Good morning, beloved friends and brethren present here in Guatemala, Guatemala City, Republic of Guatemala, and to all who are through the internet and any other means of communication. May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon you all and upon me also, and may Christ speak directly to our souls this morning. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
For this occasion, we read in Zechariah, chapter 12, verses 10 to 14, where God tells us through the prophet Zechariah; speaking of this end time, He says:
“And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart;
All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.”
And we also read in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 7, where it says:
“Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.”
Our subject for this occasion is: “THE FULFILLMENT OF THE DAY OF ATONEMENT IN THE LAST DAY.”
In order to understand the fulfillment of the Atonement, of the Day of Atonement in the Last Day, we need to understand what the atonement is in the midst of the Hebrew people, in order to understand the entire Divine Program of the Atonement; so that in the Last Day, the Hebrew people (which appear here in Zechariah, chapter 12, verses 10 to 14), so that the Hebrew people may obtain the Atonement in this end time, and be reconciled with God.
We need to understand one very important thing, and it is that God reflected in and within the Hebrew people —in the people of Israel— what God would do with the heavenly Israel; because we have the earthly offspring of Abraham, which is the Hebrew people, and we have the heavenly offspring of Abraham, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ: The heavenly Israel. Just as the earthly Israel has its capital here on Earth: The city of Jerusalem, the heavenly Israel has its capital in Heaven: The heavenly Jerusalem.
And now, let’s see in the Old Testament all this related to the day of atonement, so that we have a clear picture of the things that happened on the day of atonement. God gave the Hebrew people this feast of atonement; and in chapter 23, verse 26 to 32, we find this feast of atonement; and it says [Leviticus]:
“And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God (What for? For the Hebrew people to be reconciled before God).
For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.”
In other words, it was the day when God received the people, the people were reconciled with God; but notice, they had to be afflicted, that is, to be afflicted for having sinned, to repent of their sins, afflicted in their souls; and thus God would accept that repentance from their hearts. And whoever didn’t do it that way, would be cut off from the people: Whoever didn’t afflict himself, whoever didn’t repent of his sins, feel that remorse, that repentment in his heart.
And now, all this that God shows for the Hebrew people, for the earthly Israel, we find that through the Atonement (which is Christ dying on Calvary’s Cross, just as He is the Passover Lamb, and He is all the lambs and goats and calves that they sacrificed to God in the Old Testament) He fulfilled all those sacrifices; only one man. You see, all those sacrifices were fulfilled in one man.
And that is why God says that He no longer wants the sacrifice of lambs or calves or goats,1 and the blood of animals is an abomination to Him. Why? Because there is a perfect sacrifice: The Sacrifice of Jesus Christ our Savior, the Sacrifice of Atonement, for the reconciliation of every person with God.
And now, see how the Atonement for sin was fulfilled in Christ. Saint Paul speaking to us of this mystery, let’s see what he says in Hebrews, chapter 2, verse 17; he says… let’s see… let’s read a little before that so that we have a clear picture. Chapter 2, verse 9 and on, says:
“But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man (that is, for all us who are alive in this time and those who lived in the past).
For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren…”
He is not ashamed of calling us brethren.
That is why you find in different parables where Christ is presented; and when He speaks of the believers in Him… for example, in the parable of the King judging the nations in chapter 25,2 we find that He, to those He places at His right hand and He says to them: “Enter into the kingdom prepared for you; for I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink” (and He goes on to list all the things they did for Him); those who enter eternal life, there at the Last Judgment, who come out well at the Last Judgment and will receive eternal life, will receive the opportunity to enter eternal life, they say: “But when did we see you hungry and feed you?” (“When did we see you in need, and serve you?”, is what they mean to say). And Christ says: “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of these little ones, even to the least of these my brethren (for Christ is our elder brother, and we are His younger brethren); inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
And now, you see, He is not ashamed to call us His brethren; and we are not ashamed to call Him our elder brother, wherever we are; and we are not ashamed to call one another brethren; for we are brethren, we are the true Family of God, brethren to one another. And that relationship of sons and daughters of God, and brothers and sisters to one another, is greater than the earthly family relationship; because the earthly one ends when people die, but the heavenly one is for all eternity.
Now, we can see that we, well, love our earthly brothers and sisters too, according to the flesh, we love our earthly parents, and we ask God to bless them and to call them and place them in the Family of God, so that they may also be our brothers and sisters in Heaven, heavenly; because we have our earthly family, but we also want them to be of our heavenly Family, which is the one that remains for all eternity.
Now, it goes on to say, let’s see:
“…for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.
And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.”
Now, not only are we brethren but we are also children: Sons and daughters of God through the Work of Christ wherein He produces the new birth; and He who produces the birth is Father; as he who earthly begot us is our earthly father; and through him who begot us is our earthly mother.
And now, Christ is the one who has begotten us, and therefore we are sons and daughters of the second Adam, Jesus Christ our Savior.
“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood (we have come in flesh and blood), he also himself likewise took part of the same (that is, He came with a body of flesh and blood)<em>; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.”
That is why throughout the Scripture, Saint Paul and the other apostles tell us that we are children of Abraham, through faith in Christ; because Christ, having been born among the Hebrew people, is a Hebrew citizen and is the seed promised to Abraham, of whom God said: “And in your seed shall all nations be blessed”3</sup>; and that seed is Christ. He is not speaking of the seeds, but of the seed, speaking of a person, which is Christ our Savior.
Saint Paul also spoke to us about this in Galatians, chapter 3, verse 13 to 16 (later we will continue what he goes on to say in Hebrews); he says:
“Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith (that is, the baptism of the Holy Spirit).
Brethren, I speak after the manner of men; Though it be but a man’s covenant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.”
Now see how Christ is Abraham’s seed and therefore Abraham’s heir, and heir of God. And we, as Abraham’s seed through Christ, are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ Jesus; and therefore we also inherit everything that is Abraham’s. That is why we have the inheritance there in the land of Israel; that is why we are to be in the Millennial Kingdom, in the land of Israel.
“And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise (that is, before God established the Law, give the Law to the people, God gave Abraham the promise).”
And now, Saint Paul himself tells us in chapter 3, verse 6 and on:
“Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.
Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.”
And in chapter 3, verse 26 and on, it tells us:
“For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”
And Galatians 6:15, says:
“For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature (that is, the new birth, which produces in us the New Creation).”
To be born again, to be born in the Kingdom of God (by believing in Christ as our Savior and washing our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit), that is what counts; because that is how the person is born again, born as a son or daughter of God in the Kingdom of God; and thus he or she obtains his or her theophanic body in that new birth; and only lacks the physical and eternal body, which he or she will receive in the Last Day, when the dead in Christ resurrect and we who are alive are transformed; and we will all have eternal and glorified bodies, equal to the body of Jesus Christ our Savior.
It continues, on verse 29 of the same chapter 3 we were reading:
“And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
Here we can see that we are children of Abraham, and therefore we are heirs, too; heirs of God and of all things that God gave to Abraham. And of all things that Christ inherits, we are joint heirs with Him; for we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ Jesus our Lord, says Saint Paul in Romans, chapter 8, verse 14 and on.
Now, it goes on to say, in verse… Chapter 4, verse 6 onwards, it says:
“And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.”
See the great blessing there is for all the sons and daughters of God.
Now, remember that the seed of God (the sons and daughters of God, who are the seed of God), that seed of God is the soul of the person; that is the seed, the offspring, of God. And he has been born here on Earth in a mortal, corruptible and temporary body, and has received a spirit from the world; and that is why he needs the new birth, through Christ, who is our Atonement: To be reconciled with God.
