THE MOURNING OF
THE NATIONS WHEN THEY
SEE THE COMING OF
THE SON OF MAN
Rev. William Soto Santiago
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Cayey, Puerto Rico
Congratulations to all the mothers in this your day, all mothers present and those in different nations, may the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon you all, and may He greatly bless you and use you greatly in His Kingdom in this end time, and may you be of great help and blessing to your children guiding them in the way of God. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
And very good morning to all present and to everyone in other nations. We read the Book of Matthew, chapter 24, verses 27 onwards, it says:
“For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
But as the days of Noah were, 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 Noah entered into the ark,
And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and bless His Word in our souls and allow us to understand It. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
We take the Scripture that Jesus speaks in verse 30 of chapter 24:
“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
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“THE MOURNING OF THE NATIONS WHEN THEY SEE THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN.” That’s our theme for this occasion.
Through the Scriptures we find that the coming of the Son of Man for the Last Day has been spoken of, it has been prophesied. When we speak about the Coming of the Son of Man, we are speaking of the Coming of the Lord for the end time, and the Scripture says that there will come a time of great tribulation, it will be a time when the powers of Heaven will be shaken, it will be a time where there will be many problems on Earth, earthquakes, seaquakes, as He tells us in Luke, chapter 21, verses 25 and onwards, it says:
“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations
(in other words, time of trouble among the people, time of mourning among the people), with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Because of the seaquakes and earthquakes, tsunamis, and so on, because when an earthquake occurs, then it is followed by a tsunami, large waves that cover the coasts, and many people perish in these seaquakes, in these tsunamis:
“…Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth…”
And it’s speaking about this end time, and science has shown that serious problems are coming upon the human race, the human family, on the entire planet Earth, due to environmental problems and other problems, economic problems are also coming upon humanity.
Therefore there is mourning in the nations. The nations are mourning and at this stage where it is only birth pains and those pains are getting worse every day; but the Church Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ will not go through the hard part on this earth, but She will be in Heaven with Christ at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
But those who remain here on Earth will suffer that difficult stage which is known in the midst of Christianity known as the great tribulation, where the judgments of God will fall upon the human race and where the problems will be so great in the Earth that some will wish to die.
All the volcanoes will be activated, will be then activated, volcanic ash and lava will come out of these places, out of these volcanoes, and all that is eventually going to work for good to prepare the Earth for the Kingdom of the Messiah; but while it occurs, the problems will be very grave for different nations. It continues saying:
“Men’s hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.”
Also Matthew says that they will be shaken, we read here verse 29 of Matthew 24 says:
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.”
Hebrews, chapter 12, verses 25 and onwards, says:
“See that you refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven.
Whose voice then shook the earth, but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.”
Notice, Paul also prophesied of that which is to come. Also Haggai, Chapter 2, verse 5 onwards, speaks this, where Paul took it from, and Jesus took it from there also. Haggai, Chapter 2, verse 6 onwards says:
“For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land
(the sea and the earth with the earthquakes, seaquakes, tsunamis, all these things that shall come, and the activated volcanoes);
And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.”
And now, for the Last Day the glory of God will come upon the Church of the Jesus Christ and the Church will be filled with the glory of God, the Lord’s Church will be glorified, every believer in Christ will be glorified, will be transformed, to be carried with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and the dead will be raised in glorified bodies.
The born again believers in Christ that are alive will not be on Earth, they are not going to be on Earth at the time of the great tribulation also called Jacob’s squeeze, back in Chapter 30 of Jeremiah speaks about this too.
We are living in a time when we are seeing all the signs. Look here what Luke continues saying… then I read: “For the powers of heaven shall be shaken,” then verse 27 of this same chapter 21 continues:
“And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”
Our redemption is the redemption of the body, the glorification, the transformation for the living and the resurrection in eternal bodies for those born again believers in Christ who died, and we’ve been seeing all these prophetic things happening and others are in process to be fulfilled .
