Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present. It is a great blessing and privilege for me to be with you tonight here in Quito, Ecuador, to share with you a few moments of fellowship around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time.
For which we have the topic: “THE LIMIT OF GOD’S PATIENCE: THE CLOSED DOOR.”
Now we are going to see throughout the Scripture this limit of God’s patience, which is the closed door. When the door is shut, that is the limit of God’s patience.
We read in Romans, chapter 9, verse 17 to 23, where it says:
“For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
This Scripture speaks to us of vessels unto dishonor and vessels unto honor, and shows us that for the prepared vessels of dishonor and for dishonor is that the wrath of God is prepared; but God has had patience with the vessels of wrath (for what?) to make room for His mercy to be manifested in the vessels of honor, which are the people whose names are written in the Book of Life in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, to receive Christ as their Savior, to wash their sins in the Blood of Christ and receive His Holy Spirit, and thus obtain the new birth; and thus the mercy of God to be manifested in those people who obtain that blessing from God.
And now, you see, God’s patience is for salvation. He has had patience with the vessels of wrath, upon whom the wrath of God will be poured out; He has had patience for the salvation of God’s elect, to make room for the vessels of honor, so that they may have the opportunity to obtain salvation.
In First Thessalonians, chapter 5, verse 1 and on, Saint Paul says:
“But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.”
That is, whether the physical bodies of the children of God have died or whether we are still alive in these physical bodies; whether we sleep…, because the saints don’t die, but they sleep; because the saints have eternal life when they have received Christ as their Savior, therefore they don’t die, but they sleep; they go to Paradise in their theophanic body that they have received when they were born again, and they live there, in Paradise, which is a dimension of peace and divine love; they don’t have the problems that we have in this earthly dimension.
In that sixth dimension, which is Paradise, there are rivers, there are trees, there is grass, there are birds, there are animals too, and there is peace and tranquility and divine love. The saints go there, who have believed in Christ as their Savior, have washed their sins in the Blood of Christ, and have received His Holy Spirit; and therefore, they have a theophanic body of the sixth dimension. It is also called, in the Bible, the Angel of the Lord, who encamps around those who fear Him and defends them.1
Remember when Peter was in prison, and the Angel of God freed him from prison and then told him to go to the house where they were praying for him?2 When Peter arrived at the house where they were praying for him, he knocked at the door, and a young woman named Rhoda came out, that is, she went to the door and realized that it was Peter who was knocking at the door.
It is not known if the door had a little door, a small window (as in some places), that they open it, they see who it is, and then they open the door; lest an unknown person comes, and they open the big door without knowing who it is, and it is a thief. And now, in many houses, on the house’s door or the patio, they have that little window. Others have a little hole there, where they have a magnifying glass through which they look and see which person is knocking at the door.
The thing is that on this occasion Rhoda, when she saw that it was Peter, she didn’t open the door because of the joy she had; and she went to those who were praying for him and said to them: “It is Peter who is knocking at the door.” They said to her: “Rhoda, you are crazy. It is his angel!”
It is that the early Church knew that every person who has believed in Christ as their Savior and has washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ, has received that theophanic body called “the Angel of the Lord,” which encamps around those who fear Him and defends them; and they thought that his angel was coming to them there, or that Peter had already died and was already in his theophanic body, which is the angel that the Bible points out as the angel of every person, who encamps around them and defends them.
Christ also said about the little ones, who are the sons and daughters of God, He said that “their angels see the face of their heavenly Father every day.”3 See? That angel is the theophanic body of every son and daughter of God, it is a body of another dimension. And in that body of another dimension, which is similar to our physical body but of another dimension, is where the person goes to live in Paradise when he finishes his days here on Earth. But if he is not a believer in our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, since he has not washed his sins in the Blood of Christ, therefore, he doesn’t have that theophanic body of the sixth dimension: He has a body of another dimension, that is, of the fifth dimension.
When Jesus Christ went… that is, when Jesus Christ died, He went to a place, that is, to another dimension, not in His physical body…, because His physical body remained on the Cross and then they took Him down from the Cross, and Joseph took Him to a new tomb that He had, which was a cave.4
There in Israel there are many tombs that are in a cave; and they make many holes in the wall in a cave and they put the dead there. And there are also tombs that are a deep pit, like Abraham’s, Isaac’s and all of them: it is a deep hole, and that is a tomb there. In other words, in some places in Israel it is a little different from how it is done in these places; although there they also have tombs as we have them among the gentiles at this time, they also have them there, but in those times they used that type of tomb a lot.
And now, Jesus was placed in a cave as a tomb; and look, the cave was large, because when He resurrected, it says that the sheet where they had wrapped Him5 was there, and an angel was at the head and the other at the feet, sitting there, inside the cave where Christ had been placed6</sup>; and the Scripture also says that Peter entered into the cave.7 That is, it was a cave, and there they placed the Lord, just as Lazarus’ tomb was a cave.8
Now, the most important thing is what happens to the person when his days on this Earth are over: The person continues living; what doesn’t continue living is his physical body, because his time of life is over, because it is a mortal, corruptible and temporary body, in which God allows us to live for a period of time to make contact with eternal life, which is and is in Christ our Savior.
Christ said9: “I am the way, the truth and the life; and no one comes to the Father, but by me.” It is through Christ that we can receive eternal life, that we can walk in the path of eternal life and that we can come to the heavenly Father.
Now, look at what happened when Christ died, as far as His physical body is concerned: He physically died there, but His Spirit and His soul lived on. And where did He go? Let’s see where He went when His physical body died. In First Peter, chapter 3, verse 18 and on, it says:
“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh (that is, He died, but only physically, His body of flesh), but quickened by the Spirit:
By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;…”
In what did He go and preach to the spirits in prison? It was in Spirit, in that theophanic body of the sixth dimension; in that theophanic body of the sixth dimension, in which He had appeared to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and other prophets and men of God, and Moses also; because the Angel of the Lord of the Old Testament is the Lord Jesus Christ in the New Testament.
That is why when Jesus Christ appeared to Saint Paul,10 when Paul being Saul was persecuting the Church of Jesus Christ, He appeared to him in a light brighter than the sun and said to him: “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It is hard for you to kick against the pricks.” And Paul said: “Lord, who are you?” Why did he say to Him: “Lord, who are you?” Because Saul knew that that Pillar of Fire, that Light, was the same Light that had appeared to the prophet Moses; and that Light had said to Moses: “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”11 It was the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord.
And now, when Saul asks Him: “Who are you, Lord?”, that Light tells him: “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.”
The Angel of the Lord that appeared to Moses in the Old Testament, now is called Jesus in the New Testament: He appears in that form of Light to Saul of Tarsus and tells him that He is Jesus; the same Light that appeared to Moses and told him that He was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Now, we find that this is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord. That is why Jesus said to those religious leaders of His time, who bothered Him a lot, He said in chapter 8, verse 56 to 58, of John:
“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.”
He was before Abraham, He was before Noah, He was before Enoch, He was before Adam also: Because He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and He is the God of Adam, and He is the God Creator of the Heavens and the Earth.
See, John, chapter 1, verse 1 and on, it says:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.”
Now look at the origin of the Creation. Where is the origin? It is in the Word, who was with God and was God; and then it says that He is also the Light that enlightens every man, and that Life is in Him (eternal life). Now, it goes on to say:
“And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
There was a man sent from God, whose name was John (that is, John the Baptist).
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.
