Good evening beloved friends and brethren present, and all those in other nations, ministers and their congregations. Receive my greetings, and especially… warm greetings to Missionary Dr. Miguel Bermudez Marin, who is in the Republic of Mexico, in Mexico City, with Reverend Ricardo Villagran and the congregation there “La Voz de la Piedra Angular.”
Receive my greetings everyone there; and may God bless all of you greatly, and may He open the Scriptures to us and our understanding in order to comprehend. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Let us read in the book of Acts, chapter 3, verse 18 to 23, and it says:
“But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.
And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:
Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.
For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to comprehend It.
“THE RETURN TO EDEN.”
Today Friday, April 28, we have the introduction to the Bible School topic for next Sunday, April 30. The topic of the Bible study will be: “THE RETURN TO EDEN.”
The Kingdom of God which was on Earth in the time of Adam, of which Adam was the administrator, he was placed as king and administrator of that Kingdom on Earth, that Kingdom will be restored to the human race in the end time; and consequently, that is the redemption for the human race, the redemption for planet Earth.
Just as God carried out the redemption for the human being through Christ on Calvary’s Cross, and from there on every human being can be redeemed through the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross and be restored to eternal life, and consequently be restored to the Kingdom of God; and all of that takes place in the spiritual realm, because we have been translated from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of God. That is what Paul speaks about in Colossians, chapter 1, verse 12 and on; says:
“Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins.”
The believer in Christ has been delivered, freed from the kingdom of darkness and translated to the Kingdom of God, to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ; and therefore has been spiritually restored to eternal life; because in the Kingdom of God, to enter into the Kingdom of God, to be born in the Kingdom of God, it is through Christ our Savior.
In Hebrews, chapter 3, verse 5 to 6, 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, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”
The House of God, the Family of God, the descendants of God are the believers in Christ who form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which have been redeemed with the Blood of Christ our Savior; and in the spiritual realm they have returned to Eden, they have returned to the House of God, to the Family of God as sons and daughters of God, being born in the Kingdom of God through the new birth by the Spirit of God. Just like in order to be in this earthly kingdom where we live, the kingdom of darkness, we had to be born in the kingdom of darkness through our earthly parents.
But now to be in the Kingdom of God, that heavenly Kingdom, and consequently return to Eden, and thus to eternal life, we are born again through Christ our Redeemer, Who cleanses us with His precious Blood and baptizes us with His Holy Spirit; and thus produces the new birth in the Kingdom of God, the new birth that every human being needs to become part of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the general assembly or congregation of the firstborn who are written in Heaven. In Hebrews, chapter 12, verse 18 and on, says:
“For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
(For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.”
The believers in Christ have approached, not Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments in tablets of stone (as it happened on Mount Sinai), but rather they have approached Mount Sion:
“…and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven.”
Written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life; those are the firstborn of God, the first ones God thought of; that because of the problem in the Garden of Eden —wherein Eve and then Adam sinned— they did not come at that time, but they come, they appear in the Dispensation of Grace under the Feast of Pentecost, which began on the Day of Pentecost.
And we are still living in that Feast of Pentecost, where God calls and gathers His elect into His Mystical Body of believers, which is His Church; their names are written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and therefore they have been returning to eternal life, returning to Eden. And once that number is completed, the Dispensation of Grace will be closed, the Feast of Pentecost will be closed, which has some two thousand years, around two thousand years, from the Day of Pentecost until now.
At the end of that feast, the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive will take place, and we will be taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Then God will deal with Israel under the Feast of Trumpets, the Feast of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles or Feast of Booths; but the Dispensation of Grace has to be closed, all those written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life must be gathered.
Therefore, it is time for the last ones written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, to enter into the Divine Program of redemption. None of those written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, none can be lost; nor can any of them remain here on Earth when the rapture of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ takes place. No one written in the Lamb’s Book of Life will stay here to go through the great tribulation, no one belonging to the Mystical Body of Christ our Savior.
As the different stages or ages of the Church have passed, believers who receive Christ as their only and sufficient Savior have been entering Eden, to eternal life; they have been restored to eternal life and consequently to Eden.
“THE RETURN TO EDEN.”
Then comes the physical part, which will be our transformation for those of us who are alive; and the resurrection, for the believers in Christ who have died physically, to be resurrected in immortal, young, glorified bodies; and those of us who are alive those days will be transformed.
“THE RETURN TO EDEN.”
We will all be restored; first spiritually and then physically to Eden, to eternal life with Christ our Savior.
If there is someone who has not yet received Christ as his Savior, you may do so at this time and we will be praying for you so that Christ receives you in His Kingdom and brings you back to Eden (thus, to eternal life).
Those in other nations can also come to the Feet of Christ our Savior, so that Christ receives you in His Kingdom if you have not yet received Christ; you may come to the front to receive Christ as your Savior.
Children ten years old and above can also come to the Feet of Christ. Remember that Christ said: “Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” [Matthew 19:14].
Let us stand to pray for the people who are coming to the Feet of Christ our Savior.
Heavenly Father who art in Heaven, blessed be Thy Name forever. I come to You with all these people who are receiving Christ as their only and sufficient Savior. Receive them in Your Kingdom. I pray to You in Your Eternal and glorious Name, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and honor forever and ever. Amen.
Now repeat this prayer after me, which I will make for each one of you:
Lord Jesus Christ, I have heard the preaching of Your Gospel and Your faith was born in my heart.
I believe in You with all my soul. I believe in Your First Coming. I believe in Your Name as the only name under Heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved.
I acknowledge that I am a sinner and that I need a Savior. I give public testimony of my faith in You and of Your faith in me, and I receive You as my only and sufficient Savior.
Lord, I believe in Your Sacrifice; and I pray, Lord, that You forgive my sins, cleanse me from all sin with Your Blood, and baptize me with Holy Spirit and Fire, and bring forth the new birth in me.
I want to be born in Your Kingdom, I want to live eternally, I want to return to Eden, I want to return to eternal Life.
Lord, I pray… Lord, I pray You make a reality the salvation You purchased for me at Calvary’s Cross. I pray to You in Your Eternal and glorious Name, Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
And now in every country, those who have come to the Feet of Christ may be baptized. For which I leave the corresponding minister of each place to inform you what you must do to be baptized, whether it be today or another day; and here I leave Reverend Jose Benjamin Perez to continue and finalize on this occasion.
May God bless you; and until next Sunday, God willing, under the context of the subject of our Bible School, regarding: “THE RETURN TO EDEN.”
Remember that the Millennium will also be the return to Eden for the Church, the Jews and for all the nations, which will enter into the Millennial Kingdom.
May God bless you; and continue having a joyful evening filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.
“THE RETURN TO EDEN.”