The Mystery of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ

Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present, and city authorities. May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon each of you and also upon me. And may He allow us to understand His Word, open our understanding so that we may understand It, and speak directly to our soul, and thus, edify our souls, feed us spiritually, and prosper us spiritually and also materially. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

We have a very important subject this evening, the subject is titled: “THE MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.” THE MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST is a mystery that has been opened to all the believers in Christ.

Christ says in Saint Matthew chapter 16, verses 13 and on, He says (13 to 16, says)… Let’s see, let’s read 13 to 20, so that we have a clear picture of everything that is happening there on that occasion. It says in chapter 16, verses 13 and on, of Saint Matthew, it says:

“When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?

And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.”

May God bless our hearts with His Word and allow us to understand It on this occasion.

Our subject, as I told you, is: “THE MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”

Here Christ speaks openly to His disciples about His Church, and tells them that He will build His Church “upon this rock”: it is the rock of Divine Revelation, revelation from Heaven; because through the Heavenly Father’s revelation, revelation from Heaven, Peter received the knowledge of who Jesus was.

He received the knowledge that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the living God, God’s Anointed One, in the fulfillment of the First Coming of the Messiah as the Lamb of God in His Work of Redemption, to die on Calvary’s Cross, and pay the price of redemption there, and wash away our sins in His Blood; and thus, justify each of His children.

To “justify” means that a person, when he is washed in the Blood of Christ, when he believes in Christ as our Savior and washes away his sins in the Blood of Christ: the person stands as if he had never sinned, he stands justified before God.

Because the Blood of Christ takes our sins and disintegrates them, takes them away; just as bleach takes the ink on a stained garment, and after putting that stained garment in bleach, then, when you take that garment out it’s not stained anymore; you look for the ink stain, (where do you look for it? In the bleach), and you don’t see it either. Why? Because the bleach brought back that stain, that ink, it brought it back to what it was before it was ink: it brought it back to the molecules that formed it; and that is why, notice, the ink disappeared.

And now, notice, the Blood of Christ makes our sins disappear, and they even disappear from God’s Mind. Why? Because God doesn’t remember them anymore, because Jesus blotted them out.

And now, notice how miraculous the Blood of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ is.

In the Old Testament, the Hebrew people used sheep and goat sacrifices to offer to God; because according to the Divine Law, through those sacrifices, the people approached God, and their sins were covered by the blood of those animals, but they couldn’t take sin away, they could only cover sin.

But when the Lamb of God came along, the perfect Sacrifice, which was typified in those animals, when the perfect Sacrifice arrived: Jesus Christ, He made a perfect Sacrifice and took away our sins; He didn’t cover them, He took them away.

And He also took away the sins of all the Old Testament saints that were in Paradise, who had offered God the sacrifices of those animals and goats, but whose sins had only been covered by the blood of those animals; but they were in Paradise, waiting for the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross so that their sins would be completely taken away; because they were covered until the perfect Sacrifice was offered, but when It was offered on Calvary’s Cross, their sins were taken away; they were covered, but they were taken away, and they were then ready to rise and later go to Heaven with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

That is why when Christ rose victorious, He rose and the Old Testament saints rose with Him and appeared in the city of Jerusalem;¹ and they were on Earth with Christ for about forty days; for Christ was on Earth for forty days after He rose, and then He ascended to Heaven, and the Old Testament saints with Him.²

And that is why one of the Psalms says: “Open up, oh gates, [lift up] your heads; and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, He is the King of Glory.”³ And that was Jesus Christ in the New Testament, the Lord strong and mighty who would come in through the everlasting doors.

“Open up, oh everlasting doors, [lift up] your heads; be lifted up, oh everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in.” And who was this King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, in the Old Testament; and in the New [Testament], our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Lord or Jehovah of the Old Testament.

Now, we find that through His atoning Work on Calvary’s Cross, Christ has cleansed our sins. And now, when the person receives Christ as his Savior and washes away his sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ: the Sacrifice of Christ becomes effective in the person; because forgiveness is not forgiveness until a person accepts it; it does not become effective in the person.

And now, everyone who accepts Christ as his Savior and washes away his sins in the Blood of Christ, then receives the Holy Spirit, so that he may receive Eternal Life from Jesus Christ; because Eternal Life is in Christ, and He is the One who gives us that Eternal Life.

And now, by believing in Christ as our Savior, and washing away our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit: the new birth is carried out in each one of us; which Christ spoke to Nicodemus about in chapter 3 of Saint John, where He told him that he must be born again; something Nicodemus did not understand. It says in chapter 3 of Saint John (chapter 3, verse 1 and on):

“There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews,” (meaning, he was a very important man).

