Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present in this lovely activity. It is a great blessing to be with you to have a brief talk about the subject we have here: “THE SEVENTH SEAL AND THE MERCY OF GOD.”
For which I want to read in the Scripture, in chapter 7 of Hebrews and chapter 8 of Revelation, where it says… Hebrews, chapter 7, verse 17 to 28, referring to Christ, says:
“For he testifieth, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof.
For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest:
(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:)
By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better testament.
And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:
But this man (in other words, Jesus, Melchisedec), because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did (only) once when he offered up himself.
For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.”
And in Revelation, chapter 8, it says:
“And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.
And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.
And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.
And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.”
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 MERCY OF GOD.”
In order to understand our subject: “THE SEVENTH SEAL AND THE MERCY OF GOD,” we have to understand the divine order established in the tabernacle that the prophet Moses built and the temple that king Solomon built; for God showed the prophet Moses in Heaven ⏤when he was there on Mount Sinai⏤ the pattern of the temple Moses would build; and it would be a temple, a tabernacle according to the pattern God showed him in Heaven.
And now, why was the temple or tabernacle that Moses built so important to the Hebrew people? And why was the tabernacle or temple that king Solomon built so important? Because both temples represented the Temple that is in Heaven.
The tabernacle that Moses built and the temple that Solomon built reflected the Temple that is in Heaven. The apostle Saint Paul speaks about this in his epistle to the Hebrews, in chapter 9, verse 1 and on, and he says:
“Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.
But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
Which was a figure for the time then present…”
Now, notice how the temple that Moses built and even the one that Solomon built are a symbol of the Temple that is in Heaven; and therefore, the things that were done in the tabernacle that Moses built and the temple that Solomon built are the things that Christ as High Priest would be doing after His death on Calvary’s Cross, burial, resurrection and ascension to Heaven.
When our beloved Lord Jesus Christ died on Calvary’s Cross, we find that He was dying there as the Lamb of God and like the goat that the high priest would sacrifice for the forgiveness of the Hebrew people’s sins; and its blood was brought into the most holy place by the high priest.
We find that those sacrifices that the Hebrew people carried out through the priests, and mainly through the high priest: the sacrifice of the goat on the tenth day of the seventh month of each year (on the day of atonement), notice, was for the reconciliation of the Hebrew people with God, because their sins were forgiven and they were covered by the blood of the goat sacrifice.
Now, why did those sacrifices in favor of the Hebrew people work? Because all those sacrifices represented the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross. That is why Saint Paul tells us that they were the shadow —meaning, the type and figure— of good things to come1</a>; and since it was the type and figure, it worked that way. Now, it did not take away sin, rather, it covered it until the perfect Sacrifice came, which is Christ dying on Calvary’s Cross.
And when Christ died on Calvary’s Cross, the sins of the believers of the Old Testament who had departed, and of those who were alive and were believers, what happened? They were taken away; because the Blood of Christ does not cover sin; the blood of those animals covered sin, and that is why when God would look upon the Hebrew people, He would see them without sin. Although the Hebrew people were a rebellious people who were always having problems with God, but, notice, when they offered those sacrifices to God and when they offered God the sacrifice of the goat on the tenth day of the seventh month of each year, the Hebrew people’s sins would be covered before God and they would be (what?) reconciled with God; because the only way to be reconciled with God is by the person being without sin, by God not being able to see sin in the person; and by being covered by the blood of the sacrifice, what would happen? Well, God would not see sin in them, therefore, they were reconciled with God, the Hebrew people as a nation.
And now, notice the mystery of those sacrifices that the Hebrew people made, and notice how they offered those sacrifices to God there in the temple, a temple that was very special. Why? Because it was a temple that was a type and figure of the Temple that is in Heaven. And that is why God showed Moses what he had to build, how, He gave him the pattern. Why? Because each thing in that tabernacle represents something that is in the Temple that is in Heaven.
And now, notice how great the prophet Moses was, that he could build a tabernacle that is a type and figure, which contains the things contained in the Temple of God that is in Heaven in type and figure; and that is why the sacrifices, which were a type and figure of the Sacrifice that would be placed in Heaven, in the Temple that is in Heaven, notice, those sacrifices were offered (which were a type and figure of Christ), they were offered, where? In the earthly temple that Moses built.
There was the type and figure of the Temple that is in Heaven (that tabernacle), and there were the sacrifices: the Sacrifice that would enter into the Most Holy Place of the Temple that is in Heaven once Christ came and died on Calvary’s Cross, and resurrected and ascended to Heaven, and positioned Himself there as High Priest of the Temple that is in Heaven, with His own Blood of the Atonement.
And now, notice how everything Christ was going to carry out had already been carried out in type and figure in the tabernacle that Moses built and in the temple that Solomon built.
Now notice, when Jesus Christ was on the Earth in front of the temple that Solomon built…, or at least, in front of the temple that was a reconstruction; it was another temple, but it was in the place there (of Jerusalem) where Solomon’s temple had been, and therefore, it was a restoration.
