Good afternoon, beloved brethren and friends present. It is a great blessing for me to be with you on this occasion, to share with you a few moments of fellowship around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time.
We read in the book of Revelation, chapter 1, verses 1 to 3, where it says:
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.”
And we read in Matthew, chapter 24, verses 37 and on, where it says:
“But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Then…”
Let’s see, here, in verse 42 and on, of this same chapter 24 of Matthew, it says:
“Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
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.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
Our subject for this occasion is: “THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST.”
In order to understand the revelation of Jesus Christ for the Last Day in the fulfillment of the Coming of the Son of Man, we need to understand what was the First Coming of Christ, where God, the heavenly Father, was veiled and revealed in the midst of the Hebrew people. John says, chapter 1, verse 18:
“No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.”
Jesus Christ, two thousand years ago, was making the Father known.
Saint Paul, speaking to us in Hebrews, chapter 1, verse 1 to 3, 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;
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on (in heaven) high:”
In Jesus Christ, two thousand years ago, was the revelation of the heavenly Father being brought to the human race through Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus Christ came revealing the Father.
That is why when they spoke to Jesus and Jesus spoke of the Father, see in John, chapter 14, what happens there; chapter 14, verse 1 and on, it says:
“Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?”
Where was the Father? In Him, within Him; and Jesus Christ was revealing the One who was within Him. It was the revelation of God, of the heavenly Father, through human flesh, that veil of flesh called Jesus.
It says First Timothy, chapter 3, verse 16… 15 and 16, there, but verse 16 is the one we need to see there; it says:
“And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.”
The heavenly Father, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant (who appeared to the prophet Moses and told him that He was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and that He had descended to deliver the Hebrew people),1 was now within a veil of flesh called Jesus.
And the Father, under the Dispensation of the Law, was now within Jesus, within that body that God created in Mary’s womb: That cell of life that He created, and then multiplied cell upon cell, and thus formed the body of Jesus. And inside that body was the heavenly Father, God; therefore, the manifestation that was in that body was the manifestation of the heavenly Father.
That is why when they say to Jesus: “Show us the Father, and it is enough for us,” Jesus speaks to him about the heavenly Father, being where? Within Him:
“Believest (‘Phillip, don’t you believe that the Father…?’) thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.”
The works that were done by Jesus were the works of the heavenly Father, who was in Jesus veiled in human flesh and revealed through human flesh, and carrying out the works relevant to that time, which were the fulfillment of the divine promises for that time.
And God, the heavenly Father, being in a veil of flesh called Jesus, since “Son of Man” is the title of prophet, therefore Jesus, speaking of Himself, He identifies Himself as the Son of Man; because the Son of Man is a prophet, it is the title of prophet. That is why God in the Old Testament also called “son of man” or “son of man” to different prophets, like Ezekiel.
And now, notice how Jesus Christ identifies Himself as the Son of Man in different occasions, because He is identifying Himself as a prophet, He is identifying Himself with the title of prophet; and that shows that God was in human flesh in the form of a prophet, in the revelation of the heavenly Father through human flesh in the midst of the Hebrew people, to carry out the Work of Redemption with that body of flesh that He was using at that time; because a sacrifice for sin was required to remove the sin of the world, because the sacrifices of the little animals didn’t remove sin, they only covered sin.
And now, God Himself provided Himself with a physical body to use in the Sacrifice for sin; and through His physical body, the heavenly Father, God, carried out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross. As the high priest sacrificed the goat for sin for atonement; so God, you see, His own body of flesh, which He created Himself and was born in Bethlehem of Judea, He now offers as the Sacrifice for sin, the Sacrifice of Atonement.
Sin couldn’t be taken away without a perfect sacrifice. The other animal sacrifices only covered sin, but God had promised that He would take away sin; and for that a perfect sacrifice was required. That is why John the Baptist, when he saw Jesus, said of Him: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”2
Now, notice, John the Baptist had a great knowledge of the one to whom he was preparing the way. He knew that he was preparing the way for the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, because this is what the prophet Malachi said in chapter 3, verse 1 and on:
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me…”
And that messenger that He would send before Himself, would be who? John the Baptist; and John identified himself with that messenger that God would send before Him,3 and Jesus Christ also identified John as the messenger that would come before Him.4
Now, who would send His messenger before Himself? God, who would be veiled in human flesh, and through human flesh revealed in the midst of the Hebrew people; and that was none other than the Word made flesh, and was known by the name of Jesus; but He sent a messenger before Him to prepare the way, which was John the Baptist.
Isaiah, chapter 40, verse 3 and on, also testifies of that prophet messenger that would come preparing the way for Him, and said that it was the voice of one crying out in the wilderness.
And when it speaks of a voice crying out or a trumpet sounding or thunders sounding, there must be a man on Earth, a prophet, through whom that voice is being heard; because that messenger is that living voice: He is the Voice of God manifested at that time, he is the Word of God made a reality at that time, in the portion relevant to that time.
And now, the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, preparing the way for the Lord, was none other than John the Baptist; because when they ask him: “Who are you? Are you Elijah?”, he says: “No.” —“Are you the Messiah, the Christ?” He said: “No.” —“Then, who are you?”, they ask him. And he says: “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, as Isaiah the prophet said.”5
Now see who John was: The voice of one crying in the wilderness. If there is a voice crying out, then that Message must be going out through a man; but that man and his Message were the same thing; because the Message and the messenger are the same thing.
And now, he says:
“…and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.”
Who would come? The Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
And now, how would He come? He would come in human flesh; He would come in the form of a man, in the form of a prophet. But He came in the form of a prophet, of a man so simple that they stumbled over that veil of flesh because He was so simple; a small of small stature…
Reverend William Branham says He was about 5 feet 5 inches6 (that would be a very small size compared to the rest of the Hebrew people), and He weighed about 130 or 135 pounds7 (not a bulky person either). And such a person, identifying Himself as the Son of Man, identifying Himself as the promised Messiah for the Hebrew people, didn’t have for them the facade, the appearance that they were expecting the King of Israel to have.
For the Hebrew people had had a Saul, a king, the first king that the Hebrew people had, not after God’s heart, but after the heart of the people. The people desired a king, and they desired a king like the kings of the other nations. Therefore, in the permissive will of God, through the prophet Samuel, God gave them a king; a king whom the Scripture says that from the shoulders upward he was taller than all the Hebrew people.8
So a person who is, let’s say, 6 feet tall (not to say of a very tall height), standing next to another man and reaching up to his shoulder… If a person is 6 feet (which is more or less 1 meter and 85, around that, 1 meter and 85 centimeters more or less), if he stands next to one whose shoulder he reaches… That person… remember (2 meters is 6 feet more or less, right, Miguel?), that person, who is taller than the one who is 1 meter and 85 centimeters, that is, about 6 feet… If a 6-foot tall person is tall, what will that other person be like when that 6-foot tall person reaches his shoulder?