He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”
And now let’s see how He came into this world; for John was preparing the way for the Word, who is the Light that enlightens every man, who created all things.
“He was in the world, and the world was made by him (By whom? By this true Light, which enlightens every man, which is the Word that was with God and was God), and the world knew him not.
He came unto his own (that is, to the Hebrew people), and his own received him not.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.”
That is through the new birth, by believing in Christ as our Savior, washing our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit; and thus the new birth is operated in the person and he obtains that theophanic body of the sixth dimension. Now, let’s continue to see here who the Word is:
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us…”
And when He became flesh and dwelt among human beings, by what name was He known? By the name of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus is the Word made flesh.
The prophet Isaiah, when he prophesied of the Coming of the Messiah, in Isaiah chapter 7, verse 14, he told us in the following way about the Messiah to come:
“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel (which translated is: God with us)12.”
And now, also in chapter 9, speaking of that child that was to be born, verse 6 and on, it says:
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
Who is this child? He is Wonderful, He is Counselor, He is Mighty God, He is Everlasting Father and He is Prince of Peace. All these titles are in Jesus Christ our Savior; for He is the Word, who was with God and was God and created all things, made flesh, made man, among human beings.
See what a great person our beloved Savior is: He is God Himself made man, made flesh in the midst of human beings, so that with His own body of flesh He might take our sins and become sin for us, by taking our sins, and thus become mortal; for there is no death without sin; therefore, He took our sins…
He had said13: “No man taketh away my life: I lay it down of myself to take it again.” He had also said14: “Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone”: He continued to live for all eternity because He had no sin; that body of flesh that Jesus had came through divine creation, therefore He could continue to live for all eternity; but He would remain alone, and the rest of the human beings had to die because of sin at that time.
Because that was the time for divine judgment to fall upon the human race; but Christ took our sins, became sin for us, became like us; in taking our sins He became mortal; and then He died on Calvary’s Cross taking our sins.
And do you know where every sinner has to go, every person who is with his sins? Let’s see where those who lived in Noah’s time and didn’t believe Noah’s Message went. It says15:
“By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison…”
When Christ died He went in Spirit, in His theophanic body, to the place where those imprisoned spirits were, those people who were in their bodies… which are spirits, bodies of another dimension; where were they? In the fifth dimension, which is hell; and Christ went there. And how could He go there? Because He took our sins and had to die as a sinner, and had to go to hell as a sinner; but there He preached to the imprisoned souls, in hell, which is the fifth dimension.
“Which sometime were disobedient (Who did they disobey? God; they didn’t hear the Word of God through the prophet Noah), when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.”
Now, God’s patience waited for what? God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being built; but when the ark was already built, the construction work was finished, then God appeared again to Noah and told him that in seven days the flood would come. See, it says: Chapter 7 of Genesis says:
“And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.”
There were thousands or millions of people at that time, there were many religions at that time and there were many people attending the different religions, but there was a dispensational prophet, a greater prophet, with the divine revelation of all the things that were going to happen at that time. “For the Lord God will do nothing, except He reveal His secrets to His servants His prophets.” (Amos, chapter 3, verse 7).
And when God is going to do something here on Earth, He sends a prophet and reveals to that prophet what He is going to do; and that prophet makes it known to the people. That is why we have the Bible, which has come through men of God, anointed by God for that purpose. That is why we have a Noah, we have a Moses and we have also the different prophets of the Old Testament; we also have Jesus, and we have the apostles, and the different messengers of the Church of Jesus Christ; men ordained by God and sent by God to Earth with the two consciousnesses together.
And what is this about the two consciousnesses together? Normally people have both consciousnesses separate, since the fall of mankind; before the fall, we find that this was not the case. Adam had both consciousnesses together, and that is why God came to him every day and had fellowship with Adam. Adam could look not only in this earthly dimension, but in other dimensions as well; and God visited him in His theophanic body of the sixth dimension.
God had not yet made Himself a body of flesh, but He made Adam a body of flesh, before God made His own body of flesh. But before God made Adam a body of flesh from the dust of the earth, He had first made him a theophanic body of the sixth dimension: He had made him in the image of God; for the image of God is that theophanic body of the sixth dimension.
And that theophanic body of the sixth dimension is Jesus Christ in that body of the sixth dimension, in which He appeared to Abraham; and as Melchizedek, King of Salem and Priest of the Most High God, He gave bread and wine to Abraham.16 And also on another occasion He appeared to him with His Archangels Gabriel and Michael; and Abraham invited them to a meal: He told them to stay a while longer and he would prepare them a calf, and he would prepare them bread as well; and Elohim accepted the invitation. That was the day before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.17
There God materialized Himself, and the Archangel Gabriel and the Archangel Michael were also materialized; God created a temporary body there for each of them, from the dust of the earth, and that is why they were able to eat with Abraham. And it is to that case that Christ refers when He says: “Abraham rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it and was glad.”18
There he was rejoicing, because he was seeing beforehand, for many hundreds of years, he was seeing the Coming of the Messiah beforehand; he was seeing beforehand the Coming of the Angel of the Lord, of the Angel of the Covenant, of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who would come in the midst of the Hebrew people in human flesh. And now, God gives him a foretaste of what would be the Coming of the Messiah, the Coming of the Angel of the Lord, of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in the midst of the Hebrew people in human flesh.
And now, notice how He became man, He became flesh, in the midst of the human race; but first He had made Adam a body of flesh from the dust of the earth.
Now, let’s continue seeing Noah’s case here. It says:
“Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights…”
And why is God telling this to Noah? Because Noah is the prophet pertaining to that time, and “the Lord God will do nothing, except He revealeth it first to His servants His prophets”; and this is a greater prophet, a dispensational prophet.
And do you know how many dispensational prophets God has? He only has seven dispensational prophets. And do you know how many dispensations He has? Only seven dispensations. And do you know how many dispensational Messages there are? Only seven dispensational Messages.
God only has seven of this kind of prophets:
- Adam was the first, for the first dispensation, the Dispensation of Innocence.
- Seth was the second, for the Dispensation of Consciousness.
- Noah was the third, for the Dispensation of Human Government. (That is why God is revealing to Noah all that He is to do at that time, because the end had come for that antediluvian generation).
- Then the fourth dispensational prophet is the father of faith, Abraham, for the Dispensation of the Promise.
- Then the fifth dispensational prophet is the prophet Moses, for the fifth dispensation, which is the Dispensation of the Law, with the Message of the Dispensation of the Law.
- Then the sixth dispensational prophet is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, the prophet of Nazareth, for the Dispensation of Grace.
See what a great and powerful prophet God had in the midst of the Hebrew people in that simple man, that young carpenter from Nazareth named Jesus, in whom the fullness of God was manifested, anointed with the Spirit of God in all His fullness.
In other words, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, was within that body of flesh manifesting Himself and carrying out His Work relevant to that time, which is the Work of Redemption, where the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord in human flesh, has been known as the Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Lamb of God.
The First Coming of Christ has been as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world, and that is why the Message of the Dispensation of Grace revolves around the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world.
That is why John the Baptist, who was the forerunner of the Coming of Christ for that time, was announcing that after him would come one of whom he was not worthy to unloose the latchet of His shoes, and said: “He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire.”19
And now, those who followed John the Baptist were fine as far as they went. What did those who followed John receive? They repented of their sins and were baptized in baptism of repentance. But to be baptized with the Holy Spirit, that would not be for the followers of John the Baptist, but for the followers of Jesus Christ. John said: “He who comes after me is the one who will baptize you with Holy Spirit and Fire.”
