was the shadow: the type and figure.
And now, when God to forerun the Second Coming of Christ sent Elijah, the ministry of Elijah for the fourth time, they were living in the shadow of the Coming of the Lord, in the type and figure; in the shadow, reflected there in the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ. As in the days of John the Baptist, they lived in the shadow of the Coming of the Lord; but when Jesus appeared, it was no longer the shadow, but the reality.
And now, after sending His forerunner preparing the way, which was John the Baptist, it says:
“…and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts (in other words, YHWH said it would be like that).”
He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the one who promised that He would send His messenger (before whom?) before Him; for YHWH would then come made flesh in the midst of the Hebrew people, who is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord who delivered the Hebrew people and said to Moses: “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”6
And after sending His forerunner, which was John the Baptist, then He appeared in the midst of the Hebrew people manifested in His ministry. And John the Baptist didn’t know Him; in other words, he didn’t know that this young carpenter from Nazareth, who according to the flesh was his cousin…, because He was born through Mary; and Mary was related to Elizabeth, John the Baptist’s mother.
And now, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Angel of the Covenant, who would come in the midst of the Hebrew people, was present in human flesh; and John says to those people:
“…but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not (he is speaking of the Messiah)<em>;
He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose (in other words, of His footwear).”
I am reading in John, chapter 1, verse 26 and on. It goes on to say:
“These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him…”
For Jesus had been baptized by John, therefore, He was one of John’s disciples; but from one of the disciples of the forerunner the Coming of the Messiah was fulfilled.
Remember that well: From one of the disciples, from the followers of the forerunner John the Baptist, the Coming of the Messiah, as the Lamb of God, was fulfilled in one of them. Keep that in mind, because for the end time we have the promise of the Coming of the Lord as the Lion of the tribe of Judah; and we also have the promise of the coming of Elijah as the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.
Therefore, it is important… just as it was necessary to watch the followers, the disciples of John the Baptist, of the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, because in one of them the Coming of Christ would be fulfilled, the First Coming of Christ, as the Lamb of God; also watch the disciples of the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.
Now, John says: “I didn’t know Him.” John says, being in his ministry: “But among one of you is one whom you don’t know.” And now, verse 29 says:
“The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”
In the types and figures, in the shadows of the Coming of the Messiah in the Old Testament, it had been reflected both in the prophets and also in those little animals that were sacrificed to God for the peace and reconciliation of the Hebrew people with God, the sins of the people being taken away – or rather, covered with the blood of those little animals.
For example, we have the Passover lamb, which was sacrificed on the 14th day of the first month (that is, of the month of Abib) of the Hebrew religious calendar; because that was the day when in Egypt they sacrificed the lambs, and applied the blood of those little animals on the lintel and the doorposts of the Hebrew homes, and placed inside those homes the roasted lamb, and ate it during the night; and then, during the morning, they went free, they were delivered, and went out to the promised land.
And now, we can see that that Passover lamb that they sacrificed back then… Each family sacrificed their lamb, and then they ate it at home, roasted; it couldn’t be boiled or prepared in any other way, but roasted; and what was left had to be burnt: there could be nothing left for the next day. And now, it had to be eaten during the night, and the leftover to be burned.
And now, that lamb represents Christ, the Lamb of God. Because Saint Paul says that Christ is our Passover7</sup>; therefore, Christ being our Passover, He is the Passover Lamb.
And if He is that Passover lamb that was there in Egypt being sacrificed to be then eaten during the night, while death would be scourging the homes in Egypt… And every home where the blood was not applied on the lintel and doorposts, death would come in and kill the firstborn of that family. So it was a matter of life and death: death for those who didn’t have the blood and the lamb, and life for those who had that lamb inside and the blood applied on the lintel and doorposts.
And those who didn’t have the corresponding revelation for that time: that night was a night of mourning and pain; but those who had the revelation of the Passover lamb sacrificed, its blood applied on the lintel and doorposts, and that lamb being eaten inside the home, inside the house, by the family: those were rejoicing, they had the blessing of God, and were the ones who would go free during the morning. With them was (who?) the Angel of the Covenant, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and with them was the prophet of God for that time, the prophet Moses, who is a dispensational prophet, the prophet of the Dispensation of the Law.
And now, notice, Moses being a prophet he belonged to the Hebrew people; because the promise of God is that God raises up a prophet from among the people. If the one who is to come for the deliverance of the people is a prophet, in whom God will be, then he must raise him up from among the people.
And now, God’s revelation for that time, through whom did it come? Through the prophet Moses; because all divine revelation has to come through a prophet. It has to come to a prophet, and then from that prophet that revelation is given to the people; the prophet passes it on to the people, just as God passed it on to that prophet; because God places His Word in the mouth of the prophet that He sends.
“Prophet (says Moses)… Prophet like me shall the Lord your God raise up unto you; him shall ye hear.”8
To whom does Moses say that the people are called to listen? The prophet that God sends, because in that prophet comes the Word of God, the revelation of God for the people. And to be listening to that Word that he brings from God is to be listening to God; because that prophet is the mouth of God, that is why the Word of God is placed in the mouth of that prophet.
God says: “And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And whosoever will not hearken unto the words which he shall speak in my name, him will I cut off from among the people.”9 In other words, each person has the responsibility —because he has free will— to listen to the Voice of God through the prophet that God sends for the age and dispensation that the person is living.
Now, in the time of Moses and in the time of the Old Testament prophets, and in the time of John the Baptist and in the time of Jesus, there were many great religious leaders, but, you see, many of them persecuted the prophets of God; and even many high priests rose up against the prophets of God; and against the greatest prophet of God, manifested as a prophet on Earth, which was our Lord Jesus Christ, the high priest Caiaphas and his father-in-law Annas rose up, who had also been high priest.
So, you see, the people at that time had to be listening to whom: to the high priest or to Jesus? They had to be listening to the prophet that God sent them: to Jesus of Nazareth.
And now, the high priest fought against Jesus and fought Him, until the time came when he asked for Jesus’ death; and because the time had come for Jesus to die physically, he succeeded in his request, both to the Sanhedrin Council and also to the Roman empire.
And now, we can see that God said to listen to the prophet that He sends, because that is where He places His Word; but the people, after listening for a while to Jesus (many people), then, when the time came for Jesus to die, most of them turned against Jesus, and together with the high priest they asked for the death of Jesus on the Cross saying: “Crucify Him, crucify Him!”10
Now, you see, John the Baptist had been His forerunner, Christ had been reflected in him. And now, when the Coming of the Messiah is fulfilled, He is a prophet: the prophet of Nazareth, although He was born in Bethlehem of Judea; but His ministry, notice, He started it there in the territory of Nazareth, there in Galilee; and under the ministry of the Messiah, under the ministry of Jesus, the Messianic promises were being fulfilled and all that the Messiah would do in His First Coming.
You see, it was being fulfilled in a disciple of John; in a disciple of the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, the Messianic promises were being fulfilled. The First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world was being fulfilled; which had been reflected in the Passover lamb that the Hebrew people sacrificed in Egypt, and then, as a divine ordinance, every year the Hebrew people sacrificed a lamb on the eve of the Passover; in other words, on the 14th day, because the Passover was on the 15th, but on the 14th day the lamb was sacrificed, in the first month of the Hebrew calendar.
And now, Christ became the fulfillment, the reality, of that which was the type and figure of the Coming of the Messiah, of His First Coming, as the Lamb of God.
Our subject is: “THE WORK OF THE LAMB AND THE WORK OF THE LION.”
Now, for the Work of the Lamb, in the First Coming of Christ, notice how all the prophecies that spoke of the Coming of the Messiah, some spoke of the First Coming of the Messiah, the First Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, and others spoke of His Second Coming. But for many people and for many prophets there was no difference regarding the Coming of the Messiah and they thought that it would be only one. But most people didn’t realize that the Coming of the Messiah has two parts: His First Coming as the Lamb of God, and His Second Coming as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords.
And now, the Name of God is manifested in the Coming of the Messiah, because the Coming of the Lord contains the manifestation of the Eternal Name of God.
And now, the Coming of the Messiah is being fulfilled in a disciple of the forerunner; and on top of all that, He was his cousin according to the flesh, and therefore they were (they could say) brothers, in the sense that at that time, when they were family, they were also called brothers. Brothers, because they came directly from their ancestors, and at some time, at the root from whence they had come they would find that one, and from one, had come all of them.
