Very good morning, kind friends and brethren present, and all who are in other countries: ministers and their congregations, and others who are in other places at this time connected with this activity. May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon you and me too. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
For this occasion we have a documentary on the construction of the Great Tent-Cathedral, for you to watch and know how the construction work of the Great Tent-Cathedral goes, of this important project being carried out in Cayey, Puerto Rico; for which I leave with the Rev. Jose Benjamin Perez, to give them the sign to start the video. Excuse me.
[Presentation of the video documentary]
Let us read in Exodus, Chapter 12, verses 1 onwards, and we read from verse 1 onwards. It says:
“And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’S passover.
For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
“THE TOKEN TO LEAVE ON THE EXODUS.” It is our theme for this occasion.
The Scripture says in Exodus, chapter 4, verse 22:
“And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn.”
The exodus promised here in the Word of God given to Abraham in Genesis, chapter 15, verse 13 onwards, speaking of the exodus which Israel would go through, chapter 15, verse 13 onwards, of Genesis, says:
“And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.”
Here God speaks to Abraham that his descendants will live in a strange land and they will be slaves there, they will serve a nation; “and they shall (the descendants of Abraham) serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years.”
When the time for the deliverance of Israel arrived, which was in bondage in Egypt, God sent Moses, already being 80 years old, for when he was 40 years old as he tried to deliver them, but there were problems, he tried to do it humanely and made some mistakes (like killing an Egyptian who was mistreating a Hebrew), and he could not deliver them. Rather, from among the people there was a person who accused him of the death of the Egyptian, and said to Moses if he was going to kill him as he had killed the Egyptian. It was that two Hebrew were arguing, and one of them was mistreating the other, and Moses tried to bring peace between them; and the one who was mistreating the other Hebrew, said so to Moses; and the word spread that Moses had killed an Egyptian, and Pharaoh tried to arrest him and then he would sentence him to death.
Moses fled, went to Midian and lived there 40 years in the house of Jethro as son in law of Jethro; there he had two children. And apparently he had forgotten his people; they had to wait for 40 years, and when 40 years were fulfilled … Notice, there are cycles: when he was 40 years old, they did not receive him, he was still young and there was no deliverer during those 40 years that followed, until Moses came back already old, 80 years old; and he came with the signs God gave him, he was sent from God, anointed by God, the Pillar of Fire accompanying him, the Angel of the Covenant, which is Christ in the Old Testament, the Angel of the Covenant, which is Christ in His heavenly body; for the promise is that the Coming of the Messiah is the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, in whom God dwells, the coming of the Lord, the coming of the Angel of the Covenant to His Temple.
So, Moses and on that occasion was sent by God, anointed by God and with the relevant signs; for Moses was afraid to go to his brothers there to Egypt, who were there in Egypt; and to deliver them, the responsibility was much greater. But God said to him: “Go, I’ll be with you, I am with you; and they will hear you.”
Moses was afraid that they would not listen to him, and Moses also had the problem of being slow of speech, that is, stuttering; but he was the man with the message of God, the ministry of God, and had the two consciousness together to see and hear from God’s dimension.
He went to Egypt, gathered the elders of Israel together and they heard him; but sometimes when they increased the task of making bricks they had to do, then the people complained to Moses, because since the time Moses arrived to Egypt in the midst of the Jews who were enslaved there, the burden of brick making were increased to the Hebrews, and they cried due that situation. But God was with Moses and it was time for that deliverance.
They had been for a while without problems when Joseph was alive, but after Joseph died, they were in slavery. And now, 400 years of slavery had been fulfilled, and the promise was that God would deliver them.
For every work that God will do, He uses a human being; and with that human being there is going to be a people who will receive him, and that man will carry out a work on behalf of the people; and with that people he will carry out a work for all those who are to receive him and are to receive the blessings of God; because this man will be the Voice of God, because God will put His Word in the mouth of that man, of that prophet; and consequently, being anointed by the Holy Spirit, God will speak through this man.
When this man speaks the Word of God, it is God speaking through human flesh, it is God veiled in a human body. That is why Scripture says: “I said, Ye are gods.” And Jesus says: “If he called them gods, unto whom the Word of God came, and the Scripture cannot be broken.” [St. John 10:31-42 ]
That is what Jesus said when they said to Him: “You, being a man, make yourself God.” It was God in a veil of human flesh: in a man, visiting Israel and speaking to Israel; these are always the prophets of God, “for surely the Lord will do nothing but He first reveals His secrets to His servants, His prophets. “Amos, chapter 3, verse 7.
Therefore, God had said that He would visit His people, and there He was visiting them when Moses appeared; He was in Moses, who was accompanied by the Pillar of Fire that had appeared to him in a burning bush and was not consumed, back in Exodus chapter 3, verse 1, and onwards. And He says to him: “I am the God of Amram (that is, the God of the father of Moses), the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob.”
God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth was appearing to Moses in that flame of fire; and would accompany Moses to carry out through Moses, the deliverance of the Hebrew people, to carry out the exodus, the departure of the Hebrew people out of slavery, and therefore, out of Egypt.