“The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God,” (meaning, he cannot understand It, he cannot understand this mystery of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ).

“Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?

Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.”

Now, here Christ speaks to him about the new birth, which is a mystery to the human being.

Now, how is it possible that a man can be born again having already been born through his father and mother here on Earth? It’s because when he was born through his earthly parents, he was born into a fallen race, which comes from Adam; and therefore, he has been born sentenced to death.

That is why the human being is born, he lives here on Earth for a period of time, gets old, and then dies; and if not, then he dies sooner, because of an accident or an illness; few people die of old age. And now, this is all because one is born here on Earth into a fallen race that is sentenced to death.

And now, we find that a new birth is required: being born into a new race and through a new Adam who has Eternal Life; and the second Adam, with Eternal Life, is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. And just as in Adam we all die physically and—if we don’t believe in Christ—also spiritually and eternally… “As in Adam all die, in Christ we shall all be made alive.”⁴ We all receive Life, we are brought to Eternal Life, through Jesus Christ.

And through Jesus Christ, we obtain the new birth, upon believing in Him as our Savior, washing away our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit; and that is when we receive Eternal Life, and we receive a theophanic body of the sixth dimension, called the Angel of the Lord that encamps around them that fear Him, and delivers them.⁵

When we come to this world by natural birth through our earthly parents: we receive a spirit of the world when we are born on this Earth, and we also receive a body of this world (which is mortal and corruptible and temporary); and therefore, we receive (what?) something temporary, something fleeting; so that while we are on this Earth, in this mortal and temporary body, we come in contact with Eternal Life and receive Christ as our Savior, and wash away our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receive His Holy Spirit; and that is how the new birth that Christ spoke to Nicodemus about is carried out in us. And that is how we are born through the second Adam and we are born in a new race, which is the race that began with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

In Revelation chapter 3, verse 14, it tells us that Jesus is the beginning of the Creation of God, of that new Creation which Christ has begun: a new race with Eternal Life, to live for all eternity with Christ as kings and priests in the Kingdom of God.

And now, this new race, which are the ones who have believed in Christ as our Savior and washed away their sins in the Blood of the Lamb, and received His Holy Spirit, this new race is called: the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Church means “the called out.”

And just like the Hebrew people were called out of Egypt, out of bondage in Egypt, the members of the mystical Body of Christ has been called out of the world and they have been put in the Kingdom of God, in the mystical Body of Christ, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, by believing in Christ as our Savior, receiving His Blood, and washing away our sins in His Blood, and receiving His Holy Spirit; and thus, we obtain the new birth, where we obtain a spirit of the sixth dimension, a spirit of Heaven.

And then, at the Last Day, in the seventh millennium, we will receive the physical, eternal, and glorious body that Christ has promised for each one of us; because this physical body is mortal, corruptible, and temporary; that is why it gets sick, that is why it feels weak, that is why it must be fed so that it doesn’t get weak; and that is why, after a long time goes by, you look at it, you look in the mirror, and say: “Now I’m sixty years old, but when I was about fifteen years old, it seems that I looked younger.” That is because this body is mortal, temporary, and corruptible, it gets older and gradually starts losing life.

And as the years go by, the body starts to lose the rays of light that it has; and then the human being lives the last years of his life with the last ray of light.

And it’s like a car whose battery starts running out, and when it has very little charge left, when they go to start it or turn it on, it starts so slowly that sometimes it doesn’t even start, and we have to push it. And that is what happens to us when the human being is seventy years old and above: he even needs help getting out of bed sometimes, some people do; others are still quite strong, and even at eighty years old they are still strong.

But notice, in the end, when the last ray of light that he has starts fading out, well, he starts experiencing what happens to cars with a battery that has very little charge left. And well, that is what happens to the human being; and in the end, he doesn’t want to walk anymore, and his physical body dies.

And now, notice that there is more for the human being: there is Eternal Life; and that is why we go through this Earth in these mortal bodies: so that we come in contact with Eternal Life.

We can’t be so stingy that we only give our soul this short amount of time to live. There is Eternal Life for our souls, and that is through Jesus Christ: by receiving Him as our Savior, and washing away our sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit; and thus, we receive an eternal spirit, a theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension. And then, at the Last Day, we will receive an eternal body; an eternal, young body, representing eighteen to twenty-one years of age for all eternity, to live with Christ for all eternity.