And now, we take them to Jacob and there we find, in Jacob, both John the Baptist and Jesus; that is by being born according to the flesh. And now we pass on – we go backwards, to the past, and we find them in Isaac; and we go further backwards, and we find them in Abraham.
And now, the promise that God made to Abraham: “And in your seed (which is Christ)11 shall all nations be blessed.”12 The blessing for all nations is in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Royal Seed of Abraham.
And through that Seed of Abraham is that the blessing has passed to the gentiles, to call from among the gentiles a people for His Name,13 which receives Christ as the Lamb of God, the Passover Lamb, and also as the Goat of the Atonement; and therefore each person applies the Blood of Christ on the lintel and doorposts of the door of his heart, of his soul, and eats that Lamb: Christ, there in his soul; because “man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God”14</sup>; and Christ being the Word, we have to eat Christ the Word.
And now, He said on one occasion: “He that eateth not my flesh, and drinketh not my Blood, hath not life abiding in him.”15 And when we receive Christ as our Savior, and we wash our sins in the Blood of Christ, and we eat His Word, His Message, we eat the Gospel: we are eating Christ, and we have the Blood of Christ applied in our soul.
Now, the Spirit of Christ entering each one of us is the sign that the Blood is applied in our heart. Therefore, the Holy Spirit, which is the Life of the Blood of the Lamb of God, entering the person, what does It do? It produces the new birth in the person; and the person thus obtains a theophanic body of the sixth dimension.
Well said John the Baptist: “I baptize you with water: but He that cometh after me (that is, after me), He will baptize you with Holy Spirit and Fire.”16
Now, see all the things that the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord or Yahweh or YHWH does; see all the things for which He came in human flesh in His First Coming.
And John the Baptist, knowing that He was a relative (according to the flesh) of his, was much happier; although on one occasion there came to him a certain doubt, perhaps, or a certain desire, that Jesus Christ Himself would say openly whether He was or wasn’t the one who was to come after John; and he sent to ask Jesus, with two of his disciples, he sent to ask Jesus: “Are you He who is to come, or shall we wait for another?”
And Jesus didn’t them to say: “Yes, I am,” but He did certain signs; in other words, He healed the sick; and He was preaching in that activity, in that service, and they had as guests there disciples of John the Baptist, disciples of the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, in an activity of the forerunner.
And then Jesus tells John with his disciples, He tells his disciples: “Tell John: The blind see (because there Jesus had healed many blind people, and they had seen Him doing those miracles), the lame walk (because there Jesus had healed many people who couldn’t walk; and John’s disciples were seeing that), and the Gospel is preached to the poor.”17
So, the multitude that was there, 99% were simple people, humble people, poor people, but they were listening to the Voice of God in Jesus, in His Anointed One. And blessed were those who were listening to the Voice of God through Jesus, although they were poor; and the rich were unfortunate, who were not listening to the Voice of God.
So the blessing with God doesn’t depend on earthly riches, it doesn’t depend on the social or economic position that the person has, it doesn’t depend on the human knowledge that the person has obtained in universities, but it depends on listening to the Voice of God for the time in which he or she is living.
That is why Revelations tells us: “Blessed…” Chapter 1, verses 1 and on:
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.”
Now, notice how in the book of Revelation it tells us that blessed are those who read and hear the words of the prophecy of this book, of this book of Revelation; of this book that was written by John the apostle, which was revealed to John the apostle by the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; and that Angel is a prophet.
It is the prophets who bring the revelation of God to the people, because to them is given the revelation of God; that is why through a prophet Jesus sends all this apocalyptic revelation. It is the revelation of Jesus Christ sent to His Church through His Angel Messenger, who revealed to John the apostle all this book of Revelation, all this apocalyptic revelation that was placed in symbols and this revelation was written.
Now, continuing here with John the Baptist, let’s continue reading what John says; chapter 2, verse 29, it says:
“The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”
See, Jesus comes to John, why? Because He is one of John’s disciples, who has been in John’s activities and was baptized by John the Baptist; but then His ministry began, and more people followed Jesus than John the Baptist.
Now, you see, the ministry of Jesus was growing more than that of John the Baptist. And on one occasion, some people came and said to John: “Look, the one of whom you gave testimony, now more people follow him than you and he baptizes more people than you (although Jesus didn’t baptize, but His disciples).”
And now, many people perhaps would have been jealous if it had been they who had been in the place of John the Baptist; but John the Baptist was not jealous, but rather said: “It is convenient for Him to increase, and for me to decrease.”18 Therefore, the ministry of John the Baptist was declining, was decreasing, and that of Jesus was growing.
Perhaps some people, and even John’s disciples who stayed with John, could say: “Now Jesus, one of John’s followers, now separated from John, formed a division from John’s group and is now taking away John’s disciples, is taking away John’s followers; and in addition, other people are also believing in him.”
Now, did John’s disciples, the disciples of the forerunner, do well to go with the forerunner? Of course they did. That is what the forerunner came for: to prepare a people for Him; to prepare a people for whom? To the one to whom he was preparing the way; so that all those who had followed the forerunner would then follow the foreran.
What good is it for the people to follow the forerunner if they don’t then follow the foreran? They only stayed in John’s baptism, but they couldn’t receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit; they couldn’t receive the baptism in Fire, which would be given to them by the One who would come after John the Baptist, of whom John said: “This is the One who comes after me. I baptize you in water, but He will baptize you in Holy Spirit and Fire.” It is not enough to believe and follow the forerunner, but it is then required to follow the foreran, to receive the blessings that the foreran brings.
And no one can receive the Holy Spirit if he doesn’t first believe in Jesus Christ as our Savior and wash away his sins in the Blood of Christ; and thus his sins are taken away; the Work of Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God is materialized by dying on Calvary’s Cross and shedding His Blood and thus taking away our sins; that Sacrifice is made effective in the person when he receives Christ as his Savior and thus washes away his sins in the Blood of Christ; and then the Spirit of Christ enters the person to dwell in him, thus producing the new birth, giving him a theophanic body, a theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension.
Now, look at the Work of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, in His First Coming. And on that Work that He carried out on Calvary’s Cross, has depended all that He has been doing since He came until this end time.
Because He carried His own Blood not to the earthly temple, where the earthly high priest carried the blood of the goat; but Jesus Christ, being the High Priest Melchizedek of the Temple which is in Heaven, well, He carried His own Blood from His own earthly body, took it there, to the Most Holy Place of the heavenly Temple.
The earthly high priest, well, he carried it to the temple of which he was high priest; and Christ as the High Priest Melchizedek, who is the Priest of the Temple which is in Heaven, for He carried His Blood to His Temple, the Temple which is in Heaven; and there His Blood has been placed, in the Place of Intercession, there in the Throne of God, making intercession for each person who has his name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
Just as the high priest made intercession in the most holy place with the blood of atonement; where he first sacrificed a heifer or red calf, and brought of its blood into the most holy place, and made atonement there for himself and for the rest of the priests, the descendants of Aaron; and then he went out, and sacrificed the goat, and brought the blood of the goat into the most holy place and sprinkled it seven times with his finger upon the mercy seat, where the two golden cherubim and where God was in the Light of the Shekinah. There was the Pillar of Fire, and that was where the blood of atonement was to be brought.
And after he finished… He was during that day of atonement, the 10th day of the seventh month of every year, he was going in and out of the most holy place; he would go in one day of the year, but he would go in a few times, carrying out the work pertaining to the day of atonement, for the reconciliation of the high priest and all the priests, and also the reconciliation of all the Hebrew people. And he couldn’t finish ministering until he had finished his work for that day.
And after he had made the atonement… He also poured out of that blood: he placed it on the golden altar, which was in front of the entrance door (but not inside the most holy place, but outside, that is, in the holy place, but it was in front of the entrance door); he also placed there, on that golden mercy seat – that is the altar of incense, that altar of incense, he also placed the blood of the atonement. And then he would go out with the blood and place it also on the bronze altar, he would pour it there, too. In other words, he placed the blood of the atonement in the most holy place, the holy place, and also in the outer court. First it had been, notice, in the outer court, where the sacrifice was made, and from there the portion pertaining to the most holy place was taken.
Then the high priest came in with the golden censer, where he had placed the fire of the golden altar, because that fire of incense was lit; and he placed in the censer the fire of the altar: he placed those coals of the golden altar, he placed there, and there that fire was lit; and he carried incense in his hand. And, to enter the most holy place, some historians say that he poured the incense in the censer before entering the most holy place, and others say that he poured it when he had already passed to the other side of the veil.
