Good morning, young people, it is for me a great blessing to be with you this morning, to share with you some moments of fellowship around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time, and to also share these foods on this morning and thus be prepared for the morning activity that we will have in La Piramide, God willing.
Jesus reminds us of a very important time in Lot’s life, of his family and also of Abraham, and He tells us in chapter 17, verse 26 to 33 [Luke]:
“And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
Remember Lot’s wife.
Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.”
This is a time to escape for life, that is what the Angels also told, who? Lot1: “Escape for your life.” For what is a man worth if he gains the whole world and loses his soul? It has been of no use for him to live on this planet Earth2.
And now, Christ shows us that the days of the Son of Man will be like the days of Noah and like the days of Lot, in other words, this time in which we live is parallel to the days of Noah and the days of Lot.
There was a dispensational prophet messenger for those days; it was Noah in the days of Noah, who was it in the days of Lot? Abraham; and in both days, in Noah’s and Lot’s, destruction came upon those places.
And now, when Christ uses these two times and places them parallel to the time of the Coming of the Son of Man, it is like the dream that God gave to the pharaoh when He showed him the seven years of abundance that would come and then the seven years of famine that would come upon the Earth; He first showed them with the rank ears representing the abundance of food, and He also showed them, the other years of famine that would come, of scarcity, with the lean ears, all ugly; and then He showed him seven fatfleshed cows and seven lean fleshed cows.
And now, in both cases, the spiny ears (that is, all ugly) ate the beautiful ears and stayed as ugly as they were first; and the lean fleshed cows ate the fat fleshed cows and stayed as lean and with such bad appearance as they had been at the beginning.
And the prophet and patriarch Joseph, while he was still young, about 30 years old, notice, he tells the king that this dream is… they both mean the same thing, and because it is given twice, that is something that will be like that, there is no one who can prevent it.
And now Jesus speaking here of the days of the Son of Man for the end time and speaking to us of the judgment that will come, by using the days of Noah and the days of Lot, that speaks to us that no one will be able to avoid that divine judgment that will come upon Earth.
But He tells us, so that we don’t get careless: “Remember Lot’s wife.” In other words, don’t go and do like Lot’s wife, who looked back, the material things, the material goods that she could have there in the city and the friendships, instead of worrying about her salvation, instead of worrying about escaping for her life; and what was left behind, was left behind; that, the fire will take care of that; and that was what the fire did there when it fell upon Sodom and Gomorrah.
It is a memory that is of benefit to all the young people and all the sons and daughters of God who live in this time, and that the order from God is: “Escape for your life.”
And notice, the Angels said to him: “Look for your whole family, the children and sons-in-law, all that you have, the whole family, so that they escape with you; take them all and escape for your life with them.”
And it is also time that we take care of our family too, so that they also escape with us in this end time. It is time to be solid in the Word of God waiting for our transformation, with our lives fixed, our sins confessed to Christ and washed in the Blood of Jesus Christ, to thus be ready for our transformation. No person will be able to be changed and raptured if he is not prepared.
So it is time to escape for our life, because what is it worth to man if he wins the whole world and loses his soul, if the most important thing a human being has is his soul? Because he is a living soul. And that is what we have to live for all eternity: our soul; and if this earthly body dissolves, it dies, well, God has another for us prepared by Him.
That is why our soul is the most important thing we have. The body, if it is lost, if it is lost physically, it dies, God has another one for us.
Notice, there, the Angels had the revelation of things that were going to happen; and Abraham also had it, because Elohim gave that revelation to Abraham.
Now notice, the Angels for this end time, Gabriel and Michael, represent the ministries of Moses and Elijah, which are the ministries that rush the people to be prepared to be changed and raptured in this end time. They are the ministries that call with the Great Voice of Trumpet and gather all the elect of God to escape the divine judgment that is to come upon Earth.
And notice that Gabriel, Michael and Elohim appeared to Abraham, and that is type and figure for this end time of the ministries of Jesus, Moses and Elijah appearing to the real seed of Abraham. And then there will be a manifestation of that Third Pull or phase of the Divine Program, where it will also reach those who are represented in Lot, who are the foolish virgins; the elect are represented in Abraham.