Because every person who believes in Christ as his Savior and receives His Holy Spirit has received Eternal Life and belongs to a new Creation with Eternal Life, he belongs to that mystical Body of believers called “the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ” in the Bible.

This mystery of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ was spoken by Christ in the parables of the wheat and the tares, and also of the sower, and in other parables, Christ also spoke about the mystery of His Church.

His Church is represented, notice, in the wheat; but what has also been among the Church? The tares. And all together: wheat and tares, are called “Christianity” in general.

But among Christianity in general, in general terms, there have been the wheat and the tares: the children of the Kingdom and the children of the wicked one. And that is why we can see that so many things have happened throughout the human being’s history: the tares persecuting the wheat, as Cain persecuted Abel and killed him.⁶

And now, we can see that Christ says that at the Last Day, at the end time, at the end of the world, there will be a separation, where Christ will separate the wheat from the tares.

The tares will be bound in bundles and put in the furnace of fire, where will be the wailing and gnashing of teeth; in other words, it will be put in the Great Tribulation, where the Divine Judgments will be falling upon this Earth for a period of three and a half years. That pertains to the last part of the seventieth week of Daniel’s prophecy, where God will be dealing with the Hebrew people.

And now, for the wheat, the promise is that it will be gathered and put in God’s Garner.

As it also tells us in Malachi chapter 4, verse 1 to 6, “The day comes, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and that day that comes shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.” To whom does it say this will be done? It says this will be for those who do wickedly, this is for the tares: the children of the wicked one.

And for the children of God, the children of the Kingdom, represented in the wheat, what will happen? It says:

“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.

The rising of the Sun of Righteousness unto those who fear the Name of the Lord is the Second Coming of Christ. He said: “I am the Light of the world; and he that follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life.”⁷ Of what life? Eternal Life.

And now, notice how there is a curse and Divine Judgment for the tares, the children of the wicked one, at the end time, at the Last Day, on the day that shall burn as an oven, the Lord’s Day, which is the seventh millennium.

But for the wheat, the children of the Kingdom, there is a blessing. And the children of the Kingdom are the members of the mystical Body of Christ, the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, who have believed in Christ as our Savior, washed away their sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ, and received the Holy Spirit; and therefore, they have been born again, and they have come into the mystical Body of Christ; they have been born into the mystical Body of Christ, meaning, into the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

A person can’t say: “I’m going to join the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ,” because that isn’t how it works. Just like you can’t say: “I’m going to join such-and-such a family, to become a child of that family.” You can’t do that, right?

In order to belong to a family, you have to be born into that family: born of the father and the mother of that family; you have to be born there into that family, through the father and mother; and then you become a child of that married couple, of that father and that mother. Outside of that, you cannot become a child of that father and that mother.

And it is the same in the Kingdom of God: you cannot be a child of God, you cannot be born as a child of God into the Kingdom of God, unless it’s by believing in Christ as our Savior, and washing our sins away in the Blood of Jesus Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit; and that is how you are born, you obtain the new birth, which Christ spoke to Nicodemus about, and said to him: “You must be born again, born of the water and of the Spirit; because whoever is not born of the water and of the Spirit, cannot enter into the Kingdom of God or Kingdom of Heaven.”

In other words, he cannot enter into the Church of Jesus Christ, he cannot become part of that mystical Body of believers, which is a new race; a new race, which comes from whom? Of our Heavenly Father, which comes through our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, who is the beginning of that new Creation, of that new race that God is creating. And that is why we will all be in [His] image and likeness: with an eternal theophanic spirit, and an eternal body at the Last Day.

We already received the theophanic body when we received Christ as our Savior and we received His Holy Spirit, and then we will receive the physical and eternal body at the Last Day, in the seventh millennium, when the dead in Christ rise and we who are alive are changed.

Because this mortal and corruptible and temporary body will be changed: we will be changed in our atoms, and we will put on immortality; we will have an eternal and young body, representing eighteen to twenty one years of age for all eternity. That is the new body which He has promised for all of us.

And we thank God that He gave us this body first, so that the last body He would give us would then be the eternal body.

So, first it’s, Saint Paul says… let’s see how Saint Paul says it. In his Letter, in his First Letter of Corinthians, chapter 15, he speaks here about this great event that will take place at the Last Day. It says in chapter 15, verse 45, or, let’s see… verse 42 and on, of First Corinthians chapter 15, says:

“So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption,” (this body), “it is raised,” (how?), “in incorruption,” (in other words, when the dead in Christ rise, they will rise in an eternal body).

