Good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren, mighty men of the Seventh Seal, mighty men of the Son of David. It is a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of fellowship around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time, to thus see through the Word of God our position as mighty men of God, mighty men of the Son of David at this end time.
We read in Deuteronomy 31 and verses 14 and on, 14 to 23 says:
“And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
And the Lord appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud: and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.
Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.
And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
Moses tells Joshua, and God also tells Joshua after Moses’ death: “Be strong and of a good courage,” because in order to cross over to the promised land, the person must be courageous; he cannot look at the negative circumstances that may surround him and get discouraged, rather, he must look at the promise God has made, and see that the time for the fulfillment of that promise has arrived, and walk forward until he obtains the fulfillment of that promise.
And now, Joshua had to be courageous, and along with him would be the mighty people, such as Caleb (Caleb, who was also courageous, a steadfast believer in what God had promised); and the rest of the people who would be under the direction of Joshua and Caleb had to be courageous in order to enter the promised land.
Notice, not believing in miracles means not believing in the Work God has done with the Hebrew people; not believing in the Work that God has done with the Hebrew people means not believing in miracles.
And now, a person who can see the Work that God has carried out with the Hebrew people from so many years ago until now, he must believe in miracles obligatorily, because it is a miracle that the Hebrew people are currently in their land, just as it was also a miracle that the Hebrew people entered the promised land that God had sworn to them.
And now, they had to be courageous. Mighty people are the ones who inherit the divine promises, because they are courageous and they use faith, they put it in the divine promises, and they are the ones who conquer those promises; they conquer them, they become a reality in their lives. They are people who fight and know that God is with them, because God has promised to be with them, and He has promised to give them that blessing, to fulfill that promise.
And notice, throughout biblical history, God has fulfilled His promises to the Hebrew people from age to age, and He has fulfilled His promises to His gentile Church from age to age. And won’t He fulfill the ones that remain? He has already fulfilled so many throughout the history of the human race that the ones that remain are few, and He will also fulfill them.
And now, the requirement is that a person believes the divine promises, to be a steadfast believer in God and His Word, and to be courageous; because God works with mighty people; even if they are few, but mighty.
On one occasion, we find that a mighty man was anointed by God; he was one of the judges of Israel; and he was going to have a battle against the enemies of the Hebrew people, and he had thousands of people, and God told him: “The people are too many (in other words, the army you are taking is too much). I will try them at the waters, and there, I will show you who will go and who will not go; but first, tell the people that whoever trembles (in other words, the fearful ones, those who tremble at the mention of war) and those who have gotten married, newlyweds, to return to their homes in the morning; they cannot go to war.1”
Just like those who are flat-footed: they cannot go to war, that person only makes it halfway; and those who have heart problems are also not wanted in the war, those do not go anywhere either. They are a burden, because later on, they have to be carried, and then two people are needed, who are two good soldiers who are there at war, two people are needed to carry that person who was useless; he might as well stay home and let his wife take care of him there.
And now, mighty people are needed. When that was said… Who was the one who said that?, how many of you remember? Who was the man who God sent? Gideon.
Do you remember the sign of the fleece? That is, is not a vellón2 coin, but a fleece of sheepskin that was placed, and at night, well, it got full of dew (that was a sign). And so, for the next occasion, then Gideon spoke with God, and there was an agreement that the next sign would be that the fleece would be dry in the morning, without dew; since it is normal for it to appear with dew on the next day in the early morning, because dew falls at night; but now, as a second sign, it would be dry in the morning, as a sign from God3.
But now, notice, Gideon could not go to war with a bunch of people who were not courageous; and thousands of people left when he told all those who tremble at the mention of war and those who had gotten married, to go, a great multitude left there.
Then, God told him: “Now, the ones who are left, bring them down to the water, and I will try them there; and all those who drink the water a certain way, set them apart, and those who drink the other way, set them apart”; and God told Gideon: “Only these people will go to war with you. The rest can go home.” And only three hundred people were chosen by God to go to that war, and thousands of people had been with Gideon.
Now, why does God work that way? Because what God needs are mighty people to carry out the battle and obtain the victory; and those who are not courageous cause problems along the way.
Now, notice how God does not obtain – He does not win battles with armies or with power, but with His Spirit; it is with the power of God that the battle is won.
Gideon was the sixth judge; it is in chapter 6 and also chapter 7, of Judges, and he came from the family of Manasseh and he was the youngest in his home, but he was the one to whom the Angel of the Lord appeared. It says chapter 6, verse 11 and on:
“And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.”