So Saul was a giant; he was like the basketball players, who are very tall, a person like that. But that was the desire of the heart of the people: To have a tall king, with a great physical appearance in every way; because that was how the other nations had their kings.9 The Scripture tells us that there were kings in some nations among the gentiles who dwelt in the land of Canaan who were giants, like Goliath and of the same descent as Goliath (or ancestry). And the Hebrew people saw those great kings and desired a great king; and God gave them a great king, but a king that was after the heart of the people and not after the heart of God; but it didn’t work very well.
Look, when through the prophet Samuel God gave him instructions on how to do things, Saul, on an occasion when he had to wait for the prophet Samuel to arrive on a certain day, he didn’t wait and offered the sacrifice to God. And he had had certain problems: The people were dissenting, the people were leaving him, because they saw the enemies who were ready; and Saul with his army, which was not so good, Saul was full of fear and also those who were with him; but God was going to give him the victory, even with an army that was useless. For it is without armies: “Not by armies, nor by might, but by my Spirit, says the Lord.”10
Now, look, Saul became desperate and said: “If I continue to wait for Samuel, all the people will leave me or the enemy will attack me, and I will lose this battle,” and he offered the sacrifice to God.11 But Saul was neither a prophet nor a priest; he was entering into a ministry, a ministry that belonged only to Samuel.
And now, he began to minister when he was not a minister; and he was a king and depended on Samuel’s ministry. Although Saul was the king, but Samuel was the prophet. And the prophet is over, not only a king, but over all the kings that the planet Earth has. When God sends a prophet, that prophet is over all kings and over all things and over all people.
He is a man sent with the two consciousnesses together; and not many of those appear here on Earth: Only God sends them from age to age and from dispensation to dispensation. And when He sends a prophet, it is because God has a work to carry out through that prophet; God has a great Divine Program to carry out. That is so when a prophet appears on Earth, for an age; but when a dispensational prophet appears, then people have to tighten their belt, because a greater Divine Program will be carried out at that time, whether people understand it or not.
For Noah’s time, a dispensational prophet was on Earth; and people looked at him with contempt, they couldn’t believe his Message. It seemed crazy that God was going to destroy the Earth, but He destroyed it; He destroyed the human race, and only Noah and his family survived, and the animals that entered the ark.
Now, notice, when God sends a dispensational prophet, God will be carrying out a greater Work; and a dispensation, the dispensation that was in force, is coming to an end, and a new dispensation is intertwining. And only the prophet that God sends is the one who knows what is happening; and he makes it known to his people, to his people, to those who listen to his voice and thus receive the divine revelation of that time.
Now, God doesn’t have many dispensational prophets: He only has seven dispensational prophets; and already, of the seven dispensational prophets, six have already come; and for this end time we have the promise of the last dispensational prophet, for the last dispensation, which is the Dispensation of the Kingdom, to make the link between the Dispensation of the Kingdom and the Dispensation of Grace; because God promised that He would be carrying out a greater Work in this time.
And for a greater Work: well, a greater prophet. He can’t send a minor prophet for a great Work. And of the greater prophets, dispensational prophets, God only has seven, and He has seven dispensations, and He has seven dispensational Messages.
And now, let’s see how for Jesus’ time, for example, there was also a dispensational prophet, Jesus, who and in whom God, the heavenly Father, was revealing Himself through human flesh in all His fullness. He had revealed Himself through human flesh in the Old Testament prophets of previous ages and dispensations, but now He is revealing Himself in all His fullness: The Word made flesh in all His fullness, in the fulfillment of the Messianic promises relevant to that time.
And now, you see, the greater the manifestation of God, the simpler the way in which He fulfills that manifestation.
Now, He is revealing Himself through human flesh: through Jesus.
And now Jesus makes known what is happening in Him, and also prophesies of the Coming of the Son of Man for the Last Day, that is, for the seventh millennium.
But now, see how Jesus speaks of the manifestation that is in Him to the disciples, to His disciples: He tells them that the Father is where? In Him. When praying, He said: “Our Father who art in Heaven”12</sup>; and now, when they say to Him: “Show us the Father, and it is enough for us,” He says that the Father is within Him; because the Son was revealing the Father; it was the revelation of the Father through the Son. And because every son comes in the name of his father, He could say: “I have come in the Name of my Father.”13
The revelation in all its fullness must come through a son; don’t lose sight of that; and that son is the one who receives the adoption.
Now, in Matthew, chapter 11, verse 25 to 27, Jesus says:
“At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
All things are delivered unto me of my Father:…”
To whom were all things from the Father delivered? To the Son, the one in whom the Father was revealing Himself. The one who had the revelation of the heavenly Father had, had been given, had been delivered to Him, all things; even all the sheep had been handed to Him.
“All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.”
Why? Because in the Son was the Father revealed. He was the one who had the revelation of the heavenly Father. He was the Father revealed in human flesh in Jesus of Nazareth.
That is why He could say: “I have come in the name of my Father.” And He could also say: “Father, glorify Thy Name.” And God, the heavenly Father, in John, chapter 12, see how He said when Jesus prayed like that; in chapter 12, verse 28, it says, of John:
“Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”
He glorified It in the First Coming of Christ, in the Coming of the Messiah, in the Coming of the Son of Man revealing the Father; and He will glorify It in the Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Coming of the Son of Man in the Last Day. In the revelation of Jesus Christ, the Name of God will be glorified again.
And for this revelation of Jesus Christ, the revelation of Jesus Christ, just as the revelation of the heavenly Father was through human flesh in a son, in the Son of God…: The Father was revealed in that body that He created in Mary’s womb, when He created a cell of life, which was multiplied cell upon cell and formed the body of Jesus, which was born in Bethlehem of Judea. In that veil of flesh was the heavenly Father, veiled and revealed through that veil of flesh.
Jesus Christ came to reveal the Father, and thus to speak all that the Father gave Him to speak, and to do all that the Father gave Him to do. That is why Jesus said: “I speak nothing of myself, but what I hear the Father speak, that I speak.”14 And He also said: “The works that I do, I do not do of myself, but as I see the Father do, so I do.”15
Therefore, the works that Jesus did were not the works of a man, but the works of the heavenly Father, who was veiled in human flesh and revealed through human flesh, in the person of Jesus. And the Message that He brought was not a human message, but the Message of the heavenly Father, which was within that veil of flesh, within that human temple called Jesus; and He was in Him manifested in all His fullness. And that was the revelation of the heavenly Father through human flesh in Jesus of Nazareth, because Jesus came revealing the Father.