That is why Saint Paul, speaking to us of that reconciliation, in Hebrews, chapter 2, where we will continue reading… We had skipped this chapter that we are reading, we had stopped a little bit. Now, he tells us… let’s read this part, where it says [verse 13]:
“And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.
Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.”
Now see how Christ, being High Priest according to the Order of Melchizedek (for He is that Melchizedek who appeared to Abraham, and gave him bread and wine),4 He is the Priest, the Melchizedek High Priest of the Temple which is in Heaven. And now:
“…and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.”
And there was no blood on Earth, in the bodies of either animals or human beings, to make atonement for our sins. Therefore, God created a body of flesh and blood in Mary’s womb, which we find multiplied cell upon cell: God created the cell of life there, that cell of blood there, in Mary’s womb, which multiplied cell upon cell; and thus the body of Jesus was created, who was born in Bethlehem of Judea; a perfect body, without the intervention of relations of a man and a woman. Therefore, it is a sinless body, and the Blood of that body is the perfect Blood to carry out the atonement for our sins.
And Melchizedek, the High Priest, offered His own body of flesh on Calvary’s Cross for the atonement of our sins; and thus fulfilled the Day of Atonement, wherein the sacrifice of atonement, the goat, was sacrificed, and then its blood was brought into the most holy place by the high priest; which Christ did when He ascended into Heaven bearing His own Blood.
Jesus Christ, as High Priest of the Temple which is in Heaven, entered the Most Holy Place, not with the blood of a little animal, nor with the blood of a man who came through intimate relations of a man and a woman, but through the Blood of a perfect man, that body and that Blood created by God; and therefore a Blood without sin, from a body without sin.
And now, when He appears before the Throne of God in Heaven, the Blood of the Atonement is received and placed on the Mercy Seat, which is the Chair or Seat of Mercy in Heaven; which, in the temple that Moses built and the temple that King Solomon built, is the mercy seat, where the two golden cherubim were.
That mercy seat is solid gold, pure gold, along with the two golden cherubim, and it is the lid of the ark of the covenant. And in the midst of those two golden cherubim was the presence of God in the Light of the Shekinah, the Light of the Pillar of Fire. And upon the mercy seat was that the high priest, with his finger, sprinkled the blood seven times, in the eastern area of the mercy seat; and that was also where God accepted the blood of that atonement.
And therefore, the high priest, in one of his entries into the most holy place…, because he entered a few times during that day, to perform the things concerning the most holy place; he entered one day in the year, but he entered there —on that day— a few times. First he made atonement for himself and for the priests, with the atonement of the calf, bearing its blood and doing the same: Sprinkling on the mercy seat seven times on and toward the east.
And then, we also find that he entered with the correct garments. And when it speaks of the correct garments to enter there, they are linen; and linen represents justification, the justification or justifications of the saints. So he enters there clothed correctly, to carry out the work pertaining to the day of atonement.
We find that the high priest is also the person, the man, who has the Eternal Name of God written on him; and it is written where? On his forehead, on a golden plate, where it says: “Holiness to the Lord.”
And the high priest, when he came out of the most holy place, took off that garment and put on another garment: The garment that was with gold. And when he put on those other garments, he was as the bridegroom there in the temple of God. But when he had to enter into the most holy place, he had to put on other garments: Those that pertain to the work of the most holy place, which are of linen.
And Christ, we find, after making His Sacrifice on Calvary’s Cross…
You see, in the temple, the sacrifice of the goat was made (where?) in the outer court, where it was the place to make the sacrifice and where the altar of sacrifice was, where the sacrifices were burned; and that sacrifice of the goat, after taking its blood and being carried to the most holy place, that goat had to be burned on the altar of sacrifice, which is the brazen altar that was in the outer court.
And now, see why Christ had to come to Earth to carry out His Sacrifice. Why? Because the Temple of God in Heaven has an Outer Court, it has a Holy Place and a Most Holy Place; and that is why He showed the prophet Moses how to make the temple, in such a way that it would reflect, represent the Temple of God in Heaven.
And do you know what the Outer Court of the Temple of God is? It is this earthly dimension. Here, on this planet Earth, we have the Outer Court, and place of the sacrifice of the goat for the atonement, which represents Christ; and that is why He had to carry out His Sacrifice on this planet Earth, the Sacrifice of the Atonement, to atone our sins.
But just as the high priest took the blood of the atonement and passed through the holy place, and then passed into the most holy place with that blood, and presented it before God; you see, Christ passed from the Outer Court, He passed through the Holy Place; in other words, He passed through where the Old Testament saints were, there in Abraham’s Bosom; and when He passed through there, the Old Testament saints were delivered from sin; when Christ already shed His Blood on Calvary’s Cross, they were already delivered from their sin.
And the question is: “And did they have sin?” Of course they did, but they were covered with the blood of the little animals that they sacrificed before God to cover their sins. And those sacrifices and that blood that they offered to God for their sins was type and figure of the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross and His Blood shed on Calvary’s Cross. Therefore, they had the type, that is, the shadow, of Christ and His Sacrifice that He would carry out on Calvary’s Cross.
And with the shadow, notice…
See, you have something written in a place; for example, you write something here</em>; and then you place your hand here, which that light shines upon it; and when you place it here, it covers what is written there. And so the blood of the little animals (which was the shadow) that the Hebrew people sacrificed to God covered, like the Passover lamb and the goat and other sacrifices; that blood concealed, covered their sins, but they were still there.
But when Christ came, it is no longer the shadow that is coming: It is the reality; therefore, the Blood of Christ cleanses the person from all sin.5
And when He carried out His Sacrifice on Calvary’s Cross, all those who had the shadow covering their sins, were freed by the reality: The Blood of Christ taking away sin. They no longer needed a shadow to cover their sin before God, but they had the reality: Christ.
And that is why God no longer accepts any animal sacrifice, because we already have the reality: Christ our Savior and His Blood shed on Calvary’s Cross. He is our Atonement.
And now we can clearly see all this divine mystery that Christ has been carrying out without the Hebrew people realizing it; but they will realize it very soon, and very soon they will awaken to the reality that they no longer need animal sacrifices; and therefore they no longer need an earthly temple to carry out those sacrifices; Christ already has a Temple that He is building, and it is almost finished.
Now, see how Christ through Saint Paul tells us about all this that Christ has done for the benefit of all of us. Let us see where we can find all that Christ has done for us, for the reconciliation of us with God. In Saint Paul’s letters, for example, in Romans, he speaks to us about the Hebrew people; and he also speaks to us in his letter to the Hebrews…
In Romans, see, it says, speaking of the Hebrew people: Chapter 11, verse 25 onwards:
“For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.”
In other words, until every son and daughter of God, every seed of God that has their name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life has entered, until the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is completed. That is the fullness of the gentiles entering; entering into where? Into the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ. And it goes on to say:
“And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.”
In other words, the sins of the Hebrew people are going to be removed; and they are not going to be removed by little animal sacrifices, but through the Sacrifice of the Atonement, through the Sacrifice of Christ, who died as our Atonement, both for us and for the Hebrews.
Now we can see that it is through Christ, our Atonement, that the Hebrew people will also be forgiven, as a nation, for their sin of unbelief; where because of their unbelief they rejected the Messiah in His First Coming and asked for His death. And the guilt of the death of Christ has fallen upon the Hebrew people and also upon the gentiles, upon the kingdom of the gentiles.
And if, because of having rejected Christ and asking for His death on the Cross, the Hebrew people were almost extirpated from the Earth in the days of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin, how will it be for the kingdom of the gentiles, for the kingdom of the gentiles in the Last Day, in the stage of the feet of iron and clay? It will be something terrible, because the divine judgments will fall upon the kingdom of the gentiles, where God will be avenging the Blood of Christ and also of all the martyrs of Christ who have been persecuted and killed during the different stages of the Church of Jesus Christ.
