The Overcomer who receives the Morning Star

Good afternoon, beloved brethren and friends present. It is a great blessing for me to be with you on this occasion again, to continue testifying to you of all these things that must happen soon, in this end time, testifying to you of the things that must happen in the fourth watch and then also throughout the Millennial Day, and also of the things that will happen after the Millennial Kingdom.

I stopped for a while looking for a place there (and I had read it on other occasions, but now when I needed it I spent a little time looking for it; but I got it); and it is one of the things that are appointed to happen at this time; therefore, it is important for us, because those are the things that Christ promised He would make known to us.

One of them is also our topic for this occasion: “THE OVERCOMER WHO RECEIVES THE MORNING STAR.”

If He says: “To him that overcomes I will give the Morning Star,” it is because if He says so, it is important; and we are interested in knowing what it is, what that Star is, and also who receives that Star.

Now, let’s read in Revelation, chapter 2, verse 26 and on, where the promise is; and that promise is for the Overcomer. Notice that the Overcomer always receives one or many blessings from God.

God’s overcomers, both from the Hebrew people and the gentile Church of Jesus Christ, have received great blessings in the past; and for the Last Day there will be great blessings for the Overcomer of the Last Day and for all those who will be with the Overcomer, which will also be overcomers in this end time; because if the Overcomer is going to be given that Star, those who will be with the Overcomer will have that Star in their midst.

It says in Revelation, chapter 2, verse 26 to 28:

“And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:

And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

And I will give him the morning star.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”

Who speaks here? The Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant; and it says that He will give the Overcomer authority over the nations, and He will also give him the bright and Morning Star; and He will also give him of the hidden Manna, and He will also give him a white Stone, and on the Stone a new name written¹²

And now, let’s see who is the Overcomer who will receive the Morning Star, for He says: “And I will give him the morning star”, and we will see who is that Morning Star and to whom will the Morning Star be given.

In order to understand this great promise that Christ has made here and that will be fulfilled in the Last Day (but it was reflected in past ages), as well as all the other promises that are made here in the book of Revelation, we find that they will be fulfilled in all their fullness in the Last Day, but they were reflected in a partial fulfillment through the messengers of each age.

Because just as Christ was reflected in the prophets of the Old Testament and He reflected His First Coming in them (and also His Second Coming), then, when Christ appeared, the fullness of God was manifested in Him, fulfilling what was reflected in the prophets in relation to the First Coming of Christ in all its fullness.

And for the Second Coming of Christ, everything that will be happening has already been reflected in the prophets of the Old Testament and also in the messengers of the Church of Jesus Christ; and the blessings that will be manifested were also reflected.

Now, we can see that there is a promise that says: “To him that overcomes, I will give him to eat of the hidden Manna,” and this was reflected by giving him to eat Manna; in other words, the Message of the age or of each age in the past, that promise was given to him, that Manna was given to each messenger to eat, and he gave, shared with the Church of Jesus Christ, with the group of his age.

Just as manna fell from heaven for 40 years in the midst of the Hebrew people… notice, the Hebrew people ate manna from heaven for 40 years, and they also ate meat, quails, and drank from the rock that followed them, they drank water that God gave them twice; and the rock was Christ.

And there is the First Coming of Christ, in the first rock that was wounded by Moses and gave water³. The water represents the Holy Spirit that Christ has given us.

And the second rock, to which God said and of which God said to Moses⁴: “Go and talk to the rock, and it will give water,” Moses made a serious mistake, which apparently for many people was not so serious, because they can’t see what that rock and what Moses had to do meant; and since he didn’t do it exactly as God told him, he altered what was being represented there; because the Second Coming of Christ was being represented in that second rock.

And Moses had wounded the first rock, which represented the First Coming of Christ being wounded on Calvary’s Cross. And for the Second Coming of Christ, Moses had to represent it there on the second rock and he had to speak to the second rock; but Moses full of anger… Remember that when a person is full of anger he always makes serious mistakes, and Moses made a serious mistake before God, which was the worst.

And now, according to the Divine Program, it was to speak to the rock. The foundation was being placed there in type and figure, in other words, the symbol; because the symbolism of what God is going to do has to be placed first.

