Good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren present. It is a great blessing to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments with you around the Word of God and to see where we stand in the Divine Program.
On this occasion, our subject is: “THE MYSTERY OF THE EAST AND THE WEST.”
Let’s read what Jesus tells us about the East and the West in chapter 24, verse 27, of Saint Matthew. Chapter 24, verse 27, of Saint Matthew, 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.”
And in Saint Luke, regarding the lightning, He says in chapter 17, verse 24:
“For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.”
May God bless our souls, open our understanding in our hearts and also in our minds, to understand His Word, to understand this mystery of the East and the West. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
When He speaks to us of the East and the West, and He tells us how the lightning that shines, that lightens… He 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.”
Now, notice how the First Coming of Christ was in the East, the land of Israel, which is in the Middle East, and we find that the First Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Son of man was fulfilled there. And then, from there, we find that the Work of Redemption was carried out, the Holy Spirit also came upon one hundred and twenty people, and continues to come upon thousands of more people.
And from there, the Work of Christ went to Asia Minor through Saint Paul the Apostle; and then It went to Europe through the five messengers that God sent to Europe in five stages or ages of the Church of Jesus Christ among the Gentiles. And in all those stages, Jesus Christ has been manifested in Holy Spirit through those messengers He has sent.
Notice how the Son of man, Jesus Christ, has been moving from the East all the way to the West. The East is the territory there in Israel, which is in the Middle East.
And now, notice that the journey laid out by God in the Program of the Coming of the Son of man has been from the East to the West; and that is why we have the promise that in the West the Son of man will be manifested as the lightning that comes out of the East and shines even unto the West, in other words, it shines in the West. Saint Luke tells us in chapter 17, [verse 24], and notice:
“For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.”
Here, we have it promised to be manifested at the Last Day, in the Coming of the Son of man shining (where?) in the West. That is where we have the promise for the Coming of the Son of man to shine according to the Divine Promise.
And that is why Christ, the Holy Spirit, will come from the West on a snow-white horse. And He’ll be completely, fully the Emmanuel: the Word of God incarnate in a Man.
That is also why the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, in the message “God’s Only Provided Place Of Worship,” on page 1, tells us the following; and also in the Book of Quotes. Page 1, paragraph 6, says:
“6. Now, there’s…I was…getting pretty old, and I thought, ‘Will I…Will there be another revival, I’ll see another time?’ And just remember, from the west will come a white horse rider. We’ll ride this trail again. That’s right. Soon as we get ready. It’s a promise, you see.”
If it’s a promise, then it has to be in the Bible, it must be a Biblical promise; and that Biblical promise of a white-horse Rider, appears in Revelation chapter 19, verses 11 to 21.
And notice how we identify the territory where the white-horse Rider of Revelation comes from, where Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh at the Last Day comes from, where the Word, the Word manifested in human flesh comes from.
“196. (Because) when our Lord appears here on earth, He’ll be riding on a snow-white horse. And He’ll be completely, fully, the Emmanuel, the Word of God incarnate in a Man.” (Page 295 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals says so.)
The Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals was the result of the preaching of the Seals by Rev. William Branham, and then those messages were published; and that is why we have the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, preached by Rev. William Branham.
And now notice how the Coming of the white-horse Rider of Revelation—His Coming appears identified from the West or in the West, where a white-horse Rider comes from, and says: “We’ll ride this trail again.”
If it’s “again,” and Elijah is speaking in his fourth manifestation, “again” means a fifth manifestation; in other words, the fifth manifestation of Elijah will be with the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19, verses 11 to 21.
And the Coming of the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19 is the Coming of the Son of man, It is the Coming of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger; so the ministry of Elijah for the fifth time will also be there; and the ministry of Moses for the second time will also be there.