“It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

It is sown a natural body,” (this physical body is a natural body), “it is raised a spiritual body,” (an eternal body that Christ has promised for each of those who have believed in Him, and washed away their sins in His Blood, and received His Holy Spirit). “There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.”

Notice, the first man: Adam, is earthly; the second Man: which is the Lord, is heavenly, is from Heaven. He said, Christ said:⁸

“And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.”

Although His physical body was on Earth, He, in Spirit and soul, was also in other dimensions: He was in Heaven.

“As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy,” (in other words, as is Adam, such are the descendants of Adam as well), “and as is the heavenly,” (Christ is the heavenly), “such are they also that are heavenly.”

The heavenly are God’s sons and daughters, the members of the mystical Body of Christ, the new race that Christ is building; for whom He has already built, created, their theophanic body, as each person believes in Christ and washes away his sins in the Blood of Christ and receives His Holy Spirit.

And now, only at the Last Day, when the number of God’s elect is complete in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, and they have been born in the Kingdom of God, obtained the new birth, obtained their theophanic body; then the only thing we will need is the physical and eternal body that Christ has promised for us, which He will give us by raising the dead in Christ in eternal bodies, and changing each of those who are alive, each of us who are alive at this Last Day; and thus, giving us the eternal body that He has promised for each one of us.

“…As we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly,” (in other words, we will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ).

“Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.”

In other words, when a person is in his mortal, corruptible, and temporary body, he cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; and while he is in this corruptible body, he cannot inherit incorruption. In other words, this mortal body cannot continue to live for all eternity because it is temporary, it is mortal, and it is corruptible; therefore, it has to die.

And if the dead in Christ rise, and we are alive and we see them, well, then it must be changed; because we cannot live eternally in this body, because it is temporary, it is corruptible, it is mortal.

“Behold, I shew you a mystery…”

And now he is going to talk to us about a very important mystery of the Kingdom of God. It says:

“We shall not all sleep,” (in other words, we will not all die), “but we shall all be changed…”

In other words, a change is coming for all the believers in Christ, who have received His Holy Spirit and have been born again, and belong to or become part of the mystical Body of Christ, meaning, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; they have come into the Kingdom of God, they have been born into the Kingdom of God, they are a new creature. Now, it says:

“…In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump…”

Keep this detail in mind: “…At the last trump…” because a Trumpet will be sounding; and when it makes reference to a Trumpet, a Trumpet of God, that is referring to God’s Voice speaking to His people through a prophet. That is the Voice of God in the form of a Trumpet. That is how it is mentioned, in symbolic terms, when reference is made to God’s Voice, it is represented or symbolized in a trumpet or in a thunder.

When Christ said: “Glorify Thy Name, Father,” a thunder was heard from heaven, but it was God’s Voice that said: “I have both glorified It, and will glorify It again.” Some said: “It thundered,” others said: “An angel spoke to Him;”⁹ but it was God speaking to Jesus Christ.

When Trumpets are mentioned, that refers to the Voice of God, the Voice of Christ, speaking to His people through different messengers.

And now, when it refers to the Last Trumpet here, that is referring to the Voice of Christ speaking to His Church through the last Messenger; because if it’s the Last Trumpet, well, it must be through the last Messenger. No other messenger can come after that one, because after that Message given by that Messenger, there is no other Trumpet, there is no other Message from God.

That Last Trumpet, as the Voice of Christ giving us His Last Message, is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ.

Now, it says:

“…At the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible…”

In other words, the dead in Christ: who have believed in Christ as our Savior, and have washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ, and have received His Holy Spirit, but whose physical bodies have died. They have continued to live, but their physical body died.

And how have they continued to live? Well, they have gone to live in Paradise in the theophanic body that they received when they believed in Christ as their Savior and received the Spirit of Christ. They are in paradise, which is the sixth dimension, where people live in bodies like the ones we have, but from another dimension: from the sixth dimension. And they will be raised. It says:

“…The dead shall be raised incorruptible,” (in other words, they will be raised in an eternal and incorruptible body), “and we,” (we who are alive), “shall be changed.”

This mortal body will be changed when we see the dead in Christ raised. Why will it be changed? Because we cannot live eternally with this mortal body. If we continue with this mortal body, when it reaches seventy to one hundred years old, it will die.

But since we have reached the Last Day, the time when the dead in Christ will rise, when they rise we will be changed, to continue living with Christ for all eternity; and we will go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven, while the Earth will be going through the judgments of the Great Tribulation, which will last three and a half years.