And now, in the symbolism of the Second Coming of Christ, Moses full of anger because of the people, which was a rebellious people and was always giving problems (for ten occasions they wanted to stone Moses), now he goes with Aaron and is upset, full of anger; he takes the rod of God with which he had opened the Red Sea and with which he had also wounded the rock, the first rock; and now full of anger he speaks to the people and tells them that he will give them water from that rock.

Let’s see how it says it here: chapter 20 of Numbers, verse 7 and on, it says:

“And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.

And Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him.

And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock (it wasn’t a small rock, but a giant rock), and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?

And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.”

Now look at the big mistake Moses made: striking the rock, when God said: “Speak to it.” That stage was by the creative Word, being spoken by Moses, that things would happen and God’s blessings would come to the people. And the water, which represents the fullness of the Holy Spirit for the people of God, notice, it would come without striking the rock, only speaking to the rock, which is Christ in His Second Coming.

But Moses, full of anger, wounded the rock. The rock gave water, but the rock was smitten; and since Christ in His Second Coming, in the fulfillment of His Second Coming, He will not be crucified again in the flesh as He was crucified two thousand years ago (because the Sacrifice for sin was already made), since Moses smote the rock, a second spiritual crucifixion will take place.

And every person who stands up against the Second Coming of Christ and speaks against the Second Coming of Christ, it will be counted to the individual, and also to any group, as a second crucifixion; they will be as people who have crucified Christ for the second time before God.

Now look at what Moses placed there when he struck the rock.

And now, we can see that the kingdom of the gentiles as well, which was the one that smote the rock there on Calvary’s Cross, is the same one that will also rise at the Last Day according to Revelation, chapter 17, verse 11 and on, and will rise against the Rock, against Christ in His Second Coming.

It says in Revelation, chapter 17, verse 11 and on:

“And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.”

Those who are with Him are God’s elect of the Last Day and the saints who have departed who are to be resurrected in eternal bodies.

And now you see how the same beast, the Roman empire that rose against Christ back then, and crucified Christ at the request of the Hebrew people, will rise again at the stage of the feet of iron and clay, which is the empire or kingdom of the antichrist for the Last Day, and will rise against Christ, against the Second Coming of Christ; but Christ will overcome him, because He is King of kings and Lord of lords.

That is why also in Revelation, chapter 19, verse 19, also speaks of the beast and the kings who gave him their power and their authority, and the armies of those kings, which will come against him who rides the white horse of Revelation 19:

“And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.

And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.”

Now notice how the antichrist, the false prophet, the man of sin, the beast, will rise against the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, which is the Coming of Christ, His Second Coming, and He comes as King of kings and Lord of lords.

And now see how Christ will overcome him, because for this end time the Second Coming of Christ is not to be crucified as Christ was back then two thousand years ago, on Calvary’s Cross, because He already paid the price for sin.

So this persecution and war that they will do to the Second Coming of Christ will be counted as a second crucifixion, a spiritual crucifixion; but Christ will overcome. And since He will overcome, He will take away the kingdom of the gentiles, He will take the kingdoms of this world and will establish the Millennial Kingdom; and He will reign with His Church over all nations and over the Hebrew people.

Now we can see all this Divine Program relevant to the end time and we can see what happened back then, for which Moses couldn’t enter the promised land nor could Aaron enter: because he smote the rock twice back then, that second rock, which couldn’t be wounded but they had to speak to the rock to give water for the people.

Moses then realized what he had done, and he wanted to correct his mistake, his problem, but it was too late. We find Moses trying to get mercy from God, but he couldn’t get it.

See, in the book of Deuteronomy we already find Moses saying goodbye; and in Deuteronomy, chapter 3, verse 23 to 29, see what Moses tells us here regarding the mistake he committed, for which he couldn’t enter the promised land, but he was told: “Go up to the mountain, and from there you will see the promised land, but you will not enter it.” Chapter 3 of Deuteronomy, verse 23 to 29, says:

“And I besought the Lord at that time, saying,

O Lord God, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?

I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.