To whom did He appear? To a valiant man; he was not a lazy man, he was a mighty man, a hard-working man who strived; and notice, he was working here, working in the task of threshing the wheat, cleaning the wheat, to hide it, put it in a safe place, because of the war there was with the Midianites; and that is whom the Angel of the Lord appeared to: a valiant and mighty man.
“And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites.
And the Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?”
Notice who was the one sent by the Lord.
The Lord and the Angel of the Lord are the same, because it is God Himself, the Lord Himself in His theophanic body. He appeared to him here as a man, but from another dimension, from the sixth dimension.
“And he said unto him (Gideon responded to Him): Oh my Lord…”
Now, notice how Gideon understood that it was the Lord, that it was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Hopefully all the elect of God have recognized Him that way in the different stages in which He has been manifested through a messenger in each time, because that is how He should be recognized, time after time, when He manifests Himself through a messenger; but seeing that the messenger is not the Lord, but rather, the instrument of the Lord, the instrument of the Angel of the Covenant.
And now, it says:
“And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”
Now notice, he was from the seed of Joseph; he was from the tribe of Manasseh, who was the oldest son of Joseph and had received a blessing after God —through Jacob— blessed Ephraim; then He gave the blessing for Manasseh. Therefore, notice, he came from the seed of Joseph, where that Birthright Blessing was.
“And the Lord said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.
And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.
Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.”
Notice, the Angel waited for Gideon. Sometimes the Angel waits for the messenger, for the one He has sent, and other times, the one who is sent waits for the Angel of the Lord.
“I will tarry until thou come again.
And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak (in other words, under a tree) and presented it.
And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.
Then the angel of the Lord put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand (in other words, a stick, a rod), and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.
And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel of the Lord, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord God! for because I have seen an angel of the Lord face to face.
And the Lord said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.”
Because just as… Further on, we also find that Samson’s parents saw God face to face, but notice, they saw God face to face veiled in the theophanic body, in God’s theophanic body, which is called the Angel of the Covenant or the Angel of the Lord. And now, God tells him:
“And the Lord said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.”
Because the Scripture says… God told Moses, when Moses wanted to see God face to face, God told Moses4: “Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.” And now here Gideon is seeing God face to face, and now the Lord tells him: “Thou shalt not die.”
Now, he was seeing God, the Angel of the Lord, who is God Himself, he was seeing Him face to face; just as later on, Samson’s parents would also see the Angel of the Lord face to face (in chapter 13 of the book of Judges), and they would think they were going to die.
Manoah and his wife, notice, saw the Angel of the Lord face to face, who is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; but they were seeing Him face to face in His theophanic veil of the sixth dimension, in His theophanic body of the sixth dimension. They could not see Him without Him being veiled, and He was veiled in His theophanic body of the sixth dimension.
For the Church of Jesus Christ, we find that throughout history, the Angel of the Lord was made flesh in the person of Jesus, and those who were seeing Jesus, were seeing God face to face.
Jesus Christ, when Philip told Him: “Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us”…, because Jesus spoke so much about the Father, that now they wanted to see the Father; and Jesus tells him: “Have I been with you for so long, Philip, and yet you have not known me? Do you not know that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, and he that has seen me has seen the Father?5”
And now, how was it possible for them to be seeing the heavenly Father, God? They were seeing God veiled in His theophanic body, in other words, they were seeing the veil of flesh that the heavenly Father had in that manifestation, in the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah, in the fulfillment of the First Coming of Christ.
For the Last Day, what does Saint Paul say? He says6: “For now we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. For now we see through a glass, as in darkness, (or, ‘as through a mirror in darkness’), but then, we will see (how?) face to face. Now we know in part; but then we will know as we are also known.”
How will we see? Face to face, because we are going to be seeing the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, at the Last Day, manifested in human flesh. That will be the Coming of the Word, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, this Angel who appeared to Gideon, who also appeared to the parents of Samson. This Angel who appeared to Moses and told him: “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,” this Angel was the one who was made flesh and lived among human beings, among the Hebrew people, and He was called (the veil of flesh in which He was living)… was called Jesus.
And now, for the Last Day, we find that throughout the ages, He has been manifested through His angel messengers from each age in the portion pertaining to each age; He is the one who has been speaking through those seven angel messengers, just as He spoke in the Old Testament through the prophets. And just as He used the prophets in the Old Testament and He used the judges in the Old Testament and He used Moses, He has also used these messengers of these seven gentile Church ages.