But now, let’s see here, in Leviticus, chapter 16, verse 12 and on, it says:
“And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not.”
If he didn’t do so that way, he would die. And two of Aaron’s sons had already died, for entering into the most holy place with strange fire. See, in the same chapter 16, verses 1 and on, it says:
“And the Lord spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the Lord, and died;
And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat (in other words, not to enter the most holy place at any time), which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.”
And there He tells him how he should enter that day of the year, which is the 10th day of the seventh month of each year.
Now, in Leviticus, chapter 10, verse 1 and on, we have what was the death of Aaron’s sons:
“And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them not.”
Do you see how in the most holy place people couldn’t go in, and minister there, and offer there with their censer something that God had not commanded them? Because it was the high priest who had to do that work; and he had to bring the correct perfume, which was prepared: it was grounded; and when he poured that ground incense on the censer lit on fire, then it burned; and there a cloud of smoke arose, and that… there are the prayers of the people for mercy.
See, that…, from there…, everything that is in the book of Revelation was already reflected in the Old Testament. And now, this is the same thing that we have in Revelation, chapter 8: But now, let’s see:
“And there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.
Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace (that is, Aaron was quiet, knowing that his children had done something out of place, he was quiet and scared too).
And Moses called Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.”
Look, here are the cousins of Aaron’s sons who are going to bring out these two sons of Aaron; and here Moses, you see, he says, he says to them also:
“…carry your brethren from before the sanctuary out of the camp.”
See? In the Old Testament, although they were first cousins, they were also called “brethren.”
“So they went near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.
And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes…”
In other words, they couldn’t mourn for these sons of Aaron; neither could Aaron mourn for them; he couldn’t cry for his sons, nor could the other sons of Aaron, Eleazar and Ithamar, who were brothers of those two who died, who were rebellious to what was established by God and died. Now, it says:
“…neither rend your clothes; lest ye die…”
That is they couldn’t mourn for them, otherwise they would die too.
“…lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people…”
Even the entire Hebrew people were in danger. There could be no mourning for those disobedient ones who acted contrary to God’s Program in the most holy place.
“…but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord hath kindled.”
The rest of the people would mourn, but Aaron and Aaron’s sons couldn’t mourn for those two sons of Aaron who had died by divine fire.
“And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die…”
There was a death sentence if they went outside the tabernacle of congregation; they had to remain inside, so as not to die.
“…for the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.”
And there God establishes more statutes for the priests, including the high priest.
Now, we can see that all that strictness in relation to the most holy place represents that in Heaven, in the Most Holy Place of the Temple that is in Heaven, is so strict that only Christ could enter, and it was with His own Blood, the Blood of the Atonement.
And now, notice how Christ has been making intercession for all this time, since He ascended to Heaven; and He has been extending His mercy upon the people, upon all those who have their names written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, because those are the heavenly Israel.
And now, the Work of Atonement of the heavenly Israel; just as the work of atonement for the earthly Israel, the high priest performed it in the most holy place, there in the temple that they had in the midst of the Hebrew people; now, for the redemption, for the atonement of the heavenly Israel: that work is done not in an earthly temple, but in the Temple of God which is in Heaven.
And that is why Saint Paul says: “Be reconciled to God today”:19 because Christ is making that reconciliation in Heaven, in the Most Holy Place of the Temple that is in Heaven; and the person, when he receives Christ as his Savior and washes his sins in the Blood of Christ and receives His Holy Spirit, has been reconciled with God.
Christ is doing that Work in Heaven as High Priest of the Temple which is in Heaven; and He is the Melchizedek that appeared to Abraham, the Priest of the Most High God; and if He is the Priest of the Most High God, then He must be ministering in the Temple of the Most High God in Heaven.
And now, look where He came to get the Blood that He had to take to the Most Holy Place of the Temple that is in Heaven to minister there, as He had reflected it in the high priests (who entered the most holy place on the 10th day of the seventh month) and as He had also reflected it in the prophet Moses when He dedicated the temple, the tabernacle, to God.
A temple or a tabernacle is a dwelling house of God, whether large or small. For Moses’ time, the tabernacle or temple was not very large; for Solomon’s time, it was already a large building, but it was still a tabernacle, a temple, a dwelling house for God.
And now, that house of dwelling for God represents, reflects, the Temple that is in Heaven. That is why the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ, which is His Church, is also according to, made according to, created according to, the model of the Temple that is in Heaven.
And everything that Moses placed in the tabernacle that he built, and Solomon in the temple that he built, you see, represents the things that are in Heaven; therefore, in Moses’ tabernacle and Solomon’s temple (or that Solomon built) we are all represented. In which part of the temple? That is very important; because the different parts of the temple built by Solomon and the tabernacle built by the prophet Moses, is type and figure of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; in other words, the spiritual Temple of Christ is composed of human beings.
And now, Christ is making intercession in Heaven for that spiritual Temple of His, which is His Church and which is the heavenly Israel.
See, that is why Moses, when he dedicated the temple to God, he sprinkled the blood both in the most holy place, as in the holy place, as well as in the outer court; because the Temple of the Lord Jesus Christ all is redeemed with the Blood of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God and the Goat of Atonement.
With the Goat’s Blood of Atonement, who is Jesus Christ and His Blood, that spiritual Temple of Christ, which is His Church, is redeemed.
And now, see the Work of the Lamb, of Jesus Christ our beloved Savior.
“Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world,” said John the Baptist; and on another occasion, another day, the day after he said: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world”… See, let’s continue reading here; again we read verse 29 of chapter 1 of John, where it says:
“The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man…”
For whom was John the Baptist preparing the way? A man, that is, a man, who was coming after him; a man who would be born in the midst of the Hebrew people; a man whom God would identify as His Anointed One and whom John would present as the Christ, as the Messiah, as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob made flesh, made man, in the midst of the Hebrew people. Because the Coming of the Lord always has to be in the form of a man, in the form of a prophet; He has to come as a prophet and it has to be dispensational: a dispensational prophet. And now, John says:
“This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.
And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.
And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost.
And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;
And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.”
And why did they follow Jesus? Because John the Baptist came to prepare the way for the one who would come after him, so that the people would follow the Messiah: the one who would come after him. And these believing disciples, followers of John the Baptist, of the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, understood correctly the purpose of the coming of the forerunner: they understood that a forerunner comes to prepare the people for the coming of the one who will come after him, so that the people will follow the one who will come after him and believe in the one who will come after him.
Saint Paul explaining this, in the book of Acts, chapter 19, said to a group of followers of the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ; in chapter 19 of the book of Acts, he says:
“And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.”
See how far behind the disciples of the forerunner were. Why? Because they had not followed the foreran, the Lord Jesus Christ. And the disciples of the foreran, the disciples of Jesus Christ, had already received the Holy Spirit; and it was already years ago that all those who believed in the foreran and followed him, received the Holy Spirit. And the disciples of the forerunner, the disciples of John the Baptist, had not yet received the Holy Spirit; because the promise of the Holy Spirit, as the first fruits, is for those who would follow the foreran: Christ Jesus our Savior.
And for the Last Day, the promise of receiving the fullness of the Holy Spirit, where the dead in Christ will be resurrected and we who are alive will be transformed, and then we will have the fullness of the Holy Spirit, will be for those who will follow the foreran; because that is why the foreran comes: to carry out the Work relevant to the Last Day, which is the Work of the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
Now, the followers of the forerunner, John the Baptist, were very happy following John the Baptist; but those who were following Jesus were happier, because they were following the One of whom John spoke and prophesied that would come after him.
And now, we find the followers of the foreran, of the Lord Jesus Christ, receiving the blessings of God that were being given; and the mind was being opened, of the disciples of Jesus Christ, by Jesus Christ.
He said: “It is given unto you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom, but to others it is not given. Therefore I speak to them in parables.”20 But to His disciples He spoke openly; and the parables which He had spoken to the others He explained to His disciples apart; because to them it was granted to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of the Heavens. And therefore they knew the greatest mystery that at that time was being fulfilled, manifested, which was the mystery of the Coming of the Messiah, the Coming of the Anointed One of God: Messiah, Christ; and Christ means ‘Anointed One,’ the Anointed One with the Holy Spirit.