But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the Lord said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.”

God had been angry with Moses for having struck the rock, to which and of which God said: “Speak to the rock.” God had told him to strike the first rock with the rod, but to the second rock, He said: “Speak to the rock.” And things must be done in the way God commands, or else God is not pleased with what we do, and then we can’t receive God’s blessings. We have to know what God tells us to do and how He tells us to do things.

Now see how this very powerful man, Moses, the one that God used for the deliverance of the Hebrew people, now by making that mistake he couldn’t enter the promised land. And it was so serious, because being a prophet, the Program of God was being reflected in him and in what he was doing, Christ was being reflected in him, both in His First Coming, as well as in His Second Coming; because God is reflected through His prophets.

Now see how Moses now regrets that he got upset with the people and acted that way, and he also places half or almost all the blame on the people, because it says here:

“But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes…”

One always tries to blame other people, but look, you can’t get angry even if someone else upsets you and tries to make you angry.

Moses, because of the people who upset him so much (and on many occasions they even wanted to stone him and were always complaining), he got angry at the people.

And when one does something in the Work of God in anger, upset, one always makes a mistake. The first thing, the mistake is that one can’t do anything for God in anger; one can’t do the Work of God in anger, one can’t work in the Work of God in anger; you better stay put; pray to God to pull out that root of bitterness from your soul, from your heart.

Look, another angry man: Jonah. He didn’t want to go to take the Message⁵, but he went… he didn’t want to go on a donkey, or a camel, or a boat, but he had to go on a submarine called “a very big fish.⁶” They took him without paying freight; but he was very scared there.

He gave the Message, and the king and all the people believed, and then they repented before God; and then God said to the prophet Jonah⁷: “Look, the king and the people have repented, so I will not send the divine judgment that I was going to send on Nineveh.”

And now, instead of the prophet saying: “Thank You, Lord, that Your mercy is so great that You have had mercy on this people who deserved destruction; but because they have heard the Word, the Message, and have repented, Your mercy has been extended to this people. Lord, thank you, because my ministry has worked for the good of this nation, this king and all these people who live in this nation; my ministry has been a blessing.”

But no; Jonah said⁸: “That is why I didn’t want to come, because I know that You are a merciful God and that You will repent of the punishment if the people repent; and I knew that if the people repent You will have mercy and You will not send the divine judgment that You have told me You will send. And now I said that the divine judgment would come and now the divine judgment will not come, the mercy of God will come upon the people.”

For then he had to go and tell the people and the king: “God has seen you, He has seen that you have humbled yourselves, He has seen that you have repented of your sins, He has seen that you have asked God for forgiveness; and now God has had mercy on you, and now God is going to bless you instead of destroying you!”, and give them a positive message so that they would take courage and thank God, and begin a new productive life and of service to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

But Jonah was not interested in the salvation of those people, he was not interested in God’s mercy being manifested in favor of those people; and he leaves very angry.

And God, look, God deals with His prophets, whether they are bad-tempered or not. God knows how to deal with them; but remember that the bad-tempered ones are very few.

And now, it was a very hot day and God makes a gourd grow and cast good leaves; and Jonah, because it was very hot and sunny, went underneath. Think of it as a vine plant, a grape plant, you can place it in a certain way that it gets tangled up and forms a very nice roof; and there, that vine, that grape plant shades anyone who is hot and sits under it.

For the Millennium, it says that we will sit under the vine and eat the fruit, we will drink of the fruit of the vine⁹

And now, Jonah, when he saw that shadow, he immediately looked for the shadow. You know why one looks for the shadow, right? Because the shadow doesn’t look for you; so you immediately look for a place where there is a shadow and then you get in; the only shadow that looks for you or that follows you is your own, and you can’t get under it. But we have a shadow that we can get under¹⁰:

“He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”

Under that shadow is that we can get in, and we will always be safe.

Now, Jonah was the happiest under the shadow of that gourd; but not happy that God had had mercy on the people, of Nineveh, a gentile people; in other words, Jonah being a Hebrew was not happy that God had mercy on the gentiles.