And on one occasion when John the Baptist said about Jesus, that He was walking by the place where John was preaching and baptizing, when John saw Him he said: “Behold the Lamb of God.” Twice he pointed to Jesus as the Lamb of God.20 And two disciples of John the Baptist, who were Andrew (Peter’s brother) and John the apostle, when they heard John say that, they followed whom? Jesus, they went with Jesus21</sup>; and the rest of the disciples of John the Baptist stayed with John the Baptist.
Now, were those two disciples, John and Andrew, wrong to go with Jesus? No, they did what all the followers of John the Baptist were called to do: All the followers of the forerunner of the Coming of Christ were appointed or commissioned to follow the one whom John said would come after him.
That is why when Saint Paul encountered some of John the Baptist’s disciples, many years later, he asked them: “Did you receive the Holy Spirit after you believed?” They said: “We don’t even know that there is a Holy Spirit.”22 Look where John’s disciples were spiritually: They didn’t know that there was a Holy Spirit. And John had preached that after him would come one who would baptize them with Holy Spirit and Fire, who would be the Messiah; but because they didn’t follow the Messiah…
After having believed in John and received the water baptism that John carried out, the next thing was to recognize the Coming of the Messiah, to recognize the Coming of the one of whom John said that after him would come a man who would baptize them with Holy Spirit and Fire. And if He was going to baptize them with Holy Spirit and Fire, then they had to follow Him (who?) Him, Jesus.
And now, those who followed Jesus, we find that on the Day of Pentecost they received the Holy Spirit. John’s disciples therefore remained without receiving the Holy Spirit, except those who had followed Jesus afterwards.
Now, it is very important not to only stay with the Message and ministry of the forerunner; because a forerunner is a messenger of God, a prophet sent by God, to prepare the way for another one who will come after him. And that is why a forerunner speaks a lot about the one who will come after him; and then he says the things that the one who will come after him will be doing and the blessings that he will bring to the people.
And now, those who followed John the Baptist went so far as to receive the water baptism, but those who followed Jesus went so far as to receive the new birth by receiving the Holy Spirit.
It is very important not to only stay with the forerunner, but to keep on going and find the one foreran. And for the First Coming of Christ the forerunner was John the Baptist and the foreran was Jesus of Nazareth, where the Angel of the Covenant was, the Angel of the Lord, manifested in all His fullness carrying out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross, placing that physical body in living Sacrifice for our sins.
He took our sins, He paid the debt of sin to take us (where?) to God, so that we can go to Heaven; but for that He had to die as a sinner (taking our sins) and go to hell. That is why this Scripture we were reading, of Saint Peter, says:
“By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.”
Now, we have seen that Jesus went to hell; and there, being in His theophanic body, He preached to those people who were also in bodies but of another dimension; because the person, when their physical body dies here on Earth, continues living in the other body, which is of another dimension. And if they have not repented and washed their sins in the Blood of Christ, then the body that they have of another dimension is of the fifth dimension, and the fifth dimension is hell; therefore, they pass to, they leave this earthly dimension and continue living in the fifth dimension
But if they have repented of their sins and have washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ, and have received the Spirit of Christ, then the person has received a spirit of Heaven, of the sixth dimension, a theophanic body of the sixth dimension, which resembles our physical body but of another dimension, of the sixth dimension.
And the person, when his physical body dies, well, he continues walking in the other body in the sixth dimension, which is Paradise; and there he continues living until the resurrection of the dead in Christ takes place; and he will rise again on this planet Earth in a new body, an eternal body, created by Christ. He will not rise in the same body he had when he lived on Earth, because if he rises in that body, he dies again; he has to rise in an eternal body, which Christ has promised for people who have received Christ as their Savior and have washed their sins in the Blood of Christ.
And for what time will that resurrection of the dead in Christ be? In John, chapter 6 and chapter 5, Christ speaks to us of the resurrection, and He tells us: Chapter 5, verse 24 and on:
“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.”
At that moment when the person receives Christ as his Savior, washes his sins in the Blood of Christ, and receives His Spirit: He has passed from death to life.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.
Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life (that is, the resurrection of eternal life).”
The prophet Daniel also spoke of that resurrection in chapter 12 of the book of the prophet Daniel.
Now, for what time will the resurrection of the dead in Christ be? John, chapter 6, verse 39 to 40, says:
“And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”
For when? He will resurrect all those whom the Father has given Him for the Last Day, which are the people who have believed in Christ as their Savior, and have washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ, and have received His Holy Spirit.
Those people have the promise that if they die physically (their physical bodies die), they will be resurrected in eternal bodies. When? At the Last Day. But if we remain alive and the resurrection of the dead in Christ occurs, what Christ will do with us is that He will transform our mortal bodies; and then we will have an eternal body too, like the eternal body that the dead will receive when they are resurrected at the Last Day.
“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
When? At the Last Day.
That is why it is so important to believe in Christ as our Savior and wash our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receive His Holy Spirit: In order to live eternally.
Many have looked for the fountain of youth, but look where the Fountain of Youth is: It is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. “In Him was life, and the life is the Light of men.” And He said23: “I am the Light of the world: and he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life (that is, eternal life).”
In John, chapter 11, verses 23 and on, Jesus says, when He went to Lazarus’ tomb… Martha was there, Lazarus’ sister, who had also obtained the teaching of the resurrection of the dead in Christ and knew that Christ had taught that the resurrection of the dead in Christ is for the Last Day. And now, Jesus… He says:
“Jesus saith unto her (to Martha), Thy brother shall rise again.
Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
For that was what our Lord Jesus Christ had taught: That He will resurrect all those who have believed in Him and have died physically in the Last Day. Now, what does Jesus tell her?
“Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live (that is, even if his physical body dies, he will live).
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.”
Now see, Christ here identifies Himself as the Resurrection and the Life; and He says that he who believes in Him, though he be dead, he shall live.
And all the dead who before, when they have been living in their physical body, have believed in Jesus Christ as their Savior, have washed their sins in the Blood of Christ and have received His Spirit: Although physically they have died, they are in Paradise living in the theophanic body, and in the Last Day they will resurrect in an eternal body; in other words, they will not die physically eternally, because they will be resurrected in an eternal body to live for all eternity; a body that will not get old: It will always represent from 18 to 21 years of age, it will have the fountain of youth manifested there in that physical body; and a body that will never get sick, it will not even have the flu; and a body that will not have the problems that our earthly body that we have now has.
Now, that is the body that Christ has for each one of those who have believed in Him and have washed their sins in His Blood and have received His Holy Spirit, therefore, they have been born again. Christ said that whoever is not born again, can’t see the Kingdom of God, whoever is not born of the Water and the Spirit, as Christ said to Nicodemus in chapter 3 of John.
Now, we can see that Christ teaches us that there is a resurrection for all believers in Him, and that is the first resurrection. Then there will also be the general resurrection for the rest of the human beings to go to the Last Judgment: To appear before the White Throne, before the Judge, to be judged for all that is written in the Book of Memories and in the Book of Life.
Now, people sometimes don’t know that their earthly life is being recorded in Heaven; if people knew that, they would walk on this planet Earth with more care. That is why, look, let’s see what Revelation tells us; in the book of Revelation it tells us, in chapter 20, verse 11 to 15, of that Last Judgment that is coming, and it says:
“And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God (that is the Last Judgment)<em>; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works (everything is recorded in Heaven).
