The mystery of the lamb and the lion

Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present here in León, Nicaragua. It is a great privilege to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of fellowship with you around the Divine Program.

For this reason, I want to read in Revelation chapter 5, verse 1 to 7, where it tells us the following:

“And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.

And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?

And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon.

And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.

And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.

And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.

And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.”

Our subject for this occasion is: “THE MYSTERY OF THE LAMB AND THE LION.”

In order to understand this mystery here presented by God in the Book of Revelation, where the elder says to John: “Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah,” and then, when John looked, he saw a Lamb as if it had been slain… this is a mystery of the Kingdom of God.

In order to understand this mystery, we need to understand that the Book of Revelation is a symbolic Book, and therefore, all these things that are shown here have a meaning. And this mystery of the Lion and of the Lamb has a meaning in the Divine Program.

When John was weeping because there was no one worthy to take the Book and open Its Seals, the elder says to John: “Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah.”

Now, why did John weep so much? Because if no one was found worthy to open that Book, everything was lost.

That is the Book of Redemption, which is in the right hand of God, in the hand of Him that sits on the Throne. And at the Last day, at the end time, that is the time in which that Book must be taken and opened in Heaven; otherwise, all of creation is lost; because then all of creation will go back to being the way it was before God carried out creation.

And now, look at the situation of all creation, before God.

John wept a lot because everything would disappear out of existence unless a person, a man who was worthy to take that Book and open those Seals, came forward.

It had to be a man; it couldn’t be an archangel, it couldn’t be an angel, it couldn’t be a literal animal either; it could only be a human being.

And now, Adam was there, the patriarchs were there, the apostles were also there, the saints of the Old Testament and of the New Testament were there; God’s Archangels were there: Gabriel, Michael, and other archangels; but no one was worthy to take that Book.

And since they couldn’t be archangels, nor angels, we then see that it had to be a man, in other words, a person who has lived on this Earth and who has been a sinless human being, who has come without sin contamination.

Because, since the fall of Adam, all human beings have been coming through the union of a man and a woman, and therefore, they have been coming contaminated with sin, and they have been under the sentence of sin, which is death; for “the wages of sin is death.”¹

Now, we can see then that no human being was worthy to take that Book and open the Seals, since we had all come through the union of a man and a woman.

But a being came here, to Earth, who did not come through the intimate relations of a man and a woman, but by Divine Creation. God created a cell of life in a woman’s womb, a blood cell, which multiplied cell after cell, and formed a little body, which was born in Bethlehem of Judea. That woman who had that child was the virgin Mary, and that child was the child Jesus.

And now, we find that He grew up and reached the adult age of nearly thirty years old, and began His ministry there in the land of Israel. He was baptized by John the Baptist.

And then, we find that when He came out of the water, the Spirit of God came upon Jesus in all His fullness; and John said, “I knew Him not, but He that sent me to baptize said to me: Upon whom you see the Holy Spirit descending like a dove, the same is He.” In other words, “That is the One whose way you are preparing, that is the One who will come after you, and that is the One who will baptize with the Holy Ghost and with Fire.”

And now, John says: “And I saw; I saw the Holy Spirit descending upon Him (meaning, upon Jesus); therefore, that is God’s Anointed One, the Messiah, the Christ; that is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.”

And now we can see why the Hebrew people had to be blind to the First Coming of Christ: to ask for the death of Christ, to reject Christ and ask for His death; so that Christ could carry out8 the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross, and thus, cleanse us with His precious Blood from all sin, and justify us before God as if we had never sinned before; and thus, we could be prepared for the glorious Kingdom of God.

This is how each person comes to Christ: he receives Christ as his Savior, washes away his sins in the Blood of Christ, and receives the Spirit of Jesus Christ; and thus, he is born again, born in the Kingdom of God, born in the mystical Body of Jesus Christ; and he becomes a person born of Heaven, a person who belongs to Heaven through that new birth, and is in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.²

He is put in the heavenly dimension, in the sixth dimension, by the Spirit of Christ that is in him. Through the theophanic spirit he has received upon being born again, that person is positioned in the sixth dimension; in other words, his spirit is from the sixth dimension and is in the sixth dimension, and he is in contact with heavenly things, and he receives the revelation of Heaven through that theophanic spirit he has received upon being born again.

