Time of Expectation for Salvation or for Judgment

Good evening, kind friends present and all those who are in different nations connected through the Amazonas satellite or the internet; and to all the ministers present and also those who are in other nations. May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and also upon me. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

For this occasion, let’s read in the Gospel according to Saint Luke, chapter 21, verses 25 to 36; and Jesus Christ says the following:

“And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees;

When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand.

So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.

Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.”

May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.

“TIME OF EXPECTATION FOR SALVATION OR FOR JUDGMENT,” in other words, time of expectation for salvation or for condemnation.

In this passage that we’ve read, we find a prophecy relevant to the end time, it is a prophetic passage that will be fulfilled at the end time. And we have already been seeing earthquakes in different places, tidal waves, tsunamis, and great expectation on Earth, people’s hearts failing them for fear of the expectation of what they anticipate; they are in expectation anticipating terrible things that will happen, as they see that tidal waves, tsunamis, earthquakes, and all these things are happening, and global warming causing the issues of the melting of polar ice caps, which increases sea levels, and consequently, will bring problems to the coasts of all the nations. Many coasts will disappear along with their inhabitants because of these global warming problems.

Each day, each of those problems that are emerging as a result of global warming are increasing; and not only have problems been happening in nature, but also in the sky; not only in the nature of the planet Earth, but also in the sky: in the planets, the galaxies. All these things have put people in a difficult situation, under distress.

And seeing that each day it becomes clearer that what we call flying saucers, UFOs, or other things (chariots of fire), are beings from another dimension, who have bodies from another dimension; and this was common back in the time of the prophets, of the judges. To the Hebrew people this is common, because throughout the entire Bible we find angels, cherubims, seraphims, archangels, we find chariots of fire (the prophet Elijah left in a chariot of fire);¹ the Law for the Hebrew people on Mount Sinai was given by the commission of angels.² See? All of this is normal to the Hebrew people, but to the Gentiles perhaps it is something new; but it is something biblical.

There are different DIMENSIONS; and we are living in, occupying, this earthly dimension in which we are living.

• There are the dimensions of light, time, and matter (we exist in these three dimensions).

• But there is the fourth dimension, which is the dimension of waves, where we find the waves of radio stations, of television, and so on; and also of communications, communications by satellite; and all these communications move in that fourth dimension, which is barely being discovered by the human being. What will it be like when that fourth dimension, the dimension of waves, is well understood?

• There is also another dimension: the fifth dimension, which no one would want to go to; it is the dimension to which the people who don’t have Christ go. Sinners, when they die, go to another world, to another dimension; they don’t go with their physical body because their physical body is the one that dies; but since the human being is a soul, spirit, and body, well, he lost his body but he continues to live, to exist, in soul and spirit; and in soul and spirit, he goes to the fifth dimension if he isn’t a believer. (Then…) That dimension is also called hell.

Remember the parable that Christ gave about the rich man and Lazarus?³ The rich man went to hell and Lazarus went to Paradise, to Abraham’s Bosom (which was called Paradise at that time, or Abraham’s Bosom). Since the death and resurrection of Christ, He brought out of there all the believers who were there: Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the prophets, all the Old Testament believers, and He took them to Heaven. And now, He resurrected them. That is why the Scripture says that when Christ resurrected they appeared with Him on Earth, and they appeared to many people in Jerusalem;⁴ then they went with Christ to Heaven, and they are in Heaven already resurrected with glorified bodies.

But there is a group of people left who have that promise: of a resurrection in eternal and glorified bodies if they are born-again believers in Christ, who form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and those who are alive at that time when the resurrection of the dead in Christ in glorified bodies takes place, those who are alive, believers in Christ, will be transformed. And then they will all have eternal and glorified bodies just like the glorified body of Jesus Christ, and young for all eternity.