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell (that is, death and hell) delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.”
This is for those who will be resurrected in the second resurrection.
Those who are resurrected in the first resurrection, which is the resurrection of the elect of God, will not go through that Last Judgment to be judged; because we were already judged when Christ was judged, because our sins were placed in Christ, for He took them and He was judged for our sins. Therefore, we are free from all sin through Christ’s Sacrifice on Calvary’s Cross. And that Sacrifice of Christ is made effective in us when we receive Him as our Savior, and we wash our sins in the Blood of Christ, and we receive His Holy Spirit: His Sacrifice is made effective in us. That is why it is so important to believe in Christ as our Savior, and wash our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receive His Holy Spirit; and thus we receive a theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension, with eternal life.
Now, if people would see, read and believe what the book of Revelation says here, they would have more fear of God and take care of their spiritual life, knowing that it is an individual thing; that no one will give an account for you, but you as an individual will give an account to God for your life: It is your life that is being recorded in Heaven.
That is why each person has to escape for his life, and the only place of refuge is who? Our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. “I am the way, the truth and the life; and no one comes to the Father, but by me.” And everybody wants to go to Heaven, but they want to go on their own and in their own way; but it is through our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, by believing in Him as our Savior, washing our sins in His Blood and receiving His Holy Spirit.
There is no other way to enter the Kingdom of God, there is no other way to go to Heaven. He said: “I am the door, and whoever enters through me…” Let’s see what will happen. He says He is the Door. Chapter 10, verse 9 and on of John, says:
“I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”
He is presenting Himself here as the Good Shepherd, and also as the Door for the sheep to enter and receive salvation.
It also tells us, in this same chapter 10, verse 14 and on:
“I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.”
When Christ laid down His life on Calvary’s Cross, for whom did He lay it down? For His sheep: for all of us.
“And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold (that is, that they are not of the Hebrew people): them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”
Those are the people from among the gentiles, whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life in Heaven, who from age to age have been called by Christ, Christ manifested in each age in Holy Spirit through the messenger of each age sent by Christ, as Saint Paul and other messengers of God throughout the ages, who were the instruments of Christ through whom Christ manifested Himself and enlightened among the gentiles.
Christ said to Saint Paul: “I have set you as a Light to the gentiles.”24 Christ is the Light of the world, and Christ illuminated the gentiles through Saint Paul in Saint Paul’s time, in that first stage of the Church of Jesus Christ among the gentiles; and He called and gathered His sheep among the gentiles in that first stage in Asia Minor.
And so, among the gentiles, we can see how He has been calling and gathering those other sheep that are not from that fold, that is, from the Hebrew fold, but are from among the gentiles. But there are also sheep of Christ from among the Hebrew people; because from both peoples, from Hebrews and gentiles, God is making a people: He is making a heavenly Israel; because the heavenly Israel is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, composed of gentiles and Hebrews, believers in our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, who have received Christ as their Savior and have washed their sins in His Blood and have received His Holy Spirit.
And now, notice how the Church of Jesus Christ has been formed: With people believing in Christ, who receive eternal life when they believe in Christ as their Savior, and wash their sins in the Blood of Christ, and receive His Holy Spirit; thus they have been born of the Water and the Spirit, and have eternal life: they have passed from death to life.
Now, we can see the great blessing that God has brought to Earth in human flesh through His manifestation in that young carpenter from Nazareth named Jesus; He is none other than the veil of flesh where God, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, was manifested in all His fullness, carrying out the Work of Redemption for all the sons and daughters of God.
Now, we have seen that He said that He is the Door, and he who enters through that Door will be saved: receives eternal life; and he will not come to condemnation: he will not have to go to the Last Judgment to be judged there, but he has already received eternal life; and at the Last Day Christ says that He will resurrect him, if his physical body has died; but if he remains alive and the resurrection of the dead in Christ takes place, then the person will be transformed, if he is still living in his earthly body.
Saint Paul spoke of this in his letter to the Corinthians, in chapter 15, verses 49 and on; he says:
“And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly (that is, the image of Christ, why? Because we will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ).
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.”
That is to say that we can’t live eternally with this body of flesh and blood, because this body is mortal, corruptible and therefore temporary; it is for a certain time that God allows us to live in this body, to make contact with eternal life. But some don’t understand this and believe that to live in this mortal body is to work, sleep and eat, and to lead a life like the animals, that what they do is to eat and sleep; and some don’t even work.
Now, life for the human being has been given to seek God, to obtain eternal life through our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; for what is a man profited if he gains the whole world (if he becomes a multimillionaire), what does it profit him, if he gains the whole world, and loses his soul?25 His soul is the most important thing that each person has.
The body is important, but it dies, but the person continues to live. The spirit is important, but it is another body of another dimension. But the soul of the person is what the person really is, and God has given him two bodies: A spiritual body of another dimension and a physical body of this dimension, so that he lives here on Earth and is conscious of God’s Program and obtains eternal life through our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. There is no other way to obtain eternal life.
And there are people who don’t understand these things, and their life is to work, eat and sleep. And what is it worth to him if he loses his soul afterwards? It was worth nothing to him to live on this planet Earth; he was very cruel and very petty with himself, with his soul: He was able to give it many material goods and many earthly pleasures, but he didn’t give it the salvation and eternal life through Christ. That soul loses the right to eternal life.
God gives the opportunity to every person here on Earth: “He that liveth and believeth in me (says Christ) shall never die.” Why? Because He will bring a resurrection to live again in bodies, eternal bodies.
Now, He said that it will be for the Last Day that He will resurrect the departed believers in Him.
We continue reading here; it says:
“Behold, I shew you a mystery…”
I’m reading in First Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 51 and on, now (I’m reading):
“Behold, I shew you a mystery (remember that it is a mystery of God’s Kingdom)<em>; We shall not all sleep (that is, we are not all going to die)…”
Why? Because there will be a group of human beings that will be living in the Last Day, where the dead will be resurrected, and those people will be living; and if they are believers in Christ, then they will be transformed; if they are not believers, they will continue living in the mortal body and will die at some point: They will enter the great tribulation. It says:
“…but we shall all be changed…”
A transformation for the physical body will come, where we will no longer have a mortal, corruptible and temporary body, which gets sick, gets old as the years go by; and reaches a stage in our life, in the earthly body, that… That body has carried us, because we are the living soul inside this physical body; but there comes a time when the soul almost has to carry the body, because it can hardly even carry the body, when the person reaches a very advanced age. But, if he made the most of his life here on Earth, he has the promise that he will have a new and eternal body, in which he will live for all eternity, and that he will not grow old, nor get sick, nor die. That is the body that He has for each one of you and for me too.
I have not yet received it, but I will receive it; for it is a promise of Christ, and I believe that promise with all my soul.
Therefore, I already have that body in the form of the Word, in Word form; because it is a promise, and God can’t fail that promise. But soon that promise will materialize in me and in you too!
And then it will become a visible reality, which you can touch and you can look at yourself in the mirror and say: “When I was in the other body, I was about 80 years old, and I didn’t look very good; but now in this body I represent 18 to 21 years of age, I look young, and this will be for all eternity.”
Then, after a thousand years, you will be able to look at yourself again in the mirror and say: “I am going to see how my body looks again (after a thousand years). It looks exactly as it did the day I received it!”, because it is an eternal body; and you will be able to say: “In these one thousand years I have not had a single flu, and in the other body I had the flu almost every year, and when the seasons changed I had the flu.”
