Good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren present, and also those who are connected in other nations through the Amazonas satellite or the internet, together with the different ministers of all the nations and all congregations.
May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you.
Warm greetings to Missionary Rev. Miguel Bermúdez Marín, where he is today, which must be El Salvador or somewhere nearby (I don’t have his itinerary here, on hand). But Miguel, wherever you are: May God bless you and keep you, and use you greatly at this end time.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you, brethren and friends and ministers present, and those who are in all other nations!
For this occasion, we want to read a Scripture in which Isaiah tells us, in chapter 7, where verse 14 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.”
“THE SON OF THE VIRGIN IS BORN.”
That is the subject for this occasion. And we’re going to ask God to open the Scriptures to us and open our understanding so that we understand our subject: “THE SON OF THE VIRGIN IS BORN.”
Emmanuel means: “God with us.”[1] Therefore, it would be God’s visitation in a child, in whom He would dwell, and through whom the Spirit of God would be manifested: In the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah and His three-and-a-half-year ministry in the seventieth [70th] week, covering the first part of that week, which is three-and-a-half years; because each of those seventy weeks of Daniel represents seven years, and therefore, the seventy weeks of Daniel chapter 9, are four hundred and ninety [490] years.
After the sixty-nine [69] weeks (in which seven [7] weeks go by first, and then sixty-two [62]), the Messiah would appear in His ministry, and then the Messiah’s life would be cut off.
Therefore, at the time of the seventieth week, the Messiah had to be on Earth carrying out the Messianic ministry and dying in that seventieth week.
To do that, He had to be born among the Hebrew people many years before then, as a descendant of King David; for which, a virgin, a Hebrew woman who was a descendant of King David, would have that privilege, that blessing, of being the person through whom… she would conceive… who would conceive the Prince Messiah; and He would be born through her. She would raise Him; and then, at the time appointed by God for His ministry, He would begin His ministry at the beginning of the seventieth week.
And He would die in the seventieth week, that is, in the middle of the seventieth week.
And the seventy weeks would stop there: with three and a half years left; in other words, with half of the seventieth week left. Which pertains to the time of “Jacob’s trouble,” which is known as the great tribulation, which is to come at the end of the dispensation of the Church, meaning, the Dispensation of Grace.
Until that moment comes, for the second part of the seventieth week to be fulfilled, there is a gap of two thousand years that have passed from the time Christ was crucified until this time. And in that gap the Dispensation of Grace has been in fulfillment, where God has been calling out from among the Gentiles a people for His Name, which forms the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, for the fulfillment of the birth of the Son of the virgin, first the Angel Gabriel appeared in Saint Luke, chapter 1, verses 30 to 36, to a young virgin who was a descendant of King David, and who lived in Nazareth, and was espoused, engaged to a man or young man named Joseph.
And the Angel tells her [verse 28]: “Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among all women.” (Let’s see if that’s what it says… that’s what it says).
[Verse 29]: “And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.”
With what He told her about her cousin, He raised Mary’s faith! And then Mary exclaims:
“And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.”
She believed, and asked that it be done as the Angel had said; because what the Angel said was the Word of God through the Archangel Gabriel, who was sent from the presence of God to give this good news to this young virgin who was a descendant of King David.
She was a princess; although she was poor, but she was royalty.
Likewise, Joseph, to whom she was espoused, was royalty too: he was a descendant of King David through Solomon, from Solomon’s line; and the virgin Mary: from the line of Nathan, son of Solomon too. That is, from Nathan, son of David; and Solomon, son of David as well.
In other words, they both came from David, through two… from the line of two of David’s sons.
And now let’s see how everything happened in chapter 2, of Saint Luke as well [verse 1]:
“And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed (in other words, there was a population 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 (that is, there was no room for them in the hotel or guesthouse).
And there were (then) 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.”
And now, the good news for the people —from God, through the Angel— was that a Savior had been born in Bethlehem, who is Christ Jesus, who is Christ the Lord.
Jesus: Lord and Christ. The Lord had been born, the Christ: Jesus.
He was given the name Jesus, which means ‘Savior,’ ‘Redeemer;’ the same name as Joshua. Jesus is Joshua, it is the same name.
And now, the Son of the virgin was born in Bethlehem of Judea. That promise of the First Coming of Christ was for Israel.
And now, we find that God stopped dealing with the Hebrew people since the crucifixion of Christ; and a new dispensation was opened, and the time for the Hebrew nation paused.
