Good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren here in Vedia, Argentina. It is a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, to share with you some moments of fellowship around the Word of God.
May Jesus Christ, our Savior, bless you, ministers and also brethren present, and open the Scriptures to us on this occasion. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
We read in Revelation, chapter 2, verse 17, where it 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.”
May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.
Our topic is: “TIME TO EAT OF THE HIDDEN MANNA.”
It is Jesus Christ, our beloved Savior, who promises to give us the hidden Manna to eat. Just as He also says in chapter 2, verse 7:
“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 tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.”
And in the book of Genesis, notice, we find the Tree of Life mentioned in three places. And we all know that the Tree of Life is Christ, our beloved Savior; He is the Tree of Life that gives eternal life to all of us.
That is why, while He was on Earth, He told us in John, chapter 6, verses 47 and on; it says:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
I am that bread of life.
Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
Now see how the manna that fell from heaven for the Hebrew people for 40 years, while they were going to the promised land through the wilderness, is type and figure of Christ. Christ is that Bread of Eternal Life.
And now, in the book of Exodus1 we find how for 40 years the bread was falling from Heaven for the Hebrew people. And then, in chapter 8 of Deuteronomy, God speaks something to the Hebrew people there; and chapter 8 says, verse 2 and on:
“And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.”
For what and why did He take them through the wilderness for 40 years and not take them directly from Egypt to the promised land?, which was a trajectory (of how many months, Miguel?)… In 3 months they could have reached the promised land; but God had them for 40 years, and He says why:
“…to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.”
Christ also using these words in Matthew, chapter 4, verse 4, and Luke, chapter 4, verse 4, when the devil tempted Him saying: “If you are the Son of God, say that these stones become bread,” since Jesus was hungry after fasting 40 days…
And now, the devil wanted Jesus to give him a proof that He was the Son of God; but Jesus does not have to prove anything to the devil, Jesus does not have to prove to the devil that Jesus is the Son of God. What He has to do is to fulfill the Program for which He came, and He came to fulfill the Program of Redemption.
And now, Christ says: “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”
And now, the physical food that the Hebrew people ate for 40 years represents the Word of God, which is the spiritual food for the soul of the person.
And Christ being the Word, the Word made flesh, could say that He is the Bread of Life that has descended from Heaven; and He says2: “…he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever”, in other words, he will live forever.
And now it is required that people eat of the revelation of the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God by taking away the sin of the world on Calvary’s Cross, receive Him as their Savior and wash their sins away in the Blood of Christ, and receive His Holy Spirit, to obtain eternal life; and thus be born again, born in the Kingdom of the Heavens, in the Kingdom of God.
Because no person can enter the Kingdom of God, unless he is born of the Water and the Spirit; and for that, well, he has to believe in Christ as his Savior and wash his sins away in the Blood of Christ: recognize His First Coming and His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross.
Jesus said: “No one comes to the Father but by me.” Why? Because He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Christ said: “I am the way, the truth and the life, and nobody comes to the Father but by me.3”
Now we can see the way to eternal life, the way to the heavenly Father, we can see what the truth is and we can see that He is the Life: Eternal Life, which has been manifested in human flesh in the First Coming of the Messiah.
And now, He is the true Bread that has descended from Heaven. And now He says that one must eat of Him, because He is the living Bread that has descended from Heaven.
And now, through the different stages or ages of the gentile Church we have been being fed with the revelation of the First Coming of Christ, as the spiritual Manna falling from Heaven, to feed the souls of the human beings. So it has been during these two thousand years that have passed in our journey to the promised land of the new body and to the promised land of the glorious Millennial Kingdom.
Now, after the manna fell among the Hebrew people for 40 years, and then stopped falling, when they already began to eat the fruit of the new land, when they already entered the borders of the new land and Moses also distributed there to two tribes: he distributed the side before the Jordan…
And now where will people be able to find manna (because the 40 years had already passed, in which manna fell from heaven for the Hebrew people)? There is a place where there is a hidden manna, and it is in the ark of the covenant, which God ordered the prophet Moses to place. And the apostle Saint Paul speaks of this in his letter to the Hebrews, chapter 9, when he says:
“Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna…”
Where was the manna in the temple? In the most holy place, inside the ark of the covenant; that manna was hidden there. And no one could see it except the high priest once a year, on the tenth day of the seventh month, when he entered the most holy place. If God commanded him to open the ark of the covenant, he could see the manna in that golden vessel; if God did not command him, he could not open the ark of the covenant.