Now, this blessing is for the elderly, for adults, for young people and for children as well.
It says:
“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound (he speaks of a Trumpet that is going to be sounded; we will soon see what that trumpet is), and the dead shall be raised incorruptible (that is, in eternal bodies), and we shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.”
From then on none of God’s children will die, because we will already be in eternal bodies; and we will reign with Christ in that glorious Millennial Kingdom as kings and priests, and then for all eternity.
Did you see that it is worth believing in Christ as our Savior and washing our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Spirit? What other person offers you those blessings? No one else can offer eternal life to you; only our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
He said: “I am the way, the truth and the life.” No other person is the Life, no other person is the Truth and no other person is the Way; it is only our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Angel of the Covenant who became flesh and lived in a body of flesh in the midst of the Hebrew people, and was known by the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Now, it tells us that this resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive is for the time when that Last Trumpet will be sounded; and Jesus said it will be for the Last Day, because the Last Trumpet will be sounding or playing at the Last Day.
And now, what is that Last Trumpet? Let’s see in the book of Revelation, in chapter 1 and verses 10 to 11, where we find that Great Voice of Trumpet. It says:
“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day (that is the Last Day, the Lord’s Day), and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet (there we have that Last 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. It is the Voice of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ in the Last Day, in the Lord’s Day, speaking to all of us on this Earth.
Now, let’s see in Revelation, chapter 4, again that Trumpet speaking. It says, chapter 4, verse 1, and we will see the things that He promises to speak or reveal:
“After this I looked, 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 (remember, it is not a literal trumpet, but voice like a trumpet; it is the Voice of the Alpha and Omega, the Voice of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ)<em>; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”
Now He says to go up to a place: it is the place where He is; and He says:
“…and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”
What will that voice as of a trumpet be speaking, which is the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet? It will be speaking of the things that must happen after the things that have already happened in these two thousand years that have passed from Christ until now.
And now, how is Jesus Christ going to speak to His Church, to His people, to His children, in this Last Day, in the Lord’s Day, how is He going to speak? Through whom will He be speaking? Through whom He will be speaking, He will be revealing all things that will happen, He will be speaking to us of all these things that must come to pass in this end time, and He will be calling and gathering all His elect; because Jesus Himself said in Matthew 24, verse 31:
“And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect (and that is for this end time)…”
Now let’s see through whom Jesus Christ will be speaking in the Last Day. Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, will be speaking in the Last Day and will be making known all these things that must shortly come to pass. And now, through whom? Let’s see, Revelation 22, verse 6 and on, it says:
“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel (Who has He sent? His Angel) to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”
Why has He sent His Angel? To show His servants the things that must shortly come to pass; because that is the prophet messenger of the seventh dispensation.
I told you that there are seven dispensations and I told you that Adam was the one of the first dispensation, Seth of the second dispensation, Noah of the third dispensation, Abraham of the fourth dispensation, Moses of the fifth dispensation, Jesus of the sixth dispensation; and now this Angel of Jesus Christ is the prophet messenger of the seventh dispensation, who comes making known all these things that must shortly come to pass. That is why John wanted to worship this Angel when he showed him all these things.
Let’s continue reading there, in that same passage we were reading; we go to verse 7, where it says:
“Behold, I come quickly: blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book.
And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.”
He kneeled before the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ to worship him, but what happened?
“Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.”
And why did this Angel not accept the worship of John the apostle? Because this Angel is a prophet; he is the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, who comes in the Last Day, making known all these things that will come to pass in the Last Day, that is, in the Lord’s Day, which is the seventh millennium; because “one day before the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day,” says Second Peter, chapter 3, verse 8, and he says that this is something that we can’t ignore.
Let’s read it, so that you may have it clear, as it is written there. It says, Second Peter, chapter 3, verse 8:
“But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”
And in Psalm 90 and verse 4, it also testifies of this truth; and that is a psalm of the prophet Moses.
Now, that is why Saint Paul and Saint Peter spoke of the last days; and when they spoke of the last days they said that those days in which they lived were the last days: For “one day before the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.”
See, in Hebrews, chapter 1, Saint Paul says (in chapter 1, verse 1 and on, he says):
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days (when does he say? In these last days) spoken unto us by his Son (that is, by Jesus Christ), whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.”
When does Saint Paul say that God spoke through Jesus? In the last days; and two thousand years have already passed.
Now, Peter, when he preached on the Day of Pentecost making known what was happening there, when they were filled with the Holy Spirit…; because many people thought they were drunk, others wondered: “What does this mean?, because we heard these Galileans speaking the wonders of God in the language of the nation in which we were born”; because there were many Jews who were born in different gentile nations and had come to Jerusalem to worship God. And now, chapter 2, verse 14 and on, of the book of Acts, says:
“But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day (that is, from 8 to 9 in the morning was the moment when Peter was preaching).
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel…”
Now Peter is going to show them that it is the fulfillment of what God promised for that time. He says:
“But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
And it shall come to pass in the last days (When? In the last days), saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.”
And from the Day of Pentecost onwards, God has been pouring out of His Holy Spirit upon all flesh: Upon every person who has repented of his sins, and has received Christ as his Savior, and has washed his sins in the Blood of Christ; and has received the Holy Spirit, because Christ has poured out upon those people of His Holy Spirit.
And this was promised for the last days, and God began to pour out of His Holy Spirit upon all people who have received Christ as their Savior on the Day of Pentecost; and He is still pouring out of His Holy Spirit upon every person who repents of his sins by receiving Christ as his Savior, and washes his sins in the Blood of Christ.
And now, what then are the last days? One day before the Lord, is a millennium, that is, a thousand years, for human beings.
The fifth millennium began when Christ was 4 to 7 years old, and therefore the last days before God began, which for human beings are the fifth millennium, sixth millennium and seventh millennium.
And from Christ until now two thousand years have already passed, if we add to the calendar the years it is behind, and therefore we are still in the last days.
But in which of the last days?, in which of the last days, or in which of the last days before God? In the first one? No, because that was the fifth millennium for human beings. In the… I mean, in the fifth? No, because that was the fifth millennium for human beings. In the sixth day before God, which would be, of the three last days before God, the second? No, because that was the sixth millennium; and if we add to the calendar the years it is behind, it has already passed too.
If we don’t add to the calendar the years it is behind, then there is only what remains of the year 98 and the year 99 and the year 2000, and the first two last days before God are over, and only the last of the last days remains, which is the seventh millennium; but if we add to the calendar the years it is behind, we are already in the seventh millennium, and therefore we are before God in the Last Day, which for human beings is the seventh millennium.
Now, we can see that the apostles were correct when they said that those days of Jesus and the apostles were the last days, but it was the first of the last days.
And now, we are privileged to live in the Last Day, which is the seventh millennium if we add to the calendar the years it is behind.
But has God’s calendar fallen behind schedule? That is a good question for every person. If it has not fallen behind, then we are already in the Last Day; we are in that day before God in and for which Christ said that He will resurrect those who have believed in Him and have died physically; and then He will transform those who are alive and believe in Christ, have received Him as their Savior and have washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ and have received His Holy Spirit.
The seventh millennium is the Last Day or Lord’s Day before God, in which the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who live will occur. But in what year? There let us wait for the resurrection to occur, and then we can look at the calendar and say what year it was.
Now, it says that the Last Trumpet, or Trumpet of God, or Great Voice of Trumpet, will be sounded, with which all the elect of God are called and gathered.