But God, after He gave him that good shade, that gourd that grew in a day and made shade, and Jonah was the happiest that day there in the shade, during the night what you see in some plants happened: some little worms were born, some worms, and they ate the leaves; because a worm was born in that gourd that ate all the leaves; in other words, it was one of those worms that eat a lot: it destroyed all the leaves.

And the next day when the sun began to heat up and the gourd was leafless, and Jonah was under the hot sun, he was upset too; and there God spoke to Jonah and gave him a great lesson that we should all receive.

Now, God has sent us to take the Message, what for? For God to have mercy on other people. Don’t go condemning them. Go and bring them the Message; and in the Message they will hear that the divine judgment is coming upon the Earth, but that there is mercy for those who cry out to God and seek God’s mercy. And he that is of God, will hear the Voice of God; and when he hears the Voice of God, he will receive God’s mercy; and therefore God’s blessing will come upon the person.

So let us take the Word, the Message, everywhere, so that God may have mercy on other people; for what is coming later is terrible: the judgments of the great tribulation. And none of us want those judgments; therefore, we don’t want those judgments to fall upon people either; and the only way is to bring them the Message so that they may seek God. If they seek God in repentance: they will obtain mercy.

We don’t want any of God’s elect to perish. And taking the Message is that they will be able to receive the Word of God, hear the Voice of God. We are living in the time, in the most important divine cycle of the entire Divine Program.

Let’s see here, what happened here… let’s see what happened here: chapter 4, verse 1 and on, it says [book of Jonah]:

“But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger (not like Jonah, who was quick to anger), and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Ungrateful too. God gives us life, let us be grateful to God, who gives us life and who gives us the opportunity to live and serve God every day of our life.

It is a privilege to live on this Earth in these mortal bodies, although they are not perfect bodies. It gives us the opportunity to make contact with Christ, Eternal Life, and serve Christ, and be prepared to receive the new body that He has promised for all of us.

But if we are not faithful in the few things: in this mortal, corruptible and temporary body, how can we want the new body, which is eternal? We have to prove, being in these temporary bodies, that we love Christ and that we will serve Him all the days of our life; whether it is in this temporary body or in the eternal body; and we prove it by being in this temporary body, we prove that we will serve God in the eternal body for all eternity.

Now, it goes on to say:

“Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?”

And the question for the ones who get angry: “Are you doing the right thing by getting so angry?” You are not doing any good.

Was Moses right to be angry with the people and to strike the rock when God said to him: speak to the rock? He didn’t do right, he did wrong, and he lost the opportunity to enter the promised land in the physical body, being in the physical body; he entered but being in his theophanic body, not in the physical body he had. The theophanic body entered, because the person continues living in the other body, in the theophanic body. And then he appeared on Mount Transfiguration with Jesus and the prophet Elijah.

Now, is it good to get angry? It’s not good, it’s even bad for your health to be angry. But a happy, joyful and grateful heart to God is medicine for your body, it is the best medicine a person can take, that is the best medicine.

But the worst poison is anger, rage, hatred; all these things are poison for the physical body, they are roots of bitterness that one can’t have in the heart; what they do is harm, they poison the person’s soul.

“Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?

So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.”

Now, from afar he is looking to see what is going to happen in the city; but God already told Jonah: “Look, the king has repented with the people.” In chapter 3 is where He tells him: chapter 3, verse 10, it says:

“And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.”

And now Jonah looks from afar and sees that no evil is coming; the fortieth day has passed away. The people of Nineveh and the king were not angry with Jonah, but they were grateful to Jonah: “Thank God that He sent us this prophet! He didn’t want to come but God brought him for our blessing.”

Surely the king said: “And where has he gone? Where has Jonah gone, because we love him: he brought us the Message from God; and in receiving his Message we received God’s mercy; we didn’t know that God would destroy us.” But because God will do nothing without first revealing His secrets to His servants His prophets (even though they are bad-tempered), you see, he brought the Message and they received it.

Some people look at the messengers of God and sometimes they say: “No, I don’t receive the message from this one, because either he is very serious or I see him somewhat angry,” well, look, the king and the people of Nineveh saw that Jonah was a prophet who was angry but they received his Message, and they received God’s mercy.