Moses was afraid to return to Egypt to be among the Hebrew people, and says to God: “If they ask me what your Name is, what would I answer them?” God says: “I AM that I AM. And you will say to the people: I AM has sent me unto you.” He also says to him:” This is my memorial forever.” Chapter 3, verse 13 to 16 of Exodus.
Everyone has wanted to know the Name of God, and here It is being revealed to Moses. We find that Moses knew how to pronounce the Name of God, because he heard It.
And now, Moses goes to Egypt, but he says to Him: “Send I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou will send,” because he had said to Him he was a stutterer, and God was angry with Moses.
It is that there is never two heads, two leaders that agree on everything, because two leaders, two heads, each one of them think in their normal way of thinking; two heads: two ways of thinking. And the leader was Moses; and he is giving a very important part, the part of addressing to the people, to his brother. God was angry with Moses and said: “Do not I know your brother who speaks well, who can speak to the people? He will come out and will meet with you in the wilderness, and will be glad.” And so it was. And God says to him: “You will speak to him, I will speak to you, and you shall speak to him what he should speak.” That’s in the very Exodus, chapter 4, verse 10, and onwards:
“And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.
And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.
And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.”
Moses was instead of God to Aaron; just as God spoke to Moses what he had to speak; that which God spoke to Moses, thereafter Moses spoke it to Aaron to speak it to the people: and Aaron had to repeat what Moses said, because Aaron was a prophet of Moses, and Moses was a prophet of God, a dispensational prophet, that’s why any person or people doing something against Moses, he was doing it against God and had trouble with God.
Remember that once Aaron and Mary or Miriam, sister of Aaron and Moses, criticized Moses because he had married a dark young girl, a young woman which they did not agree that she would be Moses’ wife, they had discrimination against Moses’ wife because of the skin color and nationality.
And God was angry with Miriam and Aaron. Miriam became leprous. Aaron was frightened and cried out to Moses. Aaron did not pray to God, he went to Moses because Moses was instead of God to Aaron, for Moses to speak to him what God told Moses. Moses prayed, cried out to God, and God heard him, and healed Miriam’s leprosy.
Aaron was very scared because after Miriam it was Aaron’s turn and Aaron had already accumulated enough points for making the golden calf too, and on top of that now, on this other occasion, he criticized Moses.
The Scripture says: “Do not do my prophets harm,” and more so if he is a dispensational prophet, anyone who does something against him, will have sore problems before God.
Now, Moses in Egypt made the signs that God gave him to do, he gave the Message from God to the people, for the exodus that would take place according to the Divine Program, according to what God promised Abraham: that they would be 400 years as slaves, and after 400 years God would deliver them, bring them out with great substance, and take them to the promised land; He would bring them out and punish the people that would keep them captives, He would punish them with a strong hand, with divine judgment.
For the departure of the people, God said that each family should take a lamb of a year, to keep it until the 14th day, they should take it on the 10th day, and on the 14th each family would sacrifice it; they would apply its blood on the lintel and the doorposts of the house, and that would be a token to God that they had sacrificed the paschal lamb, they had believed and had the paschal lamb inside, roasted, and the whole family eating.
Why does all this take place? Because that is the plan of God, as was the construction of the ark to save those who were in the ark, a simple thing, but see, it was God’s plan for that time. And now for the firstborn of the Hebrew people not to die that night in which they would be eating the paschal lamb in the eve of the Passover, in order for them not to die, they had to sacrifice a year old lamb without blemish, and they had to apply the blood on the lintel and doorposts of the homes. And that would be a token to God, because that night, at midnight, God would pass, and the angel of death would come into the homes and the firstborn that would be in the house would die.
The Passover lamb was sacrificed for the preservation of life of the firstborn, and it’s blood applied on the lintel and doorposts of every home; because instead the firstborn dying, that paschal lamb died in his stead, the Passover lamb died instead of every firstborn, and its blood was applied, because the life is in the blood.
Now, we find death passed, the angel of death passed through the homes in Egypt, and when He saw the blood on the lintel and doorposts of the home of the Hebrews, He did not enter in the home. It was, the angel’s wings, like a mist, dark smoke and went down and entered into the houses and the firstborn died, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh to the firstborn from among the animals.
But in the Hebrew homes the angel of death did not come in. Why? Because He saw the blood, and it showed that in place of the firstborn an animal had died; and that is easy to understand because since the time of Adam animals were being sacrificed that took the place of the sinner, the animal dies and the blood is shed, of the animal, and the sinner is free, because an animal died for the sinner.
That is the plan of God, because that it is typifying something that later on will be manifested in the midst of the human race for the establishment of a New Covenant promised in Jeremiah, chapter 31, verses 31 to 36; and God will write the Divine Law in the tables of the hearts of people.
Now, if it did not fail there, and every firstborn had representation on the lamb that died instead of every firstborn, that was the type and shadow of what would happen later in a new time for a New Covenant to be established. The covenant without blood is not effective, is void.