Let’s see Revelation, Chapter 6, which says, verse 2 onwards, this is when the Sixth Seal is being opened, and the Sixth Seal are the ministries of Moses and Elijah on the Last Day to call and gather one hundred forty-four thousand Jews, twelve thousand from each tribe, Chapter 6, verse 12 onwards of Revelation, says:
“And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake
(here we see that the Sixth Seal begins with an earthquake); and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood (the same thing Jesus prophesied and the same as Paul prophesied in Chapter 12, verses 25 to 29, in the book of Hebrews);
And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind
(here it is already shown what will be happening, in other words, it is shown how the fulfillment of that prophecy will be).
And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.”
It is important to pray for the island of Puerto Rico because this prophecy speaks of the islands, and we pray that God may save the island of Puerto Rico. The Shield of Puerto Rico has a lamb on a book with seven seals, the book of Revelation has Seven seals, so Puerto Rico, the island of the Lamb, we want it to be delivered by the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ our Savior.
If Puerto Rico is the island of the Lamb, Puerto Rico is the island of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s Island, it is an island that belongs to Christ, and the whole Earth is of God and belongs to Christ, because Christ is the heir and we are joint heirs with Christ:
“And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?”
And who will be able to stand? Here it speaks of the Day of wrath of the Lamb, the Day of the wrath of Christ, where God’s judgment will fall upon the human race. Christ will judge the world, so Christ, the Lamb, will be as the Lion of the tribe of Judah as it appears in the Book of Seals, or the Book of Revelation, chapter 5, verses 1 onwards, where someone was called to open the Book, and a Mighty Angel making the call, because the time had come for the Title Deed to be open where the names of all members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ are written before the foundation of the world.
And if no one appeared to take the Book and to make the claim, everything was lost, everything would go back to how it was before the creation. Therefore, the situation of the human beings in the presence of God was very difficult; let’s say three times the human race has been in danger of disappearing, and if we count other times, too.
There was a time in which the human race was at risk and lost its life, eternal Life, it was at the time of Adam and Eve; then at Noah’s time the human race was at risk of losing physical life, but there was a just man called Noah, who offered the sacrifice for his sins and of his family to God, and God looked down and saw a just man, and God does not destroy the just with the unjust and thus He revealed Himself to him, for he was a prophet, and told him how to escape the coming judgment. At that time the human family was also at risk of disappearing.
The other occasion was losing physical life, for the human race had already lost eternal Life and only temporary life was left, physical life, to live for a while here on Earth, then to die and then to go to the final judgment .
And now we find that the other occasion was in the days of Jesus, Christ said in John, chapter 12, verse 24: “Except a corn of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it abides alone: but if it falls on the ground and dies, it bears much fruit.” That was the time when mankind was in danger of disappearing, of losing physical life, and therefore of disappearing from this planet Earth, because of their sins.
Now you’ll notice that sin has always been the cause for the human family, for the human race, to be at risk of disappearing at different times; as sin was the cause of death to eternal Life of Adam and Eve and therefore of the descendants of Adam and Eve, because death was already there, but not in the human family; at that time there was already death in the kingdom of darkness and consequently in the members of the kingdom of darkness, and therefore death already existed in the race of the serpent.
Now, Christ in Gethsemane had the most important moment where He had to decide whether to let the human race die, or if He gave His Life for the human race, He said: “Let this cup pass from me,” said Christ to The Father, but said: “Not as I will, but as thou wilt.” He Made His request more than once, He surrendered to the will of God, as God intended it to be done, so Christ said: “But let Thy will be done.” He accepted, and God laid on Him the iniquity of us all, He became sin for us, and thus He became mortal; He was not glorified, and therefore He could take our sins and become mortal, because He came in a body of flesh which could taste death for us, for which He had to take our sins, because He Himself was sinless and therefore no one could take His Life, He said, “Nobody takes my life, I lay it down to take it again. “
When He took our sins, then there He became mortal and died for us on Calvary’s Cross, our sins were the cause for Him to die, He took away our sins, He became like us to make us to become like Him, to give us eternal Life: “My sheep hear my Voice and they follow me, and I know them and I give them eternal Life, and they shall never perish. My Father which gave them me is greater than all and no one can pluck them out from the hand of my Father “(John, chapter 10, verses 27 to 30). He says: “The Father and I are one.” (John, chapter 10, verse 30).
