Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present. It is a great blessing to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of spiritual fellowship with you around the Word of God, and to see where we stand in the Divine Program.
For this occasion, our subject is: “THE MYSTERY OF THE WORD OF GOD: FOOD IN DUE SEASON.”
We will be seeing how the Word of God is the spiritual Food for the soul in due season.
We will be reading in Amos chapter 8, verses 11 to 14, and Saint Matthew 4:4. Amos chapter 8, verse 11 and on, says:
“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.
They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.”
The Prophet Amos says that days come… God says:
“…That I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.”
And in Saint Matthew chapter 4, verse 4, Christ says:
“But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”
Our subject for this occasion, as I told you, is: “THE MYSTERY OF THE WORD OF GOD: FOOD IN DUE SEASON,” or THE FOOD IN DUE SEASON.
Just as we feel hungry physically and we look for something to eat physically… natural or material food for our physical body, because if we don’t eat, it starts weakening, it starts to get thin, skinny, it gets sick, it weakens, and dies.
And now, our soul also feels hunger and we have to feed it. And there is only one Food for the soul, and it is the Word of God pertaining to the time in which the person is living.
When Christ was speaking to His disciples, teaching them to pray, one of the things He taught them was to ask for our daily bread.1 And just as we ask for our daily bread for our physical body, we need to ask for our daily Bread for our soul.
And our daily Bread is the Bread for each age and for each dispensation; because just as there are days for our physical body (the seven days of the week), there are also spiritual days before God, which are ages and dispensations and millennia.
And now, notice how God, through the Prophet Moses, spoke to the Hebrew people, to whom He gave bread, manna from heaven. We find that for forty years He made them go through difficult stages, so that what was in their hearts would come out of their hearts (which was not very good).
Because everything that is in people’s hearts has to come out, and that is why God allows many things to happen throughout the journey of each person’s life, to see if they keep serving God in good times, and if they also keep serving God in bad times.
Because serving God in good times is very nice, but when things get difficult, that is when you prove that you truly love God and will serve Him all the days of your life, even if things are difficult, even if the circumstances around you are against you.
Now, notice, when there is a time of persecutions because of the Word of God and His Program pertaining to the time in which one lives, many feel afraid then, and they say: “I am going to save my own skin [protect myself].”
But notice, “What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?”2 And Christ said: “And he that denies Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father and before His holy angels.”3
So, what good is it to escape a persecution that comes against the true believers in God, in Jesus Christ, if the person who says that he escaped and avoided going through that squeeze or that persecution, and even avoided dying, what did it profit him? It says: “Whoever gains his life will lose it.”4 He gained his earthly life, because he avoided dying or being persecuted, but he will lose it, why? Because notice, he dies (when it’s time for him to die), and then he will go to hell because he denied Jesus Christ.
“But whoever loses it for My sake and for the sake of the Gospel, of My Word, will find it,” because he will live eternally; because Christ will raise him up at the Last Day, in the seventh millennium, and He will give him a new body that they won’t be able to kill. And even if they persecute him, they won’t be able to do anything to him: he can go from one dimension to another, and disappear in front of his enemies without them realizing it.
And in that body, we will live eternally and reign with Christ a thousand years and for all eternity; a body that won’t grow old, that will always represent eighteen to twenty-one years of age, and that is the body for each of you and also for me, which we are waiting for at this Last Day.
And why are we waiting for it at the Last Day? Because Christ said the following words about His believers in chapter 6, verse 40, of Saint John:
“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
And one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day, Second Peter chapter 3, verse 8, tells us; and Psalm 90, verse 4.
That Last Day to God is the seventh millennium to human beings. And the Last Days before God are the fifth and sixth millenniums to human beings.
That is why Saint Paul tells us in his Letter to the Hebrews, in chapter 1, verse 1 and on, the following words. And let’s read here so that we have a clear picture of what Paul the Apostle is speaking about; he says:
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds…”
When does Saint Paul say that God spoke by His Son, by Jesus Christ? He says: “…In these last days…” And two thousand years have already passed. And Saint Paul says that those days in which God was speaking by Jesus were the Last Days.
This is how it is, just like when Saint Peter and Joel said that in the Last Days God would pour out of His Spirit and He poured out of His Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
Saint Peter, in chapter 2 [of Acts], verses 14 to 20, tells us that God had said that through the Prophet Joel—God said through the Prophet Joel that He would pour out of His Spirit in the Last Days. When? In the Last Days. Upon whom? Upon all flesh.
And we have seen that upon all flesh who has repented and washed away his sins in the Blood of Christ, God has poured out of His Holy Spirit, he has received the Holy Spirit; and therefore, he has been born again and come into the mystical Body of Christ, meaning, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, those spiritual children have been born.
In other words, the person, notice, every child of God is first born in a physical, mortal, corruptible body, with a spirit of the world, but his soul is of God. And then he needs a new birth, which Christ spoke to Nicodemus about in chapter 3 of Saint John, telling him: “Verily, verily I say unto you, except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God,” (meaning, he cannot understand It).
And then Nicodemus, interested in the Kingdom of God (because he wanted to enter into the Kingdom of God and he wanted to understand It), he tells Him, he asks Jesus: “How can these things be? Can a man, when he is old, enter into his mother’s womb and be born again?” Jesus told him it wasn’t that way.
Jesus explained to him, in chapter 3 of Saint John… Notice, He gave him a clear and full explanation regarding the new birth, without which a person cannot enter into the Kingdom of God, he cannot enter into the mystical Body of Christ; because no one can join the mystical Body of Christ to belong to that mystical Body of Christ, rather, one is born in that mystical Body of Christ, by believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior, washing away our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit. If one does not receive the Holy Spirit, notice, “the body without the spirit is dead,” that is what James says.5
Now here, notice how Jesus explains it:
“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 we can see that the new birth is required in order to enter into the mystical Body of Christ, because that is the only way the person’s new birth is carried out.
And now, notice that the disciples of Jesus Christ, even though they were with Jesus Christ, they had not been born again; although they were believers in Christ, and they were justified; yet, notice, they had not received the Holy Spirit, and therefore, they had not been born again; because Jesus was still on Earth, and the Holy Spirit had not descended upon them (the disciples); It descended on the day of Pentecost.
And Peter tells them that that was a promise made by God through the Prophet Joel, for when? For the Last Days. “And it shall come to pass in these Last Days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men…” Let’s see, let’s read it here:
[Acts 2:17-18] “And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.”
When is this for? The Last Days. And in the days of Jesus, Saint Paul tells us that they were already in the Last Days. And in the days when they received the Holy Spirit, on the day of Pentecost, Peter says they were in the Last Days. Why? Because the Last Days before God are the fifth millennium, sixth millennium, and seventh millennium.
Do you see why the Last Days are from the time since Christ? Because they are the three last millenniums of that Divine Cycle of seven millenniums; and the seventh millennium is also called the Lord’s Day or Last Day, when Christ has promised to raise all His believers who have died, but who are sealed with the Seal of the living God—meaning, with the Holy Spirit—unto the Day of Redemption, the Day in which our mortal bodies will be redeemed, the Day in which our mortal bodies will be changed, and theirs will be raised.
They will be raised in incorruptible bodies, eternal bodies; and we will be changed and we will have the eternal body, we will be changed in our atoms. That is the promise of Christ for which day? For the Last Day.
That is why on the first day, meaning in the fifth millennium, the New Testament saints could not rise. The Old Testament saints rose with the resurrection of Christ.
Notice how the first resurrection would be in the Last Days. The resurrection of the Old Testament saints was in the Last Days, on the first of the Last Days, meaning, in the fifth millennium.
And the resurrection of the New Testament saints would be at the Last Day. That is how it is appointed by Christ: it will be in the seventh millennium.