One has to look at God and see the Message from God even if one doesn’t like the messenger very much, through whom God sends you the Message; because what the person needs is the Message that comes from God, he needs to believe it with all his soul, with all his heart, so that it will bring him God’s blessings.

And now, Jonah remained in the shadow of that bower that he made with that plant, gourd, which was born, and he looked towards the city to see what would happen; and nothing happened; and the divine judgment didn’t fall upon Nineveh.

And now look what it says in chapter 4, verse 6 and on; it says:

“And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief…”

Look, even by God helping Jonah to get rid of the discomfort he was having, he was upset; and you know that when the sun is hot and you are sweating a lot and the sun is hitting you, sometimes you get a little upset. But look, God made a gourd grow over Jonah, which covered all that area, and now he had a natural air conditioning; because trees or gourds like that, they make the environment cool, because they absorb the heat of the sun and they don’t allow the sun to pass through, they don’t allow the heat to pass through and the sun to pass through, and now the place is cooler.

If you stand in the sun, you feel it is hot, you stand in the shade of a tree and you feel it is cooler there, why? Because all the heat is being received by the tree and it’s not going down; and you are in the shade of that tree, receiving the benefits of the shade of that tree that is there.

Now see how it goes on to say:

“…So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd (on a sunny day, anyone can be happy when they find a little shade in which to get under).

But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.”

Here it doesn’t specify whether it ate the leaves; it could have eaten the leaves or it could have eaten the root; and by eating the root the gourd is lifeless, the leaves dry up; and dry leaves give no shade. And now:

“And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind…”

Notice, he is testing the prophet and He is teaching the prophet, He is putting him through certain trials; because when they are sort of stubborn they need to go through hard stages, where that way of being angry is taken away from them.

And now, see how it says:

“And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.”

He is still angry, he is still asking for death; but, notice, he was still living; because the person has one day to be born and one day to die, and God is the one who determines when He is going to take His children.

Now, let’s see here:

“And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd?”

See, God is still dealing with His prophet, even though he is an angry prophet; but he is God’s prophet. And what we are talking about is not criticizing Jonah, but rather the bad temper; which is called bad temper, but it is that form of rebellion and being angry with all situations and with God Himself.

And now God says to him:

“Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd?”

Now he was angry because his gourd dried up and now he had no shade, and the sun was beating down on his head; and when the sun beats down on your head on a very sunny day, you sweat a lot and get upset, and you touch your head and it’s hot, and you can’t find a place to get under, you can’t find a shady place. And in those territories there are few trees, in those territories that are very arid, they are like areas of many deserts; finding a shade there seems to be difficult for Jonah. And now he is very angry; because of such a simple thing (a gourd); but look, God is giving him a lesson.

How many want God to teach them a lesson like that? No one, right? Don’t worry that none of you are bad-tempered like that; you don’t get angry with God, nor with His Program; therefore, don’t worry about that part.

Now, we take the Message with divine love, of good will; because it is a privilege for us to take the Message and see that God has mercy for people when they receive the Message. And our desire is that every human being receives It, our desire is that all Latin America and the Caribbean receive the Word of God and obtain God’s mercy; whether they are good or bad, that they receive the Word and repent, so that God may have mercy on them.

“And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.”

Wow! The way he answers God!: “A lot!” He doesn’t say: “A little”: “I do well to be angry, even unto death.” Angry until death. And God has mercy and patience with Jonah; he was the prophet of the hour for that people and God couldn’t change him.

And in Jonah, He is representing something that would be fulfilled in Christ; and it was when Jonah was in the whale’s belly for three days. And as Jonah was in the belly of the whale or big fish for three days, so would the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, be in the heart of the Earth for three days¹¹. See? Because the Program that God will carry out later on is reflected in God’s prophets; even in prophets that have become angry, like Moses and like Jonah. There are very few who get angry, but some get angry at times.

Who got angry on another occasion? Elisha was angry with some young boys, with some boys who began to criticize him, and they told him¹²: “Go up, bald man, go up!” He had no hair and they were mocking him; and since the prophet Elijah had gone up in a chariot of fire, they were telling him to go up too. But he got angry and cursed those pesky boys, and two bears came out and ate them, killing those boys, forty-two boys.