We have seen that that Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet is the Voice of Christ speaking through His Angel Messenger all these things that must happen soon, and thus making known to us all these prophetic mysteries relevant to the seventh millennium, where He will be showing us even the greatest mystery of all mysteries, which God has kept in His mind eternally. Do you know what that mystery is? The mystery of the Second Coming of Christ.
That is the mystery that is contained in the Seventh Seal, in Revelation, chapter 8, verse 1, which when it was opened in Heaven it caused silence for about half an hour. It says:
“And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.”
Half an hour of silence in Heaven is a few years for human beings.
Now, we can see that this is such a great mystery that it even caused silence in Heaven; that is, the angels that sing to God, and the cherubim and all the seraphim and all the heavenly hosts that sing to God, went silent: There was silence in Heaven for about half an hour; and this was because no one knew this mystery either in Heaven or on Earth.
Jesus said, speaking of that mystery of the Coming of the Son of Man for the Last Day, He said that no one knew neither the day nor the hour when the Son of Man would come. And He said: “Not even the angels in Heaven.” And furthermore, He said: “Not even the Son,” that is, not even Jesus knew this mystery.26
Even having the manifestation of God in all His fullness, God being in Jesus, He had not yet made known to Him the day and hour in which the Second Coming of Christ would be fulfilled. It was a mystery that would be revealed later to Jesus, after His death and resurrection; but not before that.
After His death, resurrection and ascension to Heaven, He would obtain the knowledge of that mystery; because the mystery of the Coming of the Son of Man for the Last Day, which will be as in the days of Noah, as Jesus Christ said… for He said: “As it was in the days of Noah, when they ate, drank, married and gave in marriage…” Matthew, chapter 24, verses 37 to 39, says:
“But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”
In other words, they are parallel days, these final days or this day, Last Day, is a time parallel to the days of Noah. Back then, that antediluvian generation had come to its end, and the divine judgment would come upon the human race at that time. But God can’t do anything, nor bring a divine judgment upon the human race, without first revealing that mystery (to whom?) to the prophet He has for that time; and if it is a greater event of the Divine Program, then He has to have a greater prophet; and there are only seven major prophets, seven dispensational prophets. He had a dispensational prophet there: Noah.
That is why the time for the Coming of the Son of Man is compared Noah’s time and Lot’s time,27 because there was also a dispensational prophet there in Lot’s time, which was Abraham.
It is also compared to the time when God delivered the Hebrew people from bondage in Egypt, and God sent His judgments upon Egypt and destroyed Egypt. It ceased to be a mighty empire; even the pharaoh’s army was destroyed in the Red Sea, when it tried to persecute the Hebrew people. There was a dispensational prophet there too: The prophet Moses.
Whenever a great event of the Divine Program is going to be carried out on Earth, God sends a dispensational prophet.
Now, people have not understood what a prophet is, and they don’t know that a prophet comes with both consciousnesses together, and even while awake he can see in other worlds, in other dimensions; and he can hear the Voice of God, and God gives him all the divine revelation relevant to that time, and he makes it known to the people. “For the Lord God will do nothing, except He first reveals His secrets to His servants His prophets.” That is why divine revelation has always come through a prophet of God.
Now, we can see that all these mysteries, including the greatest: The mystery of the Coming of the Son of Man for this end time, in order to be made known to the human race, a dispensational prophet has to be on Earth. That is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, who comes anointed with the Spirit of Christ, Jesus Christ comes in him manifested in Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant; that is the Angel of Revelation, chapter 7, which comes with the Seal of the living God. The Seal of the living God is the Holy Spirit; and the Holy Spirit comes manifested in him, making known to all the sons and daughters of God all these things that must shortly come to pass, in this end time.
Now, He said that the Coming of the Son of Man would be as in the days of Noah:
“…so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away…”
When they began to see the rain falling and they began to see that the streets were flooding, they could say: “It looks like Noah was right.” They began to understand, already by what they were seeing, they began to understand that Noah was right; but it was too late, because the divine judgment of the flood was already falling on the Earth. Noah was already inside the ark with the animals, birds and reptiles that had to enter, and Noah and his family were inside the ark; and the Scripture says that God closed the ark’s door.
Genesis, chapter 7, tells us: in chapter 7, verse 15 and 16, it says:
“And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.”
When God closed the door, there was no longer any opportunity for an animal or bird or anyone else to enter; let alone a human being; all those who had to enter were already inside: they entered before the door was closed.
And do you know something? That Christ saying that the days of the Coming of the Son of Man will be like the days of Noah: The Door of mercy will also be closed in the Coming of the Son of Man.
When God closed the door back then, the ark’s door, God’s mercy had already ended for the antediluvian generation; and now God’s judgment would come upon the human race.
And Christ is the Door of Salvation for every person to enter into eternal life; and we have had that Door of Salvation open since Jesus’ time and His apostles until this end time; and millions of human beings have been entering into eternal life, into the Kingdom of God, through that only Door that there is to enter into eternal life. It is narrow, Jesus Christ says, but it is the only Door that leads the human being to eternal life.
Christ, notice, in Luke, chapter 13, verse 22 and on, is asked by some people regarding those who are to be saved, and they ask Him: Chapter 13, verse 22 and on, of Luke:
“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:”
Christ is the Door that leads to eternal life, one must enter through that Door; it is the Door of Mercy.
For the Last Day, at that stage as in the days of Noah, the last ones will enter through that Door, and then that Door will be closed. The last ones that enter, enter through the call of the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, in which all these things that will come to pass are revealed, and all the elect of God that live in this end time are called and gathered; and through His Angel Messenger, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be speaking to His sheep, and He will be calling and gathering all His sheep of this end time.
Where? In His Church, in His Mystical Body of believers, in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone.
This diagram represents the Church of Jesus Christ from age to age and the messengers of each age. And now, the Church of Jesus Christ is in the most glorious stage, the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone.
Just as each of the stages of the Church of Jesus Christ was fulfilled in different places, the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, do you know where it is fulfilled? In Latin America and the Caribbean. That is why the call of the Great Voice of Trumpet, which is the call of Christ through His Angel Messenger, arises (where?) in Latin America and the Caribbean; the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, making known to us all these things that must happen soon, in this end time.
And that is Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in His Angel Messenger, speaking to His Church and to all Latin American and Caribbean people all these things that must happen soon, in this end time, in the Last Day.
Now, how many people here knew that the last days were the fifth, sixth and seventh millennium? And how many knew that the Last Day was the seventh millennium? You didn’t know; but, since you have been listening to the Message of God for this end time, you have obtained the knowledge that the last days before God are the fifth, sixth and seventh millennium; because one day before the Lord is a thousand years for human beings.
Now, we have also seen what is the Last Day, of which Christ spoke, in which He will resurrect all believers in Him who have died physically; and He will transform those who will be alive in this end time, believers in Him, who have washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ and have received His Holy Spirit. We have seen what that Last Day is: It is the seventh millennium, also called the Lord’s Day or Day of Jehovah.
Now, it is in this time in which we live that Jesus Christ sends His Angel Messenger to make known all these things that must shortly come to pass, in this end time.
In Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16, Jesus Christ also speaks again of His Angel Messenger and says:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
It is His Angel Messenger, His prophet messenger, for the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, through whom Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be speaking to His people in this end time and will be making known to them all these things that must happen soon.
That is why He says: “Come up hither.” Where do we have to go up to? To the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the age of the Church of Jesus Christ for this end time.