That is why we are waiting for the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive; because the resurrection is first and then the transformation of us who are alive, according to Saint Paul’s words in First Corinthians chapter 15, verses 50 to 55. “For the Trumpet shall sound…” “At the Last Trump,” Saint Paul says. Let’s see here, he says:
“Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
What comes first? Well, the resurrection of the dead in Christ. And then? The transformation of us who are alive. And what comes before that? The Last Trump, which is the Voice of Christ speaking to His Church and making known to Her all these things which must shortly be done, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
That Last Trump or Great Voice of Trumpet 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.
That is the revelation to be changed and raptured at the Last Day. That is the revelation that Christ gives us as the Lion of the tribe of Judah in Revelation chapter 10, crying as when a lion roars and Seven Thunders uttering their Voices.
That is the revelation of the Seven Thunders of Revelation chapter 10, the revelation of the Seventh Seal, the revelation of 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, as the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19, verses 11 to 21.
And now, notice how this mystery—which is promised to be revealed at the Last Day—will be made known to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; because it was not a mystery to be revealed in any of the seven previous ages; that was not the spiritual Food for the seven Gentile Church ages, but for the Age of the Cornerstone; because that is the mystery contained in the Seventh Seal, which no man in Heaven, nor on Earth, nor under the earth, knew.
It was a mystery that only the Father had in His Mind, and He had not even revealed it to His angels;6 and Jesus Himself says: “Not even the Son knows when it will be.”7 Therefore, this mystery of the Second Coming of the Son of man had not been made conscious (to Jesus). In other words, it was not in the conscious of Jesus; it was in His subconscious, meaning, in God’s Mind.
And now, this is the mystery that at the Last Day will bring the faith to be raptured—to be changed and raptured at the Last Day, meaning, in the seventh millennium, when the dead in Christ will rise and we who are alive will be changed.
That is why the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ tells us that the Seven Thunders of Revelation chapter 10 will give the Church Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ the rapturing faith. (Page 148 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals.)
And what do the Thunders reveal? What the Thunders reveal is the mystery of the Seventh Seal. Through the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the elect will obtain the faith, the revelation, to be changed and raptured. And it is the revelation of the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19.
In the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, preached by Rev. William Marrion Branham, he tells us the following on pages 151 to 152:
“283 And, Jesus, His Name on earth was ‘Redeemer,’ Jesus. When He was on earth, He was the Redeemer, that’s true. But when He conquered death and hell, and overcome them, and ascended on High, He received a new Name. That’s the reason you holler the way they do, and they don’t get nothing.
284 It’ll be revealed in the Thunders.”
Where do we obtain the revelation of the Seventh Seal? Where do we obtain the revelation of the Coming of Christ? Where do we obtain the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ? Let’s see. And where do we obtain the revelation of the new Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, which He received when He ascended to Heaven? In the Thunders. It’ll be revealed where? In the Thunders.
“[284] Uh-huh. See? Notice the mysteries. He is coming, riding…There’s got to be Something to change this Church,” (and where is what is coming to change this Church?) It says, “You know that. There’s got to be Something. Notice, “No man knowed, but Himself.” Now, notice, “No man knowed, but Hisself.”
And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name was called The Word of God.
Oh, my! Notice!
And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he tread the winepress of the fierceness and the wrath of Almighty God.
And he had on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
(Revelation 19:13-16, or verses 11 to 16.)
“285 There comes the Messiah. There He is…”
It is the Coming of the Lord.
And now, this is the greatest mystery of all the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, of the Kingdom of God. And this mystery is promised to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed, to be fulfilled and revealed to His Church at the Last Day, through the Voice of Christ, which is the Voice of the Seven Thunders crying as when a lion roars and the Seven Thunders are uttering their Voices, and revealing to us that great mystery contained in the Seventh Seal.
And now, notice how it is the Coming of the Holy Spirit. It says, page 154 says [The Revelation Of The Seven Seals]:
“302 Glory! Notice! And when this Holy Spirit that we have becomes incarnate to us, the One that’s in our midst now in the form of the Holy Ghost, becomes incarnate to us, in the Person of Jesus Christ, we’ll crown Him King of kings,” (and Lord of lords).
Now, notice that it is the Coming of the Holy Spirit becoming incarnate at the Last Day.
And now, on page 318 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, while he is praying, Rev. William Marrion Branham says, in part of the prayer, he says:
“[391] …May the Holy Spirit come down now, the white-horse Rider, while His Spirit, Spirit of Christ, in the face of antichrist, and call His Own.”
Who is the white-horse Rider of Revelation? The Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit.
And now, on page 295 he tells us:
“196. But 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.”
What will be the Coming of Christ on a snow-white horse? It will be the Word of God incarnate in a Man, It will be the Holy Spirit incarnate in a Man, It will be the Coming of the Holy Spirit in a Man at the Last Day.
And on page 546 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, let’s see here. When Rev. William Marrion Branham was caught up in the cloud where we find the angels that came for him, where we find the seven angels, he says… page 546 says:
“275. And did you notice? ‘That one Angel,’ I said, ‘in there, was a strange Angel.’ He looked more to me than any of the rest of Them. You remember that? [Congregation says, ‘Amen.’—Ed.] They were in a constellation; three on a side, and one on top. And the one right next to me here, counting from the left to the right, would have been the seventh Angel. He was brighter, meant more to me than the rest of Them. You remember? I said, ‘He had His chest out, like that, and was flying eastward’ (you remember) ‘like that.’ I said, ‘It picked me up; lifted me up.’” (Which of the angels picked up our Brother Branham and took him to that cloud formed by seven angels? It was that Angel who was very different from the rest.) “You remember that? [‘Amen.’]
276. Here It is, the one with the Seventh Seal,” (and there were…, let’s see), “the thing that I’ve wondered all my life. Amen! Them other Seals meant a lot to me, of course, but, oh, you don’t know what This has meant…!”
And now, the seven angel-messengers of the seven ages of the Gentile Church were there, in this cloud formed by angels. And there was an Angel who was very different from the rest, which was the eighth Angel, if we count our Brother Branham as one of the seven angels of the seven ages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ among the Gentiles.
Now, when our Brother Branham counted, well, he did what anyone would do. If someone tells you… if there are seven people here in the front, and they tell you: “Count how many people are there,” how many people will you say there are? Well, seven people. But if you are among them, notice, and you count, you will count seven people too; but if someone else counts them, how many will he count? He will count eight people. That’s because when a person counts he never counts himself, unless they tell him: “Count yourself too, including yourself.”
Now, including our Brother Branham, how many were there? Eight angels here, eight angels were here. And these are the angels that pertain to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; the seven angels of the seven ages of the Gentile Church were here, in this cloud.
But there was another One who was different from the rest. And where would we put that other One, which is the One who has the Seventh Seal? Well, the first angel-messenger didn’t have the Seventh Seal, the Second Coming of Christ was not fulfilled in him, rather, Christ was manifested in Saint Paul in the portion pertaining to that first age of the Gentile Church.
And in the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh angels, we also didn’t have the fulfillment of 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 as the Sun of Righteousness shining. But the Spirit of Christ was in them, Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in the portion pertaining to each age.
Therefore, they reflected what would be the manifestation of Christ in Holy Spirit in all His fullness in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
And that would be none other than… Notice, what was the ministry of Christ here, in each of the Gentile Church ages? It was the manifestation of each of those angel-messengers who appear here, who were in their theophanic bodies here in this cloud; when they were manifested, each one in bodies of flesh here, in each of the ages of the Church of the Lord (each one in his age), the ministry of the Holy Spirit pertaining to each age was in each of them.
And through each of them, Christ in Holy Spirit manifested Himself, and brought the spiritual Food for the soul of God’s sons and daughters. And they were fed through the Word of God, which is the Food in due season, for each of God’s sons and daughters.