And for the Last Day, He will be using His Angel Messenger in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, and He will be manifested in His Angel Messenger, He will be manifested in human flesh in His Angel Messenger; and we will be seeing the Angel of the Lord face to face, but veiled in human flesh in His Angel Messenger.
That is for the end time to be seeing face to face: to be seeing the one who has been manifesting Himself throughout biblical history from age to age and throughout the different dispensations, and manifesting Himself through human flesh in the different prophet messengers He has sent; and in Jesus, He manifested Himself in all His fullness.
And for the Last Day, He will be manifested in His Angel Messenger; and that will be the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, the Coming of the King of kings and Lord of lords, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Coming of the Word, the Coming of the Word that was made flesh two thousand years ago and lived among the Hebrew people and was known by the name of Jesus.
For the Last Day, the Word, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, comes again, veiled in human flesh in His Angel Messenger; and through His Angel Messenger, He will be testifying to us all these that must happen soon; and we will be seeing the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant (which is the same Jesus Christ), veiled in human flesh in His Angel Messenger.
Now, His Angel Messenger is not the Lord Jesus Christ, neither is he the prophet Elijah, neither is he the prophet Moses; but since these ministries of Jesus, Moses and Elijah are ministries that the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, has manifested in Elijah the Tishbite as well as in Elisha, in John the Baptist and in Reverend William Branham, He will be manifesting —that ministry of Elijah— again in His Angel Messenger at the Last Day, meaning, in the seventh millennium and in the Age of the Cornerstone.
And by being veiled in His Angel Messenger, He will also be manifesting the ministry of Moses for the second time, because the Angel of the Covenant was the one who manifested that ministry through the prophet Moses for the deliverance of the Hebrew people; and He will also be manifesting the ministry of Jesus for the second time, because He was the one who manifested that ministry that was seen in Jesus of Nazareth working for three and a half years among Israel.
And now, for the Last Day, we will have the ministries of Moses, Elijah and Jesus manifested by the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in His Angel Messenger, according to the divine promise for the end time; and we will be seeing the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant face to face, but veiled in His Angel Messenger.
Therefore, what we will be seeing is the veil of flesh where the Angel of the Covenant will be manifested; and thus, we will be hearing Him through human flesh, and we will be obtaining the blessings that He will be speaking for all the sons and daughters of God.
And by receiving that spoken Word, which is the creative spoken Word of God, that Word will be materialized in each one of us when we receive It in our soul, and believe It with all our soul.
And now, notice how it happened in past times. Notice how this same Angel of the Covenant is the main character of the entire Bible, there is no other; it is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who is God Himself in His theophanic body manifesting Himself through His prophets of the Old Testament of different dispensations and different ages, and then, manifesting Himself in human flesh in the person of Jesus.
That is why Jesus could say: “Before Abraham was, I am”; and He could say: “Abraham desired to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad.7” How did he see Him? He saw Him veiled in His visible body, which was manifested there because God appeared to him in His theophanic body, and the Archangels Gabriel and Michael also appeared with Elohim.
We find that God can create Himself a body like ours, out of the dust of the ground, to use it for a few hours, and then He makes it disappear again and He goes on with His theophanic body manifested in the sixth dimension, and never again do they see that physical body through which He manifested Himself temporarily, temporarily with Abraham there.
Now, notice, He also revealed Himself to Abraham as Melchizedek long before that occasion when He ate with Abraham before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; but notice, it is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who is the same Eternal Being that was in the veil of flesh named Jesus. That is why Jesus could say that, where was the Father?, in Him, and He could say: “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.” Why? Because he was seeing the heavenly Father clothed in human flesh.
And now, I can tell you and you can tell me… You can tell me that I am seeing you when I am seeing your physical body, why? Because that is where you are; and I can tell you that you are seeing me when you are seeing my body, because there, in this body, is where I am.
Although, if we go in depth, to the root of what it means to see a person, then you can also tell me: “But even if you are seeing my physical body, you are not seeing me.” Why? Because you are a living soul, and when I look at you, I cannot see your soul, but your physical body in which you are manifested; and when you see me, you can only see my physical body, but you cannot see my soul. Therefore, you see me, but you do not see me, and I see you, but I do not see you; but that is how it is in this dimension.
And now, it is the same way with God as well. The Scripture says that no man has seen God at any time8. And how is it possible for there to be people who say they have seen God face to face? Because they have seen Him in His theophanic body of the sixth dimension, called the Word of God, which is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord; and others also saw Him veiled in human flesh in the person of Jesus, and they were seeing God face to face, but face to face in and with His veil of flesh.