And now God has been seeking, calling out a people for His Name, in the Dispensation of Grace, to form His Church, to form a spiritual Temple made up of human beings; and therefore, every believer in Christ is a living stone who forms part of that spiritual Temple; that is what First Peter, chapter 2, verse 4 to 10 speaks about.
And now, through the Son of the virgin, notice all the things that have been happening:
Redemption was carried out through the death of Christ as the Sacrifice of Atonement for our sins, because salvation would be of the Jews,[2] it would come from the Jews for all of Israel and for all the nations.
In the Seed of Abraham, which is Christ, the blessing of Abraham would go on to the Gentiles, Saint Paul says in Galatians, chapter 3, verses 11 to 21.
And now, the blessing of Abraham, because Abraham would be a blessing; therefore, through the Seed of Abraham (which is Christ, the Messiah) the blessing of Abraham, which was among the Hebrews, would go on to the Gentiles as well; and God would call people out from among Hebrews and Gentiles to form His Church, which is called “Christianity,” made up of those who are born again.
And now, remembering that women represent churches, the virgin Mary represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And for that reason, through His Church, Christ has been reproducing Himself in born-again sons and daughters of God; born not of flesh and blood, not of blood and flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God: by the Spirit of God overshadowing the Virgin-Church, represented in the virgin Mary.
Now we are at the end time, in which the Church is a chaste Virgin for Christ; and, as such, She must give birth to sons and daughters of God.
At this end time, the Coming of the Lord is promised for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore, Christianity is waiting for the Second Coming of the Lord.
The Church is like Mary; because Saint Paul says that: “He has espoused a Church as a chaste virgin to Christ.” That is here in Second Corinthians, chapter 11, verse 1 and on, where he says:
“Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me.
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.”
And now, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, Saint Paul says that he espoused Her “as a chaste virgin to Christ.” Back in his age, She was as a chaste Virgin espoused to Christ, for Christ to reproduce Himself in sons and daughters of God by the Holy Spirit overshadowing the Church, that is, manifesting Himself in the midst of His Church.
And by the creative Word, the Gospel of Christ for each stage, like in the time of Saint Paul, the new birth would be brought forth in the people: they would be born of the Water (meaning, of the Gospel) and of the Spirit (by receiving the Holy Spirit), and thus, they would enter into the Kingdom of God. That is how they would be born of the Water and of the Spirit, as sons and daughters of God. For the end time, sons and daughters of God would also be born of the chaste Virgin-Church espoused to Christ.
And now, it’s to His Church and for His Church that the Second Coming of Christ is promised; and therefore, He must come to His Church, represented in Mary; just as the First Coming of Christ came to and through Mary, a virgin espoused to Joseph, a descendant of King David; in other words, they were both royalty.
And now, the believers in Christ are kings and priests and judges; they are also Royalty.
The Messiah appeared, the Messiah was born, in the royal family, in the house of David. And now the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Lord, must appear among Royalty; It must appear in the midst of His Church before the Millennial Kingdom begins. And It is promised to be a secret: when He comes for His Church; but then, after the great tribulation, He comes from Heaven with His Church to establish the Millennial Kingdom. In other words, those are two different things that the Lord will do.
And now, He comes for His Church at this end time.
Back then, when He came through the virgin Mary, notice, it was a secret to many, it was a promise that was sealed; it was fulfilled, and it continued to be a secret to most people, a mystery; but it was the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah being born through a chaste virgin who was a descendant of King David.
And now, given that Christ is the root and offspring of David, He has been having many sons and daughters of God through His Church. There we have the Royalty: descendants of Jesus Christ the Son of David, the King of kings and Lord of lords; and that is why they are kings and priests with Christ, who is the High Priest and the King of kings and Lord of lords.
Everything that Christ is, so are all those who are born in the Kingdom of Christ, all those who are born through Christ and His Church.
And now, Christ at the end time, before the great tribulation, comes for His Church with a Shout, the Voice of the Archangel, and the Trumpet of God. (And Saint Paul…) That is in First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verses 13 to 17.
And in First Corinthians, chapter 15, verses 49 to 58, it tells us that something will happen at the Last Trumpet, it says that the corruptible does not inherit incorruption, nor does mortality [inherit] immortality. But it says that we will be according to His image. And now, it says [verse 51]:
“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep (meaning, we won’t all die), but we shall all be changed…”
In other words, we are going to receive a transformation, which will be the redemption of the body: we are going to obtain physical immortality; and therefore, we will have a young body, which will represent 18 to 21 years of age, which is immortal, incorruptible, and glorified, just like the glorified body of Jesus Christ; we will be in His image and likeness.