That is why this end time, the Last Day or seventh millennium is also called “Jehovah’s Day” or “Lord’s Day,” which is also “the day of vengeance of our God,” where God will pay each one according to his works; and, consequently, the kingdom of the gentiles will have to face the reality of the day of vengeance of our God.
The kingdom of the gentiles in the Last Day will be in feet of iron and clay, where the antichrist, the man of sin —where the devil incarnate will be— will be taking over and ruling the kingdom of the gentiles.
And the ten kings that appear in Revelation, chapter 17, verse 8 to 17, will give their power and authority to the beast, to the man of sin, to rule; because the kingdom of the gentiles has many problems; and they are looking for a man, because they need a man to rule them, all the gentiles, all the gentile kingdoms; and that man that they will choose, that those ten kings will choose, will be the antichrist.
And for the end time the Coming of Christ will be the solution to all the problems of the human race, and of the Hebrew people and of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. For the Hebrew people it says:
“There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are (very) beloved for the father’s sakes.
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.”
Romans, chapter 11, verses 25 to 29.
There we can clearly see that God will have mercy on the Hebrew people, and will call and gather 144,000 Hebrews, who will see the Coming of the Son of Man, the Coming of the Lord, and will receive Him.
Now, let’s see what will be the Coming of the Lord, the Coming of the Son of Man, for the Hebrew people; because the Hebrew people will be receiving Christ, the Atonement. Let’s see a little bit here, both for the heavenly Israel and for the earthly Israel. In Ephesians, chapter 2, Saint Paul says…, chapter 2; we are going to read from verse 10 and then we will read other verses; verse 10 says:
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”
We are created in Christ Jesus, His workmanship, through the new birth. And then, he goes on to say:
“Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
For he is our peace, who hath made both (of the gentiles and Hebrews) one (and that ‘one’ is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ: the heavenly people, the heavenly Israel), and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:
And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.
For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.”
Because God would be dwelling in each one of His children; and for the Last Day He will dwell in all His fullness in His children. When the dead in Christ resurrect in eternal bodies and we are transformed, there God will be in us, manifested in all His fullness.
Now, look at the great blessing that has been given to us.
In our soul we are reconciled with God; and in spirit also: We have the theophanic body, the body of the sixth dimension, which we have received when we have believed in Christ as our Savior and washed away our sins in the Blood of Christ and received His Holy Spirit; and we only lack the eternal and glorified body, which He will give us in the Last Day, which is the seventh millennium, which has already begun if we add to the calendar the years of delay that it has.
And now you see how we already have the first fruits of the Spirit, of which Saint Paul speaks in chapter 1, verse 13 to 14, of Ephesians; he says
“In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”
That is, until the redemption of the body, that is, until the transformation of our body and the resurrection of the dead in Christ.
In chapter 4, verse 30, he also speaks to us, and tells us:
“And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.”
The Day of Redemption is the Last Day before God, which is the seventh millennium, where we who are alive will be transformed, and the dead in Christ will be resurrected in incorruptible bodies. And that resurrection of the dead in eternal bodies and transformation of us who live is the redemption of the body.
To redeem is ‘to return to the place of origin,’ ‘to the original place,’ ‘to be restored to the original place.’ And the sons and daughters of God will be restored to an eternal and glorified body, the children of God will again have an eternal body. Just as Adam had a body that couldn’t die, unless he took sin; and God warned him: “In the day that thou eatest of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, in that day thou shalt die.”6 If he didn’t eat, he wouldn’t die.
Now, what happened? How was it possible that God, having created a body for Adam, he could fall: eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and die? It is because Adam had not yet been adopted. When adoption occurs, the person enters into total immortality, and there is no place for the person to die.
Now, we have already seen why it was possible for Adam to sin: by taking sin; he took it by taking Eve and doing as Eve told him; he sinned just as Eve had sinned, and so he became mortal; for the wages of sin is death.7
And now, Christ, we find, was adopted on Mount Transfiguration.8 He said: “No man taketh away my life”; and now, He says, inasmuch as He had to die to take away the sin of the world and take away death, He says: “I lay it down for Myself, that I might take it again.”9
Therefore, He didn’t sin, but He took our sins and became mortal; but since He was without sin and had been adopted, we find that in taking our sins and becoming mortal, it would be a temporary death, it would be a death for three days: On the third day He would resurrect His body, and resurrect that glorified body; He would resurrect it glorified, and never die again.
Now notice how in that Divine Program, even being already adopted, we find that it was possible for Him to die; but He couldn’t remain dead for long: On the third day He would resurrect.
And do you know something? That when God’s elect are adopted, we will already be in immortal and incorruptible bodies, never to die. But in Revelation, chapter 11, it speaks of the death of the Two Olive Trees; but notice, it will be like when Jesus died: His body couldn’t remain dead for long (why?) because He had already been adopted. The devil tried to kill Jesus on many occasions, before Jesus was adopted; but because there was no sin in Jesus, he couldn’t kill Him, He couldn’t die: He always escaped him.
Now, for the Last Day there will be the death of the Two Olive Trees, but by that time the adoption of the sons and daughters of God will have already taken place; therefore, where the ministries of the Two Olive Trees will be, the adoption will have already taken place. That is why it speaks to us that after three and a half days they will arise; the Spirit of Life will return, and they will ascend to Heaven.
Now we can see that this has to do with Moses and Elijah, with the ministry that goes to the Hebrew people to call and gather 144,000 Hebrews, for them to be reconciled with God. And it is through the New Covenant and in the New Covenant, and through the Blood of the New Covenant, that the Hebrew people will be reconciled. That is why they don’t need a temple, nor do they need the sacrifices they used to make, because it will not be through those sacrifices, but through the Sacrifice that was represented in those sacrifices; it will be through the Blood of the Sacrifice of Christ, which was represented in the sacrifice of the goat of the atonement.
And now, when you come to reality, you no longer need the shadow, you no longer need the type and figure. The type and figure is good as long as reality has not arrived. When the reality comes, that which is perfect has come; and that which is in part is taken away.10 And all the sacrifices of the Hebrew people and the temple of the Hebrew people is something in part, which is representing something that would come later on; and when that which is represented in those types and figures arrives, then that which is in part is taken away.
That is why Christ could say that the temple in Jerusalem would be destroyed11</sup>; and everything would be taken away. Even the continual sacrifice that they carried out would be taken away; the sacrifices that they made on the 10th day of the seventh month, the sacrifice of the goat, would also be taken away. Why? Because the perfect Sacrifice was already present there, the perfect Atonement of the Goat of Atonement: Jesus Christ our Savior, who is our Atonement.
He is our Atonement; therefore, we don’t need other sacrifices; we are under the Blood of the Atonement, the Blood of the New Covenant.
And now, let’s make a review here, a little bit: Romans, chapter 5, so we know where we stand. Chapter 5, verse 10 to 11, it says (even a little bit before) [verse 8]:
“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him (we shall be saved from the lake of fire; and we who are alive in this time shall be saved from the day of vengeance, where the wrath of God will be poured out).
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.”
Just as the Hebrew people were reconciled through the blood of atonement on the 10th day of the seventh month; now we have been reconciled through the Blood of Jesus Christ shed on Calvary’s Cross, and placed (where?) in the Most Holy Place of the Temple of God, upon the Mercy Seat of the Temple of God in Heaven.