So, elect, be secure… Where was Abraham? He was on the top, there, of the mountain. And where are the elect placed, where do the elect live? Well, at the top of Mount Zion; and there, at the top of Mount Zion hearing the Voice of Christ, the Voice of the Son of Man; for just as Abraham was standing before Elohim hearing His Voice, which was revealing all things that were to happen, Christ says: “Pray…” Let’s also see in Luke, chapter 21, verse 34 to 36:
“And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.”
Escape from what? From all these things that will come and to stand before the Son of Man. How was Abraham standing before Elohim? Hearing Him there, hearing His Voice. And we are in the right time, appointed by God, to stand before the Son of Man in this end time.
Because the Coming of the Son of Man would be like the days of whom? Of Lot, where Abraham was standing before Elohim hearing His Voice, hearing the things that were going to happen at that time.
And now, we find ourselves in the most glorious time of all times, the time where all the sons and daughters of God can stand before the Son of Man.
Now, let’s see what this mystery of the Son of Man is here: page 146, let’s see (I will let you know now)… 147 of the book of Quotations, it says3:
“Now, Jesus Himself said, ‘At the day when the Son of man is being revealed,’ in other words, ‘the Son of man, the ministry of Jesus Christ Hisself.’”
And for the final day, for the end time, we have the promise of the ministries of Moses, Elijah and Jesus; and in the time when the ministry of Jesus is manifesting, revealing itself, it is the time to stand before the Son of Man, because the revelation of God in human flesh in a prophet is the revelation or manifestation of the Son of Man. This is a mystery that for the end time would be opened, revealed to all the sons and daughters of God.
Now, let’s see something else here regarding the Son of Man being revealed. On page 134 it says4:
“Now, remember, He come in three names: the Son of man, a prophet; the Son of God, the Spirit; the Son of David, for the Millennium. But in between, this conjunction, now according to His own Words, in the day when the Son of man shall be revealed, reveal Himself as (what? not Son of God) Son of man. Will reveal Hisself in a different way.”
Here we can see… further down it says:
“…but the Son of man. Who is the Son of man? The Word! And the Word is quicker than, powerful than a two-edged sword, and discerns the thoughts that’s in the heart…/ He’s here now…”
Further down it says:
“…the age of the Son of man being revealed, to bring these things in to fulfill the Word when all must be fulfilled.”
Now we can see that for this end time, just as there was a manifestation of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit in each prophet of the Old Testament and then a full manifestation in Jesus…, a manifestation of whom? The Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord.
Then for the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church there was a manifestation of the Holy Spirit, of the Angel of the Lord, of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit in each angel messenger; and there was a very great manifestation of Jesus Christ in the seventh angel messenger.
And for this end time, for the Age of the Cornerstone, we have the promise of the manifestation of the Angel of the Covenant, of the Angel of the Lord —which is Jesus Christ Himself in Holy Spirit—, to fulfill these promises in the Last Day, just as there was a manifestation of Christ in Holy Spirit in each angel messenger.
We saw Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, manifested in our brother Branham, carrying out countless things that were promised to be fulfilled through the seventh angel messenger; and all that manifestation was in mercy, according to the divine promise. But look, on page 22 and 23 of the book of Quotations it says5:
“The Son of man is now being revealed from heaven. ‘Will it come after while, Brother Branham?’ It is now. And I hope I won’t have to make this so personal of this own meeting, but that your spirit within you that’s give you by God, can read what I’m talking about. The Son of man has already come from glory and is revealing Himself for the past few years to His Church in mercy, showing them His great Presence, doing the same things that He did when He was here on earth, revealing Himself like He did to Abraham, before the destruction (that is, of Sodom and Gomorrah, before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah). He has come now in mercy, revealing Himself to the Church. It’s being laughed at and scoffed at. The next time He reveals Hisself, it’ll be in judgment on the world and the nations that’s forgot God and sinned their way of grace—their day of grace, rather, away (in other words, they sinned their time of grace that He granted them, that is, the Dispensation of Grace)…”
Now we can see that the manifestation of the Son of Man that was in our brother Branham continues forward, and it will be revealed, it will be manifested: after our brother Branham left, it will be manifested in judgment for the world; because the Third Pull is for the Church, that is, the Bride, it is for the foolish virgins and it is also for the world, in the manifestation of the Son of Man.
