Good evening, kind friends and brethren here in the Republic of El Salvador, gathered here on this occasion. May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon each one of you, friends and brethren present, and radio listeners, and may He help us on this occasion to be able to understand His Word relevant to this end time.
In Luke, chapter 12, verses 35 to 44, it says the following… And I want to read this scripture, Luke, chapter 12, verses 35 to 44; let us read that scripture, where it says… This scripture speaks about the Coming of the Son of Man, and that is the most important subject for the human race at this Last Day. And now, let us see what it tells us here about the Coming of the Son of Man for this end time. It says:
“Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?
And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?
Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
Our subject for this occasion is: “THE SEVENTH SEAL AND THE FOURTH WATCH.”
The Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ. That is why when the Seventh Seal was opened in Revelation, chapter 8, verse 1, it caused silence in Heaven for about half an hour. Revelation, chapter 8, verse 1, says the following:
“And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.”
This is the most important event that was kept in God’s mind; and it was never revealed to the human race or to the angels, because Christ —referring to this event of the Coming of the Son of Man— says that no man in Heaven or on Earth knew. In Mark, chapter 13, He tells us about this great event, and He says (chapter 13, verse 26 and on, says):
“And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
And then shall he send his angels…”
And then, what?
“…shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near:
So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.
Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:
Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.”
Watch for what? For the Coming of the Son of Man.
How were the shepherds who were visited by the Archangel Gabriel with his heavenly hosts watching when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea? Notice, there were shepherds there, keeping watch by night when our beloved Lord Jesus Christ appeared there in Bethlehem of Judea, born as it said in the prophecy. Chapter… Chapter 2, verse 8 and on, says… Let us see: Chapter 2, verse 1 and on, says [Luke]:
“And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed (this is a census).
(And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.
And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child.
And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.
And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger.
And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.
And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.
But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.”
Now, notice this great moment, where the angels of Heaven came with this powerful Angel, they came glorifying God, these heavenly hosts singing to God, praising God, and saying:
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.”
And the main Angel there gave them the news that the Savior, the Christ, had already been born in Bethlehem of Judea.
And now, those shepherds who kept watch by night, we find that they received those good news.
And now, Christ says to watch, so that when that moment comes, we are not sleeping.
And the shepherds who in the different stages of the Church of Jesus Christ were to be working in the Work of God, in the Work of Christ, have had to watch for the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Son of Man; because Christ said to watch. And if He said to watch, then every person is truly required to watch; He tells us to watch, so He doesn’t find us sleeping.
It is very important to be awake in the Coming of the Son of Man at this Last Day, because whosoever is spiritually sleeping will not see the Coming of the Son of Man. He says:
“Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.”
He says:
“And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.”
Keep watch, watching for the Coming of the Son of Man.
And that is what the angel messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church have been doing, who were given the work in the Flock of the Lord, to be feeding the sheep from age to age, as it is shown in this diagram that represents the Church of Jesus Christ and its messengers, starting with Saint Paul. Even in their time back then, they were watching for the Coming of the Lord; although Saint Paul had a very clear understanding that the Coming of the Lord could not be fulfilled until certain things took place.
Now, these angel messengers, notice, are the ones who have received authority from age to age to be in the House of God feeding the sons and daughters of God:
“For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.”
Now, let us see something very important here regarding this promise of God. He speaks here about a person who will be in charge of Christ’s work, the Work of Christ, but will be positioned there for the Last Day.
And now, the porter also has the order to watch:
“…and commanded the porter (to what?)…”
“…and commanded the porter to watch.”
Now, throughout the Scripture, we can see… We will see in a very important passage (I am getting this passage ready for you).
Luke, chapter 13, verse 25, says something about the porter. Let us start a bit before that: verse 22 and on, says… Luke, chapter 13, verse 22 and on, says:
“And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.
Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are.”
Here we can see that the Father of the Household is Christ, Because every human being comes to this Earth through the first Adam… Notice, it appears in the seed of Adam and Eve (even though the race is mixed, but they are considered descendants of the first Adam); and since the first Adam sinned, the whole race is condemned due to that sin; and the wages of sin is death, in other words, the human race is condemned to death. But through the second Adam, Christ our Savior, a great miracle happens in the life of these people who appear on Earth and are condemned to death.
John, chapter 5, verse 24 and on, says:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
Notice how one passes from death to life. Notice how one passes from a fallen race sentenced to death and which lives in death, which is in death, how one goes on to a new race with eternal life, and the second Adam, Jesus Christ, is the head of that race.
Just as Adam is the head of the fallen race, sentenced to death and which is found in death, Christ is the head of a new race; He is the beginning of the Creation of God1, of that new race with eternal life.
And that is why when a person receives Christ as his Savior and washes away his sins in the Blood of Christ, and receives His Holy Spirit, he has received eternal life; he has been passed from a fallen race that is in death to a new race with eternal life; and just as he came as a descendant of Adam, now, in the new race, he comes as a descendant of Jesus Christ; and notice, Jesus Christ is the head of that new race.
And Jesus Christ, notice, it says in John, chapter 1, verse 1 to 18:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.”
And now, verse… that was up to verse 4. And now, from verse 9 and on, it says:
“That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”
Now, how did He come into the world? He came into the world in human flesh.
“He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
He came unto his own (meaning, to the Hebrew people), and his own received him not.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man (in other words, they are not born through dad and mom), but of God (that refers to the new birth).
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us…”
The Word which was with God and was God, was made flesh and appeared as a man of this dimension in the midst of the Hebrew people, and was known by the name of Jesus. He was none other than the Word made flesh, the Word clothed in human flesh, in that body which He created for Himself in Mary’s womb, where He created a cell of life that multiplied cell after cell and thus, the body of Jesus was formed, which was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of king Herod.
Now we can see that the Word —who is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the same God creator of the Heavens and the Earth— was made man and lived among the human beings; and He came to be Emmanuel, according to the prophecy of Isaiah, chapter 7 and verse 14, where it tells us that the Lord Himself will give the Hebrew people a sign. Chapter 7, verse 14 and on, of Isaiah, says:
“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel (which translated is: God with us).”
