Good afternoon, ministers, and ministers’ wives, and youth leader. It is a great privilege to be with you, ministers of different churches, congregations, here in the city of Tarapoto, Peru, to share with you the blessings that Christ is pouring out upon His Church in this end time.
For which I want to read in Luke, chapter 21, verse 25 and on, where He says (Jesus Himself speaking says):
“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 TO LIFT UP OUR HEADS TO HEAVEN, FOR OUR REDEMPTION IS NEAR.”
Here, “our redemption” refers to the transformation of our bodies, where we are to obtain an eternal and glorified body, like the body of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
This is the same of which Saint Paul speaks in his letter to the Romans, chapter 8, verses 18 and on, he says:
“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”
Now, when we are spoken of the redemption or day of redemption, notice, the redemption of our body is when we are transformed (we who are alive) and have a body like the body of Jesus Christ, immortal, incorruptible and glorified; and the dead in Christ will resurrect in eternal bodies as well. And this is for the time where all these signs relevant to the end time or end of time or end of the century, will be fulfilled.
And we have seen, through the great things that have been happening, that the signs of the end of time have been being fulfilled. For example, when Christ speaks to us about the fig tree being restored, blooming, the fig tree is the Hebrew people; and we have seen how the Hebrew people have been returning to their land since the 40’s, and today they are a free and sovereign nation. The fig tree has been blooming: Israel.
And now, Christ says: “When you see these things happen, understand that your redemption is near,” in other words, the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive.
That is why we have to be awake, in other words, with our heads lifted up to Heaven, because our redemption is near: our transformation is near and the resurrection of the dead in Christ is near too.
Now, we have to have our head lifted up to Heaven, our faces lifted up to Heaven, our thoughts, our minds raised to Heaven; and be thinking, meditating and listening and believing the things that Christ has promised for this end time; and be serving Jesus Christ as our Savior and having washed away our sins in the Blood of Christ before the Door closes.
As Christ said in the parable of the ten virgins1, that the time came when the door was shut and those who were outside had no more opportunity, therefore they stayed to go through the great tribulation; and those who were inside, with Christ, with the Bridegroom, entered with Him to the Marriage; and the door was shut, no other person could enter in.
Now, see how Jesus Christ also speaks of this in Luke, chapter 13, and in verses 22 and on, when He was passing through certain cities, He says:
“And he went through the cities and villages, teaching, and journeying toward Jerusalem.
Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,
Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are…”
Now, see how also there, in this parable, Christ speaks to us of the door; and the Door is Christ. Therefore, there will come a time when there will be no more opportunity for salvation among the gentiles because the number of God’s elect, of the members of the Church of Jesus Christ will be completed, and then the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive will come.
That is why this time in which we live is very important, because this is the time of preparation to receive the blessings of God and thus be transformed soon, as He has promised to carry out in this end time.
For example, when He spoke of the believers in Him and spoke of the resurrection, look at what He told us: in John, chapter 4… let’s see… chapter 6, let’s read; verse 39 to 40, it says:
“And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.
And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Now see how Christ speaks of the resurrection to carry it out in the Last Day, for all those believers in Him who have departed; and for us who are alive and remain alive until the dead in Christ are resurrected, the promise is that we will be changed.
Now, what is the Last Day? Since Christ mentioned it here in these two verses, He mentioned it twice; and if we read the entire chapter 6 we will find that it was mentioned two more times in that same chapter.
See, Saint Paul speaking of the last days, he says in the book or letter to the Hebrews, chapter 1, the apostle Saint Paul tells us:
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds…”
When does he say that God spoke through His Son? He says He spoke in the last days. And it has already been —from Christ until now— two thousand years, if we add to the calendar the years it is behind; and if not, well there is only 1 year and 10 months and some days left to reach the seventh millennium.
Now, look: he says that God has spoken in the last days through Jesus Christ, and two thousand years have already passed. Was Saint Paul wrong when he said that those days when Jesus was on Earth preaching were the last days? He was not wrong.
Look, Saint Peter also, speaking on the Day of Pentecost, in chapter 2 of the book of Acts, verses 14 to 20, he says:
“But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day (that is, it was 8 to 9 in the morning).
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy…”
When does Saint Peter say that God said He would pour out His Holy Spirit? For the last days, and He is already pouring out the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. Why? Because the last days had already begun.
When Jesus was 4 to 7 years old, the last days began, because the fifth millennium began when Jesus was 4 to 7 years old; because one day before the Lord is like a thousand years for human beings. Second Peter, chapter 3, verse 8, says: “For one day before the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.”
So when the Scripture refers to one day before the Lord, it is a thousand years for human beings.
Therefore, the last days began when Jesus was 4 to 7 years old, and that is why Saint Paul can say that God has spoken through His Son in the last days.