And he perseveres in the mystical Body of Christ, serving Christ as his Savior all the days of his life, and announcing to other human beings the blessing that Christ has given us by coming in His First Coming and dying on Calvary’s Cross for our redemption, to thus bring forth the new birth in us, and to be free from all sin, and to have the Spirit of Jesus Christ in us.

Because when we are born through our father and mother, we receive a spirit of the world, which inclines us to evil, and we receive a body of flesh in God’s permissive will: a mortal, corruptible, and temporary [body]. And that is why the physical body that every human being receives, lives for a certain amount of time, where he is born, grows, reaches the height of an adult and age of an adult; and then he grows old, until his last years come, from seventy to ninety years old or a hundred years old, and we see him declining; and he doesn’t look very much like—when he is seventy to a hundred years old, he doesn’t look the way he did when he was fifteen or twenty years old: because he has been declining, due to the fact that what he received was a mortal, corruptible, and temporary body, when he was born through his earthly parents.

But now, through the new birth we have received a theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension; and at the Last Day we will receive a physical and eternal body, and we will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

The dead in Christ will rise in eternal bodies and we who are alive will be changed: we will be changed in our atoms; and we will have an eternal body, a glorified body; and thus, we will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, who is the second Adam, and who is the heavenly Man: who came from Heaven and was among human beings, who had no sin; but He took our sins, and became sin for us, to die and thus carry out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross.

He is the only One who can take this Book out of the right hand of Him that sits upon the Throne, in other words, out of the right hand of God.

Now, when it was asked that a person, a man, come forward and take that Book, no one was coming forward. And where was Jesus? He was in the Holy of Holies of the Temple which is in Heaven; He was making intercession there upon the Mercy Seat, with His own Blood; Christ was there as High Priest, offering His own Blood for every son and daughter of God since past times until this time in which we are living.

And when the last of those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life comes in, and he is washed in the Blood of Christ, and is born again, and thus comes into the mystical Body of Christ; after that, the Work is completed: the number of the elect of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is completed, and they are all in the mystical Body of Christ. And then Christ leaves the Throne of Intercession in Heaven, He presents Himself before God and takes the Title Deed, the Book of the Seven Seals, and opens It in Heaven.

Now, He has been fulfilling the content of that Title Deed from stage to stage and from age to age, so that once He completes His Work contained in the Book of Seals, when He completes His Work contained in the Seventh Seal, and under the manifestation of the Seventh Seal all the elect of the Last Day have been called (which are the last elect of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ), then His Work in His mystical Body of believers, in His Church, may be completed.

And then He takes the Title Deed and claims everything He has redeemed with His precious Blood; and He comes with that Title Deed open, to give It to His Church through the ministry He will have here on Earth at the Last Day, meaning, the ministry of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit through His Angel-Messenger; His Angel, of whom He says: “I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches;”³ and thus, He prepares us to be changed and raptured at this Last Day.

Now, we can see that at the end of the Seventh Seal, at the end of the Work of the Seventh Seal carried out here on Earth, is when the mystical Body of Christ is completed; because during the manifestation of the Seventh Seal, from Its beginning to Its end, Christ would be calling and gathering His elect of the Last Day, His elect of the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom. And once He finishes that work, Christ finishes His work on the Throne of Intercession in Heaven, takes the Title Deed, and opens It in Heaven, and brings It to Earth; and thus, He brings the rights to restore to God’s elect the rights to all the Divine Inheritance that the human being lost back in the fall.

Because we have the right to what? To have Eternal Life in an eternal body, we have the right to eternal youth, to eternal happiness, to eternal health, to the eternal rule of the entire Earth and all of its inhabitants, and to the eternal rule of all planets and solar systems; to the eternal rule of the entire universe; because we are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ Jesus our Lord.

And through the Sacrifice on Calvary’s Cross, Christ paid the price of the redemption of all creation; not only ours, but of all creation; and therefore, all of creation will go back to its original position, and will be under the rule of Christ and His Church, the rule of Christ and His elect, for all eternity.

