Who, Then, Is the Faithful and Wise Servant?

Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present, and also brethren and friends who are in other nations connected with this service through the Amazonas satellite or internet.

May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you, beloved friends and brethren, and also all the ministers present, and also those who are in other nations. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

For this occasion, let’s read a passage from chapter 24 of Saint Matthew, which is a prophetic passage, where Christ tells us in chapter 24 of Saint Matthew, verses 37 and on, He says:

“But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.”

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

Our subject is: “WHO, THEN, IS THE FAITHFUL AND WISE SERVANT?”

In this passage it tells us about the Coming of the Son of man, which will be as it was in the days of Noah; it also tells us that It will be as it was in the days of Lot (that is already in Saint Luke);¹ and it also tells us that we have to watch, watch for what? For the Coming of the Lord; because the Son of man will come at the hour that people don’t know He will come.

It also tells us or asks us: “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his Lord has made ruler over His Household, to give them Food in due season? Verily I say unto you…” Christ says:

“Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing,” (in other words, the servant who is doing that work at the time of the Coming of the Lord will be blessed).

“Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.”

First of all, we have to know which is the Household of the Lord, for it says that He shall make him ruler over His Household: “Whom his lord hath made ruler over his household.”

Let’s first see which is the Household of the Lord; because all of this will be taking place in the House of the Lord. Hebrews chapter 3 has the answer. Hebrews chapter 3 says, verse 5 and on (to avoid reading too much), says:

“And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”

And now, we are the House of the Lord; because the House of the Lord is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And in Ephesians chapter 2, Saint Paul also tells us something very important that we can’t overlook, to have more light regarding this subject we are speaking about. It says, chapter 2, verse 19 to 22, in the letter to the Ephesians, Saint Paul says the following:

“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, here the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ made up of the believers in Christ is the spiritual Temple of Christ, It is the House of God, It is the Household of God: the House, Family, seed of God, members of the Household of God, sons and daughters of God.

And now, Saint Paul also tells us in other Biblical passages of his letters to the different congregations or churches, like to the church of the Corinthians, that we are a temple of God, and the Church as a mystical Body of believers is also a Temple of God. Notice here, First Corinthians chapter 3, verse 9 and on, says:

“For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.”

As God’s building: God’s Temple. The temple of Jerusalem was already destroyed and there is no sacrifice there in Israel; but there is a Temple that is being built, and it is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and there is a heavenly Temple where Christ as High Priest is making intercession for each person who receives Him as their only and sufficient Savior. It says:

“According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon.”

And now, as a master builder, notice, he was doing the work—on behalf of God—of the pattern that God showed him for His Church; that is why he said: “God has put some (in His Church) as apostles; some, prophets; some, evangelists; some, pastors; and some, teachers;”² those are the ministries in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And notice how Saint Paul the apostle, with all that revelation that he received from God, was able to lay the foundation as a wise master builder in the spiritual realm. It says:

“For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”

In other words, the Church of the Lord is built on a secure foundation, on the revelation of Jesus Christ, of who Jesus Christ is; Jesus Christ is the foundation.

No one else can come in any of the stages of the Church and get into Christianity and say: “No, Muhammad or Buddha is the foundation.” No, it doesn’t fit there. That is another religion that works separately, and the foundation of that other religion, if it is… it may be Buddha or it may be Muhammad or it may be another person. But the foundation of Christianity is Christ; that is why it is called Christianity, because Christ is its foundation.

“Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.

If any man’s work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.”

And now, there we can see how great the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is before God; It is the Temple of God, where God dwells in Holy Spirit. And that Temple, just like the tabernacle that Moses built and the temple that King Solomon built, which had an outer court, a holy place, and a most holy place; that Temple which God has been building from stage to stage has an Outer Court, a Holy Place, and a Most Holy Place.

From Adam to Christ: the Outer Court.