Those are promises exclusively for the believers in Christ; they aren’t promises for the unbelievers. For the unbelievers there is a promise of a resurrection in bodies again, to be judged on Judgment Day; that is the promise there is for the unbelievers, for those who don’t believe.⁵

• And now, the believers in Christ, if they die physically: in spirit and soul they go to Paradise, another dimension, the dimension of the angels, a dimension where they are neither working, nor do they get tired, nor do they have the problem of having to wake up early to go to work in the morning and deal with the heavy traffic there is every morning in all countries, and the heavy traffic there is in the evenings when they return from work in all countries, and especially in each capital of each country; but the believers in Christ rest from those labors when they go to Paradise; they are living in heavenly bodies; because a spirit is a body from another dimension.

And now, we find that there is also… That is the sixth dimension.

• The seventh dimension is the dimension of God, where God dwells; that is the dimension where Christ is sitting on the Throne of God.

Remember that Jesus Christ said in Saint Luke chapter 19, verses 11 and on:

“And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.

He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.”

Christ is a descendant of King David, He is a nobleman, He comes from royalty, from David’s monarchy.

And now, Jesus Christ is from the dynasty of David, because Mary is a descendant of King David, and Joseph (His adoptive father) is also a descendant of King David; therefore, Jesus is a descendant of King David according to the flesh. That is why on many occasions they called Him: “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!”⁶

As Son of David, He is King, He is the Prince who is heir to the Throne of David; that is what the Angel Gabriel told the virgin Mary in Saint Luke chapter 1, verses 30 to 36.

And so that it’s clear to you, we can read it, so that we have a clear picture of the time in which we are living and of who Jesus Christ is. Chapter 1 says, verse 30 and on, speaking about this event of the Angel appearing to the virgin Mary, it says:

“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.”

And now, who is the heir to the Throne of David here? The Angel Gabriel says it here, He says:

“… 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…”

Who is the heir to the Throne of David? Prince Jesus.

And now, He will sit on the Throne of David and reign forever.

Now, He went to Heaven to receive a Kingdom. Which Kingdom was Christ going to receive in Heaven? The Kingdom of Heaven and Earth. As Son of God, He is the heir to the Kingdom of God, He is the heir to the Heavens and the Earth; that is why in Revelation chapter 3, verses 20 to 21, it says:

“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

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.”

Here Christ says that He has sat down with the Father on God’s Throne, on the heavenly Father’s Throne, the Throne of Heaven; the Throne of God is the One that rules over all Creation.

That is the Throne that Christ sat on, and that is why Christ said in Saint Matthew chapter 28, verse 16 to 20: “All power is given unto Me in Heaven and on Earth.” That was when He had already resurrected and appeared to His disciples on different occasions. And He also said: “Behold, I will be with you always, even unto the end of the world.” How would He be? In Holy Spirit. The Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, would be in the midst of His Church all the time, until the end of the world; therefore, He is with us in our time. He Himself said: “I will be with you always.” He also says: “Where two or three are gathered together in My Name, I will be there.”⁷

Therefore, Jesus Christ in His physical glorified body went up to Heaven and sat on the heavenly Throne of God. He is the heir to that heavenly Throne, He already sat on It; what’s left now is for Him to sit on the Throne of David, the earthly Throne; and that is why it says: “To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with Me on My Throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with My Father in His Throne.”⁸

Christ will claim the earthly Throne, the Throne of David, because it belongs to Him, He is the heir; and He will restore the Kingdom of David and bring peace to Israel, to Jerusalem, and from Jerusalem it will go forth to all Israel and to all the nations; because He is the Prince of Peace, according to Isaiah chapter 9, verses 5 to 7. He is the Prince of Peace and He will bring peace to Israel, He will bring peace to Jerusalem, He will bring peace to the Middle East; mankind’s hope for the human family to obtain peace is in Him. Because there is no other Prince of Peace, there is only One, and His Name is: Lord Jesus Christ; He is the Messiah the Prince.

Therefore, there is no way for mankind to obtain permanent peace, except through Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace.