Now, see where the manna was hidden. There was no manna anywhere else except inside the ark of the covenant, in the most holy place. And that is why in Revelation, chapter 2, verse 17, God offers to give the overcomer of the hidden Manna.
And now, we have to find the hidden Manna where? In the Temple of God. Where in the Temple? In the Most Holy Place. But the tabernacle that Moses built is gone, so is the temple that Solomon built. And it is in the temple where the manna was, and it was in the most holy place. Now, we have to find the temple where that manna is.
Jesus Christ has been building a spiritual Temple, which is His Church, and He has been building that Temple with human beings from age to age.
Saint Paul says: “Do you not know that your bodies are a temple of God? Do you not know that you are temples of God, of the Holy Spirit, and that the Holy Spirit dwells in you?4”
Now, see how in Ephesians, chapter 2, verse 19 and on (19 to 22), Saint Paul tells us:
“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;
And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;
In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.”
And now, the Temple of God is no longer the tabernacle of Moses nor is it the temple that Solomon built: it is the Temple that Jesus Christ is building. And that is nothing less than the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; that is the New Temple. And the tabernacle that Moses built and the temple that Solomon built are type and figure, they represent the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and they also represent the Temple of God which is in Heaven.
And now, the representation of the Temple of God in Heaven is neither the tabernacle that Moses built nor the temple that Solomon built; it is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the Temple of God here on Earth, which represents the Temple of God in Heaven.
And now, it is in the Temple of Jesus Christ, in His Church, in the Most Holy Place of that Temple, where that Manna would be hidden; hidden from the sight of the wise and knowledgeable, and hidden from all people during the seven ages of the gentile Church, during the Dispensation of Grace.
The seven ages of the gentile Church pertain to the Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, and the Age of the Cornerstone pertains to the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ.
And it is in the Age of the Cornerstone, which pertains to the Most Holy Place, where the hidden Manna will be, being given to the overcomer.
And that hidden Manna, do you know what it is? If Christ presents Himself two thousand years ago as the Bread that came down from Heaven: Christ in His First Coming is the living Bread that came down from Heaven; just as bread, manna, had descended to the Hebrew people for 40 years. In other words, the First Coming of Christ is that spiritual Bread that descended from Heaven, as manna descended for 40 years. And for the Last Day it cannot be anything else but the hidden Manna, but Christ in His Second Coming.
And now, look at what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says, the Reverend William Branham, on page 230 of the book of The Ages</em>; speaking of the hidden Manna he says (page 230 of the book of The Ages, he says)5:
“Now then, there is also the thought of the future partaking of the hidden manna. I think it will be the eternal partaking of the revelation of Jesus Christ in the eternal ages to come.”
The participation (of what?) of the revelation of Jesus Christ for future ages: after the Dispensation of Grace and after the seven ages of the gentile Church.
And the revelation of Jesus Christ for the seventh millennium and the seventh dispensation is the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ. And the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ for the elect of God for the Last Day, will be the hidden Manna; which the sons and daughters of God could not eat during the past ages, because it was not available for them, because it was something that was in the future.
Nobody could eat that revelation of the Second Coming of Christ, why? Because it was not available to them. The revelation that was available to the Church of Jesus Christ during the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church was the revelation of the First Coming of Christ; and that is Manna also: Manna that was falling during the seven ages of the gentile Church, a revelation that was coming to the people during the seven ages of the gentile Church.
And now, for the Last Day, in addition to the revelation of the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s elect, will have the hidden Manna: the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work.
And the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be eating of that hidden Manna in the Age of the Most Holy Place, which is the Age of the Cornerstone, in order to be fed in its soul; because “man shall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”
And the Word that comes from the mouth of God… The mouth of God are God’s prophets, therefore, the Word that has always come from God has come through God’s prophets. “For the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secrets unto His servants His prophets.6”
And now, how are we going to receive the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ, the revelation of this great event promised to be fulfilled in this end time? How are we going to receive the revelation of these things that must happen soon, in this end time?, of which the greatest one is the Second Coming of Christ.