And now, see what a great blessing there is in following the forerunner; but see what a greater blessing there is in receiving the foreran, not despising the forerunner, but recognizing what the forerunner said would come after him. And that which would come after the forerunner would grow: “It is convenient for Him to increase, and for me to decrease.”
And now, let’s see what Saint Paul goes on to say:
“We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
And he said unto them (Paul), Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism.”
John had said to them: “I baptize you with water (that is as far as John went); but He who comes after me will baptize you with the baptism of Holy Spirit and Fire (with Holy Spirit and Fire),” that is, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, in order to produce the new birth.
“Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.”
Why does a forerunner come? To prepare the way for the one who will come after him, teaching them to believe in the one who will come after him.
But, you see, the disciples of John who stayed with John were slow to understand, hard of heart, they were people who couldn’t see in Jesus the fulfillment of the one who would come after John; and they stayed as the group of the forerunner, the group of John the Baptist, but they stayed behind because they didn’t become the group of the foreran, the group of the Lord Jesus Christ, which was the group that would grow and was the group that would receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire: it was the group that would obtain the new birth, and therefore would obtain the theophanic body of the sixth dimension.
The two disciples of John, who upon hearing John say: “Behold the Lamb of God,” who then followed Jesus, left John and followed Jesus; not because they despised John, but because they saw that John’s Message was being fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth. And to follow Jesus was to follow John’s Message correctly; to follow the Lord Jesus Christ was to follow what God promised through John the Baptist.
And those were the best disciples of John the Baptist: those who followed Jesus Christ, because they continued onward to receive what John the Baptist said those who would follow the foreran would receive: they would receive the baptism of Holy Spirit and Fire.
Now see how Jesus was a disciple of John, and how John and Andrew and the other apostles —most of them— were also disciples of John the Baptist; but they didn’t stop, they didn’t remain stuck with John the Baptist, but they continued onward to see the fulfillment of what John the Baptist said, and to follow the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah in Jesus of Nazareth.
Now see that those followers of Jesus had an open heart and mind to understand the fulfillment of what God promised through John the Baptist and the other prophets of the Old Testament, regarding the Coming of the Messiah.
Peter, notice, was one of the main disciples of Jesus, or the main one; and on one occasion when Jesus asked: “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” (this is in Matthew, chapter 16), the disciples of Jesus Christ began to give the opinions that people had about Jesus Christ. It says, Matthew chapter 16, verse 13 and on, it says:
“When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.”
That was the opinion of the people, regarding who Jesus Christ was. They thought it was John the Baptist who had resurrected, others thought it was the prophet Elijah, and others thought it was Jeremiah and others thought it was one of the prophets who had resurrected.
In other words, those people who were following Jesus, and who ate the loaves and fishes, were following Jesus as a prophet, but they were not understanding which prophet was the one who was there; they were not understanding that that prophet was the Messiah, the Anointed One of God with the Holy Spirit, who was none other than the man that John the Baptist said would come after him; in other words, the Messiah, the Christ, the Anointed One, the King of Israel.
It is very important to understand the Coming of the Son of Man and what He is fulfilling at that time.
And now, Jesus wants to know how His disciples are following Him. “Coming…” Now Jesus comes to ask them a question directly to them:
“He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?”
Now, Jesus no longer wants to know the opinion that people, the people, have about who He is; now He wants to know their opinion about who they believe and know that He is.
“And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
In other words: “You are the Anointed One, the Messiah, the Christ.” That is: “You are the One who would come after John the Baptist. You are that man, that man, that prophet, that John the Baptist said would come after him. You are the One of whom John the Baptist said would baptize with Holy Spirit and Fire.”
“And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.”
That revelation could only come from Heaven, because that revelation couldn’t come from the religious institutes and seminaries of that time; because there was no theological interpretation that a young carpenter from Nazareth would be the Messiah, who would be a disciple of John the Baptist (His forerunner); and then He would begin His ministry and be the Anointed One, the Christ, the Messiah: the fulfillment of the First Coming of Christ in the midst of the Hebrew people. None of that was in the theological books, in the theological interpretations; they didn’t even know that the Messiah had to come with the name Jesus, which in Hebrew is Yoshua.
And now, all that surprised them, surprised the theologians of that time; it blinded the eyes of the theologians of that time, of the doctors of divinity. The veil of flesh where it was manifested blinded the eyes of all the wise and knowledgeable of that time.
Christ said: “I thank thee, O Father, Lord of Heaven and Earth, because thou hast hidden these things from the wise and prudent…” Who were the wise and knowledgeable of that time? The doctors of divinity, doctors of theology, the priests and the high priest of that time, and the Sanhedrin Council. All this was hidden, the First Coming of Christ was hidden from the eyes, from the intelligence, from the wisdom and theology of those religious wise men of the time of Jesus.
They said about Jesus that He was Beelzebub, that He had demons and so on, and that He was a Samaritan21</sup>; they didn’t know the whole Divine Program that was being fulfilled in Jesus Christ as the Lamb of God: in the First Coming of the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, as the Lamb of God, to carry out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross.
[Matthew 11:25] “I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.”
And now, the revelation of the heavenly Father was there, the revelation of God: in the midst of the Hebrew people, manifested in human flesh, in the fulfillment of the First Coming of Christ. The manifestation was there from God, God in all His fullness in human flesh, the Word made flesh, the Word that was with God and was God in human flesh; and no one knew that mystery but Jesus Christ Himself, and those to whom He would reveal it.
To the Samaritan woman, speaking with her, He revealed that mystery. She said to Him: “We know that the Messiah, the Christ (who is called the Christ), is coming; and He will teach us, He will reveal to us, all things, when He comes.” Jesus said to her: “I am, who speaks to you.”22
You see, He didn’t go to the high priest and the Sanhedrin Council and the doctors of the Law to tell them: “I am the Messiah, I am the King of Israel, who is promised to come at this time.” He instead preached the Word and He carried out the works that He had to perform; but He was not going to them, to the Council of the Hebrew religion, to say to them: “I am the one you are waiting for.”
However, to a Samaritan woman of bad reputation, He said: “I am, who speaks to you”; He told her that He was that Messiah, that Christ that she and the Samaritan people were waiting for. And on other occasions He also spoke to His disciples, He identified Himself with His disciples; and then He would say to His disciples: “Tell no one that I am He.” For example, we are here in Matthew chapter 17, verse 9; it says:
“And as they came down from the mountain, (after the transfiguration) Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.”
He prohibited them from making that vision known to other people. And in other places He also prohibited them from saying that He was the Christ, because that revelation was for believers in Him. The enemies of Jesus Christ wanted Him to say publicly that He was the Christ, the Messiah, for what? To proclaim Him as a false prophet, and to apply the Law to Him, and to ask for His death.
That was what the high priest always wanted; and that is why he asked Jesus the question, he said to Him: “If you are the Christ, say it now, and don’t make us doubt.” And Jesus said to him: “I have said it before, and you have not believed.”23 In other words, Jesus in His preaching had already said it, He had made it known; but all those doctors of the Law and the high priest and the Sanhedrin Council, except two or three, like Joseph of Arimathea, Gamaliel and Nicodemus; the rest, you see, thought that Jesus was a false prophet. They said He was Beelzebub, the prince of demons, and yet He was none other than the Prince of Peace.
See how far the human wisdom, the human theology, of the doctors of the Law and of the Sanhedrin Council, of the seventy wise men who made up the Sanhedrin Council and of the high priest, went.
A simple fisherman —like Peter— knew more about the First Coming of Christ than the high priest, and all the doctors of the Law, and all the doctors of theology, and all the doctors of divinity of that time, and all the members of the Sanhedrin Council.
Peter, a simple fisherman, who had no academic degrees (he didn’t even have maybe a sixth grade diploma), had the greatest revelation for that time, which was the revelation of the First Coming of Christ; the First Coming of the Angel of the Covenant made flesh in the midst of the Hebrew people, the Coming of the Word made flesh, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Coming of Melchizedek, clothed in human flesh.
And now, see how those simple people, those children…; they were children in the sense of human wisdom, because they had no theological preparation, they had no university preparation, but they had the revelation from Heaven: the revelation of who Jesus Christ our Savior was.
And now… This is in chapter 11, verse 25 (that is what I read to you), 25 to 27, of Matthew.
And now, in chapter 16 of Matthew, where we were reading about Peter’s confession: “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God,” notice, Peter identified the First Coming of Christ. And now:
“And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell (in other words, the doors of hell) shall not prevail against it.