Now, we have seen that the Temple of God has an Outer Court, which is this earthly dimension; it has a Holy Place, which is the sixth dimension; and it has a Most Holy Place, which is the seventh dimension, where God is, the dimension of God. And that is where Christ entered with His own Blood, as High Priest, to make intercession for each one of us, for each one of the people whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life since before the foundation of the world.
Let’s move on to another passage of Saint Paul, let’s see; Colossians, chapter 1, verse 20 to 21, let’s see what he says there; chapter 1, verse 20 to 21, it says:
“And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled.
In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister.”
We have seen that it is through Christ that we have been reconciled with God.
And now, Second Corinthians, chapter 5, verse 18 to 20, says… Let’s see here a little before that: Chapter 5, verse 17 onwards, of Second Corinthians, it says:
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.”
And now, we are seeing what this reconciliation with God is, in THE FULFILLMENT OF THE DAY OF ATONEMENT IN THE LAST DAY.
We are seeing how millions of people have been being reconciled with God from among the gentiles and also from among the Hebrew people, as individuals; because God, for the Last Day, will deal with the Hebrew people as a nation, where He will call and gather 144,000 Hebrews; but during these seven stages or ages of the gentile Church He has been dealing with gentiles and also with Hebrews as individuals, calling them and gathering them into His Church, His Mystical Body of believers, and thus reconciling us with God.
And now, for the Last Day, which is this time in which we live, the seventh millennium: After the Mystical Body of Christ is completed, which is the Mystical Body of those reconciled with God through the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross, then God will reconcile to Himself the Hebrew people, through the Blood of the New Covenant; and through the Blood of the New Covenant, of the Sacrifice of the Atonement that was made on Calvary’s Cross; and God will confirm the Covenant to the Hebrew people, that New Covenant, in the seventieth week, the second part of the week, so that they enter under the New Covenant, under the Blood of the Atonement.
That is why they will recognize the Atonement, which is Christ; and in His Coming in the Last Day they will recognize His Second Coming, and then they will understand what His First Coming was.
Now we are going to see on page 128, 129 and 130 of the book of Quotations, what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, the Reverend William Branham, says. On page 130, verse 1153, he says:12
“…the ministry will be (of) Moses and Elijah, changing and calling Israel from the Jewish traditions, listen, from the Jewish traditions that they had been mixed up in. Being prophets (Moses and Elijah), they’ll believe—they’ll believe him, calling them to the feast of the Atonement (and the Feast of the Atonement is Christ and His Sacrifice on Calvary’s Cross), Christ, letting them recognize Christ. They’ll say, ‘He is coming. He’ll be here.’ The Jews will be gathering, things like that. And then when He comes, say, ‘Here I am.’”
Now notice what the Atonement for the Hebrew people received on the Last Day will be: It is the Second Coming of Christ, which will be recognized by the Hebrew people; and then He will place them under the New Covenant, under the Blood that He shed on Calvary’s Cross; and then they will recognize that they missed the First Coming of Christ, but they will be reconciled with God.
God deals with the Hebrew people as a nation. That is why He will call and gather 12,000 from each tribe, and that is all Israel; all Israel, that is, those who have their names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. That is why they will enter under the New Covenant and be reconciled with God.
And now, notice, it will not be through the ministry of one of the angels of the seven ages of the gentile Church…; they all tried to convert the Hebrew people to Christ…; Saint Paul tried; and he went to Jerusalem on one occasion, and they stoned him (was it in Jerusalem, Miguel, that they stoned him, Saint Paul?) And well Saint Paul died, for he says that he went up to Heaven, to the third Heaven; and then, as his time was not yet fulfilled, God sent him down again, and he told all that he saw there13</sup>; and he saw things which eye had not seen nor ear heard, and which it was not lawful for man to speak to the people at that time.
And now, you see, Saint Paul tried to convert the Hebrew people to Christ, and so did Saint Peter and the apostles, but they couldn’t. Why? Because it was not the time for that. Because when Christ died on Calvary’s Cross, the seventieth week stopped, therefore, the dealing of God with the Hebrew people stopped; and God began to deal in a new dispensation, calling as individuals from among the Hebrews a people for His Name14 (in other words, individuals to form the Church of Christ).
And then He moved on to the gentiles. He began in the house of Cornelius,15 and then sent Saint Paul to the gentiles, and the Dispensation of Grace was spread among the gentiles, God calling a people for His Name, that is, calling the sheep that are of another fold.16 They are not from the Hebrew fold, but from the fold among the gentiles, to form the Fold of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Flock of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is His Church.
Now… [Bro. Miguel: In Lystra he was stoned, in Lystra.] In Lystra17</sup>; that was then among the gentiles, it was among the gentiles then. But among the Hebrews, see, Saint Paul entered there to the temple among the Hebrews, with his head shaved; because he was trying to do something in favor of the Hebrew people, but there he had problems too (I don’t know if they took him prisoner or something happened there).18
So Saint Paul had trouble trying to bring the Gospel to the Hebrew people, to convert the Hebrew nation to Christ, but he couldn’t; but from among the Hebrews many were converted to Christ as individuals and became part of the Church of Christ: They were converted to Christ through the ministry of Christ through Saint Paul, and through the ministry of Christ through Saint Peter and the other apostles.
But you see, Christ is —from among Hebrews and gentiles— calling a people to form – calling individuals to form His Flock, His Church. And this heavenly Israel, you see, is composed of Hebrews and gentiles, and it belongs to Heaven. It is the heavenly Israel.
And now, let’s see what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ continues to tell us… On page 129, in verse 1149, he says:19
“From the seventh angel’s (messenger of the Seventh Seal) Message in Revelation 10, was the Seventh Seal, to the Seven Trumpets, between those two times… O God, how can we say This, to make the people see It? It’s between that Sixth Trumpet, and the Sixth Trumpet and… The Sixth Trumpet and the Sixth Seal sounds at the same time. And between the Sixth Trumpet and the Seventh Trumpet, there is a prophet to appear before the Gentiles, to call the people back to the original pentecostal Doctrine; and the two witnesses of Revelation 11 appear to the Jews, to send them to Jesus, while the Church is being taken up. All of them, prophets! Amen! The Word of the Lord cannot be broken. It won’t be a denomination! Do you see it? Read in your Book here and see if that between the Sixth and Seventh Trumpet isn’t injected in there, let the Jews being called out between the Sixth and Seventh Plague, we come over to that hundred and forty-four thousand (you remember that?), which was between that. Do you remember? Between the—the—the Sixth, the Fifth Seal and the Sixth Seal… Between the Sixth Seal and the Seventh Seal, there was a calling out of the hundred and forty-four thousand. You remember that? Now there is where these trumpets come in right there…”
And if we continue to verse 1150, it says:
“Now, as soon as this Church… / …that mystery of the Seventh Seal, or the Seventh Seal, the mystery of going. And the Jews is called by the mystery of the Seventh Trumpet, which is two prophets, Elijah and Moses…”
What is the mystery of the Seventh Trumpet? It says: “And the Jews are called by the mystery of the Seventh Trumpet, which are Moses and Elijah.” That is the mystery of the Seventh Trumpet.
That is why the Seventh Trumpet of Revelation, chapter 11, verse 15 and on, is sounded by (who?) Moses and Elijah, the ministries of Moses and Elijah. That is the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet of First Corinthians, chapter 15, verses 51 to 55; and First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verse 13 to 17. That is the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet or Trumpet of God: It is the Voice of Christ through the ministries of Moses and Elijah speaking the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom.
“…and they come back. And there is where the Pentecostals is all mixed up; they’re looking for something to happen; the Church is done gone. And that’s to the Jews. Now, I feel in somebody’s mind, saying, “That couldn’t be Moses.” Yes, it is.”