And now, we have seen that the last days before God, for the human beings are three millenniums, the last three millenniums, which are fifth millennium, sixth millennium and seventh millennium.
Now, two thousand years have passed from Christ until now, but before God only two days have passed. And for the Last Day, notice, is that Christ has promised that He will carry out the resurrection of the believers in Him whose physical bodies have died or have departed. And the Last Day is the last one.
Of the last three days before God, which for the human beings are the last three millenniums (which are the fifth, sixth and seventh millennium), being the Last Day before God the seventh millennium, it is for the seventh millennium that Christ will resurrect the dead believers in Him of past ages and some of our time that have departed; and then He will transform us who are alive and are believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior, and having washed away our sins in the Blood of Christ and having received the Holy Spirit, and therefore having been born again.
Who will be transformed? Those who have been born again. Who will be resurrected? Those who are physically dead who had been born again at the time they lived here on Earth. Therefore, all those people are those who make up the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ from past times to this end time, in other words, from the Day of Pentecost to this end time.
Now, notice how there are great promises in Scripture for each of you and for me too.
This is the time to be awake, with our minds, our thoughts set on the things of Heaven; those of Earth are temporary, but those of Heaven are eternal. So it is good for us to have our minds, our thoughts set on the heavenly things.
This is the greatest and most glorious time of all times. This is the time that all the prophets of the Old Testament and the New Testament wished to live in. This is the time marked as the Last Day before God. If we add to the calendar the years it is behind, we are already at the Last Day; if we leave it as it is, there is only 1 year and 10 months and some days for the Last Day to begin.
Therefore, we have to be with our minds set on the things of Heaven, and be knowing, seeing what God has promised for this time, and seeing how He is gradually fulfilling it.
He has said that by the end of time, He will send His Angels with a Great Voice of Trumpet, and they will gather together His elect. Matthew, chapter 24, verse 31.
His elect are those who belong to the Mystical Body of Christ, they are the ones whose names are written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life; they are the persons who will be changed if they remain alive until the dead in Christ are resurrected.
Now see how all the elect of God of the Last Day, of the end time will be called and gathered together: through the ministries of the Angels of the Son of Man sent with the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around 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. That is why it is so important to hear the Great Voice of Trumpet.
It is not a literal trumpet, but it is the Voice of Christ speaking to His Church, His people, in this end time. See in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 10 to 11, what the apostle Saint John tells us:
“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day (that is, on the seventh day before the Lord, which is the seventh millennium), and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last…”
Who is the Alpha and Omega?, who is the first and last? Our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. It is the Voice of Christ in the Last Day speaking to His people, His Church, speaking to all those who are going to be changed in this end time; and making known to us the things that must happen soon.
In Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1 and on, it says:
“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 (here we have that Voice of Trumpet again)<em>; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”
It is the Voice of Christ speaking to His Church, His people, to go up to a higher level or age, where Christ will show His Church all the things that must happen soon, in this end time.
And through whom will He be making known to His Church all these things that must shortly come to pass, whom will He send? Notice, in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16, He says:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
Who does Jesus Christ send to testify of all these things that are going to happen soon? He sends His Angel Messenger, which He sent to the apostle Saint John approximately two thousand years ago.
That same Angel, who was in his theophanic body at that time, is sent at the Last Day to the Church of Jesus Christ to testify to her of all these things that will soon come to pass; and thus be filled with the knowledge of the whole Program of God, all the sons and daughters of God, and be prepared to be changed and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
The transformation, as I said, and resurrection of the dead in Christ, is the redemption of the body. And Christ said: “When you see these things happen, lift up your heads, because your redemption is near,” your transformation, to go to the House of our heavenly Father, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
Now let’s look again at what He tells us here in relation to the things that are to be revealed and through whom they are to be revealed to God’s people. Chapter 22, verse 6, of Revelation, 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 does He say He sent? His Angel Messenger. What for? To show His servants the things that will soon come to pass.
The things that are going to happen soon, in this end time, are shown to the Church of Jesus Christ through the Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ sent to His Church.
This Angel Messenger is the last prophet and he is the last dispensational prophet, for Christ to reveal to him all these things and for him to reveal them to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. “For the Lord God will do nothing, except he revealeth his secrets unto his servants his prophets,” says Amos, chapter 3, verse 7.
And now, we have reached the time when all the sons and daughters of God are called to have their heads lifted up to Heaven, thinking and dealing with heavenly things, dealing first with their salvation; because that is the most important thing for the person: eternal life. There is nothing more important than eternal life.
And now, all the hope of Christianity rests on the Second Coming of Christ, for the dead in Christ to be resurrected and we who are alive to be changed and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven.