And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.”
The disciples already knew who He was, and Peter was the spokesman for all of them; and that is why, by confessing this great revelation of who Christ was, he received the keys of the Kingdom of the Heavens; and that is why Peter had to, with those keys of the Kingdom of the Heavens, the revelation of the First Coming of Christ, open the Door of the Dispensation of Grace on the Day of Pentecost, and thousands of people entered24</sup>; and thousands of people continued to enter during the time of the ministry of Peter and other apostles.
And after the Door was opened for the Hebrews to enter the Kingdom of God, to enter the Church of Jesus Christ and be part of the Church of Jesus Christ, now He opens the Door also to the gentiles in the house of Cornelius,25 preaching there by divine direction and anointing; and now the Door of the Kingdom of the Heavens is opened for the gentiles. And then Paul was sent, later on, to the gentiles.26 And under the ministry of Peter and Paul thousands or millions of gentiles entered the Kingdom of the Heavens to be part of the Church of Jesus Christ; they entered through the open Door, which is the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world there on Calvary’s Cross.
Christ is the Door; and the revelation, the key to that Door, is the divine revelation of the First Coming of Christ, which Peter had and made known on the Day of Pentecost, giving testimony of who Jesus was: The Christ, the Messiah, fulfilling the promises of His First Coming as the Lamb of God and as the Goat of Atonement, thus taking away the sin of the world; and making that Sacrifice effective in each person by receiving Christ as his Savior.
Peter had the keys to open the Door to the Hebrews first and then to the gentiles; and then Paul continued among the gentiles. Now we can see that Peter dedicated himself, also, more to the Hebrews and Paul to the gentiles.
And just as the Hebrews brought the Gospel to the gentiles through the ministry of Peter and Paul, the gentiles will take it to the Hebrews.27 The gentiles will take the Gospel of the Kingdom, the Gospel that will be revealing, making known, the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work.
And just as the Hebrews, through the ministry of Christ in Paul and Peter, brought the Gospel to the gentiles; the gentiles, through the ministry of the Two Olive Trees, of Moses and Elijah, will take it to the Hebrews.
That is why the ministry of Moses and Elijah, of the Two Olive Trees, is the ministry that will open the Door to the Hebrews in the Last Day; the Door to enter the Kingdom of God, in and to the Dispensation of the Kingdom, under the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which contains and 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 Reclaiming Work.
Now, before the gentiles had the Door open for them to enter, before having that Door open to the gentiles to the Kingdom of God, what happened? Peter opened the Door first to the Hebrews, and they entered by thousands. And then the gentiles would enter; because with the revelation of the First Coming of Christ being preached by Peter to Cornelius, the Door was opened for the gentiles, so that the gentiles could understand and believe the First Coming of Christ in the midst of the Hebrew people. And Saint Paul then continued among the gentiles.
And before the Door is opened for the Hebrew people to enter the Kingdom of God under the Dispensation of the Kingdom, in the seventh millennium, first the Door is opened to the gentiles: To the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the gentile Church, to enter the Dispensation of the Kingdom, and thus enter the Kingdom of God under the seventh dispensation, in the seventh millennium, under the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work. In the Coming of the Kingdom of God, the gentiles will enter first and then the Hebrews will enter.
And the ministries of Peter and Paul among the Hebrews and then among the gentiles, represent the ministries of Moses and Elijah in the Last Day, which are the ministries that will have 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 Reclaiming Work; to thus open the Kingdom of God to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, thus to open the Dispensation of the Kingdom for the Church of Jesus Christ first and then to open the Dispensation of the Kingdom for the Hebrew people.
And the Door of the Dispensation of the Kingdom is Christ in His Second Coming, as the Door of the Dispensation of Grace is Christ in His First Coming. Christ is the Door.
And now, through that Door, during the Dispensation of Grace, millions of human beings have been entering. And that same Christ, the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, who is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in His Second Coming will be the Door for the Dispensation of the Kingdom and for the establishment of the Kingdom of God on Earth. And all those who will be transformed and raptured in the Last Day will enter through that Door: the wise virgins will enter with Him to the Marriage; and then the Door for the gentiles will be closed, and then the Door for the Hebrews will be opened28</sup>; and thus the Hebrew people will enter through that Door under the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
Now, the Door, Christ, closes for the gentiles very soon, when Christ finishes doing His work of intercession in Heaven; which will occur when every last one of God’s elect, who have their names written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, enters; when every last one enters, then Christ finishes His work of intercession in Heaven.
And in the messenger in which He will be manifesting Himself on Earth in the end time, in the Last Day, will change there. And His Work that He has been doing as the Lamb of God and as High Priest in Heaven, making intercession for all of us and for those who have departed in past ages and for those who are yet to come; after His work is finished, He will manifest Himself in the same messenger that is in the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone.
In that messenger in whom He will be manifesting Himself and calling and gathering His last elect (of the Last Day), to form the Age of the Cornerstone, the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple; then, when He finishes His work of intercession in Heaven, through that same messenger through which He has been reflecting and making known what He is doing in Heaven…
Just as He has been making known in every age the Work of Intercession in Heaven; thus also, through His Angel Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone and the Dispensation of the Kingdom, He makes known to us what He is doing as Intercessor in Heaven. And then, when that Work is finished, Christ changes His ministry; and He manifests that change of ministry in His Angel Messenger; and there He changes from Lamb to Lion and from High Priest to Judge of all the Earth.
And just as He, through His messengers —including the messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone—, has been making known the Work of Redemption, the Work of Intercession that He has been carrying out in Heaven, where He has placed His Blood of Redemption upon the Mercy Seat of the Temple that is in Heaven; then He will be making known to us what He will be doing as Judge of all the Earth.
And all that will be manifested in Heaven, from the Throne of God (in which there will no longer be Blood, because Christ will have already finished His work of intercession), and all that will be spoken by God in His Temple in the Most Holy Place, there from His Throne: will be transmitted to the Church of Jesus Christ and also to the Hebrew people, and also to the human race, by Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, in His manifestation through His Angel Messenger; because He will place that Word in His Angel Messenger, and He will speak everything that Christ places in His mouth, but the revelation will be from Heaven, from the Throne of God, Christ bringing it.
The Angel of the Covenant, the Angel that was different from the rest, the Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven in Revelation, chapter 10, verse 1 and on, with His face like the sun, wrapped in a cloud, that is the Angel that brings the revelation to His Angel Messenger, to the Angel Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone; and through the Angel Messenger is made known, all that revelation is made known to the Church of Jesus Christ first of all, and it’s also preached to all human beings and also to the Hebrew people.
See where Christ makes that change of ministry: it’s in the messenger that He will have in the Last Day; and therefore, through that messenger Christ will continue His Work, His Work of the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
But that Angel Messenger is not the Lord Jesus Christ; he is only the instrument of the Lord Jesus Christ for the manifestation of the Lord Jesus Christ of this Last Day, where Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be manifested as He has promised. And that will be the Angel Messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ that in the Last Day will be adopted, and together with him the elect of the Last Day.
That is the messenger that will obtain the victory, because Christ in him will be the one that will obtain the victory and will give that victory to all of us; and it is the Victory in Divine Love. And therefore, in that Angel He will place the Name of God and Name of the City of our God and His New Name. Revelation, chapter 3, verse 12: “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out of thence (or shall go out no more); and I will write upon him the Name of my God, and the Name of the City of my God, which cometh down out of Heaven from my God, and my New Name.”
That Angel Messenger is the one that receives the Coming of that Stone, of that little white Stone, with a new name written.29 That Angel Messenger is the overcomer of the Last Day, of the seventh millennium, which receives Christ in His Second Coming, and therefore receives Him with a new name; and therefore Christ will be manifested in His Angel Messenger with a new name.
And Christ, notice, just as two thousand years ago, manifested in human flesh, in the veil of flesh called Jesus of Nazareth, He was as the Lamb of God…; but although He was there as the Lamb of God, we find that it was at the end of His ministry in human flesh that He carried out the Work of Redemption as the Lamb of God on Calvary’s Cross, it was at the end of His ministry. And at the end of the ministry of Christ, we find that the Work of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Work of Reclamation, will be fully carried out, and the dead in Christ will be resurrected in eternal bodies, and we who are alive will be transformed.
And there we will have the results of the Work of the Lion of the tribe of Judah, our beloved Lord Jesus Christ in His Second Coming, with a new name that no one knows but he who receives it: He who receives that little white Stone, he who receives the Second Coming of Christ.