And now, we continue reading verse 1151, and it says:
“And the seventh angel’s Message, under the same Trumpet, same everything exactly, the same Seal, is to (what?) call the people, the Bride, out of the Pentecostal and world tradition, to the genuine Atonement, the Word, Christ impersonated in His Word here, made flesh among us.”
In other words, the entire ministry of the seventh angel messenger of the seventh gentile Church age, as forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, is to bring the people of God, the Church of Jesus Christ, to Christ in His Second Coming. He is the Word.
And we continue reading in verse 1152:
“He said, at… ‘The Great Trumpet would sound. The Great Trumpet!’ Not Trumpets now, feast of trumpets; there is two of them, Moses and Elias, to call the Trumpet. But, under ‘the Great Trumpet,’ the Coming of the Lord, to announce Joseph returning, see, that all nations would assemble at Jerusalem. Amen. You find that in the Book of Isaiah. I just give it to you, a while ago, one of those chapters we read; that’s in Isaiah 18:1 and 3. And in Isaiah 27:12 and 13, is where He sounds that ‘Trumpet,’ and all of the nations will recognize Israel in her homeland, God with her. Then the Bride will come to be with the Bridegroom, and the Bridegroom with the Bride; and then the great Millennium, after the whole world is destroyed by atomic power. And there will be ‘a new heavens and new earth,’ shall live forever.”
Now see that there will be a destruction with atomic power, which is already stored in those atomic bombs, nuclear bombs, that different nations have.
Now we can see something very important here, in this Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet, which is the Seventh Trumpet sounding. And now, let’s see what the Seventh Trumpet is.
Remember that this is very important to know, so we can understand this mystery of what the Seventh Trumpet is. The Seventh Trumpet for Israel and the Seventh Seal for the gentile Church is the Coming of the Lord.
It says, verse 1145 on page 128 of the book of Quotations:
“Notice (…) The Seventh Seal; the Seventh Trumpet to the Jew.”
What is the Seventh Seal for the gentile Church? The Second Coming of Christ; and for the Jews it is what? The Seventh Trumpet.
And now, in paragraph 1143, it says:
“Under the Seventh Trumpet, is to Israel the same as the Seventh Seal was to the Church.”
What was the Seventh Seal for the Church? The Second Coming of Christ. What is the Seventh Trumpet for the Hebrew people? The Second Coming of Christ.
On page 130, verse 1164, it says:20
“Remember, that, ‘They which are alive and remain shall not hinder those which are sleeping, for the Trump of God, that last Trumpet (and that last Trumpet is which one? The Seventh Trumpet)…’ The sixth one has just sounded. And that last Trumpet, like the last Seal, will be the Coming of the Lord. ‘It shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.’”
And then what will happen? Well, we who are alive will be transformed. On page 149 of the book of Quotations, verse 1333 also tells us:21
“Remember, that, ‘They which are alive and remain shall not hinder those which are sleeping, for the Trump of God, that last Trumpet…’ The sixth one has just sounded. And that last Trumpet, like the last Seal, will be the Coming of the Lord. ‘It shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.’ Just resting till that time.”
There we have what is promised to happen in this end time. Also on page 47 and 48 of the book of Quotations, it also tells us something, and it tells us… let’s see what it tells us here. On the 47th, verse 402, it says:22
“‘For we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, down here, shall not prevent or hinder those which are asleep.’ Them precious ones that sealed their blood… sealed their testimony with their blood (that is, those who departed). ‘Not prevent or hinder those that are asleep, for the trumpet will sound.’ Something will take place, ‘the Gospel something will sound (‘the Gospel something will sound,’ that is, the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet will sound), the announcing of His coming.’”
Now, the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet sounding, what will it be announcing? His Second Coming. The Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom proclaiming, revealing, the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, and showing what the Second Coming of Christ is.
And now, let’s see…, let’s see a little bit here too: On page 46, verse 399, it says:
“Now, 1914, the world went to a war, and they have never been at peace since; constantly swinging in, swinging in, swinging in, and they’re doing the very same thing yet. And what was they doing? ‘Holding!’ (that is, holding back those four winds, so that a Third World War doesn’t take place) O God, have mercy! Holding that great thing that I saw in the vision (the whole thing become to destruction), holding the atomic (that is, holding back that atomic war)…”
That is what will cause that big explosion over North America, where our brother Branham saw in that vision, heard an explosion in North America, and when he looked back he saw North America in smoke, craters and big holes over the Earth. That is that atomic war where North America will be greatly affected. He says:
“…(the whole thing become to destruction)…”
And he says that – he says:
“Holding that great thing that I saw in the vision.”
It was when he looked to the East, too, that all that happened. And in the message “The Gap,” let’s see something here, let’s read a little bit here. He says that God was speaking to him while he was driving his car, he was traveling from one state to another, Billy Paul was with him (his son), he was sleeping. It says, page 32 and 33 of the message “Standing in the Gap” in Spanish, verses 139 onwards, it says:23
“139 Now, and as Billy and I started on down the road, see, started going on down the road, Billy went to sleep again. And It said (that is, God, the Angel of God), ‘I’ll give you an everlasting sign.’
140 And I said, ‘Lord, what…’ (in other words, he was surprised; He is going to give him an everlasting sign there). I waited a little bit and nothing happened. I said, ‘What is the everlasting sign, Lord?’ And I waited a few minutes. And just then I looked over to see Billy; he was asleep.”
See that while all this of this eternal sign is being spoken by God, by the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant that accompanied him, Billy, his son, is asleep; he is not aware of what is happening, he is not aware of what the Angel is speaking to Elijah.
“141 And He said, ‘I’ll give you an everlasting sign,’ again. He said, ‘Look westward from where you’re at.’”
That eternal sign would be, would be for which part? For the West.
The West is also the place where the most holy place of the temple that Moses built and the temple that Solomon built was; and Christ is building a New Temple. And where was the Name of God in the temple? In the west, in the most holy place, where the Angel of the Covenant was, the Angel of the Lord in the Light of the Shekinah.
God commanded Moses to build a house (for what?) for God, a house where God would place His Name; and also Solomon built a house for God, where God would place His Name; and Jesus Christ has been building a House for God, where God would place His Eternal Name. And if He was in the west in the house that Moses built, and in the west in the house that Solomon built, where will He be in the House that Jesus Christ will be building? Well, in the West also, in the Most Holy Place.
And in the construction of the Church of Jesus Christ, we have seen that He began to build from East to West; and that is why we can see Jesus Christ moving from the Middle East: The land of Israel, passing through Asia Minor, passing through Europe and North America, building His House, His Church.
Asia Minor, Europe and North America, and part there also in the land of Israel, where He built a part of His Church, we find that it pertains to the Holy Place of that spiritual Temple of Christ.
And now, He goes to Latin America and the Caribbean for the construction of the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple, where He will place His Eternal Name; because it is in the most holy place where the Eternal Name was; and it is in the most holy place where the high priest, who was the man who had the Eternal Name of God written on his forehead, on a golden plate, entered there, into the most holy place, where the Eternal Name of God was in the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, which was on the mercy seat, in the midst of the two golden cherubim.
Now look where the Name of God was there: In the midst of the two golden cherubim; in the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, in that Light of the Shekinah.
And now, a man enters, in whom the Eternal Name of God is written: The high priest. For the Last Day, Christ, just as He has been entering into His Church from age to age, in the stage of the Holy Place: He has been entering from age to age in His manifestation through each angel messenger; for the Last Day Jesus Christ, the High Priest, enters into the Most Holy Place, builds the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple and manifests Himself in the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple.