And now we see how Christ prevented the human race to die unto physical life, the human race had already died unto eternal Life at the time of Adam, and at the time of Noah they died to physical life, but with Noah the life of the human race continued, with Noah and his family.
And then in the time of Jesus, Jesus prevented the human race to disappear. Thanks to Jesus who died for us on the Cross of Calvary that we might have life and thus we can make contact with eternal Life which is Christ, and to be restored to eternal Life by receiving Him, by hearing the preaching the Gospel of Christ, so that the faith of Christ is born in our soul and we bear public testimony of our faith in Christ for salvation, because faith comes by hearing the Word, the Gospel of Christ, with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Therefore, it is important to hear the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, which is why Christ said:
“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be damned.”
Human beings only have two things to choose from before God and must choose one of them: either life or death, believe to be saved, or disbelieve to be condemned, and not to believe amounts to not receiving Christ as Savior, because not receiving Him amounts to not believing in Christ.
Therefore, the human being is again in danger of becoming extinct. The human race has reached its most dangerous time of all time. See here how the reading we had tells us that people will pray to the rocks, for the rocks to fall upon them and to hide them from the face of Him who sits on the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, of Christ: “For the great day of His wrath is come, and who shall stand?”
Notice, the same thing here in Revelation, chapter 14, remember that God does not bring the world to trial without first warning it of what is to come. Chapter 14, verse 6 to 7, says:
“And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, Saying with a loud voice,
Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.”
Here we find this Angel messenger with the everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, to every nation, kindred, tongue and people. In Revelation, Chapter 10, Christ brings the Title Deed to the Earth, which Christ takes in Heaven, in chapter 5, from the right hand of Him who sits on the Throne of the Father, He opens it in Heaven and then He brings that Book opened to Earth; the Book that was sealed with Seven Seals; now Christ opened It in Heaven and brings It to Earth and gives It to a man to eat It, and then He says: “Thou must prophesy again over … ” Chapter 10, verse 8 to 11, says:
“And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.
And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up…”
A book that can be eaten, is the Book sealed with Seven Seals being opened in Heaven, It is the Word of God. Then He says:
“And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey
(what is sweeter than honey? The Word of God).
And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.”
The problems and sufferings that will come upon him as he eats the Book, because he then has to speak the entire contents of that Book, in other words, he has to prophesy the content of this Book:
“And he said, Thou must prophesy again over many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.”
And then Revelation 11, follows, which is the ministry of the two Olives Trees, Moses and Elijah, prophesying things that will come to pass, like Moses in Egypt prophesying things that would happen in Egypt, the divine judgment that was to fall upon the Egyptians, according to what God told Abraham in Genesis, chapter 15, verses 12 to 19, and it reads as follows for you to have a clear picture of what Moses had to speak … Chapter 15, verse 12 onwards it says … of Genesis:
“And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.”
Now notice, God tells Abraham that his descendants will live in a strange land and they will be enslaved in that land, in that foreign nation, but that they will enslaved there for four hundred years, and it says:
“And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge (the divine judgment would come upon that nation): and afterward shall they come out with great substance.”
After that judgment they would come out with great wealth. When Moses arrived in Egypt to deliver the Hebrew people, as God’s instrument in whom was God in Holy Spirit, the Pillar of Fire working for the liberation of the Hebrews, in Exodus, chapter 3 onwards we find that God says to Moses that He will put His Word in his mouth and he will speak everything God tells him; that’s how God would carry out His program for the deliverance of Israel.
Remember that Moses, when God sent him to speak to the people and to speak to Pharaoh, Moses says he was a person who was slow of speech, that he was not fluent, he was a stutterer, he had a problem, and God gives him an assistant, his brother Aaron and God says… God became angry with Moses, God was angry with Moses because he asked for an assistant, and God wanted Moses to speak despite the trouble with speaking, “The Lord said …” Notice, verse 10 of Chapter 4 of Exodus:
“And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.
And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.
And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.”
And now, Aaron could not say what he thought or whatever he might think, Aaron had to say what Moses told him to speak to the people. You see, God’s message was given to Moses, God put it in the mouth of Moses, and Moses spoke to Aaron so that Aaron would speak to the people; which was the Word of God.
