Good evening, fellow ministers in the Mystical Body of Christ; it is a blessing and great privilege to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of fellowship with you around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time.
We know that we are going to have the victory in all the work that we undertake, which we always do based on what is promised for our time. In every age and dispensation, success always lies in that: in the fact that God directs things and shows what has to be done.
(If you have a book of The Ages around here, and also The Seals… The Seals, The Ages, if you have one around here.)
Let’s read here… Galatians, chapter 4…
(In all the meetings, it’s good to have The Ages, The Seals, and Quotations, in all the countries, in case Miguel or I need them, because, since we carry a lot of luggage, sometimes we can’t bring many books.)
Galatians, chapter 4, verse 4, says:
“But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.”
And now, how many of you know when God sent His Son Jesus Christ? When the fullness of the time came, that was when He sent Him. Because God always, for all things… (you may be seated).
It had been said that Bethlehem of Judea would be where He would be born,[1] and He had to be born there; even though His mother and Joseph lived in Nazareth, but they had to go to Bethlehem of Judea at a time when they normally wouldn’t go with a woman who was already near the time of giving birth, who would travel on foot or by donkey, by mule…? (Or what other means, Miguel? There was no other way to go to another city).
It wasn’t because they wanted to go, but because the time had come, the time had been fulfilled; and therefore, the birth of the Messiah had to be fulfilled in Bethlehem of Judea.
(Huh? Yes. Ah, thank you very much!)
There are other passages… (186 or so… from that point on, Miguel, if you could… please. [Bro. Miguel: One hundred and…?] 86.)
There are other Bible passages that say: “The time is fulfilled” (around Isaiah). [Bro. Miguel: That is… “The time is fulfilled,” that is somewhere in Mark, where He says… That is in Mark 1 or so, 1:14 or so]. Let’s… let’s see it here in Mark 1:14… (ah, thank you, Benjie!) 1:14 to 15 of Mark, chapter 1, says:
“Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God (see? Preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom),
And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.”
In which time was… was it proclaimed that the time had been fulfilled? In the time in which the forerunner and Jesus were around. And John was put in prison, and Jesus comes crying out that the time has been fulfilled.
But the time… which time, and for what? The time for the Coming of the Messiah had already been fulfilled; and therefore the time had arrived for the Age of the Cornerstone of that time, with which or which is the Capstone of the Church of the Old Testament; and the Church of the Old Testament was under the Law (the Hebrew people).
And therefore, for the end time of the New Covenant and of the Dispensation of Grace, we have the coming of the forerunner of the Coming of the Lord, who with his Message… because it is always with the Message, which the forerunner brings, that he introduces the one for whom he is preparing the way; he prepares the way for him with the Message and he introduces him with the Message. In other words, the Message is always what presents the one who comes after the forerunner.
That is why John said with his Message: “Behold the Lamb of God, which takes away the sin of the world.”[2] See? With his Message, he presented Him. And with his Message, he also announced that He was going to come; he said: “There stands One among you, whom you do not know, who is before me, and is greater than me (he is announcing to them that someone is going to come); He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with Fire.”[3]
And when he sees Him, he says: “That is the man!”
See? With his Message he prepares the way, he foreruns the Coming of the Lord; he is announcing to them that it will be a person who will appear among them; and he tells them that He is the One who will baptize them with the Holy Spirit and Fire; he tells them that He is greater than him, than John. And he rejoices because of the Voice of the Bridegroom, who is the Messiah; when they tell him… they speak to him about someone, about Jesus, who baptizes more people than him, more people follow Him than him, than John; and John says that “a man can do nothing, unless it is given to him from God.”
Saint John, chapter 3, verse 22 and on, says:
“After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judaea; and there he tarried with them, and baptized.”
In another place, it says: “Though Jesus Himself didn’t baptize, but His disciples.”[4]
“And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
For John was not yet cast into prison.
Then there arose a question between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purifying.
And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him.
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.
He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly (at) the bridegroom’s voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
He must increase, but I must decrease.”
Now notice, that is a very beautiful testimony of John the Baptist related to Jesus; it shows there that John wasn’t jealous of Jesus.
Although news like that, for any religious leader of that time and of our time: that someone who was his disciple, whom John baptizes (he sees that the Holy Spirit comes upon Him, and he sees all the things that happen under the ministry of John), and then for that person to be preaching and have more people than him, and for more people to come to Him, and for Him to baptize more people than John the Baptist; that could make any religious leader of that time, and also of our time, jealous.