Now we can see that great event, which was the event of the First Coming of Christ, the event of the First Coming of the Angel of the Covenant made flesh among human beings, in a body created by God in Mary’s womb.
And now, we can see that His Coming has been the greatest event that has happened in these past years and centuries and millenniums. And the second most important event is the Second Coming of Christ, promised to be fulfilled at this end time.
And what was the First Coming of Christ? It was the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, God Himself veiled in a body of flesh called Jesus.
Who was in that young carpenter from Nazareth? The Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, manifested inside of Him, and He was carrying out the Work relevant to the First Coming of the Messiah; and that is why He was able to fulfill all the messianic promises relevant to the First Coming of Christ.
That is why He would say that the works He did were not His, but the Father’s, and that it was the Father who worked through Him2. The Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord was the one carrying out that Work relevant to the First Coming of Christ: the Work of the Lamb of God, to carry out the redemption of the human being on Calvary’s Cross.
And He had countless things to carry out in His Coming, such as the miracles He performed and the preaching of the Gospel; and in the end, the death of the veil of flesh in which the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord was manifested.
That body was offered as a sacrifice for His Blood to cleanse our sins and thus, for every son and daughter of God to obtain reconciliation with God. Without that glorious Work of Christ on Calvary’s Cross, no human being could be reconciled to God.
Now, by believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior, receiving Him as our Savior, and washing away our sins in His Blood and receiving His Holy Spirit, we obtain the new birth; and just as we have been born into an earthly family through an earthly dad and mom, now we are born into the heavenly Family, the Family of Heaven, which is the Household of God: the sons and daughters of God.
And that is why Christ told Nicodemus that it was necessary to be born again in order to see (meaning, to understand) the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of the Heavens; and He told him that it was necessary to be born of the Water and of the Spirit to enter into the Kingdom of God.
No one can enter into the Kingdom of God if he has not received Christ as his Savior and washed away his sins in the Blood of Christ and received His Holy Spirit, because that is the way established by God to be born into the Kingdom of God, to be born into the Mystical Body of Christ, into the Church of Jesus Christ, and therefore, to have the blessing of being born as a son or daughter of God in the Kingdom of God.
And now, Saint Paul says, referring to the people who have obtained that new birth, in chapter 2 of his epistle to the Ephesians, he says (verse 19 to 22):
“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.”
Now, we are being built in the House of God, in the Church of Jesus Christ, as a “holy temple in the Lord.”
We are a temple as individuals, the temple of God as individuals; and as part of the Mystical Body of Christ, we also belong to the Temple of God, to the House of God, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And from stage to stage, Christ calls and gathers together His elect and places them (where?) in His House, which is His Church, and which is also the Fold of all the sons and daughters of God, because this is the Fold of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. And He said in John, chapter 10, verse 14 to 16:
“I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.”
Now, notice that He says He has other sheep which are not of the Hebrew fold; He says: “…them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”
And how will Jesus Christ do this if He died, resurrected and ascended to Heaven? He descended in Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, and since the Day of Pentecost, He has been on Earth manifested in Holy Spirit; and from age to age, He has been manifested in each angel messenger, and through each angel messenger, He has been calling and gathering together His sheep; because the Message of each angel messenger of the different ages or stages of the Church is the Voice of the Good Shepherd, the Voice of Christ calling and gathering together His Sheep, where? In His Church, His Mystical Body of believers, which is the Fold of the Lord Jesus Christ for His sheep.
And that is why in the age in which a person is given to live, when he receives the Message of God for that age (which comes through a messenger of that age) what is he hearing? The Voice of Christ, the Voice of the Good Shepherd, who is shepherding His sheep from age to age, and is calling and gathering together all His sheep.
And His Fold, His Flock, notice, is His Church. And the greatest privilege of a human being who lives on this Earth is to belong to the Fold of the Lord Jesus Christ, for which Christ calls and gathers together every person whose name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life since before the foundation of the world, because He has the name of each one of His sheep written in the Lamb’s Book of Life; for He said in John, chapter 10, verse 1 and on:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.”
Notice: “ he calleth his own sheep (how?) by name, and leadeth them out.”
Now, notice why He has the name of each one of His sheep written (where?) in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
He says that He knows His sheep and His sheep know Him. Let us see if we find this. He says [verse 6]:
“This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.”
Now notice [verse 4]:
“…he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
And…”
[Verse 4] “And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”
Now, notice how Christ shows us here that He is the Good Shepherd and He is also the Door of the sheep; and we have to enter through that Door, which is Christ, in order to be part of the Mystical Body of Christ, in order to be part of the Flock, of the Fold of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, all the sons and daughters of God are like sheep. And Psalm 23, which tells us about the sheep and the Good Shepherd, notice how it is fulfilled in Christ and His Church. Let us read this Psalm so you can see. Psalm 23, verse 1 to 6, says:
“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever (in other words, throughout eternity).”
Now, notice how these sheep are going to dwell in the House of God.
They are not literal sheep, rather, they are people, human beings who will dwell in the House of God; and the House of God is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the Fold for those sheep, also called the House of the Lord.
And now, the Psalmist said: “That I may dwell in the House of the Lord all the days of my life3”, “That I may dwell in the Courts of the House of the Lord4.” Those from the different ages, during the seven ages, could say: “That I may dwell in the Holy Place of the House of God.”
And what can we say? “We are already, we are in the House of God, in the Most Holy Place of the House of God. And may the sheep that are yet to come pertaining to this Last Day, to this end time, may they be in the Most Holy Place of the House of God,” which is the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the age relevant to the Flock of the Lord Jesus Christ of this Last Day.
Now notice, Christ placed faithful and wise servants in His Church and He gave each one the Work to carry out in each age. Therefore…
Notice, Jacob had twelve shepherds of sheep; although Benjamin was not out in the field shepherding, but at some point, he would also become a shepherd of sheep (maybe in the yard of his house they kept some sheep for him to start learning). And Joseph was also working in Jacob’s work regarding the administration of Jacob’s sheep; and the one with the books and who did the bookkeeping, the accounting and all these things, was Joseph; and now, notice, although they were all shepherds, but Joseph was the one with the highest position among all the sons of Jacob.