Revelation says, chapter 22, verse 16:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
In other words, Jesus Christ sends His Angel Messenger to make known these things in the churches.
Also, Revelation 22, verse 6 and on, 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.”
Who did He send? His Angel Messenger. What for? To show His servants the things that must happen soon. He is the one sent by Jesus Christ to make known all these things that must happen soon, in this end time.
And those are the things that Christ promised to make known to His Church, to make them known to all those who at the Last Day will go up to where He will be manifested in this end time, in other words, to the stage of the Church of Jesus Christ in which He will be manifested.
He was manifested in the first stage, the first age of the gentile Church there in Asia Minor, through Saint Paul; and then in the second, third, fourth and fifth and sixth, there in Europe, through five messengers; and then in North America through the Reverend William Branham.
But for this end time He will be in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, manifested in the midst of His Church through His Angel Messenger, making known to us all these things that must happen soon, in this end time.
And these are the things that He said He would make known to those who would go up to where He would be in the end time, in other words, to the stage of the Church of Jesus Christ in which He would be.
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.” (Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1).
And now, we can see that it was Jesus Christ who promised to make known to us all these things that must happen soon; but to do so, He sends His Angel Messenger, and through His Angel Messenger Jesus Christ manifests Himself in Holy Spirit and speaks to us all these things that must happen soon.
In other words, He places in the heart and in the mouth of His Angel Messenger all this revelation of all these things that must happen soon, and anoints him with His Spirit; and he speaks anointed with the Holy Spirit all these things that must happen soon, which are revealed to him, and he reveals them to the Church of Jesus Christ, to which he is sent: “I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
And now, we have seen who is the Sent One of Jesus Christ to testify of all these things that must happen soon; and he is sent to all the churches. In other words, all the churches have the blessing that Jesus Christ sends His Angel Messenger making known to them all these things that must happen soon: opening the Scriptures, the prophecies, and making known to them those that are already fulfilled, and those that are in the process of fulfillment, and those that will be fulfilled later on.
And thus the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ obtains the revelation of all these things that must happen in this end time, after two thousand years have passed from Christ until now, if we add to the calendar the years it is behind.
And now, that revelation of Jesus Christ that the Angel of Jesus Christ brings is the hidden Manna for all the sons and daughters of God; because it is the revelation of Jesus Christ, the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ for the Last Day, as the hidden Manna, the revelation for a new dispensation and a new millennium.
And Habakkuk, chapter 2, verse 14, says: “For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.”
And Zechariah, chapter 14, tells us: “And in that day the Lord will be one, and His Name will be one”; and it also tells us that “the Lord will be King over all the Earth.” That is the glorious Millennial Kingdom.
And now we can see, we can understand, what it is to eat of the hidden Manna, because we can understand what the hidden Manna is: it is the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ; a revelation that the Christians of past ages did not have: they only had the revelation of the First Coming of Christ; and they ate that revelation, that Food, and we did too.
But in addition, in this end time, Christ will give us the hidden Manna: the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ, as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work.
And who will be the ones that will be changed and raptured and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb?
He comes to seek His Church. And Saint Paul says that the Last Trumpet will sound, and the dead in Christ will resurrect first, and we who are alive will be changed7</sup>; and he also speaks of those who are left until the Coming of the Lord8. Those will be the ones who will have the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ, which will be given by Christ through His Angel Messenger to the Church of Jesus Christ.
And those will be the ones that will be eating of that divine revelation as the hidden Manna; the spiritual food that was hidden during all these two thousand years that have passed, but that for this end time would be given to eat to all the elect of God.
And they will be the ones that will be changed if they are alive; and if they departed, they will be resurrected, but those who departed in past ages, they will be resurrected in eternal bodies; and we will be changed; and we will go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Now, the Angel of Jesus Christ is not the Lord Jesus Christ; he is only His Sent One, His messenger, His prophet messenger for the Dispensation of the Kingdom, sent with the revelation of Jesus Christ. That is why Revelation, chapter 1, verse 1 and on, says:
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John…”
Through whom did the revelation of Jesus Christ come? Through His Angel Messenger.
And now we can see the mystery of the hidden Manna.
