The human being facing the crossroads of life

Good morning, beloved brethren and friends gathered here in Barranquilla, Colombia. It is a great blessing for me to be with you on this occasion, to share with you a few moments of fellowship around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time.

Matthew says, chapter 7, verse 13 to 14:

“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”

May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.

“THE HUMAN BEING FACING THE CROSSROADS OF LIFE.” That is the subject we have for this occasion.

God has placed before the human being life and death; and He has placed the narrow gate and the wide gate: He has placed before the human being the wide and broad way that leads to perdition, and He has placed the narrow way with the narrow gate to enter into that way; and the narrow way and the narrow gate lead to eternal life.

Now, see how God also said in Deuteronomy, chapter 30, about this divine truth; He said something that we can’t ignore: From 19 to 20, chapter 30 of Deuteronomy, it says:

“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”

See, all of us have a part in this promise. Why? Because when God says: “That thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give them,” we also have a part in that promise of that land, because we are going to live where? In Jerusalem. We are going to be kings and priests with Christ, and Jerusalem is the capital; therefore, that is a territory where we will be with Christ. Why? Because we are Abraham’s seed, we are Abraham’s descendants through Jesus Christ.

And many people thought that Jesus Christ had no children. What happens is that Jesus Christ has perfect children, and therefore He doesn’t bring them through the union with a woman, but He brings them by divine creation; those are the most perfect children of Abraham that have appeared on this planet Earth.

And now, notice why we will be in the land of Israel reigning with Christ over the Hebrew people and over all nations.

And now, see how, as God places life and death before the human being, the wide gate and the narrow gate, the broad way and the narrow way, we find that the human being having free will has to make his choice. And he that is of God: hears the Voice of God,¹ and enters through the narrow gate: he walks the narrow way all the days of his life; and that is the way that leads (where to?) to eternal life.

See how also in chapter… Let’s see in Proverbs, chapter 15, verse 24; it tells us:

“The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath (Sheol: hell).”²

And notice, now, the path of life, which way is it? Upward. Therefore, you see, when Christ resurrected and ascended to Heaven, He ascended where? Upward.

And now, notice how in chapter 14 of John, Christ speaking, says:

“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.

Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.”

Now see how Jesus Christ is identified here as the Way, as the Truth and the Life; for He is the Way of Life. And the way of life is upward; that is why all who have taken the way of life, will go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, upward, to the House of our heavenly Father.

And when a person has taken the way of life, if his physical body departs, if his physical body dies: He goes upwards, he goes to the sixth dimension, which is a dimension above this earthly dimension in which we live.

But you see, the human being, since he has free will, it is up to him to say “yes” to the way of life, or to say “no.” Either he takes the way of eternal life, which is Christ; or he takes the way of death, which will lead him to hell.

And now, see how God through the prophet Isaiah, and also through the prophet Jeremiah, speaks to us about the way, and tells us… Let’s see through the prophet Jeremiah, in chapter 21 and verse 8 (it is one of the places that speaks to us)…, and also in chapter 6 also speaks to us. Chapter 6, verse 16, it says:

“Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls…”

This is God’s recommendation; but what happens? Many have said as follows:

“…But they said, We will not walk therein.”

These are those who reject the good way.

And now, Christ is the Good Way. The way of Christ, which is the way of faith in Jesus Christ as our Savior, is the good way that leads us (to where?) to eternal life; it leads us to the House of our heavenly Father with eternal life; and we will be living for all eternity with an eternal physical and glorified eternal body, and with a theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension, eternal as well. That theophanic body of the sixth dimension resembles our physical body, but it is of another dimension.

And see how since the Old Testament, God is promising that good way, to walk in that good path that He would open for the human beings, both for the Hebrew people and for all human beings among the gentiles.

It says in chapter 21, verse 8, of Jeremiah:

“And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.”

God places the way of life before the human being; but the way of death is also before the human being.

Whoever doesn’t take the way of life, will automatically be walking on the way of death; because there are only two paths for the human being to walk on; and the person is either walking on one or on the other; he can’t walk on both paths at the same time.

Now, we have to see how God opens the way: As He opened the way in the Red Sea back then, He opened the way for the Hebrew people to pass through, so God opens the way for His people. God tells us that He makes that way.

God also through the prophet Isaiah spoke to us about life and death, and the way of life and the way of death. Let’s look at some portions here: Chapter 30, verse 21 of Isaiah, it says:

“And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.”

See how God has placed the way before the human being, so that the human being may live in the path of God. God is the one who has done this miracle of giving us the good way; and the Good Way, now we can see that it is Christ.

And faith in Christ, serving Christ, having washed our sins in the Blood of Christ and having received His Holy Spirit, and walking in Christ and His Program, that is, notice, to be where? In the good way, in the way that leads where? To eternal life.