And then he reveals it to his age, to the elect of his age, who will have the understanding of the soul and of their whole being opened, because through that manifestation of Christ the understanding of all of God’s elect will be opened; and no one will force them to believe, for they themselves will see, understand, comprehend and believe from the depth of their soul, because the mystery of the Coming of the Lord for the Last Day will be opened to them as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work.
And on that Work which he will carry out depends the Church for this Last Day, for her transformation (for those of us who live), and for the resurrection in eternal bodies of the saints who have departed in the past ages.
That is why the hope of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ to reign with Christ for a thousand years and for all eternity, having eternal bodies, is deposited in the Second Coming of Christ, which is for the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who live; after having received the First Coming of Christ and His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross as the Lamb of God.
We are living in a very important time, parallel to the time of the First Coming of Christ and the Work of Christ as the Lamb of God.
John the Baptist presented Him as the Lamb of God, although He had not yet done the Work of the Lamb of God. He will soon finish the Work of Intercession in Heaven as High Priest, and will become the Judge of all the Earth and Lion of the tribe of Judah, and will make the reclamation of all that He has redeemed with His precious Blood.
There are countless purposes in His First Coming and also in His Second Coming; and all are involved in the purpose and purposes of the First Coming: all are involved in the Work of Redemption, the Work carried out by Christ on Calvary’s Cross.
And now, for the redemption of our physical body, the Second Coming of Christ is required in His Work as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work.
We are living in this time where an intertwining is taking place: A dispensational intertwining, an intertwining of dispensational Message also and an intertwining of the Work of Christ as Lamb and Lion; and an intertwining of the mortal and the immortal, because in this time is where eternity is intertwined with time, to pass us to eternity; and thus to be transformed, we who are alive, after the dead in Christ are resurrected; and after 30 to 40 days of being in that new body and having a manifestation in all His fullness of God in us, in His Church, under the direction of Christ through His manifestation in the ministry relevant to this Last Day in His Angel Messenger: Christ will be shaking this world, with the things that He will do when the dead in Christ resurrect and we who are alive are transformed.
That is the adoption for all the elect of God. And when we are adopted, an adopted child of God is placed to administer his Father’s business; just as Jesus, when He was adopted, was seated at the right hand of God to administer the business of our heavenly Father.
And now, Christ will adopt one of His children in this end time; and all the messengers of the seven ages will also be adopted, with the groups of the seven ages; but since they already ministered in the time that they were allotted to live in, the ministry relevant to the Last Day will be the ministry of the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the ministry of the Angel of Jesus Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone, which will be adopted: both the ministry and the Angel of Jesus Christ, and as the group of that age, all the elect will be adopted.
And under the ministry of Christ through His Angel, Christ will realize all the things that He has promised, those that pertain to the time of adoption, as well as those that pertain to the time before the adoption, are fulfilled by Jesus Christ through His Angel Messenger, who comes giving testimony of all these things that must happen in this end time30</sup>; because Christ places in the mouth of His Angel Messenger, of that son of Jesus Christ, He places His Word, to make known all these things that must happen soon, in this end time.
And now, an adopted son is one who is placed as administrator of all the goods of his father. And Christ said, speaking of the faithful and wise servant who will be living in the end time when his Lord comes, He says [Matthew 24:46]:
“Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.”
Find him doing what? Giving spiritual food to the Church of Jesus Christ in the age relevant to the Coming of the Lord.
“Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing (and His Coming is for the Age of the Cornerstone).
Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.”
For what? To administer them.
Luke also speaks to us of that faithful and wise servant, and presents him as the faithful and wise steward. Chapter 12, verse 37 and on, it says, of Luke:
“Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not (in other words, the Second Coming of Christ).
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 (that is, the Message, the spiritual food, of that time)?
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.”
In other words, Christ will have in His Kingdom a person who will be in the administrative part; that will be the faithful and wise steward or faithful and wise servant, to whom His Lord will place him over all His goods.
Christ, in Revelation, chapter 3, verse 21, said:
“To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”
In other words, in the same way that God did in Heaven with Christ: by seating Him on His Throne, now Christ will do with the faithful and wise servant by seating him on His Throne. And what is the Throne of Christ? The Throne of Christ is the Throne of David.
And now, on that Throne of David, Christ will sit with Him the faithful and wise servant, who will be the faithful and wise servant who will be in the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone, giving the spiritual food pertaining to the Last Day; pertaining to the seventh dispensation, the Dispensation of the Kingdom, and Age of the Cornerstone, and seventh millennium.
That is the spiritual food for the seventh millennium and for the Dispensation of the Kingdom. No one had been fed with that Food before, because that is the Food represented in the hidden manna that was in the most holy place.
And because the Church of Jesus Christ has passed in the Last Day to the Age of the Cornerstone…; and the Age of the Cornerstone represents the Most Holy Place of the Temple of God in Heaven, and of the temple that Solomon built and of the tabernacle that Moses built; and in the tabernacle of Moses was, in the most holy place, inside the ark of the covenant was the manna hidden in a golden vessel.
And now, the hidden manna represents the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ. It is the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ the hidden Manna, the hidden revelation, the hidden spiritual food of the past ages and of all human beings, to be given to God’s elect; and first of all it is given to the Overcomer, to the Angel Messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone: he eats it, and also shares it with God’s elect in the House of God, in the Church of Jesus Christ, in the Age of the Most Holy Place, the Age of the Cornerstone. That is our Food for this end time.
And that faithful and wise servant is the one who will obtain the fulfillment of that promise of Christ: “I will give him to sit with me in my Throne; even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in His Throne.” Therefore, Christ, just as when Jesus Christ ascended to Heaven, and sat at the right hand of God in Heaven, and received a new name, the Overcomer receives a new name also. That new name is “the Name of God, and the Name of the City of my God, and my New Name,” says Jesus Christ.
And that same faithful and wise servant is the one who also receives the promise: “To him that overcometh will I give authority over the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; and they shall be broken as the vessels of a potter, even as I also received of my Father.”31
That same authority that Jesus Christ has received from the Father when He sat in Heaven, now He grants it, in His Millennial Kingdom, He gives it to the Overcomer: to His Angel Messenger; and He also gives Him a new name: His New Name, the New Name of Jesus Christ, which is the Eternal Name of God and Name of the City of our God; and He gives Him the authority to rule, to govern, on this Earth. For we are kings and priests, therefore, we will reign with Christ for a thousand years and then for all eternity; because the Kingdom will be given to the people of the saints.32
And now, see how the same thing that God did, the Father did in Heaven, on His Throne, sitting on His Throne the Lord Jesus Christ when He ascended victorious; now see how Christ in His Church, His Temple, He also places here His Angel Messenger, in the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the Age of the Throne.
And the human throne of the Lord Jesus Christ will be the Overcomer, the faithful and wise servant, and He will seat him upon the literal throne, which is the Throne of David, of which Luke says, chapter 1, verses… This is the Archangel Gabriel speaking to the virgin Mary; Archangel Gabriel says to the virgin Mary… Chapter 1, verse 30 and on, it says, of Luke:
“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.”
His father will give Him the Throne of David; and that is the Throne where He will seat the Overcomer, His Angel Messenger, in the glorious Millennial Kingdom.
Now, you see that this is the same thing that God did with Jesus Christ when Christ ascended victorious. He died, but He resurrected and ascended victorious; and He received a new name, and He also received authority and power; and all power and authority was given to Him in Heaven and also on Earth.33
And now, Christ will give authority to the Overcomer here on Earth over all nations, because Christ received that authority when He ascended to Heaven; and now He will give it to the Overcomer, for that glorious Millennial Kingdom.
And Christ, just as He received a new name, He gives a new name to the Overcomer: He gives Him the Name of His Father, and Name of the City of our God, and New Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. In other words, that glorious Millennial Kingdom of Christ will be under the Dispensation of the Kingdom with a new name: The Eternal Name of God and New Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, we can see that what the Father did in Heaven, in the Temple which is in Heaven, is the same thing that Christ does in His spiritual Temple, His Church, and it’s the same thing that Christ does in His Millennial Kingdom; just as God did with Jesus Christ when He ascended to Heaven victorious.
But these things couldn’t be understood by the people of the time of Jesus, while Jesus was here on Earth in human flesh. And even for the disciples of Jesus Christ it was difficult for them to understand those things, until after Pentecost; from the Day of Pentecost onwards, God opened to them all that Program and all that Christ would be doing in Heaven sitting on the Throne of God.