Now, it was so with the exodus of Israel, from slavery in Egypt, to go to the Promised Land.
And now, the promise is that God will carry out a New Covenant; therefore, everything that happened back in the Old Covenant, in the Old Testament, is type and shadow of what is going to happen for a New Covenant that has to be made. Jeremiah, chapter 31, verses 31 onwards, says:
“Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah (There it is the prophecy of a new covenant).
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.”
This shows us that God will make a new covenant.
And now, in the time of Moses, the Hebrew people were circumcised, Abraham was circumcised also, Ishmael was also circumcised on the same date, and then later Isaac was circumcised, and so the seed of Abraham kept the covenant of circumcision; but even though they had the covenant, the token of the covenant which was circumcision, and were circumcised, for that time the covenant was not valid, was not effective, if they did not have the blood of the paschal lamb applied on the lintel and doorposts of their homes.
Anyone could say: “We do not need a lamb to be sacrificed neither the blood applied on the door, on the lintel and doorposts, because we are all circumcised.” But they believed Moses.
The Egyptians could say: “That’s ignorance.” They did not have the knowledge of what the sacrifice of the Passover lamb was, and they did not understand that it was time for the departure of the Hebrew people from Egypt, the exodus of the Hebrew people.
But the Hebrews, through Moses’ teaching, plus the one they had, they understood; and with fear and reverence made that sacrifice and placed it, the roast lamb, inside the home to eat during the night of the Passover, and the blood was applied on the outside, because life is in the blood, showing that inside they had the roast lamb and they were eating it, and were ready to leave: their shoes on and staff in their hand as well (it was the rod on which people were supported, as a long cane on which people leaned themselves); and everything had to be ready, and flour wrapped up in linen, to leave after eating the Passover. The blood was the token.
And now for the New Covenant and for the life of the firstborn to be preserved in the New Covenant, notice, there is a circumcision too. Deuteronomy 10, verse 16, says:
“Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.”
“And be no more stiff-necked.” A circumcision in the heart. Jeremiah speaks of that also in chapter 4. When we say: Jeremiah says, we must understand that it is God through His Spirit speaking through the prophet Jeremiah [Verse 4]:
“Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.”
And now see that God requires the heart to be circumcised, it says: “The foreskin of your heart.”
And now, in the New Testament Paul says and John the Baptist says … John the Baptist points to Christ and says: “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.” St. John, chapter 1, verses 29 to 36. And St. Paul speaks of the circumcision of the heart, in Romans, chapter 2, verse 28 to 29:
“For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.”
And now, St. Paul speaks to us of the circumcision of heart. Christ also speaks of a New Covenant in Matthew, chapter 26, and Luke, chapter 22. Matthew, chapter 26, verse 26 onwards, says (26 to 29):
“And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it;
For this is my blood of the new testament (here it speaks to us of the Blood of the New Covenant), which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”
And now here it speaks of the New Covenant and the Blood of the New Covenant. The Blood of Christ shed is the Blood of the New Covenant.
Hebrews, chapter 13, verses 20 to 22, says:
“Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant (notice, the Blood of the everlasting Covenant, it doesn’t mention another covenant),
Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”
And now, the Blood of the New Covenant will remain making intercession for each person who receives Christ as Savior, and he who confesses his sins to Christ.
In the Old Covenant, in the Old Testament, the blood had to be applied literally; and always, at the appointed date, sacrifices had to be made.
Now, concerning the Passover lamb and its blood applied on the lintel and doorposts of every home, it speaks of the heart’s door, where the Blood has to be applied and God writes His Laws. Notice, Chapter 12, verse 22 onwards, of Hebrews, 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 (those firstborn are those who form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, each one of them at the appointed time for them to live), and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant (Who is the Mediator of the New Covenant? Jesus Christ), and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.”
And now, Christ before He ascended to Heaven and even in His earthly ministry says to Nicodemus: “Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.” And now there is a requirement to enter the Kingdom of God. And it says in John, chapter 1 also, verses 11 to 13:
“He came unto His own, and His own received him not (that is, the Jews).
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, but of God.”
This is, conceived by the Holy Spirit.
That’s why He speaks to the Samaritan woman of the water that springs up into everlasting life, speaking of the Holy Spirit, and in Chapter 7 of St. John speaks of the Holy Spirit: Chapter 7, verse 37 to 39:
“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)”
But when He died and rose again and ascended into Heaven glorified, He was glorified, and He said that He would send the Holy Spirit on God’s behalf; in other places says that the Father would send the Holy Spirit. John, chapter 14, verse 26, says:
“But the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things and bring to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.”
And in John, chapter 15, verse 26 to 27 says:
“But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.”
And in John, chapter 16, verse 12 onwards, says:
“I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.”
In other words, Christ did not speak everything He had. He had other things He needed to talk, but notice:
“Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.”