Saint Paul says that it will be at the Last Trumpet. “For the Trumpet shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall be raised incorruptible, and we who are alive shall be changed.” That is the promise.
And the Trumpet, that Great Trumpet, that Last Trumpet, is the Voice of Christ speaking to His Church with a dispensational Message: the Message of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, together with the Message of the Dispensation of Grace; and that is the Former Rain of the Teaching of the Gospel of Christ and the Latter Rain of the Gospel of the Kingdom.
The revelation contained in the Gospel of Grace, in the Former Rain, is the revelation of the mystery of the First Coming of Christ: as a Lamb, to die as the Atonement for the sin of human beings. And the mystery contained in the Gospel of the Kingdom, in other words, in the Latter Rain, is the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ.
With the preaching of the Gospel of Grace and of the Gospel of the Kingdom —which will be the Former Rain and Latter Rain falling at the same time— the mystery of the First Coming and of the Second Coming of Christ will be understood.
And just as He gave us the faith to obtain redemption, to obtain that spiritual aspect and to obtain the new birth, by believing in the First Coming of Christ and His Name as Savior, by believing in the salvation (which came forth from Israel)… Notice, we obtain the spiritual redemption and enter into the Kingdom of God.
And then, when we obtain the revelation of the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, of the Coming of Christ to His Church, then we will obtain the faith for the physical redemption, the redemption of the body, which is the adoption; which, for the dead in Christ, will be: the resurrection in eternal bodies, and for those who are alive in Christ: the transformation; and then we will all be immortal, with young and eternal bodies, glorified bodies, like the one of Jesus Christ our Savior.
And now, just as we watched and saw through the Scripture the Son of the virgin who was born in the fulfillment of the First Coming of Christ; we have to be watching the Virgin-Church of Christ, which has the promise of the Second Coming of the Lord, She has the promise of the Coming of the Lord.
When the Hebrew people see Christ, the Angel of the Covenant coming for His Church, they will say: “This is the One we are waiting for.” But He isn’t coming for them, He comes for His Church; but they will recognize Him, because He will be in the midst of His Church.
And therefore, He will have the ministry pertaining to the Last Day in the midst of His Church; just like in the midst of the Hebrew people, He had the three-and-a-half-year ministry, with which in the end the Dispensation of the Law stopped and God’s dealing with the Hebrew people stopped, so that a gap could be opened, and the Gentiles could have the opportunity to enter into the Kingdom of God under a New Covenant; and many Hebrews have also been entering into the Kingdom of God under the New Covenant that He promised.
When the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is completed, God will deal with the Hebrew people as a nation again; in the meantime, He deals with individuals of the Hebrew people and of the Gentiles. And among the Gentiles there are millions of descendants of the lost tribes; but He deals with individuals, it does not matter if they are of one of the tribes of Israel or another. But when He begins to deal with Israel as a nation, by then He will have completed His Church.
Let’s watch the Son of the Virgin, the Son of the Virgin-Church, who will appear at the end time.
The Church has had many children, because She is the Mystical Body of Christ. Christ is the Head of His Church, and His Church is His Mystical Body of believers; and therefore, it’s through the Church and in the Church that the sons and daughters of the Dispensation of Grace are born, to thus form the Church: that spiritual Temple made up of human beings.
And now, we are in the Golden Age, just as they were in the Golden Age in the time when Jesus was born. He was the messenger of the Golden Age.
Therefore, let’s watch the Golden Age of the Church at this end time, just as we can also look at the Golden Age of the Old Testament Church, which is Israel. And now, the New Testament Church is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Church: “The brought out.”
And now, let’s watch the Son of the Virgin, who is promised to appear in the midst of the Church at the Last day.
It was said that the Bride, or Bride-Church, is in anguish, that is, She is having birth pains to give birth to Christ; and therefore, He will come to His Church.
It will be the Word of Revelation, chapter 19, verses 11 to 19; and on His vesture will be written: King of kings and Lord of lords. And no one knows His Name but He Himself; and His Name is: the Word of God.
Therefore, the Word will appear on Earth once again; the Word, the Angel of the Covenant.
And now, we are sure that He will appear as King of kings and Lord of lords, for He will have on His vesture and on His thigh this Name written: King Of Kings and Lord Of Lords. His Name is: the Word of God.