Mankind, through treaties, accords between nations, can obtain a temporary peace; but then, because of some problems, those agreements are broken and they find themselves in trouble again; furthermore, the Scripture tells us that “when they shall say: Peace and safety, then sudden destruction will come.” That is in chapter 5 of First Thessalonians. But the apostle Paul says: “But you are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.”

That situation that will come upon the human race, of sudden destruction, won’t overtake the children of God, the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ here on Earth, because they will be transformed before that, and they will be taken in what is commonly known among Christianity as the rapture or catching away of the Church, to go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

That is why in Saint Luke, Christ says that when we see all these things happening, those signs in heaven, in the stars, in the moon, in the sun, and upon the Earth distress of men for fear and expectation of the things that are coming upon the Earth, afraid of the sound of the waves and the sea, afraid of all these problems: tidal waves, earthquakes, tsunamis, and so on… because the problems on Earth increase each day; and even more so since it has already been scientifically proven that a gigantic, large earthquake is coming, which will cause serious damage in all the coasts, and especially the coasts of the whole continent of the Americas; and of course, the coasts of Japan, China, Russia, all those problems, because it will be a huge problem for the Pacific.

The Pacific ocean will be stirred up, and many tsunamis will emerge in the Pacific ocean that will engulf the coasts of the continent of the Americas, from the northern part to the southern part; and also, of course, of Japan, China, Russia, all those countries.

There are also the problems of the nuclear plants to produce electrical energy; and there is also the problem of atomic bombs, nuclear bombs, which, they can face serious problems because of global warming; and also because of things heating up between nations: wars. Because what did they make them for? To use them in the case of a war in which they may need to use them, and they have a lot.

But don’t worry, that will fulfill the prophecy which says: “Behold, the day comes, that shall burn as an oven,” (the Lord’s Day that shall burn as an oven), “and all the proud and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that comes shall burn them up,” (it will burn them), “says the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.” (Malachi chapter 4, verse 1 and on). But it says: “But unto you that fear My Name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise;” the Sun of Righteousness rising is the Coming of the Lord, because He comes as the Sun of Righteousness.

And now, we have the promise of a blessing for the believers in Christ and also the promise of a blessing for the Hebrew people, even though they will go through a very, very difficult stage.

This is a time of expectation, of anticipation, of being attentive for salvation; not only for when there is a call to the front to receive Christ, but also for the part of salvation that is our transformation; that is a very important part, where a transformation will happen in the bodies of the living believers when the dead in Christ resurrect in glorified bodies. And then they will all be just like Jesus Christ: immortal, young for all eternity. Never again will they have the problem of their bodies getting old; never again will they have the problem or worries that one has in these times.

Therefore, those people will become the Cabinet – part of the Cabinet of the Messiah, part of the Cabinet of the Kingdom of the Messiah, part of the Order of the Kingdom’s Royalty. They are kings, they have the highest rank in the Kingdom along with the Lord, because He is the King of kings.

And in terms of Christ being the High Priest who is making Intercession in Heaven, in the heavenly Temple, after the Order of Melchizedek… because He is Melchizedek, who made Himself flesh, who made Himself man in the midst of the human race. Before, He used to appear in the form of an angel, because it is a heavenly body, but then He clothed Himself in human flesh and He was known by the Name of Jesus. That is why He would pray to God, He would ask of God and God would answer Him: because He is the High Priest of the heavenly Temple. That is why He could say: “Before Abraham was, I am.” (Saint John chapter 8, verses 56 to 58.)

He is alive, He is sitting on the Throne of God in Heaven; all power has been given to Him in Heaven and on Earth; through Him, God rules all of Creation. He is the Creator and Sustainer of all Creation.

That is why the Scripture says: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him was Life; and the Life was the Light of men. And the Light shines in darkness, and the darkness comprehended It not. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came to bear witness, he came bearing witness of the Light, but he was not the Light.” Saint John chapter 1, verse 1 to 14, says all of this.