And Christ will be there as High Priest, ministering in the Most Holy Place; because in the Most Holy Place, which is the Age of the Cornerstone, no other person can minister, unless it is the one who has the ministry for Christ to minister as High Priest in the Most Holy Place.
Two sons of Aaron entered into the most holy place in the time of Moses, and died there in the most holy place. They entered with their own censers, to present a strange fire to God, and died.24
Only the high priest could enter with the golden censer, with the fire of the altar of incense, and placing in the censer (and there, upon the fire of the censer), placing what? The fist full of incense, emptying that fist full of incense that he carried, throwing it there; and there it was set on fire – the incense with the fire, and then that cloud of smoke of incense rose up from the censer, which… In the most holy place, where the high priest entered with the censer, and placed the incense inside the censer, that cloud of smoke rose up and covered the mercy seat.
The prayers of the Hebrew people were offered there, for the reconciliation of the Hebrew people with God; and there was where the presence of God was manifested and shined forth. And Aaron didn’t die: He had to enter as God commanded. If he entered there, at the end, without the censer, he had to die there in the most holy place.
In other words, the stage or Age of the Most Holy Place, the Age of the Cornerstone, is the most delicate age of all ages. No one can minister there, except Christ through His instrument for that age; no one can come with strange fire, with a contrary revelation or with a revelation that the person has, to minister. That is why God has given us His Word for the Age of the Cornerstone, and it has been recorded in videos and in booklets and on tapes; and it is thus taken to the people; and thus the people receive it as it has been given in the Age of the Most Holy Place.
God told the prophet Moses that from between the two golden cherubim, from upon the mercy seat, He would speak to him all things for the Hebrew people. In other words, God would speak to Moses. Moses was the one who had the dispensational ministry, a dispensational prophet. A dispensational prophet would be the one that God would speak to from the mercy seat, in the midst of the two golden cherubim.
Exodus, chapter 25, verse 21 to 22, says:
“And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.”
In other words, for the earthly Israel, God spoke from the mercy seat, from between the two golden cherubim, to the prophet Moses, all that Moses had to speak to the Hebrew people.
And now, everything that God has to speak to the earthly Israel and to the heavenly Israel, He will be speaking to them from the Mercy Seat, from the midst of the Two Golden Cherubim, from the midst of His spiritual Temple, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And that is why the ministry of Moses is so important in the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ: Because the ministry of Moses obtains the divine revelation for the heavenly Israel and for the earthly Israel, from the midst of the ministries of Moses and Elijah. And it is from there that the Pillar of Fire, the Angel of the Covenant, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, manifests Himself and reveals the whole Message for the earthly Israel and for the heavenly Israel, which is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom.
And that is why it is said in Revelation, chapter 22 and verses 18 and 19:
“For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.”
And who is it that brings the revelation of all things written in this book? The Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, sent by our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
And anyone who takes away or adds to the words of the prophecy of this book, which Jesus Christ gives through His Angel Messenger, is looking for a serious problem with God. To prevent us from having problems, you see, God has given us the Message and it has been recorded: It is recorded in videos and tapes, and no one has to add to it or take away from it.
The opinion of any person trying to interpret what has been said is of no value. God’s elect will not pay attention to it; for they want the pure Message, as it has been given to His Church, in order to have the faith, the revelation, to be transformed and raptured in this end time.
The only one who will have the revelation of all these things that must happen, the revelation that has to be given to the heavenly Israel and to the earthly Israel, will be the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, who comes with the ministries of Moses for the second time, of Elijah for the fifth time and of Jesus for the second time; and he will be ministering in the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of God. Therefore, no one else will have Message there, only Christ through His Angel Messenger.
And that is the Message that the heavenly Israel, the Church of Jesus Christ, will hear, in order to obtain the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ, and thus obtain their transformation in the Last Day, and the dead in Christ to be resurrected. This is how we will be hearing that Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet, the Voice of Christ: Through His Angel Messenger.
That is why in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 10 to 11, it says:
“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day (thus says John the apostle, on what day? On the Lord’s Day, which is the seventh millennium, the Last Day), and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.”
And who is the Alpha and Omega, who is the first and the last? Our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
And in Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1, it says:
“After this I looked (says John the apostle), and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”
What is Christ going to show to those who ascend to where He is in the Last Day? He says He is going to show them the things that must happen. It is the Voice of Christ at the Last Day speaking to His Church all things that must happen.
And now, how did Christ speak to His Church in each age? Well, through the messenger of each age. He always needs to have a man, a prophet on Earth, to —through that prophet— speak to His people: To anoint that prophet with His Spirit and to place in the mouth of that prophet His Word.
That is what the prophet Moses told us about in Deuteronomy, chapter 18, when he said: Chapter 18, verse 15 onwards, of Deuteronomy:
“The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken…”
And why is it that we should to listen to the prophet whom God raises up from among the people? Let’s see why. Verses 18 and on, of this same chapter 18 of Deuteronomy, it says:
“I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth…”
Why do we need to listen to this prophet? Because God places His Word in the mouth of that prophet. That is the only way to hear God in every age and in every dispensation: Through that Word that He has placed in the mouth of that prophet. We must listen to that prophet.
“…and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.”
That prophet will be speaking to the people everything that God commands him.
“And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.”
In the book of Acts, chapter 3, verse 22 to 23, Saint Peter quoting that prophetic passage, says: “I will destroy him from among the people.” “I will destroy him,” that is, He will remove him from the midst of the people and he will lose the right to eternal life; he will lose the right to be part of the people of God.
Now, look at the time in which we are living and the importance of living in this time.
Now, we can see that for this time in which we are living: Just as God spoke through His Old Testament prophets, and through Jesus, and through the seven angel messengers of the seven stages or ages of the Church; for the Last Day He would be speaking to us through His Angel Messenger all these things that must happen soon, in this end time.
Now, let’s see, in Revelation, chapter 22, Christ promised that those who ascend to where He is, He will make known to them all these things that must shortly come to pass. And where are we going to ascend to? We are going to go up to the Age of the Cornerstone; because we no longer have to be in any of these seven ages, because those ages have already been fulfilled.
Christ was in every one of those ages, but He has already come out of all those ages; and now He has ascended to the Age of the Cornerstone. He was manifested in the past ages in His messengers, and for the Last Day He would be manifested in His Angel Messenger in the Age of the Cornerstone.
And that is why for the Last Day He will be making known to us all these things that must happen soon, through whom? Through His Angel Messenger. That is the instrument that He will have for this end time, to make known to us through him all these things that must shortly come to pass, in this end time.
Revelation 22, verse 6 and on, says:
“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”
Why is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ sent by Christ, by our God? To make known all these things that must happen soon.
And Revelation 22, verse 16, we find that Christ reconfirms that He has sent His Angel, and says:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
Who is the Sent One to give testimony of all these things that must shortly come to pass? The Angel Messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ; who was sent to John the apostle in spirit, that is, in theophanic body; but for this end time he is sent to the Church of Jesus Christ in human flesh, to give testimony of all these things that must shortly come to pass, in this end time. And thus the Church of Jesus Christ will obtain the knowledge of all these divine mysteries that must be fulfilled in this end time, and obtain the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ, and His Work of Redemption and His Reclaiming Work, relevant to this Last Day, for the redemption of our body, that is, for the transformation of our body.
We have seen that for this end time, in the Last Day or seventh millennium, the atonement of the goat that the Hebrew people made has been fulfilled in Christ; and the Church of Jesus Christ has been going through her different stages and has been receiving the Atonement: She has been receiving Christ and His Sacrifice on Calvary’s Cross, which is our Atonement, to take away our sins and to be reconciled with God.