From Christ and the apostles, or from the apostles to the seventh stage or age of the Church: the Holy Place; that is why there were seven messengers who were represented in the seven lights that were on the candlestick, the candlestick that had seven lamps (each lamp represents a stage of the Church), with a light on each lamp to shine in the holy place of the temple.³

That is how it has been in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And that’s why in Revelation chapter 1 Christ appears with the seven stars in His hand⁴: the seven messengers that He has sent to His Church from age to age, just like He sent messengers to the Church of the Old Testament, which were the Hebrew people under the Law. For the New Testament He said that He would also send messengers, prophets.

And now, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the New Temple that is being built, and that has gone through different stages, where God dwells in the believers, here in the soul of the believers.

The human being is also a temple for God to dwell in, that is why he has an outer court, a holy place, and a most holy place.

The outer court is the body, the holy place is the spirit, and the most holy place is the person’s soul, which is what the person really is; and that is why the soul has free moral agency: to believe God or to be an unbeliever.

And now, the human being is the most important thing in God’s Creation; and that is why when the Messiah the Prince appeared He was also a Man; He appeared in the crown of God’s Creation, which is the human race.

And now, that is why throughout the Scripture we read, for example, in the words of Jesus, who says: “What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with His Angels, and then He shall reward every man according to his works.” Saint Matthew chapter, 16, verse 26 to 28.

In the Old Testament it also says: “The soul that sins, it shall die.”⁵ That is what Ezekiel speaks to us about and also Jeremiah.

God has set before the human being life and death, blessing and curse, and He advises the human being to choose life, so that he and his family may live. Therefore, the human being needs to understand these mysteries of the Kingdom of God, to thus make the right choice: to choose Life.

Remember, Christ is the Life. He said: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no man comes to the Father but by Me.”⁶ The only way to approach God, to reach God, is through Christ; there is no other way. Because by Christ dying on Calvary’s Cross, He carried out the Sacrifice of Atonement for the human being’s sin; no other person has carried it out or will carry it out.

In the Old Testament, the sacrifice of atonement that was carried out on the tenth day of the seventh month of every year, where a goat for the Lord was sacrificed, and the other goat that was for the scapegoat, was…; the high priest would lay his hands on the head of that goat, which was alive, after sacrificing the one that was for atonement, and he would lay his hands on the head of the goat that was alive, he would confess the people’s sins, and send it into the wilderness through a person who was assigned to that job, it would carry the people’s sins far away.⁷ Both represent Christ: the goat that is sacrificed and the goat that is taken into the wilderness.

Christ in His physical body was sacrificed, but Christ in His heavenly body was not crucified; because the heavenly body of Christ in the Old Testament is the Angel of the Covenant, that Angel who would appear to the Old Testament prophets; and in His heavenly body, He went to hell and took the sins over there of all those who would receive Him as their Savior. And He left them there with the devil, who was the originator of sin.

The Scripture says that Christ descended into the lowest parts of the Earth;⁸ and notice, He went for a purpose. And then it says also that He has the keys of hell and of death;⁹ when He went there He obtained the keys of hell and of death.

Since hell, as well as Paradise, are dimensions… Hell or – hell is the fifth dimension, Paradise is the sixth dimension; we live here on Earth in three dimensions: light, time, and matter; the seventh dimension is God’s dimension, where God dwells; and the fourth dimension is the dimension of waves, through which radio programs, television programs, communications, and so on, are broadcasted. There are seven dimensions.

Now, notice here… That is also why the prophets saw angels, sometimes walking. For example, Elisha saw the mountain full of angels, chariots of fire with angels, and Elisha’s servant couldn’t see anything; and then Elisha prayed to God so that He would open his eyes, and he saw the mountain full of chariots of fire, and men or beings on chariots of fire.¹⁰

It is because there is another dimension, and that dimension is here with us, just as the fourth dimension (of waves) is here with us. And how can you prove that it is here? Take a radio or a television, turn it to a channel, on the channel where they’re broadcasting a program, and you can hear it; it was there, but no one could see it; equipment was needed to take that wave of that dimension and make it visible and audible to us.

That is also how the dimension of the angels is, the sixth dimension. That is why in the Old Testament Angels appear speaking with Abraham, eating with Abraham;¹¹ they also appear to Jacob;¹² they also appear… the Angel of God appeared to Gideon,¹³ and He was looking at Gideon; it says that Gideon blushed when he saw that the Angel was looking at him and wouldn’t take His eyes off him.