And now, in front of that temple, He says2: “Behold, a greater than Solomon is here” (on one occasion He said), and He also said3: “Behold, one greater than the temple.” And well, that was something offensive to those rabbis and to the high priest of that time and to those doctors of Divinity, how can a construction worker, a young carpenter come…, not even from the capital; from over in Galilee, which is a place where they are somewhat mixed with gentiles.
Do you want to see if they are mixed? Not only from when Sennacherib mixed them, but notice, king David came from the marriages of his predecessors, among whom there is a gentile named (what?) Tamar, who… There we have Tamar. And through the line of Judah and through Tamar (who was a gentile) comes a descendant of Judah, from which the next line came through; and later on, a descendant of Judah marries Rahab, who was a harlot.
But since nothing is impossible for God, when she believed in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, God changed her heart and made her a decent woman, and she became the wife of a very important man among the Hebrew people.
And that seed goes on, and later on from that seed comes the grandson (it seems to be; let us see, it should be around here), grandson of Rahab; he must be her grandson (let us see).
Let us read chapter 2 of First Chronicles; let us start from verse 4; it says:
“And Tamar his daughter in law (that is, Judah’s daughter-in-law) bore him Pharez and Zerah. All the sons of Judah were five.
The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul.
And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.
And the sons of Carmi; Achar, the troubler of Israel, who transgressed in the thing accursed.
And the sons of Ethan; Azariah.
The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.
And Ram begat Amminadab; and Amminadab begat Nahshon, prince of the children of Judah;
And Nahshon begat Salma, and Salma begat Boaz,
And Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse…”
But let us turn to Matthew, chapter 1, let us see what it says there. Chapter 1, verse 5 (let us see)… from 1 we are going to read:
“The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;
And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;
And Aram begat Aminadab; and Aminadab begat Naasson; and Naasson begat Salmon;
And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth, (another gentile), and Obed begat Jesse;
And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon…”
And the seed continues after that. And do you know something? Look at what it says (all the way at the bottom, it says):
“And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.”
This is from the line of Joseph; but from the line of Mary, we find that Mary is also a descendant of king David; and if she is a descendant of king David, then… (Miguel, let us see where we have Mary’s ancestry). Let us see. Luke, chapter 3: “Jesus Himself began His ministry…” Chapter 3, verse 23 and on, says:
“And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli (and it continues going down from there… or rather, going up)…”
And now, this is the ancestry of the virgin Mary, and notice how it continues going up until we reach king David; in other words, the virgin Mary, as well as Joseph, were descendants of king David.
And if you continue going up from king David to Jesse, and from Jesse, if you continue going up: in that line of king David, when we continue going up, we find Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Boaz, and we also find Rahab the harlot, who (notice) was the wife of Salmon. And Salmon and Rahab (let us see) were the parents of Boaz and therefore, they were the great grandparents of king David; and Boaz and Obed were the grandfathers of king David, and Jesse…
Let us see. Great-great-grandparents: Salmon and Rahab, great-grandparents: Boaz and Ruth; and Obed: David’s grandfather; and Jesse: David’s father; and the virgin Mary comes from that line, which our beloved Lord Jesus Christ was born from. How well God drew that line!
And now, notice, the Hebrew people rejected Christ, and who received Him? The gentiles. And do you know something? By ancestry, as far as the natural birth of Jesus, notice how He is related to the gentiles through His ancestry from the virgin Mary.
Now, we can see in mainly two tribes (there may be more tribes, but in mainly two tribes) we can see the connection there is with the gentiles. The tribe of Judah, around there, around the seed of Judah through Tamar, notice the connection there is with the gentiles, from which Jesus came.
And now, through the seed of Joseph, who is a type and figure of Christ in His First Coming and in His Second Coming, through Ephraim and Manasseh, we find that they came from Joseph, through his wife, Joseph’s wife, who was Asenath or Aseneth (let us look). Genesis 41, where it tells us. Verse 45 says:
“And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.”
Now, notice the connection there is between Joseph’s seed and the gentiles as well.
And Manasseh represents the Hebrew people, to which the Birthright Blessing was coming; because just as Manasseh was the firstborn son, the first son of Joseph, the Birthright Blessing was to be theirs; and the Birthright Blessing receives a double portion.
And now, Ephraim was his second son, and when he takes them before… – Joseph takes them before his father Jacob so that he blesses them, because Jacob is already bedridden, he is already in his last days; and Joseph knows that his father’s blessing was very important since his father was the prophet of that time, and Joseph was a prophet son of another prophet; therefore, the blessing that had come from Abraham and had passed on to Isaac, and had passed from Isaac to Jacob, who fought for that Birthright Blessing…, notice, Jacob was born second and Esau was born first, but Jacob loved God and he loved God’s blessing, and he fought for the Birthright Blessing and he obtained that blessing.
Now, since before the foundation of the world, Jacob was the firstborn; and likewise, since before the foundation of the world, every son and daughter of God is a firstborn before God.