Because where has the ministry of Elijah been? Where the Holy Spirit has been. The Holy Spirit was in Elijah the Tishbite, and the ministry of Elijah was there. The Holy Spirit was in Elisha, and the ministry of Elijah for the second time was there. The Holy Spirit was in John the Baptist, and the ministry of Elijah for the third time was there. The Holy Spirit was in William Branham, and the ministering spirit of Elijah for the fourth time was there. And the Holy Spirit would be in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the ministering spirit of Elijah, the ministry of Elijah for the fifth time, would be there.
And the Spirit of Christ was in Moses, and the ministry of Moses for the first time was there; and the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, would be in His Angel-Messenger, and the ministry of Moses for the second time would also be there.
The Spirit of God, of Christ, was in Jesus, and the ministry of Jesus was there for the first time; and the Spirit of Christ will be in His Angel-Messenger, the Holy Spirit will be there, and the ministry of Jesus for the second time will be there.
See how simple the whole Divine Program is? Because when God promises the coming of a prophet who has already come in the past, it’s the ministry of that prophet repeating itself in another prophet.
Now, we can see this mystery, and we can see that in the West is where the ministry of Moses will be repeated for the second time, and the ministry of Elijah for the fifth time, and the ministry of Jesus for the second time.
That is why Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit has been traveling from the East, from the land of Israel; then He went to Asia Minor in the first age of the Gentile Church, where Saint Paul was its messenger; and then He went to Europe in the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth ages, where God sent five messengers, one for each of those five ages that were fulfilled in Europe in different territories; and then Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit went to North America, where He sent His seventh angel-messenger and the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, and where Jesus Christ already manifested Himself through that messenger in the West.
And the West consists of North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean; that is the West of the Earth, that is the Western hemisphere, which is the West of the Earth.
And for the West, we have the promise of the Coming of a white-horse Rider, and that is the Rider of Revelation chapter 19; and that is the Coming of Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger.
“196. (Because) when our Lord appears here on earth, He’ll be riding on a snow-white horse. And He’ll be completely, fully, the Emmanuel, the Word of God incarnate in a Man.”
In a Westerner, a Man from the West, is where that promise of the Coming of Christ, the white-horse Rider of Revelation, will be fulfilled.
And now, notice how the promise of each age was fulfilled through the messenger of each age; and then the seventh angel-messenger of the seventh Gentile Church age, and forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, announced that the white-horse Rider of Revelation, which is the Holy Spirit, would come in human flesh in the West, in other words, a white-horse Rider will come (from where?) from the West.
In other words, it will be a manifestation of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit in a Westerner; and He has already been manifested in a westerner, in North America, in the seventh stage or age of the Gentile Church.
And then the promise of the Coming of the white-horse Rider in the West, where the Word will come in human flesh, the Word incarnate in a Man, is also for the West; but it can no longer be for the Northern part, but instead, for the Central American, South American, and Caribbean part, which is what’s left of the Western continent, in other words, the continent of the West, for the fulfillment of the Divine Promises of the Last Day.
And in order to find Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, manifested at the Last Day, making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass, we need to find (where? In the West) the veil of flesh in which the Word, the Word made flesh, is at the Last Day, in the fulfillment of the Coming of the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19.
And notice how Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit has gone from the land of Israel to Asia Minor, to Asia Minor for the first age; and from Asia Minor, He went to Europe for the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth ages; and from Europe, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit went to North America for the seventh stage or age of the Gentile Church; and from North America, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit goes to Latin America and the Caribbean for the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, where Jesus Christ comes on a snow-white horse, the pure Word; and He’ll be completely, fully the Emmanuel: the Word of God incarnate in a Man.
We have seen THE MYSTERY OF THE EAST, where the First Coming of Christ was fulfilled, where the Sin Offering was carried out. For the sin offering was carried out in the tabernacle Moses made and the temple Solomon made, it was carried out in the outer court; and then we find that the atoning blood was taken into the holy of holies and it was applied upon the mercy seat; the high priest did it once a year, on the tenth day of the seventh month of each year, and with his finger, he sprinkled the blood upon the mercy seat; and then, we find that the Hebrew people were reconciled to God.
