Good afternoon, ministers and partners, brothers and sisters present. It is a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of fellowship with you around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time.
For this reason, let’s read in Ephesians chapter 1, verse 10… Let’s read a little before that, starting on verse 3 and on, where it tells us:
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;
Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:
That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”
And chapter 3 of this same letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians, tells us, in verse 1 and on:
“For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him…”
In these two passages that I read to you, it speaks to us about a dispensation. Notice, verse 10, says:
“… That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him.” (Chapter 1, verse 10 of Ephesians).
And chapter 3, verse 9, tells us:
“… And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things...”
In these two passages it speaks to us about a dispensation.
These days (on Sundays) we have been speaking about the dispensations.
We know that there are seven dispensations:
• The Dispensation of Innocence, from the time of Adam, when there was no sin yet, and Adam was the messenger for that dispensation; that is why he had the Message for Eve and for all those of his time, before sinning.
• Then we have the Dispensation of Conscience, and Seth was to be the messenger of that dispensation; and it was in the time of Seth that men began to call upon the Name of God.1
Abel represents Christ dying; and then Seth represents Christ resurrected. In other words, both represent Christ.
And now, we know that just as Abel presented to God a sacrifice, an offering that pleased God, Christ presented to God the Sacrifice for sin that pleased God; and there is no longer any other Sacrifice for sin.
• We also have the third dispensation, which is the Dispensation of Human Government, and its messenger is Noah.
• We also have the fourth dispensation, the Dispensation of Promise, and its messenger is Abraham.
• We also have the fifth dispensation, the Dispensation of the Law, and we all already know that its messenger is Moses.
They are all dispensational prophets.
• And we have the Dispensation of Grace… Remember, the Dispensation of the Law is the fifth, the Dispensation of Grace is the sixth. That is, the Dispensation of Grace with Jesus.
• And the seventh dispensation is the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
The dispensation – each dispensation has a time period in which God deals with the human being; and under that dealing of God with the human being, God —therefore — deals with the human being on this Earth.
There is no other way to deal with God. It must be according to the Divine Program for the dispensation in which the person is living.
We know that the Dispensation of Grace covers the different stages of the Church, which were reflected in the Dispensation of the Law, and that is why the Hebrew people is the type and figure of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ: it is the Church of the Old Testament; that is why they are the ones that were brought out of Egypt and placed in the promised land. The Church: ‘the brought out.’
And the Church of the New Covenant, of the New Testament, are the ones brought out of the world and placed in the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ under the Dispensation of Grace.
It must also be understood that each dispensation ends with judgment, and that each dispensation overlaps with the previous dispensation; there is an overlap there. We see it clearly in the time of John the Baptist and Jesus, where John the Baptist was a messenger of the Dispensation of the Law, preparing the way for the Messiah the Prince, that is, for another dispensational prophet-messenger who would open a new dispensation.
We find in the time of John and Jesus, that the Dispensation of Grace was overlapping with the Dispensation of the Law; the groundwork was being laid for the end of the Dispensation of the Law and the start of the Dispensation of Grace; for which, everything that was going to happen was already prophesied.
The greatest sign there is to indicate that a new dispensation is about to – going to begin is when the new messenger appears, the messenger for that new dispensation, that is the greatest sign; because the greatest sign is a prophet. And even greater, well, a dispensational prophet. No sign is greater than that.
The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has had the sign of the Holy Spirit in Her, manifesting Himself through the messenger of each time; and every believer in Christ has had the sign of the Holy Spirit inside him, in his soul.
At the Last Day, the Church also had the sign in Her midst: the sign, the Holy Spirit, being manifested through the messenger of the seventh Church age: Rev. William Branham. For the Church as a group, that was the sign for the seventh age.
Then the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will have the sign in the Age of the Cornerstone, the Holy Spirit being manifested in Her midst to give Her the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
And the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be the One that will have that sign; because the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the Bride-Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which will receive the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and to be with Christ in Heaven for three and a half years, and then return to Earth to begin the Millennial Kingdom.
Therefore, during the Great Tribulation the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be with Christ in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, the greatest feast that has ever taken place in Heaven. And I was invited there. And who else? Each one of you too.
And where does it speak about those invited to that feast? Revelation chapter 19, verse 9, says:
“And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.”