And then we will come back to Earth with Christ, for the glorious Millennial Kingdom, among the Hebrew people; and we will be with Christ in Jerusalem, where Christ will sit on David’s Throne as King of kings and Lord of lords, as Son of man and Son of David; where Christ will reign, rule, over the Hebrew people (over the twelve tribes of Israel), and over all nations.

Because Christ is:

• As Son of David: the heir to the Throne of David, to reign over the Hebrew people.

• And as Son of Abraham: He is the heir to the land of Israel including everything in it.

• And as Son of man: He is heir to the whole Earth, including all nations and all kingdoms.

• And as Son of God: He is heir to the Heavens and the Earth.

In other words, everything belongs to Christ, He is the heir to all Creation. And we are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ Jesus our Lord; in other words, we are heirs with Him to the Millennial Kingdom, we are heirs with Him to the territory of Israel, we are heirs with Him to the whole Earth and all its kingdoms, we are heirs with Him to the whole universe, to the Heavens and the Earth.

And now, notice all the blessings this MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST has for all of God’s elect, whose names have been written in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world; who are the ones that would come to this Earth in human flesh and receive Christ as their Savior, and wash away their sins in the Blood of the Lamb, and receive His Holy Spirit; and therefore, they would be born again, they would be born into the Kingdom of God, into the mystical Body of Jesus Christ, to reign with Christ a thousand years and then for all eternity.

Now notice THE MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

And now, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the House of God, as Saint Paul tells us in his Letter to the Hebrews, notice, in Hebrews chapter 3, verses 5 to 6 (to avoid reading too much), Saint Paul tells us:

“And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we…”

Who is that House? It says:

“…Whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”

Now we can see that we are the House of God: the House of God is the mystical Body of Christ, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the House of God, in other words, the Household of God, God’s Seed.

A house, in essence, is not four walls; a house is a family. And the House of God, the Family of God, are the firstborn written in Heaven before the foundation of the world, in the Lamb’s Book of Life; who come to this Earth, and during the Dispensation of Grace and the Dispensation of the Kingdom, receive Christ as their Savior, and wash away their sins in the Blood of the Lamb, and receive His Holy Spirit; and therefore, they obtain the new birth; and thus, they are born again, they are born into the Kingdom of God with Eternal Life.

Notice how Saint Paul also tells us in his Letter to the Ephesians, chapter 2, verse 10:

“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”

We are what? We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus. A new Creation is what He is making out of human beings among the human race.

It goes on to say:

“Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

For he is our peace, who hath made both one…”

In other words, of the Hebrew people and the Gentile people, He has been making one people; those people are the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, a heavenly people.

It goes on to say:

“…Who hath made both (what?) one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;

Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace,” (to make a new man, that is, the new man, which is the result of the new birth: that is a new Creation)

“And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross…”

Through the Body of Christ, we are reconciled, and through and in the mystical Body of Christ, we find ourselves reconciled to God. In that mystical Body of Christ, are all those who have been reconciled to God through our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. It says:

“…Having slain the enmity thereby:

And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.

For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.”

Through the Holy Spirit, we (both Hebrews and Gentiles) have access to the Heavenly Father, so that we may enter into the mystical Body of Christ and be manifested there as sons and daughters of God.

“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.”

Which Household do the believers in Christ (washed in the Blood of Christ, who have received His Holy Spirit) belong to? They belong to the Household of God, to a heavenly Family, because they have obtained the new birth; and you belong to the family you are born into.

And now you belong to a heavenly Family, which is the Household of God, of which Christ is the beginning. It says:

“And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

In whom all the building fitly framed together,” (notice, he typifies the Church in a building), “groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord.”

That is the spiritual Temple of the Lord: His Church, the ones that are washed in the Blood of Christ, who have received His Holy Spirit.

“In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.”

In order for God to dwell in Holy Spirit in all His fullness, notice, Christ is building this new Temple, which is a new race; and God will dwell in every son and daughter of God in all His fullness.

While we are in this mortal, corruptible and temporary body, we have the firstfruits of the Spirit, God dwells in the portion relevant to the firstfruits of the Spirit; but once we have the new body, God will be manifested in all His fullness, God will be manifested in us, the Spirit of God will be manifested in all His fullness in each one of us; because that is the Divine purpose: it’s the construction of that new race, represented in a Temple, for God to dwell in that new race, in that spiritual Temple.

That is why God gave the Hebrew people, through the Prophet Moses: the order of the construction of a tabernacle; and later, in the time of Solomon: the construction of Solomon’s temple.