But it didn’t make John jealous, instead he bore witness that He is the Bridegroom. And by identifying Him as the Bridegroom, notice, we find that there must then arise a people who are the Bride-People or who will be the Wife of that Man, of that Messenger.
And now, this is a very beautiful testimony that John gives of Jesus.
And Reverend William Branham did the same thing; he spoke about what must come to pass in our time. He also spoke, saying… (this one also doesn’t have the… but we can find it here, Miguel, don’t worry).
Here we’ll find that Reverend William Branham, also in the book of The Seals, says that “There won’t be two here at the same time”; and if so, then he’ll increase and Brother Branham will decrease.
Therefore, for our time, there are many things that must come to pass according to the prophecies, according to the visions and prophecies that the Spirit of God gave through Reverend William Branham, and through the apostles, through Jesus, and through the Old Testament prophets; and everything must come in line with the prophetic Word; “Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secrets unto His servants, His prophets.”[5]
Now, for our time we have great promises, and they must be fulfilled. And since God has a time for everything He has promised: the time for Him to fulfill the Tent Vision and to fulfill everything that was seen in the Tent Vision must come.
Reverend William Branham tried to reach that promise. It says [The Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” p. 39]:
“[326] I don’t know who is going to (so, he is talking about a person. When he says, “I don’t know what it’s going to be,” then he doesn’t know if it’s a man or a woman or something else; but when he says, ‘I don’t know who it’s going to be,’ then he is referring to a person)… what’s going to take place. I do not know. I just know that those Seven Thunders holds that mystery. The Heavens was quiet.”
Therefore, if we listen to the Voice of the Seven Thunders (which is the Voice of Christ, the Mighty Angel, the Holy Spirit coming and speaking to us), then we will know what is the secret or mystery for which there was silence in Heaven; we will know what – what is the content of the Seventh Seal, which caused silence in Heaven; what the Seventh Seal says or shows upon being opened.
And in other passages he already said that the Seventh Seal is (what?) the Coming of the Lord; and therefore, only the Seven Thunders are the ones who can make known – or what can make known that mystery.
And what are the Seven Thunders? The Voice of Christ, the Voice of the Holy Spirit, in Revelation, chapter 10. That Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven is the same Angel of the Covenant who delivered the Hebrew people. It says so on page 57 of The Seals; and on page 59 it also tells us about that Mighty Angel, who is the Angel of the Covenant, the Messenger to Israel.
Now, it goes on to say [The Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” pp. 39-40]:
“[326] It may be time, it may be the hour now, that this great person that we’re expecting to rise on the scene may arise on the scene.
327 Maybe this ministry, that I have tried to take people back to the Word, has laid a foundation; and if it has, I’ll be leaving you, for good.”
The ministry of John the Baptist served as the foundation for the Coming of the Lord; he was the prophet-messenger who was announcing, at the relevant time for the appearing, for the Coming of the Lord, he was announcing the Coming of the Lord: that It would be fulfilled at that time.
And John also wouldn’t die of old age without Him being there. And John (although he died…) when he was there in prison, already in prison, he sends two disciples to ask Jesus if He was the One who would come or if they should look for another.
So, he was not expecting to stay in prison. Remember that John believed in the Coming of the Kingdom, in the Coming of the King, and all these things, and perhaps he didn’t have full knowledge (like Jesus) of the entire Program that was going to unfold in the Coming of the Messiah.
And the Jews and the religious leaders were waiting for the Messiah to establish the Kingdom at that time; they didn’t know that He had to die; they didn’t fully understand that, even though it was in the prophecies.
“327 Maybe this ministry, that I have tried to take people back to the Word, has laid a foundation; and if it has, I’ll be leaving you, for good (For how long? Forever. When we see him again, he will be in his glorified body). There won’t be two of us here the same time. See? If it is, he’ll increase; I’ll decrease. (The same thing that John said.) (…)
[336] One of the mystery of that Seal, the reason It wasn’t revealed, It was Seven Thunders that uttered Their voices. And there It is, perfectly. Because, nothing knows anything about It. It wasn’t even written. So, we’re at the end time.”