Plagues came that way too: God would reveal Himself to Moses and would tell Moses what to speak, and Moses spoke it to Aaron, and Aaron spoke to the people for all the people to know the judgment that was to come, so it was with each one of those plagues, the ten plagues were spoken by God through Moses, and Moses spoke them to Aaron and Aaron spoke them to the people. It was the Word of God, the creative Word of God being spoken and being materialized in these plagues, it was God’s judgment being spoken to fall upon Egypt.
And now, under the ministry of Moses and Elijah, these plagues will be repeated according to the Book of Revelation, they are the two Olive Trees of Malachi, Chapter 3 and Chapter 4, the two Olive Trees bringing the Word, and of Zechariah, chapter 4, verses 11 to 14.
Therefore, a difficult time for the human race is approaching. But God will warn mankind of each plague to come, they will be revealed under the ministry of the two Olive Trees, Moses and Elijah; those are the ministries of Moses and Elijah being repeated for the Last Day.
Elijah will not be the Elijah who came there thousands of years ago, but it will be a man anointed with the ministry of Elijah, and Moses will be the same, because when God speaks of a prophet or a ministry of a prophet who already came once, and says he will return, it will be the Holy Spirit operating that ministry in another person, as simple as that will be the fulfillment of the two Olive Trees, Moses and Elijah, for the plagues that are spoken to come upon the human race to be fulfilled, just as it was at the time of Moses.
Therefore, there will be a warning, and people should take caution when the warning comes out, or from now, knowing that this will happen, take precautions, and the greatest precaution you can take is to be in Christ, having received Him as only and sufficient Savior, because that is the only way to escape from these plagues, those divine judgments that are to come upon the human race. There is no other way to escape from those divine judgments. Those who are here on Earth will experience these judgments of God, each in the nation in which he/she lives.
But God’s elect, the members of the Mystical Body of Christ, they will go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb to Heaven, with eternal, immortal, glorified bodies, as the glorified body of Christ our Savior.
But the nations will be mourning; the mourning of the nations will be great at that time, the time of the great tribulation, they are already complaining about the economic problems, when there are financial problems in the households, there is lamentation, the father laments, the mother laments, “no work, no money, we don’t have money to shop,” that’s mourning, they are mourning, “we do have money for clothes, no money for the expenses for children,” and hungry children and asking for food and lamenting also, in other words, the situation, when that happens, it’s sad.
And so the nations, peoples as nations, will also be mourning, because their ploblems cannot be solved, and it seems that that mourning has been gradually coming in, but it is starting with the economic problems that exist and the environmental problems. But that is just the beginning, or the pains or the first storm winds, announcing that a very great storm is coming, and it will be so great which never was on Earth.
But we should not have fear, it is for us to be aware that we need Christ as our only and sufficient Savior. By receiving Him as our only and sufficient Saviour, that situation will go away from the heart of the people, that groaning will go away, that cry, from the hearts of people, that distress will go away from the people, and they will be living on this Earth with confidence.
In the good times and bad times with Christ, we will go through all the stages that are lacking for us here on Earth, “as thou hast been faithful in the little,” says Christ to the faithful servants, to the wise servants who have entered the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Christ.
Therefore it is important to be within the Kingdom of God. If anyone has received Christ as Savior, he is a new creature, old things have passed away, all things become new. “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature,” there’s a new world with great divine promises of great blessings for me, and for who else? For each of you also.
Therefore, beyond the problems that exist on Earth, we look at the blessings God has for all believers in Christ, and we look at the goal, which is our transformation, the glorification of the body, the adoption, the redemption of the body, and the going away with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, to Heaven, to enjoy the greatest blessing while the planet Earth will be going through the divine judgments of the great tribulation, which will last for three and a half years.