And it says: “That was the true Light, which lights every man that comes into the world. And He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not.” (Saint John chapter 1, verse 9.)

And then it says: “He came unto His own,” (meaning, the Hebrew people), “and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name; which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God,” (through the Holy Spirit which brings forth the new birth in those people).

And then it goes on to say: “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, verse 14.)

So, notice who Jesus Christ is: He is the Word, the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit made flesh among the human race, clothed in a body of flesh that He created for Himself in the virgin Mary’s womb. As simple as that, so that everyone can understand it.

And now, Jesus Christ is the One who has made great promises of great blessings. For example, He said: “Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believes not, well, he shall be damned.” (Saint Mark chapter 16, verses 15 to 16.)

Therefore, there is a great blessing for human beings which is proclaimed, which is made known through the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, where mankind is shown that there is a Redeemer, a Savior, who died for us on Calvary’s Cross bearing our sins.

He made Himself sin for us; He couldn’t die because He had no sin, but upon taking our sins He made Himself sin for us and died as a sinner, saying: “Father, Father – My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”⁹ That is how sinners die: forsaken. And therefore, He had to go to hell.

That is what happens to sinners, they have to go to that place.

And He preached to the souls that were there in their spiritual bodies, who were disobedient in the time of Noah;¹⁰ He preached to them there; not for salvation, but as a testimony that Noah was right in what he was saying to mankind: that the end of mankind was going to come, that a flood was going to come that would destroy the human race, but that there was a way to escape that judgment and the effects of that judgment, and it was Noah’s ark.¹¹

God always gives a way out in times of judgment; and that was the only way out that mankind had: entering into the ark that Noah was building.

And now, Christ says that “as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the day that the Son of Man will manifest Himself, reveal Himself.”¹² Therefore, just as those antediluvian people in the days of Noah were, at the end, at the end of time; the end of time had come upon them and they didn’t know it; but Noah did know it and he was making it known.

That’s also how it is at this time: mankind, the kingdom of the Gentiles and all nations have reached the end, the end of the road for all nations; that is why there are so many problems in the financial sector, economic sector, of all nations. If one nation goes completely bankrupt, it impacts the rest of the nations.

That is what has been happening in the last two or three years, and it will continue happening, because the problem cannot be fixed; it is so difficult that this problem cannot be solved, which is why there will come a Third World War. Because whenever there are serious economic problems, then a war comes along; and a war is a plague, a Divine judgment that falls upon mankind.

Those plagues are in the Vials, in the Seven Vials; and those plagues are going to be repeated at this end time, like the plagues that came upon Egypt in the time of Moses.

That is why the ministry of Moses will be on Earth again at this end time, according to Malachi chapter 4, and according to Zechariah chapter 4. Those are the ministries of the Two Olive Trees, of Moses and Elijah being repeated at the Last Day, which Revelation chapter 11, verses 1 to 14, also talks about. And by that time and at the end of the ministry of the Two Olive Trees, the Earth will have gone through all those Divine judgments, and it will be prepared for the glorious Kingdom of the Messiah.

We find that after the ministry of Elijah the Tishbite, whom God had told on Mount Sinai to return the same way he had come to Mount Sinai, to return and for him to anoint Hazael to be king over Syria, Jehu to be king over Israel, and Elisha as prophet in his place, meaning, as his successor.¹³

And then, when Elijah is returning on the way he had taken to Sinai, he met with Elisha, who was working in agriculture, plowing the field; he casts his mantle upon him; and Elisha tells him: “Wait for me to go and say goodbye to my family, so I can follow you.” And Elijah tells him: “But, for what have I done to you?”¹⁴

Out of the three, the first one he meets is the last one that God spoke to him about.

And then Elisha slays the oxen with which he was plowing; and with the plow, the wood from the plow, he prepares them, he makes a… let’s say a farewell meal, and he leaves. He didn’t leave anything to come back to, he didn’t leave the work tools, because he wouldn’t go back to work with oxen, instead he would follow the Prophet Elijah; even though he didn’t know that he was Elijah’s successor.