And those who saw God’s manifestation in the prophets of the Old Testament also saw God manifested in human flesh in those prophets. And those who saw the apostles and saw the seven angel messengers being used by the Holy Spirit, by the Angel of the Covenant, by Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in them, they were seeing God; they were seeing Him veiled and revealed in the portion pertaining to each age. And now it is our turn to see God, to see Jesus Christ, to see the Angel of the Covenant face to face, veiled in His Angel Messenger at this end time.
But notice what God tells Gideon: “Fear not, thou shalt not die.” Why? Because what we will be seeing is the veil of flesh where He will be manifested, but we will not literally see God face to face, as Moses wanted to see God; we will only be seeing the veil of flesh where God will be manifested.
One can still see the veil of flesh where God is manifested and not die, and one can still see the theophanic veil of God (the theophanic body of God from the sixth dimension) and not die. But if one sees who is in that veil of flesh and is in that theophanic body, if one sees Him face to face, that is sure death; but while He is veiled in His theophanic body or in a body of flesh, the person does not die, rather, he receives blessings from God.
And now, for the Last Day, there will be mighty people of the Seventh Seal, mighty people of the Son of Man, mighty men and women of the Son of David, mighty people of the Son of Man and the Son of David, in the manifestation of the Son of Man and Son of David in human flesh in His Angel Messenger, who will be seeing the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh in His Angel Messenger, and they will be working with that Angel Messenger in all the Work of Christ of this Last Day; therefore, they will be working in the Work (of whom?) of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, they will be working in the Work of God of this Last Day to reach the promised land of the new body and the promised land of the glorious Millennial Kingdom. That is why we must be (what?) mighty and valiant people at this Last Day.
Notice, mighty people are always like the rest of the people, but they are people of valor; and that means that they do more than the rest of the human beings; and they are courageous, therefore, they face the challenge of that time, they face the work of that time and they walk forward working in that work without dismay; and God blesses them greatly, because they are courageous people and they are mighty people who do not care how long they have to work to carry out the Work of God pertaining to that time.
They are not people who are always complaining, rather, they are people who are always thanking God for the privilege of working in His Work at this end time; just as those who worked in the Work of God from past ages and dispensations were very grateful, and they were mighty and they were blessed people at the time in which they lived.
In the time of king David, there were also mighty men of David. The Scripture says that he had a number of mighty men by his side who were always with him working hand in hand in the Work of God, which was the work of the establishment of the kingdom of David, because under that kingdom, that reign of David, God manifested in king David would be ruling over the Hebrew people.
On page, let us see, Second Samuel, chapter 23, verse 8 to 39, tells us about the mighty men of the Son of David. (I do not want to read too much here). Let us see, chapter 23, verse 8 and on, says:
“These be the names of the mighty men whom David had: The Tachmonite that sat in the seat, chief among the captains; the same was Adino the Eznite: he lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time (was he mighty or not?).
And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away:
He arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword (and what did his hand stick to?, to the sword). And the Lord wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.”
One man alone with a sword in his hand, notice what he did: he destroyed the enemy army; and then, the rest of the people came after him, but not to fight, but to collect the spoils, to gather everything that belonged to that army, which had been defeated by one man alone.
“And after him was Shammah the son of Agee the Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where was a piece of ground full of lentiles: and the people fled from the Philistines.
But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and slew the Philistines: and the Lord wrought a great victory.”
Notice, with one mighty man alone, God gives a great victory, but with a bunch of fearful people, you cannot obtain victory. Notice, it says that the people had fled and only one person remained in the middle of that field, defending that ground, that field, and God gave the victory through one man alone.
And now:
“And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate (when he said this, he was speaking anointed by the Spirit of God).
And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord.
And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.
And Abishai, the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief among three, (in other words, from among the thirty mighty men). And he lifted up his spear against three hundred, and slew them, and had the name among three.”
Now notice how these mighty men obtained the victory: it was not by great armies, but by the blessing of God.
In verse 39, it says (referring to the last one):
“Uriah the Hittite (the last one)<em>; thirty and seven in all (thirty seven mighty men).”
Notice, with thirty-seven mighty army men, notice, God worked in favor of David for him to be placed on the throne and remain on the throne. Now we can see that the rest of the army was subject to those thirty-seven mighty men.
God puts mighty people in a very important position in His Kingdom, but first, one must be courageous to reach that position.