The manifestation of the Son of Man is the manifestation of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant in human flesh, in a man, in other words, in a prophet. And for this end time an intertwining is carried out between mercy and judgment, between the Dispensation of the Kingdom and the Dispensation of Grace, and all of that moves in the manifestation of the Son of Man.
When the call and gathering of all the elect of God is finished and the Mystical Body of Christ is completed, then Christ will end His time of intercession in Heaven and will come out of the Throne of Intercession, He will claim all that He has redeemed with His precious Blood, in other words, He will resurrect the dead in Christ in eternal bodies and He will transform us.
And from then on it is already a stage for divine judgment upon the human race, He will already be revealed in judgment; the foolish virgins will see that manifestation. They, well, just as Lot, will have that opportunity to escape, because they will receive and see that manifestation of Christ in all His fullness, they will see the manifestation of the Son of Man in all His fullness, and they will give their lives for Christ during the great tribulation; also 144.000 Hebrews.
For the world, the Son of Man (which is the manifestation of the Angel of the Lord, of the Angel of the Covenant, of Jesus Christ in the Holy Spirit in human flesh at the Last Day) He will announce the judgment that will come upon the human race. They will see in that stage —the whole world will see— the Coming of the Word incarnated in a man, the Word, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord manifested in human flesh in the fulfillment of the Coming of the Son of Man, announcing to them the divine judgment that will come upon the human race.
But before that, before the divine judgment falls, the sons and daughters of God, the descendants or heavenly seed of Abraham will already have been transformed, those who are alive will have been transformed and those who died will have been resurrected, before the divine judgment of the great tribulation falls on this planet Earth.
Now remember that Christ said that the days of the Son of Man or the Day when the Son of Man would reveal Himself, He would manifest Himself, He would make Himself known, would be like the days of whom? Of Lot, and also as in the days of Noah; and we are living in times parallel to those of Noah, and to those of Lot and Abraham, and also parallel to those of Moses when he went for the deliverance of the Hebrew people in Egypt.
We are living in those parallel times, we are living as in the days of Adam, as in the days of Seth, as in the days of Noah, as in the days of Abraham, as in the days of Moses, as in the days of Jesus; now we are living again as in those past days, where there was a dispensational prophet with the Message of God for that time.
We are living in parallel times, because every time a new dispensation begins, one is living in a time parallel to what each passed dispensation with the messenger of each dispensation was; and it was also represented, it was reflected in each age, when God sent each angel messenger; but where it is most reflected is in the times when He sends a dispensational prophet.
When He sends a dispensational prophet, then we take all the manifestations that were in prophets of ages and what happened in those ages, and we put it all together; and then the manifestation of the Angel of the Lord, of the Angel of the Covenant, in a dispensational messenger, it is as in the days of all those messengers who came in those past ages; in other words, it is as in the days of Saint Paul, Irenaeus, Martin, Columba, Luther, Wesley and our brother Branham.
See? Because you have to put together, then, when it is about a dispensational messenger, in which the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant comes manifested; then how is that manifestation?, it is gathering all the manifestations that were in each age, because it is a greater manifestation than there was in each age; that is why they are all gathered and then the type and figure is placed.
It is like in the days of Saint Paul, it is like in the days of Irenaeus, it is like in the days of Martin, Columba, Luther, Wesley and our brother Branham. That is why (how could we say it?) it will have traits or they had traits there, of what a new dispensation with a dispensational Message and a dispensational messenger would be, because it was already reflected back in the past.