And the time came when Elijah had to go to Heaven, and God tells Elijah to go to a certain place, and Elijah tells Elisha: “Stay here, because I am going somewhere else.” Elisha tells him: “I will not leave you; wherever you go, I will go with you.”

The sons of the prophets said to Elisha: “Do you know that today the Lord will take away your master, Elijah?” And Elisha said to the sons of the prophets: “Yes, I know it; hold your peace, hold your peace, I know that.”

Then, when he is in Jericho, Elijah says to Elisha: “God is sending me to cross over to the other side of Jordan, to Jordan, to cross over to the other side; stay here with the sons of the prophets;” that is, he was going to be fine, they were going to treat him well. Elisha tells him: “No, I will not leave you.”

And then he follows Elijah, Elijah takes his mantle, smites the waters of Jordan, they part, and Elijah and Elisha go over on dry ground. And when they go over, Elijah says to Elisha: “Ask me, ask for what you want to receive. Whatever you want me to do for you: ask me.” He already knew that he had to leave and Elisha also knew that his master was leaving.

Elisha says to him: “What I want is a double portion of the spirit that is in you.” Elijah tells him: “You have asked a hard thing.”¹⁵ Why is it hard? Because prophets don’t become prophets because they say: “I want to be a prophet.” That is already designated by God before the foundation of the world. A prophet doesn’t appear on the scene because he studied a lot, or because he said: “I want to be a prophet,” but because it’s written in the Book of God, the Book of Life, that at a certain time God will send a prophet to Earth, a man with both consciouses together, to whom the Word of God for that time will come. “Surely the Lord God will do nothing without first revealing His secrets (to whom?) to His servants, His prophets.”¹⁶

That is the way that the Word of God always comes to the people, that is the way that the Divine thoughts are communicated to the human race: through the prophets, because those Divine thoughts go into the mind and heart of the man, the prophet, that God sends to Earth; and then he catches them and speaks them, and that becomes the Word of God. They become the Word when they are spoken by a prophet; in the meantime they are only God’s thought.

There is a process for God’s thought to become a reality: it must be spoken.

Now, Elijah says to him: “Well, if you see me when I am taken from you, it will be granted to you; otherwise, it won’t.” And now more than ever Elisha will not let him go, he will not let Elijah go.

And as they were speaking about these things, a chariot of fire (UFO or flying saucer, whatever you want to call it) caught up Elijah; and his mantle fell, Elisha took it, and Elisha cries out: “My father, my father, chariots of Israel have taken my master!” He walked away very saddened, he was very sad, but he already knew that Elijah had to go.

And since the Scripture still doesn’t say that Elijah had told him that he was going to be a prophet in his place, but in asking for a double portion Elisha already knows what he wants; and Elijah knows what he has to tell Elisha, because Elijah already knew that he was going to be his successor. So, he was well trained; he had a good professor, a good teacher.

And when he takes Elijah’s mantle that had fallen from him, he stands before Jordan and says: “Where is the God of Elijah?” He smites Jordan, and the waters parted again. The sons of the prophets, who were on the other side, there in Jericho, watching, they say: “The spirit of Elijah has rested on Elisha.”

In other words, the sons of the prophets didn’t lose sight of the Spirit of God that was in Elijah; now they know where the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, moved to. The Spirit of Elijah, which is the Holy Spirit that was in Elijah, now moved on to Elisha.

That is very important: knowing the trajectory of the Angel of the Covenant, of the Holy Spirit. Knowing the trajectory of Elijah, the ministry of Elijah, is very important, because from time to time the ministry of Elijah is repeated on Earth; and it is linked to religious matters and political matters too.

Then we can see that Elisha becomes Elijah’s successor, the second Elijah, because it is the ministry of Elijah that went on to Elisha.