They were faithful and wise servants which Christ made rulers where? Where did He put them? Over His Household, which is His Church; because the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the House of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Where does it tell us that? Let’s see what Saint Paul says about the House of God. In [Hebrews] chapter 3, verses… let’s see, verses 5 to 6, he says:
“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…”
Which is the House of Christ? Which is the House of God? The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ: it’s us! It’s us, in our age, and each one of God’s elect in the age in which he was given to live. This is the House of God, the House of Jesus Christ, which Christ was put over, He is the head of that House; just as Moses was put over the House of God in the Old Testament, but as a servant, not as a son.
And now Christ as a Son; and a son is the heir, not the servant.
“But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”
Now, we have seen which is the House of God, that is the House of Christ: His Church.
And in Ephesians chapter 2… verse 10, let’s read (we’ll read the others later), verse 10 says:
“For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”
We have been created in Christ Jesus, we are a new Creation. That new Creation of which Christ is the first, the head; that is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which comes through the second Adam; that is why She is born again and She is a new Creation, now She belongs to a new Creation that began with Christ, not with Adam. 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,” (He made both Hebrews and Gentiles, how many? One people: the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; those are one people, that is the heavenly Israel), “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…”
Now notice, we have a new Creation that is made up of those redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ: who have believed in Christ as our Savior, and have washed away their sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ, and have received His Holy Spirit; and therefore, they have received a theophanic body, a theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension, and thus, they have come into Eternal Life; because when one receives the Spirit of Christ, and thus, obtains the spirit of the sixth dimension: one has obtained Eternal Life, because one has received the Spirit of Christ.
And now, let’s continue reading here. It says:
“… for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross…”
Both in what? In one Body, in this mystical Body of Christ. Here are the ones who are reconciled to God through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, the Atonement for the human being’s reconciliation to God; which was reflected in the Hebrew people’s atonement, which appears in chapter 16 of Leviticus and in chapter 23 of Leviticus as well.
And now, let’s continue reading where it says:
“And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby.”
And now, we have also been reconciled in one body: the body of Jesus Christ, which died on Calvary’s Cross.
“…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.”
How is it that we have access to the Father? By the Holy Spirit.
“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God…”
Notice how one is a member of the Household of God manifested here on Earth: It is by believing in Christ as our Savior and receiving His Holy Spirit, upon washing away our sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ; we are reconciled to God, and now we have been born as sons and daughters of God in the Kingdom of God, in the mystical Body of Jesus Christ, and we are sitting (where?) in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
Because our theophanic spirit, which we have received with the new birth, belongs to the sixth dimension, and we are in heavenly places in our spirit, although our flesh is here on Earth. But as Christ said on one occasion:
“And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.”8
And His physical body was here on Earth; but His Spirit is of the sixth dimension, and His soul is of the seventh dimension. Now notice, He was in Heaven in Spirit and in soul, even though His body was on Earth.
And now, our soul is of the seventh dimension, our spirit is of the sixth dimension, and all we have left of this earthly, mortal, and corruptible dimension is the physical body, which will be changed soon; and we will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, and we will have an immortal, incorruptible, and interdimensional body.
And just as Christ could go from one dimension to another and disappear, it will also be that way in and for us in our eternal body that we will receive.
And now, this will be for those who will be receiving the faith to be changed and raptured, which is where? In the Thunders. And what the Thunders reveal is the Seventh Seal. And the Seventh Seal is 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 as the Sun of Righteousness, and as the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19, which is the Coming of the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested at the Last Day; and that is the Word, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Word incarnate in a Man.
In order to see and receive the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19, in order to see and receive the Seventh Seal revealed, we have to find the veil of flesh in whom the Word will be made flesh at the Last Day. And where do we have to find him? We have to find him in the mystical Body of Christ, because that is where he has to be; and he must be in the age and the dispensation pertaining to the fulfillment of the Coming of the white-horse Rider of Revelation.
And now, he was not found in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh age, in the fulfillment of Revelation 19; although Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, was there in each age, manifested through each messenger, in the portion pertaining to each age; but there has to be a perfect age: the Age of Love Divine, where Christ comes in Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh.
He was manifested in human flesh in each angel-messenger, but in the portion pertaining to each age; and in those messengers, He reflected what He will do in the Age of the Cornerstone; where He will have a veil of flesh through which Christ will be manifested in Holy Spirit, speaking to us with that Great Voice of Trumpet, and with those Seven Thunders of Revelation, and making known to us the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Coming of the Angel who was very different from the rest, manifested in human flesh at the Last Day.
Without the Coming of this Angel who was very different from the rest in human flesh, there is no Seventh Seal opened, there is no fulfillment of the Seventh Seal, and therefore, there is no Second Coming of Christ. So there can be no rapturing faith, and there can be no transformation, nor resurrection, nor rapture for the elect; because the rapturing faith is produced by the Seven Thunders of Revelation chapter 10, and they reveal the Seventh Seal.
With the revelation of the Seventh Seal, with the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ, of the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 10, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ obtains the faith to be changed and raptured.
Just like in order to be saved, we obtained the faith (how?) with the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God in His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross, dying, rising, and ascending to Heaven, and sitting on the right hand of God, and pouring out of His Holy Spirit upon all the believers in Him who wash away their sins in the Blood of the Lamb, and then they receive His Holy Spirit.
And how do we receive all of this? By believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior. With what do we receive…? What gives us the faith to receive the new birth? It’s the First Coming of Christ revealed and preached in the Gospel of Grace; that is what it gives us the revelation, the faith, to be saved.
And now the faith to be changed and raptured is given by 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.
That is what the Seventh Seal gives us, and that is what Christ reveals to us and gives us with His Voice of Seven Thunders uttering their Voices, and revealing us the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of His Coming; the mystery of His Coming to a new age and a new dispensation: to the Age of the Cornerstone and the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
Now, will the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ come into a new dispensation? When the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ was alive, he said that a change of dispensation was already taking place, a new dispensation was overlapping. And that new dispensation is none other than the Dispensation of the Kingdom. Because, what came after the Dispensation of Law? Well, the Dispensation of Grace. And what comes after the Dispensation of Grace? Well, the Dispensation of the Kingdom. And a dispensation cannot come without a dispensational prophet.
And this is the first time that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, after being born on the day of Pentecost, receives a dispensational messenger! The first time and the only time! Because after him, no other dispensational prophet is promised, because there are no more dispensations after the seventh dispensation. He is God’s last dispensational prophet, and also [God’s last prophet] of an age, because he is from the Age of the Cornerstone, the Age of Love Divine.
This is the diagram that Rev. William Branham drew, that he had in the preaching of the message “The Stature Of A Perfect Man,”9 and also in the message An Exposition Of The Seven [Gentile] Church Ages. In other words, this is not my diagram; I use it because it is an accurate diagram, which shows the different stages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. If it were not perfect, I wouldn’t use it because it wouldn’t work in the Divine Program.
Now, here we have the whole Divine Program that He would be carrying out during the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church. And after the seventh age of the Gentile Church, there would be a gap, where the Holy Spirit would be manifested. And then there would be an age: the Age of the Cornerstone, where God’s elect are called and gathered together with the Great Voice of Trumpet; where, in Revelation chapter 4, verse 1, it says: “Come up hither, and I will show you things which must be hereafter.”
In each age, the call was made by the Holy Spirit through the messenger of each age: “He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.”10 Jesus Christ was speaking in Holy Spirit through the messenger of each age. Speaking what? The Message of each age.
And since Christ said, “He that is of God hears God’s Voice” and “My sheep hear My Voice, and they follow Me”: Christ’s sheep of the first age heard the Voice of God through Saint Paul; the ones of the second age through Irenaeus; the ones of the third age through Martin; the ones of the fourth age through Columba; the ones of the fifth age through Luther; the ones of the sixth age through Wesley; the ones of the seventh age through Rev. William Marrion Branham.