That is why we have to have our minds, our thoughts, our heads lifted up to Heaven: to God, to Jesus Christ, and the things of Heaven: to be hearing the Voice of Heaven, the Voice of Christ in this end time, that Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and to obtain the knowledge of all these things which must shortly come to pass, and thus be prepared to have the faith to be changed and raptured and taken to the House of our heavenly Father.
Now we have seen why it is so important to have our heads lifted up to Heaven: it is because our redemption, the transformation of our bodies, is near.
It has been a great privilege for me to be with you on this occasion, testifying to you of these things that will happen and those that have already happened, so that we may be prepared to be transformed and raptured, in other words, caught up to Heaven, and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
We have seen how the Message comes that reveals all these things that must come to pass, how it comes to the Church of Jesus Christ. Jesus says:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
We have seen who it is that sends that Message: it is Jesus Christ. And we have seen through whom He sends that Message: through His Angel.
And we have seen whom He sends that Message to: His Church, in other words, the believers in our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
And we have seen in what time He sends that Message: in the Last Day.
And we have seen for what time will be the resurrection of the dead in Christ. Christ said that He will raise them up when? In the Last Day.
And we have seen what the Last Day is: it is the seventh millennium. Why? Because “one day before the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.”
And we have seen who will be resurrected. Who will be resurrected? The dead in Christ, those who believed in Christ as their Savior, washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ and received His Holy Spirit, in other words, all the born again who have departed.
And we know who will be changed in this end time: all the born again, which will be hearing the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet, the Voice of Christ through His Angel Messenger:
“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”
Remember that that is a dispensational prophet messenger; it is the first time that Jesus Christ would send to His Church a dispensational prophet. And therefore he comes with a dispensational Message, which is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ.
And we have seen, notice, what the last days are: fifth millennium, sixth millennium and seventh millennium. We have seen which of all those days is the Last Day: the seventh millennium, which is the last millennium.
And now, just as God worked: Jesus Christ was in the midst of His Church there in the land of Israel, then in Asia Minor, then in Europe, then in North America; in this end time, Christ is found in Holy Spirit manifesting Himself in the midst of the Latin American and Caribbean people, and He is calling and gathering all His elect, and is preparing us to be changed and to be taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
That is why He opens for us all these mysteries of the Kingdom of the Heavens, all these mysteries that pertain to this end time; and He also speaks to us and makes known to us the mysteries of the Kingdom of the Heavens of past stages.
Now is the time to lift up our heads to Heaven, why? Because our redemption, our transformation, is near.
We will continue in the evening, in the evening activity, which is titled “THE NEED TO KNOW THE WORK OF GOD.”
Because one can’t say: “I love God and I am serving God” without knowing the Work of God. The person has to know the Work of God to be in the Work of God serving God, praising God and hearing His Voice, and getting prepared to be transformed and taken to the House of our heavenly Father.
Because Jesus said: “In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have said so before; therefore I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also”: He will take us in the rapture or translation to our heavenly Father’s House. John, chapter 14, is where He tells us: “In my Father’s House are many mansions.”
Now, you see that it is a promise of Christ to be fulfilled when? In this end time.
He comes to take His Church to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; that is why He will resurrect the dead in Christ and will transform us who are alive. When? At the Last Trumpet2, in other words, at the Final Message; that Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which is the Last Trumpet. At that time is that all the elect of God are called and gathered together, and are prepared to be changed and taken to the House of our heavenly Father.
Therefore, lift up your heads to Heaven, for your redemption is near. Soon Christ will resurrect the dead believers in Him of past ages and will transform us who are alive.
Now, the blessing is falling upon Latin America and the Caribbean, the blessing and the call of Christ calling and gathering all His elect.
This is the territory that and of which some people thought that God had forgotten, but He had not forgotten: for this territory is that He has the blessing of this end time.
This is the territory that belongs to the West, and “as the lightning that comes from the East (the land of Israel) and shows itself in the West (which is the occident, the land of America)…”3
See what a great blessing there is for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, for all the believers in our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.
This is a time to be prepared to be transformed; there is nothing more important than that after obtaining salvation; then it is the preparation to be changed and raptured and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
It has been a great blessing for me to be with you testifying to you of these things that are promised to happen in this end time.
May God bless you, may God keep you. It was a privilege to meet you, those who I had not met; and may God help us all to be prepared to be transformed in this end time.
We all want to be transformed. And He has said: “And He shall send His Angels with a Great Voice of Trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect.” What for? To be prepared to be transformed in this end time.
“TIME TO LIFT UP OUR HEADS TO HEAVEN, FOR OUR REDEMPTION IS NEAR.”
1 Matthew 25:1-13
2 First Corinthians 15:51-52
3 Matthew 24:27