It is better to see a prophet happy and not angry; for if he is angry, it is hard for him to speak blessings; but if he is happy, he can’t stop the blessings that God will put in his mouth for all the people.

Anyone can say: Why is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, of the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet given to Latin American and Caribbean people, why is it sent to them? Because that is how it was determined in the Program of God.

And on one occasion Isaac said to Esau… when he had blessed Jacob, and then Esau came looking for the Birthright Blessing, and Isaac was blind… being a prophet and he was blind; because it doesn’t matter that a prophet has some health problem, that doesn’t take away that he is God’s prophet for that time.

And we find Isaac who was already blind, and that was a blessing to Jacob, so that he could obtain the Birthright Blessing being spoken by Isaac; for even though he was blind he could speak the blessings of God.

And now, he spoke the blessings of the Birthright for Jacob and then Jacob left; and when Esau came looking for the Birthright Blessing it had already been given to another person, to his brother Jacob. And when Isaac asks Esau¹³: “Who are you?”, and Esau says: “Well, I am your son, your firstborn”, Isaac says: “Your brother came before you; and I blessed him, and he will be blessed.”

And the Birthright Blessing is spoken for the Church of Jesus Christ, and in the Age of the Cornerstone the blessing is spoken for us to be transformed in this end time; and we will be transformed!

The blessing to be adopted, to be transformed in this end time, that is for the Age of the Cornerstone; and if the Age of the Cornerstone is filled with Latin American and Caribbean people, those are the ones that will be adopted, those are the ones that will be transformed.

It doesn’t matter that there are many people in other nations, if they don’t receive the Word of blessing, the Word of God for the Last Day, the Word of the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, they can’t be adopted, they can’t be changed; but those who receive It, even if they are Latin American and Caribbean people, they will be changed; because that is the Word of Blessing for God’s elect of the Last Day.

And the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ may say to Jesus Christ: “I have given them Your Word and they received It. And I have told them that the transformation is for those who receive Your Word; and they have received It and believe It with all their soul. And I have blessed them in Your Name, and they will be blessed.” This is how the blessing comes for God’s elect of the Last Day, this is how the faith comes to be changed and raptured in this end time.

That is why the bright and Morning Star is given to the Overcomer. And the Overcomer is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Last Day, who will be in the ministry of the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, who will be living on Earth at that time and ministering for the time of the Coming of the Lord, the Coming of the Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven; to be, the Angel of Jesus Christ, the messenger who receives the bright and Morning Star.

And what is the bright and Morning Star? Let’s see what the bright and Morning Star is. Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16, says:

“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.”

Who is the bright and Morning Star? Our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, He is that bright and Morning Star, and He is the root and offspring of David; and He will give the Overcomer the bright and Morning Star.

In other words, the Overcomer will have Christ manifested in Him as the bright and Morning Star; therefore, Christ through the Overcomer will be shining in the morning of the seventh millennium and of the seventh dispensation; and He will be giving us His Light, His revelation, the revelation that a new dispensational day has begun and that a new millennial day has also begun; and that we are in the morning, at the breaking of dawn.

The Light of the new millennial day and of the new dispensation (the seventh dispensation) is already shining our understanding and our heart; it is the Light of the Morning Star that is shining in the Church of Jesus Christ in this Last Day; it is the manifestation of Christ, the bright and Morning Star, through His Angel Messenger in the Last Day, through the Overcomer of the Last Day.

Just as the manifestation of Christ as the Sun of Righteousness for the Last Day will be in the Overcomer as well; and also the other blessings that Christ has promised for His Church, we will see them manifested by Christ through His Angel Messenger.

That is why John the apostle wanted to worship the Angel on two occasions: in Revelation, chapter 19, verse 6 to 10, and Revelation 22, verses 6 to 10 also, and the Angel said to him: “Look, don’t do it; I am your fellow servant, and with your brothers the prophets, and with those who have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Worship God.”