And for the Age of the Cornerstone, God’s elect will hear the Voice of Christ through the instrument He will have here, in the Age of the Cornerstone, in whom He will be manifested in human flesh, just as He was in the messengers of the previous ages.
Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be there, the white-horse Rider of Revelation, manifested in human flesh:
“[196] 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.”
This is here, in the Age of the Cornerstone. And that is where the white-horse Rider comes, this Angel who was very different from the rest, who has the Seventh Seal. The rest, well, they didn’t have It; the One who has It is this Angel.
And He must materialize Himself, become flesh, manifest Himself in human flesh, at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, to fulfill the Seventh Seal, and for the Seventh Seal to be opened (in terms of Its fulfillment), and for the mystery of the Seventh Seal to be revealed, and to make known to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ the fulfillment of the Seventh Seal, which is the Coming of the white-horse Rider of Revelation, the Holy Spirit incarnate in a Man. And that Man must be a Prophet, because all Divine Revelation must come to a prophet.
And the Thunders, being the Voice of Christ and the revelation of the Seventh Seal, well, that must come to a Prophet. And we have already had seven messengers, and the Seven Thunders were not revealed in the seven ages. God must have a Prophet-Messenger here, through whom Christ is manifested and puts His Word in the mouth of that prophet.
Where does God put His Word? The Prophet Moses tells us where. Deuteronomy chapter 18, verses 15 to 19, says:
“The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken,” (in other words, it’s not: “If you want to hear him, then hear him.” No. “Him ye shall hearken!”)
“According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.
I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee,” (meaning, like Moses), “and will put my words,” (where?) in his mouth…”
Where does God put His Words? In the mouth of the prophet He sends. And the Words of God are the spiritual Food for the soul; It is the spiritual Bread for our soul; because “man shall not live by literal bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God,”11 and the mouth of God is God’s prophets; that is why He puts His Word in the mouth of the prophet He sends.
That is why we have the Bible, because God has put His Word in the mouth of His prophets; and they have spoken It, and then that Word has been left in writing.
God’s prophets are the mouth of God for the age and dispensation in which God sends them; and there are prophets of ages and there are prophets of dispensations. A dispensational prophet is the greatest thing—as a prophet—that God can send. It says:
“…And will put my words in his mouth…”
If he is a prophet of an age, what Word does God put in the mouth of that prophet? The Word, the Message, the spiritual Food, for the age in which God sends him. That is where we find the Word that feeds the soul, in the due season of each age and each dispensation.
That is the season: each age and each dispensation is the season in which God sends a prophet, with His Word in the mouth of that prophet, to give that spiritual Food to the people, and for God’s sons and daughters to be fed (where?) in the Household of God; because the House of God is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, contained in this diagram by Rev. William Branham.
And now, notice how God has put His Word in the mouth of each of these messengers of God, for each age where they were sent or in which they were sent.
And now the Word of God for the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom must come in a prophet, in the mouth of a prophet.
God must send a prophet; and if he is for a new dispensation, what message must he bring? Well, a dispensational Message. And the only Message promised for the Last Day, for the seventh millennium, is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, represented in the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet. And that Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ, around the Seventh Seal, is the spiritual Food for the soul of God’s elect in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom!
And with that Food, we obtain the faith, the revelation, to be raptured—to be changed and raptured at the Last Day.
It is not a revelation for us to be arguing with each other; it is not a revelation for us to be fighting with each other; but rather, to receive it in our soul and to feed our soul with that revelation, with that Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah and as the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19, and as the Sun of Righteousness rising for those who fear the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, which are God’s elect in the Age of the Cornerstone; and then the Hebrew people.
Which was represented in the vision of Mount Transfiguration, and was also represented in Revelation chapter 1, and in Revelation chapter 10: the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven with His face as the Sun, which is the Coming of Christ as the sun, meaning, as King of kings and Lord of lords; because the sun is the king of the stars, and Christ is the King of kings and Lord of lords. And He is the Light of the world, He said: “And He that follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life.”12
Now we can see this mystery of the Word of God that feeds in due season.
Now, the ones of the first age were fed with the Word of God which came through the Apostle Saint Paul; the ones of the second age were fed through the Word of God that came through Irenaeus; the ones of the third age were fed with the Word of God that came through Martin; the ones of the fourth age were fed with the Word of God that came through Columba; the ones of the fifth age were fed with the Word of God that came through Luther; the ones of the sixth age were fed with the Word of God that came through Wesley; the ones of seventh age were fed with the Word of God that came through William Marrion Branham.
And the ones of the Age of the Cornerstone, the ones of the Eighth Age (the number eight represents eternity and infinity [∞]), the ones of the Age of the Cornerstone are fed by Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit through the dispensational Prophet-Messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, who is the one that comes testifying all these things which must shortly be done.
Now, Christ said: “Come up hither, and I will show you things which must be hereafter.” That Voice as of a trumpet is the Voice of Christ speaking higher, higher than where John was. John represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and Her messengers going through Her different ages.
And now, for all of those who are here or here, the call is: “Come up hither.” Just as the call for each age was: “Come up hither,” to the age that pertained to the people who were living in each age. And the call was to come up to that age and hear the Voice of Christ through the angel-messenger of that age.
And now the call is up here: “Come up hither, and I will show you things which must be hereafter,” (after which things? After these things that have happened in the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church).
And now no one will be able to understand, to comprehend the things that will happen in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, unless it is through the Voice of Christ through the instrument that He has here in the Age of the Cornerstone, which is a dispensational Prophet, the Prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom; the first time that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has a dispensational Messenger-Prophet.
And now, the promise is: “Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.” That is what Christ says with that Voice of Trumpet.
In Revelation chapter 1, John also says (chapter 1, verses 10 to 11): “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day…” Let’s look at that here, and let’s see what he saw or heard, it says:
“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me…”
Now, before that, he was in the Spirit (where?) on the Lord’s Day. He was transported in the Spirit; not in the physical body, but in the Spirit: in his theophanic body, he was transported to which day? To the Lord’s Day, meaning, to the seventh millennium, to the Last Day. And it says:
“…And heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,” (what did he hear? A Great Voice as of a trumpet),
“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’s Christ veiled and revealed, speaking to His Church at the Last Day, in the seventh millennium, in the Age of the Cornerstone.
And now, let’s see the things He says He will be speaking. He said: “Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.” And let’s see through whom Christ is speaking and reveals these things; because, through the instrument He has—through which He will be manifested—we will be hearing all these things which must shortly be done.
And by hearing these things which must shortly come to pass being revealed by that instrument of Christ, we will be hearing (what?) The Great Voice of Trumpet that John heard on the Lord’s Day, making known to him all these things which must shortly come to pass; because wherever Christ is, the Word, He must be veiled, He must veil Himself in human flesh, to then reveal Himself through that veil of flesh in the age or dispensation in which He is veiled and revealed.
He veiled Himself in Saint Paul in the portion relevant to that age and revealed Himself through Saint Paul. That is how it was through each messenger, and that is also how it must be here in the Age of the Cornerstone.
And now, let’s see who is that instrument of Christ through whom we will be hearing and we will be understanding and receiving all these things which must shortly be done. Revelation chapter 22, verse 6, says:
“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true,” (in other words, they are not human words, but Divine Words), “and the Lord God of the holy prophets…”
The holy prophets, those theophanic spirits of the sixth dimension, of prophets that He sends, to bring, to minister the Word to His Church, belong to whom? (Because He sends those angels, which are holy prophets or spirits of prophets, in human flesh, in each age and in each dispensation, to minister to His servants, to His children, to the heirs of salvation, to minister what to them? The Word of God, these Divine goods.) It says:
“And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel,” who has He sent? His Angel, what for? “to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”
To show what? The things which must shortly be done. No one will be able to understand these things which must shortly be done, after the things which have already happened in the seven Gentile church ages, except those who receive and hear the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ making known these things which must shortly be done.