Where is that written, that the sons and daughters of God are written in Heaven? Saint Paul says in his epistle to the Hebrews, in chapter 12, verse 22 to 23, says:
“But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven…”
Where are the names of the firstborn of God written? In Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life. Since when? Since before the foundation of the world. God’s elect, God’s firstborn, are the first ones God thought of, together when He thought of Jesus Christ.
And now, notice, the firstborn before God are sometimes born second or third in their family; but that does not matter, what matters is that he is a firstborn before God since before the foundation of the world and that his name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life; and that is how it was with Jacob.
And now notice how he fought for that blessing; and that is how it is for the sons and daughters of God: they have to fight for God’s blessing!
Jacob fought to buy the birthright; and even in his mother’s womb, he was fighting there to be born first, but his brother was born first; but he continued to fight outside.
If he fought inside his mother’s womb —which was small—, now outside —where there was more space— well he was going to strive even more. He continued to strive and he made the best business deal a man can make, after the Lord Jesus Christ; because Jesus Christ made the best one and then we can see that Jacob.
But also, when a person hears the preaching of the Gospel and receives Christ as his Savior and washes away his sins in the Blood of Christ and receives His Spirit, he has made the best business deal of his entire life! He has made a business deal for all of eternity, for eternal life! And that is a business deal made in our heavenly Father’s business; only there can we make that business deal.
His sins are taken away, the debt is paid; and if there are no sins, well, there are no consequences; therefore the person will live eternally. And if his physical body dies, there is no problem: he goes to Paradise to live in his theophanic body; and at the Last Day and for the Last Day Christ said: “And I will raise him up (when?) at the Last Day.”
Therefore, the resurrection of the dead in Christ will be carried out at the Last Day. And which is the Last Day? Well Christ spoke a lot about the Last Day. Notice, in John, chapter 6, verse 40, it says:
“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.”
When has Christ promise the resurrection for? For the Last Day. For whom? For those who have believed in Him and their physical bodies have died.
In John, chapter 5, verse 24, He also speaks about the believers in Him and 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.”
And if he has passed from death unto life, then he already has eternal life. Even if his physical body dies, even if his physical body dies, there is no problem: he will resurrect at the Last Day in an eternal body, to live throughout eternity with our beloved Lord Jesus Christ in His Kingdom.
Now, which is the Last Day? “One day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.4” And when Christ speaks to us about the Last Day, that is the last day before God; just like when the Scripture tells us about the last days, those are the last days before God, which are the last millenniums for human beings.
The last days before God are the fifth, sixth and seventh millenniums for human beings; and out of those three millenniums, the last one is the seventh millennium. If we add to the calendar the years it is behind, then we are already in the seventh millennium, the millennium in which Christ will resurrect all the dead believers in Him, those who have died physically, and we who are alive will be changed.
Now, in which year of the seventh millennium? Wait until the dead resurrect, and then look at the calendar, and then you will find out in which year the resurrection would happen; and then, you will also be able to see the day, the month, the week, everything related to that prophecy; but in the meantime, we have already identified the millennium: the seventh millennium, which is the Last Day.
Now, if we do not add to the calendar the years it is behind, and we leave it as is, well notice, how much time is left until the end of the 20th century? With the conclusion of the 20th century, what happens? The sixth millennium ends and then the seventh millennium begins, and the first century of the seventh millennium begins, which is the 21st century.
And now, one way or another, notice the time in which we are living. If we leave the calendar as it is, then we are living at the end of the 20th century. If we add to the calendar the years it is behind, then we are in the seventh millennium, and therefore, in the 21st century.
But we are not going to argue about that; let us see the promises for the end of the world and let us see the promises for the seventh millennium, for the Last Day, which is the Day of the Lord.
The resurrection of the dead in Christ is a promise for those who have departed, and our transformation, for us who are alive, is a promise for this end time, for the Last Day. And the gathering of all the elect is a promise for the end of the world, which is the time of harvest, in other words, the time to reap, when the wheat —which are the sons and daughters of God— will be gathered with the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom. Christ said in Matthew, chapter 24, verse 31:
“And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect…”
And also, in the parable of the wheat and tares, it says that the Son of Man will send His Angels (when?) in the time of harvest, in other words, in the end of the world, to carry out the work of the harvest; and all of this pertains to this time in which we are living.
Now, we were speaking about the sons of Joseph: Manasseh, the oldest and Ephraim, the youngest. The oldest represents the Hebrew people, Manasseh; and just as Manasseh lost the Birthright Blessing, we find that when the Hebrew people rejected Christ, they lost that blessing, which through the Cross (it passed on to the gentiles) to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Through the Cross, Abraham’s blessing, the Birthright Blessing, has passed on to the gentiles, to the gentile Church; and that is why the believers in Christ —who have washed their sins in the Blood of Christ— receive the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, and thus, they receive a theophanic body of the sixth dimension; and there we have the Birthright Blessing.