It is not that we have to go to Heaven to hear the Voice of Christ there in Heaven, but to go up to the stage in which Christ is manifesting Himself in the midst of His Church in this end time; and thus hear Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit through His Angel Messenger testifying to us of all these things that must happen soon, in this end time.
And so, with that Message, all the elect of God are called and gathered in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, and are prepared to be transformed in this end time; and if anyone dies physically, he has no problem: He will be resurrected in the eternal body that Christ has promised for all His elect.
In other words, the dead in Christ, when they are resurrected, will have an eternal and glorified body like that of the Lord Jesus Christ; just as those of us who are alive, when we are transformed, will have an eternal and glorified body like that of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; and we will be like Jesus Christ: In the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, with an eternal physical body and with an eternal theophanic body as well.
Now, we can see that He is still calling and gathering His elect; and this Work in this Last Day, which pertains to the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, He is carrying it out in Latin America and the Caribbean; just as in the territory of Israel He carried out the Work of His First Coming, which was the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, of the Angel of the Lord, within a body of flesh called Jesus.
And now, Jesus Christ will come manifested in Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, in His Angel Messenger, who is the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom and of the Age of the Cornerstone. But that Angel is not the Lord Jesus Christ: that Angel is a man redeemed with the Blood of Christ of this end time. That is why John wanted to worship him on two occasions, and on both occasions the Angel rejected that worship, and said to him: “Worship God.”28
Now, through that Angel, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be calling and gathering all His elect of this Last Day; and that Work relevant to this end time corresponds to the territory of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Didn’t Christ say that the Coming of the Son of Man would be like the lightning coming from the East…? (The First Coming of Christ was where? In the East, in the land of Israel). That comes from the East and shows itself where?, manifests itself where?, reveals itself where? In the West29</sup>; and the West is the American continent.
And the American continent consists of North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean; and the seventh stage or age of the gentile Church was already fulfilled in the northern part of the American continent, where God sent the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, the Reverend William Branham, with the spirit and power of Elijah, and he was announcing that after him another one would come: he was preparing the way for another one.
And now only remains —of the American continent— Latin America and the Caribbean, for Christ to fulfill that promise of the Coming of the Son of Man shining like lightning in this Last Day.
And the Coming of the Son of Man as the lightning is the Coming of the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, coming in the Last Day manifested in human flesh in His Angel Messenger; but His Angel is not the Lord Jesus Christ; but the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, comes in His Angel Messenger, which came two thousand years ago in the veil of flesh called Jesus.
Now He will come in a redeemed one by the Blood of Jesus Christ; and through him He will be speaking to His Church with that Great Voice of Trumpet, and will be revealing to her all these mysteries of the Kingdom of God that must be fulfilled in this end time.
And then, when every last one of God’s elect enters the Mystical Body of Christ, the Door will be closed.
The Father of the Family, Christ, the Angel of the Covenant through His Angel Messenger, manifested in the Last Day, will close that Door; and no one else will enter through that Door.
Already, the mercy of God, which has been extended for these two thousand years approximately, in which millions of human beings have received salvation through believing in Christ as our Savior, and washing our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit: Then that Door will be closed; and he that is filthy shall remain filthy, because there will no longer be Blood in Heaven, in God’s Throne, to cleanse human beings from sins; because Christ will have already left the Throne of Intercession, where He is making intercession as High Priest with His own Blood for all those who receive Him as their Savior.
Revelation, chapter 22, verse 11, says:
“He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still…”
This is because he will no longer have the opportunity to be cleansed of sin, because Christ will have already left the Throne of Intercession in Heaven and the Door of Mercy, which is Christ, the narrow Door, will have already been closed.
“…and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.”
In other words, he who was cleansed by the Blood of Christ and received salvation, will remain saved for all eternity.
And now, in Matthew, chapter 25, verse 10 to 13, there is another place where it speaks of a door that will be closed. And remember that this Door is always Christ, that Door that will be closed; and that Door has been open since the days of Pentecost until now, but someday it will be closed.
Thus says Matthew, chapter 25, verses 10 and on… Christ compares all of Christianity with ten virgins. In saying “ten virgins,” it speaks of people who have believed in Christ as their Savior; and He says that those ten virgins, five of them were wise and five were foolish. There is the difference between those ten virgins: between the five fatuous and the five foolish – the five foolish and the five wise; the difference, let’s see what it is. It says:
“Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom (Christ is the Bridegroom).
And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.”
And what is the oil? The oil is the Holy Spirit. In other words, five of them, although they believed in Christ, didn’t go forward to receive the Holy Spirit, which is the oil there; because the oil is a symbol of the Holy Spirit; but the other five wise ones received the Holy Spirit and therefore obtained the new birth. It goes on to say:
“While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.”
Who enter with Christ into the Marriage of the Lamb? The wise virgins, who are the people who have believed in Christ as their Savior, have washed their sins in the Blood of Christ and have received the Holy Spirit, and therefore have been born again; they belong to the Kingdom of God, they have been born into the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is His Church. One doesn’t enter the Church of Jesus Christ by joining a congregation, but by being born again, by receiving the Spirit of Christ.
“Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.”
He teaches that every person has to be watching and praying: Watching for the Coming of the Son of Man; and praying for God to help him and be prepared, filled with the Spirit of God, having obtained the new birth to receive Christ in His Coming and enter with Him to the Marriage of the Lamb.
That Door, which is Christ, that Door has been opened for the salvation of every person who receives Him as his Savior, washes his sins in His Blood and receives His Holy Spirit. The person has passed from death to life, has eternal life, and will not come into condemnation; but that Door will be closed at the Last Day. Now, in what year of the Last Day? We don’t know.
That is why it is so important to be within the House of God, which is His Church, within that Mystical Body of believers, by entering through that open Door, which is still open; but someday it will be closed: When the last of God’s elect enters through that Door, and enters the Mystical Body of Christ, and Christ makes intercession in Heaven for him with His Blood, as High Priest there in Heaven, then He will have finished His Work of Intercession in Heaven, and He will already come out from the Throne of God there in Heaven, and will claim all those whom He has redeemed with His Blood, and will resurrect them if they have died, and if we are alive He will transform us: He will resurrect those who have died into eternal bodies; and us, who are alive and remain alive when the dead in Christ are resurrected, He will transform us; and then we will see Christ in His glorified body, with which He went to Heaven.
Before that, we will see Him manifested through His Angel Messenger speaking to us all these things that must come to pass, and thus sounding for us the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom.
While there is opportunity to enter through that Door, every person should take advantage of that opportunity; because after that Door is closed, no one can open it. And Christ is the one who has that key; and He is the one who opens and no one closes, but He is the one who closes and no one opens.30
No was able to open the door that God closed on the ark, after Noah and his family and the animals entered the ark. Although they asked for mercy when they began to see the flood coming, there was no more mercy because the door was already closed. That door is a type and figure of Christ, the Door through which one must enter while there is mercy from God for the human being.
We are living in days like those of Noah, days parallel to those of Noah. We are living in the days of which Christ spoke, in which the Coming of the Son of Man, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, would be manifested on this Earth. We are living in the most important times or days of the human race, which will determine the future of the human race.
And for this end time God has said that He will send the divine judgment, that is the day of vengeance of our God, it is the wrath of God that will come upon the human race.
We are living in days like those of Noah: these are the days of the Coming of the Son of Man, where what Isaiah says, chapter 61: “And the day of vengeance of our God,” which would be preached in this end time, it is the time where that Message is preached and the day of vengeance of our God that will come upon the human race is announced, where the wrath of God will be poured out upon mankind.