Outside of that, there is no way to understand the things Christ will be fulfilling in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom. There is no other way to be able to understand what the Seven Thunders spoke in an unknown language to Saint Paul.
Perhaps Saint Paul did not speak Spanish, English, or German. He may have spoken some languages, but perhaps he did not speak Spanish. And if he did speak Spanish, well that’s fine; but he preached in his language, and sometimes in the language of the Romans (because he knew it too), because he grew up in a place in Tarsus, which belonged to the Roman Empire. It was a Gentile territory, although Paul was a Hebrew, but he was born and raised there; and then he received his education in Jerusalem.
And now, notice, God spoke through Saint Paul, but He spoke in the language of Saint Paul. And sometimes, well, he could speak in some other language, if the people who were hearing him spoke a different language that he knew; if not, he looked for an interpreter.
And now, the Seven Thunders didn’t speak their Voices through Saint Paul, therefore, they didn’t speak in Saint Paul’s language. Saint Paul didn’t know what the Seven Thunders spoke. And if (when he went to the third heaven)13 he was able to hear what the Thunders spoke, he couldn’t understand it because it was in another language.
And now, it wasn’t a language known to Saint Paul, nor to Irenaeus, nor to Martin, nor to Columba, nor to Luther, nor to Wesley, nor to Rev. William Marrion Branham, because when he heard the Thunders, he said that they were (what?) in an unknown language (unknown to him).14
But if the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, through the Seven Thunders, would receive the revelation of the Seventh Seal and received the rapturing faith, it would be in a language that the Church would know in the last stage of the Church; because the Church would be in its last stage, in the stage of the Cornerstone Age; and the language that would be used here in the stage of the Cornerstone Age would be the language in which the Thunders would utter their Voices; therefore, that stage is very important.
Now, the first stage was fulfilled in Asia Minor, and the language Paul spoke was the language they knew there in Asia Minor.
The language of the second age was in the French language, and God’s instrument was a Frenchman: Irenaeus; this man here spoke French, and Christ spoke through him in French.
Notice Christ speaking in different languages; Christ in Holy Spirit speaking in different languages through these angel-messengers.
And so on, He spoke in each language spoken by the angel-messenger of each age. But it was Christ in the angel-messenger, using that language of that messenger and using that messenger. But the Voice, the Message, the revelation, was Christ’s.
Now, the Thunders utter their Voices in a language unknown to the seventh angel-messenger; so it is not English; and it was also unknown to these other messengers of the seven Gentile Church ages.
But it must be the language known to the Prophet-Messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom; because Christ will be speaking through that Prophet-Messenger at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; because that Prophet-Messenger is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He is the Angel-Messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ, who comes at the Last Day making known all these things which must shortly come to pass. And he comes making them known in the language relevant to the Age of the Cornerstone.
And just as each age was fulfilled in each territory… notice: the first age was fulfilled in Asia Minor, the second in France, the third in Hungary and France, the fourth in Ireland and Scotland, the fifth in Germany, the sixth in England, the seventh in North America. And from there, from each of those territories, the Gospel spread to other nations; the Message of each age spread to other nations from the territory where it was fulfilled.
And now, which is the territory for the Age of the Cornerstone? According to the territory and the main language spoken in that territory, that is how Christ will be speaking through His Angel-Messenger; because He sends His people the messenger of that stage, of that age, (notice) He sends him to the territory where that age is fulfilled, he appears in that territory.
And notice, Paul was born there in Tarsus, a territory that is part of that area of Asia Minor, right? Around there, it belonged to Asia Minor, or near Asia Minor, and Asia Minor because his ministry would be in Asia Minor.
For Luther, notice, in Germany; because his ministry would be in Germany. Wesley in England, because his ministry would be in England. Rev. William Branham in North America, because he would be in North America, because the seventh age would fulfill in North America. And those seven ages have already ended.
And now, where is it? Which is the territory where Christ will be manifested in Holy Spirit through His Angel-Messenger? Since Christ is building His Church, and His Church is His spiritual Temple: just as the Temple which is in Heaven is built, as well as the tabernacle Moses built, and the temple Solomon built, in the same way, Christ has been building His Church; because He cannot use another blueprint, another diagram or another pattern. It must be after the pattern that God showed, because that pattern is according to the one that is in Heaven.
And notice, [in] the temple Moses built, the outer court was in the East, and it also covered some of the sides. And now, the holy place was further inside; but walking from East to West was always how one could go from the outer court to the holy place. And then, passing from the holy place, walking West, where did one reach? The holy of holies; because the holy of holies was on the west side of the temple.
And now notice how Christ has come from the East: from the land of Israel, which is in the Middle East, walking in the construction of His Temple. We can see this stage of the apostles (down here, in this small space), then we can see the first age there in Asia Minor, still around the east side, but going up a little bit; and then we can see the five ages that were fulfilled in Europe.
Notice, Christ went up and walked West; and then He walked further West and got all the way to North America; He got to the West, to the western continent, which is the continent of the Americas, which consists of North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean (the Caribbean belongs to Central America).
And now, notice how Christ builds His spiritual Temple, His Church, in those territories.
And for a temple to be dedicated to God without a holy of holies, that is not a temple where God can dwell; because God’s dwelling place in all His fullness is the Holy of Holies. And we have the promise from God, that God will be manifested in all His fullness in His Church.
But notice, He was walking from age to age in the portion pertaining to each age. And at the Last Day, notice, He goes from North America, where He fulfilled the seventh Gentile Church age, which pertains to which place? To the Holy Place. Because the seventh age pertains to the Holy Place, just as the sixth, fifth, fourth, third, second and first ages, represented in the golden candlestick with seven lamps and seven lights: the seven messengers and the seven ages.
And now He goes from His Work in the Holy Place, in the seventh Gentile Church age in North America, now He goes on to Latin America and the Caribbean to build the Holy of Holies of His spiritual Temple, to build the Age of the Cornerstone.
And to do that, Christ in Holy Spirit sends His Angel-Messenger, the Angel-Messenger of Revelation chapter 1, verse 1 to 3, and Revelation chapter 22, verse 6, and Revelation chapter 22, verse 16.
Revelation 22, verse 16, says:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
Whom does Jesus Christ say He has sent? His Angel-Messenger. What for? To testify these things. What things? These things which must shortly be done.
And now, notice how the greatest blessing in the mystical Body of Christ, in the construction of this mystical Body (represented in this diagram), pertains to the territory of Latin America and the Caribbean.
This is the territory where the Age of the Cornerstone is fulfilled, this is the territory where the Angel with the Seventh Seal comes, this is the territory where the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19 comes, which is the Word of God, the Word incarnate in a Man: in the Prophet-Messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, which is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It is the first time that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ receives a dispensational messenger, with a dispensational Message; what for? So that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ may receive the faith, the revelation, to be changed and raptured at this Last Day.
Now, this is what Christ has promised for His Church for the Last Day.
And now, why in the West? Because the holy of holies of the temple built by Moses and the temple built by Solomon was in the West. Therefore, Christ cannot build the Holy of Holies of His spiritual Temple in any other territory but the West. And He cannot build it in North America, because He already built the seventh age there in North America.
It must be in what’s left of the continent of the Americas; and what’s left is Latin America and the Caribbean. And from there, and there, Christ will manifest Himself in all His fullness; and that is where the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive will come. And from there, we will go in the rapture with our Lord Jesus Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Not from any of these ages, because those ages already ended. In the Age of the Cornerstone is where the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive will take place.
That is where we receive the faith, the revelation to be changed and raptured, which is the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ, the revelation that the Thunders bring us, speak to us; which is the revelation of the Seventh Seal, the revelation of the Angel who was very different from the rest, coming in human flesh at the Last Day in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and veiling Himself and revealing Himself through His Angel-Messenger, and making known to us all these things which must shortly be done; because wherever the Angel of the Covenant (the Angel of the Lord) may be, He will be veiled.