And in this revelation of the heavenly Father through human flesh in Jesus, we find a number of important things that we shouldn’t overlook…
Since every son comes in the name of his father, we now find that the person who is revealing the Father has the Name of the Father; because every son comes in the name of his father. The revelation of the Father must be in a son of His; and that body which the heavenly Father created in Mary’s womb, the Archangel Gabriel said would be called the Son of God or Son of the Most High; and the Archangel himself told her the name to be given: Jesus, which means ‘Savior’ or ‘Redeemer.’16
And the prophet Isaiah said that it would be Emmanuel (which translated is: God with us)17</sup>; Isaiah, chapter 7, verse 14. And Isaiah, chapter 9, verse 6 to 9, says that it would be a child that would be born, and that He would be the Eternal Father, Prince of Peace, Mighty God. That child to be born would have all those titles, because in Him would be the heavenly Father.
Therefore, He was the Eternal Father manifested in human flesh, in His veil of flesh that He used to manifest Himself, to reveal Himself to the Hebrew people. It was the revelation of the heavenly Father through Jesus. It was the Angel of the Covenant, made flesh in the midst of the Hebrew people in that simple veil of flesh called Jesus of Nazareth.
Now, we can see this mystery of the revelation of the Father: The coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who in the Dispensation of the Law was as Father; now we find Him coming in human flesh in the person of Jesus, where the heavenly Father was revealing Himself: He veiled Himself in human flesh and revealed Himself through human flesh. Therefore, Jesus came to reveal the Father.
And now, see how in other places of Scripture it speaks to us of this revelation, like the one I gave you of John and Matthew. Matthew, chapter 11, there we find what was said there by Jesus. He said:
“All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.”
Because the revelation of the Father came by (whom?) the Son: through Jesus Christ.
And now, here we have a mystery that was being opened in the midst of the Hebrew people: The mystery of the First Coming of Christ, which is the mystery of the Coming of the heavenly Father veiling Himself and revealing Himself in human flesh in the person of Jesus.
The presence of Jesus on Earth two thousand years ago was showing that the heavenly Father was revealing Himself to the Hebrew people in the form of a man, in the form of a prophet. That is why the Hebrew people when they speak about the Messiah, and someone asks them the relationship between the Messiah and God, the answer is that the Messiah is God; because the Messiah is the manifestation of God in human flesh: Emmanuel, God with us.
Now, we have seen what was the revelation of the heavenly Father through human flesh two thousand years ago: It was the coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
The Father, who was in the Old Testament, in the Dispensation of the Law, as Father; now He veiled Himself in human flesh and revealed Himself through human flesh, through Jesus, and Jesus was making the Father known.
He came with the revelation of the heavenly Father, to make it known to the Hebrew people; and to carry out —through human flesh the heavenly Father— the Work corresponding to that end time, to that end time of the Dispensation of the Law in the midst of the Hebrew people and beginning of the Dispensation of Grace.
For the end time, Christ spoke of the Coming of the Son of Man, of the revelation of Jesus Christ in the midst of His Church.
And now, the Scripture that we had (that of Matthew and also Revelation) tells us about the revelation of Jesus Christ; Matthew tells us (in other words, Jesus speaking in Matthew) that the Coming of the Son of Man will be as in the days of Noah: So shall be the day when the Son of Man will be manifested, will be revealed.
And now, for the Last Day, the revelation of Jesus Christ will be through human flesh, according to the Scriptures. And the people who don’t understand what will be the manifestation or revelation of Jesus Christ, in the fulfillment of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, will stumble with the Second Coming of Christ, of the Angel of the Covenant, where the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, will be manifesting His ministry and will be fulfilling His promises.
Since the First Coming of Christ was the Coming of the Word, the Word incarnate in a man; the Second Coming of Christ can’t be anything else but the Word, the Word incarnate in a man.
Now, for the end time, the revelation of Jesus Christ will come through human flesh.
We are going to see some places mentioned by Reverend William Branham in relation to the Coming of the Son of Man, so that we have a clear picture of what will be the fulfillment of these important prophecies; because we need to understand what will be the Coming of the Son of Man; because otherwise we would stumble, as the Hebrew people stumbled in the Coming of the Son of Man, the First Coming of Christ, where the Father was revealing Himself through human flesh in Jesus of Nazareth, that simple young carpenter of Nazareth.
The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ tells us (we are going to see these pages, where…); page 372 of the book of The Ages, he says:18
“Jesus is giving us this description of Himself in relation to the last age. The days of grace are winding up. He has looked from the first century right through to the twentieth, and told us all things concerning these ages (that is, the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church). Before He reveals the characteristics of the last age to us, He gives us one final look at His own gracious and supreme Deity. This is the capstone revelation of Himself (the final revelation of Jesus Christ).”
Jesus Christ, through the different stages or ages of His Church, has been in Holy Spirit veiling and partially revealing Himself in each angel messenger of each age, in the portion of the Word promised for each age; and when He has manifested Himself through each of those messengers, the mystery of that age has been opened; and the elect have been called and gathered into that age by the manifestation of Jesus Christ through the angel messenger of each age.
Just as in the Old Testament He veiled Himself in human flesh in the Old Testament prophets partially, and then veiled Himself in human flesh in all His fullness in Jesus.
And now, Christ has been from age to age veiling Himself and revealing Himself through human flesh in the portion relevant to each age, in the fulfillment of the promised Word of each age. And the elect of God have been under that manifestation; and when that manifestation of Jesus Christ has been carried out, the elect of God have appeared and have become part of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And for the Last Day we have the promise of the greatest manifestation of Jesus Christ. This is the revelation of Jesus Christ, the revelation of Himself.
He goes on to say:
“Thus saith the ‘AMEN.’ Jesus is the Amen of God. Jesus is the ‘So Let It Be’ of God. Amen stands for finality. It stands for approval. It stands for prevailing promise. It stands for unchanging promise. It stands for the seal of God. I want you to watch this carefully now and see something really sweet and beautiful. I said this is His end-time revelation of Himself (that is, the revelation of Jesus Christ for the end time). When the day of grace closes, then the millennium comes very shortly thereafter, doesn’t it? (in other words, the seventh millennium).”
He continues mentioning here everything that will be happening for the seventh millennium; and it shows us what the prophet Isaiah says in chapter 65 and verse 16 and on: there it says that he that blesseth himself on Earth, in the God of truth (in other words, in the God of Amen) shall bless himself; and he that sweareth on Earth, in the God of Amen (in other words, in the God of truth) shall he swear.”
And now, this comes with the revelation of Jesus Christ for the Last Day; that is the final revelation of Jesus Christ.
He has been revealed in the seven Church ages through His messengers, but for the Last Day, at the end (that is, outside of the seven gentile Church ages), He will be revealed in the midst of His people; that is the final revelation of Jesus Christ.
On page 375 of the book The Ages, it says:19
“‘Whom having not seen, ye love; in Whom, though now ye see Him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.’ With them we rejoice also. We haven’t seen Him, but we have felt Him. We know Him now as much as our limiting senses can let us. But one day it will be face to face. That is for this age. He is coming at the end of this age. Partial realization will be made PERFECT REALIZATION, COMPLETED REALIZATION. Hallelujah! We have been looking through a glass darkly, but soon it will be face to face.”
And this in the revelation of Jesus Christ for the Last Day or seventh millennium.