Now notice, Christ has had seven shepherds for the seven ages of the gentile Church; they are the seven angel messengers. Those are the seven faithful and wise servants He has had in the Holy Place of His spiritual Temple, of the Fold of the sheep; and each one of them shepherded the sheep of our Lord Jesus Christ, because the Spirit of Christ was in them, anointing them and using them in that work of shepherding the sheep of each one of those ages.
But for the Age of the Cornerstone, Christ, the Angel of the Covenant comes; the same one who was in each angel messenger of the past ages comes veiled in human flesh and revealed through human flesh, shepherding His sheep in the Age of the Cornerstone, calling them, gathering them and shepherding them.
Just as He says: “I am He that speaks, it is I,5” and, “I will search for my sheep.6”
Just as He searched for them in each age through the messenger of each age, He searches for His sheep of the Age of the Cornerstone; and the ministry of Christ, of the Angel of the Covenant, through His Angel Messenger, will cover all the territories where the sheep of the Lord may be; because, that is the ministry of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, through His Angel Messenger, searching for and calling His sheep, and gathering them together and putting them in His Fold, in other words, in His Mystical Body of believers, which is His Church; and putting them in the Most Holy Place of that spiritual Temple, putting them in the Age of the Cornerstone.
Those are the last sheep, the sheep that are left; and many of them are already gathered of the Age and in the Age of the Cornerstone, but there are still some missing. Perhaps some of them are in mountainous territories or in territories in the jungle, but Christ has promised to call His sheep; and that is why He seeks them with His Voice, with His Message; and He says7: “My sheep hear my Voice, and they follow me.”
With what can we search for the sheep of Christ of this end time, working with Christ in His Work in the Age of the Cornerstone? With His Voice; and His Voice is recorded and It is also printed.
It is the Voice of Christ through His Angel Messenger at the Last Day, calling and gathering together His sheep of and in His Fold, of and in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone; and although they are simple sheep, they are the last sheep of the Lord.
And just as the sheep of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh age were called and gathered together, the sheep of the Age of the Cornerstone are called and gathered together.
It is not a human work, rather, it is a Divine Work: the Work of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel who was different from the rest, calling and gathering together His sheep at this end time.
The Voice of Christ opens the Scriptures to us and opens our heart so that we may understand all these Scriptures that are opened at this end time and which pertain to this end time; and thus, all the promises that are in the prophecies relevant to the end time are opened by Christ Himself, by the Angel of the Covenant, through His Angel Messenger.
That is why when Christ says: “Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter,” in Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1, those things are then made known in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 6, by the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Why? Because in that Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, comes manifested, and He comes speaking through His Angel Messenger, and He comes calling and gathering together all His sheep, making known to them all these things which must shortly come to pass.
The sheep of Christ are called and gathered together at this end time by these things which must shortly come to pass being made known to all human beings; and that is the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet, the Voice of Christ, the Voice of the Good Shepherd calling and gathering together all His sheep at this end time. That is the Great Voice of Trumpet of Matthew, chapter 24, verse 31, where it says:
“And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect…”
His elect are His sheep, which are called by Christ speaking through His Angel Messenger at this Last Day, just as He spoke through each angel messenger in each past age, and He called and gathered together the sheep of the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church.
Now we have seen the mystery of the Good Shepherd calling and gathering together His sheep from stage to stage; and these stages have been fulfilled in different territories of planet Earth.
The first stage was fulfilled in Asia Minor, where Saint Paul was sent to preach the Gospel and where God’s elect of that time were called and gathered together; although later on, Saint Paul also moved to Europe, because they took him to Rome and there, they killed him. Therefore, Rome not only has the death of Christ, but also the death of Saint Paul, and of all the apostles of Jesus Christ who were martyred under the Roman empire.
And now, notice, that is why the gentile empire, which has been going down from the head of gold to the breast and arms of silver…; in other words, it went down from the Babylonian empire, from the empire of Nebuchadnezzar it went down to the Medo-Persian empire; and from the Medo-Persian empire, it went down to the empire of Greece, which was represented in the belly of brass and the thighs of brass; and then, it went down to the Roman empire, which was represented in the legs of iron, and feet of iron and clay.
In the time of Jesus, the gentile empire was at the legs of iron, and at this time, the gentile empire is already found in the feet of iron and clay.
The First Coming of Christ was fulfilled in the first phase of the gentile empire, in other words, in the fourth stage of the gentile empire, which has two phases: the first is the legs of iron; and the second, the feet of iron and clay.
In the first phase of the empire of the Caesars, the First Coming of Christ was fulfilled (that was in the legs of iron), and they crucified Christ; in other words, they began to stumble with the Stone cut out without hands since that time.
The Second Coming of Christ pertains to the time of the feet of iron and clay, according to the prophecy of Daniel, in the second chapter, verses 30 to 45. And if you want to read it afterwards, in your homes, later on you can read all of Daniel chapter 2, because there, God showed king Nebuchadnezzar what the gentile kingdom is, its beginning and its end; in other words, its entire trajectory was shown in that image or statue that king Nebuchadnezzar saw, which went from one stage to another and continued declining until it reached the feet of iron and clay.
Now, how much would some feet of iron and clay be worth, how much would they cost? Now, how much would a head of gold cost? A head of gold is worth a lot, but some feet of iron and clay are not worth anything.
Now, that is the condition of the gentile kingdom at the end time, and that is why they will stumble over the Stone cut out without hands in His Second Coming; and the Stone cut out without hands will break the feet of iron and clay into pieces, and therefore, everything will be broken in pieces: the legs of iron as well as the belly of bronze, and the breast and arms of silver, and the head of gold, too; in other words, the gentile kingdom will cease to exist.
And what will exist afterwards? Only the Kingdom of God will exist, where Christ is King, because He is the King of kings and Lord of lords; and we will be in that Kingdom with Christ throughout eternity.
Now, the Second Coming of Christ is the Coming of the Stone cut out without hands at the Last Day; that is the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels at the Last Day to reward every man according to his works. In Matthew, chapter 16, verse 27 and on, it says:
“For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.”
How does the Son of Man come? He comes with His Angels. To do what? To reward every man according to his works.
And on Mount Transfiguration, we find that there, Christ fulfilled the promise to some of His disciples who were there and who would not taste death until they saw the Coming of the Kingdom of God.