And now, everything that has been promised to be fulfilled, we will see it fulfilled. It’s not a matter of “maybe it will happen or maybe it won’t”; the Holy Spirit will fulfill what corresponds to this time. Just as the same Holy Spirit has been doing from age to age: Christ in Holy Spirit has been in His Church fulfilling the promise of each age, the promised Word of each age, and therefore, He has been fulfilling (what?) God’s Program for each age in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That same Holy Spirit (which is Christ in His heavenly body, the Angel of the Covenant who accompanied the Hebrew people, who accompanied Moses, who spoke to Moses; and who met with Jacob on one occasion, and Jacob held on to Him and didn’t let Him go until he received the blessing of that Angel, who is Christ) has been in the midst of His Church, He has been taking His Church up from stage to stage, and speaking to His Church through His messengers.
And for our time He has gone up to where? The Holy Spirit has gone up: He has gone up to the Age of the Cornerstone; and He has called us there and taken us up to the Age of the Cornerstone. That is the age where the Holy Spirit will be fulfilling the promises of our time, which couldn’t be fulfilled in another time, because they weren’t for another age or other ages.
And now, Reverend William Branham saw what was coming; and he tried to reach those promises, believing them, he tried to carry them out, to work to fulfill them; but it wasn’t for his time; and therefore, they couldn’t be fulfilled in his time.
Now, notice how the promise of the coming of the forerunner was fulfilled by the Holy Spirit back then, two thousand years ago, in John the Baptist.
It’s because the Holy Spirit uses people to fulfill what He promised. He promised the Coming of the Messiah, and He fulfilled It in a man named Jesus. And that is how it has been at all times. He promised Israel the deliverance of the Hebrew people from bondage in Egypt, and He fulfilled it by using a man named Moses; because man, the human being, is God’s partner.
We are working in the Work of the Lord as partners of God, and that is why we have been given talents;[6] and in the other parable it also says that pounds were given;[7] both things refer to money. (It was… both were a kind of coin, right? A pound, and so forth.)
And what has been given…
It’s like a wealthy father, he gives money to his son: “Son, let’s start a business; we will both be partners;” they establish the business, the father helps him whenever he needs help, and the son starts working; and he establishes a great business. And the son says: “This business, well… I’m my father’s partner here, this belongs to my father.” But when he dies, who does it go on to? The son. In other words, the son was working, he was working for his own benefit without realizing it.
There are some very important places that we must not overlook in God’s Program for our time.
Notice this passage (there are other places): it says on page 471 of the book of The Seals, it says… That’s when he was trying to lace a shoestring, a lace (or I don’t know what else you call it) into a baby shoe. [Shoelace.] Huh? [Shoelace.] A shoelace. (What do you call shoes that have laces? [Shoelaces/shoestrings.] Shoelaces or shoestrings.) And well, that little shoe represented the people of the seventh age, the Pentecostal people. And He tells him [The Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” p. 36]:
“[298] ‘You can’t teach Pentecostal babies supernatural things.’ Said, ‘Now, let them alone!’
299 And just then…”
Notice, He tells Elijah: “Leave them alone, Elijah!” and therefore, the ministry of Elijah left the seventh age.
“299 And just then He picked me up. He took me up, and sit me way up high, to where a meeting was going on. Looked like a tent or a cathedral, of some sort.”
See? He couldn’t define it as a tent, but rather a tent… a cathedral of some sort; meaning, it had the qualities of a tent and a cathedral; it was also very large.
And he always tried to conquer that promise; because what he saw there was so great, that everything he had seen before was not comparable to what he saw in that place.
“[299] And I looked, and there was a little box, like, little place over in the side. And I seen that Light was talking to somebody, above me, that Light that you see there on the picture. It whirled away from me, like that, and went over that tent. And said, ‘I’ll meet you there.’ And said, ‘This will be the Third Pull, and you won’t tell It to nobody.’”
Now, the Third Pull, notice, is to be manifested in all its fullness, where? In a Tent. And the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of the living depend on the Third Pull.
When the little fish… which had been dead in the water for half an hour,[8] and God told him… God had told him (and he made it known to those who were with him): that they were going to… that God’s glory was going to be manifested. In the resurrection, even of a little fish, and a resurrection performed by God: that is God’s glory being manifested. And that was a type and figure of the resurrection of the dead in Christ.