And now, Christ died as the Passover Lamb at the eve of the Passover; and the symbolism of the Passover which the Jewish people keep, now becomes a reality, it becomes a reality in Christ; and that Passover in Egypt, which the Jewish people carried out, became a reality in Christ, because He is the Passover Lamb who comes to preserve the life of the elect, of those who are written in Heaven, who are the firstborn of God. And Christ had to die to preserve the life of those firstborn, and He preserves it unto eternal Life.
There is no other Sacrifice that man can do for the firstborn of God except the one made by Christ on the Cross of Calvary; and His Blood is applied on the door of the heart of each person that receives Him it as his only and sufficient Salvador.
Without the Holy Spirit there is no covenant effective for believers; that’s why the foolish virgins who had no oil in their lamps, they did not have the Holy Spirit, had to go through the great tribulation; and therefore they were not of the firstborn written in Heaven; although they are written in Heaven in the other section of the Book of Life, wherein any person crossing the line between grace and mercy can be blotted out.
The firstborn written in Heaven, I said, are those who would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which would have the token of Blood applied upon the heart. Anyone may wonder: “How can that be done, if Christ died about two thousand years ago and His Blood was shed? And now, where will we find the Blood of Christ?”
The Life that was in that Blood is the Holy Spirit, and when the person receives the Holy Spirit he is receiving the Life of the Blood of Christ; and therefore the New Covenant becomes effective to every believer who has received Christ, has been baptized in water in His Name and Christ has baptized him with the Holy Ghost and Fire; which each person must ask God through Christ, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, so that the person may have the life of the Blood of Christ, which is the Holy Spirit, which descended on Pentecost upon hundred and twenty, and thereafter has been coming down upon them who receive Him as Savior, who cry to Christ to baptize them with the Holy Spirit and Fire.
Without the life of the Blood, which is the Holy Spirit, and therefore the Blood is applied to the heart of the person by having the life of the Blood; without the Holy Spirit, the New Covenant is not effective to the person and every promise concerning the New Covenant is not effective to the person; but he who has received Christ and has received His Spirit, is heir to all the promises God made to the believers of the New Covenant who form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the time allotted to them to live.
The elect, predestinated, chosen, firstborn written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, from which they can never be blotted out, are those who will be raised if they died physically, Christ will resurrected them, in the meantime they are in Paradise, another dimension, where there are trees, there are lakes, there are fish, there are birds, animals and people who have been born again believers in Christ, of the different stages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Those are the firstborn for whom Christ died as the Lamb of God on the Cross of Calvary for the preservation of the lives of these people; they will live forever with Christ in His Kingdom. Already in the spiritual realm they have obtained the spiritual redemption: “If any man be in Christ he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” Second Corinthians, Chapter 5, the Apostle Paul teaches us this divine truth. Chapter 5, verse 17, of Second Corinthians.
St. Paul tells us also that circumcision is of the heart, because God said that those who would believe in Him to be circumcised in the heart, because that is the most important thing; and that is carried out in the New Covenant that Christ carried out, to which millions of human beings have been entering in.
Since there is a New Covenant, and circumcision is done in the heart, whosoever is not under the New Covenant has problems before God. Those who are within the New Covenant, just as Israel carried out the Passover once a year, every believer in Christ in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, from time to time takes the Holy Supper in the Church, where he takes the bread or eats bread, representing the body of Christ, and drinks wine, representing the Blood of Christ. In other words, the death of Christ as the Passover Lamb and also as the kid-goat of Atonement, the Passover of the New Covenant is commemorated, which is Christ sacrificed for us.
That which they did back there, the sacrifice of the Passover lamb in Egypt, was a type of the Sacrifice of Christ on the Cross of Calvary dying for the firstborn who would enter into the New Divine Covenant. First Corinthians, chapter 5, verse 7 says:
“Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened: for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.”
What happened down there in Egypt, the Passover lamb being sacrificed and his blood being applied to the lintel and doorposts of homes, and the roasted lamb being eaten in every household, is a type of Christ being crucified, sacrificed, His blood being applied upon the heart of every believer who receives Him as Savior, and believing in Christ and eating His Word, which is Christ.
Remember He said: “He who eats not my flesh and drinks my blood has no life abiding in him.” In other words, he does not have eternal Life, what he has is a temporary life which is going to end sometime; because the life we receive from Adam and Eve, as descendants of Adam and Eve, is a temporary life; but now we must be born again, born of the water and of the Spirit, as Christ said to Nicodemus in chapter 3 of John, verses 1 to 6 in order to enter the New Covenant and have the token of the Blood, which is the Holy Spirit within our hearts, in our soul.
Without the token of the New Covenant, the token of the Blood of Christ, which is the Holy Spirit, people are subject to divine judgment and are subject to all the problems which pertain to the judgment which God will pronounce on the people of the Last Day: the great tribulation. But for the born again believers in Christ, who have the token of the Blood, which is the Holy Spirit, because the life is in the Blood … In the Blood of Christ, you will notice, the Life of the Blood is in there, which is the Holy Spirit.