Now, Christ, notice, has been as the Lamb of God, in His First Coming, carrying out His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross, and then ascending to Heaven and applying His own Blood upon the Mercy Seat of the Temple which is in Heaven, there in the Holy of Holies; just like the High Priest did in the temple or tabernacle Moses built and the temple Solomon built.

We find that the high priest went into the holy of holies once a year (on the tenth day of the seventh month) with the blood of the goat of the sin offering, and applied it on the mercy seat, and the reconciliation of the people to God was made there.

And we find that he sprinkled the blood with his finger seven times, and then he applied blood upon that mercy seat there. But notice that he would dip his finger and sprinkle the blood seven times; this speaks of the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church, where the Blood of Christ was sprinkled; and now upon our age in the Last Day, because he then applied blood (the rest of the blood) there on the mercy seat.

And now notice everything the high priest did there; who also had bells on his garment, and as he walked, those bells sounded.

And now, we find that after he finished his work there, he would come out of the holy of holies and go through the holy place; and then all the people saw that the high priest had already made it out of there alive; that meant God had accepted the sacrifice and the blood of the sin offering, and the Hebrew people were reconciled to God.

And now, notice how God’s sons and daughters are fully reconciled when Christ leaves the Throne of Intercession in Heaven. And I say “fully reconciled,” because from age to age they have been reconciled to God; and at this Last Day the last elect written in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world are reconciled to God.

And now, we can see that later the Hebrew people also receive God’s blessing, and one hundred and forty-four thousand Hebrews (twelve thousand of each tribe), who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, also receive Christ at the Last Day.

And we find that this whole Divine Program, notice, is here in His Word, it is here in the Book of the Seven Seals; and this whole Program must be completed. And at the end of the Seventh Seal, this Program is completed. And then, notice, Christ claims everything for His Church; He claims His Church as His inheritance, and claims all the blessings for His Church: Eternal Life in an eternal body, eternal youth and all these blessings that Adam and Eve lost in the fall.

And now we can see that in the Seventh Seal is where Christ appears manifested. And notice, He is the Lion of the tribe of Judah and also the Lamb of God; because during the Seventh Seal, He will complete His Work of Redemption, He will complete His Work of Intercession; and when He completes it, at the end of the Seventh Seal, He becomes the Lion of the tribe of Judah; and through that manifestation He will have at the Last Day through His Angel-Messenger, we will see Him as the Lamb and the overlap as the Lion.

We will see Him in the overlap from Lamb to Lion until His Claiming Work is carried out, and He brings the dead in Christ in eternal bodies, and changes us who are alive, and thus gives us an eternal body, and we will all be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ,

Now, it is very important to be able to see what was seen in Heaven: to be able to see that the Lion that was announced to come, appeared as the Lamb according to John.

Because notice, Christ is the Lamb of God who took away the sin of the world there on Calvary’s Cross, and John had known Him as the Lamb when John the Baptist introduced Him as the Lamb of God.

But John the Apostle did not know the mystery of the Lion of the tribe of Judah; he did not know the Work of the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Claiming Work that Christ will carry out at the Last Day, once the very last elect of God has come in, and has been washed in the Blood of Jesus Christ, and has received the Spirit of Jesus Christ, and thus, the mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ has been completed.

Now we can see that in His last manifestation under the Seventh Seal, Christ changes there: from being a Lamb, He changes into a Lion; from being in His Work, calling and gathering His elect and completing the number of His Church, we will then find Him changing into the Lion of the tribe of Judah, King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work.

And this is how Christ, at the end of the Seventh Seal, will do what He has promised in favor of each one of you and also of me; in other words, He will carry out the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive.

Now we can see how the Lamb becomes the Lion of the tribe of Judah.

That is why, notice, here in Revelation chapter 17, just as there were persecutions against the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in past ages, there will also be a squeeze and a persecution at the Last Day. But notice what will happen: in Revelation chapter 17, verses 13 to 14, we find the beast with the ten kings that will give him their power and strength, and he will make war with the Lamb. It says:

“These have one mind,” (the ten kings), “and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.”