And that is the reason why the Church of Jesus Christ will reach perfection at the Last Day, wherein the dead in Christ will resurrect in eternal bodies and we who are alive will be changed; and we will all be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
It is because the Birthright Blessing that Jacob bestowed upon Ephraim, now, through the Cross of Christ, it has passed on to the gentiles.
Remember that the Birthright Blessing was bestowed by laying one’s right hand on a person’s head; and that is why when Jacob stretched out his right hand to bestow the Birthright Blessing, he laid it upon Ephraim, and he blessed Ephraim with the first blessing, which is the Birthright Blessing; and then, he stretched out his left hand and laid it upon Manasseh’s head and blessed Manasseh.
And that is what Christ does: Christ has had His right hand stretched out calling and gathering together His elect among the gentiles and pouring out His blessing of the baptism of the Holy Spirit upon the gentiles, upon His gentile Church; for His Church, notice, is mostly made up of gentiles, although occasionally a Hebrew enters. And then the blessing will go on to the Hebrew people, to Manasseh.
Now, this is when the blessing of the right hand of Christ, the birthright blessing for His Church, has been fully given and the number of God’s elect among the gentiles is complete according to what the apostle Saint Paul says, the apostle Saint Paul in Romans, chapter 11, verse 25 to 28, where he says:
“For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.”
When? When He takes away their sins; because, since the Hebrew people do not have a temple, they do not have a sin offering; and since they have also not received Christ as their Savior, the Hebrew nation’s sins remain; and that is why Hitler almost exterminated the Hebrew people, because the wages of sin is death and it requires divine judgment.
And the divine judgment has fallen upon the Hebrew people for these two thousand years approximately, in which they have been without a sin offering; and therefore, God has been seeing their sins, because they have not had the blood of a sin offering; therefore, the divine judgment has been falling upon the Hebrew people.
But God will take away their sins according to this prophecy. And when will this be? When the fullness of the gentiles has come in, that is, when the fullness of all the sons and daughters of God of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ have come in.
That is why the call of divine mercy is still among the gentiles. God’s mercy is still among the gentiles and Christ is still on His Throne of Intercession (meaning, the Throne of the Father in Heaven) as High Priest, making intercession for all those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life in Heaven; but when the last one comes in, well, the number of the members of the Mystical Body of Christ will be completed.
Now, from age to age Christ has been manifested in Holy Spirit through the angel messenger of each age or stage of the gentile Church; the Church of Jesus Christ has been among the gentiles; she was born there in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost and she began with Hebrews, but then continued with gentiles, thus fulfilling the words of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ from John, chapter 10, verse 14 to 16, where it says:
“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 (in other words, they are not of the Hebrew people), them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”
Christ said: “My sheep hear My Voice, and they follow me.” He also said: “He that is of God, hears the Voice of God.” And every person whose name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life since before the foundation of the world will hear the Voice of God, the Voice of Christ in the time in which he is given to live on this planet Earth, and he will enter into the Program of Christ: he will receive Christ as his Savior, wash away his sins in the Blood of Christ and receive His Holy Spirit; and thus, he will obtain the new birth that Christ spoke to Nicodemus about.
Because no one can enter into the Mystical Body of Christ, which is the Kingdom of God, without being born again, which is obtained by believing in Christ as our Savior, washing away our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit; and that is how we are born again: we are born into the Kingdom of God.
Just as we have been born into our earthly home, into our earthly family, now, by believing in Christ as our Savior and washing away our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit, we have been born into the Family of God, that heavenly Household.
And now, the words of Saint Paul take on a very broad meaning – what he says in Ephesians, chapter 2, verses 19 to 22, where it says:
“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God.”
Which family do you belong to? Well, to the earthly one, because you belong to the family you came from: your father and your mother; but through the new birth, now you belong to a heavenly Family, you belong to the Family of God. And that is why you can say that you are a son or a daughter of God, because you have been born into God’s Family, by believing in Christ as our Savior and washing away our sins in the Blood of Christ and receiving His Holy Spirit.
Otherwise, a person cannot say he is a son or a daughter of God; just as you, or your parents or yourself cannot say… Before you were born of your mother, you could not say that you were the child of that woman and that father, the father and mother you have here on Earth. Why? Because you had not been born yet. But after you were born, well, the first thing your mother says is: “my son” or “my daughter”, she acknowledged you as her child; and later on, once you know how to speak, notice, you start to say “dad” or “mom.” Why? Because you acknowledge that you belong to that family.
And that is how it is spiritually: “Abba, Father,” when we are born into the Kingdom of God, and we can say: “Our Father.”
And now, notice what it is that Christ said: “You must be born again because except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God,” he cannot understand it, it is foolishness to him; he must be born of Water and of the Spirit to be able to enter into the Kingdom of God, into the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ.
And now, what is the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church of Jesus Christ? She is the greatest thing on Earth, after the Lord Jesus Christ. Why? Because the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, after we have seen that the Hebrew people had a temple that Moses built and then they had another temple that king Solomon built (which were a type and figure of the Temple which is in Heaven), now, our beloved Lord Jesus Christ has been building a New Temple, a spiritual Temple, which is His Church; and that is why the representation here on Earth, of the Temple that is in Heaven, is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the heavenly Israel, the Church of Jesus Christ.