In the times of the Old Covenant or Old Testament, the life of the blood could not come upon the individual because animals do not have souls; in the New Covenant or New Testament, the Life of Christ, the Holy Spirit, comes upon all believers who have received Him as Savior; that’s why with one sacrifice He has redeemed us, He doesn’t have to come more than once to die, He already died once and thus He made a perfect Sacrifice to make perfect him who receives Him as only and sufficient Savior.
And when God sees the born again believer, He doesn’t see sin in him, because he is under the Blood of Christ and the Life of the Blood of Christ, which is the Holy Spirit; he is within the New Covenant.
And therefore, every born again believer in Christ, with the token of the Blood, which is the Holy Spirit, has been waiting for the Coming of Christ to His Church to change us and take us with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; knowing that if the person dies physically, he goes to Paradise; and at the Coming of the Lord, before He comes directly from the seventh dimension, where He is as High Priest making intercession with His Blood-He passes through Paradise, which is the sixth dimension, and carries out judgment there on all the messengers of His Church, the seven messengers and also upon the ones of the time of the early Church there in Israel, St. Peter and the other apostles.
The Rev. William Branham was told, he did not know what was going to happen and he was told: “You’ll give account for all of us, you will be judged, and if you enter in, we will also enter in: we will come back to Earth, we will take bodies, receive glorified bodies, we will take bodies:” that is, glorified bodies; they will be raised in glorified bodies, for if they raise in the same bodies they had, they will die again; but they will be raised in glorified bodies, glorified bodies as Christ was raised to never die again. They will appear to believers who are alive, and when we see them we will be changed, so is the Divine Program, the divine plan.
In Philippians, chapter 3, verse 20 to 21, speaks of the Coming of the Lord; it will be to transform our bodies to be like His glorious body, by the power by which He can subdue all things to Himself.
And in First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verses 12 to 18, says that the Lord Himself will come down from Heaven with a Shout, Voice of Archangel and Trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we who are alive will be caught to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
And in First Corinthians, chapter 15, verses 49 to 58, also speaks of the same, and says: “And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall bear also the image of the heavenly.” We’re going to read it here, verse 50 onwards, says:
“But this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption …”
In other words, that we are not going to be in the physical Kingdom of Christ with physical mortal bodies when it is established, or to go to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb in the rapture; it must be with an immortal, incorruptible body, as the glorified body of Jesus Christ.
“Neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.” In other words, the mortal body we have is corruptible, therefore it doesn’t inherit incorruption, it must cease to exist at some point, but there will be a group of believers in Christ who will have the token of the Holy Spirit, they will not see physical death but will be changed when the dead in Christ shall rise at the Coming of Christ with them.
“Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed (we shall not all die, already many have died in past ages, but there will be a group that by the time of the resurrection of the dead at the Coming of the Lord will be alive and will be changed),
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump (the last trumpet is the end time message or Final Message): for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed (transformed from mortal to physically immortal, for our soul has already eternal Life, now we lack the physical part: the transformation of our body) .
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”
It is important, necessary, to be clothed with immortality, to be changed; and that’s at the Final Trumpet, the Final Message, the Message of Great Voice of Trumpet, which is a dispensational message, the Message for the Dispensation of the Kingdom.
We are all waiting for the Coming of the Lord since He left until our time; this will be the final solution to all our problems, and that will be the solution to the problem of the state of the environment, which is very difficult, the environmental situation: earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes and so on, tsunamis also on planet Earth, and every day increasing. And if currently it is so, how will it be in the Great Tribulation? For the Scripture says that the day of the Lord comes and it will be a day that shall burn as an oven. Malachi, chapter 4, verse 1 onwards says:
“For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise … “
That is the Second Coming of Christ. He is the Sun of Righteousness. He said in John, chapter 8, verse 12: “I am the light of the world, he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life,” the light of life or brightness of life, in other words, will have the Holy Spirit, and therefore eternal Life.
“And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.
Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, with the status and judgements..
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”
Before the dreadful day of the great tribulation comes, of which it says that it will be a terrible day, and all that do wickedly, “all the proud shall be stubble, and the day that cometh shall burn, burn them up”, before that time comes , which will be during the great tribulation, it says: “I will send you Elijah.”
Therefore, just as we had the prophet Elijah the Tishbite, and then as successor of Elijah the Tishbite, Elisha, who then became the second Elijah, the man with the spirit and power of Elijah, the man with a double portion of the spirit Elijah, as he asked it and as recognized by the sons of the prophets when they said: “The spirit of Elijah rested upon Elisha.” That’s the Holy Spirit that rested upon Elisha, which was first upon Elijah.
And then for a third time, upon John the Baptist; which was the Elijah that came forerunning the First Coming of Christ. And then, for the fourth time, in the Rev. William Branham as a forerunner to the Second Coming of Christ.
And it has been promised that Elijah will come again for the fifth time, and he will be accompanied by Moses, that is the Holy Spirit operating the ministry of Elijah for the fifth time and the Holy Spirit operating the ministry of Moses for the second time, and if we count the First Coming of Christ as the second time, then it will be the third time.