Are those who are called to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb blessed or not? They are, because the Scripture, the Bible, says so. In other words, I am blessed because I am called to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. And who else is blessed? Well, each one of you.
The call is to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, preparing us to go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. And where is that call made? In the Mystical Body of Christ, in the stage relevant to our time, which is the Age of the Cornerstone. Just as there were seven ages, where the Holy Spirit was manifested speaking to His Church through the messenger of each time; and through that Message, He called and gathered the elect of each age, in the age relevant for them to be in.
If we would have lived in the time of Saint Paul, we would be listening to Saint Paul and helping Saint Paul, and working with Saint Paul in all of the Work of the Lord.
And this is how it was – would have been for us, if we had lived in the stage of the second age with the second messenger: we would have been working there; or with the third one if we had been in the third age; or with the fourth one if we had been in the fourth age; or with the fifth one if we had been in the fifth age; or with the sixth one if we had been in the sixth age, we would have been working there. With whom? With Wesley. And if we had been in the seventh age, we would have been working in the seventh Church age with Rev. William Branham.
Sometimes we think: “I would have liked to live back in the time of Saint Paul,” or, “I would have liked to live in the time of the second or third messenger,” when they were thrown to the lions, or they were burned on different occasions; or in the time of one of the other messengers.
Well, I wouldn’t have liked to live in any of those ages. I am satisfied with living in the stage or Age of the Cornerstone. It is the summit meeting, it is the call to the top, to the highest age. That is why it is represented in the Golden Age, it is represented in gold; and it is an age for the fulfillment of the Coming of the Lord, of the resurrection of the dead in Christ, and of the transformation of the living.
And how do we know that it is for that age? Because it wasn’t fulfilled in past ages. As simple as that.
In our stage or age is when the Dispensation of the Kingdom, the seventh dispensation, overlaps with the Dispensation of Grace. And since it is for the Dispensation of the Kingdom, it is the dispensation where the Kingdom of the Messiah will be established on Earth, where He will claim His Kingdom, His Throne: the Throne of David.
That is why the prophecies that speak about the Kingdom of the Messiah will be fulfilled in the seventh dispensation: the Dispensation of the Kingdom, and Christ will claim the Throne of David, and He will sit on the Throne of David; and the Overcomer will sit with Him.
Christ says: “To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with Me in My Throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with My Father in His Throne;”2 He has sat with the Father on the heavenly Throne. Likewise, the overcomer will sit with Christ in the Kingdom of the Messiah; he will sit with Christ on His Throne, which is the Throne of David. And we won’t explain a lot so that the enemy or enemies don’t try to take that Throne.
They will try to take – the antichrist will try to take that Throne, but Christ will claim It and we will see what the history will be there.
Remember that one can see history. How? By seeing beforehand what is going to be written as history. In other words, there are a people who live history, who make history; the people who make history are the ones that live what was later put in writing; and nowadays, it is also put on video, it is put in movies, it is put on tape, it is put in different ways, because there are currently many ways to put a document, and above all, here: in the heart.
The second dispensation pertains to the time of Seth. Remember that dispensations are times when God deals with the human being; and according to what God has established for that dispensation, that is how God deals with the people of that time, of that dispensation.
We like, we enjoy getting to know the history of the dispensations, but especially the dispensation in which we are given to live; getting to know all the details, and getting to know the history of what will be the history of that dispensation. What will be lived during that dispensation will be the history of that dispensation.
So, we want to be conscious that we are making history. According to what you do, that is how you will appear in the history of the dispensation pertaining to the Golden Age, which will take us to the Kingdom of the Messiah and will take us to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; and before that it will take us, where? To the transformation of our bodies.
We will be hearing about all those things later on: in the Third Pull that Rev. William Branham spoke of, which will be fulfilled in a little Tent or little room, but in a Great Tent Cathedral; something big to contain something small. And the big thing, people will say: “It’s that building,” but those who have prophetic insight will say: “The big thing is the small thing there is in that place: a little room.” That is the big thing.
It’s like the tabernacle that Moses built and the temple that King Solomon built. Everyone could say: “What a big building or what a big tabernacle!” They thought the big thing was the building they saw, but the big thing was the most holy place; because the Ark of the Covenant was there, the Presence of God was there in the Pillar of Fire, between the two cherubims of gold that were on the mercy seat; that was the big thing, contained in a small part of the temple.