And now, notice, just as He veiled Himself in each messenger of each age, in the portion pertaining to each age, He veils Himself in human flesh in the Angel-Messenger of Jesus Christ, the Angel-Messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom and of the Age of the Cornerstone.
There we have the mystery of the Angel who was very different from the rest: which must be manifested in human flesh just as the other seven angel-messengers manifested themselves in the other seven Gentile Church ages that have passed.
For the Age of the Cornerstone, the eternal and perfect age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ (the perfect age that the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ refers to on page 6 of the message “The Stature Of A Perfect Man,” in which he tells us about a perfect age that will come, and refers to it as the Age of the Capstone or Cornerstone in this diagram), there, in that perfect age, is where a perfect Message will come: the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, the Message of the Seven Thunders revealing the mystery of the Seventh Seal, revealing the mystery of 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 as the Sun of Righteousness shining, rising to those who fear the Name of the Lord; and as the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19, which is the Word of God incarnate in a Man, as the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said on page 295 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals.
That is what was forerun by William Marrion Branham; forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ in the seventh Gentile Church age, and in the gap between the seventh age and the Age of the Cornerstone. Notice what he foreran: he foreran the Coming of the Word, the Word incarnate in a Man.
And now notice how he also tells us the following on page 552 [The Revelation Of The Seven Seals]:
“[326] I don’t know who is going to…”
Who is he talking about? The One forerun, who will come after him.
“[326] I don’t know who is going to…”
Who is he talking about? The Seventh Seal, which is the One forerun; whose way he is preparing .
“[326] I don’t know who is going to…what’s going to take place. I do not know. I just know that those Seven Thunders holds that mystery. The Heavens was quiet. Everybody understand? [Congregation says, ‘Amen.’—Ed.]”
And there was silence in Heaven when the Seventh Seal was opened in Revelation chapter 8, verse 1; and that is none other than the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ.
“[326] It may be time, it may be the hour now, that this great person that we’re expecting to rise on the scene may arise on the scene.
327 Maybe this ministry, that I have tried to take people back to the Word, has laid a foundation; and if it has, I’ll be leaving you, for good. There won’t be two of us here the same time.”
“There won’t be two of us here at the same time”: the forerunner and the One forerun won’t be here [at the same time]; but if they were present, what would happen? Well, the same thing that happened with John the Baptist and Jesus: the forerunner and the One forerun were there. Let’s see what he says…
When the forerunner and the One forerun were present on Earth two thousand years ago (John the Baptist and Jesus), what happened? They came to tell John: “Look, the One to whom you bore witness, now more people follow Him than you, and He baptizes more people than you,” although Jesus did not baptize people, the disciples of Jesus were the ones who baptized people. And now, John says: “He must increase, and I must decrease.”15
John was the light of the seventh lamp of the seventh age of the Hebrew Church under Law; because the Hebrew people had seven ages under the Dispensation of Law, and John the Baptist was the last prophet of the Dispensation of Law. That is why Jesus said: “The prophets prophesied until John.”16
So, no more prophets came after him? Of course they did. Jesus was a Prophet greater than John; and Saint Paul and Saint Peter were prophets too. And Christ said that He would put, He would send prophets too; and He would send apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, in the Dispensation of Grace among His Church.17
And won’t there be prophets for the Dispensation of the Kingdom? Of course there will be: the Prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom.
And now, notice, John had to decrease, because John was the Light of the seventh age of the Hebrew Church under the Law, which was fading out. When he was in prison, he sent them to ask Jesus: “Are You He that should come, or do we look for another?”18
Notice how he was fading out, to the point that he himself sent people to ask if Jesus was the One who would come, the One forerun; when he had introduced Him as the One forerun, he had introduced Him as the Messiah, as the Lamb of God, as the One who would come after him; and now he sends them to tell Him, to ask Him, if it was Him or if they should look for another.
The Light was fading out. And when the Light of an age starts to fade, notice, even the messenger himself starts seeing things a bit cloudy and needs Light. And the only One who can give It to him is (whom?) the One forerun, whom he said would come after him.
He can give him Light regarding the Scriptures pertaining to the One forerun; because He is the One who has all the Light, and the One who brings them to light, makes them known to all the children of God.
And now, what did John the Baptist say? “He must increase, and I must decrease.” John was the evening Light there, that was fading; because the day’s evening light must (what?) decrease; and the morning light is the one that must increase. It increases, it shines more and more as the shining light (meaning, its light increases), until the perfect day.19
In the beginning, things look a bit dark; and some people say: “But if it were the morning light everything would be lit up; because some time ago, a few days ago, everything looked bright at noon;” but they don’t realize that the sun is rising, that the day is breaking. And if the day is breaking, he won’t see things the way he did at noon when the light was shining directly and making everything brighter.
And now: “Unto those that fear My Name, shall the Sun of Righteousness arise.”20 In other words, it comes as the rising sun, the day starts breaking. It starts to look brighter. And when it starts to get brighter, one knows it’s the light of the sun, and one knows the fourth watch is already beginning.
Because the fourth watch is from 6:00 to *9:00 o’clock in the morning, and it is the only watch that happens during the daytime. It starts at daybreak (in places where the hour doesn’t change), where it’s still a little dark, it’s as if… it’s still twilight in some places, at 6:00 o’clock in the morning; and if it’s in the wintertime, it’s even darker.
But daybreak begins in the first hour of the *fourth watch; and then by the second hour, it’s already light out.
And now, notice, such is the morning Light on a new dispensational Day, and on a new millennial Day too.
And now, let’s see what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ told us. He says:
“[327] …And if it has, I’ll be leaving you, for good. There won’t be two of us here the same time.” In other words, the forerunner and the One forerun won’t be here [at the same time]. “See? If it is,” (meaning, if they were both here), “he’ll increase; I’ll decrease.”
For many people, it is very sad to know that the forerunner must decrease, his Light must start fading out. And the Light of the One forerun is the one that must start rising as the shining light, and getting brighter, until the perfect day; and until all the things which are promised for that day are seen clearly, and what has been promised, and the fulfillment of all of those promises, are seen face to face.
Now, John the Baptist was the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ; and those who followed John the Baptist were called to repentance and those that believed in him were baptized. But John the Baptist said: “But after me comes One whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose; He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.”21
The promise of the baptism of the Holy Spirit was for whom? For the followers of the forerunner or the One forerun? Biblical history testifies.
On the day that John the Baptist said for the second time: “Behold the Lamb of God,” John the Apostle and Andrew followed Jesus; and they were followers of John the Baptist, they were believers in the forerunner, the third Elijah, the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ.22
And now, what are we seeing when that happens? Well, some of John’s disciples are leaving him and they are going with the One forerun. Was that right or wrong? It was right. It would have been wrong for them to go with Caiaphas or with the Pharisees and Sadducees, that was wrong; but going with Jesus, the One forerun, that is what they were supposed to do! (Not only John and Andrew, but all of John’s followers; and even John the Baptist.)
But what happened? Not all of them went with Jesus. John continued to have disciples, and the number of John’s disciples kept growing; but the followers of Jesus also kept growing. And from among John’s, some would come along and go with Jesus.
John’s disciples might have said: “They are taking our people, John!” And when John died, they might have said: “Now a few more have gone with Jesus, and we need to stay with the forerunner.” How ignorant! Right?
A forerunner comes to prepare the way for the one who comes after him, so that they believe in the one who will come after the forerunner.
Let’s tell Saint Paul, or rather, ask Saint Paul if that is true or not. The Book of Acts, chapter 13, that is where we will see… or… correction: chapter 13 is where as many as were ordained to Eternal Life believed in a certain place. But let’s look at chapter 18 (around there, right, Miguel?), 18 or 19… 19. Chapter 19 of the Book of Acts, says:
“And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,
He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost,” Why? Because the promise wasn’t for the followers of John; it was for the followers of Jesus: the One forerun. The [followers] of the forerunner were left without the Holy Spirit.