Now, there is the earthly Israel, which as an earthly Israel, as a nation, is the earthly nation Temple of God; and that is also why God’s temple was in her midst, the temple that Solomon built. And for the Millennial Kingdom, the Hebrew nation will be the most important nation of all the nations, it will be the head nation of all the nations.
And what does: head nation of all the nations mean? Well, the capital and Federal District of the Millennial Kingdom of Christ. Jerusalem will be the capital of the world and the land of Israel will be the Federal District; and Christ will rule over the Hebrew people and over all nations.
And now, notice, we have the earthly Israel and the heavenly Israel.
In the heavenly Israel, which is the spiritual Temple of Christ, everything that is in the Temple that is in Heaven is being materialized in the Church of Jesus Christ. The candlestick or candelabra that was in the tabernacle of Moses and the temple of Solomon, which also appears in Heaven in the Temple that is in Heaven, now, in the Church of Jesus Christ is the seven stages or seven ages with its seven angel messengers, and they correspond to the Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ.
The spiritual Temple of Christ, which is His Church, is the most beautiful temple you could ever see and study here on Earth, and that a person could ever belong to; but in order to do that, you must be born again, and in order to do that, your name must be written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
There are thousands of people or millions of people who do not know that their names are written in Heaven, in the Book of Life, and that is why they live here on Earth and do not walk in the Divine Program, they live on Earth and walk without a real direction; they do not have the goal of eternal life; but the goal of eternal life is a goal for all those whose names are written in the Book of Life.
Now, we have the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ here in this diagram. The first part here is the time of the apostles (when the Church of Jesus Christ was born there in Jerusalem), and then, this bigger part is the first stage of the Church of Jesus Christ, which was fulfilled in Asia Minor.
Then, the messenger of the that first stage was the apostle Saint Paul, who said5: “Nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” Through Saint Paul, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit was calling and gathering together His sheep in that first stage or age among the gentiles, there in Asia Minor.
Then came the second stage, which was fulfilled in France, and its messenger was Irenaeus; and through Irenaeus, Christ was calling and gathering together His elect in that second age. Then came the third age in Hungary and France, and Martin was its messenger; then came the fourth age in Ireland and Scotland, and Columba was its messenger; then came the fifth age in Germany, and Luther was the messenger; then came the sixth age in England, and Wesley was the messenger; then came the seventh age in North America, and Reverend William Branham was the messenger.
Through His messengers, God was, Christ was calling and gathering together His sheep, from age to age, in His Mystical Body of believers during these seven ages that pertain to the Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ.
And what else does God have after those seven ages? And which territory does God have to carry out His Work and call His elect, His children, at this end time? Then He has the Age of Cornerstone, where He makes the call to “Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”
This call has a territory in which it is made and it has a people; and those people are a people who belong to the West, with whom God will be building the Most Holy Place of that spiritual Temple, which is the Church of Jesus Christ.
And Christ said that as the lightning comes out of the East and shines even unto the occident (meaning, in the West), so shall the coming of the Son of Man be, so shall the day be in which the Son of Man reveals Himself, manifests Himself.
The East is over there, the land of Israel, which is in the Middle East, where the First Coming of Christ took place; and now, Christ coming from the East, from age to age, calling and gathering together His children in each age, reaches where? He reaches the occident, that is, the territory of the West, which is the American continent; which consists of North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean; and the North American part was already fulfilled in the seventh stage or age of the gentile Church, and its messenger was sent and he was Reverend William Marrion Branham.
But now, what does God have for this end time? Well, He has the most important part of His Work in the construction of His spiritual Temple: He has the section of the Most Holy Place, so that the Most Holy Place is built in the West.
In what part of the tabernacle that Moses built and the temple that Solomon built was the most holy place? In the West, because according to the Temple that is in Heaven, the Throne of God, the Most Holy Place is in the West.
And now, the Western part of the planet Earth is where Jesus Christ builds the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple; and by being in the West, which pertains to the part that did not have any of the seven ages of the gentile Church…, because it would have the Age of the Cornerstone, the most important age. By having the most important age, it has the Age of the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, for which Christ calls and gathers together His elect of the Last Day.
And when the number of His elect in the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple is completed, the Mystical Body of Christ will have been completed. And the good news is that Latin America and the Caribbean is the one that has this blessing at the Last Day, for this end time: the blessing of having the golden stage of the Church of Jesus Christ, which is the stage of the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, and it is the stage where the people who will be changed at this Last Day will be living.
Those from the first age already died, they did not receive the transformation; they will receive the resurrection in eternal bodies; and that is how it has been from age to age. But now only the Age of the Cornerstone remains, which is the Golden Age of the Church of Jesus Christ, which Christ is building out of Latin American and Caribbean people.
