Good evening, kind friends and brethren present, and those who are connected through the Amazonas satellite or the internet in different nations. May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and also upon me. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
Let’s read in Saint Luke, chapter 7, verses 11 to 17, where it tells us:
“And it came to pass the day after, that he,” (meaning, Jesus), “went into a city called Nain; and many of his disciples went with him, and much people.
Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.
And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.
And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.
And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people.
And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judaea, and throughout all the region round about.”
For tonight’s subject, we will take verse 16, which says:
“That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people.”
“THE VISITATION OF GOD, THE GREATEST BLESSING.” That is our subject for this occasion.
Throughout the Scripture, the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, we can see different occasions in which God has visited His people. We find Him visiting His people in a heavenly, theophanic body, like the Angel of the Covenant, Angel of God; and we also find Him visiting His people in a body of flesh called: a prophet, in different times.
We find Him through the prophet Noah, through Enoch too, through Noah; we find Him visiting His people through the prophet Moses, as well as through the prophet Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
How can we see God visiting His people Israel in the time of Abraham? Simple. Christ Himself says: “Abraham desired to see my day, he saw it and was glad.” The Jews say to Him: “You are not yet fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?” Christ tells them: “Before Abraham was, I am.”1
And how can we see God visiting His people when Isaac hadn’t been born yet and Jacob hadn’t been born yet either? Because they were in Abraham’s loins. When Abraham tithed to Melchizedek, Levi was tithing to God.2
Life always emerges in the four previous generations; therefore, counting Levi, Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham: four generations prior to Levi, Levi was there; life emerges in that fourth previous generation.
That is also why when God says that He is going to punish a people or an individual, He says that… Let’s read it from Exodus itself. Moses wanted to see God’s glory, but God told him: “There shall no man see Me, and live,” but God told him that He was going to reveal Himself to Moses. Remember that Moses also wanted God to forgive the people. Chapter 32 of Exodus, verse 32 says… 31 to 32:
“And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin–; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.”
Whoever sins against God, God says that He will blot him out of His Book, out of the Book of Life.
“Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
And the Lord plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made.”
And now, this 32nd chapter says that God plagued the people for making the golden calf. By making the golden calf, they were establishing the Babylonian religion, idolatry, in the midst of the people.
In chapter 33, verse 12 and on, it says [Exodus]:
“And Moses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest unto me, Bring up this people: and thou hast not let me know whom thou wilt send with me. Yet thou hast said, I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight.
Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.
For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.
And the Lord said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.
And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
And he said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live.
And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:
And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.”
And then when He passed before Moses, Moses was taking some new tables that Moses cut out; because the ones that God had made and written the ten commandments on and God had cut out of the mountain and given to Moses: Moses broke them, he shattered them when he came down the mountain and saw the people with the golden calf in a pagan feast, an idolatrous feast, of idolatry, which they were carrying out there, worshiping the golden calf.
And now, Moses goes up the mountain with some tables for God to write the ten commandments again. In a certain part it also seems like Moses is the one that has to write them while he is up on the mountain before God’s Presence. Chapter 34, verse 4 and on, says [Exodus]:
“And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.
And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.”
Notice what God says:
“…visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.”
In other words, something their fathers did, their wickedness would be visited all the way to the grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In other words, something the great-grandfather would have done, would harm his grandchildren and his great-grandchildren too; in the third and fourth generation would come the Divine judgment because of what the grandfather or great-grandfather had done. It’s because the grandchild and the great-grandchild were already in the grandfather and in the great-grandfather; their body had already emerged, perhaps microscopically, and then it went from the great-grandfather to the grandfather, and from the grandfather to the father, and from the father to the grandchild or great-grandchild.
And now, God’s visitation is for judgment and also—for others—for blessing. The age or ages of restoration are the Lutheran age, where the restoration begins with Luther; then, it goes on to the Wesleyan age, the second age of restoration, with Wesley; then it goes on to the Pentecostal age, where He also sent a messenger, a prophet: Reverend William Branham. There it has three generations. And then we go on to the fourth generation: the Age of the Cornerstone.
In the third generation, the Pentecostal generation, God visited His people for blessing through Reverend William Branham, in whom the presence of God was visiting His people, His Church.