“And he (Paul) said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism.
Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him,” (John the Baptist, the forerunner, said that those who had believed in John should believe in whom? In Him: he said to believe in the One who would come after him. In whom? In the One forerun, who would baptize them with the Holy Spirit and with fire), “that is, on Christ Jesus.
When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
And all the men were about twelve.”
They were few, but they believed in Jesus, in the One forerun, whom the forerunner had said would come after him.
Notice, they hadn’t believed in Jesus while Jesus was alive. After He died, rose, and ascended to Heaven, then Saint Paul found them.
So, notice, it’s not enough to have believed and received the forerunner; rather, in order to receive the Holy Spirit, they had to believe and receive the One forerun: Jesus Christ in His First Coming and His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross, and wash away their sins in the Blood of the Lamb in order to receive the Holy Spirit.
And at the Last Day, we have the promise that the fullness of the Holy Spirit will come. And how will it come and for whom will it come? Christ in His Second Coming is the One who will baptize them with the Holy Spirit and fire in all His fullness, and He will change us at this Last Day, and He will raise the dead in Christ.
The forerunner baptized them in water; but now Christ in His Second Coming will baptize us (all those who have already received the firstfruits of the Spirit) with the Holy Spirit and fire in all His fullness.
Now, it’s not enough to have received the forerunner without then receiving the One forerun. Those who received the forerunner in the First Coming of Christ: John the Baptist, but didn’t receive the One forerun, didn’t even know there was a Holy Spirit. And John had preached it to them. John had preached to them that the One who would come after him would baptize them with the Holy Ghost and fire. And notice, they didn’t know there was a Holy Spirit; but John had preached it to them, it was in John’s messages.
And search in the messages of the forerunner, and you will find that the fullness of the Spirit of Christ is promised for the Last Day. And this will be for those who will be receiving the Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Holy Spirit at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, those who will be receiving the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19, and the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the King of kings and Lord of lords, and the Sun of Righteousness rising on a new dispensational day: in the Dispensation of the Kingdom and Age of the Cornerstone.
For those, the fullness of the Holy Spirit will come; we will be changed and God will dwell in us in all His fullness. And we will go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in an eternal and young body, representing eighteen to twenty-one years of age.
We are at the greatest and most glorious day of all time. We are at the time of the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; the age and dispensation of the Seventh Seal, and of the Seven Thunders of Revelation chapter 10, and of the Voice of Christ as a Great Voice of Trumpet making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass; so that we may have the faith, the revelation, to be changed and raptured; which is the revelation of the Coming of Christ to His Church at the Last Day as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work.
That is the Coming of this Angel who was very different from the rest, that is the Seventh Seal being opened in terms of Its fulfillment; and being revealed to God’s elect in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
If we turn the picture to the right, we will find the face of the Lord formed by this cloud of angels; and the beard of the Lord is formed by the seven angel-messengers of the seven Gentile Church ages, and the Lord’s white hair is formed by the Angel who was very different from the rest.
With the ministry of the seven angels of the seven ages, the symbolism of the Lord’s beard was fulfilled; and with the ministry of the Angel who was different from the rest, the symbolism of the Lord’s white hair is fulfilled.
The mystery of the Seventh Seal is the mystery of that Angel who was very different from the rest, who appeared in heaven in this cloud, according to Saint Matthew 24, verses 30 to 31; where Christ said that the sign of the Son of man would appear in Heaven, and the Son of man would be seen coming in the clouds with power and glory; to then (what?) be manifested on Earth in human flesh at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, among His Gentile Church.
The mystery of the Seventh Seal is the mystery of that Angel who was different from the rest, coming to His Church at the Last Day in human flesh.
That is the Coming of the Word, the Coming of the white-horse Rider, the Coming of the Word; the Word coming to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone; the white-horse Rider, the Holy Spirit coming to His Church.
“196 (And) 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.”
And the Word comes to whom? To the prophets.
It comes in the Age of the Cornerstone to a prophet: the Angel of Jesus Christ, which is the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom and of the Age of the Cornerstone. And through that prophet, He speaks to us with that Great Voice of Trumpet, in other words, with the Message of the Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom; and He reveals to us the mystery of His Coming to His Church at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, through His Angel-Messenger, which is the veil of flesh, the Prophet, whom Christ would send at the Last Day; so that the Seventh Seal, the Coming of the Lord, may be manifested in simplicity, as it was promised.
Because the greatness is what comes manifested in that veil of flesh, which is God, which is Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit; but the simple part is the veil of flesh, that is where the simplicity is manifested. The simplicity is the human part, and the greatness is the Divine Part.
That is how it was in the First Coming of Christ: manifested in His First Coming as the Lamb of God in simplicity, among the Hebrew people; the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, coming in simplicity, in a simple, humble veil of flesh, called Jesus of Nazareth: a young carpenter from Nazareth, a construction worker.
Who would have imagined that in a construction worker named Jesus of Nazareth, in a carpenter, God would be manifested in all His fullness; the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; that He would be Emmanuel (which being interpreted is: God with us), the Word, the Word made flesh?
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. The same was in the beginning with God. And the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.”23 And we knew Him by the Name of Jesus.
See the simplicity in which the Word in human flesh, the Angel of the Covenant in human flesh, came two thousand years ago, in His First Coming as the Lamb of God, in His Work of Redemption to take away the sin of the world? He came in such simplicity that even His own family, His household, didn’t believe in Him at first; later on, God opened their eyes and they believed in Him.
But Mary did believe in Him, and so did Joseph; they knew who that child was, who had been born through Mary.
And now, notice how the First Coming of Christ was in simplicity. It was in simplicity: through a young construction worker, a carpenter from Nazareth named Jesus.
And now, the First Coming of Christ took them by surprise, because the theological interpretations said nothing about the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah being in a construction worker, in a carpenter from Nazareth. That was outside theological interpretations, but it was in the Divine Thought.
And now, if God fulfills the Second Coming of Christ in a construction worker, will it take them by surprise again? Well, of course, because theological interpretations say nothing about the Second Coming of Christ being in a prophet, in a man, in a construction worker.
That is outside human thought, but it is in the Divine Thought; because God said it would be in simplicity; and He said if we don’t watch: It would go above our heads and we wouldn’t even see It.
And then they will say: “But, didn’t…?” When they are in the Great Tribulation, they will say:
—“But didn’t the rapture of the elect have to come first?”
And the Scripture, the Word, will say:
—“That is already in the past. The ones who were going to leave already left.
—“But, didn’t the Coming of the Lord have to come, have to be fulfilled, first?”
—“That is already in the past.”
Didn’t they say, “Elijah must first come”?
Jesus said: “Elijah came already, and they knew him not, but did to him whatsoever they listed. And they will do the same to the Son of man.”24
Now notice: being ignorant of the fulfillment of the Divine Promises in simplicity makes people lose God’s blessing. And the ignorance of ministers in terms of the fulfillment of the Divine Promises, makes Churches lose God’s blessings.
That is how it happened in the Day of Jesus. The high priest and the doctors of the Law and the Sanhedrin Council fought to stop people in their synagogues from believing in Jesus. And they even tried to kill him, because they said: “If we let Him, everyone will believe in Him.” They even thought of a crime; and they were religious.
And in the end, they accomplished that crime by the hands of the Roman Empire, which they and the Romans were also guilty of. And that is why they have gone through those Great Tribulations where they were nearly eradicated. But God’s promise to the Hebrew people is that they won’t be destroyed from the Earth, they won’t be eradicated.
And now, notice how ignorance of the Divine Promises and their fulfillment causes many people to lose the blessing.