That is why the call of the Great Voice of Trumpet, of which Christ said: “For He shall send His Angels with a Great Sound of a Trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect,” is fulfilled (where?) in Latin America and the Caribbean. That is where the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom emerges opening a new age, the Age of the Cornerstone, and opening a new dispensation; and that is where the Dispensation of the Kingdom intertwines with the Dispensation of the Grace.
And now, at this time, in Latin America and the Caribbean, under the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mercy of God is manifested for the last time, just as the mercy of God was manifested throughout the different stages that the Church of Jesus Christ has gone though, and through different nations; and Christ has been in the Most Holy Place of the Temple that is in Heaven, in the Throne of Intercession or seat of mercy, interceding for the people that are being called and gathered together, for their names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life; and from age to age that is the call that has been made, calling and gathering together His children, His elect, in different nations.
And now, the call of the Last Day, the call of the Last Trumpet. If there is a Last Trumpet, that means there were other previous Trumpets; there were these Messages from these messengers; and the Voice of Christ, the Trumpet of the Word of Christ, through those messengers, was the one calling the sons and daughters of God in the different stages.
Along with these messengers, there were many ministers who worked hard in the Work of Christ, even in difficult conditions, but they obtained the victory; and the Mystical Body of Christ pertaining to each stage was fulfilled, was completed. And now the only thing left is the completion of the number of the Mystical Body of Christ of the Age of the Cornerstone; and that is why the call has come to the Latin American and Caribbean people at the Last Day, see?
And now, where is the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ? In the occident, that is in the west; just as the most holy place in the tabernacle of Moses was in the west, in the temple that Solomon built was also in the occident, that is, the west; and now in the spiritual Temple of Christ, it is also in the occident, in the west; and now, Christ is building that stage of His Church out of Latin American and Caribbean people.
In other words, the news for the Latin American and Caribbean people is the biggest news they can receive from Heaven from behalf of God: That the blessing of Christ for this end time will be upon the Latin American and Caribbean people. No one had imagined that, but that is how it was in the Divine Program, and that is how it is according to the Temple that is in Heaven.
The blessing of the Most Holy Place where the Throne of God is in Heaven, is manifested on Earth in the Age of the Cornerstone, which pertains to the Latin American and Caribbean people. That is why at the Last Day the fullness of God will come, and the dead in Christ will be resurrected in eternal bodies and we who are alive will be changed.
Now, we are living in the most glorious time for the Latin American and Caribbean people. Although economically, politically and socially, Latin America and the Caribbean has many problems, it should not worry about that, in the sense of believing that it is a territory without blessing, because it has the greatest blessing any nation could have.
Currently, it is the only territory that has this such great blessing; and later on, the Hebrew people will have it; because the blessing goes from the gentiles to the Hebrew people.
Now, you can also see the connection there was with the ancestry of Jesus in terms of His earthly birth. Notice, when we go up that line, we can find gentile women; and women represent churches. And now, the Church of Jesus Christ is represented in women who received those blessings from God.
And now, we all want our relatives to be under the Blood of Christ, the atonement, so that their sins are not seen by Christ, but instead taken away by Christ with His Blood and so that they are seen as perfect before God, and receive the Spirit of God and come into the Mystical Body of Christ.
What we want for our relatives is the blessing of Christ before the divine judgment comes upon the human race, before the divine judgments of the great tribulation fall; because after the opening of the Seventh Seal in Revelation, chapter 8, then came the silence for about half an hour, and we also find that the divine judgment came upon the human race: thunders, an earthquake and so on.
All of that tells us about the divine judgment that will come upon the human race; and that will be when the Mystical Body of Christ is completed. Then, God will turn to the Hebrew people and God’s mercy will be taken away from among the gentiles, because there will no longer be Blood on the Throne of God in Heaven; Christ will leave the Throne of God, the Throne of the Father, where He is, and He will come as the King of kings and Lord of lords in all His fullness.
And He will no longer be as a High Priest and He will not be as an Intercessor, rather, He will be as a Judge of all the Earth; and therefore, the divine judgments will fall upon the human race because those who disregarded God’s mercy for the last time under the ministry of the Last Day, will no longer have an opportunity.
Many people disregarded God’s mercy under the ministry of Saint Paul, under the ministry of each one of these angel messengers; and for the Last Day, under the ministry of the Age of the Cornerstone (which is the ministry of Christ, just as it was in each age, but through the messenger of each age in each past age), that is also how it will be through His Angel Messenger.
And after that stage or phase ends in which God will be extending His mercy upon the human race, then, from one moment to the next He will change, and the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, the High Priest, will turn into the Judge of all the Earth.
And when the Blood of Christ is not in the place of intercession in Heaven, that Throne in Heaven, the Throne of the Temple that is in Heaven will become a trial court, and therefore, out of His Throne will come the divine judgment for the human race.
And that is why, as Judge, God will pronounce the divine judgment upon the human race and the divine judgment will be fulfilled; and the only way to know the divine judgment that will be spoken by God from His Throne, will be where? The only way will be through the Church of Jesus Christ, in the Age of the Throne, the Age of the Cornerstone, where everything that will be fulfilled in the Throne of God in Heaven will be reflecting and revealing itself.