So, it’s important to be in Christ, it is important having received Him as our only and sufficient Savior before He finishes His Work of intercession in Heaven, because when He finishes, He leaves the Throne of Intercession where He is as High Priest and there will no longer be opportunity of salvation for anyone, there will not be opportunity for people to say: “Now I want to receive Christ,” but that does not mean that they can become part of the Mystical Body of Christ, because the Mystical Body of Christ will already be completed, and after that all believers in Christ will be transformed, which are the members of the Mystical Body of Christ, members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And after we shall be adopted or changed, we will no longer mourn for anything, no mourning but joy, joy in our hearts, to go then to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, but the nations will continue lamenting every day more and more, and the nations will be very sad, but the believers in Christ will be very happy with Christ in the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, and that joy will begin here on Earth in the Coming of the Lord, when He transforms us, there the greatest jubilee that has ever been performed in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will begin.
The important thing is then to have received Christ as only and sufficient Savior and to have been baptized in water in His Name and to have received the Spirit of Christ, for which the person has had already been born again of Water and the Spirit and will be within the Kingdom of God, will have entered the Kingdom of God.
All who have entered the Kingdom of God at this time will be calm, will be happy, full of great blessings. Those who have not received Christ as Savior will go from bad to worse, regret upon regret.
If there is someone who has not received Christ as Savior yet, you can do it right now and we will be praying for you for Christ to receive you in His Kingdom, to forgive you, and to cleanse you with His Blood from all sin, to be baptized in water in His Name and for Christ to baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produce in you the new birth and thus you may enter the Kingdom of Christ, the Kingdom of God, for which you may come forward and we will be praying for you on this Mother’s Day, wherein every mother desires the best for her children, and the best thing a mother can wish for her children is one, just one thing: the salvation of her children.
There is nothing more important a mother could wish and ask God for her children, than the salvation of her children, that’s the most important thing, and every mother would like to see her children receiving Christ as only and sufficient Saviour for then she knows that they will live eternally in the Kingdom of Christ our Savior.
We will stand up to pray for people who have come to the Feet of Christ in different nations. With our hands raised up to Christ, to Heaven, and our eyes closed, let us pray:
Our Father who art in Heaven, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I come to You with all the people who have been receiving Christ as only and sufficient Saviour in different nations, they are Yours Lord, welcome them into Your Kingdom. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I pray.
Repeat after me those who have come to the Feet of Christ at this time:
Lord Jesus Christ, I heard the preaching of Your Gospel and Your faith was born in my heart. I believe in You as my only and sufficient Saviour, I believe in Your first Coming, I believe in Your death on Callvary’s Cross as the Sacrifice of Atonement for my sins and for the sins of every human being.
Lord, I recognize that there is no other Name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved, only in Your Name, Lord Jesus Christ, there is salvation and eternal Life. I bear public witness of my faith in You and I receive You as my only and sufficient Saviour. I pray You, forgive my sins and cleanse me with Your Blood from all sin and baptize me with Holy Ghost and Fire after I have been baptized in water in Your Name and may the new birth be produced in me.
I want to be born in Your Kingdom, I want to live eternally. Lord, save me, I pray in Your eternal and Glrious Name, Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
With our hand raised to Christ, to Heaven, we all say: The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! Amen.
Christ has received you in His Kingdom, He has forgiven your sins, because you have received Him as your only and sufficient Saviour, you will say to me: “I want to be baptized in water as soon as possible, inasmuch as I have received Him as my only and sufficient Saviour. When can I be baptized? You may well be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and may Christ baptize you with Holy Ghost and Fire and may produce in you the new birth.
Water baptism does not take away sins, it is the Blood of Christ that cleanses us from all sin. Water baptism is typological, it is in the likeness of death, burial and resurrection of Christ.
When the person receives Christ as Saviour, he dies to the world. And when the minister immerses him in the baptismal waters, typologically, symbolically, he is being buried. And when he raises him from the baptismal waters, he is being resurrected to a new life, unto eternal Life with Christ in His eternal Kingdom. As simple as that is the symbolism, the typology of water baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It is important that everyone who believes and receives Christ as Saviour, be baptized, because it is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ, He said:
“Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.”
It being a commandment of the Lord, it is important that everyone complies with that commandment of Christ where one identifies with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection.
May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon you all and upon me too. May you continue spending this Sunday on Mothers’ Day a happy afternoon, in Puerto Rico and in the different nations and we will meet again next Sunday, God willing.
“THE MOURNING OF THE NATIONS WHEN THEY SEE THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN.”