And now, God for this end time, see what Christ will be doing in His Church: He will be carrying out the Work relevant to this end time; and then He will be establishing His Millennial Kingdom on this planet Earth, after the great tribulation.
Now, we have seen: “THE WORK OF THE LAMB AND THE WORK OF THE LION.”
In the Work of the Lamb we have already seen the entire Program that has been carried out; and for the Work of the Lion we have seen that there are great promises, great blessings, to be fulfilled; but there is an intertwining from Lamb to Lion.
And Jesus Christ our Savior, who is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord or Yahweh or YHWH, in His manifestation in human flesh two thousand years ago was carrying out the Work of the Lamb of God. And for the Work of the Lion it’s required that He be again on Earth manifested in human flesh, for that Work that He will do on Earth —just as He did that of the Lamb— to produce in Heaven the benefits for all of us.
Now, for this end time we find that the one who was the Lamb two thousand years ago in human flesh is the one who for the Last Day will be manifesting Himself as the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
Now, in Revelation, chapter 5, we have there a mystery; chapter 5, verse 5 to 6 (or 7), it says:
“And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof (the elder announces to him the Lion of the tribe of Judah).
And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.”
John turned to see the Lion that was being announced to him by the elder; and when he looked, what he saw was a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes. The seven horns and seven eyes are the seven spirits of God that travel throughout the Earth,34 in the manifestation of the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church, where Christ through each angel messenger was manifested illuminating His Church, giving Light to His Church, and thus carrying out the Work pertaining to the seven stages of the gentile Church.
Now, the Lion that is announced by the elder is the Lamb Himself.
Now, when He takes this Book… Remember, the elder says it’s a Lion, but John the apostle says it’s the Lamb. Well look, it’s not a literal lamb nor is it a literal lion: it’s our beloved Lord Jesus Christ in Heaven taking the Book of Redemption, the Book that contains the names of all of God’s elect, of all those redeemed with the Blood of Jesus Christ; it’s Jesus Christ taking the Lamb’s Book of Life, it’s Jesus Christ taking the Title Deed of the Heavens and the Earth, to make His claim.
And now, in Revelation, chapter 10, verse 1 and on, it tells us:
“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 (see, He comes with the little Book of the Seven Seals already open),
And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth…”
And why does he roar as a lion? Because He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah for His Reclaiming Work; because He comes to reclaim all that He has redeemed with His precious Blood: to reclaim all those who have departed and resurrect them in eternal bodies, and to transform each one of His elect who are living on this planet Earth, on this Earth, in the stage relevant to this end time. And now, it says that He cried out as when a lion roars. Why? Because He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
“…and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.”
The Seven Thunders is the Voice of Christ, the Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven wrapped in a cloud; and He comes with the little Book open in His hand and comes with the rainbow around His head, that is, with the Covenant; and He places one foot on the sea, the right foot, and the left foot on the earth; and He cries as when a lion roars, because He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
And now, He roars and seven thunders utter their voices, and John was forbidden to write what the Thunders said; because the content of those Thunders is 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 Reclaiming Work. And, that mystery, the Church of Jesus Christ of the past ages couldn’t know it yet, because the mystery corresponding to the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church, to be made known to the Church, was the mystery of the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world.
And now, for the Last Day, for the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, the mystery that Christ will be revealing to His Church will be the mystery of His Second Coming as Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work. And that mystery is the content of the Voice of Christ, the Voice of the Seven Thunders.
Christ speaking in the Last Day reveals to His Church the mystery of His Coming. He reveals to His Church His Coming to His Church in the Age of the Cornerstone, veiling and revealing Himself in and through His Angel Messenger; but His Angel is not the Lord Jesus Christ: he is only the veil of flesh of the Lord Jesus Christ for His manifestation of the Last Day. And that is the mystery that caused silence in Heaven when that mystery was opened in Heaven, in Revelation, chapter 8, verse 1 to 5.
And now, that mystery is the one that Christ will be fulfilling in this end time. And we are the ones who will be receiving the benefits of His Second Coming in His Reclaiming Work as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Work. And then the Hebrew people will also receive the benefits of His Second Coming, because they rejected Him in His First Coming.
And His Coming had to be the Coming of the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, in human flesh: in a man of the Hebrew people, born in the midst of the Hebrew people; which was fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth, but who was born in Bethlehem of Judea. It had to be, His Coming, the coming of a man, of a prophet; which was fulfilled in Jesus.
And now, the Church of Jesus Christ has been waiting for the Second Coming of Christ for approximately two thousand years. And the Hebrew people are also waiting for the Coming of the Messiah, the Coming of Christ; and they didn’t recognize: they didn’t recognize Him in His First Coming, but in His Second Coming they will recognize Him; and they will see the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, manifested in the Last Day in human flesh, carrying out the Work of the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the King of kings and Lord of lords, and they will also see Him as Judge of all the Earth.
That is the mystery that the Hebrew people will receive; they will see it and believe it with all their hearts, 144,000 Hebrews, who will follow the Lamb wherever He goes.35 And when the Lamb becomes the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the 144,000 Hebrews will follow Him also; as will the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s elect, God’s firstborn.
We have seen the mystery of THE WORK OF THE LAMB AND THE WORK OF THE LION, the Work of the Lamb of God and the Work of the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
The Hebrew people are waiting for the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Coming of the Word in human flesh; in other words, they are waiting for the coming of a prophet in whom God is manifested and is fulfilling His promises for the Last Day. That will be the Coming of the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, in the Last Day.
In the book of The Seals, page 277, he says:36
“[391]…may the Holy Spirit come down now, the white-horse Rider, while His Spirit, Spirit of Christ, in the face of antichrist, and call His Own.”
Who is the white horse Rider of Revelation 19? It’s Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, in Holy Spirit; here, you see, the Holy Spirit, who is Christ, is the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, verse 11 and on.
And now, Christ in His Coming as the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, verse 11 and on, will be seen on Earth.
And now, how will Christ be seen, in that manifestation? On page 256 of the book of The Seals says, which is the one we are reading, (the book of The Seals, preached by Reverend William Branham by divine revelation in the year 1963), says:37
“196 But when our Lord appears here on earth, He’ll be riding on a snow-white horse. And He’ll be completely, fully, the Emmanuel, the Word of God incarnate in a Man.”
If we find that man, we will find the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh in a man of this end time; who has to be, by obligation, the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and the prophet messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone.
And now, see what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said that the Coming of Christ will be, the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19: It will be the Coming of the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, manifested in a man of this end time. But that man is not the Lord Jesus Christ; that is another man, a man of this end time.
It also says, on page 146 of this same book of The Seals, that for this end time there will be the antichrist and Christ will also be here on Earth; because this is the time where the antichrist will be manifested in all his fullness. And that will be the devil, the spirit of the devil manifested in a person, in a man of this end time: and it will be the beast, the man of sin, the antichrist.
But for this end time Christ will also be on Earth manifested in human flesh, in a man of this end time. See how Reverend William Branham explains it here: on page 146 of the book of The Seals, he says:38
“402 And at the same time that this devil falls out of Heaven and becomes incarnate in a man (that is, in the antichrist, in the beast), the Holy Spirit goes up and comes down in carnate men.”
Therefore, on this Earth, for the Last Day, for the end time, we will have the incarnation, on the one hand: of the devil in the antichrist, in the man of sin; and on the other hand, on the side of the Church of Jesus Christ, of God’s elect: we will have the Holy Spirit incarnated in a man of this end time, in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ, as the Angel Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone and of the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
Now, we can see that in the incarnation of the devil there will be a man on Earth where he will be incarnated, and that will be the false prophet, the antichrist, the beast; and on the side of the Program of God with His Church, we will have the Spirit of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Angel that was different from the rest, manifested in human flesh, the Holy Spirit incarnated in a man, in a prophet: the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And we will have the true prophet of God with the incarnation of the Word, the Word, the Holy Spirit in him; and on the other hand we will have the false prophet, the antichrist, the beast, the man of sin, where the devil will be incarnated. And thus we will have Life and Death manifested in human flesh on Earth in the Last Day; and thus, God’s elect of this Last Day, will be following the Word, the Word, which will be manifested that Word, the Word, the Angel of the Lord, through human flesh; but mankind, for the most part, will be following the devil incarnated in the beast, the antichrist, the false prophet, which is 666.