It will be reflecting and revealing itself through the manifestation of Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone through His Angel Messenger.
Through His Angel Messenger, Christ will be announcing what the heavenly Father will be speaking and doing from His Throne in Heaven. In other words, the news from the Throne of God will come to Earth through the Temple of Jesus Christ, of the Age of the Cornerstone, the Age of the Throne of Jesus Christ in His spiritual Temple.
Christ will be manifested in His Church at the Last Day and He will be speaking in the midst of His Church at the Last Day. Notice how He will be speaking. He announced or promised the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet to call and gather together His elect; and in Revelation, chapter 1, verses 10 to 11, it says (John the apostle says):
“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.”
Who is the Alpha and Omega? Who is the first and the last? Well, our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. It is the Voice of Christ at the Last Day, in the seventh millennium.
And now, in Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1, it says:
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”
Where will we go up to? We have the promise that if we go up, we will hear the Voice of Christ making known to us all these things which must shortly come to pass.
Now, notice where we must go up to: the Age of the Cornerstone, the Golden Age of the Church of Jesus Christ, which is fulfilled (where?) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
And now, He said: “Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.” And now, through whom will He be making known to us all these things which must shortly be done? Let Christ say it Himself. Revelation 22, verse 6, says:
“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel, (to testify unto you, in other words) to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”
Who does He send to show unto His servants the things which must shortly be done? He says that He sends His Angel.
And in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16, it says: “I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
And who is that Angel Messenger, who comes testifying these things which must shortly be done at this Last Day? That Angel Messenger is the prophet messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone and the Dispensation of the Kingdom, of the seventh dispensation, who comes with the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, testifying of all these things which must shortly be done at this end time; and through that Message which He gives us at the Last Day, this entire mystery of the Divine Program pertaining to this end time is opened.
And that is how we can see where we are in the Divine Program and where Christ is blessing His Church at this end time: He is blessing His Church at the Golden Stage, the Golden Age of the Church of Jesus Christ, the Age of the Cornerstone, which is being fulfilled (where?) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Latin American and Caribbean people are the ones who have God’s blessing at this Last Day, and the Latin American and Caribbean people are the ones to whom Jesus Christ sends His Angel Messenger to testify all these things which must shortly be done at this end time, before Christ leaves the Throne of Intercession in Heaven; because when He leaves that Throne of Intercession, the seat of mercy in Heaven, from that point on, the door will be shut and there is no more mercy for the gentiles.
But before the door is shut, as it happened in the parable of the ten virgins6, when the wise virgins rose and trimmed their lamps…, and the foolish too, but the foolish did not have oil, they went to buy oil; and while they went to buy oil, the bridegroom came (that is the Second Coming of Christ); and those who were ready, meaning the wise virgins…, who are the people who have believed in Christ as our Savior, have washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ and have received His Holy Spirit, and therefore, have been born again: they have the oil of the Holy Spirit in their lamps, in their lives, in their being.
And now, those who were ready went with Him (to what?) to the Marriage, and the door was shut. And when the door is shut, no one else can enter because the number of God’s elect of the Last day has been completed by those who would complete the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, the great privilege we have at this end time, in Latin America and the Caribbean, is that the Mystical Body of Christ is completed by Latin American and Caribbean people. And that is why we pray for all of Latin America and the Caribbean, so that God allows Latin America and the Caribbean to survive the divine judgment that will fall during the great tribulation, so that all of Latin America and the Caribbean, along with its inhabitants, enter into the glorious Millennial Kingdom of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
And well, we who are alive will be changed, all of us who belong to the Mystical Body of Christ, who are living at this end time. When the dead in Christ resurrect in eternal bodies, we who are alive will be changed; and we will become like our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, with a glorified body; and so will the dead in Christ when they resurrect.
And there will be a mighty heavenly Army: the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, perfect people like our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, in the image and likeness of Christ, with a physical body like the one Christ has and with a theophanic spirit like the one Jesus Christ has. That is what Christ has promised for each one of you and for me too.
And He is still calling, the number of God’s elect of the Age of the Cornerstone is not complete yet; and that is why the Message continues traveling all of Latin America and the Caribbean, calling and gathering together all of God’s elect of this end time, in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, in the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And once the number is complete, well, the last one will have obtained God’s mercy; and then, the dead in Christ will resurrect in eternal bodies and then we will be changed; and we will go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven, while the great tribulation of the divine judgments that will come upon the Earth, passes. And we will be in the great feast of the Marriage of the Lamb, (doing what?) receiving the rewards for all the work we have done in the Work of Christ. Saint Paul said: “Your labour is not in vain in the Lord,” in other words, you will receive the due reward.
In Revelation, chapter 22, verse 12, Christ says: “And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” He rewards according to the work of each person.