That is why you see, when Jesus asked: “Who do men say that the Son of Man is?” The disciples began to say: “Some think that you are (let’s say) John the Baptist.” See? Because it looked like the days and ministry of John the Baptist. “Others think that you are (who?) Jeremiah,” because it was similar, because it had been reflected in Jeremiah’s time and so on; and they said: “Others think that you are one of the prophets.”
You see? Because everything that God was going to do in that full manifestation through Jesus had already been reflected in Jeremiah, had been reflected in Elijah and all the other prophets came before Jesus, and that is why all of them back then had some traits of what would be manifested in the Coming of the Son of Man in human flesh, in the person of Jesus of Nazareth.
Now, we can see, it is not that the time of Jesus had traits of those past times, but that those past times had traits of what would happen in the Coming of the Son of Man two thousand years ago.
And now, we can see the traits in past ages of what will be in this time, in the Coming of the Son of Man. For example, we have the trait of the Lion of the tribe of Judah, that was reflected in what time? In the time of Paul. We also have the head of an ox, that speaks of Ephraim; we also have the head of a man in the stage of Luther and the reformers; and we also have the stage of the eagle.
All of that, you see, that God will have in this time, it was already reflected in those past stages, because we will have all that there was in all ages in one age; because it is a perfect age, the Age of the Cornerstone, and it is for a new dispensation.
That is why, notice, the disciples of Jesus Christ being in a new age and in a new dispensation that was being opened, they were blessed people.
Christ said6: “Blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear. For many of the prophets and the righteous desired to see what you see, and did not see it; and hear what you hear, and did not hear it.” The prophets wanted to see all those things that they were seeing, which were prophecies of the Coming of the Son of Man, of the Coming of the Messiah, and the prophets could not see those things, except in their visions and dreams and prophecies, but those disciples were seeing it being fulfilled.
And now, you young people, you are living in a time where the dreams and visions of the prophets, relevant to this end time, are being seen by you and by me; in other words, we are seeing visions —visions of the prophets— already being fulfilled in our midst.
Now I ask you: What is greater and what produces more benefits: to see a vision of something that is going to happen or to see the fulfillment of that vision and believe it with all your heart? The fulfillment of the vision is the greatest. The foundation for the fulfillment of that vision is the prophecy. It was announced because God will do nothing unless He first reveals His secrets to His servants the prophets7.
And now, the disciples of Jesus Christ, seeing the fulfillment of those dreams, visions and prophecies, were more blessed than the prophets who had prophesied those things: “Blessed are your eyes for they see; and your ears, for they hear. For many of the prophets and the righteous desired to see what you see, but did not see it.” Now who were the blessed ones? Those who were seeing the fulfillment of those prophecies.
Throughout the Scripture we have the prophecies of the Coming of the Son of Man and we have the promise of the great blessing of standing before the Son of Man in the Last Day.
And now, we are the blessed ones who live in this time, in the time appointed by God, the time parallel to that of Noah, and to that of Lot and Abraham, the time for which He says8: “Pray, that you may be accounted worthy to stand before the Son of Man.”
And now where are the blessed ones of this time who would stand before the Son of Man? Well, here we are living in this end time, and seeing all these things that the prophets and righteous and apostles and seven angel messengers wanted to see and hear.
And now we are seeing it and we are hearing it in this end time, because this is the time for all of us to have this blessing; this is the time to stand before the Son of Man, before the Angel of the Lord, before the Angel of the Covenant, before Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh in His Angel Messenger.
This is the greatest blessing that was announced to be fulfilled in this end time for us, because all the blessings promised by Christ for His Church for this end time come all together with that blessing.
And always with the memory that we can’t be careless, because he who is careless, it happens to him like it happened to whom? Like Lot’s wife, he becomes a statue of salt9</a>; and that tells us that the person becomes spiritually barren; and he becomes useless spiritually, if he gets careless and doesn’t walk forward; while the others are walking forward, the person remains a statue and doesn’t go anywhere.