And likewise, He also appeared to Joshua, in chapter 5 of the book of Joshua, and He appeared with a sword, and said that He was the Captain of God’s Hosts, meaning, the commanding General of that Army; an Army that was fighting in favor of Israel.

Some nations don’t know that on behalf of God there is the Angel or Archangel Michael with His Army, and that He fights in favor of Israel, when Israel is behaving well; when it is misbehaving, the Angel also stands against Israel.

Many nations would like to have an Angel like that, with a mighty Army. But don’t worry, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ also has the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ sent to testify these things in the churches; and He is there in Revelation chapter 1, verse 1 to 3, and Revelation chapter 22, verse 6, and Revelation chapter 22, verse 16.

For the people of God, notice, there are angels, ministering angels sent forth from God for those who will be heirs of salvation; Saint Paul, who knows about these mysteries of the Kingdom of God, says so. He says, chapter 1, verse 14, of Hebrews:

“Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?”

Ministering spirits; a spirit is a body of another dimension. Ministering spirits are sent to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, for they are the heirs of salvation through Christ, who came to seek and to save that which was lost. Saint Luke 19, verse 10.

And now, we also have the Angel who has access to the Scripture or Book of Truth, and therefore, knows all the things that will come to pass; who appeared to the prophet Daniel and spoke to him and told Daniel: “I will show you that which is noted in the Scripture of Truth.”¹⁴

We find that that Angel shows Daniel the things that will come to pass; that is why the book of the prophet Daniel is parallel to the book of Revelation, along with the book of Zechariah, and also part of Ezekiel, where they see angels, beings from another dimension, at work.

And now, the Angel who appears to Daniel is an Angel that also fights; He says that He was fighting against the prince of Persia. And then He says: “And then the prince of Greece will come.”¹⁵ And He says: “No one helped me but Michael, your Prince.” In other words, the Angel Gabriel has to do with the changes of the Gentile kingdom, because the Angel or Archangel Gabriel has to do with the Gentiles; and He is the One who has access to the Scripture of Truth, the Book that contains everything that will happen in the midst of the human race.

That is the Angel (for example) who appeared on one occasion to a man who was already elderly, a priest named Zacharias (in chapter 1 of Saint Luke), who was married, and his wife was already well stricken in age, and they didn’t have children: she was barren; and he had prayed to God and waited, and they were already elderly; but the Scripture doesn’t say that he stopped believing.

Then the Angel tells him that he will have a son, through his wife Elisabeth, and that he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and that he will be a prophet of God, and he will be the one who will come to turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and he will come in the power and spirit of Elijah;¹⁶ he wouldn’t be Elijah literally, but another man, but with the same ministry being operated by the Holy Spirit.

When God promises the coming of a prophet who already came in the past, it is the coming of that ministry operated by the Holy Spirit in another man. That is why notice: Elijah the Tishbite; then the ministry of Elijah the Tishbite went on to another man: Elisha, who said: “Let a double portion of the Spirit that is in you come upon me.”

And when It came upon Elisha, after Elijah ascended to Heaven, and opened the Jordan as Elijah had, the sons of the prophets said: “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.”¹⁷ There was Elijah for the second time, the Holy Spirit in Elisha operating the same ministry; because the only One who has ministries is the Holy Spirit.

And the Holy Spirit was the One who worked in Elijah the Tishbite, in Elisha, and in all the prophets, in Moises as well; it was the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, Christ, in His heavenly body, working through the prophets and speaking through them to the people of God, to the Hebrew people.

And now, he appears to forerun the First Coming of Christ, his physical body being born of some elderly people; a priest, meaning, he was of the priestly order of Aaron (because in order to be a priest, he had to be a descendant of Aaron); and the Angel Gabriel appears to him and gives him the good news.

See? Once a prayer is made to God, a request is made to God, then what’s left is to receive that request – that answer; but God will determine the time. Then what’s left is to firmly believe that God will grant what you have asked for; and to wait, because He said it will be granted.