“The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet like unto thee, him shall ye hearken,” Moses said according to how God told Moses. And then Moses says: “The Lord your God …” Chapter 18, verse 18 to 19 of Deuteronomy, says:
“I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee (God says to Moses), and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.”
In that prophet promised here, in whom the Spirit of God will be, the Holy Spirit anointing and putting God’s words in the mouth of that prophet … In all previous prophets God reflected what He will do in the Last Day; in Christ was in all His fullness, and then for the Last Day will also be in all His fullness; but in each of the prophets and messengers of the Old Testament and the New Testament was reflected what God will do in the end time.
Therefore, there are great promises for Israel; those are the Two Olive Trees of Zechariah, chapter 4, verse 11 onwards, and Revelation, chapter 11, verses 1 to 14: the Two Olive Trees which are before the presence of God.
We also have the promise of the Coming of the Son of Man, the Coming of the Lord; that’s the mystery of the Seventh Seal, of which one cannot explain now so there is no imitation of what the Coming of the Lord to His Church will be in this end time, and then that mystery will be opened to the Church for Her to obtain the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, and that will be in the Third Pull, as the Reverend William Branham says.
And the Third Pull, what we saw manifested temporarily in Rev. William Branham, will be fully manifested; and the Third Pull will be for the Bride, that is, for the elect, the chosen ones, the elect, the firstborn written in Heaven in the Lamb’s Book of Life, to give them faith to be changed and raptured with Christ.
And the Third Pull will also be for the foolish virgins, who will go through the great tribulation because they did not have the Seal of the Holy Spirit; they did not have the token of the Blood, which is the Holy Spirit; they did not have the life of the Blood of Christ, which is the Holy Spirit.
And the Third Pull will also be for the world.
The impact will not only be felt on the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ (the wise virgins), but also on the foolish virgins, which will give them strength and courage to endure the great tribulation and to give their lives for Christ; for the anti-Christ will persecute them and kill them. That’s in Revelation, Chapter 12, verses 1 to 17, and on the anti-Christ is found in Second Thessalonians, chapter 2, verse 1 onwards.
In other words, a hard time is awaiting humanity, but before the great tribulation begins, a squeeze will come for the believers in Christ who have the token of the Blood, the Holy Spirit, and there, in the midst of this squeeze, the Third Pull will be manifested, God in all His fullness manifested in the midst of His Church.
The Rev. William Branham said it was revealed to him, he was told by the Holy Spirit, he was told by the Angel who accompanied him, that what was shown in the Tent Vision, everything he saw, that was the Third Pull, the Third Pull coming forth.
In the midst of Christianity, in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, there will be a Great Tent-Cathedral according to the vision that was shown to the Rev. William Branham, so he always tried and wanted to have it, he tried to buy a Great Tent, knowing it was a vision, he knew it had to be fulfilled, and he tried to conquer that vision by faith, that promise, but it was not for his time, if not, he would have achieved it in his time.
It is for our time. Somewhere the fulfillment of the Vision of the Great Tent-Cathedral will appear, he said it will be so, that it will be fulfilled. Before leaving, he said: “One thing that has not been fulfilled (of the visions he had seen), and it is the vision of the Great Tent-Cathedral” and therefore it is up to the Church of Jesus Christ to carry out this work in order to fulfill that vision; and it will be fulfilled somewhere.
All the Churches of all the countries, wish it to be in their country; but if he saw it already built and God working in the midst of it, then the place was also chosen. He saw it somewhere in the vision, therefore, somewhere in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be fulfilled, where people will be working in favor of that divine project.
It is the most important project that will take place on this planet Earth, as it was in Solomon’s time the building of the temple to God there in Jerusalem. And in the time of Moses the most important building was the construction of the tabernacle, a house for God. The most important house is the house of God; therefore, wherever this prophecy, this vision is fulfilled, will be fulfilled the greatest and most important physical construction of planet Earth.
The Rev. William Branham saw the same Pillar of Fire that appeared to Moses and led the people of Israel through the wilderness and took them to the Promised Land, and accompanied him all the time, and accompanied the different prophets, and became flesh in the person of Jesus Christ; the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, St. John, chapter 1, verse 14.
That same Pillar of Fire came down on the day of Pentecost there in Jerusalem, in the upper room, upon one hundred and twenty people: Book of Acts, chapter 2. It happened as Christ said in chapter 1, verse 1, to 10, of the book of Acts.
It was the Holy Spirit among the people and cloven tongues of fire descending, and so they received the Holy Spirit and received the new birth, and there they received the circumcision within the heart, within the soul, all the ones that were there, and it has been going on like that for approximately these two thousand years, in all who have received Christ and have received His Holy Spirit.
And now we’re at the end time, wherein at any time the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be completed, at any moment will be born in the Kingdom of Christ through the new birth, through the Holy Spirit, those who are lacking for the completion of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and then the resurrection of the dead in Christ will come and the transformation of us which are alive, after Christ leaves the Throne of the Father and takes the Title Deed, the Lamb’s Book of Life which is the Book sealed with Seven Seals, and opens It in Heaven; of Revelation, chapter 5, verses 1 onwards.