He had said in chapter 16, verse 28 of Matthew:
“Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”
What is Christ going to show them on Mount Transfiguration? He is going to show them the Coming of the Son of Man, but coming (in what?) in His Kingdom; because He rejected the kingdom the devil offered Him when he offered Him the kingdoms of this world; therefore, He is not coming as the supreme Leader of the kingdoms of this Earth, rather, He is coming as the Leader of the Kingdom of God.
And now, in Matthew, chapter 17, verse 1 and on, it says:
“And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.
And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him.
Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elías (meaning, three tabernacles, three cabins).”
Then, what did Jesus say?
“While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.
And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.
And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid.
And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only.”
Now, the Son of Man comes with His Angels, and here, He is showing them the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels; and after they see the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels coming in His Kingdom… Because this vision (everything that is seen here) represents the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels coming in His Kingdom; therefore, in the Coming of the Son of Man coming in His Kingdom with His Angels, He will appear with His face as the sun.
And what does this mean? What does this symbolize? Christ said8: “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” And in Malachi, chapter 4, verse 2, it says:
“But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings…”
The Second Coming of Christ is represented in the rising of the sun; and “with healing in His wings” refers to the ministries of His Angels, which are the ministries of Moses and Elijah, because Moses and Elijah appeared there, on Mount Transfiguration.
And in Revelation, chapter 11, verse 3 and on, the Two Olive Trees also appear, which are Moses and Elijah. These are the ministries that will accompany the Son of Man in His Coming.
And the ministry of Jesus will also be manifested here on Earth. In other words, the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels will be manifesting the ministry of Moses, the ministry of Elijah and the ministry of Jesus.
It’s like an eagle. Let us say the eagle is Jesus, but He has two wings, and those wings are Moses and Elijah; and Christ, as the Prophet of all prophets, is the Great Eagle.
An eagle represents a prophet; and God, manifested in human flesh two thousand years ago as a prophet, was the Great Eagle.
And now, in the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, the Great Eagle comes again, Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord in Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh in His Angel Messenger, operating the ministries of Moses (one of the wings), Elijah (His other wing) and the ministry of Jesus (the whole core of that Great Eagle).
Now notice, it is the Eagle with the ministries of Moses, Jesus and Elijah; it is the Coming of the Son of Man, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Great Eagle with the ministries of Jesus, Moses and Elijah. That is the Coming of the Sun of Righteousness rising for the sons and daughters of God, for those that fear the Name of the Lord.
And now, when does the sun rise? It rises in the morning. It rises in the morning, and in places where the hour of 6:00 in the morning coincides with sunrise, with the rising of the sun, the sun rises in the fourth watch, because the fourth watch is the only watch that takes place in the day.
Now notice, Christ told us to be watching (He said this to all the faithful and wise servants He placed in His House). In chapter 13, verses 34 to 37, He said [Mark]:
“For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants…”
His House is His Church; that is the House of God, the House of the Father of the Family.
“…and gave authority to his servants (those are His messengers in each one of the stages), and to every man his work (the Work pertaining to each age), and commanded the porter to watch.
Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh…”
In other words “when Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, will come in His Second Coming”. “You know not when the Coming of the Son of Man will be.” But He said it would be as the days (of whom?) of Noah and as the days of Lot9.
In the days of Noah, the human race had come to its end, it had reached the time in which the divine judgment would be poured out upon them; and in the time of Lot, Sodom and Gomorrah had also come to their end.
And for the time of the Coming of the Son of Man, the gentile kingdom has come to its end, to its end time, in other words, it has reached the stage in which the gentile kingdom will be taken away and the Kingdom will be given to Christ; and the Kingdom of God will be established on this planet Earth.
And on this planet Earth, in the establishment of the Kingdom of God and when the glorious Millennial Kingdom is established, the human race will be blessed by God. Why? Because the words of Christ when He said… While teaching His disciples to pray, one of the things He told them was to ask for the Coming of the Kingdom of God10: “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.”
And during the Millennial Kingdom, the will of God will be done on this planet Earth; on this planet Earth, in the Kingdom of God, in the Kingdom of Christ, the relevant laws that must be followed by human beings will be established. It will be a Kingdom where Christ will rule with a rod of iron; in other words, it will not be a weak kingdom, it will be a kingdom with a mighty hand. No one will have the right to live in that Kingdom if he does not comply with the divine laws established for the Kingdom of God and of the Kingdom of God.
And now, notice, there will be human beings who are living at this end time and if they continue to live and go through the stage of the divine judgments and come out of the great tribulation alive, they will enter into that Millennial Kingdom, even if they do not belong to the group of God’s elect, to the group of the sheep of the Fold of the Lord of the Last Day, which are the elect whom He calls and places in the Age of the Cornerstone, who have the promise to be changed at the Last Day, before the great tribulation begins, and they have the promise to see the saints who will resurrect in their eternal bodies; and when we see them, we will be changed.
Now, who are the ones that will see the resurrection of the dead in Christ? They will not be people who have stayed in past ages. The ones who will resurrect are those who belonged to those ages, in the time in which each one of those ages was in effect before God; but they will appear to the elect of the age that will be in effect at this end time, and that is the Age of the Cornerstone; in other words, they will appear to the elect of the Last Day; and when we see them, we will be changed.
And in the eternal body, we will be living here on Earth, for 30 to 40 days, where great prophetic events will be happening, which are relevant to that stage when we already have the new body, before the great tribulation begins; and before the great tribulation begins, we will leave from here to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and then the divine judgment will fall upon the human race.
But during that time, before we leave Earth, there will be a manifestation of God in all His fullness where there will be a manifestation in and with God’s sons and daughters already adopted, in eternal bodies; and that means it is a manifestation like the one there was in Jesus Christ during those three and a half years of ministry.
And now, notice the great blessings Christ has for all of us.
Now, let us continue reading what it says here about the faithful and wise servants, whom Christ commands to watch along with their flocks:
“For the Son of Man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.
Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning.”