Let’s see what this revelation will be. And this revelation of Jesus Christ is what will give the Church of Jesus Christ the spiritual food; that will be the spiritual food of the Church of Jesus Christ for the Last Day, for the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
On page 230 of the book of Ages, and 231, when the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ speaks to us about the hidden Manna, see what he says. Page 230 of the book of The Ages, it says:20
“Now then, there is also the thought of the future partaking of the hidden manna. I think it will be the eternal partaking of the revelation of Jesus Christ in the eternal ages to come.”
Now, it is not the revelation of the Father, but the revelation of Jesus Christ. The Father revealed Himself through Jesus Christ, and for the Last Day Jesus Christ will be revealing Himself.
And now, this is the mystery of the Seventh Seal; this is the mystery of the Coming of the Son of Man for the Last Day; this is the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant.
For this end time, Jesus Christ will be veiling and revealing Himself through human flesh; just as He did in past ages through each messenger, but they were partial, temporary manifestations, in and for the fulfillment of what God had promised for each of those Church ages.
And now, let’s see what will be the revelation of the Son of Man in this end time, which is shown in Revelation, chapter 10, verse 1 to 11, and Revelation, chapter 19, verses 11 to 21, and it is also shown in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 12 to 20. We will see in the book of The Seals in Spanish what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ speaks to us in relation to the Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven wrapped in a cloud. On page 57 of the book of The Seals, he tells us:21
“[29] ‘…I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow…upon his head (that is, a circle of light with the seven colors of the rainbow, which is the Divine Covenant),…’
30 If you notice, that’s Christ, see. Cause, He, in the Old Testament, was called the Angel of the Covenant. And He is directly coming to the Jews now, for the Church is finished. See? All right.
‘…and his face…as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:’
31 You remember that Angel in Revelation 1? Same thing. Angel is a ‘messenger.’ And He’s the Messenger to Israel. See? The Church has been raptured, see, now, or fixing to be raptured. He comes for His Church.”
Now, notice, the Messenger to Israel, which is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, which was in the midst of the Hebrew people and then was revealed through human flesh in the person of Jesus in the midst of the Hebrew people; for the Last Day the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Word, the Word returns: He returns in the Last Day, and that will be the revelation of Jesus Christ for His Church and then for the Hebrew people.
Now, let’s see what it says on page 131 of the book of The Seals; it says:22
“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. Uh-huh. See? Notice the mysteries. He is coming, riding… There’s got to be Something to change this Church. 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
285 There comes the Messiah. There He is…”
And further down it says:
“[289] …but Christ is called ‘The Word of God.’ That’s what He is. He is called that. Now He’s got a Name that no man knows; but He’s called, ‘The Word of God.’”
And see that He is the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19.
On page 277 of the book of The Seals also, praying, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, Reverend William Branham, says:23
“[391] …may the Holy Spirit come down now, the white-horse Rider…”
Who is the true white-horse Rider of Revelation 19? The Holy Spirit, who is the Angel of the Covenant, who is Jesus Christ.
“…while His Spirit, Spirit of Christ, in the face of antichrist, and call His Own.”
And on page 134, speaking of the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, who is the Holy Spirit, it says:24
“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 now, on page 146 of the book of The Seals, and page 256. Page 146 of the book of The Seals says, speaking about Christ and also speaking of the antichrist, speaking of Christ and speaking of the devil…; because the devil will also be cast out of Heaven, and will be cast to Earth, and will be incarnated in a man; but on the other hand the Holy Spirit will be incarnated in another man.
That will be, let’s see… Let’s read on page 370, so you have a clear picture of what that will be; it says… 370 or 270, let’s see which one it is: 270 says:25
“321 Here we see Life and death coming to the final struggle. The white horse, of true Life; the pale-horse, of mixed creed. They see the thing coming to the—to the real showdown.
322 Now I want to say something here. You might not believe this. But I looked it up, to be sure. There is only one original color, and that’s white. How many knows that? There is only one original color. Anything else, is mixed.”
And now, we read page 146 of the book of The Seals. He says:26
“402 And at the same time that this devil falls out of Heaven and becomes incarnate in a man, the Holy Spirit goes up and comes down in carnate men.”
And that will be the confrontation between the yellow horse (in which the antichrist is, in Revelation, chapter 6, verses 7 to 8) and the white horse of Revelation 19 with the white horse Rider, which is the Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Word. There will be a confrontation between Christ and the antichrist; and that will be: The devil incarnated in a man, that will be the antichrist, the man of sin, the beast; and the Coming of the white horse Rider Revelation 19, that is Christ coming incarnated in a man in the Last Day.
And now, let’s look at page 256 of the book of The Seals, where it says:27
“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.”
If we find that man, we will be finding the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, the Word, Jesus Christ, veiled and revealed through human flesh. If we find that veil of flesh, we will be finding the man who will be revealing Jesus Christ in the Last Day; we will be finding the man where Jesus Christ will be revealing Himself in the Last Day.
And now, in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 1 to 3, it tells us:
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John…”
Through whom is the revelation of Jesus Christ carried out? Through whom does the revelation of Jesus Christ come? Through His Angel Messenger.
That is why in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16, it says:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
And that is also why the words of Jesus in Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1, when He says: “Come up hither, and I will show you the things which must shortly come to pass after these,” then we find that the one who is making known the things that must come to pass is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 6, where it says: “And he said unto me, These words are faithful and true. And the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, hath sent His Angel, to shew unto His servants the things which must shortly come to pass.”
And why is it the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ that makes known these things, when Christ said: “Come up hither, and I will show them unto thee”? Because in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ comes Jesus Christ revealed to His Church in the Last Day. That is the instrument of Jesus Christ for Jesus Christ to veil Himself and reveal Himself to His Church in the Last Day.
The Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ doesn’t come revealing himself, and speaking of himself, but he comes revealing Jesus Christ and speaking what Jesus Christ will be telling him to speak to His people; just as when Jesus Christ came two thousand years ago, He didn’t come doing anything of Himself, but He came speaking what the Father gave Him to speak and doing the works of the Father; and “it is expedient for me to be about my Father’s business,”28 Jesus Christ said.
And now, it is expedient for the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ to be in the business of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the businesses of the Lord Jesus Christ, where is it? They are here, in His House, in His Church. And the businesses of the Lord Jesus Christ for the Last Day are here, in the Age of the Cornerstone, which is fulfilled (where?) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Therefore, it is expedient for the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ to be in the business of the Lord Jesus Christ in the age relevant to this end time and the territory relevant to the Age of the Cornerstone; working where? In the business of the Lord Jesus Christ; because it is through him that Jesus Christ will be revealing Himself in the Last Day in the midst of His Church, revealing Himself to His Church. And therefore, just as the revelation of the Father was in Jesus, in the Son of God…, and therefore the Name of God was there, because every son comes in the name of his father.