Just as the resurrection of Lazarus[9] was a type and figure of the resurrection of the dead in Christ, which will be carried out on the fourth day. The fourth day… Lutheran age: first day; Wesleyan age: second day; Pentecostal age: third day; and Age of the Cornerstone: fourth day. See?
Now, he goes on to say:
“[299] And in Sabino Canyon, He said, ‘This is the Third Pull’ (that was when the sword fell into his hand; and what does the sword represent? The Word of God).
300 And there’s three great things that goes with It. And one unfolded today, or, yesterday; the other one unfolded today; and there’s one thing that I cannot interpret, because it’s in an unknown language.”
See? Unknown to him. He couldn’t interpret it, because…
It’s like if someone tells you, or if you hear that something very important is being spoken, that a mystery is being revealed, and you know that this mystery is going to be revealed, and you go to hear the revelation of that mystery; and if it’s spoken to you… and if they speak in Chinese, what did you understand? Nothing.
So… That’s what happened to him. It wasn’t in Chinese, he doesn’t say it was in Chinese; it was in some other language that he didn’t know.
“[300] But I stand right there and looked right straight at It. And this is the Third Pull coming up. And the Holy Spirit of God…Oh, my!
That’s the reason all Heaven was (what?) silent.”
And now notice, the Holy Spirit will be there in the fulfillment, and He will be the One who will carry out the fulfillment of that vision.
The Holy Spirit in John the Baptist fulfilled the promise of the coming of the forerunner, He was fulfilling that promise in John. And that is why everything John carried out throughout his ministry was not a human work; it was the Work of God through the Holy Spirit using John the Baptist.
That is why on one occasion Jesus asks those religious leaders, in front of the people: “The baptism of John, is it of men or from God?” That is, “Is it of men or is it from Heaven?”[10]
—“(If we say it’s from God, He will say to us: ‘Then why didn’t you believe and get baptized?’ And if we say it is of men… the people believe that John the Baptist is a prophet, so they might stone us). We cannot tell.”
And now, it was a Work of God carried out by the Holy Spirit through John the Baptist, the Holy Spirit fulfilling the promise of the forerunner: forerunning, preparing the way for the Lord; making ready a people, having a people well prepared, well aware of what God had promised for that time; and making known to them, and confirming to them, that what God had promised regarding the Coming of the Lord is for that time, and that He is in their midst.
And then John says… and John says: “I do not know who He is, I know Him not.” But afterwards, when He baptizes Him, and already…: “I knew Him not, but the… but…” then He presents the Lord to them: “He is the One who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with Fire.”
And if the people were searching and waiting for the baptism of the Holy spirit and Fire, are they going to follow John? John went as far as he needed to go: baptizing the people and announcing to them that another was coming after him.
The baptism in Holy Spirit gives us the new birth, it gives us the heavenly body; and therefore, it brings forth an inner transformation. But then we have the promise that we will receive a physical transformation: a new physical, but glorified body.
Under whose ministry will that promise come to fulfillment? Under the ministry of the forerunner? Well, it didn’t come, he already left.
The disciples of John the Baptist could have said: “No, let’s wait for John. Even though he died, he will resurrect, and then we will receive the spirit: that transformation that will come.” But John had taught that it would be the One who would come after him; therefore, it would be the One of whom he said: “This is the man”; he identified Him by his Word. The Word of John was what identified Jesus.
And now, the Word of the forerunner of the One who will come after Reverend William Branham, that Word will be what will identify Him, It will be the one testifying who He will be; It will be testifying in whom the Holy Spirit will come fulfilling the things that are promised. Therefore, God will fulfill what He promised.
And we have already seen that whenever what God promised is fulfilled, it is the Holy Spirit fulfilling what He promised.
And some people say: “No, a man is the one doing that.” No, it is the Spirit of God using that man for the fulfillment of His promise.
And now, the Holy Spirit must, at this end time, fulfill what He has promised. He can’t take back what He has already promised. Therefore, notice what Christ in Holy Spirit must do to fulfill the Tent Vision, and every other vision relevant to the Last Day. I’ll read the passage to you, and you tell me the page [The Seals, “The First Seal,” p. 40]:
“302 Glory! Notice! And when this Holy Spirit that we have becomes incarnate to us, the One that’s in our midst now in the form of the Holy Ghost, becomes incarnate to us, in the Person of Jesus Christ, we’ll crown Him King of kings [and Lord of lords].”