The beast is the devil incarnated in the antichrist, in the man of sin, ruling the empire of the antichrist. And it says:

“These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings…”

In other words, the Lamb becomes King of kings and Lord of lords, He becomes the Lion of the tribe of Judah; and they will not notice that change, which takes place under the Seventh Seal, where the Lion overlaps with the Lamb, because the Lion is Christ, and the Lamb is also our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; and He changes from Lamb to Lion of the tribe of Judah, and from High Priest to Judge of all the Earth.

In that change He makes under the Seventh Seal, He brings the great blessings for all those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. And under the Seventh Seal, He calls and gathers His elect at this Last Day with a Great Voice of Trumpet, in other words, with the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet 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, in His Claiming Work.

And thus, with that Divine Revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, He calls and gathers His elect, and puts them in His mystical Body of believers, in other words, in His Church. And once He has put the very last elect there, and He has washed him in His Blood, and filled him with His Holy Spirit, and therefore, once he has been born in His mystical Body of believers, in His Church: His Work as Lamb and High Priest finishes; and the Work as Lion, King, and Judge of all the Earth, is manifested, and the claim is made over everything that Christ has redeemed with His precious Blood. What for? To position him in and with Eternal Life.

To position all the saints who have departed in past ages with Eternal Life and in an eternal body, by raising them up in eternal bodies; and for us who are alive, by changing our bodies, and thus giving us an eternal and glorious body with Eternal Life, which will be young for all eternity, representing from eighteen to twenty-one years of age; and that is for all eternity.

That is the Divine Program for His Church, to be fulfilled at this Last Day.

And we will be here on Earth in an eternal body, and all the saints of past ages will also be here: Saint Peter, Saint Paul and all the apostles (except Judas Iscariot); and all the believers in Christ of the past who received Christ as their Savior and washed their sins in the Blood of Christ and received the Spirit of Jesus Christ will be there; they will be together with us here on Earth in eternal bodies, and we will also be in eternal bodies.

In other words, here on Earth, there will be a meeting of everyone who has departed in the past, born-again believers in Christ, together with the born-again believers in Christ who live at this Last Day. And we will all be in eternal bodies. In other words, it will be a great meeting and a great… let’s say, a great youth convention or conference; because we all will be young, representing from eighteen to twenty-one years of age.

And here there will be millions of human beings with eternal bodies; and we will be here for thirty to forty days; and then we will go from here to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven, to the House of our Heavenly Father, where they are waiting for us for that great Feast which God has prepared for everyone who has been washed in the Blood of Christ and has received His Holy Spirit at the time in which they were given to live here on this Earth.

Now, we have seen the purpose of Christ: to be manifested first as the Lamb of God carrying out His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross, and then ascending to Heaven and applying on the Mercy Seat of the Temple which is in Heaven—applying His own Blood; because Christ as High Priest took His own Blood there and presented It before the Throne of Intercession, so that the reconciliation to God of every son and daughter of God could take place.

That is why, throughout the different stages or ages, God has been reconciling us: we are being reconciled to God through Jesus Christ and His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross. And we are living at the Last Day, where this work will end at any moment, and God’s sons and daughters will be fully reconciled to God.

And thus, we will have everything Adam and Eve lost in the fall, we will have it restored to us; and we will have Eternal Life and an eternal body, eternal youth, eternal health, eternal happiness and eternal rule, in which we will be kings and priests in the glorious Government or Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; which will be established over the Hebrew people there in Jerusalem, where the Throne of David is, where Christ will sit as King of kings and Lord of lords, where Christ will sit as the Son of David and Son of man; and He will reign over the Hebrew people and over all the nations of this Earth; and we will reign with Him, as Revelation chapter 5, verse 8 and on says; it says:

“And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.

And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”

Now, notice that all these people who have been redeemed with the Blood of Christ, even if they have not had an important position on this Earth: in the glorious Kingdom of Christ, they will have the most important position that a person can have: being kings and priests with Christ, to reign with Christ a thousand years and then for all eternity.

In chapter 20, verses 4 to 6 of Revelation, it tells us:

“And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.”

It says that they reigned with Christ for how long? A thousand years. That’s a thousand years to begin, and then for all eternity, because we will be with Him for all eternity also as kings and priests. It says:

“But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.”