Remember that he also went in with the golden censer; and through the burning coals that were in the censer, and the incense that was in the censer, which was burnt in that cloud of smoke, the prayers of the people and of the high priest ascended up for the reconciliation of the Hebrew people to God.
And all of that, notice, was done on the West side of the temple, because the holy of holies was on the West side of the temple.
And now notice how the Holy of Holies of the spiritual Temple of Christ would be on the West side of the Earth; and It started being built there among the Hebrew people, and then went on to Asia Minor and then to Europe.
Asia Minor, and Europe, and North America, pertain to the Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ. And Latin America and the Caribbean pertain to the part of the Holy of Holies of the spiritual Temple of Christ; because with Latin American and Caribbean people—He calls and gathers Latin American and Caribbean people and puts them in His spiritual Temple, in His Church, in the Age of the Holy of Holies, the Age of the Cornerstone.
And that is where Christ manifests Himself at the Last Day as the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19, and as the Mighty Angel, the Angel of the Covenant, coming to His Church and in His Church in the Holy of Holies of His spiritual Temple.
Notice how He has been on that journey from the land of Israel, the East, going through Asia Minor, through Europe, through North America, until He reaches Latin America and the Caribbean; until He reaches this part of the West, where He is building His Holy of Holies of His spiritual Temple, for a habitation of God through the Holy Spirit in all His fullness; to give us the faith to be changed and raptured, and for the dead in Christ to be raised; and for everyone to have an eternal body; and for God to dwell in each of us in all His fullness; and for everyone to have both consciouses together: the subconscious and the conscious together, in that new body, with that theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension; and thus, to live with Christ for all eternity, and be in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ, and have all the power of God manifested in us and through us, at the Last Day or seventh millennium.
Now, we have seen “THE MYSTERY OF THE EAST AND THE WEST.”
In the East, the First Coming of Christ was fulfilled, where He carried out the Sacrifice for sin; the East being the territory of the Outer Court.
And now, THE MYSTERY OF THE WEST is that, in the West, God commanded the construction of the holy of holies, where God would go into that Pillar of Fire and rest upon the mercy seat, between the two cherubims of gold. That is the throne of God, that is the throne of the Pillar of Fire, that is the throne of the Shekinah in the temple Solomon built and the temple Moses built.
And in the Temple that Jesus Christ is building, the Throne of Jesus Christ in His Church is also in the West.
And notice, Christ has been manifesting Himself in each of His messengers and in each of the believers in each age.
And now, at the Last Day, He has promised to manifest Himself in His Angel-Messenger and to make known to us all these things which must shortly be done; because in the West, He will have His veil of flesh, His instrument, His Angel-Messenger, where Christ will be manifested; He will be manifested in His human Throne at the Last Day as Judge of all the Earth, and as Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work.
And the Pillar of Fire, which was in the holy of holies, upon the mercy seat, between the two cherubims of gold, in the tabernacle that Moses built and the tabernacle or temple that Solomon built, would be in His Temple at the Last Day, in His Church, in the Holy of Holies, manifested in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger.
And that is the manifestation there was in the holy of holies of the tabernacle of Moses and the temple of Solomon, being brought to its present-day fulfillment in the spiritual Temple of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; that is why from there, from His Temple, from the Holy of Holies of His Temple, the Message will go to the Hebrew people; It will go forth from His human Throne: from His Angel-Messenger, the Message will go to the Hebrew people; because each prophet of God has been God’s mouth in each age.
And the mouth of Christ, the mouth of God at the Last Day, is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; through whom the Message for the Hebrew people will come, which is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, and Judge of all the Earth.
And now, all of this is promised to be manifested (where?) in the West; because as the lightning that comes out of the East, and shines, manifests itself, reveals itself in the West, so shall the Coming of the Son of man be.
The Coming of the Son of man is promised as the lightning; and in the West is where the lightning shines at the Last Day, where the Second Coming of Christ shines as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work. Just as God shone in the Light of the Shekinah upon the mercy seat, between the two cherubims of gold.