[The pastors mention different pages —Editor.]
[Bro. Miguel: 134] 134.
And let’s see another one, which is easier.
Don’t worry, we’re not taking an exam today; because if I tell you we’re taking an exam, you’ll be expecting the diploma.
But you know what the diploma will be? The new body. When we have the new body, we will have graduated with the highest grades! [“The First Seal,” p. 53]:
“402 And at the same time that this devil falls out of Heaven and becomes incarnate in a man, the Holy Spirit goes up and comes down in carnate men.”
[Bro. Miguel: 146.]
Now, let’s turn to another one around here [“The Sixth Seal,” p. 25]:
“[202] And just about the time the antichrist moves hisself fully on the—on the scene, God moves Hisself fully on to redeem it all.”
[Bro. Miguel: 256.]
See? I knew he would miss one eventually (haha); I knew this was a hard one; but he’s close: three hundred and fifty-something (and if you don’t have the same book, you won’t find it); 352, in the second-to-last paragraph, he says it there.
And page… [“The Fourth Seal,” p. 25]:
“196 But when our Lord appears here on earth, He’ll be riding on a snow-white horse. And He’ll be completely, fully, the Emmanuel, the Word of God incarnate in a Man. See? That’s just how much different there is in them.”
That’s the difference between Christ and the antichrist.
[Bro. Miguel: 256.] That one is more…is easier.
[The Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” p. 33]: “275 And did you notice? ‘That one Angel,’ I said, ‘in there, was a strange Angel.’ He looked more to me than any of the rest of Them. You remember that? [Congregation says, ‘Amen.’—Ed.] They were in a constellation; three on a side, and one on top. And the one right next to me here, counting from the left to the right, would have been the seventh Angel. He was brighter, meant more to me than the rest of Them. You remember? I said, ‘He had His chest out, like that, and was flying eastward,’ (You remember?) ‘like that.’ I said, ‘It picked me up; lifted me up.’ You remember that? [‘Amen.’]
276 Here It is, the One with the Seventh Seal, the thing that I’ve wondered all my life.”
When the seventh angel of the seventh age flew to the East, he went as far as Egypt; and from there he was commanded to – that he should stop and not reach Israel.[11]
But this Angel can fly to the East without a problem.
Now, remember that the angels were coming from West to East.
And he is the one who has the Seventh Seal; therefore, he is the only one who will be able to make known the mystery of the Seventh Seal, because he is the one with the Seventh Seal.
So, the Seventh Seal and the revelation of the Seventh Seal, and the Seven Thunders, and the Tent Vision, all of that is connected; and one thing can’t be fulfilled without the other. Although, in the moment, one will be fulfilled and then the other, and so on, but everything will reach a total fulfillment.
Therefore, let’s say: the Holy Spirit will be working on the project of The Great Tent Cathedral, where He will manifest Himself in all His fullness.
Because the Work of God is always done by the Holy Spirit, which is the Angel of the Covenant; and therefore, just as He undertook the Work for each age —the Holy Spirit through the veil of flesh of each age— He will do the same at the Last Day.
And we will see the fulfillment of that work. It will be a non-human Work: a Work of the Holy Spirit, but through human means.
The Work of God is always done through human means, but it is a Divine Work; that is how it has always been and that is how it must continue to be, because God doesn’t change the way He works.
Notice, back in the time of Brother Branham… let’s see around page 12 of the book of Quotations (here it’s a bit more difficult for me; because if I read the quote here, then I can’t give you the page number, the page here from Quotations). Let’s see on page 12, which says… page 12, paragraph 95 and 96 (we have to read the text, and also see what the previous paragraph and the following paragraph say, to see if they go together), it says[12]:
95 – “[4] … and it’s going to be something wonderful…”
In the previous paragraph, he is speaking about the Tent. He says[13]:
94 – “[3] Brother Boze, I think, carried it, and the ‘Herald Of His Coming’ carried it (it says ‘llevólo,’ but that’s not the way we say it here [Dr. Soto refers to the Spanish translation of the version he is reading —Translator]). I think the ‘Voice Of Healing’ will have it this next month (meaning, the Tent Vision was published; he is speaking in 1956 here). And it’s a great thing, I’m sure, our Lord Jesus is fixing to do (that is, He’s fixing to do something).