Those temples were built according to the pattern which is in Heaven, according to the pattern of the Temple which is in Heaven. And that temple built by Solomon and the one built by Moses, is a type and figure of the one that is in Heaven and—therefore—it is a type and figure of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the spiritual Temple of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

That spiritual Temple of Christ, which is His Church, is built by Christ, from stage to stage, from age to age, with and according to the same pattern of the Temple which is in Heaven, according to the same pattern that Moses used and Solomon used.

That is why the construction of the spiritual Temple of Christ, which is His Church, began among the Hebrew people there in the outer court, then it went to the first stage or age of the Gentile Church… all of this represented here, in this diagram that Rev. William Branham used for the preaching of the message “The Stature Of A Perfect Man,”¹⁰ and also The Seven Stages or Ages of the Gentile Church [An Exposition Of The Seven Gentile Church Ages] and he also referred to this diagram in different messages.

Here we find that the first stage or age of the Church of Jesus Christ among the Gentiles pertains to Asia Minor. There was always a territory where each stage of the Church of Jesus Christ was fulfilled, and there was also a messenger sent by Jesus Christ.

The first age was in Asia Minor, and the messenger was Saint Paul. Then the second age was in France, and its messenger was Irenaeus.

Notice how Christ in Holy Spirit moved: first, from among the Hebrew people He moved to Asia Minor, then, from Asia Minor He moved to France, He moved to Europe; and notice how He was speaking through Saint Paul in the language that Saint Paul spoke when he preached; and then He spoke through Irenaeus in French, the language Irenaeus spoke.

And then, in the third age, which was also fulfilled in Europe, He spoke through Martin there in Europe; and that messenger of God was there in Hungary and France, and through him, Christ manifested Himself and spoke in the language that this messenger spoke; in other words, He spoke French and Hungarian too, and through him, He spoke to the people and called and gathered His elect in that third age; because through these messengers, Christ has been fulfilling what He promised in Saint John chapter 10, verse 14, and on, where it says:

“I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold.”

In other words, they are not of the Hebrew Fold. “Other sheep” (“which are not of this Fold”), are the sheep from among the Gentiles. It says:

“…Them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”

And how can it be possible for Christ to call His sheep among the Gentiles and for them to hear His Voice, if when Christ died, rose, and ascended to Heaven, [since then] He has been in Heaven on the Throne, in the Temple which is in Heaven, there on the Throne of Intercession, making intercession for those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life? How can it be possible for them to hear the Voice of Christ, when Christ is there in Heaven? But Christ in Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost,¹¹ and on the day of Pentecost His Church was born; and Christ has been manifested in Holy Spirit through His messengers from age to age.

He spoke through the apostles, then He spoke through Saint Paul in the first age among the Gentiles, and He called His sheep in the first age. Then He spoke in the second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth ages, there in Europe, through these five messengers that He sent to Europe: Irenaeus, Martin, Columba, Luther, and Wesley; and He spoke in the language of those messengers, and called and gathered His sheep in those ages.

Then Christ in Holy Spirit went to North America, He sent His messenger, Rev. William Branham, and spoke through him in American English; and He called and gathered His sheep of the seventh Gentile Church age.

And now, notice how He has been fulfilling His promise: that He had some sheep that were not of the Hebrew Fold, which He also had to bring, and they would hear His Voice, and there would be one Fold and one Shepherd. That Fold is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the mystical Body of Christ, that spiritual Temple of Christ, that new race He is creating.

And now, after these seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church have passed, which pertain to the Holy Place of the Temple of Jesus Christ… which is represented in the holy place of the temple that Solomon built and the temple that the Prophet Moses built.

And now, what else does Christ have in store to carry out (since those seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church have already passed)? What He has in store for this Last Day is the Age of the Cornerstone, where Christ speaks to us with His Last Message, with that Last Trumpet, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and makes known to us all these things which must come to pass at this Last Day.

That is why in Revelation it talks to us about the Voice of Christ, that Voice of Christ as a Great Voice of Trumpet. Revelation chapter 1, verse 10 to 11; John says:

“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day…”

He was on which day? The Lord’s Day, which is the seventh millennium, “because one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day,” says Second Peter chapter 3, verse 8, and Psalm 90, verse 4. When God speaks about one of His days, that is a thousand years to human beings.

And now, Saint John was on the Lord’s Day, meaning, in the seventh millennium.

“…And heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet…”

What did he hear? A Great Voice as of a trumpet: it is the Voice of Christ speaking to His people, to His Church, at the Last Day.

“… Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.”

Who is the Alpha and Omega? Who is the first and the last? Well, our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. It is the Voice of Christ speaking to His Church at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone. Here, in the Age of the Cornerstone, speaking to His Church with that Great Voice of Trumpet, in other words, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and making known to her all these things which must shortly be done.

In Revelation chapter 4, verse 1, it also tells us… in the middle of verse 1, it says:

“…And the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”

Where does He invite us to come up to? The Age of the Cornerstone, because it is already the time of the Age of the Cornerstone (because the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church have already passed).

We don’t have to come up to any of these ages, but rather, to the Age of the Cornerstone, to hear the Voice of Christ, through whom? Through the one [through] whom Christ will be speaking at the Last Day with that Great Voice of Trumpet (meaning, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom): He will be making known to us all these things which must shortly be done.

And let’s see through whom all these things which must shortly be done are made known; because through the one [through] whom we are hearing all these things which must shortly be done, Christ will be speaking to us with that Great Voice of Trumpet, in other words, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom. Revelation chapter 22, verse 6, says:

“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel,” (whom does He say He has sent? His Angel), “to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”

What for? To show His servants the things which must shortly be done, of which He said there: “Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter”: the things that must happen here, in the time of the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the Age pertaining to this Last Day.

All the things that must happen at this Last Day are made known in the Age of the Cornerstone through Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit through this Angel-Messenger, who is the last Prophet that Christ sends to Earth. He is the Prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom. Where? Among the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the stage of the Cornerstone Age.

Because he gets the stage of the Cornerstone Age; and these other angels got these different stages or ages of the Gentile Church, and different territories where those ages were fulfilled.

And now, which is the territory for the fulfillment of the Age of the Cornerstone? Well, Latin America and the Caribbean. That is the territory blessed by God, that is the territory that has the blessing of God, of the Age of the Cornerstone, to obtain the knowledge of all these things which must shortly be done; so that they are declared, made known, in our own language: in the main language of the Latin American and Caribbean people, which is Spanish.

And now, notice what a great blessing we have been given.

In the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church, there were seven faithful and wise servants; but at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone, Christ will have His Faithful and Wise Servant, His Angel-Messenger, making known to us all these things which must shortly be done.

And notice, the Message that He will be giving us is the spiritual Food for our souls at this Last Day; according to this parable of the faithful and wise servant, notice, in Saint Matthew 24, verses 42 and on, Christ says:

“Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?”

To give them what? Meat or Food in due season. To whom? And where? In His House. And which is the House of the Lord? His Church, His Household, His spiritual Temple. And the children are God’s elect, the members of the mystical Body of Christ, who must be fed in their souls, “for man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”¹² And God’s mouth is God’s messengers.

From the mouth of God in the first age, proceeded the Message for the first age; through Saint Paul, who was the mouth of Christ. Christ spoke through Saint Paul. Saint Paul said: “I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me.”¹³ And Christ living in Saint Paul was speaking—through Saint Paul—the Message, the spiritual Food, for the soul of God’s sons and daughters of that first age. And that is how God’s sons and daughters have been eating the spiritual Food in each age. And now:

“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

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

Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.”

Now, who is the Faithful and Wise Servant that will be feeding God’s sons and daughters in the House of God, meaning, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, at the Last Day, in the time of the Coming of the Lord? The one who is here, in the Age of the Cornerstone, because this is the age for the Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And the Messenger who is here, feeding God’s elect with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, is the Faithful and Wise Servant who will be living here on Earth, and will see and receive the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ, and will reveal it to all of God’s sons and daughters.

And that Servant has been promised the blessing that His Lord will make him ruler over all His goods; in other words, he will be the administrator of the goods of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Lord’s Coming.

And now, it tells us in Revelation, Saint John the Apostle tells us in the Book of Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16, what Christ said. And now, notice, it’s Christ speaking here, it says:

“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”

Whom does Jesus Christ say that He has sent? His Angel-Messenger. He is the Prophet-Messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, sent to testify all these things which must shortly come to pass, at this Last Day; and thus, God’s elect, God’s sons and daughters, will be fed in our souls, with what? The Word of God; “for man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.”

Now, we have seen: “THE MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST,” which Saint Paul also tells us about in Ephesians chapter 2; and notice here, verse 19 and on says… Let’s see… (Or, did we read it already? Yes, we had already read it.) It says:

“…In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.”