The Word: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (meaning, the Angel of the Covenant).” “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only Begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” Saint John, chapter 1, verses 1 to 14.
Then, verse 18 says: “No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.”
In other words, it was through the Angel of the Covenant —which is Christ in His heavenly body— that God declared Himself in the Old Testament; and then, when He was made flesh, God declared Himself, revealed Himself, through that veil of flesh in whom the Angel of the Covenant was; and God was in the Angel of the Covenant, manifesting Himself through Jesus.
That is why Jesus said: “The works that I do, I do not of Myself; the Father that dwells in Me, He does the works.”[3]
They were the works of God by the Spirit of God, which is the Angel of the Covenant, through the veil of flesh called Jesus. And that was Emmanuel: God with us; God manifesting Himself, dwelling, and working through a veil of flesh named Jesus (which is Joshua in Hebrew), and which is the Name of God. That is why Jesus said: “I have come in My Father’s Name.”[4]
In the name Joshua, which Moses named Oshea the son of Nun,[5] he was putting him the Name of God there, which Moses already knew, because God had revealed It to him; and then, other people come to have It, other prophets; and then the Son of the virgin has It.
At the Last Day, the Scripture says that He has a Name that no one knows, but He Himself. That Name is important to Christianity and to Judaism, because with that Name that the Word will have, God will reveal Himself to His Church and then to the Hebrew people.
Jesus Christ said: “Him that overcomes, will I make a pillar in the Temple of my God; and I will write upon him the Name of My God, and the Name of the City of My God, the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of Heaven, from My God, and My new Name.” That is in Revelation, chapter 2, verse 17.
And in Revelation, chapter 3, verse 12, it also speaks to us about these things.
And chapter 3, verse 21, tells us: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”
Therefore, the Name of God will be manifested at this end time, in the visit of God through Christ to His Church at the Last Day.
Let’s watch the Son of the Virgin-Church, who will appear at the Last Day; through whom God will be operating the ministry of the Last Day, that is, of the seventh millennium and of the seventh dispensation.
And when we see him, we will be able to say that just as the Son of the virgin was born in Bethlehem of Judea two thousand years ago, and had the Name of God: Joshua, which translated into Spanish is Jesús (to many); the Name of God will also come manifested at the Last Day in the midst of the Church, in the Son of the Virgin-Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which will be a blessing to all Christians, to all born-again believers in Christ.
And we will see the ministry of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant; we will see the Holy Spirit working through him: bringing the Word relevant to the Last Day, and God fulfilling through him what He has promised for His Church. And then we will be able to say: “The Son of the Virgin-Church has been born at the Last Day!” When we see him, we will be able to express our joy, our gladness, that way.
Just as the Angel Gabriel said: “I bring you tidings (meaning, ‘I bring you news’) of great joy for all Israel: that He has been born in Bethlehem of Judea, that a Savior has been born, which is Christ the Lord.”[6] See? Lord and Christ; but His name is Jesus, which to the Hebrews is Joshua.
And now, that is the Name that was also revealed to Moses, and for that reason, that is what he named Oshea the son of Nun, who was the minister of Moses, a minister of Moses.
And now, at the Last Day, the Holy Spirit will appear manifested in the midst of His Church to fulfill all the promises He has made to His Church for the Last Day. And then, when we see the fulfillment of all those promises, we will be able to say: “The Son of the Virgin-Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is born.”
It has been a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you of the Son of the virgin, who two thousand years ago was Jesus, being born through the virgin Mary. At the Last Day there will be a Virgin-Church: the Virgin-Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, for Christ to bring forth sons and daughters through Her; and among those children will come the Messenger of the Last Day.
And now, our subject has been: “THE SON OF THE VIRGIN IS BORN.”
Remember Revelation 12: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, who was with child and having birth pains, and then she gave birth; that Son which She gave birth to is the Prince Messiah who was caught up to Heaven to sit on the Throne of God.
And then, that woman who was with child, which represents Israel and also represents the virgin Mary, in the Last Day also – at the Last Day also represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, to be born in Bethlehem is to be born in Christ. All those who have been born in Christ (who have been born again): have been born in Bethlehem.
May God bless you and keep you all.
“THE SON OF THE VIRGIN IS BORN.”
[1] Matthew 1:23
[2] John 4:22
[3] John 14:10-11
[4] John 5:43
[5] Numbers 13:16
[6] Luke 2:9-11