And then in Revelation, chapter 10, verse 1 onwards, Christ already descends, the Mighty Angel comes down with the Little Book opened in His hand, crying as when a lion roars and seven thunders uttering their voices.
The Seven Thunders, which is the Voice of Christ speaking consecutively, will give us the blessing of the revelation of the Seventh Seal, the revelation of the Coming of Christ for the Last Day; and thus He will give us faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, for He comes to transform us and take us with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. And to transform us: as we have believed in His First Coming, we will be believe in His Second Coming to His Church.
He has always been the Light of the world, He is the Light that enlightens every man, He is the Light of eternal Life, and so when the Holy Spirit comes to the soul, it enlightens, illuminates the person’s soul and enlightens the divine path, the path of God, which is Christ our Savior, who said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life and no one comes to the Father but by me,” John, chapter 14, verse 6.
Therefore, the token to go out in the exodus, the spiritual exodus, has been Christ producing the spiritual exodus, sealing God’s children in the soul. “Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” [Ephesians 4:30] In other words, unto the day of our transformation, the redemption of the body. Romans, chapter 8, verses 14 to 31.
And in our time we have the promise of an exodus in the spiritual realm, leaving the religious formalism and putting ourselves in the promised Word for this time, believing the promises for our time and being prepared for our transformation, by receiving His Spirit, and having the token for the exodus, which is the Holy Spirit.
Remember that Christianity as believers in Christ consists of wise and foolish virgins, the foolish ones will go through the great tribulation, because they did not have the token of the Blood, which is the Holy Spirit, the life of the Blood, which is the Holy Spirit, and those who have oil in their lamps are the wise virgins, they are the ones who have the Holy Spirit and will be changed and taken with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.
It says that when the foolish virgins were trying to find oil, the Bridegroom came (Matthew, chapter 25, verses 1 to 13), and those who were ready went in with Him to the Wedding, and the door was shut, then the foolish came knocking at the door and it doesn’t say whether they found oil or not, and came knocking at the door: “Lord, Lord, open to us.” And He answered: “I know not where you are from, I do not know where you are from.”
They were not of the group of the wise virgins, they were not those that had oil in their lamps, they were not those with the token of the Blood of Christ, with the life of the Blood of Christ, which is the Holy Spirit and consequently, they had to go through, they had to be cast into outer darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, that is, to be cast into the great tribulation.
But the wise virgins went in with Christ to the Wedding, and the door was shut before the great tribulation. The wise virgins are those who will be changed and taken with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.
At all the stages of the Church, from Pentecost until now, there were wise and foolish virgins in the midst of Christianity. And also in our time, inasmuch as the Third Pull will impact the wise virgins and the foolish virgins; there will also be foolish virgins in this end time, which will go through the great tribulation, but they will be strengthened to go through the great tribulation, the Third Pull is going to help them a lot.
There will be no opportunity for the world; because they have rejected Christ as their Savior, there will no longer be time for them to receive Him.
For the Jewish people will be a great blessing: the Coming of the Messiah, the Coming of Elijah forerunning the Coming of the Messiah, preparing the way, and the coming of Moses, but they will have to go through the great tribulation, which is Jacob’s trouble, where one hundred and forty-four thousand are going to see and receive the Coming of the Messiah and will be sealed in their foreheads, but they have to go through the great tribulation and die as martyrs in the great tribulation, the beast will persecute them and kill them.
We are at a very important time, the time of preparation for the Coming of the Lord, to receive the dead that will rise and to be changed; to receive faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb. The end of the wise virgins on Earth, and the blessings for the wise virgins at the end, all that will revolve around the Vision of the Tent-Cathedral which the Rev. William Branham saw; and from there that blessing will spread to all nations.
Therefore, it is important to be prepared with the token for our departure in the exodus. The exodus, in the physical part of the physical body: is to leave this dimension by being transformed, and to physically enter the Kingdom of God and of Christ, to go to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb with Christ our Savior; and that can not be explained much, because that’s what we will experiment, and when we have had that experience, then we will understand well.
Therefore, we have seen the token to leave in this third exodus, which is the Holy Spirit in every believer and the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ as the Mystical Body of believers, wherein It will be manifested in all Its fullness in this end time; as It was manifested in Jesus Christ and as It was manifested in the Rev. William Branham, so shall it be.
The Rev. William Branham says that what was seen in part manifested in him as the Third Pull, will be manifested in all Its fullness. So a great blessing is underway.
It’s as Elijah the prophet said on one occasion: “An abundance of rain sounds.” Showers of blessing for believers in Christ and even for the foolish virgins.
It is necessary to have the token to go out in the exodus, the token of the Holy Spirit, which is the One that produces the new birth in the person, which is the life of Christ, the life of the Blood of Christ.
In animals, the animal’s spirit cannot come upon the person because animals do not have souls, but Christ, the Spirit of Christ does come upon humans. Therefore, it is important to be aware of the need for the token of the Holy Spirit in our soul, our heart, whereby we are sealed unto the day of redemption, unto the day of transformation, the redemption of the body, which Spirit writes in our souls, in our hearts, the commandments and ordinances and laws of God. There is where the New Covenant is written by Christ through the Holy Spirit.