But the knowledge of the Divine Promises for the age and dispensation in which one is given to live, in which a person is given to live, causes God’s blessings to come upon the person.
And as we come to know the Word of God, which feeds the soul of God’s elect in due season, that causes this blessing of being fed with the Word of Eternal Life to become a reality for the person in his soul, and it causes his soul to be well fed and robust and strong, to move forward in the Divine Program without denying Christ at any moment. Even if one has to die for Christ: he gives his life for Christ, as it has been in different ages or stages of the Church of Jesus Christ.
And now, we are living at the Last Day, at the end time; and the faithful and wise servants for the seven ages already came, they gave the spiritual Food, God’s Message for each age, and fed the children of God in the House of God. And all that’s left is the stage of the Cornerstone Age and Dispensation of the Kingdom in the House of God, in the Church of Jesus Christ.
And where will we find and how will we find the spiritual Food for our soul? Don’t worry, God has It hidden in the Holy of Holies. “To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden Manna.”25
Where was the hidden Manna? In the Holy of Holies. And when we come into the Age of the Cornerstone, we are coming into the Holy of Holies of the spiritual Temple of Christ, where the hidden Manna is, which He has promised to give us to eat.
And that is the Word that feeds the soul, that is the Word of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which contains the Divine Revelation of the Second Coming of Christ.
That is the hidden Manna, that is the Message that was hidden from past ages, the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which contains the revealed mystery of the Second Coming of Christ.
The Message that God’s elect never ate before, because it was reserved for the Age of the Cornerstone, for the Age of the Holy of Holies of the mystical Body of Christ, an age that would be fulfilled in Latin America and the Caribbean.
That is the territory of the Age of the Cornerstone, and where the Dispensation of the Kingdom opens up, and where God sends His Angel-Messenger and the Prophet of the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; in which Christ in Holy Spirit comes manifested as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work, giving us His Word, His Message, the spiritual Food for our soul, through His Angel-Messenger, which is the Faithful and Wise Servant who would be on Earth in the House of God, giving God’s elect the Food in due season.
[Matthew 24:46-47] And: “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.”
He becomes the administrator of the Lord’s goods.
In Saint Luke and Saint Mark, he is portrayed as a faithful and wise steward; just as the seven angel-messengers were also faithful and wise servants or stewards, in the Age in which they were given to live, giving God’s elect the Food of the Word of God in due season.
“For man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” It comes out of God’s messenger, to the people.
And now, at the Last Day, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ would have the Faithful and Wise Servant in and of the Age of the Cornerstone and the Dispensation of the Kingdom, feeding all of God’s sons and daughters in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
That is why He says: “Come up hither,” (to the Age of the Cornerstone), “and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.” All the things that must happen are shown, are revealed, to God’s elect in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, by Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit through His Angel-Messenger.
And that is the Word which, at this time of the Age of the Cornerstone, feeds God’s elect, in the Age of the Cornerstone.
Now, in our time, there are people who have remained in the Message of one of the angel-messengers of past ages; and they are (out of what?) out of step. They are out of step; because the step of Christ is from age to age with His elect and one must keep in step with the Gospel. And we must keep in step with Christ, and each person must be in the age in which Christ is at that time.
And now Christ calls us here, to the Age of the Cornerstone. Being outside of this age is being out of step, out of age; and it means being fed from an age that already passed.
There is Food that was hidden in the Holy of Holies: the Message of the Second Coming of Christ, the Message contained in the Gospel of the Kingdom for all of God’s elect; which no one ate in past ages.
Because everyone ate the Message of the First Coming of Christ, but no one ate the Message of the Second Coming of Christ; rather, God’s elect eat It at this Last Day.
And that is the SPIRITUAL FOOD IN DUE SEASON at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom. There is no other food for God’s elect.
And everything spoken for the Last Day, contained in the New Testament and Old Testament, and spoken through the seven angel-messengers, is gathered in the Age of the Cornerstone; everything spoken about the promises of the Last Day. And the entire content of those prophecies is revealed; and it is the spiritual Food for all our souls.
There is famine and thirst in all the Earth to hear the Word that comes out of the mouth of God; the Word that comes out of the mouth of God, the messenger of God for this Last Day.
But if you go East or North or South, you won’t find that Food. It has to be in the West, in the territory where the Age of the Cornerstone is fulfilled: Latin America and the Caribbean. That is where the spiritual Food for God’s elect of the Last Day is found, who are called and gathered with the Great Voice of Trumpet, and put in the mystical Body of Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone.
And those who are in the mystical Body of Christ in a past age, well, they come up to the Age of the Cornerstone with the call of the Great Voice of Trumpet, to hear all these things which must shortly come to pass, at this Last Day, in the seventh millennium, and in the Dispensation of the Kingdom and Age of the Cornerstone.
We have seen THE MYSTERY OF THE WORD OF GOD, which is: FOOD IN DUE SEASON.
All the children of God in each age had the spiritual Food in due season.
“Our Father which art in heaven…”
That was the model prayer of Christ; and in it, He included:
“Give us day by day our daily bread.”26
And not only the literal bread for the body, but the spiritual Bread of the Word of God, which is the most important Food for every son and daughter of God.
“For man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God,” in other words, out of the messenger that God sends; because the messengers are the mouth of God, God’s prophets.
And now, at the Last Day we would have the Word of God: FOOD IN DUE SEASON.
That is the Food in due season: the Word of God, 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 in His Claiming Work.
And this is the Food we eat at this Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom. Food that was not eaten in any of the past ages.
It has been a great blessing to be with you, making known to you: “THE MYSTERY OF THE WORD OF GOD: FOOD IN DUE SEASON.”
May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, our beloved Savior, be upon each one of you. And may all these blessings promised for the Last Day be materialized in each one of you. And may He completely open our understanding, so that we may understand His Word promised for this Last Day, and thus, may we be well fed in our souls. And soon may we all be changed, have the new body; may the dead in Christ be raised, and may they have their new body too; a young body, with an appearance of about eighteen to twenty-one years old; and may we be here for thirty to forty days, as it is promised; and then, may we go in the rapture, with Christ, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven, in the House of our Heavenly Father, to receive the rewards for our work here on Earth. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Thank you very much for your kind attention, beloved friends and brethren present, and television viewers who are hearing or will hear this conference on television, which is recorded on video for all of you. And may your souls be well fed with the Word of this end time, of this Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone.
Have a good evening, everyone. And I leave Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín with you to continue and conclude our participation tonight, by thanking our beloved Lord Jesus Christ for His blessings and for His Word, the Food of our souls and for our souls in due season.
With us again, our friend and brother, Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín. May God continue to bless you all.
“THE MYSTERY OF THE WORD OF GOD: FOOD IN DUE SEASON.”
1 Matthew 6:11; Luke 11:3
2 Matthew 16:26; Mark 8:36; Luke 9:25
3 Matthew 10:33, Luke 12:8-9
4 Matthew 16:25
5 James 2:26
6 Matthew 24:36
7 Mark 13:32
8 John 3:13
9 The pyramid diagram can be downloaded at the following link: https://imprenta.carpa.com/es/materiales/la-nube-y-la-piramide-diptico/
10 Revelation 2:7, 2:11, 2:17, 2:29, 3:6, 3:13, 3:22
11 Deuteronomy 8:3
12 John 8:12
13 2 Corinthians 12:2
14 The Revelation Of The Seven Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” page 549, paragraphs 299-300
15 John 3:26-30
16 Matthew 11:13
17 Ephesians 4:11
18 Matthew 11:1-3; Luke 7:20
19 Proverbs 4:18
20 Malachi 4:2
21 Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:7; Luke 3:16; John 1:27
22 John 1:35-37
23 John 1:1-14
24 Matthew 17:10-12
25 Revelation 2:17
26 Matthew 6:11; Luke 11:3