Now notice, “at even” were the first years of the Church of Jesus Christ, from the time the Church of Jesus Christ was born on the Day of Pentecost until a certain time; and then, “or at midnight,” when the Church went into the dark ages; and then, “or at the cockcrowing,” this is relevant to the rooster crow, to the hours of 3 to 6 in the morning, where Christ was manifested through His three last messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church, through Luther, Wesley and Reverend William Branham.
Remember that from 3 in the morning to 6 in the morning, every once in a while you hear something like this: “cock-a-doodle-doo” (if it’s a small rooster) or “Er-er-er” (if it’s a big rooster); that is the cockcrowing; and that is the Voice of Christ through those angel messengers who came in the third watch.
But not in the first watch (which was from 9 to 12 midnight), nor in the second (which was from 12 to 3 in the morning), nor in the third (which was from 3 to 6 in the morning); therefore, there is only one left: the fourth watch. It says:
“…at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning…”
If He did not come in any of those previous three watches, well, then it’s in the morning, which is from 6 to 9 in the morning.
In that fourth watch (from 6 to 9 in the morning) Christ appeared walking on the Sea of Galilee and He appeared to His disciples who were on the ship, which was being tossed with strong contrary winds that almost destroyed the ship; the ship is the Church of Jesus Christ, with all the sons and daughters of God represented in the disciples of Jesus Christ.
And now, the ship has been tossed all night, from the time it was born until this end time, but it is in the stage of the morning that Christ delivers His Church from the tempest.
Christ delivers His Church from the tempest. And how will He do it? Well, coming walking on the waters.
From age to age, He has been walking upon the waters: upon nations, peoples and tongues; because waters represent nations, peoples and tongues, in other words, waters represent people; but the hour of the fourth watch, is when He appears to His Church, He reveals Himself to His Church.
But what happens? When He appeared to His disciples who were on the ship, they said11: “It is a spirit!” They were in grave danger. And at this end time, the Church of Jesus Christ will be in grave danger because the beast, the antichrist will be manifested at this end time; the devil will incarnate himself in the antichrist, in the man of sin, and he will try to destroy the Church of Jesus Christ with winds contrary to the Church of Jesus Christ, and with those ten kings, and the nations and the armies of those ten kings who will give their power and strength to the beast; as it says in Revelation, chapter 17, verse 8 to… (let us see until which verse we have this event; until verse 18), verses 8 to 18 of Revelation, chapter 17; and also Revelation, chapter 19, verses 19 and on.
That is where the Church of Jesus Christ will have her most difficult stage, but Christ will overcome them. Christ will overcome the beast and also the ten kings who will give their power and strength to the beast. Revelation, chapter 17, verse 13 and on, says:
“These have one mind (that is, the ten kings), and shall give their power and strength unto the beast (And what will they do then? Consolidate religion and politics).
These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them (Who will overcome? The Lamb). For he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.”
And those are all the elect of this Last Day and also the elect of past ages.
Now notice, in chapter 19 it also says (verse 19)… Chapter 19, verse 19 of Revelation, says:
“And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.”
And we will leave that alone; because the Lamb, who is the white horse Rider of Revelation 19 (and who is the one with a name that no man knows, and which is “the Word of God,” and on His thigh and on His vesture a name written: “King of kings and Lord of lords”), notice, He will be the one to obtain the victory. And who are with Him? The chosen and faithful, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ: the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of this Last Day and also the Church of Jesus Christ of the past ages, together with the stage of the apostles, who will come in the resurrection with their eternal bodies.
In other words, if the Church of Jesus Christ needs reinforcement, the whole group of the seven ages and also of the stage of the apostles of Jesus Christ back then among the Hebrew people: Saint Peter, Saint John, Saint Jacob (which is Saint James, because “Jacob” and “James” mean the same thing), and who else? The rest of the apostles; Andrew, too. We won’t exclude Andrew, Peter’s brother.
So notice, it is a great blessing for Peter to have a brother who is also an apostle; and for Jacob or James to also have a brother who is an apostle, Saint John, it is a great blessing.
In the Work of Christ, sometimes we have a minister who has one, two or three or four brothers or five brothers who are also ministers in the Mystical Body of Christ. That is a great blessing for that father and that mother who had those sons. It is a great blessing to have sons who are ministers of Christ in the age and dispensation in which they live.
Now notice, at the Last Day, at the end time, the Church of Jesus Christ will go through a very difficult moment, but it is a squeeze.
The great persecution comes later on, but we will already be changed and we will already be in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; because the devil, who will incarnate himself in the antichrist, in the man of sin, in the beast, notice, will try to destroy the sons and daughters of God, in other words, the tares will try to destroy the wheat; but we will already be in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Therefore, he will turn against the foolish virgins, because the wise virgins will have already left; and they will turn against the 144.000 Hebrews and against the Hebrew people. And kill millions of human beings, the beast and the image of the beast; the beast and the ten kings with their nations and their armies, and the image of the beast, and that other beast which is the lamb (a lamb with two horns)12, will kill millions of human beings.
In other words, there will be another stage similar or parallel to the stage in which people were killed by the millions due to religious matters; that was in the time of the Inquisition. Another inquisition will come upon the human race, and it will be even more terrible than the Inquisition of the past.
And now, notice, the Church of Jesus Christ will be delivered; she will only go through a squeeze, just as the disciples went through a final squeeze on the ship when Jesus appeared. When did He appear? In the fourth watch, walking on the Sea of Galilee.
The Sea of Galilee, in other words, the Sea of Galilee of the Gentiles…; because upon the Sea of Galilee of the Gentiles, upon gentile nations, peoples and tongues, Christ will appear walking at the Last Day in the fourth watch; and that will be the time in which, even though the winds will be going against the disciples’ ship (which represents the Church of Jesus Christ), Christ will deliver them in His Second Coming. Christ will deliver His Church, the Son of Man will deliver His Church at the Last Day, by resurrecting the dead in Christ and changing all His elect who are alive at this end time.
If someone departs, there is no problem: he will return with the saints from past ages who are to return; there is no problem for them, and they will be with us again. And just as they brought sadness when they left, they will bring happiness and joy when they return to us in eternal, incorruptible and young bodies.