And now, we can see that he was adopted, for he who is adopted comes in the name of his father, and works in the work of his father. He can’t be adopted if he is not working in his father’s work, in his father’s business.
And now, for the Last Day we find that Jesus Christ has had many sons and daughters, who, by believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior and washing our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit: We have been born again; we have obtained the new birth and we have been born as sons and daughters of God, both those who live in this time as well as those who have lived in the past time, who have been redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ.
And now, from among all the sons of Jesus Christ, He will have that son called the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ for the Last Day, the messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Last Day, which will be in the midst of His Church in the Last Day in the Age of the Cornerstone; and that is the Sent One of Jesus Christ to speak the Word of God for the Last Day.
And therefore, the same as the Father, when He revealed Himself through His Son, the same as the Father did is what Jesus Christ will do with that son that He will have in the Last Day, through whom He will be revealing Himself to His Church in this end time.
He needed His Son —Jesus— for the revelation of the Father to come there on Earth, where God placed His Name. And for Jesus Christ to reveal Himself in the Last Day, He needs to have a son of His, a messenger: His Angel Messenger; and Jesus Christ says: “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the Temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the Name of my God, and the Name of the City of my God, the New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of Heaven from my God, and my New Name.”29 He must be a son of Jesus Christ, because every son comes in the name of his father.
And because Jesus came in His Father’s Name, now the Name of the Father is the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And now the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, which He received when He ascended to Heaven (the New Name He received), now He writes it upon the Overcomer; because every son comes in the name of his father. And that will be the messenger of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, who will be adopted in the Last Day; He will be the first son of Jesus Christ of Christianity that will be adopted.
The one who was adopted two thousand years ago was our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, where the manifestation, the Coming of the Father in human flesh was: Where the Father was revealing Himself to the Hebrew people. And for the Last Day Jesus Christ will adopt His son, His Angel Messenger, which is not Jesus Christ but a son of Jesus Christ, just as all believers in Christ redeemed by the Blood of Christ are children of Jesus Christ. He is the person who has the most children; but not children through union with a woman, but through divine creation: through the new birth.
And now we can see that just as God, the Father, manifested Himself through His Son two thousand years ago, and that Son was adopted, the Son of God; for the Last Day, through His Angel Messenger, His son, Jesus Christ will manifest Himself, He will reveal Himself in the Last Day, and will adopt that son of His, His Angel Messenger, when He has finished His work, when He has finished the work that Christ will be entrusting Him for while He is in the veil of flesh; and then He will give Him a glorified body.
And with the adoption of that son of Jesus Christ, then all the sons and daughters of God will also be adopted: The dead in Christ will be resurrected in eternal bodies and we who are alive will be transformed.
There is the mystery of THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST for the Last Day; as in Jesus was the mystery of the revelation of the heavenly Father in the midst of the Hebrew people, in human flesh veiled and revealed, in the Work of the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world; which He fulfilled on Calvary’s Cross. Jesus Christ comes veiled and revealed through His Angel Messenger for the Last Day to carry out the Work relevant to the Last Day; therefore, Jesus Christ will be revealed as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work.
That is why in Revelation, chapter 19, He has a name written that no one understands, which is: The Word of God. The Word, which was with God and was God, which became flesh two thousand years ago, which was the manifestation of the Father through human flesh; and the revelation of Jesus Christ in human flesh through His Angel Messenger will be for the Last Day, in order for Jesus Christ to manifest Himself, to reveal Himself as King of kings and Lord of lords, as Son of Man and Son of David. That is the revelation or manifestation of the Son of Man for the Last Day.
And first of all we find that in heaven He shows us that sign, which was already fulfilled on February 28, 1963, where the seven angel messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church appeared and an Angel that was different from the rest, which is the Angel of the Covenant, Jesus Christ in His theophanic body, because all these angels are there in their theophanic bodies. Each one of them —of the past ages— had to have a body of flesh in order to have their ministries and to have in them that divine manifestation in each of the ages of the gentile Church.
And for the Last Day, for the Angel who was different from the rest, to have His ministry on Earth in the midst of His Church, since this Angel is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant: For Jesus Christ to reveal Himself in the Last Day in the midst of His Church, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, He has to have a veil of flesh, which is His Angel: A child of His redeemed with the Blood of Jesus Christ, a child of His born in the Kingdom of God, in whom and through whom Jesus Christ will have His manifestation: The manifestation of Jesus Christ, the revelation of Jesus Christ, for the Last Day.
And that is the coming or revelation or manifestation of the Son of Man with His Angels, the manifestation of the Son of Man, where He will be manifesting the ministries of the Angels: The ministries of Moses, of Elijah, and also the ministry of Jesus. That is the revelation of Jesus Christ for the Last Day through human flesh.
And through that manifestation He will be calling and gathering all His elect; He will be speaking to His people, to His Church, with that Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and He will be revealing His Coming, He will be revealing His revelation through His Angel Messenger.
But the Angel of Jesus Christ is not the Lord Jesus Christ; he is only His instrument, His messenger, in whom Jesus Christ will be veiled and revealed in the Last Day, to carry out the Work relevant to the Last Day, the Reclaiming Work, where the dead in Christ will be resurrected in eternal bodies and we who are alive will be transformed.
And when we have the new body, then we will see our beloved Lord Jesus Christ in His glorified body; just as to see one another, we must also be in equal bodies of flesh. And so it will also be for all of us when we already have the new body.
Now, Jesus Christ asked in Luke, chapter 18, verse 8, something very important. Let’s see what He asked there: in chapter 18, verse 8, it says:
“Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?”
That rapturing faith: That faith, that revelation, of rapture, which is the revelation of the Son of Man, the revelation of Jesus Christ; the revelation of Jesus Christ, the Coming of Christ veiled and revealed in human flesh in His Angel Messenger, will He find that revelation? No, but He through His Angel Messenger will make it known to His Church; because no one will know who the Angel of Jesus Christ is, but Jesus Christ; and no one will know who Jesus Christ is, but His Angel, and the one or those to whom His Angel wants to reveal it to. And to whom will He be revealing it to? To all the sons and daughters of God in the Age of the Cornerstone. That is why the call is: “Come up hither, and I will show you the things that shall come to pass after these.”
During these seven gentile Church ages the revelation of the Coming of the Son of Man was not made known to the Church of Jesus Christ; because that revelation is for the Last Day, for the Age of the Cornerstone, and for the people who will be in the Age of the Cornerstone receiving that revelation; and for the territory where the revelation of Jesus Christ of the Last Day will be fulfilled.
It is in that territory where He will be revealing that mystery; and that is the mystery of the Seventh Seal, of the Coming of the Word incarnated in a man; and that man is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, a child of God redeemed with the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ; and that is also the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels; and that is the Coming of Jesus Christ revealed in the midst of His Church in the Last Day.
But His Angel is not the Lord Jesus Christ; but the Lord Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who became flesh two thousand years ago will be in Him: He will be becoming flesh again, in His Angel Messenger, in the revelation of Jesus Christ for this end time. Back then it was the revelation of the Father in Jesus, and in this Last Day it will be the revelation of Jesus Christ in His Angel Messenger.