4 And I just can’t hardly wait to get in that tent…”
95 – “[4] … and it’s going to be something wonderful. And I just know He’s going to do it, just before His coming. And I feel that we all are part in this.”
And now notice: “a lot of times…” the next paragraph says[14]:
96 – “[49] Now, it’s written between the lines lot of times…”
We would say “in between the lines.” Like when something is said or written, but there is another additional meaning behind the words.
For example, when it is said that: “The fig tree will bud,” well, the literal meaning is a tree budding, but the meaning behind it is: “Israel will emerge as a free and sovereign nation,” see?
96 – “50 When we get our big tent up out here somewhere, we’ll take plenty of time and go through them in-between the lines (or ‘between the lines’). Watch the resurrection thing how it moves in there.”
And now, we already know that there will be something related to the resurrection and that all of that will be on the move there.
There is also a promise that there will come a time when body parts that people are missing will be created.[15] And with the resurrection, whoever was missing a leg: will resurrect in a body with two legs; a perfect and glorified body. And in the transformation as well: whoever is missing an arm or a leg —upon being transformed— will then have the whole, new, eternal, young, and glorified body.
But also the physical mortal body itself: people who are missing body parts will also have them restored.
All those things will be manifested in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, where the Holy Spirit will be working there.
Notice, Reverend William Branham saw the Pillar of Fire move to that place, he also saw the Angel; he went down with the Angel to that place. Therefore, what will be happening there will be something big.
Now notice, before going inside the place, Reverend William Branham was already seeing wonders that were happening there. In other words, it wasn’t… it isn’t the ministry of Reverend William Branham, although it is the ministry of Elijah. That is why he says… notice here, on page 136 of the book of Quotations, he says… they ask him the question; it says[16]:
1208 – “[186] [Question 253] Will the Bride—will the Bride before Jesus comes, will She have all power of Holy Ghost to perform miracles, raise dead, and so on as in the latter rain—or is this the latter rain for the hundred and forty-four thousand Jews? Will all ministers have this, are we, or, are we just waiting for the coming? (…)
197 Now, latter rain, a hundred and forty-four thousand Jews, no, that isn’t…that…they won’t…that’s—that’s when Elijah and Moses…There’s where the miracles take place. The things that the people’s been looking for, the Pentecostals, for miracles, that’s where that’ll take place in that, under them. See, that’s Elijah’s and Moses’. (…)
198 We’re just to wait on the Coming of the Lord.”
And He comes with whom? With His Angels.
So, it’s under the ministry of the fifth Elijah and second Moses that the miracles, Reverend William Branham says, will be happening.
Therefore, Elijah returns! “I’ll ride this trail, this path (that ministerial path), once more, once again”: for the fifth time. It is the Holy Spirit under the ministry of Elijah (which He is operating) saying that He will ride the path, that ministerial trail, again.
And also on page 166, he says [Quotations][17]:
1485 – “[6] ‘Will there be another revival (he asks: ‘Will there be another revival?’), I’ll see another time?’ And just remember, from the west will come a white horse rider. We’ll ride this trail again (once more). (…) It’s a promise.”
Therefore, the great blessing is for the West; and the seventh age already ended, where that seventh age was fulfilled there in North America. Now only Latin America and the Caribbean is left to fulfill those visions, those prophecies.
Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit, Christ in Holy Spirit, moved from one age to another, and from one nation to another, and from one continent to another; from North America: He moves somewhere. And that is why the… when he heard the Seven Thunders, he says that they were in an unknown language;[18] in other words, He moves somewhere where there will be speaking, there will be preaching; it won’t be English.
So, the Third Pull will be manifesting Itself in a language, under the Third Pull the Word will be spoken; those Thunders will be uttering their voices.
In other words, Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, the Holy Spirit, the Mighty Angel of Revelation 10, will be speaking in His Church again, in a new age: the Age of the Cornerstone. And that is where we will see Him manifested, and we will see Him fulfilling the Tent Vision and —therefore— fulfilling all that He has promised to do, or all that was seen by Reverend William Branham which the Holy Spirit would be doing in that Tent Cathedral.
But the Holy Spirit must work, be manifested, for the construction of that place as well; therefore, the Holy Spirit will be on the move.