And when we see the dead in Christ resurrected, we will be changed; and therefore, we will be in an eternal and glorious body to live in throughout eternity. And thus, the storm of persecutions will have no effect on the elect, because once in the eternal body, that will not harm any of God’s elect; no squeeze, no trial, no persecution, not even death will be able to harm them because they will already be in an eternal body. And that is how Christ will deliver His Church at the Last Day.
Now notice, He comes in the fourth watch, represented in the watch from 6 to 9 in the morning.
The fourth watch was when He appeared to His disciples walking on the sea, and He delivered them; the fourth watch was also when Jesus Christ resurrected, on the morning of Resurrection Sunday; the fourth watch was also when the Holy Spirit came upon one hundred and twenty people on the Day of Pentecost.
The fourth watch was also when the Hebrew people came out of Egypt. God told them13: “Do not leave your homes until the morning.” Why? Because in the morning, which is the fourth watch, it would be the exodus of the Hebrew people, it would be the departure of the Hebrew people.
And the departure from this dimension, from this Earth, our departure in eternal bodies will also be in the fourth watch. Now, in the fourth watch of the Last Day.
One day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day; and if one day before the Lord is a thousand years for us… And remember that Jesus Christ said, referring to His believers, that at the Last Day before God, notice what He said: John, chapter 6, verse 39 to 40, says:
“And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”
When does He say He will resurrect all which the Father has given Him? At the Last Day.
And the Last Day before God is the seventh millennium; because “one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” And for human beings, the last days before God are the three last millenniums, which are the fifth millennium, sixth millennium and seventh millennium.
Jesus Christ had His ministry at the last days, in other words, in the first millennium of the three last millenniums; and that first millennium of the three last millenniums was the fifth millennium, in which Christ had His ministry.
And through Saint Peter, Christ teaches us that the Coming of the Holy Spirit upon all flesh…, because He would pour out His Holy Spirit upon all flesh; He also spoke of this through the prophet Joel in chapter 2, He said it would be at the last days.
That is why, since the Day of Pentecost, Christ has been pouring out His Holy Spirit upon all flesh that has repented of his sins, received Christ as his Savior, and washed away his sins in the Blood of Christ; and then, has received the Spirit of Christ according to the promise of Christ for the last days. And notice, it began on the Day of Pentecost and He is still pouring out His Holy Spirit upon all flesh; because that is how we enter into the Mystical Body of Christ.
By one Spirit we have access to that Mystical Body of believers14, to a Mystical Body, which is the Church of Jesus Christ; and through one Spirit, we obtain the new birth, through the Spirit of Christ.
Now we can see why He would pour out His Holy Spirit upon all flesh, upon all flesh who repents of his sins and washes away his sins in the Blood of Christ by receiving Christ as his Savior; and thus, he receives the Spirit of Christ, Christ pours out His Spirit upon the person and brings forth the new birth in the person, he is born in the Kingdom of God, he is born in the Fold of Christ, the Good Shepherd, and thus, he obtains the new birth, he has been born in the Kingdom of God.
For those people, if their physical bodies die, they have no reason to worry, because Christ has said: “…and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Martha had the knowledge that the resurrection would be at the Last Day, and when Jesus Christ tells Martha: “You brother will resurrect,” Martha tells Him: “I know he will resurrect, at the Last Day”; because Christ had taught that the resurrection was for the Last Day.
But since Christ is the one who will resurrect all those who have believed in Him and have washed away their sins in His Blood and have received His Holy Spirit, when Christ was there, He told Martha: “I am the Resurrection and the Life.” Notice [John 11:25]:
“I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live (even if his physical body is dead, he will live again in an eternal body).
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me…”
In other words, this resurrection in eternal bodies unto eternal life, is not for everyone; it is for those who live and believe in Him.
“And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?”
We say: “Amen!” And what did Martha say?
“She saith unto him, Yea, Lord…”
Now notice, Martha knew that the resurrection was for the Last Day; but here, since Christ is the Resurrection and the Life, He was going to use Lazarus as an example, as a type and figure of what He will do at the Last Day to resurrect the dead in Christ and to change all of us who live at this end time.
And by resurrecting Lazarus on that day, He showed that He has the power not only to resurrect Lazarus but all His believers who have been born again and whose bodies have departed or who have departed from their bodies, whose physical bodies have died; and He also has power to change our physical bodies if we remain alive until the dead in Christ resurrect.
He changed the water into wine, He changed the storm into calm, He changed the soul and spirit of His believers, and He will also change our physical body if we remain alive until the dead in Christ resurrect.
He changes human beings and makes a New Creation. Notice how He is carrying out this New Creation. That is why, notice, He continues saying here in chapter 6, verse 40 of John:
“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day (the Last Day is the seventh millennium).”
Christ resurrected on the morning of Resurrection Sunday (and the morning pertains to the fourth watch); and Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the age represented in Sunday, will resurrect the dead in Christ and change the living in Christ.
And now, “one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.” Since Christ has promised the resurrection of the dead in Christ at the Last Day (which is the seventh millennium) this must come in the morning, in the fourth watch of the Last Day, of the seventh millennium.
And one day before God is 1,000 years for human beings; and one hour before God is 41 years and 8 months for human beings; half an hour is 20 years and 10 months; and three hours are how long? 125 years. 125 years refer to the first 125 years of the seventh millennium, and that is the fourth watch of the Last Day, the fourth watch of the seventh millennium, which is the Last Day.
And now, there are three hours in a watch; and now, in one of those three hours of the fourth watch, Christ will resurrect the dead believers in Him who obtained the new birth and He will change the living in Christ who will be hearing His Voice at the Last Day; they will be hearing His Voice, the Great Voice of Trumpet, making known to them all these things which must shortly be done, at this end time, in the Golden Age of the Church of Jesus Christ, which is the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, the most glorious age of all the ages of the Church of Jesus Christ.
But the last stage of the gentile kingdom is the saddest and most terrible stage of the gentile kingdom; however, for the Church of Jesus Christ…
Notice, the gentile kingdom has been going down from the head of gold to the feet of iron and clay. The Kingdom of God has been going up since the stage of the feet, back in the time of the apostles, and it has continued going up from stage to stage (notice, it has been going up since this small stage here, in the time of the apostles, and it has been going up), and now, it is at the head of gold, which is the Age of the Cornerstone; at the head of gold, in the fourth watch of the Last Day, of the seventh millennium, for the manifestation of the Son of Man with His Angels at this end time, in the fourth watch of the Last Day.