“THE TOKEN TO LEAVE ON THE EXODUS.”
If there is someone who has not yet received Christ as Savior, you can do it right now, and we will be praying for you.
Children ten years and older can also come to the Feet of Christ, therefore, you may come forward and we will be praying for you.
Those in other countries can also come to the Feet of Christ: you may come forward wherever you are, so that you may be included in the prayer that we will be doing. And children ten years and older can also come to the Feet of Christ there in other nations.
God has many people throughout Latin America and in all nations, and is calling them in this end time. If today you hear His Voice, harden not your heart, He is calling you in this end time.
Christ said: “I have other sheep which are not of this fold (that is, they are the Gentiles), which also I must bring, and they shall hear my Voice and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.” The Voice is the Gospel of Christ, the Gospel of our salvation; and the Fold is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Good Shepherd is Jesus Christ, and the door of the sheepfold is Christ, who said: “I am the door, by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved and shall go and find pasture,” John, chapter 10, verse 1 to 30.
He said: “And there will be one fold and one shepherd.” Who belongs to that Fold? Which are the sheep of that Fold? All of us, all believers in Christ in all countries wherever they are.
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me
And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
My Father which gave them me, is greater than all, and no one can pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
I and the Father are one. “
St. John, chapter 10, verses 27 to 30.
We will stand up to pray for the people who have come to the Feet of Christ our Savior. With our hands raised to Christ, to Heaven:
Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy Name. Thy Kingdom come and Thy will be done, as in Heaven also on earth, give us today our daily bread, and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for Thine is the Kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
I come to You, Father, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, with all these people who are receiving Christ as only and sufficient Savior. Welcome them into Your Kingdom. I pray in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Now, repeat after me this prayer, those who have come to the Feet of Christ on this occasion:
Lord Jesus Christ, I heard the preaching of Your Gospel and Your faith was born in my heart.
I believe in You with all my heart. I believe in Your first Coming and believe in Your death on the Cross of Calvary as the Sacrifice of Atonement for our sins. I believe, Lord, in Your Name as the only Name under Heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
I Recognize that I am a sinner, I recognize that I need a Savior, a Redeemer. I give public testimony of my faith in You and receive You as my only and sufficient Savior. I beg You to forgive my sins and cleanse me with Your Blood from all sin, and baptize me with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produce in me the new birth.
I want to be born in Your Kingdom, I want to live forever with You in Your Kingdom. Make the salvation You purchased for me on the Cross of Calvary a reality. Save me, Lord, make it a reality in my life. I pray in Your eternal and glorious Name, Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
With our hands raised to Heaven, we all say: THE BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST HAS CLEANSED ME FROM ALL SIN! THE BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST HAS CLEANSED ME FROM ALL SIN! THE BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST HAS CLEANSED ME FROM ALL SIN! AMEN.
Christ has received you into His Kingdom and has forgiven your sins, and with His Blood He has cleansed you from all sin, for you have received Him as your only and sufficient Savior. Your question is: “When can I be baptized?”
Inasmuch as you believed in Christ as Savior, you can be baptized, and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produce in you the new birth.
Water baptism does not remove sin, it is the Blood of Christ that cleanses us from all sin, but water baptism is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ, who said in Mark, chapter 16, verses 15-16:
“Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be damned. “
As simple as that. Since the person has free moral agency, it is up to the person, after hearing, to be baptized or reject baptism.
Water baptism is typological: in water baptism we identify with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection. When a person receives Christ as Savior, he dies to the world, and when he is immersed in the baptismal waters, typologically he is buried, and when he is lifted from the waters of baptism, he is resurrecting unto eternal Life with Christ in His eternal Kingdom.
Therefore, water baptism is important for all who receive Christ as only and sufficient Savior.
The apostle Peter, speaking of water baptism in his first message, full of the Holy Spirit: Chapter 2, verse 37 to 40, says [Acts]:
“Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.”
About three thousand people believed and were added to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and were baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Therefore, you who have received Christ as Savior can be baptized, and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produce in you the new birth, and we will continue to see each other forever in the Kingdom of Christ our Savior.
We will meet at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, we will see each other coming later on with Christ for the establishment of the Millennial Kingdom, we are going to see each other in the Millennial Kingdom; we will not have problems there, we’ll be there as kings as priests and judges; and we will see each other eternally.
Although we will meet at Judgment Day, but we will be as the cabinet of the Supreme Court of Christ, where Christ is the Supreme Judge, and we will be there as judges, assisting in that Judgment; and thereafter we will also be throughout eternity with Christ in His eternal Kingdom.
(You may kindly be seated).
We’ll leave the Rev. Jose Benjamin Perez with you to let you know how to be baptized in water, and in every country I leave the minister concerned to do the same.
May everyone continue having a happy evening full of the blessings of Christ our Savior.
“THE TOKEN TO LEAVE ON THE EXODUS.”