And at this final day He goes into the fourth generation, the generation of the Age of the Cornerstone, of the Golden Age of the Church, where He will be visiting His Church for blessing: speaking words of blessing to Her, opening the Scriptures to Her, speaking to Her the Word that is promised for our time and opening those Scriptures to Her; and as they are being fulfilled, making them known to Her, revealing to His Church all of those promises that are relevant to our time; and showing Her their fulfillment in this fourth generation of restoration, where the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ reaches total restoration.
That is where the visitation for the Church at this end time takes place. And as He has always done, so will He do in our time. The visitation of God for our time is to give us the greatest blessing of all times.
He visited His Church, from age to age, for blessing, for Christ to multiply Himself in sons and daughters of God through that loving union in and of each age, manifesting Himself in human flesh in the messenger relevant to each time.
And for our time, Malachi 4 says: “Behold, I will send you the prophet Elijah (or Elijah the prophet), before the coming of the great day of the Lord.” Let’s read it. Chapter 4, verses 5 to 6, of Malachi, says:
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.”
Before the Great Tribulation, God sends the prophet Elijah, which is the Holy Spirit operating the ministry of Elijah in another veil of flesh, another man; that’s what He did in Elisha (with a double portion), that’s what He did in John the Baptist, forerunning the First Coming of Christ; and that’s what He did in Reverend William Branham; and that’s what He will do in the fulfillment of the Two Olive Trees, of the Two Candlesticks of gold, which are the ministries of Moses and Elijah. For this reason, we have Revelation chapter 22, verse 6, it says:
“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”
Reverend William Branham, speaking about that Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, says that that Angel is a spirit of a prophet, He is a prophet; and he says: “It might have been Elijah, or one of the prophets.” In other words, the spirit of a prophet being sent to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He sent a spirit of a prophet when He sent Reverend William Branham, a spirit of a prophet in a body of flesh; and that was the fourth time. First it was in Elijah the Tishbite, then it was in Elisha, then in John the Baptist for the third time; and for the fourth time, Reverend William Branham. And He will send it for a fifth time as one of the Two Olive Trees, according to Revelation chapter 11; and He will also send the ministry of Moses, a prophet like Moses. These ministries are operated by the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, in each relevant time.
In Revelation chapter 22 as well, verse 16, it says:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
See? This Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, whom Reverend William Branham says is a spirit of a prophet, and he says: “He might have been or might be Elijah,” he says it’s a prophet.
And after the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ in the spirit and power of Elijah, will come the ministry of Elijah, of Moses, and of Jesus, as it was shown on Mount Transfiguration. Between the fourth Elijah and the fifth Elijah, and the second Moses or third Moses, and the ministry of Christ, there is nothing else after the fourth Elijah: only Elijah, Moses, and Jesus in the greatest visitation that the Church has ever had.
To the Jews, the coming of Elijah will be a man of the end time proclaiming everlasting peace; therefore, we must watch for him proclaiming everlasting peace, he is the one who will know how permanent peace will come.
And if we lived in the time of Moses, in that time when he was with the people of Israel in the wilderness, anyone may have said: “I see a people who are camping in such-and-such a place; and I see a man there, who comes in and out of a temple, a tabernacle; I see a man who comes with a tabernacle, and a people,” that’s Moses, a dispensational prophet who received the revelation of building a temple for God, a tabernacle with badger skins, a tent, a tabernacle.
Therefore, we will be watching the promised Moses, who will be a man like Moses was: a dispensational prophet. And what catches our attention is that he came with a temple, with a tabernacle, where God was manifested; a man in whom the Pillar of Fire was veiled and who knew the Name of God that was revealed to him.
And we have the promise of the Two Olive Trees, which are the ministries of Moses and Elijah for the end time, shown on Mount Transfiguration, each of them appearing beside the Lord.
When they come down Mount Transfiguration in chapter 17 of Saint Matthew, since they had seen Moses and Elijah there, they say: “Lord, why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?” They were seeing him there. Christ says to them: “Elijah truly shall come first, and restore all things.” Therefore, Elijah will come restoring: the restoration of the Church, the restoration of the lost tribes; in other words, he will have to do with the Church and with the Hebrew people.
In his fourth manifestation he had to do with the Church, in the fifth manifestation he will have to do with the Church and with the Hebrew people. That is why he comes with Moses, because Moses was the Law-giver.
And Israel will see Christ coming for His Church, because Christ has promised to come for His Church, who is the Angel of the Covenant that comes down from Heaven in Revelation chapter 10, with the little Book open in His hand, the Seven-Sealed Book; and crying as when a lion roars, because He already has the Title Deed and He is already bringing It opened to His Church; for which He must have an instrument, a prophet, to whom the Word can come, to whom Christ can bring the Title Deed. And that is a very important event, because without the Title Deed, the resurrection and the rapture can’t take place.