We have seen that the Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels; a mystery which was opened in Heaven in Revelation, chapter 8, and at the end time, this mystery will be opened in Heaven; but in Heaven, silence will be kept for a time period of about half an hour of Heaven’s time, so that the Program of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels for this end time is not interrupted.
Now, the Seventh Seal, notice, as the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ with His Angels, of the Coming of the Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven in Revelation 19…, and Revelation, chapter 10, because He is the same one; it is the Coming of the Lord. The Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven in Revelation, chapter 10, verse 1 and on, is the white horse Rider of Revelation, chapter 19, verse 11.
And now, notice, Revelation, chapter 10, verse 1 and on, says:
“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,
And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.”
Notice, the Mighty Angel, which is Christ, which is the Angel of the Covenant, which is the Angel who was different from the rest; that is the Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven. And how does He descend? Clothed with a cloud.
This cloud was taken on February 28, 1963 by photographers of different magazines and also by people who took pictures of it, and the picture of this mysterious cloud was published on February 28 or rather, the month of… (let us see), it was that month or another month; but that picture was taken on February 28, 1963 and published as a mysterious cloud.
The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ spoke about that cloud and said the mystery, what the mystery of that cloud was. On page 469 of the book of The Seals, referring to that cloud, he says15:
“And did you notice? ‘That one Angel,’ I said, ‘in there, was a strange Angel.’ He looked more to me than any of the rest of Them. You remember that? [Congregation says, ‘Amen.’—Ed.] They were in a constellation; three on a side, and one on top. And the one right next to me here, counting from the left to the right, would have been the seventh Angel (this Angel who is here).”
Remember that these angels are in their theophanic bodies. Here are the seven angel messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church, and this other Angel is an angel who is different from those seven angel messengers.
And now, let us see what he says about that Angel:
“He was brighter, meant more to me than the rest of Them. You remember? I said, ‘He had His chest out, like that, and was flying eastward’ (you remember) ‘like that.’ I said, ‘It picked me up; lifted me up.’”
Who picked him up? Who lifted him up and put him in this cloud of angels? This Angel who was different from the rest. He took him in spirit, in other words, in his theophanic body; He took the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ also in his theophanic body and put him together with these other angels who were here, and together with Him.
And now:
“You remember that? [‘Amen.’]
Here It is, the one with the Seventh Seal, the thing that I’ve wondered all my life. Amen! Them other Seals meant a lot to me, of course, but, oh, you don’t know what This has meant.”
Why? Because this Angel is the Seventh Seal, He is the one with the Seventh Seal; He is the one with the Seventh Seal, and He must come to Earth veiled in human flesh; just like these, other angels who are here in their theophanic bodies, are the seven angel messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church, who came in human flesh to have their ministries, each one in the age in which they were given to live.
And now, in order for the Angel who was different from the rest to have His ministry in the Age of the Cornerstone, He must come veiled in human flesh. That is the Mighty Angel who descends from Heaven, but He must come down to Earth; and to do that, He must have a body of flesh here and from here, from Earth, of this end time.
Now, let us see how this Angel comes, who is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the same Jesus Christ in His theophanic body.
And now… Let us see here. On page 131 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, Reverend William Branham, says16:
“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.
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
There comes the Messiah. There He is.”
Where is He? In Revelation, chapter 19, verse 11 to 21. He is the white horse Rider of Revelation 19; He is the Word coming at the Last Day; He is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ coming at the Last Day.
And now, how will He come? Page 134 of the book of The Seals says17:
“Glory! Notice! And when this Holy Spirit that we have becomes incarnate to us, the One that’s in our midst now in the form of the Holy Ghost, becomes incarnate to us, in the Person of Jesus Christ, we’ll crown Him King of kings and Lord of lords.”
Now, how will the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, come? At the Last Day, He will come incarnate, He will incarnate Himself at the Last Day.
And now, on page 277 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says18:
“May the Holy Spirit come down now, the white-horse Rider, while His Spirit, Spirit of Christ, in the face of antichrist, and call His Own.”
Who is the white horse Rider of Revelation 19? The Holy Spirit, which is Jesus Christ in Spirit, Jesus Christ in His theophanic body, which is the Angel of the Covenant of the Old Testament, the Angel of the Lord.
Two thousand years ago, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Lord, came incarnate in a man named Jesus of Nazareth, as the Lamb of God carrying out the Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross. And at the Last Day, that same Angel of the Covenant will come, the Angel of the Lord, which is Jesus Christ in His theophanic body; Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will come at the Last Day, manifested as the white horse Rider of Revelation 19.
And what will His Coming and His manifestation and His Work be at this end time? Let us see. Page 146 of the book of The Seals in Spanish says19:
“The Holy Spirit goes up and comes down in carnate men.”
Now notice, the Holy Spirit has been manifested from age to age in each angel messenger of each age, and He has been calling and gathering together His elect in each age.
And now, from the seventh stage or age of the gentile Church, He goes up to the Age of the Cornerstone and He comes incarnate in a man of the Age of the Cornerstone: in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the man who will be the veil of flesh in whom the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, will be manifested in the midst of His Church at the Last Day.
And now, on page 256 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, it says20:
“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.”
How does He come? The Word, who is the Word, comes in human flesh at the Last Day.
That is the time when the Seventh Seal is fulfilled here on Earth, because it is the time when the Angel of the Covenant comes, the Angel of the Lord (who is the same Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit), He comes manifested in a man of this end time, in the midst of His Church.
His instrument in the Age of the Cornerstone is a member of the Mystical Body of Christ, and He comes manifested in him at the Last Day as the white horse Rider of Revelation 19 and as the Angel of the Covenant manifested in human flesh, who will appear to the Hebrew people and call and gather together 144.000 Hebrews.
That is why the Angel of Jesus Christ, it says in Revelation, chapter 7, verse 2 and on, that He comes with the Seal of the Living God, in other words, with the Holy Spirit; He comes with the Holy Spirit, which is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel who was different from the rest; and He comes to call and gather together 144.000 Hebrews.