And once Elisha finishes his trajectory, we don’t see the spirit of Elijah until John the Baptist appears, where we find that the Angel Gabriel speaks to Zacharias the priest, Elisabeth’s husband, a daughter or descendant of Aaron; and tells him that he—through his wife Elisabeth— will have a son, and to name him John, and that he will come in the spirit and power of Elijah; He gives him the details; and says that he shouldn’t drink wine nor strong drink, that the child shouldn’t drink wine nor strong drink (how to raise him).

Since Zacharias was already stricken in years and so was his wife (they were already older people, much older), he asks: “How can this be if we are already stricken in years?” He forgot to read the Scripture that says that when Abraham was 100 years old, he received the son that God had promised him,¹⁷ and Sarah was 90 years old; because nothing is impossible to God.¹⁸

The Angel tells him: “I am Gabriel, who stands in the Presence of God; and because you didn’t believe what I told you, you will be dumb [mute] until what I told you is fulfilled.”¹⁹ And when it was fulfilled, then he spoke.²⁰

We can see that the Angel tells Zacharias the priest that the son that he will have should be named John, and that the spirit of Elijah will – that he will come in the spirit and power of Elijah; there we have the ministry of Elijah for the third time. Jesus Christ Himself says that John the Baptist is the Elijah that was to come (Saint Matthew chapter 11, verses 11 and on). And He says that among them that are born of women there was none greater than John.

And now, when Christ comes down Mount Transfiguration, in chapter 17, verses 10 to 13, of Saint Matthew, His disciples ask Him: “Lord, why do the scribes say that Elijah must come?” “Why do they say that Elijah must first come?” Christ says: “Elijah truly shall first come, and restore all things.” (He comes to restore.) “But Elijah came already, and they knew him not,” (the Elijah who had to come in those days already came); and then they understood that it was John the Baptist. That is the third time that the ministry of Elijah is manifested; and then Elijah’s ministry disappears from sight and from history, when John the Baptist is beheaded.²¹

But when John the Baptist pointed to Christ, when he saw Christ, he said: “This is the One of whom I said to you that One greater than me would come; He is the One who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire. I only baptize you with water unto repentance.”²²

And he told them… when they said to him: “Look, the One to whom you bore witness over there, when you baptized there in Jordan, to whom you bore witness, now more people come to Him than you and He baptizes more people than you,” (although Jesus didn’t baptize, but the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ did); John says: “He must increase. Man can do nothing, that Man can do nothing except it be given to Him from above, from God; therefore, He must increase, and I must decrease.”²³

The forerunner had to decrease; the One forerun, the One who would come after him, had to increase. That is why in the history of the Gospel you find little spoken of John, but of Jesus we find the whole New Testament; because the One that had to increase was the One who would come after John: the Messiah.

And now, the ministry of Elijah disappears there in Israel, upon introducing the Messiah, Jesus (who was physically his cousin); and then, under the New Covenant, the ministry of Elijah appears again in the midst of Christianity: in North America, in the seventh stage of the Church among the Gentiles, and his name is William Marrion Branham.

That was the Elijah forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, as the Angel said to him in the year ‘33 when he was baptizing the 17th person there in the river, there in Jeffersonville, Indiana.²⁴

And he said the same thing as John; when he speaks about the Seventh Seal and the fulfillment of the Seventh Seal, he says that the One that will come, He must increase, and he (the forerunner) must decrease. That is why he says: “You are going to see, not an increase, but a drop in the ministry,” (in the ministry that he had).²⁵

Now, it was in him for the fourth time, the ministry of Elijah in its fourth time, but it is promised that there will be a fifth time. That ministry will also come accompanied by the ministry of Elijah [Moses], because those are the ministries of the Two Olive Trees, the ministries of Moses and Elijah, the ministries of the Two Candlesticks that stand before the Presence of God, according to Zechariah chapter 4, and Revelation chapter 11, which Reverend William Branham also spoke of.