There is no other way that leads to eternal life, but Jesus Christ our Savior, who said: “I am the way, the truth and the life; and no one comes to the Father but by me.”³ Those are the words of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

And now, in Luke, chapter 13, it tells us about the way of life and the narrow gate also. Chapter 13, verse 22 and on, it says… let’s see, 22 to 30 it says:

“And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.

Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,

Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:

Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.

But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.

There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.

And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.”

Now see how Christ here teaches us (to what?): We must enter through the narrow gate before the Father of the Family closes that gate. And Christ is the Door. And every person is required to enter through that narrow door: by receiving Christ as our Savior, washing our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit; because a time is coming when that door will be closed.

The Door of Grace will be closed, and it will no longer be effective to receive Christ as our Savior, to wash away our sins in the Blood of Christ and to receive His Holy Spirit.

Why? Because Christ will have already left the Throne of Intercession in Heaven and there will be no more callings nor will there be any more mercy extended to the human race; because Christ will no longer be in the Place of Intercession in Heaven, upon the Mercy Seat there in Heaven.

And when in the temple built by Moses and the temple built by Solomon, there was no blood on the mercy seat at the time for that blood to be there, what happened? It was a throne of judgment. But if the blood was placed, of the atonement, there on the mercy seat, it was a throne of mercy.

And so it is on the Throne there in Heaven, on the Throne of God there in the Mercy Seat or Seat or Chair of Mercy: While the Blood is there (the Blood of Christ our Savior, the Lamb of God, is there), and Christ as High Priest making intercession with His own Blood: it is a Throne of Mercy; but when Christ finishes His work of Intercession there in Heaven as High Priest, making intercession with His own Blood (that will be when the very last of God’s elect has entered, where Christ makes intercession for the last one), when the very last one enters: Christ has already finished His Work of Intercession in Heaven, and then He comes out; as the high priest left after he finished his work of intercession there in the temple that Moses built and the temple that Solomon built.

He had a certain amount of time where the high priest ministered in the most holy place; but then, when he finished ministering in the most holy place, he would come out; and the reconciliation of all the people of the Hebrew people who had taken that time to repent of their sins and mourn for their sins had already been made. And what did it say for the day of atonement, God, there in Leviticus, chapter 23? It says chapter 23, verse 26 and on:

“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.

For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.

And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.

Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.”

That is, from the evening of the ninth day until the evening of the tenth day; and the days begin in the evening. In other words, on the evening of the ninth day, at sunset, the tenth day began; and there began the day of atonement. And from that moment on, those who wanted reconciliation with God, were how? They were afflicted, repented for their sins and weeping for their sins.

It says: “… and ye shall afflict your souls…” It also says:

“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, every person who wasn’t afflicted for his sins, who wasn’t repentant for his sins when on this day the sin offering was offered; whoever wasn’t afflicted for his sins, repentant and confessed his sins over the sin offering, the goat…; well, the high priest, you see, confessed all the sins of the people over the goat.

And now, we find that the people who had been afflicted for their sins, and were repentant, and asked for God’s mercy and reconciliation with God: When the high priest performed this prayer, bearing the sins of the people, there went the sins of all those people who had been afflicted.

And now, notice, when during these two thousand years that have passed (in what remains in this time of mercy), the people who have come afflicted, repentant of their sins to Christ, receiving Him as our Savior, receiving Him as our Atonement for sin: We find that our prayers and our repentance is accepted by Christ; and Christ offers it there before God, and makes intercession for us, and takes away our sins with His Blood, and we are reconciled with God.

That is why Saint Paul said: “Be reconciled to God today.”⁴ That is, it is in the present in which the human being lives, that the human being has to repent of his sins and be reconciled with God. He can’t say: “When I die, I will be reconciled with God”; he has already waited too late.

Saint Paul said: “Be reconciled to God today”; in other words, that today is while the person is living; it is in the present tense. He can’t say: “Tomorrow…,” because the person doesn’t know if tomorrow he will be dead; it has to be in the present.

And that is why God has been calling all those who have their names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life (to what?) to repentance, to be reconciled to God.

The Hebrew people, notice, were reconciled to God on the day of atonement as a nation, on the 10th day of the seventh month, with the sacrifice of atonement. And whoever didn’t obtain that reconciliation, well, he would have a year of serious problems in his life.

And if the Hebrew nation, as a nation, didn’t make that sacrifice and obtain reconciliation with God: What would come to the Hebrew people would be divine judgments during that whole year; “for the wages of sin is death.”⁵

But by means of the atonement, you see, their sins were taken away – they were covered with the blood of the sacrifice, and then God didn’t see the sins of the Hebrew people and their people; and therefore, He sent His blessing to the Earth and to the people.