He identifies himself as a redeemed by the Blood of Christ and as one of the prophets of Jesus Christ. So the Angel is only the instrument of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ for this end time.

And with joy, from the depths of his heart, he will be giving the Message of Christ for all human beings; and he will be very grateful to Christ for everything that the Message of Christ does in favor of all Latin American and Caribbean people, and all other people in all other nations.

He will be giving thanks to Christ for Christ having mercy on the Latin American and Caribbean people, and all other people that Christ will have mercy on in the Last Day by receiving the Message of Christ, the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom; and he will continue to be the Overcomer with the bright and Morning Star.

If Christ says: “I will give him the bright and Morning Star,” then he will have it. And what is that? Well, Christ is the bright and Morning Star. Just as Christ was in each of the seven angel messengers, in the portion pertaining to each age, He will be in His Angel Messenger manifested in what pertains to the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.

Christ in Holy Spirit will be manifested and will be reflecting Himself through His Angel Messenger, and fulfilling the things that He has promised to His Church

He said: “Come up hither, I will show you the things that will happen after these.” Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1.

And in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 6, it says: “And he said unto me, These words are faithful and true. And the Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done (the things which must be done, in other words, that must happen soon).”

Through whom does He make them known? Through His Angel Messenger; because it is in His Angel Messenger that the bright and Morning Star would be for the Last Day, which is Christ manifested making known to us all these things that must happen soon; and thus shining in this Last Day, in the morning of a new dispensational day and in the morning of a new millennial day, in the morning of the seventh millennium.

Now, we have seen this mystery of the bright and Morning Star, we have seen that this bright and Morning Star is Jesus Christ. He said: “I am the bright and Morning Star.” Revelation 22, verse 16.

And now, the bright and Morning Star, the one who will have it manifested in him will be the Overcomer, the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; just as Christ was manifested in each messenger of past ages, and Christ was reflected in each one of them; that is why they were also stars, but they were not… – none of them was the manifestation, or in none of them was the full manifestation of the bright and Morning Star; because they lived during the night and not during the morning of a new dispensational day.

So they were stars; and Christ was reflected through them, because Christ is the bright and Morning Star and He reflected Himself through them, but none of them and in none of them was that promise fully fulfilled; only partially, them being the star of each of the ages, the star, in other words, the messenger of each of those ages.

And now Christ, the bright and Morning Star, by being in His Angel Messenger, Christ will be through His Angel Messenger as the Messenger to His Church and the Messenger to the Hebrew people also; because Christ is the Angel of the Covenant that descends from Heaven wrapped in a cloud, with His face as the sun, and He is the Messenger to Israel and He is also the Messenger to His gentile Church.

And, in order to manifest Himself as the Messenger to His Church and as the Messenger to the Hebrew people, He will be veiling Himself in human flesh and revealing Himself through human flesh through the Overcomer, where that bright and Morning Star will be, Christ coming as the bright and Morning Star, as the Messenger to Israel.

And that is how Christ will reveal Himself to the Hebrew people; but first He comes to His gentile Church, because His Church is about to be raptured, because His Church has reached the end and has to obtain the faith to be changed and raptured, and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

And that faith can only be received through the manifestation of Christ, the bright and Morning Star, and the Sun of Righteousness, and the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, and the Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven, which is the same Person: our beloved Lord Jesus Christ in His final manifestation through His Angel Messenger.

But remember: His Angel is not the Lord Jesus Christ, he is only the instrument of Christ for this end time.

We have seen this mystery of the bright and Morning Star. We have seen that in the Bible, since Genesis, it speaks of stars, it also speaks of bright stars and it speaks of the moon and the sun as well.

For example, the dream that Joseph had, Jacob’s son, where he saw the sun, the moon and eleven stars bowing down before him¹⁴, God was showing him there that the time would come when Jacob and also Joseph’s brothers would bow down before Joseph¹⁵.

And this happened when Joseph became second-in-command in the Pharaoh’s empire; and they bowed down before Joseph, whom they knew not as their brother, because he was dressed like a gentile, and spoke the language of the gentiles, and was fashioned like a gentile, and his hair and all was like a gentile; and he was married to a gentile.