That is why the same thing that the Father did with Jesus is what Jesus Christ does with His Angel Messenger. When He ascended to Heaven, it says that He received a new name and sat down at the right hand of God. He also said: “All authority in Heaven and on Earth has been given to me.”30
And now, this same thing, notice, is what He does with the Overcomer, with His Angel Messenger. It was to the Son of God that was given all power and authority in Heaven, and He was given the Name of God; but now, look, in Revelation, chapter 2, verse 26 to 28, it says:
“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.”
As He received it from the Father, so He also gives it to the Overcomer, who will be His Angel Messenger in the Last Day:
“…and I will give him the morning star.”
And who is the Morning Star? Jesus Christ. In Revelation 22, verse 16, it says: “I am the bright and Morning Star.” In other words, He will give him His Coming; because the bright and Morning Star will come, Jesus Christ veiled in human flesh in the Overcomer: Veiled and revealed in His Angel Messenger.
That is why it also says: “To him that overcometh will I give of the hidden Manna.” Revelation, chapter 2, verse 17. And what is the hidden Manna? It is the revelation of Jesus Christ for the last ages or that come after the Dispensation of Grace, and for the dispensation that comes after the Dispensation of Grace, which is the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
That hidden Manna is the revelation of Jesus Christ for the Last Day through His Angel Messenger; and with that revelation the whole Earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of God, the glory of the Lord. Isaiah, chapter 11, verse 9, and also Habakkuk, chapter 2, verse 14, testifies that “the Earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.”
And now, notice, to him that overcometh it says that He will give him of the hidden Manna; that is the revelation of the Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, of the revelation of Jesus Christ through His Angel Messenger. That revelation will be made known to the elect of God; it is made known to the Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ, and he makes it known to the Church of Jesus Christ.
It says [Revelation 2:17]:
“…and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”
Daniel saw a stone not cut by hands, as did also King Nebuchadnezzar; and Daniel interpreted to him that dream of the image which he saw31 with the head of gold, and the breast and arms of silver, and the belly and thighs of brass, and the legs of iron, and the feet of iron and clay, which is the kingdom of the gentiles. And he also saw the little stone, a stone not cut out by hands, which came and smote the image in the feet of iron and clay, that is, in the last stage of the kingdom of the gentiles, which corresponds to this end time.
In the First Coming of Christ the kingdom of the gentiles was in the legs of iron (that is, the Roman empire), and at that time the Stone not cut by hands didn’t smite the statue, the image, the kingdom of the gentiles; because He didn’t come at that time to preach “the day of vengeance of our God” for the kingdom of the gentiles, but He came to preach “the acceptable year of the Lord”32 and thus give the opportunity to the gentiles of salvation, the opportunity for salvation. But for the Last Day, in the revelation of Jesus Christ, He comes to preach the day of vengeance of our God: To make known, to open those mysteries of the divine judgment that is to fall upon the Earth.
And, therefore, after the Work of Jesus Christ in human flesh through His Angel Messenger is finished, in the mortal, corruptible and temporary body in which He will be manifested in His Angel Messenger; after that He will transform His Angel Messenger and the elect who will be with him in the Last Day, and He will resurrect the dead in Christ; because that is the adoption of the sons and daughters of God; it is the adoption, that is, the redemption of the body,33 to have the new and eternal body that He has promised for all of us.
Now, we have seen that the prophet Daniel saw that Stone coming: He smote the image in the feet of iron and clay, and broke them into pieces, and the little Stone or Stone grew, and a great mountain was formed, which represents the Kingdom of God, which will cover the whole Earth. That Millennial Kingdom of Christ will cover the whole Earth.
But notice how the Kingdom of God comes: It comes in the form of a little white Stone; the Kingdom of God comes in the fulfillment of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, it comes in the fulfillment of the revelation of Jesus Christ through His Angel Messenger; just as the Kingdom of God was on Earth when Jesus Christ was on Earth in the manifestation of the Father through human flesh in Jesus.
When they said to Him, they asked Him when the Kingdom of God would come, He said: “The Kingdom of God is among you,”34 for there was the King, and in Him is the Kingdom.
And now, for the Last Day, in His Coming, the Kingdom of God will be returning; which was shown in Matthew, chapter 17, on Mount Transfiguration, where Jesus was seen with His face like the sun, His garments shining like the light, and His hair was also seen white there (like in Revelation35), and Moses and Elijah were also seen talking with Him.
All that set of symbols seen there or shown there, which is symbolic of the things that will be manifested, they have to be seen in their fulfillment; and when Moses and Elijah are seen, which are the ministries of Moses and Elijah manifested in the Last Day in the revelation of Jesus Christ through His Angel Messenger, we will be seeing the Coming of the Kingdom of God, for the establishment of the Kingdom of God on this planet Earth in the seventh millennium.
But the kingdom of the gentiles has to be removed, in other words, the kingdom of the gentiles has to be removed from its position; and that is what appears in Revelation, chapter 11, verse 15 and on; and we read what it says there:
“And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.”
And he goes on to enumerate in that passage all the things that will be happening.
Christ, you see, has promised to give the little white Stone (that is the Coming or revelation of Jesus Christ) to whom? To the Overcomer. That Overcomer is the Angel of Jesus Christ; and he is also the faithful and wise servant, who would be in the House of God (that is, the Church of Jesus Christ) giving the spiritual food of the hidden Manna: The spiritual food of the revelation of Jesus Christ for the Last Day (that is, the revelation of the Seventh Seal, which is the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ); because that is the spiritual food for the children of God of this end time; and that is the revelation to be transformed and raptured in this end time.
No person who doesn’t see and know the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, and receive His Word, His Message, which is the Great Voice of Trumpet, well, he can’t be transformed nor can he be taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Notice that the wise virgins were those who entered with Him (with the Bridegroom) to the Marriage, and the Door was shut36</sup>; they were those who received Him, and entered with Him to the Marriage. And those are…, those [wise] virgins are the elect of God who will be seeing Jesus Christ revealed, and will be receiving Him in the Last Day; and they will be receiving His Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ: Of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, of the Coming or revelation of the Son of Man, the revelation of Jesus Christ for this end time.
And “the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him, to manifest to His servants the things which must shortly come to pass,” it says that He sent it through whom? His Angel Messenger.37 It is His Angel that comes with the revelation of Jesus Christ. Just as Jesus revealed the Father, in the Last Day the Angel of Jesus Christ will be revealing Jesus Christ.
And that is the mystery of the Seventh Seal: It is the mystery of the Coming of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19; the Coming of the Word, the Word incarnated in a man; the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel who was different from the rest, coming in human flesh manifested in the Last Day, making known to us through His veil of flesh all these things that must happen soon, in this end time.