That is the Title Deed that Adam had, and he lost It when he sinned. The devil couldn’t take It, God took It; and He has kept It in His right hand until the moment comes for Christ to finish His Work of Intercession in Heaven and take the Title Deed, open It, and carry out His Claiming Work, His Claiming Work as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, King of kings and Lord of lords, and with a New Name.
He Himself says in Revelation chapter 3, verse 12, and let’s read it… And if Christ says it, that’s the way it is, whether we understand it or not; because the truth is the truth, whether people understand it or not. Chapter 3, verse 12, says:
“Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God…” (meaning, an important person).
Like Jacob or James, the brother of the Lord Jesus Christ, Saint Paul says that Peter and James were the pillars back then in the early Church;3 that doesn’t mean they were cement or metal pillars, but rather they were the most important people.
“… and he shall go no more…”
Now, notice where it is: in the Temple of God. In the New Testament, under the New Covenant, the Temple of God is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“…and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God…”
How will He write It? God knows how to write It. He wrote on the two tables of stone, so He certainly knows how to write!
“… and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.”
If He says that He has a New Name, who can say that He doesn’t? The fact that people don’t know what It is doesn’t mean that He doesn’t have a New Name; He says so, He knows It.
“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”
It’s the Holy Spirit speaking these things, Christ in Holy Spirit.
And now, why don’t people understand It? And who understands It then? Let’s see. Revelation chapter 19, verse 11 and on, says:
“And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.”
There’s someone who knows It: He Himself.
“And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.”
Those are the believers in Christ who will resurrect in glorified bodies, and those who are alive will be transformed; and after the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, they will return with Christ to begin the Kingdom of the Messiah, the Millennial Kingdom.
“And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.”
A sharp sword: the Word.
“And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.”
Therefore, the New Name of the Lord, the Name that no man understands but He Himself, is the One with which He will reign as King of kings and Lord of lords, as Lion of the tribe of Judah. That Name has to do with the Second Coming of Christ.
Revelation chapter 2, verse 17, tells us:
“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”
The One who receives It: the One upon whom God will write It. Therefore, there will be someone who will know It, whether or not he makes It known. Even if he keeps It to himself, there will be someone who will know that mystery. And we will see that more clearly in the Third Pull, which will be fulfilled in a Great Tent Cathedral, which was shown to Reverend William Branham. We will understand these mysteries much better there.
And if by that time in which the fulfillment of that Tent Vision begins, if Christ still hasn’t left the Throne of Intercession, until It is in total fulfillment, at some point He will leave – He will complete His Church and He will leave the Throne of Intercession. And then, from that point on, things will change, in God’s visitation, the greatest blessing for the believers; but for the unbelievers it will be of judgment being spoken, and that Divine judgment being gradually fulfilled, as it was in the days of Noah and as it was in the days of Lot. In both, in that visitation, it was for judgment for the unbelievers, but for blessing for the believers: Abraham and his family; and at this time: for the seed of Abraham, the children of Abraham by the faith in Christ, and the children of Abraham according to the flesh: Israel.
In the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, the Third Pull will be fulfilled; and the Third Pull will be for the Church-Bride, for the foolish (foolish virgins), and for the lost, who won’t be able to obtain mercy because it will already be too late for them, Christ will have already left the Throne of Intercession; and therefore, the Jews will also be impacted.
We don’t want to miss the visitation of God promised for this end time.
We have seen how God has carried out His visitation to His people, to the seed of Abraham, in different times, and how He has been speaking to them through His prophets in each one of His visitations.
Therefore, there will be an instrument in whom the ministries promised for the end time will be manifested; and there comes the visitation to the children of Abraham by the faith in Christ, the visitation of God to His Church at the Last Day, in the fourth generation of restoration, which is the generation of the Age of the Cornerstone, the Golden Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“THE VISITATION OF GOD, THE GREATEST BLESSING.” For whom? For all of us.
May the blessings promised for the visitation of God to His Church in the fourth generation from the Lutheran age until now, be upon you and also upon me; and soon may He transform us and take us with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Continue having a happy night, everyone. God bless you.
“THE VISITATION OF GOD, THE GREATEST BLESSING.”
1 John 8:56-58
2 Hebrews 7:9-10
3 Galatians 2:9