And from among the ministries of Moses and Elijah, which will be in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ: the Son of man, Jesus Christ, will be shining and giving us His Light and His Message, enlightening our soul and our understanding so that we may understand all these things which must shortly come to pass at this Last Day.
We have seen “THE MYSTERY OF THE EAST AND THE WEST.”
In the East, the First Coming of Christ was fulfilled through a young carpenter from Nazareth, who was born in Bethlehem of Judea, there in the Middle East. And in the West, the Second Coming of Christ would be fulfilled, by Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19, coming in human flesh; by the white-horse Rider of Revelation, the Holy Spirit, the Word, coming in human flesh at the Last Day.
“196. (Because) when our Lord (Jesus Christ) appears here on earth, He’ll be riding on a snow-white horse. And He’ll be completely, fully, the Emmanuel, the Word of God incarnate in a Man.”
By finding that Man in whom the Word will be incarnate, we will find the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19, we will find Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in the East; in other words, in the territory of the continent of the Americas; in the Central, South, and Caribbean parts.
Central America, South America, and the Caribbean are the territory for the Coming of the white-horse Rider of Revelation, which is the Coming of the Word incarnate in a man, incarnate in the Angel-Messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“From the West will come a white horse rider. We’ll ride this trail again,” says Elijah in his fourth manifestation. And Elijah will ride it in his fifth manifestation with that white-horse Rider of Revelation 19; he will ride this trail again, for the fifth time, with the Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh in His Angel-Messenger of the Last Day.
And the ministry of Moses will also ride that trail again, for the second time, at the Last Day, in the West; and from there—later on—they will go to the East, to the land of Israel.
Now, we have seen THE MYSTERY OF THE EAST AND OF THE WEST, which is the continent of the Americas and the Caribbean; and the East is the land of Israel, which is in the Middle East.
Now, we have seen this mystery of the East and the West.
See how simple everything is? See how everything coincides and everything is in the Divine Program? Because everything must be in harmony with God’s Program, which has been reflected in past ages and dispensations; it is reflected in the tabernacle Moses built and in the temple Solomon built.
That is why in the construction of His spiritual Temple, Christ has maintained the order of the tabernacle of Moses and the temple of Solomon; because that is the pattern that God showed Moses there on the mountain; it is the pattern of the Temple which is in Heaven.
And according to that pattern, Christ has also been building His spiritual Temple for a habitation of God through the Holy Spirit in all His fullness; which will happen at the Last Day, where God in all His fullness will go in that Temple and to that Temple; and we will all have the fullness of the Holy Spirit, with an eternal theophanic body and with an eternal glorified physical body, which will be like the body of our Lord Jesus Christ.
And this way, we will all be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; thus fulfilling the promise of Christ when He said: “Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abides alone; but if it falls into the ground and dies, it brings forth much fruit.”1 In other words, many sons and daughters of God in the image of the Corn of Wheat that was sown into the ground; in other words, in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Corn of Wheat that died and was sown into the ground to reproduce Himself into millions of sons and daughters of God, in the reproduction of that new Creation which began with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
Notice how the reproduction of the new Creation is being carried out, of which Jesus Christ is the first: He is reproducing Himself according to the law of reproduction. And the law of reproduction establishes that one must sow to then reap; one must sow in order for the plant to sprout, and then for the fruit [to grow], and then for the coming of the harvest of all that fruit brought forth by the corn of wheat that was sown into the ground.
Notice how Christ then sprouted as a Wheat Plant, in other words, as the Church; and then, God’s sons and daughters, which are the wheat grains, which are the reproduction of Christ, have been born into the Church.
And at the Last Day, all the wheat grains that will be living at the Last Day will ripen or mature. And those that were potentially wheat, even though the wheat grain wasn’t visible yet, and much less a ripe wheat grain, despite that, those who were potentially wheat in past ages will rise in eternal bodies at the Last Day; and we who are alive will reach maturity, and we will be changed, and we will also have the eternal body.