And now, see how all this was a type and figure of Christ as our Sacrifice, our Atonement. He is our Passover and He is also our Atonement (the atonement of the goat that was carried out on the 10th day of the seventh month of each year).

And now, notice how Christ, just as the High Priest was on the 10th day of the seventh month, entering into the most holy place and offering there that blood of the atonement, Christ has been in the Most Holy Place of the Temple which is in Heaven, and has been there ministering as High Priest of the Order of Melchizedek; because He is that Melchizedek, Priest of the Most High God of the Temple which is in Heaven.

And now see how everything that Christ would do in Heaven, in the Most Holy Place, was reflected in that day when the High Priest entered with the blood of the atonement of the goat into the most holy place, to offer it there to God for the sin of the people, for the sin of the people to be covered.

And now, by the Blood of Christ, being presented in the Most Holy Place there in Heaven, our sins are not covered, but removed.⁶

Now, we can see what a great blessing Christ has been placing upon the souls of human beings who have taken the narrow gate and the narrow way, which leads upward, to Heaven, to our heavenly Father’s House.

And Christ is the Way, and He is the Truth, and He is the Eternal Life; and He is the One who will lead us to live eternally with God in His Kingdom; for He is the Way, the Truth and the Life, and He is the narrow Door.

Christ, in chapter 10 of John, said that He is the Door; let’s see… Chapter 10, verse 1 and on, it says:

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by (its) name, and leadeth them out.

And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.

This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.”

Who is the Door? Our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. He is that narrow Door.

And now, in Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1, we also find that Door open in Heaven, which is Christ Himself; because the Door open in Heaven is the Seventh Seal opened in Heaven.

And now, let’s see how the human being has been for all these two thousand years, from Christ until now, facing the crossroads of life; so that there, facing life and death, the human being —according to the divine teaching— chooses life; for it is God Himself who tells the human being to choose life. See, it says in chapter 30, verse 19 to 20, of Deuteronomy:

“I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live…”

What does God advise? That the person chooses life. And that is the best advice He gives us: that we choose life, entering through the narrow gate, and walking the narrow path that leads where? To eternal life. Because He loves us and wants us to live eternally with Him.

But foolish is he who doesn’t choose the narrow gate and the narrow way, which is Christ, and goes by the broad way and by the wide gate; because he will never reach eternal life; but he, in the path he has taken, that path leads him downward; that is, it leads him to hell and lake of fire, and he will cease to exist in body, in spirit and in soul as well.

That is the path along which human beings normally go. The person being born here on Earth is walking, comes walking, or comes to walk on that path; but there is the opportunity to change the path: to change from the path of death to the path of life, to change from the wide gate to the narrow gate of life.

Now, see how Christ in John, chapter 5, shows us the miracle that happens when a person believes in Christ as our Savior: Chapter 5, verse 24, says:

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”

Why? Because he has passed from the way of death to the way of life; and now he has passed through the door, which is Christ, to the way of life, to walk in Christ in his Christian life all the days of his life. And he is walking in the way of life; and that is why, if the person dies physically, he goes to Paradise to live in his theophanic body, and in the Last Day he will receive the resurrection in an eternal body, and us who live will be transformed. Why? Because it is a promise for all those who would be walking in the path of eternal life, having entered through the door, which is Christ our Savior.

And now, someday that door (which is Christ) and that way (which is Christ), you see, that door will someday be closed. It says in chapter 13, verse 24 to 25 [Luke]:

“Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are.”

The Door, which is Christ, will be that closed Door; in other words, there will be no more opportunity for people to repent, receive Christ as their Savior, and wash their sins in the Blood of Christ; because He will have already left the Throne of Intercession in Heaven, in the Most Holy Place.

Now, we can see that it is very important to enter through the narrow gate and walk in the narrow way: that is receiving Christ as our Savior, washing our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit; and walking in the path of life, in the Christian path, all the days of our life; that is to be walking in the path of eternal life having entered through the door, which is Christ.

And now, in this end time, see how thousands or millions of human beings have entered the way of eternal life through the door of life (which is Christ) and the way of life (which is Christ). Walking in Christ is to be walking in the path of life, the way of Christ, the way of salvation; the Christian way is the way of eternal life.

And now, we can see how we have entered the House of God: We have entered through a door; and that door is Christ, our Savior.

Now, we can see that at the crossroads of the human being in his life, many preferred to walk the broad way, entering through the wide gate; but that way will lead them to hell and the lake of fire. But there is a group that, if we take it from the days of Pentecost until now, it forms millions of people; but each group separated in their age, those will not be so many, compared to the number of millions of people that for each age were living on Earth.