Now, we have reached the most glorious time of all times, the most glorious time of and for Latin America and the Caribbean along with all of its inhabitants, we have reached the stage of the Seventh Seal and God’s mercy being manifested for the last time in Latin America and the Caribbean.
And once this divine cycle of the Age of the Cornerstone ends, the divine judgment will fall upon the human race. But before that, all of God’s elect are called and gathered together, and the dead in Christ are resurrected, and we who are alive will be changed; because we will not stay here to receive the divine judgments; we have a very special invitation.
And we are not going to speak like those who were invited to the feast or supper that the father prepared for his son, a wedding supper.
One of them came, one who was invited said7: “I cannot go. Have me excused before the master, for I cannot go because I bought a piece of ground, and I am going to see it.” He bought it without seeing it.
People always try to make up any excuse to not attend the things of God when they are not interested in the things of God.
And the other one, the other one who was invited, was told:
— The lord has the wedding feast for his son and sends you an invitation.
— Go to the master of the house and tell him I cannot go because I bought five yoke of oxen.
Look, all of that shows that those people had their hearts set on the earthly things, and they did not go to this wedding feast, they did not want to go, which represents the heavenly things.
And for what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Everyone who is represented in those who rejected the invitation, well, they lose God’s blessing.
And now, the master of the house said: “Go out into all the places, the highways, into all the highways, and invite everyone: the good and the wicked too, and even the lame, invite them, that my house may be filled.”
And after they went out looking for people and brought them, the servants tell their lord: “And yet there is room in the house.”
These servants are the messengers of the different ages, and yet there is room in the House, in the Age of the Cornerstone; and we are in Latin America and the Caribbean, seeking the last ones invited to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Revelation, chapter 19, verses 7 to 10, says:
“Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.”
And the call to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb is being made at this end time, just as from age to age everyone was called to be in the Marriage Supper of the Lamb at the Last Day; because the call of Christ from age to age, through His messengers, is to call and gather together His elect, bring forth the new birth in them, put them in His Mystical Body of believers, and for that mystical Body of believers to be the Bride of the Lamb, of Christ, and go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven at the Last Day; for we who are alive will be changed once the dead in Christ are resurrected in eternal bodies; and then, we will leave from here in an eternal body to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, to which we have been invited by our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
We are blessed because we have been (what?) invited. “Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.”
And the last call is being made at this Last Day (where?) in the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the Golden Age of the Church of Jesus Christ, in the Latin American and Caribbean territory.
The call is not for the person to become religious, he is not being called to be a religious sectarian, rather, he is being called to believe in Christ as his Savior, wash away his sins in the Blood of Christ and receive the Spirit of Christ and become part of the Mystical Body of Christ, of that spiritual Temple; to become part of that New Creation He is carrying out, of which Jesus Christ is the first.
Jesus Christ is creating a new race, and He is the first of that new race, and we are the continuation of that new race, that is why we will be like our beloved Jesus Christ.
He has already given us His Spirit and we have a theophanic body like His by believing in Christ as our Savior, washing away our sins in His Blood and receiving His Holy Spirit; and at the Last Day, He will give us the glorified and eternal body like His body; and thus, we will come to be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
The call is for all human beings, and all those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life will respond to it; and the call is being made in Latin America and Caribbean because God has many people in Latin America and Caribbean, written where? In Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life; living stones which He is calling and gathering together, just as He called those (those from other ages) for the creation or construction of His spiritual Temple.
Saint Peter says that we are living stones. In First Peter (let us see), chapter 2, verse 4 and on, it says:
“To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”
Here we can see the Work that Christ is carrying out among the gentiles.
And now, the most important part of His Work in the construction of His spiritual Temple, where He is manifesting His mercy for the last time, pertains to Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Seventh Seal, which is the Second Coming of Christ, which caused silence in Heaven for half an hour, or about half an hour, when it was opened in Heaven.
“THE SEVENTH SEAL AND THE MERCY OF GOD.”
We have seen where these two very important things will be manifested on this planet Earth at this end time.
THE SEVENTH SEAL AND THE MERCY OF GOD FOR THE LAST TIME. Where? In Latin America and the Caribbean. That is the territory. And we are the people who would see this manifestation of God’s mercy in Latin America and the Caribbean at this end time.
May the blessings of our beloved Savior Jesus Christ be upon all of you; and may God also give you the blessing and privilege of your relatives, whom you pray for God to save, may God grant your heart’s request.
Believe the things you are asking Christ with all your soul, there, in the depths of your soul, and it will become a reality for all of you and also for me.
May God grant your heart’s request —and mine too— for the salvation of our relatives, our loved ones, who we want to live throughout eternity in the Kingdom of God.
Thank you very much for your kind attention, beloved friends and brethren present, and may you all have a wonderful evening. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
“THE SEVENTH SEAL AND THE MERCY OF GOD.”
1 Hebrews 10:1, 8:5
2 Matthew 12:42; Luke 11:31
3 Matthew 12:6
4 Second Peter 3:8; Psalm 90:4
5 Galatians 2:20
6 Matthew 25:1-13
7 Luke 14:16-24