If it were in Luther’s time, the Holy Spirit would be working on The Great Tent Cathedral project in Luther; and we would see Luther working at the forefront. That was Luther’s project, seemingly, to the people; but no, it was the Holy Spirit’s project for that age.
If it were in Wesley’s time, well, we would see the Holy Spirit through Wesley with the project of the construction of The Tent Cathedral.
If it were in the time of Reverend William Branham we would see Reverend William Branham with the project of The Tent Cathedral, him, at the forefront of that project, working with all the ministers in the construction of that Tent Cathedral. He tried to conquer that promise, but he was not given that blessing.
He says there, around page 12, I think it is, let’s see… (I can’t give you the page here). Let’s see if I can find it, this page, here. In the last page of this little book (and I think you have it): “It Will Be as It Was Spoken: The Tent Vision” (or “It Will Be as the Tent Vision Was Spoken”?).
[Bro. Miguel: “It Will Be as It Was Spoken,” that was in…] “It Will Be as It Was Spoken,” so it…
[Bro. Miguel: … that’s why they put the colon: “It Will Be as It Was Spoken:…” (…) If you said it the other way around, it would be: “The Tent Vision Will Be as It Was Spoken,” we put it the other way around.]
Let’s – it says[19]:
“It would be God, and His doing. No tongue could utter it.
I am now ready for that ministry. I feel that if I but reached out I could grasp it…”
And there he is referring to the Tent Vision; he says there that about 20,000 people could fit, calculating what he saw. He says:
“…if I but reached out I could grasp it.”
So, the ministry of the fourth Elijah has to reach out towards the ministry of the fifth; if the fourth reached out, it could grasp the fifth ministry of Elijah. But God always works, and the ministry He uses there, later on, in order to use it again: He has another veil of flesh.
What some people have thought is that the fourth Elijah will later become the fifth Elijah himself; but that’s not what Reverend William Branham thought.
On page 408, [question] 17, he says [The Seals, “Questions And Answers On The Seals,” pp. 29-30]:
“[203] [Question 189] Brother Branham, is the seventh angel, with the spirit of Elijah, the same man as the Elijah sent to the hundred and forty-four thousand Jews during the three and a half years after the Rapture? Some of us are mixed up, in this.
204 No. He isn’t the same. See, it’s two different men. The Elisha that come in the form of Elijah was not Elijah. And the spirit of Elijah who came upon a man called John the Baptist was not Elijah. And the man of the seventh angel messenger, at the end of the Laodicean Age, will not be the literal Elijah. He’ll be a Gentile, to his people.
205 Elijah will, or the spirit of Elijah then, coming in the…and to the people there, he will be a Jew, see, for they’re sent to their own people. That’s my revelation.”
There you can see that Reverend William Branham does not venture into the fifth Elijah’s territory, and only identifies himself as the man through whom the Holy Spirit is operating the ministry of the fourth Elijah.
That is why, as the fourth Elijah, he had nothing to do with the Jews, and he was forbidden to go to them.
What would the fourth Elijah take them? The Gospel of Grace; but he couldn’t take them the Gospel of the Kingdom; because the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom is only for the ministry of Moses and Elijah. And what the Jews are waiting for is the restoration of the Kingdom; and for that reason, the ministry of the fourth Elijah was for the Church of the Lord, but not for the Jews.
The Tent Vision is connected to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; but the Jews will see and they will… Let’s look it up here, and in the book of Quotations, and then we’ll finish. It says… The book of Quotations, paragraph 176 (I’m going to read two short parts here), it says[20]:
176 – “[730] When they see Jesus coming for the Bride, they’ll say, ‘Lo, this is our God Who we waited on. That’s Him!’ But He’s not coming for them; He come for His Bride.”
And further on… And that will be like the case of Joseph. Further on he says:
176 – “734 When the Lord Jesus shall come for His Bride, and they see Him, they’ll say, ‘That’s the One we’ve waited on, there He is!’ He’ll rise with healing in His wings.”
That is what Malachi 4, verse 2, says: “Unto those who fear My Name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing (with salvation) in His Wings.”
And now, page 57 of the book of The Seals, it says: [“The Breach Between The Seven Church Ages and the Seven Seals,” pp. 5-6, paras. 29-31]
“[29] …I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow…upon his head,…
30 If you notice, that’s Christ, see. Cause, He, in the Old Testament, was called the Angel of the Covenant. And He is directly coming to the Jews now, for the Church is finished. See? All right (he says: ‘He is directly coming to the Jews,’ but let’s see).