And although it may seem inconceivable to the human mind, it was already conceived in God’s mind; it doesn’t matter that human beings can’t comprehend it. They couldn’t understand that a flood would come in Noah’s time, but when they began to see the rain, they began to understand.
There are people who don’t understand until they see things being fulfilled. There are other people who obtain revelation from God and they can see, they can understand. Christ said, of those people: “But to you it is granted to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God, but to them it is not granted.” To those to whom it is not granted, they can’t understand those mysteries; to those to whom it is granted, they can understand them. Matthew, chapter 13, verse 11 and on.
He also said: “But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. For many of the prophets and of the righteous desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.”
And what were they seeing and hearing? They are seeing the Coming of the Messiah, and they were hearing the Messiah preaching the year of the good will of the Lord; those disciples of Jesus Christ were blessed.
But you see, others couldn’t see it as the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah and said that Jesus was Beelzebub, that He had demons, that by the finger of Beelzebub He cast out demons, and that He was a Samaritan, and that He was a gluttonous man and a drinker, and a friend of publicans and sinners. All this was spoken against Jesus by those who couldn’t see, those who couldn’t understand the fulfillment of the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God.
And one can’t be led by those who can’t see; for “if the blind lead the blind, they will both fall into the pit (or hole).”31
One has to cry out to God. And His Word, His Message for the time in which one lives, receive It; and ask God to help him and to open his understanding so that he can understand it. And then God will help and open the understanding, the revelation will come down from Heaven; and then the person will be able to say: “This I understand. This is what I have been waiting for!” This is because Christ opens his understanding so that he can understand. There is no other way for the person to understand.
Now, Revelation, chapter 11, verse 15 and on, says:
“And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
And the four and twenty elders, which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God (Who are the twenty four elders? They are the twelve patriarchs and the twelve apostles),
Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.
And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.”
A destruction is coming for those who destroy the Earth, as a flood came and destroyed that antediluvian generation; and this coming destruction is an atomic destruction, with radioactivity, in a Third World War. But He is coming for His elect, and He will take them to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb before that destruction begins.
We have to be realistic: It is God who says what is to come; and that time is the day of vengeance of our God, where the wrath of God will be poured out upon planet Earth. It says:
“And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.”
In other words, from the Throne of God, God speaks the divine judgments that are to come upon the Earth; because by that time, Christ will no longer be there on the Throne of God in Heaven as High Priest, and His Blood will not be there on the Mercy Seat either; therefore, the Throne of God in Heaven, that Seat of Mercy that we have had for two thousand years approximately and which is still as Seat of Mercy or Mercy Seat, when Christ comes out and takes His Blood from that place, it will already become a Throne of Judgment; and God as Judge will be dictating His divine judgment upon the human race, and that divine judgment upon the human race will be fulfilled. The wrath of God will fall upon the human race, during the time appointed as the great tribulation, which will last three and a half years.
But: “Fear not, little flock, for it is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.”32 Those of us who are alive will be transformed, and the dead will be resurrected (the dead in Christ), and we will be taken with Christ to the House of our heavenly Father, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; and we will be there three and a half years with Christ, in that great heavenly feast.
Meanwhile, here on this planet Earth, they will be going through the great tribulation, where the divine judgments, the wrath of God will be falling upon the human race; as the divine judgment fell, the wrath of God, in Noah’s time, which fell with a flood of water; and now it will fall with a flood of atomic fire. And there will be great disasters upon all nations, and mainly upon the developed nations, for they are developed to such a degree that they have stored up the atomic fire that is needed for that day burning like an oven to be fulfilled according to the Word of God.
May God have mercy on Latin America and the Caribbean, which is the territory where the Age of the Cornerstone is being fulfilled, and where Christ is calling and gathering His elect with the Great Voice of Trumpet in this Last Day, to soon be transformed…: We are being called, gathered and prepared to be transformed in this Last Day.
And although it seems like an inconceivable thing for the human race, when we are transformed, we are all going to see that what God had told us and we had believed with all our soul was the pure truth of God; and we will be in an eternal body, young for all eternity.
And the human race will also know that what has been preached as the day of vengeance of our God, the divine judgment that is to come upon the Earth with atomic fire, when they see it being fulfilled, they will realize that it was true what they had heard being preached in this Last Day.
But we are not going to wait for those showers of atomic fire to fall upon the Earth and then believe. We have already believed, and we are being prepared to be transformed in this Last Day before divine judgment falls upon the human race. When the divine judgment falls upon the human race, the Door will already be closed and we will already be at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb with Christ our beloved Savior.
When the Door is closed, the opportunity of obtaining mercy from God has come up to that point; henceforth it is time for divine judgment to fall upon the Earth.
We are still in mercy; but soon the Door of Mercy, which is Christ, will be closed, and there will be no more mercy for the human race; but before that, all the sons and daughters of God will have obtained mercy from Christ.
May all the elect of God who are yet to come soon come in, and may we all soon be transformed and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
It has been a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you of “THE LIMIT OF GOD’S PATIENCE: THE CLOSED DOOR.”
When the Door is closed, God’s patience for the human race has reached its limit; but they will have obtained, every child of God will have obtained, every elect of God will have obtained God’s mercy. But God has been patient with the children of wrath and has not poured out divine judgment in all its fullness upon the human race for the sake of God’s elect, until all have obtained God’s mercy; then, for the children of wrath, God will pour out the divine wrath from Heaven. But He has not appointed us to wrath, but for salvation, to obtain salvation through Jesus Christ.33
“THE LIMIT OF GOD’S PATIENCE.” In Noah’s time it was when God closed the ark’s door, the patience of God reached up to that point; from then on, the divine judgment would come. And the limit of God’s patience for our time will come until the Door is closed; when it is closed, God’s patience has reached up to that point.
And look, He has had two thousand years of patience from Christ until now; plus, what we have left, we don’t know how many days, months or years we have left, of God’s patience, until the last of God’s elect enters the Mystical Body of Christ.
May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and upon me also; and thank you very much for your kind attention, and may you have a wonderful evening.
I leave with us again the Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin to continue and conclude our part tonight giving thanks to our beloved Savior Jesus Christ, who will take us to the House of our heavenly Father. With us Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin.
“THE LIMIT OF GOD’S PATIENCE: THE CLOSED DOOR.”
1 Psalm 34:7
2 Acts 12:6-17
3 Matthew 18:10
4 Matthew 27:57-60, Mark 15:42-46, Luke 23:50-53, John 19:38-42
5 John 20:3-7
6 John 20:11-12
7 John 20:6
8 John 11:38
9 John 14:6
10 Acts 9:1-5
11 Exodus 3:6
12 Matthew 1:23
13 John 10:17-18
14 John 12:24
15 First Peter 3:19
16 Genesis 14:18-20
17 Genesis 18:1-8
18 John 8:56
19 Matthew 3:11, Luke 3:16, Mark 1:7-8, John 1:27
20 John 1:29, 1:36
21 John 1:40
22 Acts 19:1-2
23 John 8:12
24 Acts 13:47
25 Matthew 16:26, Mark 8:36, Luke 9:25
26 Matthew 24:36, Mark 13:32
27 Matthew 24:37-39, Luke 17:26-30
28 Revelation 19:9-10, 22:8-9
29 Matthew 24:27
30 Revelation 3:7
31 Matthew 15:14
32 Luke 12:32
33 First Thessalonians 5:9