In other words, the dead who rise before the Millennial Kingdom begins and before the Great Tribulation, are the ones that have washed their garments in the Blood of the Lamb, they have washed away their sins in the Blood of the Lamb, and they have received the Spirit of Christ; and therefore, they have received the new birth. These people have the promise, from Christ, to be kings and priests, and reign with Christ a thousand years and then for all eternity. It says, referring to those who would reign with Christ, it says:

“This is the first resurrection.

Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.”

Now, notice the important position that these people have, who have washed away their sins in the Blood of the Lamb and have received the Spirit of Christ; and therefore, they have been born into the Kingdom of God, they have come into the Kingdom of God, they have been born again in the mystical Body of Jesus Christ.

Now, we have seen the Work of Christ as the Lamb of God in favor of each one of you and also in my favor, and in favor of all those who have lived in past ages. And we can see that He is in Heaven, making intercession with His own Blood that He shed on Calvary’s Cross, until the very last elect comes in, and then Christ becomes the Lion of the tribe of Judah, King of kings and Lord of lords, and makes the claim for all those He has redeemed with His precious Blood, to give them the eternal body, the new body, and to live with Christ for all eternity.

He (Christ) sits on the Throne of David as King of kings and Lord of lords; and being the Lion of the tribe of Judah… the lion is the king of the animals, and Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords; in other words, the lion represents or symbolizes Christ as King to sit on the Throne of David.

A Throne that has been unoccupied for some thousands of years already; but it will be occupied by Christ and there will be a glorious Millennial Kingdom promised, in which there will be peace and prosperity for human beings on this Earth. And Christ will turn everything in favor of the human being. And there will be love for one another, and from one nation to another; wars will end and tools for war will become work tools, for the wellbeing of the human race; and even the desert will blossom.

Now, we can see the Divine Program that Christ has as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, in other words, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in favor of each one of you and in favor of all the believers of past ages, and in favor of the Hebrew people and in favor of all those who will live in the glorious Millennial Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

Now, we are at the time in which Christ is calling and gathering His elect of the Last Day.

From age to age, we find that Christ sent a messenger: Saint Paul was the first, for the first Church stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ among the Gentiles; and that first stage among the Gentiles was fulfilled there in Asia Minor.

Then, He sent Irenaeus there in France; then He sent Martin there in Hungary and France; and then He sent Columba in the fourth age, there in Ireland and Scotland; then He sent Luther in Germany; then He sent John Wesley in England; and then He went to North America, where He sent Rev. William Branham; and in that same way, He has been calling and gathering His elect from age to age.

Now, when we speak of God’s elect, these are God’s firstborn written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life; these are the ones who obtain the new birth; and these are the ones who, if they died, will be raised in eternal bodies at this end time; and if we are alive when they rise: then we will be changed.

Now, there are also many people or millions of people who have believed in Christ as their Savior, but they don’t belong to the group of God’s firstborn; therefore, those people, if their physical bodies have died, they will rise after the Millennial Kingdom, and they will be judged; and these are the ones who are established in that parable of chapter 25 of Saint Matthew, where the king sits on his throne and puts the sheep on his right, and speaks God’s blessing to them so that they come into the Kingdom of God, because they acted the right way at the time in which they lived, and they helped God’s firstborn.

It says that He will tell them to come into the Kingdom prepared for them by God before the foundation of the world. It says… This is the parable, notice, where it shows us this great event: chapter 25, verse 31 and on, says:

“When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”

Who are the least of these brethren of Jesus? They are the members of the mystical Body of Christ, they are the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, who have been born again upon believing in Christ as their Savior, and have received His Holy Spirit, and have become part of the mystical Body of Christ, and have each lived at the time in which they were given to live.

And now, these people, who are judged after the Millennial Kingdom at and before the White Throne, notice, had helped these little ones, in other words, God’s elect who lived in these stages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

This diagram shows the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ going through Its different stages. This diagram was used by Rev. William Branham in the messages “The Stature Of A Perfect Man” and also in the message An Exposition Of The Seven (Gentile) Church (Stages or) Ages.⁴ And now, we also find that he made reference to that diagram in different conferences.