…and his face…as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:
31 You remember that Angel in Revelation 1? Same thing. Angel is a ‘messenger.’ And He’s the Messenger to Israel. See? The Church has been raptured, see, now, or fixing to be raptured. He comes for His Church.”
And now: “The Church has been raptured, see, now, or fixing to be raptured. He comes for His Church.”
What Israel is going to receive and is waiting for, will first be with whom? With the Bride-Church of the Lord, those who will be transformed and raptured. And that is the reason for the connection between the Jews and Christianity… Reverend William Branham says: “Just as the Jews brought the Gospel to the Gentiles (that was through Peter and Paul), the Gentiles will take It to the Jews.”
And for that… for that to happen, what will be taking place? Let’s see if we can find it here… You all can later search in your books; this one is from The Seals. You can search on page 30 of the book of The Ages, there you will be able to find what he says.
In the passage I mentioned to you, he says: “As the Jews brought the Gospel to the Gentiles, the Gentiles will take It to the Jews, and then…”
Let’s see it here [The Ages, “The Revelation Of Jesus Christ,” p. 36]:
“Now, when is the Gospel returning to the Jews? When the day of the Gentiles is finished. The Gospel is ready to go back to the Jews. Oh, if I could just tell you something that is about to happen right in this our day. This great thing that is about to happen will carry over to Revelation 11 and pick up those two witnesses, those two prophets, Moses and Elijah, turning the Gospel back to the Jews.”
Moses and Elijah.
On page 458 and 459 it says that the Angels with the Great Voice of Trumpet to call and gather the elect are Moses and Elijah, who will call and gather 144,000 (12,000 of each tribe).[21]
It says:
“We’re ready for it. Everything is in order. As the Jews brought the message to the Gentiles, even so the Gentiles will take it right back to the Jews, and the Rapture will come.”
So you are also going to see some movement from the Gentiles, and it is Moses and Elijah who will take It; and it’s from among the Gentiles to the Jews. Therefore, the ministries of Moses and Elijah will be in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, that is where they will see that great manifestation and they will say: “Well, this is what we are waiting for!”
And so that there is no doctrinal difference when they hear Elijah for the fifth time, the ministry of Moses will be there, the ministry of the one who gave them the Law; therefore, they will have no problems. Let’s try to not have problems ourselves.
May God bless you and keep you And I leave Missionary, Dr. Miguel Bermúdez Marín with you again, to continue on this occasion.
“WORDS OF GREETING TO PASTORS”
[1] Micah 5:2
[2] John 1:29
[3] John 1:26-27, 1:30-33; Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:7-8; Luke 3:16
[4] John 4:2
[5] Amos 3:7
[6] Matthew 25:14-30
[7] Luke 19:11-27
[8] Resurrection of the Little Fish: 57-0623 – “Believe From The Heart,” pp. 17-20, paras. 130-157
[9] John 11:17-44
[10] Matthew 21:25-27, Mark 11:30-33, Luke 20:4-7
[11] 61-0730M – “Gabriel’s Instructions To Daniel,” pp. 31-32, paras. 152-157
[12] Quotations, p. 12, para. 95: 56-0224 – “Jehovah-Jireh,” p. 2, para. 4
[13] Quotations, p. 12, para. 94: 56-0224 – “Jehovah-Jireh,” p. 1, para. 3
[14] Quotations, p. 12, para. 96: 56-0224 – “Jehovah-Jireh,” p. 19, paras. 49-50
[15] The Seals, “The Fifth Seal,” p. 4, para. 24
[16] Quotations, p. 136, para. 1208: 64-0823M – “Questions And Answers #1” pp. 37-39, paras. 197-198
[17] Quotations, p. 166, para. 1485: 65-1128M – “God’s Only Provided Place Of Worship” p. 1, para. 6
[18] The Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” p. 36, paras. 299-300
[19] Letter addressed to Rev. C. Parker Thomas of Southern Pines, North Carolina. June 30, 1958.
[20] Quotations, p. 22, para. 176: 57-1006 – “Questions And Answers On Hebrews Part III,” pp. 24-25, paras. 730, 734
[21] The Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” p. 22, paras. 173-176