And even though Zacharias was waiting for a long time; and now when it seemed like it was already impossible to obtain the answer from God; he gets the answer through an Angel sent by God: the Angel Gabriel; and it is good news.

He could have had many children, and that would have been good; but it was better to have one like the one he was going to have: “And he shall be great in the sight of the Lord.” It is good to have children who are great in the sight of the Lord, meaning, they have an important role before the Presence of God.

The greatest thing a person has – can have, as a child, is a child who is a prophet; of whom Christ Himself said: “Among them that are born of women there has not been one greater than John.” But notice this, He says: “But the least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than John.”¹⁸

Therefore, the greatest son or daughter a person can have is a child who is a member of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, a child or member of the Kingdom of Heaven; those are the great ones, greater than John the Baptist.

Those are not just ordinary people, rather they are kings and priests, and judges as well; because they have been cleansed with the Blood of Christ, they have been redeemed, and they have entered into the Kingdom of God by being born of Water and of the Spirit.

Now, continuing with John the Baptist, notice, when he was born, the name of John was placed upon him, according to how the Angel commanded him. And then the Angel Gabriel, later we also find that about six months… when Elisabeth was six months into her pregnancy (in the same chapter 1, verse 30 and on, of Saint Luke), God sends the Angel Gabriel to the virgin Mary to give her the news that she had found grace before the Lord, and that she would have a son, that she would conceive, have a son, and He would be called the Son of God, and she would name Him Jesus, and God would give Him the Throne of His father David, and He would reign over Israel, over Jacob, forever, and of His Kingdom there would be no end.

Why does the Angel Gabriel know all those things? Because He has access to the Scripture of Truth, to the Book that contains the entire Divine Program of what God will carry out.

And now, Jesus was born six months after John. Then, later on, we find that John begins his ministry, and then Jesus begins.

When John sees Jesus coming, he says: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.”¹⁹ In other words, He was typifying everything, or taking it from the paschal lamb that was sacrificed in Egypt, and that then, in observance of Passover, they also sacrificed and ate the paschal lamb.²⁰ After a certain time they stopped observing Passover by eating the paschal lamb.

And we also find that Jesus has His ministry, angels serve Him, there in the wilderness, when He was fasting and He finished His fast;²¹ and throughout His ministry we find angels serving Him, Jesus.

When He went alone to pray, Angels would come to Him. When He was praying in Gethsemane, Angels strengthened Him.²² When He rose, Angels were there in the cave where He had been wrapped in the linen cloth which it was customary for people to be wrapped in.²³

Angels of God have always been accompanying the whole Divine Program that has been unfolding at all times. And that is also how it is in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is His mystical Body of believers; and which, just like Christ is the second Adam, the last Adam, His Church is the second Eve, to have sons and daughters through Christ, sons and daughters of God through Christ in the midst of His Church bringing forth that new birth. In other words, they are born, not of flesh or blood, nor of the will of man, but of God, because the new birth takes place in them.

The Word, the Gospel of Christ is preached, where the Program of Salvation through Christ is shown: the faith of Christ is born in the people’s soul, they believe in Christ and they make a public testimony of their faith in Christ by receiving Him as their Savior, they are baptized in water in His Name, Christ baptizes them with the Holy Spirit and Fire, and thus, He brings forth the new birth. Thus, they were born of Water: of the Gospel of Christ; and of the Spirit, of the Holy Spirit; and therefore, they entered into the Kingdom of God, as Christ told Nicodemus: “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.”²⁴

We all want to enter into the Kingdom, and notice how simple it is.

And now, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is His mystical Body of believers, which is His spiritual Temple, He said that He would be there always, even until the end. He says that… He says: “Where two or three are gathered together in My Name, I will be there, there will I be.”²⁵ And He also says in Saint Matthew chapter 28, verses 16 to 20: “I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.”

He is with us at this time, in the Church stage pertaining to this time.

And now, we have already seen that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is a spiritual Temple that is being built out of living stones, as it says in First Peter chapter 2, verse 4 and on:

“To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”

And verse 9 says, and 10, of this same letter of Saint Peter [First Peter]:

“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.”