And now, notice how these little ones of the Lord Jesus Christ are the members of His mystical Body, the members of His Church, the ones who have believed in Christ as their Savior and have been born again; and people who help or do a favor for these little ones, Christ said they will not lose their reward: “For whosoever gives one of these My little ones a cup of cold water shall not lose his reward;”⁵ and his reward is Eternal Life.

Notice, here He is giving Eternal Life to these people who did these favors, who helped these little ones, the members of the mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Those are the brethren of Jesus Christ (these little ones); but notice, he who blesses them will be blessed; and he who curses them will be cursed. Let’s see if that’s how it is or not. It says [verse 41]:

“Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.” Now, let’s see why:

“For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.”

Now, we have seen here that in addition to the people who have received Christ as their Savior and have received His Holy Spirit, the people who have somehow helped God’s elect in each of these stages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will also come into Eternal Life.

And this will be fulfilled after the Millennial Kingdom; but the favor or help that they grant these people, they do it at the time in which they are given to live; and then on Judgment Day, they receive the reward: if they helped, they receive the reward of coming into Eternal Life; if they didn’t help when it was needed, they won’t be able to come into Eternal Life but into the lake of fire prepared for the devil and his angels; that is what Christ says here in His Word.

Now we can see where we are in the Divine Program; and now we can see who these little ones are, whom it is a great blessing to help; harming them is a serious problem that people bring upon themselves; Christ showed that here in this parable.

And what God had spoken about the Hebrew people and also about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: “He who blesses you will be blessed, and he who curses you will be cursed,” notice how it is also fulfilled with the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ: whoever blesses them will be blessed, and whoever curses them will be cursed; and those who curse God’s elect and don’t help them when they need help will lose the right to Eternal Life; but notice, those who bless them and help them will be blessed, and they will come into Eternal Life after the Millennial Kingdom.

Now, tonight we are seeing: “THE MYSTERY OF THE LAMB AND THE LION.”

Just as the lamb represents Christ, and Christ was represented in the Passover lamb and also in the rest of the animals that were offered to God in the offerings and sacrifices for peace and for the sin of the people, and in the sacrifice of the goat; now, notice, the lion also represents Christ.

In the First Coming of Christ, we find the fulfillment of the Coming of the Lamb of God, who took away the sin of the world there on Calvary’s Cross. And that is why now animal offerings and sacrifices are not needed: because the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, the perfect Sacrifice, the perfect Lamb, carried out His Work, His Sacrifice, on Calvary’s Cross.

And now, just as the lamb represents Christ, the lion also represents Christ: Christ in His Second Coming as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work.

Now, notice how we have reached the most glorious time of all times: we have reached the time in which the Lamb will make the change from Lamb to Lion of the tribe of Judah, and He will make the claim over everything He has redeemed with His precious Blood, where the dead in Christ will rise first in eternal bodies, and we who are alive will be changed, and we will also have the eternal body.

It has been a great privilege to be with you tonight, testifying to you about: “THE MYSTERY OF THE LAMB AND THE LION,” the Lamb of God and the Lion of the tribe of Judah.

This mystery, notice, has been made known to you, has been opened, so that you can understand it, and see the great blessings that Christ as the Lamb of God has given us, and the great blessings that Christ has for us as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work.

May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, our Savior, the Lamb of God and Lion of the tribe of Judah, be materialized in each one of you and also in me. And may all the elect be called and gathered, up to the very last elect, and thus, may the number of God’s elect be completed in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, in Latin America and the Caribbean; and may we be changed, and have the new body; and may the dead in Christ rise and may they also have their new body, their eternal body; and all together, after being here for thirty to forty days, in the new body, may we then go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven, to the House and in the House of our Heavenly Father. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

May God bless you, may God keep you; and thank you very much for your kind attention, beloved friends and brethren here in the city of León, Nicaragua, and have a good evening everyone.

I leave Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín with us again to conclude our participation by thanking Christ, the Lamb of God and the Lion of the tribe of Judah, for His blessings tonight.

With us now, Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín. Have a good evening everyone.

“THE MYSTERY OF THE LAMB AND THE LION.”