But before that, He comes in the midst of His gentile Church and He calls and gathers together His elect of the Age of the Cornerstone, in the Latin American and Caribbean territory, which is the territory in which the Age of the Cornerstone is fulfilled.
Just as the first age of the gentile Church was fulfilled in Asia Minor, the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth in Europe and the seventh in North America, now the Age of the Cornerstone is fulfilled in Latin America and the Caribbean.
And just as this Angel through His manifestation in each angel messenger of each age called and gathered together the elect of each age, now, in the Age of the Cornerstone this —Angel who was different from the rest— calls and gathers together His elect in the Age of the Cornerstone through His Angel Messenger; and that is how Christ will complete the number of His sheep in His Fold.
And once He has completed it, then He will leave the Throne of Intercession in Heaven and there will no longer be intercession in Heaven for any human being, because there will be no more Blood in the Most Holy Place on the Mercy Seat, in other words, on the seat of mercy in Heaven, in the Temple which is in Heaven; and therefore, the divine judgment will fall upon all those who did not make good use of their time by receiving Christ as their Savior and washing away their sins in the Blood of Christ.
And now, notice, we are living at the time in which the Seventh Seal will be opened, revealed, to the Church of Jesus Christ. And when will that time be? The forerunner says on page 482 and 483 of the book of The Seals (he says)21:
“So we see that It is a complete mystery, therefore the hour is not yet for the mystery to be known. Therefore, we’re this far, and the rest of It will be known right around about the time that Jesus appears on earth again, for His Bride…”
And how does He appear? He appears as the white horse Rider of Revelation 19; and that is the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Angel who was different from the rest, who is the Word; and His Coming at the Last Day will be the Word incarnate in a man.
If we find that man, we will find the veil of flesh in whom the Angel of the Covenant will be manifested in the midst of His Church in the Age of the Cornerstone, telling us all these things which must shortly come to pass, and thus, revealing to us the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of His Coming, and the Work He is doing in our time. And that is how the revelation of the Seventh Seal comes in the fourth watch, meaning, in the first 125 years of the seventh millennium.
And now, if we add to the calendar the years it is behind, we will find that we are already in the seventh millennium; and therefore, we are in the fourth watch of the Last Day, in the fourth watch of the seventh millennium, when the Coming of the Mighty Angel, of the Angel who descends from Heaven clothed with a cloud, is materialized; and He comes walking on the sea: with one foot on the sea and the other foot on the earth. He comes as He appeared to His disciples: walking on the sea in the fourth watch, to calm the storm that has been striking the Church of Jesus Christ during these two thousand years approximately, that have passed in the Dispensation of the Grace.
When Christ resurrects the dead in Christ and changes the living in Christ at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone, there will be no more storms for the Church of Jesus Christ, because we will already be in immortal bodies; we will have already obtained physical immortality because we will have an immortal, incorruptible and glorified body; and this is for this end time, in the fourth watch, under the Seventh Seal, in other words, under the Second Coming of Christ: the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Angel who was different from the rest, coming at the Last Day manifested in human flesh in His Angel Messenger.
But His Angel Messenger is not the Lord Jesus Christ. He is only a man of the Mystical Body of Christ, redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ and anointed with the Spirit of Christ to be an instrument of Christ at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and in the seventh millennium. He is the Angel of Revelation, chapter 14, verse 6 and on, who comes preaching to every human being at this Last Day:
“And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.”
That is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, anointed with the Spirit of Christ, anointed by and with the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Angel who was different from the rest.
This messenger was reflected, and the Message he would bring, was reflected in the seven angel messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church, and in some, it was reflected more strongly than in others.
And now, in the time in which we live, the Everlasting Gospel is preached in an eternal age, in the Eternal Age of the Cornerstone, which is the Golden Age of the Church of Jesus Christ; and therefore, with that Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, of the Everlasting Gospel, the things that pertain to this end time will be made known to the Hebrew people.
Through the preaching of the Everlasting Gospel, the Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached to every human being who lives on this Earth. That is the Gospel that will be preached during the Millennial Kingdom and throughout eternity.
We have seen the mystery of THE SEVENTH SEAL AND THE FOURTH WATCH. We have seen the mystery of THE SEVENTH SEAL AND THE FOURTH WATCH.
Well, for all those who are connected by radio: may God bless you, may God keep you; and for those who are present: may God bless you, may God keep you; and onward, serving Christ in the fourth watch of the Last Day, knowing that at some time, the dead in Christ will resurrect in eternal bodies and we who are alive will be changed.
And now, where are the ones who will be seeing the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels, the Coming of the Mighty Angel descending from Heaven clothed with a cloud, and then, coming in human flesh at the Last Day, in the fourth watch of the Last Day, walking upon the sea and upon the waters, walking in His ministry upon nations, peoples and tongues? Here we are at this Last Day.
“THE SEVENTH SEAL AND THE FOURTH WATCH.”
That is what we are experiencing at this Last Day: we are here experiencing the Seventh Seal in the fourth watch. We are in the fourth watch under the ministry of the Seventh Seal.
May God bless you, may God keep you. Thank you very much for your kind attention, beloved friends and brethren present, and I will leave Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin with us again.
We will see each other tomorrow, Sunday, God willing, at the appointed time and in the services assigned for tomorrow.
May God bless you, and continue having an evening filled with the blessings of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
With us again, Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin to continue. God bless you.
“THE SEVENTH SEAL AND THE FOURTH WATCH.”
1 Revelation 3:14
2 John 5:19, 14:10
3 Psalm 27:4
4 Psalm 84:2, 10
5 Isaiah 52:6
6 Ezekiel 34:11
7 John 10:27
8 John 8:12
9 Matthew 24:37-39; Luke 17:26-30
10 Matthew 6:10
11 Matthew 14:26
12 Revelation 13:11
13 Exodus 12:22
14 Ephesians 2:18
15 The Seventh Seal – March 24, 1963
16 The First Seal – March 18, 1963
17 The First Seal – March 18, 1963
18 The Fourth Seal – March 21, 1963
19 The First Seal – March 18, 1963
20 The Fourth Seal – March 21, 1963
21 The Seventh Seal – March 24, 1963