And by that time there will come a time, already at the end, where there will be a squeeze. And the devil incarnate in a man will rise up against Christ incarnate in another man. And this will be the fulfillment of Revelation, chapter 17, verse 11 and on, where it says:
“And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.”
Now notice that the Lamb, which is Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, will overcome the beast and the ten kings who will give their power and authority to the beast, and they will be —those ten kings with their nations and armies— the instruments of the devil incarnate, and they will rise up against Christ, against the Second Coming of Christ.
And now, they will fight against the Lamb, that is, against Jesus Christ, who will come at the Last Day and will be manifested in human flesh in the midst of His Church; but the Lamb will overcome them, because He is (what?) King of kings and Lord of lords.
He is King of kings and Lord of lords because He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah; and as Lion of the tribe of Judah, He is King of kings and Lord of lords; and He will have all authority and power in Him to obtain the Great Victory in Divine Love in this end time.
And now, we can see that there will be a squeeze. Also, in Revelation, chapter 19, verse 19 and on, it says:
“And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.”
See? Here we have more light, more apocalyptic explanation, of how it will be that the beast will rise against the Lamb and will make war against the Lamb.
That war that he will make (“will fight against the Lamb”), that war that he will make will be using those ten kings and the armies of those ten kings; but the Lamb, Christ, will obtain the victory; because He comes with “a name that no one understands but Himself; and His Name is: The Word of God”; in other words, it is the Name of the Angel of the Covenant, of the Angel of the Lord. It is the Name of the Word and, therefore, it is the Eternal Name of God; because God placed His Name in His Angel, it says in Exodus, chapter 23, verse 20 to 23: “Provoke Him not; for He will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in Him.”
And now, Christ will overcome them. See, the antichrist, the beast, with those ten kings and their armies, will make war against the white horse Rider of Revelation 19 and against those who follow the white horse Rider of Revelation 19.
But those who follow the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, in the Last Day will be transformed, and we will have the new body, and we will be adopted; and those who have believed and have followed Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, during the seven ages of the gentile Church, will be resurrected in eternal bodies and will be following this white horse Rider of Revelation 19.
“And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.”
Now, we can see how the Work of the Lion of the tribe of Judah will be, of Jesus Christ in His Second Coming, in His Reclaiming Work, for the resurrection of the dead in Christ and for the transformation of us who live.
And now, we are the most privileged people of all who inhabit this planet Earth, because we are the ones who will be seeing Jesus Christ as the Lamb manifested in His Angel Messenger, and then Jesus Christ manifested as the Lion of the tribe of Judah; because there, in that manifestation through His Angel, is that He makes that change on this planet Earth.
And He, when He comes out from the Throne of Intercession to make the claim and manifest Himself in all His fullness by adopting His Angel Messenger, and all the elect of this Last Day (who will be hearing the Voice of Christ through His Angel Messenger), and resurrecting the dead also, in Christ, of past ages; see, Christ through His Angel Messenger will be carrying out the Work relevant to this end time.
And we are the privileged people; just as the saints who lived in the days of Jesus were privileged, and they were the disciples of Jesus Christ, who saw the Work of Christ as the Lamb of God. And although, while they were with Jesus… Him being in human flesh in their midst, He was the Lamb of God, although He had not yet done the Work of the Lamb of God dying on Calvary’s Cross.
And for the Last Day we will have the Angel of the Covenant, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh in the midst of His Church; and He is the Lamb and He is also the Lion of the tribe of Judah. And although He has not yet resurrected the dead in Christ and has not yet transformed us who are alive, He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah, in the ministry of the Last Day, where the change is, from Lamb to Lion and from Priest to Judge; in order to carry out all that He has to carry out so that the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the glorious Millennial Kingdom of Christ is established on this planet Earth; and for the divine judgments, the plagues, to fall upon the empire or kingdom of the beast in this end time; and for the restoration of the Hebrew people in the Kingdom of God, and the Kingdom of God in the midst of the Hebrew people; and the restoration of every son and daughter of God to eternal life, that is, back to the Garden of Eden: with eternal life, with an eternal body; and thus to be during the Millennial Kingdom as Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden.
Now, we can see that this is the greatest and most glorious time of all times, where those who will be transformed and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven would be living in this end time, in this Last Day, which is the seventh millennium, in which all these blessings must be given to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And even with all that manifestation of the Lord Jesus Christ in His Angel Messenger, he is not the Lord Jesus Christ; but in him would be the Lord Jesus Christ, manifested first in His work during the end of the Dispensation of Grace, and for the beginning of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, where that change from Lamb to Lion and from High Priest to Judge of all the Earth would be manifested, in THE WORK OF THE LAMB AND THE WORK OF THE LION.
“THE WORK OF THE LAMB AND THE WORK OF THE LION,” the Work of the Lamb of God and the Work of the Lion of the tribe of Judah.
And now, where are those who would be seeing this manifestation of Christ in the Last Day? Well, here we are, seeing what Christ is doing in the midst of His Church in this end time; where the stage of the Church, the final stage of the Church, which is the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, is being fulfilled in Latin America and the Caribbean; where He is revealing the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Seventh Seal revealed through His Voice: His Voice of and as seven thunders speaking to us consecutively, directly to the soul, all these things that must come to pass in this end time, and thus revealing to us the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work.
May all the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, who is also the Lamb of God, be upon all of you and upon me also; and may soon the number of God’s elect be completed, and soon the dead in Christ be resurrected in eternal bodies and we who are alive be transformed; and after 30 to 40 days, taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
It has been a great blessing and privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, giving testimony of THE WORK OF THE LAMB, that is, of the Lamb of God, AND THE WORK OF THE LION, of the Lion of the tribe of Judah, which is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
In the afternoon, already at 3:00 in the afternoon, I will be with you again; and the subject of the afternoon will be: “THE GUIDANCE OF THE DOVE AND THE STRENGTH OF THE EAGLE.”
The Dove is the Holy Spirit, it represents the Holy Spirit in His manifestation during the Dispensation of Grace; and for the Last Day He will be manifested also, and He will be manifested as Eagle. And there we will have the revelation of how the Dove manifested Himself in the stage of the Lamb and how the Eagle manifests in the stage of the Lion. That will be for the next activity today, at 3:00 in the afternoon.
What time do we have over there? We have a recess. So, before 3:00, I will already be with you here; that is, I will already be with you: I will already be there in the little room, I will be…, before 5 minutes I will already be there with you (the time it takes me from here to there), and I will already be there waiting for you. I will be studying, and then I will be here, in the pulpit, making known to you all that God will give me for you in relation to THE GUIDANCE OF THE DOVE and of THE STRENGTH OF THE EAGLE; so we all can see this mystery of the Dove and the Eagle, and obtain the blessings of the Dove and also of the Eagle in this end time.
May God continue to bless you all, may God keep you; and Felix Caro with us again for a hymn and then be dismissed in prayer.
May God bless you and keep you all.
“THE WORK OF THE LAMB AND THE WORK OF THE LION.”
1 Genesis 14:18-20
2 Genesis 18:1-8
3 Exodus 3:1-6
4 Luke 1:17
5 Second Kings 2:9
6 Exodus 3:6
7 First Corinthians 6:7
8 Deuteronomy 18:15
9 Deuteronomy 18:18-19; Acts 3:23
10 Luke 23:21; John 19:6
11 Galatians 3:16
12 Genesis 22:18
13 Acts 15:14
14 Matthew 4:4; Luke 4:4; Deuteronomy 8:3
15 John 6:53
16 Matthew 3:11; Luke 3:16
17 Matthew 11:1-5; Luke 7:18-22
18 John 3:26-30
19 Second Corinthians 5:20
20 Matthew 13:10-13; Mark 4:11-12; Luke 8:10
21 Matthew 12:24; Mark 3:22; Luke 11:15; John 8:48
22 John 4:25-26
23 John 10:24-25
24 Acts 2:14-42
25 Acts 10:1-48
26 Acts 13:46-48
27 The Revelation of Jesus Christ – December 4, 1960
28 Romans 11:25
29 Revelation 2:17
30 Revelation 22:16; 22:6
31 Revelation 2:26-27
32 Daniel 7:27
33 Matthew 28:18
34 Zechariah 4:10, Revelation 5:6
35 Revelation 14:4
36 The Seals in English, page 327
37 The Seals in English, page 303
38 The Seals in English, page 173