But because the elect of God took the way of eternal life, entering through the door of eternal life, which is Christ: In the Last Day, they will be resurrected in eternal bodies, and those of us who are alive will be transformed; and then we will be millions of sons and daughters of God, with eternal bodies and with eternal theophanic spirits as well.

And we will be on this Earth from 30 to 40 days, before going to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. When we are in the new body then we will see our beloved Lord Jesus Christ in His eternal body also, His glorified body.

Now, we have seen that the Father of the Family, which is Christ in His final manifestation through His faithful and wise servant, at some point will close that Door; as Revelation, chapter 10 says (and also tells us in other places), that time will be no more.

The time for salvation, for redemption will be over; the time to receive Christ as our Savior and wash away our sins in the Blood of Christ will be over. But all the elect of God, who have their names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, will have already entered through the door of salvation, which is Christ, and will be walking in the path of life, which is Christ.

Therefore, if the Door is closed in this end time by the Father of the Family, it will not affect us; because we will already be inside the path of eternal life; we will already be inside the House of God, which is His Church, in the stage that corresponds to us, which is the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone. Through that Door that that House has, is that all the sons and daughters of God would enter, and from age to age they would be fed by the faithful and wise servant, which is the messenger that He has for each stage, that is, for each age.

And for our time He has His Angel Messenger, which is the faithful and wise servant who will be feeding us in the Last Day in the House of God. That will be the Angel Messenger who will be present at the time of His Coming.

“Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.”⁷

In other words, in the House of God, which is His Church, there will be a faithful and wise servant: A messenger who will be present at the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ. And that is the one that has the greatest blessing of all the faithful and wise servants that God would have in His House, in His Church, from age to age.

That faithful and wise servant will be the Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone; and through that manifestation, when the last of the elect (which are called and gathered in this end time, the last elect of God) enters, then the Door will be closed; because the Door can no longer be open when the last of the Family of God has already entered.

This is also shown in Matthew, chapter 25, verses 10 to 13, in the parable of the ten virgins. While five of the virgins (the foolish ones), who had no oil in their lamps, went to buy oil… It says:

“And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came (that is, the Second Coming of Christ was fulfilled)<em>; and they that were ready (those are the wise virgins) went in with him to the marriage (that is, to the union of the Church with Christ; they are united there): and the door was shut.”

What is a marriage? The union of two beings who love each other, the legal union of two beings who love each other; and when they unite, both become one flesh. And there comes the moment where that bride obtains the name of her husband, who was her bridegroom before; and that is where that bride becomes heir with him.

Now, notice how in this parable it shows us that when the Bridegroom came, those who were ready went in with Him to the Marriage, and the door was shut.

The Holy Spirit is the oil in us, and that is the new birth in the person; in other words, the elect of God, the firstborn of God, who have believed in Christ as our Savior, have washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ and have received His Holy Spirit, enter with Him to the Marriage; they hear the Voice of Christ, the Voice of the Bridegroom, and enter with Him to the Marriage, enter with Him to the Age of the Cornerstone, to become joined with Christ in His Coming in this end time, and then go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven.

Now, see all that it entails for the human being to be facing the crossroads of life.

All this, you see, is contained in our subject: “THE HUMAN BEING FACING THE CROSSROADS OF LIFE.”

And it is the human being —because he has free will— who says “Amen” to the Word, or says “no” to it. But God says: “…choose life, so that you and your descendants may live (so that you may live for all eternity).”

“THE HUMAN BEING FACING THE CROSSROADS OF LIFE.”

May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and upon me also; and may He soon last of God’s elect come in; and may we all be transformed when the dead in Christ are resurrected in eternal bodies; and then go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, after being 30 to 40 days here in the new body. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.

Question: Facing the crossroads of life, where are those who have taken the narrow gate and have entered by it, and have taken the way of eternal life, the narrow way? Well, here we are; therefore, we will live for all eternity; therefore, we will be transformed and have an eternal body, just as we have an eternal theophanic body as well.

May God continue to bless you all, and thank you very much for your kind attention; and we will see each other again at the 6:00 or 6:30 activity, in the place that is already assigned. How many know where the place is? Well, the only one who doesn’t know is me. So they will take me there and we will meet again at the place that is already prepared for the evening activity.

May God continue to bless you all, God keep you, and with us again the Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin, who will tell you what tonight’s topic will be. And already with what we have heard on this occasion, we already have a foretaste (right, Miguel?); a foretaste or a preparation, to be able to understand tonight’s topic more broadly, which will be (which one, Miguel?): “LIFE AND DEATH BEFORE THE HUMAN BEING IN THE LAST DAY,” that is, in this time in which we are living.

May God bless you and keep you all.

“THE HUMAN BEING FACING THE CROSSROADS OF LIFE.”