And after all that work that the high priest did in the most holy place of the temple of Moses and the temple of Solomon is completed… Christ, in the Most Holy Place of the Temple of God in Heaven, is carrying out that work since He ascended to Heaven; and when He finishes that work, which will be when He finishes calling and gathering all the elect of the Last Day, and the number of the elect is completed, then physically we will also be reconciled.
But first there is – the person has to be reconciled spiritually with God; and that is the reconciliation that has been taking place in all those whose names are written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
And in this end time, well, the last of the elect are reconciled with God. And when every last one of the elect is reconciled, and is thus placed in the Mystical Body of Christ, the work of Christ in Heaven will be finished; and He then leaves from the Most Holy Place of the Temple which is in Heaven, to —on Earth— call and gather the dead in Christ into eternal bodies, and we who are alive: to transform our bodies; and to all be equal to Jesus Christ, with a glorified and eternal body; and thus to be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ all the members of the Mystical Body of Christ; and thus to be fully reconciled all the sons and daughters of God, all the elect of the Church of Jesus Christ.
And then the reconciliation for the Hebrew people will come, the Hebrew people receiving the Atonement: receiving Christ; where they will see Him coming in the midst of His gentile Church and they will say: “This is the One we are waiting for”; and they will receive Him.
And then He will place them under the Atonement, and their sins will be forgiven, and their sins will be taken away; and so they will be reconciled with God. 144,000 Hebrews will receive that reconciliation, 12,000 of each tribe; they will mourn (as…) and lament and be afflicted, as it was on the day of atonement, on the 10th day of the seventh month of every year.
Notice how God will be making that day of atonement a reality for the Hebrew people; the same as He has been doing among the gentiles from age to age, where by the thousands and millions have been coming to Christ through these gentile Church ages; and they are still coming to Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone, and thus receiving the benefits of the updated Day of Atonement in our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, for the benefit of each one of us.
And for the Last Day, you see —as well as for every age—, the atonement of the 10th day of the seventh month has been updated in the Church of Jesus Christ. And soon it will be updated in the midst of the Hebrew people, and so the Hebrew people will receive the blessings of the Day of Atonement.
We have seen this mystery of the Atonement.
Now, being that the Hebrew people will see Christ coming in the midst of His Church, as it appears in chapter 10 of Revelation, look how it is that they will see Him. The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, in the book of The Seals, page 57, says, speaking of the Mighty Angel of Revelation, chapter 10, it says:25
“‘…I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow…upon his head,…’
30 If you notice, that’s Christ, see. Cause, He, in the Old Testament, was called the Angel of the Covenant. And He is directly coming to the Jews now, for the Church is finished.
‘…and his face…as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:’
31 You remember that Angel in Revelation 1? Same thing. Angel is a ‘messenger.’ And He’s the Messenger to Israel. See? The Church has been raptured, see, now, or fixing to be raptured. He comes for His Church. Now watch.
And he had in his hand a little book open:…”
And this Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven, which is Christ, comes directly to the Hebrew people; but He comes for His Church, because His Church has come to its end.
And He coming to His Church will be placing Himself in His Church in the Age of the Cornerstone, entering into the Most Holy Place of His Church. And if He enters the Most Holy Place of His Church, He enters as the high priest entered on the day of atonement; because remember that the most holy place could only be entered on the day of atonement.
And now, the Hebrew people will receive the Day of Atonement, for the Hebrew people the Day of Atonement will be materialized.
And that is why, just as Christ has been in the Most Holy Place of the Temple which is in Heaven, in His corresponding work as High Priest of the Temple which is in Heaven, Melchizedek, which is Jesus Christ; now, for the materialization of the Day of Atonement in the midst of the Hebrew people, Christ has left the Throne of God in Heaven, He has left the Place of Intercession in Heaven (where the Atonement was, the Blood of Atonement, and He ministering as High Priest); and now He enters His Church, and enters the Most Holy Place of His Church, and therefore He places His Blood in the Most Holy Place.
We find that the Blood of Christ has been applied in our soul, in our heart. The Blood of Christ being in us, and us being in the Most Holy Place: The Blood of Christ is (where?) in the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple. The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the Blood of Christ through the Holy Spirit manifested in His Church.
The Life of the Blood of Christ is the Holy Spirit; and the evidence that a person has received the Blood of Christ, and it is applied in his or her heart, and has been cleansed from his or her sins, is that the Life of the Blood, which is the Holy Spirit, is in the person.
And now, the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, entering His Church into the Most Holy Place, notice, He is sealing His Church in the Soul, which is the Most Holy Place; just as our soul is our most holy place as individuals, and it is the dwelling place of God. And so the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ is the dwelling place of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, it is the place of the Throne of Jesus Christ in His Church; just as the throne of Jesus Christ in the individual is the soul.
Now, the Throne of Jesus Christ in His Church is the Age of the Cornerstone. That is the Age of the Throne, where Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be manifested in the Last Day: First as High Priest, where He will be calling and gathering His elect, and where He will be carrying out the work pertaining to the Most Holy Place; and after He has finished His work in Heaven, in the Most Holy Place, He will manifest Himself in all His fullness in the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple, for the reconciliation of the Hebrew people with God.
The Hebrew people will see Jesus Christ, the High Priest Melchizedek, ministering in the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple, for the reconciliation of the Hebrew people with God, where 144,000 Hebrews will be called and gathered.
Now, we have seen that Christ enters the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple for the reconciliation of the Hebrew people with God; it is from there that the Hebrew people will see the manifestation of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, in the Last Day.
It is in the New Temple —which is the Church of Jesus Christ—, in the Last Day, where Christ will be manifested, revealed to His Church and in the midst of His Church, and to the Hebrew people; and that is where He will place His Name.
And in the manifestation of Christ through His Angel Messenger we will have the manifestation of the Eternal Name of God. That is where all the Program that is in the Most Holy Place of the Temple which is in Heaven, and in the most holy place of the temple that Moses made and the temple that Solomon made, which was a reflection of what is in the Temple of God in Heaven, is materialized; and Christ materializes all of that in His spiritual Temple, in His Church.
We have seen how Christ has been fulfilling in His Church and materializing in His Church everything that is in Heaven, and these feasts that Christ gave to the Hebrew people.
We are living in the most glorious time of all times, where the Day of Atonement for the Church has been fulfilled from stage to stage, from age to age, until our time; and for this end time, for the Hebrew people it will also be materialized, Christ entering into His Church, into the Most Holy Place of His Church, and ministering there, as High Priest not only of the Temple which is in Heaven but also of His spiritual Temple, which is His Church.
And for that He will have an instrument on Earth, to —through him— minister in the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple all that is required so that we may be transformed in this end time, and so that the dead in Christ may be resurrected in eternal bodies, and all may go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, to Heaven, to the House of our heavenly Father, and the 144,000 Hebrews may be reconciled with God.
All this is under the mystery of the Day of Atonement, which for this Last Day is fully materialized for the benefit of the Hebrew people. But remember that during all this time from Christ until now, the Day of Atonement has been fulfilled in the midst of the Church; where Christ has been as the high priest was inside the most holy place: Christ has been in the Most Holy Place of the Temple of God in Heaven; but when the high priest came out and finished his work in the most holy place, there the people were fully reconciled to God, because the work of the day of atonement had already been done. And when the Work of the Day of Atonement is finished in Heaven, all of God’s elect will have been reconciled, not only spiritually, but physically as well; and the stage for the Hebrew people to be reconciled with God will enter.
We have seen THE FULFILLMENT OF THE DAY OF ATONEMENT IN THE LAST DAY, for the Church of Jesus Christ and also for the Hebrew people. We have seen how the entire Program of the Day of Atonement culminates.