And that is how Jesus Christ in this end time will be revealed in the midst of His Church: Through human flesh, through His Angel Messenger. That is the Word, the Word, made flesh in the Last Day, in which we are living.
“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.” That is what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, Reverend William Branham, said on page 25638 of the book of The Seals.
If anyone is expecting anything else, the revelation of Jesus Christ through His Angel Messenger will pass him over, and he will not even realize that Jesus Christ will be on Earth in Holy Spirit in His Angel Messenger manifested in human flesh, in the revelation of the Son of Man, the revelation of the Son of Man with His Angels, the revelation of Jesus Christ through His Angel Messenger; because His Angel Messenger comes revealing Jesus Christ.
Just as Jesus Christ came revealing the Father, the Angel of Jesus Christ comes revealing Jesus Christ, He comes revealing the One who sent him; just as Jesus Christ came revealing the Father, the One who sent Him, and came speaking the words of the heavenly Father that were given to Him.
And now, the Angel of Jesus Christ comes revealing Jesus Christ and speaking the words of Jesus Christ that Jesus Christ will give him for His people. That is why “the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him, to manifest to His servants the things which must shortly come to pass,” it says that He sent it through His Angel. It is His Angel that comes with the revelation of Jesus Christ, comes revealing Jesus Christ in the Last Day. That is the greatest mystery of all mysteries.
And now, how can it be possible that that promise can be fulfilled in a man? Just as it was possible for the revelation of the Father to be fulfilled in Jesus, the revelation of Jesus Christ is possible to be fulfilled in a man for the Last Day. Why? Because by believing in Christ as our Savior, washing our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit, we become sinless; and therefore, Christ can be veiled and revealed through a human being redeemed with His precious Blood: Through a son of His in this end time, who has to be a dispensational prophet; as in a dispensational prophet, Jesus, the Coming and revelation of the Father was fulfilled: He came revealing the Father, and He came with the Name of the Father; the Name of the Father, because every son comes in the name of his father.
And that is why Christ promises that He will write His New Name in the Overcomer: He must be a son of God, a son of Jesus Christ; a son of Jesus Christ, just as every son comes in the name of his father; because every child is heir to the name of his father; and it is the children who are also heirs, therefore it is the children who are adopted.
Now we can see the whole Divine Program relevant to this end time.
And just as God sent the Archangel Gabriel to the prophet Daniel to give him the revelation of all those things that God wanted to show to the prophet Daniel,39 for the Last Day the Holy Spirit comes in the midst of His Church making known all these things that must happen soon. And how does He do it? Through His Angel. Just as through an Angel God revealed to the prophet Daniel all those things; for the Last Day, through His Angel Messenger, Jesus Christ reveals to His Church all these things that must happen soon, in this end time.
Now we can see where we are in the Divine Program.
It was in the Age of the Cornerstone two thousand years ago that the Father revealed Himself through His Son: Jesus Christ, and spoke through Him; and it is for the Age of the Cornerstone in the Last Day that Jesus Christ would reveal Himself through His son: His Angel Messenger, and would speak through him, and would make known to us all these things that must happen soon. And he would come testifying of Jesus Christ, and he would come in the Name of the One who sent him. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, he would come testifying of all these things.
And now, Jesus Christ has a new name. What does that mean? Well, Jesus Christ said: “I will write upon him (upon the Overcomer) my New Name.” So he will come testifying of all these things that must happen soon, and he will come in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
What His Angel has to do is to give testimony of all these things, and God will take care, Jesus Christ will take care of the rest. What he needs —the Angel needs— is to let himself be used by Jesus Christ, by the Angel of the Covenant; because the one who vindicates, the one who confirms that everything that the Angel will be saying is the truth, will be Jesus Christ. He is the one who has to confirm – reconfirm or vindicate.
And look, in a few places He (Jesus) says:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
It is of the messenger that the Bible speaks the most after Jesus Christ; and Jesus Christ Himself is the one who speaks of His Angel Messenger.
Just as the Father spoke of His Son, through whom He would veil Himself in human flesh and reveal Himself; now Jesus Christ speaks of His Angel Messenger, who is a son of His, through whom Jesus Christ will be veiled and revealed in the Last Day making known to us all these things that must come to pass soon, in this end time.
And now, Jesus Christ…, just as the Father came revealed in His Son and came manifesting His Name; now Jesus Christ says that He has a new name, and He comes revealed in His Angel, and He comes with that new name that no one understands but the one who receives it. And who is the one who receives it? His Angel, through whom He will be veiled and revealed. And he will be the only one who will understand it, and he will understand what that name means; and he will work in the Work of Christ according to God’s Program; and God’s Program will be fulfilled according to the content of that name: Of that Eternal Name of God and New Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Just as in the prophets of the Old Testament, as Abraham and also Jacob, and other people, and Joshua, and Moses…
You see, Moses, what does that name have to do with the Work that God did through Moses? Well, what does the name Moses mean? ‘Taken (from where?) out of the waters.’ And what did God do through Moses? He brought out His people Israel from the midst of the Egyptians. And waters, in prophecy, waters, it says in Revelation that waters are nations, peoples and tongues.40 And now, he brought them out of the Egyptian nation, out of those Egyptian waters, and brought them into the promised land.
The name that the messenger had had to do with what God would do with the Hebrew people. Moses was taken out of the waters, that was the name that corresponded to him, because God would also take the Hebrew people out of Egypt.
And now, Joshua means ‘Savior’ or ‘Redeemer.’ And what God did through the ministry that He manifested in Joshua was to place the Hebrew people on the other side of the Jordan, in the territory from which they had left when the famine came in Joseph’s time; they had left there, and now God returns them to their land. That is to redeem: To return to the place of origin.
Do you see how the name has to do with the Work?
And when the Father came revealed in His Son, the name Jesus (which in Hebrew is Joshua or Yoshua) means ‘Savior’ or ‘Redeemer,’ because He came to carry out the Work of Salvation or Redemption there on Calvary’s Cross.
And now, the Eternal Name of God and New Name of the Lord Jesus Christ and Name of the City of our God is the one that Jesus Christ says He will write upon the Overcomer. There will be a man on whom Jesus Christ will have His Name written, His New Name.
That is why in Revelation, chapter 19, the white horse Rider of Revelation 19 comes with a name that no one understands. Everybody understands the name Jesus</em>; but the New Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, you ask any person, any theologian or any minister who has not received the revelation of the Last Day, and he says: “We don’t know what that name is”; because no one understands it, but he who receives it. And he who receives it, then he can speak to His people about that Name and show them everything that he, by the direction of Jesus Christ, receives to show to His people.
Now, we can see that the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Coming of Jesus Christ, veiling and revealing Himself through His Angel Messenger is (with what?) with a new name. And that makes the Second Coming of Christ even more mysterious, that makes the revelation of Jesus Christ for the Last Day through His Angel Messenger even more mysterious.