Before knowing that the ministry of Elijah would be manifested five times, he thought it was only four, and therefore that the time in which that ministry was being manifested in him was the last time, and that is why he thought that he had to go to Israel. But the Angel told him not to go, that it was not the time; and later he understands, because he is told: “It must be according to the Scripture.”²⁶ And according to the Scripture, the ministry of Elijah going to Israel is the fifth time, with Moses (as one of the Two Olive Trees).

There we can see why Reverend William Branham was not allowed to go to Jerusalem, to Israel; although he had the ministry of Elijah, but in its fourth manifestation, and for that it must be in the fifth manifestation of Elijah.

It is promised that the Gentiles will take the Gospel to the Jews,²⁷ just as the Jews brought It to the Gentiles; they brought It to the Gentiles by the ministry of the Holy Spirit through Saint Peter and Saint Paul; therefore, the ministries of Saint Peter and Saint Paul are a type and figure of the ministries of Moses and Elijah.

Now, the Gentiles taking the Gospel to the Jews, how will they do it? That is important, and that is one of the great mysteries for the Last Day. Therefore, we will not touch on this too much. Let’s not lose sight of the trajectory of the ministry of Elijah, because it will be manifested at the Last Day for the fifth time, and then we will also see the ministry of Moses.

Remember that we are living in a New Covenant, God is dealing under a New Covenant, and that is why He is dealing with His Church under the New Covenant; and the Blood of the New Covenant is the Blood of Jesus Christ. Outside the New Covenant, no other covenant is in effect.

Now, God will deal with the Hebrew people again during the time of the three and a half years that are left of the seventieth week, and He will do so under the ministry of Moses and Elijah. There is a mystery there: how everything that will happen is going to take place, but let’s leave it alone.

Reverend William Branham says that something great is going to happen with Israel, and he says: “And I know, I believe, that it is a prophet who is going to stand there with Israel – in Israel.”

It’s because God’s greatest sign for mankind is always a prophet. The greatest sign for the destruction of the antediluvian world was a prophet: Noah; the greatest sign for Egypt, of the destruction of Egypt, of the plagues, and of the deliverance of the Hebrew people, was a prophet: Moses; and so on.

And for dispensational changes, the greatest sign is a dispensational prophet: Moses, Jesus; and at the Last Day another one must appear to introduce the Dispensation of the Kingdom.

And now, let’s watch, because the ministry of Moses will be repeated along with the ministry of Elijah for the fifth time; it is a promise. And the ministry of Jesus, of Jesus Christ, will be repeated again at this end time.

All of that is linked to a great Vision that was shown to Reverend William Branham, the vision is called The Tent Vision; where the Third Pull, the full manifestation of God is going to become a reality in the midst of Christianity at the Last Day.

He wanted to make that Vision a reality, just as he wanted to make going to Israel to preach to them a reality; but he wasn’t allowed either of the two because that is for this end time.

The same thing as when Christ read Isaiah chapter 61, He stopped where it says: “To preach the acceptable year of the Lord,” and He stopped there; He did not continue the reading, which said: “And the day of vengeance of our God,” because that is for the Second Coming of the Lord, when the day of vengeance of God will be proclaimed, when the Divine judgment will be announced and will come upon the human race.

And since the Coming of the Son of Man for the Last Day will be as in the days of Noah and as in the days of Lot: the days of Noah were days for the Divine judgment to fall upon mankind, because their time had ended; and in the time of Sodom and Gomorrah, in the time of Lot, time had also run out for the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah and nearby cities, and it was time for destruction, for fire to come out of Heaven, fire and brimstone, and destroy the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, all those nearby cities too.²⁸

Therefore, the Coming of the Son of Man at the Last Day will be at a time in which mankind will have reached the end, it is for the time of the end.

For the time of the end, many good promises are indicated for the believers in Christ, but also Divine judgments for the human race; the plagues will be repeated at this end time.

Have a good evening, everyone.

“TIME OF EXPECTATION FOR SALVATION OR FOR JUDGMENT.”