But remember Lot’s wife, who looked back and became a statue of salt. Let us not look back but forward, toward the divine goal.
This is the most glorious time of all times, let us walk forward, let us know that we are walking forward, escaping for our life.
We are as in the days of Lot and as in the days of Noah as well. For those days the divine judgment would fall upon the Earth and for this end time it will also fall upon the Earth; it was something inconceivable for those days and for this time also; but that divine judgment will come, but we will escape from that divine judgment, we will be transformed and taken to the House of our heavenly Father.
Remember Lot’s wife, that nothing similar should happen to anyone, but that we should stand firm like Abraham, hearing the Voice of God, the Voice of Elohim, and stand on top of Mount Zion, in the Age of the Cornerstone, knowing that we are going to be transformed very soon.
Let us be prepared, with our lives fixed before God, and working in the Work of Christ until it reaches the last of God’s elect. Let us be useful in the Work of Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone.
There is still a lot of work, every day more work appears. Notice, for us the work never decreases, the work, but each day increases more, because this is an age and a dispensation that has God’s blessing. There is no other age that has God’s blessing, only our age: the Age of the Cornerstone.
And the seventh age should decrease and the Age of the Cornerstone should grow; and the ministry of the seventh age, the ministry of the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ should decrease and the ministry of the Age of the Cornerstone should grow.
Didn’t John the Baptist say so when he spoke of Jesus Christ? For Jesus Christ was there in the Age of the Cornerstone and was the dispensational prophet placed in the Age of the Cornerstone, and when they said to him10: “Behold, he of whom you testified, now baptizes more persons than you and more people follow him than follow you.” John says: “It is convenient for Him to grow, and for me to decrease.” And so said the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.
Now you will be able to understand why every day the Work of God grows more and more in the Age of the Cornerstone: it is the age that is convenient for it to grow; and if it is convenient for it to grow, then it is convenient for us to work in the Work that is convenient to grow and has the blessing of God.
That is why, notice, with simple people God does great things that even people with doctorates can’t do; and yet, with simple young people they go out through a place or another place carrying the Message, and suddenly people arise believing the Message, a congregation arises here, another one over there; that is something that can’t be humanly explained, but it can be explained by the Word of God. Because it is good for Him to grow, and for everything else —the forerunner with all others of past ages— it is convenient to decrease.
This is also represented in nature when dawn is breaking: Who is better off decreasing? The Moon, and who should grow? The Sun, it is convenient for him to grow so that the whole Earth may light up. “And the Earth shall be filled (with what?) with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.11” Because the Earth will be enlightened with the Sun of Righteousness that rises in this Last Day, in the Last Day, which is the seventh millennium, in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone.
Well, remember Lot’s wife, not because it’s a good memory but a sad memory that we don’t want you to go through, but rather, that we are all transformed and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Remember that this is a time to escape, for it is a time as in the days of Lot and as in the days of Noah.
Now, remember that we will escape from the divine judgment, because for the days of Noah and for the days of Lot, notice, for the days of Noah, Enoch went away in the rapture, type and figure of us who will go with Christ in the rapture, in other words, in the catching away of His Church, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; and also in the days of Lot, Abraham was safe because he was at the top of the mountain there.
So we will only go through a squeeze that will come; but in those days, if we are not already transformed, we will be transformed. So let us all be prepared for our transformation, living according to the Word of God.
May God bless you, may God keep you, and thank you very much for your kind attention, young people, and bon appétit</em>; and see you in the morning activity, there in the Piramide.
God bless you and keep you, and with us Miguel Bermudez Marin.
God bless you.
“THE MEMORY THAT KEEPS US ALERT: REMEMBERING THE WIFE OF LOT.”
1 Genesis 19:17
2 Matthew 16:26
3 God’s provided place of worship – April 25, 1965
4 Proving His Word – August 16, 1964
5 The called-out – January 9, 1958
6 Matthew 13:16
7 Amos 3:7
8 Luke 21:36
9 Genesis 19:17, 24-26
10 John 3:26-30
11 Habakkuk 2:14