And they didn’t know that that gentile was their brother Joseph; he was a Hebrew who passed as a gentile, but he was a son of Jacob, the one who had the Birthright Blessing, and he was a prophet as well. That is why Christ was reflected in him in such a great way, to such a degree that He reflected in Joseph His First Coming and also His Second Coming.

Now, we can see that Joseph had seen eleven stars, the sun and the moon; in other words, eleven stars: his eleven brothers; his father Jacob as the sun and his mother as the moon; although his mother had already departed; but they all bowed down before him.

Now, Joseph saw eleven stars, but when you look, how many do you see? You see twelve stars, because each of the patriarchs is a star.

Just like when we can look through Revelation and see seven stars in the right hand of the Son of Man, but when you look with divine revelation, you see eight stars. Why? Because you see the seven stars, which are the seven angel messengers of the seven ages, and you see the bright and Morning Star, which is the Son of Man, who has those other seven stars in His hand.

Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, is the bright and Morning Star; and when you see Jesus Christ with seven stars in His hand, you see seven stars in the hand of Christ, and you see Christ as the bright and Morning Star, that Greater Star.

Now, you see how all these things that for this end time would be happening are placed in the book of Revelation, and also in the book of the prophet Daniel and other books of the Bible; all these things are placed in prophetic symbols, which are open in our time in order to understand them and to be able to join the biblical symbolism with the fulfillment of that symbolism; and thus to have a clear picture of those apocalyptic symbols that contain the things that will happen in this end time, as they also contain the things that already happened in past ages.

Now, we have seen the bright and Morning Star, which is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, and we have also seen who is the Overcomer that receives that Star: it is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, the faithful and wise Servant.

May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the bright and Morning Star, be upon all of you and upon me too; and may it enlighten us completely, and fill us with the knowledge of all His Program; and may what was prophesied by the Reverend William Branham in the book of The Ages be fulfilled, when he said on page 266¹⁶:

“If ever a people needed a promise embracing the land where there is no night, it was the people of the Dark Ages. And that is why the Spirit is promising them the morning star. He is telling them that the Chief Star, even Jesus, Who dwelleth in Light unto which no man can approach, will in the future kingdom illuminate them by His own personal presence. He will not be using the stars (in other words, messengers) to give light in darkness any longer (that is, He will not be using the seven angel messengers). It will be Jesus, Himself, speaking to them face to face as He shares His kingdom with them.

It is the morning star that is visible when the light of the sun commences to shine. When our Sun, (Jesus) comes, there will be no further need of messengers; He will bring us His message of cheer Himself; and as He rules His kingdom, and we live in His presence, the light of the Word will become brighter and brighter in our perfect day (that is, in the seventh millennium, which is the Last Day; and seventh dispensation, which is the Dispensation of the Kingdom).

What else could we desire above Jesus Himself? Is He not everything, even Perfect Everything?”

Here, notice, he presents to us what the bright and Morning Star is: it is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, who will be enlightening us, illuminating us, in this end time, and will be filling us with the knowledge of all His Program.

“He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. Amen. Even so, Lord God, by Thy Spirit, let us hear Thy truth.”

We have reached the end time, we have reached the time of the bright and Morning Star for all of us, to see and receive His Light, and be filled with the knowledge of the entire Program of Jesus Christ for this Last Day, on the morning of this new dispensational day and this new millennial day.

May the blessings of the Light of Christ enlighten our soul, our mind and our whole being, and may all the Scriptures enlighten us, all the prophecies pertaining to this end time, so that everyone, even children, may see them and may clearly understand them; and may children, adults, young people and the elderly and everyone thank Christ for His blessing of the bright and Morning Star shining in this end time. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.

God bless you, God keep you. And remember one thing: never get angry. Look at what those who got angry lost. And what remained to be read to you of Jonah, read it in your homes, so that you may see that it is not good to be angry.

We are in a time to be filled with joy and gratefulness to our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. This is the time of Jubilee for the Church of Jesus Christ with all His members, for each of you and for me too.

“THE OVERCOMER WHO RECEIVES THE MORNING STAR.”