And thus, we will be in the image and likeness of Christ, the first Corn of Wheat that was sown into the ground, died, and sprouted in the form of a Wheat Plant, sprouted in the form of the Church, where the life of Christ has been, reproducing Himself into sons and daughters of God.
Notice that God’s sons and daughters in the mystical Body of Christ are the reproduction of Jesus Christ; and that is why we will fully become in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
When we have obtained the new birth: we have obtained a theophanic body of the sixth dimension; and therefore, we have obtained the image of Jesus Christ; because the image of God is the theophany, the theophanic body, and that is our image, which is the image of Jesus Christ.
And now, at the Last Day, we will receive the physical and eternal and glorified body, similar to the body of the Lord Jesus Christ; and thus, we will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
We have reached the end time, we have reached the time in which, in the West, in the land of Latin America and the Caribbean, Christ is manifesting Himself in favor of His elect: He is calling them and He is gathering them in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, which pertains (in its fulfillment) to the Latin American and Caribbean territory.
And thus, He is preparing us. And when the last elect comes in, when the mystical Body of Christ is completed, upon the entrance of the very last elect, we will be ready to be changed and gathered, together with the dead in Christ who will rise very soon.
They have not risen yet, but they will rise soon; and we haven’t been changed yet, but we will be changed soon. Because it is a promise of Christ to be fulfilled at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, where we obtain the faith, the revelation to be changed and raptured at this Last Day, the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, as the lightning shining in the West.
Who is shining in the West? The Son of man in His Coming, in the Coming of the Son of man, which is the Coming of Christ in Holy Spirit through His Angel-Messenger, manifesting Himself among the Latin American and Caribbean people, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
We have reached the time of the West, we have reached the time of all these Divine Promises to be fulfilled in the West, at this end time in which we are living.
And the elect from among the Gentiles, who will be living in the West, in the Latin American and Caribbean part, will see the fulfillment of the Coming of the Son of man as the lightning shining in the West, and shining in our souls and in our understanding, and enlightening our soul and our understanding so that we may see, so that we may understand, all these things that are promised to happen at this Last Day.
And where are the ones who would be seeing the Coming of the Son of man as the lightning shining in the West, in Latin America and the Caribbean? Here we are. There is a group here in Chinandega, Nicaragua, and also in different places in Nicaragua. And in the different places in Latin America and the Caribbean, we have the people who would see the Coming of the Son of man shining as the lightning in the West, in other words, in Latin America and the Caribbean at this Last Day.
May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon each one of you, Latin American and Caribbean people, and upon your territories; and may all of you, and your territories, enter into the glorious Millennial Kingdom of Jesus Christ. And may those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life be changed at this Last Day, may they be put in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, and prepared to be changed and raptured at this Last Day. In the Eternal Name of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
It has been a great privilege to be with you all on this occasion, testifying to you about:
“THE MYSTERY OF THE EAST AND THE WEST.”
Notice, there is still more we could say about the West and the East. For example, the Angel who was different from the rest, who was in that cloud which was captured in photographs in 1963, on February 28, 1963, notice how that Angel flew from the West to the East; because the Message is a Message that starts in the West, in the land of the Americas, in Latin America and the Caribbean, that is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and that Message flies all the way to the East, in other words, to the land of Israel. That is the Message that the Hebrew people are waiting for.
And the Coming of the Son of man is from the West to the East, because It is fulfilled in the West, and then the Second Coming of Christ and the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ will fly to the Hebrew people, to the *East… It will fly to the East, to the East: to the Hebrew people; but first, where will It be? In the West, in the Latin American and Caribbean land.
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.
Thank you very much for your kind attention, beloved friends and brethren present, radio listeners, and television viewers; and have a good afternoon everyone, or a good evening if you are seeing and hearing this conference on the radio or television in the evening.
I will leave Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín with you again to continue and conclude our participation this evening by thanking Christ for His blessings. With us again: Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín.
May God bless you and keep you all.
“THE MYSTERY OF THE EAST AND THE WEST.”
1 John 12:24