May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, our Savior and our Atonement for our reconciliation with God, be upon you all; and may the benefits of the Work of Christ, the atoning Work of Christ, be upon you and upon me also; and may we all soon be transformed, and be in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ our Savior; and may the dead in Christ also be resurrected in eternal bodies, in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ our Savior; and may we be taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, to Heaven, to the House of our heavenly Father. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
It has been a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you of “THE FULFILLMENT OF THE DAY OF ATONEMENT IN THE LAST DAY.”
In the next activity in the afternoon, if God allows us to continue the reading, we will continue it, from these pages 32 and 33; because, see, we started but we didn’t finish. And I can do nothing, but only what He guides me to do; in the way He guides me, that is how I have to do.
There is a great mystery here; but He passed me through countless Scriptures; He passed me, from what I was reading, to other Scriptures; and I can do nothing there. But here is the mystery of that vision that our brother Branham had of the… the vision of… the seventh vision, of the great explosion; and the mystery of the eternal sign is also hidden there. And the eternal sign there, that eternal sign is shown on a mountain with seven hills or seven mountains, seven peaks.
And let’s leave it there. On some occasion we will speak to you – I will be speaking to you, about what is there. I have been speaking about this since 1974, but I have never been able to speak so clearly.
And now I thought it could be spoken clearly, and I still haven’t been able to. But I can do nothing. But there is an eternal sign there; and it is to the West, from where a white horse Rider comes, which is the Rider of Revelation (chapter what?) chapter 19; and that is the Word coming incarnate in a man.
Well, let’s leave that alone. There in the West is the eternal sign, and there is a Rider coming from the West. So let’s leave that alone there; because in that Rider – that Rider is the one that comes with a name that no one understands, and that is the Eternal Name of God. And all that was reflected in the past; it comes in a divine train of thought up to Revelation, up to this end time, where those divine prophecies are materializing.
We are in the time where that eternal sign will be seen materialized in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ and where everyone will be able to read what God said was an eternal sign.
Well, let’s leave it there. In the afternoon we continue with the subject… (What is the subject of the afternoon, Miguel? It is the Trumpet of the Jubilee). Let’s see how we have it here: “THE WORK OF THE GREAT TRUMPET OF THE JUBILEE.” And the great trumpet of the year of jubilee was sounded on the day (what?) of atonement. So we will continue on that same day, speaking of this trumpet.
And if God allows us to see under the sound of that trumpet all that is in these two pages… The greatest part of this message is in those two pages; and it is there, but that mystery has to be completely opened in order to be understood; but the mystery is there; but even though it is there, it is veiled, it is hidden right there. Anyone reads it and even if they read it, they don’t understand.
Well, let’s leave that there… It is that all revelation has to come through (what?) a prophet messenger for the age and dispensation in which God has that revelation to be made known. But if you find the messenger for that time, then you obtain the revelation that God has for that time.
Well, we already know what age we are in and how to obtain all the revelation that God has for us for this end time; so we have no problems. And we know that we can’t receive the revelation from anywhere else, but through the right channel.
It’s like saying: “On such and such channel are going to be broadcasting such and such program.” And somebody else will say: “No, if I… my TV has more channels, why am I going to put it on that channel? I’m going to listen to another channel.” But he is not going to listen to what is being broadcast there.
And so it is from age to age: God has a channel for every age. And God’s television is always a prophet. And it’s… You channel it there: “I’m going to channel 1: I’m going to listen to Saint Paul.”
Through the first channel, which was Saint Paul, the channel through which God transmitted His Message for His Church for the first age, we heard the Voice of Christ through Saint Paul. And for the second age, then, we hear the Voice of Christ in channel 2: through Irenaeus.
Each person has to tune in well to the channel and hear through that channel, for the age in which he or she lives. If he or she tunes in and tunes in to another channel, he or she is tuning in to another age and he or she will hear what is for another age; and those who had to hear for that other age, have already heard it and left, and are waiting for the resurrection.
Now, we have seen through the different channels what God has transmitted through His messengers: Through His channels, on the television of God, ministry of God, of Christ, of the Holy Spirit, through the different ages.
And for our time, we have already seen that God has already transmitted through seven channels, seven angel messengers; and now He transmits for the Last Day, according to His promise, through channel 8, which is the only one left. And eight speaks of eternity; therefore, what He will be transmitting will be something eternal, something that will be for the Millennium and for all eternity. That is why the Message of Christ, of God, will be the Message, the Eternal (what?) Gospel.
Well, we have no place to stop; but we are going to pause, we are going to pause to continue in about 1 or 2 hours, depending on the time Miguel will give us for a break. I don’t know if he will give us time for lunch; but he will at least give us a recess, to have something to drink; and then to come back with more – with new strength, and continue listening to the Voice of Christ in the channel that pertains to our time; and in the eighth age, the Age of the Cornerstone; and Dispensation of the Kingdom, which is the seventh dispensation.
Well, let’s ask that Miguel come over here and continue with us.
I’m going to leave the little book here; because if God moves me again to take it out, I will take it out and we will talk there, read what is in there, and then we will see a little bit of what that means for our age, the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the Age of the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ.
When Elijah looked to the East he saw the crematorium. When Elijah in the vision of the explosion turned around, which way did he look? When he looked to the East in that vision, there he was seeing what was happening in North America. When Elijah looks to the East, where 144,000 are waiting for him, something is going to happen over there.
Well, we are going to leave, because if not, we are going to speak even about the eternal sign; and the two activities will be joined, the morning and the afternoon; and afterwards, instead of giving you a break to have lunch, it would be to have dinner and then stay at home. As for me, I don’t have any problem, but there are little children that you have to feed; and maybe you resist a little bit, but it is good to feed the little children.
So we are going to take a break so that you can stretch a little bit and also drink something, some food; and then we will come back, to continue with what God has for us under the subject: “THE WORK OF THE TRUMPET OF THE JUBILEE.”
And there we will see what the Trumpet of the Year of Jubilee will tell us; because that Trumpet has to tell us everything we need for our return to our inheritance and to our heavenly Family.
See all that it has, the mystery of the content of the sound of that Trumpet. When the people heard that trumpet sounding, it was announcing the total deliverance, to each one return to his family, and to his land, and to his inheritance. And we have to leave here soon for our heavenly Family; because we have a feast there that they have prepared for us, and they are waiting for us to arrive there. So we are not going to get very settled here on Earth, we have to be ready to leave very soon.
So be ready, because soon we will go to the House of our heavenly Father, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Well, may God bless you and keep you, and with us again Miguel Bermudez Marin. May you all have, may you all continue to have, a day filled with the blessings of Jesus Christ, our Atonement.
“THE FULFILLMENT OF THE DAY OF ATONEMENT.”
1 Psalm 40:6, Hebrews 10:5-6
2 Matthew 25:31-46
3 Genesis 22:18
4 Genesis 14:18-20
5 1 John 1:7
6 Genesis 2:17
7 Romans 6:23
8 Matthew 16:1-8; Mark 9:2-8; Luke 9:28-36
9 John 10:17-18
10 1 Corinthians 13:10
11 Matthew 24:2; Mark 13:2; Luke 21:6
12 The Feast of the Trumpets – July 19, 1964
13 2 Corinthians 12:2-4
14 Acts 15:14
15 Acts 10:1-48
16 John 10:16
17 Acts 14:8-20
18 Acts 18:5-21
19 The Feast of the Trumpets – July 19, 1964
20 Broken Cisterns – July 26, 1964
21 Broken Cisterns – July 26, 1964
22 The ten virgins, and the hundred and forty-four thousand Jews – December 11, 1960
23 Standing in the gap – June 23, 1963
24 Leviticus 10:1-2
25 The Seals in English, page 70