All of that is reflected for the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, of the Great Tent Cathedral, where the Third Pull will be fulfilled and where He will give us the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; because that is where Christ, as Lion, will be speaking to us with that Voice represented in Seven Thunders, Christ crying as Lion and Seven Thunders uttering their Voices. That is the Voice of Christ at the Last Day, in the stage or Age of the Cornerstone, just as it was the Voice of Christ through the messenger of each age in the past, but not as Lion.
The only place where He speaks as Lion is in the Age of the Cornerstone. In the rest of the ages, He spoke as High Priest and as Lamb; but in the Age of the Cornerstone, He is to speak as Lion: in other words, as King, as King of kings and Lord of lords, as Lion of the tribe of Judah; as the Bright and Morning Star.
And He will then be manifesting Himself as the Sun of Righteousness to those who fear His Name: “To them that fear My Name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His Wings.” That is in Malachi chapter 4, verse 2.
Remember that Christ said: “He that overcomes, to him will I give power over the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron; and I will give him the Morning Star.” Revelation chapter 2, verses 26 to 28.
And the Morning Star is the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, Christ Himself in Holy Spirit.
Christ Himself said so in Revelation chapter 22, verse 16, when He said: “I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”
And now we see that Christ Himself is the Bright and Morning Star, manifesting Himself at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone. And He is the Sun of Righteousness, because it will no longer be the moon shining, but Christ the Sun of Righteousness, at the Last Day.
There lies the mystery of the Seventh Seal, but we are not going to touch on that subject a lot, for Rev. William Branham was told not to speak about that to prevent imitations. So, let’s leave it alone until it is relevant at the Third Pull, in the fulfillment of the Great Tent Cathedral, which is where God will allow us to understand many things that are currently touched on briefly, but later, at that time, many things that we need to know in order to have the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb will be spoken about openly.
In the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, in the manifestation of the Third Pull, is where the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ will be opened to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Remember that the Seven Thunders of Revelation chapter 10 reveal the mystery of the Coming of the Lord, they reveal the mystery of the Seventh Seal. The Seventh Seal is the Coming of the Lord, which is what will give us the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. And the Thunders, the Voice of Christ, are what will give us the faith to be transformed.
So, there will be a tremendous… a great revival, a spiritually great awakening, a spiritual awakening at that time.
And we are preparing ourselves spiritually and physically as well. And we will be working on the project of that Great Tent Cathedral out of love for Christ and His Program at this end time.
So, may God bless you and keep you, and onward. We just briefly touched on the second dispensation, the Dispensation of Conscience, but on another occasion we will then have more details about the seven dispensations.
Remember that God’s Program must always be carried out in a dispensation. And now, God’s Program at this end time will not be carried out in the first dispensation, for the simple reason that this dispensation already passed; nor will it be carried out in the second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth dispensation; because those dispensations have already come to an end, and what is left of the sixth one is a very short time; it is a time of overlap with the seventh dispensation.
May God bless you and keep you, strengthen you, and may He open all the Scriptures to us and our understanding so that we understand; and may He increase our faith: to the point that we have the rapturing faith, the faith to be transformed and raptured and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
So, may God bless you and use you greatly in His Work at this end time.
What would you have done in the time of Noah? You would have at least gotten him nails, if there were any; or pegs, if that was what they used back then. Well, everything you would have done in that time, you will be doing it in this end time. You will be an active person in the Divine Program.
So, if you work in the Divine program in our time, what would you have done if you had lived in the time of Noah? Work in the Divine Program back then with Noah.
So, let’s work hand in hand all the time, and when the rewards are given out, I will be there. And who else? You too. Each one will have the reward from Christ that pertains to them.
And we don’t want someone to say later on: “If I would have known that this is how it was, I would have done more.” Know it from now! And do the maximum, as much as you can, because Christ takes this seriously.
Remember that He says: “And, behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as,” (what?) “his work shall be.”3
Whoever did nothing, what was his work? None. And his reward? None. The talent he had is taken away from him and given to one who has more; and he is cast into outer darkness, which is the great tribulation, where no one wants to be those days, because we all want to be in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, enjoying with Christ the most important feast that has ever taken place in Heaven.
“THE SECOND DISPENSATION: CONSCIENCE.”
1 Genesis 4:26
2 Revelation 3:21
3 Revelation 22:12