May God raise great mighty people in His Mystical Body of believers at this end time, may He anoint them at this time and put courage in their hearts, in their souls and in all their being, to fight and work in the Work of Christ at this Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and the Dispensation of the Kingdom, until we see the dead in Christ resurrected in eternal bodies and we are changed; and go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven; and then return and begin the glorious Millennial Kingdom of Christ, and see Christ sitting on His Throne: the Throne of David; because He is the heir to the Throne of David. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
We have seen how important a mighty person is in the Divine Program. When a person is a mighty man or woman in the Divine Program, in the Work of God, he or she has God’s blessings.
Onward, mighty men and women of the Son of David, at this end time!
All the mighty men and women of the Son of David, all the mighty people of Christ from the past ages will have a very big reward; and all the mighty people of Christ from this end time will also have a very big reward.
He says: “Behold, I come quickly, and my reward with me, to give every man according as his work shall be (in other words, according to his work),” Revelation 22, verse 12; and Matthew, chapter 16, verse 27, where Jesus says that the Son of Man is coming with His Angels, He is coming in the Kingdom of His Father with His Angels. Let us see how He says it here, so you can memorize it well:
“For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.”
Because “your labor is not in vain in the Lord,” Saint Paul the apostle says9. So all the work we do here on Earth… Some people say: “Why do they work so much? Are they working for a church or for a religion or for some man?” Do you know something? We are working for ourselves. When we work for God, for Christ, then when He gives His children their reward, who receives the benefit? Well, we do.
They tell a…, it is more like a parable of a rich man who had his children, and he told one of his children (the oldest son), whom he entrusted to do many things, he told him: “Listen, build me a home there, a house,” and the son prepared everything. And the son thought: “If I start to prepare a very beautiful and big house, then when my father dies, this may be for so-and-so or so-and-so; that is, the inheritance, well, this may all be for someone else”; and he built him a small house.
And after he finishes it, the father tells him…, when the son tells him: “Dad, the home is finished, the house; I finished it. Since you told me to make you a house, well, I did it already, it is ready, it is finished.” He tells him: “Son, that is your inheritance.”
How would that son have felt? If he had known that what he would inherit would be that house with that small land, he would have made a palace, right?
Remember, that which God will give us as a reward is that which we have worked in His Work. He shall reward every man according to his (what?) his works (I read this to you in two passages)10.
Perhaps that son thought he was receiving a large inheritance, but he made a small thing; well, that was what he had as an inheritance for him.
My desire for all of you is that the inheritance for each one of you be the greatest one that can be received by the sons and daughters of God from all the other ages; that the inheritance you receive (and I receive as well) be the greatest inheritance of all; but we have to work for that, we have to be courageous and be (what?) mighty.
One has to strive, not expect all things to be done without any effort. A lazy person is the only one who wants everything to be done without even touching a nail in a construction; but a mighty person gets down to it and gets to work in that work as well; and God is seeing who are the ones working in His Work.
It is like Jesus said (it is also good for all of us to know this and be able to say this from the depths of our soul, of our heart): “I must be about my Father’s business.11” And how? Well, by working in our heavenly Father’s business.
Now notice, people on this Earth work for twenty, thirty, forty years and up to fifty years in a company, and after a certain number of years, they reach an age where they are no longer even wanted in the company; they send them home, and there, they get some money from social security, and I do not know if the company also gives them some money, some money from what they have accumulated there, and then they have nothing else. When they die, well, it’s over; and in the next life, that company cannot send them a check to another dimension for them to cash it there.
However, Christ says12: “Where my servants are…” – “Where I am, there will My servants also be.” And He says that He will give every man according as his work shall be; and when we are with Him, living in the Millennium and throughout eternity, we will be enjoying the rewards He will give us for the works we have carried out in His Work.
So make the house very big, because the house you make is for you, the work you do in the Work of Christ.
Be (what?) courageous and valiant, working in the Work of Christ! Be a true mighty man or woman of the Son of David!
And, remember, let us work hard in the Kingdom of God and let us be courageous, because what we are working, what we are building, is for whom? It is for us. The benefits are for all of us, because we are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ Jesus our Lord.
Well, may God bless you and keep you all.
“THE MIGHTY MEN OF THE SEVENTH SEAL.”
1 Judges 7:2-4
2 Vellón: Five cent coin in Puerto Rico
3 Judges 6:36-40
4 Exodus 33:20
5 John 14:8-10
6 First Corinthians 13:9-10, 12
7 John 8:56-58
8 John 1:18
9 First Corinthians 15:58
10 Romans 2:6; Job 34:11
11 Luke 2:49
12 John 12:26