And now, not only are they living stones, but they form the spiritual Temple of Christ; and not only are they a Temple, but they are also priests, to minister, a royal priesthood; they are a people chosen by God, a holy nation.

And now, we are seeing what the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is: She is the greatest thing that God has on Earth, She is the help meet of the second Adam, of the Lord Jesus Christ; and that is why the Spirit of Christ came down on the Day of Pentecost, and Christ in Holy Spirit has been in the midst of His Church reproducing Himself in sons and daughters of God.

When a person receives the Spirit of Christ: they receive the new birth, they are born again, they are born to a new Life: to Eternal Life with Christ in His Eternal Kingdom, and they become part of the spiritual Temple that is being built by Christ in Holy Spirit in the midst of His people; and as individuals, they are also a spiritual temple, for God to dwell here in the soul of every believer in Christ.

And now, we can see which is the House of God, where God places the faithful and wise servant; just as God placed His Son Jesus Christ in His House, as Saint Paul says in Hebrews chapter 3 [verse 6]:

“But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.”

And now, God has put Christ in His House; His Household, His Family, His seed, God’s seed, who are the sons and daughters of God; that is where God has put Christ as Son over His own House.

He is the Head of that Family, of that House, of that seed of God; and that House grows, that Family, the Household of God, grows from age to age. That Family is also called: the Household of faith. In Galatians, chapter 6, verse… In Galatians, Paul the apostle says, chapter 6, verse 10:

“As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.”

The House of God, the Household of God, the seed of God; that is why we call God: our Father, because He is our Father; if we were not children of God, we couldn’t call God: our Father. We are the seed of God, the good seed, the children of the Kingdom.

And just as Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Firstborn, the first, and the only begotten Son…; and it seems like there is a contrast there, seemingly there is a contradiction, because if He is the only begotten Son, then He cannot be the Firstborn; if He is the only begotten Son then He is the only One, the first and the last; but if He is the Firstborn, there are more brethren.

But, how can there be more brethren who come to the Household of God, if Jesus Christ is the Firstborn and He is also the only begotten Son? Because they come through the only begotten Son, through Christ; through the new birth, they are born into the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Just like in a wheat plant, which comes from a wheat grain, many wheat grains are then born in the wheat plant; because the life of the wheat grain, which was sown and died, is in the wheat plant, reproducing itself in many wheat grains.

And the Life of Christ, who died on Calvary’s Cross, is now in His Church, which is the wheat Plant, being reproduced in many sons and daughters of God. Only in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ are sons and daughters of God born through the new birth; because only in a wheat plant are wheat grains born. They are not born in corn plants, or on an avocado tree; they are born in a wheat plant.

And now, that is also why Christ talks about the sheep that the Father gave Him, and He says: “For the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” (Saint Luke 19, verse 10.) Those are people, souls of God, the sheep of God that were given to Christ to seek them and give them Eternal Life. Those people have their names written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life; “written in Heaven,” as Saint Paul says in Hebrews chapter 12, verses 21 to 24.

And now, just as Jesus Christ came from God, likewise each of the born-again believers in Christ has come from God. And there are people who don’t even know they have come from God, but when they hear the preaching of the Gospel of Christ: the faith of Christ is born in their soul, and what happens? It is because they are hearing the Voice of Christ, the Good Shepherd, because He said: “My sheep hear My Voice, and they follow Me, and I know them, and I give them Eternal Life.”

That is why He commanded to preach the Gospel to every creature, and He said: “(And) He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.” As simple as that. And He also said… That was in Saint Mark chapter 16, verses 15 to 16; and the part about the sheep is in Saint John chapter 10, verses 14 to 30.

Remember that everything is – that whole Program is in the Scripture of Truth, which the Archangel Gabriel has knowledge of. We are not here on Earth by mere coincidence, and you are not here listening to the Gospel of Christ by mere coincidence; God determined it that way before the foundation of the world. And that is also why I am here, that was already determined by God before the foundation.