It is not literal manna like the one that fell there in the wilderness for the Hebrew people, nor is it the literal manna that was placed in the ark of the covenant by Aaron and Moses; but that manna that fell in the wilderness represents the First Coming of Christ, which is the Food for the Dispensation of Grace; and the manna that was hidden in the most holy place represents the Second Coming of Christ, which is the spiritual food for the sons and daughters of God in the Dispensation of the Kingdom and in the seventh millennium, in addition to the spiritual food of the First Coming of Christ.
And now, this is the TIME TO EAT OF THE HIDDEN MANNA.
“To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna…”
And we have to leave it there, because… It continues there…, Jesus Christ continues talking and says:
“…and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.”
And we would already have to speak there of the new name of that little white Stone; and that little white Stone coming is the Second Coming of Christ coming with a new name. Let’s leave it alone there.
In the hidden Manna, the spiritual food for all the elect of God of this Last Day, all that mystery of the Coming of that little white Stone (which is the Second Coming of Christ) and the New Name of that little white Stone, all that is there, in the Message of Christ for His Church for this end time; in other words, it is in that spiritual food of the hidden Manna for each one of you and for me also.
Now, that the little Stone has a new name, that is not for people to be surprised, because it is Christ Himself who says that He will give him a little white Stone and on the little Stone a new name is written.
There will be a man, an overcomer, a messenger, who will receive that little white Stone, in other words, he will welcome it and he will receive the Second Coming of Christ; he will welcome Christ, he will receive Him, and he will receive Him with a new name.
And some people will ask: “But does Jesus Christ have a new name?” Well, if He does, well He says so; and He is saying it there. But is there another place where He says that He has a new name? Revelation, chapter 3, verse 12, says:
“Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, 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.”
What does He say? “…and my new name.” He is the one who says He has a new name.
And in the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ, which is the hidden Manna for all the children of God, it will be open, revealed, that mystery of the Coming of Christ for the Last Day with a new name.
It is a mystery, but it is a mystery of which Christ Himself has testified that it is so, that He has a new name. And all that mystery of the New Name is in the spiritual food of the hidden Manna for all the sons and daughters of God.
We have reached the TIME TO EAT OF THE HIDDEN MANNA promised here in Revelation.
And the first to receive and eat it is the messenger, the faithful and wise servant, and he shares it with all the children of God; he shares it with all the children of the House of God, of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
“TIME TO EAT OF THE HIDDEN MANNA.” Time to eat of the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ.
It has been a great privilege to be with you at this time, and at this moment and in this place, testifying to you of the hidden Manna, and that we have reached the time to eat of the hidden Manna.
In other conferences that have already been given, you will find more details regarding the hidden Manna, and also the New Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and also the Second Coming of Christ; so that you may be fed in the soul with that hidden Manna, with that spiritual food that He promised to give us in this end time.
May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and upon me too; and may soon the number of God’s elect be completed, and may soon the dead in Christ be resurrected and we who are alive be transformed, and may we all be taken to the House of our heavenly Father, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.
Thank you very much for your kind attention, and may you all continue to spend an afternoon filled with the blessings of Jesus Christ our Savior.
May God continue to bless you all, and may you continue having an afternoon filled with the blessings of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
May God bless you and keep you all.
And just like eating… See, our children… Little girls want to look like their mom and be like their mom; they even put on their mom’s shoes and their mom’s clothes sometimes. And little boys put on their dad’s shoes and their dad’s jacket because they want to be like their dad. But to become like their dad, what do they have to do? Eat and eat and eat and eat; and they grow as the days go by, months and years, until they become like their dad; because they want to be like their dad.
And we want to be like our beloved Lord Jesus Christ: in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ; that is why we eat spiritual food.
And now, in addition to the spiritual food of the First Coming of Christ, He gives us the spiritual food, the revelation, of the Second Coming of Christ; that divine revelation for the Last Day, to reach the stature of Jesus Christ, to be in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ; because we all want to be like, who? Like our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
And now, by eating and following Christ we will get there. I follow Christ; I follow Christ, I follow Jesus Christ. There is no other to follow. I follow Jesus Christ (what for?) to be in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ.
“TIME TO EAT OF THE HIDDEN MANNA.”
1 Exodus 16:35
2 John 6:58
3 John 14:6
4 1 Corinthians 6:19
5 The Ages in English, page 211
6 Amos 3:7
7 1 Corinthians 15:52
8 1 Thessalonians 4:15