Now, the Angel of Jesus Christ is not the Lord Jesus Christ: he is only His Angel Messenger, His prophet messenger, who comes revealing Jesus Christ; because Jesus Christ will be in him manifested and will be revealing Himself through His Angel Messenger; and He will be —Christ through him— sounding that Last Trumpet41 or Great Voice of Trumpet,42 which is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ, in other words, the Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ: The revelation of Jesus Christ in this Last Day.
But His Angel is not the Lord Jesus Christ: he is only the instrument of Jesus Christ, for Jesus Christ to reveal Himself through His Angel Messenger in the midst of His Church, to carry out the Work relevant to this end time in the midst of His Church; and thus give us the faith to be transformed and raptured in this end time, to be able to go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb with a new and eternal body.
We have reached the end time. We have reached the time of the revelation of Jesus Christ. We have reached the greatest and most glorious time, which all the prophets of the Old Testament and the apostles of the New Testament and the seven angel messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church desired to live, with all the believers of the past ages and dispensations. We have come to the time of THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST.
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John…”
That Angel Messenger is the last prophet of Jesus Christ, he is the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom and of the Age of the Cornerstone. He is the one who comes with the revelation of the Message of the seventh dispensation: The full revelation of the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around the Coming of the Son of Man, the Coming of the Lord; he comes with the revelation of Jesus Christ for the Last Day, the final revelation of Jesus Christ, which is through His Angel Messenger.
The partial revelation through the seven angel messengers corresponds to the seven ages of the gentile Church; but the revelation of Jesus Christ through His Angel Messenger for the Last Day corresponds to the Age of the Cornerstone, which is an eternal age: it is the final revelation. Therefore, that is the revelation that will be had during the Millennial Kingdom and for all eternity, without invalidating or despising the revelation of the Father through Jesus Christ, in the Work of Redemption.
Now we can see the mystery of THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST. We have seen how Jesus Christ will reveal Himself in this end time in the midst of His Church: Through human flesh, through His Angel Messenger. That is the one who comes with the revelation of Jesus Christ in this Last Day; just as Jesus Christ came two thousand years ago with the revelation of the Father, in the Work of Redemption, in the midst of the Hebrew people, where that promise had to be fulfilled.
And now, in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ, in the territory where that promise has to be fulfilled, is that the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ comes revealing Jesus Christ in the midst of His Church. That is the Anointed One of Jesus Christ for the Last Day, to testify of all these things that must happen soon.
And God said through the prophet Moses: “The Lord your God will raise up unto you a prophet like me; him shall you hear.”43 And now Jesus Christ says, in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
And whoever wants to know all these things that must happen, “hear ye him”: the Sent One of Jesus Christ, through whom comes the revelation of Jesus Christ for this end time; he comes revealing Jesus Christ in this time in which we live. That is why John the apostle wanted to worship him on two occasions, and the Angel told him not to do so.44
“THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST.”
That is why He comes as the Son of Man and Son of David, in this end time. And that is why in Revelation, chapter 19, verse 11 to 21, He has a name that no one understands but Himself; and He comes with a name written on His garment and on His thigh, which says “King of kings and Lord of lords.” This is how the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, the Angel of the Covenant, Jesus Christ, comes, veiled and revealed through His Angel Messenger: He comes as King of kings and Lord of lords, He comes as the Son of Man and Son of David, King of kings and Lord of lords; in THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST.
It has been a great privilege for me to be with you testifying to you of: “THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST.”
And we have seen how simple the revelation of Jesus Christ would be for this end time, just as the revelation of the Father through Jesus was simple. The revelation of Jesus Christ through His Angel would also be simple in this end time.
May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and upon me also; and may soon the number of God’s elect be completed; and may we all soon be transformed, and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
It is a great blessing for me to be in the territory where those who would see and receive THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST in this Last Day would be.
Now I leave Miguel Bermudez Marin with us again, our beloved friend and brother, Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin, to continue.
And I am very grateful to God, to Jesus Christ, for sending me to you in Latin America and the Caribbean.
We have the earthly Jerusalem there in the midst of the Hebrew people, where the First Coming of Christ was fulfilled, the revelation of the Father through human flesh; and we have the heavenly Jerusalem, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, for this Last Day to have the revelation of Jesus Christ relevant to this end time.
And now, just as for the earthly Jerusalem there were people singing “Hosanna!”, for the heavenly Jerusalem, the Church of Jesus Christ, today we sing “Hosanna!”
It is in the heavenly Jerusalem that at this time we would sing to Jesus Christ our Savior “Hosanna!”, as “Hosanna!” was sung in the earthly Jerusalem in the midst of the Hebrew people. And soon also in the midst of the Hebrew people “Hosanna!” will be sung again: “Hosanna to the Son of David!”, because He comes as the Son of David, Son of Man and Son of David.
And now we are living, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, under the protection of Jesus Christ, under the protection of the Rock. That is why we don’t fear at any time: We know that our future is safe in the hands of Christ, the Rock of eternity.
It doesn’t matter that Moses has smitten the Rock the second time; it doesn’t matter the problems surrounding the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of Jesus Christ, the revelation of Jesus Christ; it doesn’t matter: The victory is Jesus Christ’s!, it is prophesied and no one can take it away from Him! And therefore, it is also our victory, because we are under the protection of Jesus Christ, the Rock.
We are saved because we are in the protection of the Rock, Jesus Christ our Savior, in this Last Day.
“THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST.”
1 Exodus 3:6-8
2 John 1:29
3 Matthew 3:1-3, Mark 1:1-8, Luke 3:1-6, John 1:1-8, John 3:1-6, 1:19-23
4 Matthew 11:7-15, Luke 7:24-28
5 John 1:19-23
6 1.65 m
7 58.9 o 61.2 kg
8 1 Samuel 10:23, 9:2
9 1 Samuel 8:4-5, 8:19-20
10 Zechariah 4:6
11 1 Samuel 13:1-14
12 Matthew 6:9, Luke 11:2
13 John 5:43
14 John 12:49-50, 8:28
15 John 5:19, 14:10
16 Luke 1:26-33
17 Matthew 1:23
18 The Ages in English, page 332
19 The Ages in English, page 334-335
20 The Ages in English, page 211
21 The Seals in English, page 70
22 The Seals in English, page 155
23 The Seals in English, page 327
24 The Seals in English, page 158
25 The Seals in English, page 319
26 The Seals in English, page 173
27 The Seals in English, page 303
28 Luke 2:49
29 Revelation 3:12
30 Matthew 28:18
31 Daniel 2
32 Luke 4:16-21; Isaiah 61:1-2
33 Romans 8:23
34 Luke 17:20-21
35 Revelation 1:13-16, 10:1
36 Matthew 25:1-13
37 Revelation 1:1
38 The Seals in English, page 303
39 Daniel 8:15-19, 9:20-23, 10:10-21
40 Revelation 17:15
41 1 Corinthians 15:52
42 Matthew 24:31
43 Deuteronomy 18:15
44 Revelation 19:10, 22:8-9