And now, since we have already seen that the House of God, the spiritual Temple of God, is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; we have seen that He has put in His Church, placed in His Church, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, for the Work of the ministry, for the perfecting of the saints. That is in Ephesians chapter 4, verse 11, where you can read it; and also in First Corinthians chapter 12, verse 28. And He also said that He would send prophets, Jesus said.

And now, in the House of God He has placed different messengers from age to age. For each age He has placed a messenger, for Christ through His Holy Spirit to manifest Himself through that man and bring the spiritual Food in due season to the Household of God, the Message pertaining to each stage of the Church; and they are blessed messengers for being put in that position in the Church.

Christ even says of the apostles that they will judge the twelve tribes of Israel in the Kingdom, in His Kingdom, that is, in the Millennial Kingdom;²⁶ that is referring to the Millennial Kingdom of Christ. And Paul the apostle also says that the saints will judge the world;²⁷ in other words, they have a very important work. And from age to age God has had an instrument through whom He has manifested Himself for the blessing of His Church.

In the time of Saint Peter, Saint Peter was the messenger to the Jews. And then Saint Paul, the messenger to the Gentiles. And so on, from stage to stage in the Church, God has sent a man through whom the Holy Spirit has been manifested feeding His Church, putting in the Household of God, in the Family of God, the Food in due season.

The most blessed of all will be the One who at the end time will be bringing the Food to the Household of God in due season, to the Family of God. Through the Gospel of Christ, the Gospel of Grace and the Gospel of the Kingdom, all the sons and daughters of God will be fed in the Household of God, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, at the Last Day; because It won’t be physical food (you can buy physical food in the supermarket); but God’s Food, the Word of God for the time in which the person lives, that comes from God: It is given by a messenger relevant to the age in which one is living, he preaches It and all the children of God are fed.

At this end time the question is: Who then is the faithful and wise servant? Who is that faithful and wise servant that will be in the Household of God feeding the Church at the Last Day?

Throughout the Scriptures we can see that Christ says: “I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”²⁸ Therefore, what He speaks is Word of God, Word of Christ; therefore, it is spiritual Food for people’s souls.

At this end time, as well, the promise is, in Saint Matthew, chapter 24, verse 14:

“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”

Many people don’t know what the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom is. We have had two thousand years of preaching of the Gospel of Grace, where Christ is presented as the only and sufficient Savior.

In the days of Jesus, John the Baptist and Jesus preached the Gospel of the Kingdom. (Saint Matthew chapter 4, verse 17; and chapter 4, verse 23.)

Many preachers have tried to turn the Hebrew people to Christ, but the Hebrew people as a nation cannot be turned to Christ in the Dispensation of Grace; in fact, if a person visits a Jew in his home or goes into the Jewish communities to evangelize: they call the police on the phone and he is taken to jail.

If you go to a Jew’s house to evangelize him without him asking you to go… like it is done among the Gentiles, where you go to people’s houses, sometimes, taking literature, evangelizing; you can’t do it that way over there. Now, if one has a public activity and they go, that’s different; but to go to them, to their homes, to evangelize them, or to go in the streets evangelizing them, that’s prohibited.

Now, Israel as a nation, notice, has not received the Gospel of Christ; although many Jews have received Christ and come into Christianity, which is right. But the Hebrew people as a nation, have not; they have remained under the Law. They will be called with the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom, as a nation.

That is why when Jesus preached, He preached the Gospel of the Kingdom; John the Baptist too. And that is why they ask Jesus, in the book of Acts, chapter 1, before ascending to Heaven, they ask Him “Lord, will You at this time restore again the Kingdom to Israel?” He says to them: “It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in His own power.”²⁹

At that time it was not necessary to know when the time would be, because if the Lord tells them: “Two thousand years from now”… But they had to continue with the hope of the restoration of the Kingdom; and the restoration of the Kingdom is the restoration of the Kingdom of God on Earth, of which Christ said to pray asking for the Coming of the Kingdom of God: “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, as in Heaven, so on Earth.”³⁰

And what is the Kingdom of God on Earth? David’s Kingdom. That’s why it says, in Saint Luke chapter 1, the Angel Gabriel tells Mary that the son she will have, who will be named Jesus, He says: “God will give Him the Throne (of whom?) of His father David; and He shall reign over the house of Israel forever; and of His Kingdom there shall be no end.” That will be the restoration of the Kingdom of God on Earth.