Now, notice, God will dwell in human beings in all His fullness. These human beings are the members of this mystical Body of believers, called the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. They are the believers in Christ who have washed away their sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ, and have received His Holy Spirit, many of whom have lived in past ages, and a good number of God’s elect also live at this Last Day, who have believed in Christ as our Savior, and we have washed away our sins in the Blood of Christ, and have received His Holy Spirit.

He still continues to call and gather His elect at this Last Day, in Latin America and the Caribbean; because the mystical Body of Christ will be completed with Latin American and Caribbean people, in the Age of the Cornerstone.

That is why the call of the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet, which is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, has been made in Latin America and the Caribbean, and He is calling and gathering all of God’s elect.

Christ said in Saint Matthew 24, verse 31:

“And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect…”

That is what is happening at this Last Day: With the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, all of God’s elect are being called and gathered into the mystical Body of Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom. So that when the number of God’s sons and daughters of the mystical Body of Christ, of the Church of Jesus Christ, is completed: then the dead in Christ may rise and we who are alive may be changed and have the eternal body.

We have seen the great blessing that God has in Latin America and the Caribbean. It’s because He had the greatest blessing for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Just as the temple Moses built and the temple Solomon built starts with the outer court, and then continues with the holy place, and then ends with the holy of holies…

We find that the Outer Court is in the East; the Holy of Holies is further along (what pertains to the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church in the mystical Body of Christ, in the spiritual Temple of Christ).

Notice what the construction of the temple of Solomon and Moses was like, and notice what the construction of the spiritual Temple of Christ (meaning, of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ) has been like, how It has been carried out: with the same diagram or blueprint of the Temple which is in Heaven.

And now, notice how the holy of holies of the temple, the temple of Moses and the temple of Solomon, was in the West. And now the Holy of Holies of the spiritual Temple of Christ, of the Church of Jesus Christ, is (where?) in the West too, in the Western territory: Latin America and the Caribbean.

Latin America and the Caribbean is where? In the West; in the West, which is the Western hemisphere, where the Son of man would shine as the lightning: “As the lightning comes out of the East and shines (where?) in the West.”¹⁴ And the West is Latin America and the Caribbean.

The West consists of North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. In North America, the seventh stage or age of the Gentile Church was already fulfilled, which is part of the Holy of Holies of the spiritual Temple of Christ. And now, in the rest of the continent of the West, the continent of the Americas, which is Latin America and the Caribbean, the Age of the Cornerstone is fulfilled, the Holy of Holies of the spiritual Temple of Christ is fulfilled.

And that is why He is calling and gathering His elect: to build the Holy of Holies of His spiritual Temple; calling and placing living stones, human beings, where? In the Holy of Holies of His spiritual Temple.

We have been given the best part of the spiritual Temple of Christ. We, Latin America and the Caribbean, have been given the greatest blessing; and that is why the Latin American and Caribbean people will enter into the glorious Millennial Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

In Latin America and the Caribbean is where the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom and the Dispensation of the Kingdom opens, and that is where the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet sounds, and He calls and gathers His elect in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.

In which part of the Temple? In the Holy of Holies, where we have the hidden Manna, which represents the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ.

That is the hidden Manna, that is the spiritual Food for all of us in Latin America and the Caribbean at this Last Day. That is the spiritual Food that the Faithful and Wise Servant would be giving God’s sons and daughters; where? In the House of God, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We have seen: “THE MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST,” of the called out, the ones that are called out of the world and put in the Kingdom of God.

May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon each one of you and also upon me. And soon may we all be changed and raptured; soon may those who are yet to arrive, come; may they receive the Word and come; and be put in the mystical Body of Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone, and may the number of God’s elect be completed, the number of the mystical Body of Christ, of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, be completed; and may the dead in Christ be raised and we who are alive be changed; and then, may we go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven, with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

And now, where are the members of the mystical Body of Christ, who at this Last Day are being called and gathered and put in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom? Here we are.

Here we are, part of God’s elect are in Nicaragua, and in different places in Latin America, and countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, God’s elect are being called and gathered and put in the mystical Body of Jesus Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone.

Here we are, present, at this Last Day, receiving the Message of the Last Trumpet, the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and being put in the Age of the Cornerstone.

It has been a great privilege to be with you this evening, testifying to you about: “THE MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”

Thank you very much for your kind attention, beloved friends and brethren present, and television viewers.

And may the blessings of Jesus Christ be upon your souls. And soon may we all have the new body He has promised for all of us.

Have a good evening, everyone, and I leave Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín with you now.

God bless you and keep you all.

“THE MYSTERY OF THE CHURCH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”