In First Chronicles chapter 28, verse 4 and on; and Chronicles chapter 29, verses 21 and on; when Solomon, the son of David, was crowned, invested as king, when they made Solomon king for the second time, it says that he sat on the throne of David his father; it also says that he sat on the Throne of the Lord, of God, over Israel; and it also says that he sat on the Throne of the Kingdom of God.

God’s Throne on Earth is the Throne of David; God’s Kingdom on Earth is the Kingdom of David. That is why so much is said in the Old Testament and New Testament Scriptures about the restoration of God’s Kingdom, of David’s Kingdom on Earth; and the heir to that Kingdom is the Messiah the Prince.

And now, Christ had to die in His First Coming; the First Coming of the Messiah had to be that way. And thank God it happened that way, because the Sacrifice of Atonement was carried out for my sin and the sin of all human beings; if He didn’t die, there was no sacrifice for sin.

And now, we have the promise of the restoration of that Kingdom at the Last Day. And what is the Last Day? The seventh millennium since Adam; as simple as that; or the third millennium since Christ.

The Last Days are the three last millenniums: the fifth millennium, sixth millennium, and seventh millennium. The Last Day: the seventh millennium, which already began according to the Gregorian calendar, and we have already been within that seventh millennium for eight years, in other words, within that Last Day, if we count it – if we count the time according to the Gregorian calendar. If we count it according to the Hebrew calendar, then there is a variation.

Now, the same way as God worked with Christ, Christ will work with the faithful and wise servant. If He will seat Him or if He will… it says… if He will make Him ruler over all His goods, He will be (let’s say, in our terms) the Prime Minister of His Kingdom, the Administrator; like Joseph was in Egypt, he was the administrator of Egypt in Pharaoh’s time. And therefore, He will be the second-in-command in the Kingdom of the Messiah.

When Christ ascended to Heaven, went up to Heaven: He sat at the right hand of God; He Himself said that is how it would be. And all power was given to Him in Heaven and on Earth;³¹ He is the One who is administrating the whole Kingdom of God, heavenly and earthly; in other words, the whole Kingdom of God. All power has been given to Him in Heaven and on Earth. He is the Administrator of all Creation, all things were given to Him.

So, what happened, was the Father left with nothing? No, the Father is inside of Him; there is no problem. The Father is carrying out all those things through Him; just as the Father worked through Jesus here on Earth, of which Christ said: “I do nothing but what I see the Father do.”³² And He also said that He was not the One who worked, that it was the Father in Him. And He said: “My Father is greater than I.”³³

And now, let’s see a promise of Christ here. Look, it says here, in Revelation chapter 2, verses 26 and on, it says:

“And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations,” (this is parallel to the parable of the pounds, where He will give cities to reign over them),³⁴

“And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.”

And now, here Christ is promising something just as He received it of the Father: He received from the Father all authority in Heaven and on Earth, and now He is going to give authority on Earth to the Overcomer.

Then, in Revelation chapter 3, verse 21, it says:

“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.”

Christ overcame and sat with the Father on His Throne in Heaven; and now, Christ promises the Overcomer to sit with Him on His Throne. The Father’s Throne is in Heaven; the Throne of Jesus Christ is on Earth: the Throne of David, where the Son of man will sit to rule.

But here it says that He will grant the Overcomer to sit with Him on His throne; just as Christ sat with His Father on His Throne, He will give him authority to sit with Him on His Throne; and that is why that authority will be received by the Overcomer, who will be the faithful and wise servant, he will receive power over all the nations.

He will be the Prime Minister of the Kingdom with Christ, he will be the Administrator, that is why it says that He will make him ruler over all His goods; and if He says so, He must do so; and not because he humanly wants to, but because that is God’s Program, and what he does is fulfill the Divine Program.

Here the great blessing is: when his Lord comes, whomever He finds – whom He finds so doing, it says that He shall make him ruler over all his goods.

Therefore, that blessing will be for someone, some minister, some messenger of Christianity; and it must be for the last messenger that God has in the midst of Christianity, who will have to do with the Church and with the Hebrew people as well.

And that is why also the power that is seen in Elijah and in Moses, the Holy Spirit will operate it in that messenger; because He will be made ruler over all the goods of the Lord; for which he has to sit on the Throne with Him, on the Throne of David. It is tied to the Kingdom of David and restoration of that Kingdom on Earth, and therefore, he has to work in favor of, for, the restoration of that Kingdom.

He will have the blessing that he will have, he will know, and he will preach the Gospel of Grace, and he will also have and know the Gospel of the Kingdom, and he will preach It; which no other messenger of the past had or was able to preach either.

It’s with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom that there will be an approach with the Jews, because with the Message of the Gospel of Grace, the Jews don’t want to know anything about Christ. But he will have the Divine revelation, the knowledge of the whole Divine Program for the restoration of Israel, the restoration of the Kingdom of David; and he will do his work so well, that Christ will seat him on His Throne with Him. And when we are there, we will understand much better what I’m telling you on this occasion.

It’s like when Joseph said to his brothers there in the land of Israel, he told his brothers that he saw some sheaves of wheat or barley, and they bowed down to his; and his brothers said: “This guy, well, he is putting everything in his favor!” And then he saw eleven stars and the moon and the sun also bowing down to him; and well, they didn’t like that, and they wanted to get rid of him then.³⁵

But that was the Divine Program that would be carried out; and the problems that he had worked together for good, so that he would go to the place where he had to be the second-in-command in the kingdom, so that they would bow down to him there when they saw him; and it was among the Gentiles that they had to do so.

Well, the faithful and wise servant is the Holy Spirit working from age to age in the messenger of each age. And at the Last Day, He will have a messenger, and the whole Divine Program pertaining to the Last Day will work through that messenger, and that messenger will be placed with Christ on His Throne. As simple as that.

And when we are there in that Millennial Kingdom of Christ, we will understand it better. Just as Joseph’s brothers better understood those dreams that Joseph had; and he also interpreted them; and the one who was favored in the dreams was Joseph, because that was the Program; the Divine Program was designed that way.

And now, “WHO, THEN, IS THE FAITHFUL AND WISE SERVANT?” He will be giving the Food in due season, of the Message pertaining to the Last Day, with the Gospel of Grace and the Gospel of the Kingdom, to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and then to the Hebrew people.

He will be warmly received by the Hebrew people. And when you see him being accepted and received, and having a good friendship, remember: that is the faithful and wise servant, whom His Lord made ruler over His Household, over His Church.

Therefore, He will be in the midst of Christianity. He will be one from the House of David; because all those who are born in Christ are born in Bethlehem, because Christ was born in Bethlehem and we were with Him when He was born, we were in Christ; and all those who are born again: are born as children of God through Christ, therefore, they are born as descendants of David; that is why they are kings, they are royalty. And to Israel, notice, royalty comes from the house of David. And they are priests as well, and they are judges. Therefore, the privilege of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the greatest that any people can have.

“WHO, THEN, IS THE FAITHFUL AND WISE SERVANT?” He will be the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, the messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ that He has at the Last Day in the midst of His Church.

He will also have the Message that calls and gathers the elect of the Last Day from among the Gentiles, and then from among the Hebrews. He will be sounding the Trumpet of the Gospel of Grace and also the Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom.

And the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be completed in the days of that messenger, and Christ will leave the Father’s Throne, take the Title Deed, the Book of the Seven Seals, open It in Heaven and make His Claiming Work; He will already stand as Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work.

He has great blessings for you and for me too. And in His Kingdom we will be kings, we will be as kings and as priests and judges, enjoying the blessings of that glorious Kingdom that will be established on this planet Earth.

May God bless you and keep you; and continue having a joyful evening, filled with the blessings of Jesus Christ our Savior.

“WHO, THEN, IS THE FAITHFUL AND WISE SERVANT?”