Working while the Father works

Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present, and ministers present here in Franca, San Pablo, Brazil. It is a great blessing for me to be with you on this occasion, to share with you a few moments of fellowship around the Word of God and His Program relevant to this end time; because we don’t want to miss God’s Program pertaining to our time, as it happened in the days of John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth, that to the Hebrew religion and its great religious leaders, such as the high pontiff and the Council of the Hebrew religion, the Sanhedrin Council (composed of seventy Hebrew wise men, with doctorates in divinity, that is, in theology), missed the greatest event relevant to that time, which was the coming of the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, and the Coming of the foreran, who was the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah.

And then Jesus said: “But to you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but to them (to those great wise men) it was not given; but to them it is not given to know them.”¹

He also said: “Blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. That many of the prophets and of the righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it; and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.”²

What were they seeing? They were seeing the Coming of the Messiah, and they were there with Him; and they could say: “We are friends of the Messiah, of Jesus.” And they could also say: “He is our friend.”

And would Jesus Christ say something like that about them? Of course He would. Jesus said: “Ye are my friends, for I have told you all things.” For friends tell each other things; and now Jesus Christ had told them the things of the heavenly Father. That is why Jesus said: “Therefore I have called you friends, my friends.”³

God called another man “His friend.” Do you know who it was? Abraham. Abraham was called “God’s friend.”⁴

And now we want in our time for Him to tell us all things of His Kingdom so that we can say: “He is our friend: Our Lord Jesus Christ!” He is our Savior, but He is also our friend.

Let’s read in John, chapter 5, verses 17 and on, where it says:

“But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.

Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.

For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:

That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;

And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.

Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.”

May God bless our souls with His Word, and open His Word to us and allow us to understand His Word. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.

Our topic for this occasion is: “WORKING WHILE THE FATHER WORKS.”

“My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.”

For the days of the First Coming of Christ, the prophecies relevant to that time testified that a man would come crying in the wilderness, a man who would come preparing the way for the Lord; and that was John the Baptist; and he fulfilled the prophecy of Malachi, chapter 3, verse 1, which says:

“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in.”

After this forerunner who would come to prepare the way, the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob would appear; the one who appeared to the prophet Moses in a bush in the desert of Sinai and told him: “I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” That God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob would come to the Hebrew people. That is the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord.

How would He come? He would come in visible form, He would come clothed in human flesh; but He would send a messenger to prepare the way.

In Malachi we have that prophecy, and also in Isaiah, chapter 40, verse 3 and on, where it says:

“The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord…”

To whom was the way to be prepared? To the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

“…make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.”

And then the same chapter 40 of Isaiah, verse 9 to 10, says:

“O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.”

Now, in these passages we can see how God would send a man, a prophet, preparing the way for Him; for God would come manifested in human flesh. The Word, who was with God and was God, and created all things, would become flesh, and was made flesh, and dwelt among human beings (John, chapter 1, verse 1 to 18). Verse 14 says: “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.”

The Word made flesh is the Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, and the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, coming to the Hebrew people, who were the people who had the promise of the First Coming of Christ.

And which is the people that has the promise of the Second Coming of Christ? The gentiles, the gentile Church; because the Hebrew people still don’t know that the First Coming of Christ has already been fulfilled. Therefore, the Hebrew people can’t say: “We are waiting for the Second Coming of Christ.” If they say: “We are waiting for the Second Coming,” they must first believe in the First Coming of Christ; but they are waiting for the Coming of the Messiah.

Now, we find that the Coming of the Messiah has two parts. Those two parts are: His First Coming, as the Lamb of God in His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross; and His Second Coming, as the Lion of the tribe of Judah in His Reclaiming Work for this end time.

Now, let’s see how for the First Coming of Christ God would send a messenger, a prophet, preparing the way for Him. And when that prophet appeared, many people questioned him, because they wanted to know who that man was, because some people thought that John the Baptist was the Messiah. And they asked him: “Who are you?” In Matthew, chapter 3, verse 1 and on, it says:

“In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,

And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.”

We can see that this simple man, calling the people to repentance and baptizing the people who believed in his Message, was fulfilling the promise of the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, who would prepare the way for Him.

And many people didn’t realize that this man called John the Baptist was the Elijah promised in Malachi to convert the hearts of the fathers to the children. And to convert the hearts of the fathers to the children was to convert the faith of the fathers, who were under the Law, to the faith of the apostles, that is, to the Christian faith.

He came preparing a people to move them from the Message of the Law to the Message of Grace; he came preparing the ground, he came preparing the people for the Lord. And then he presented the Messiah. And he always said in his Message: “I am not the Messiah. He comes after me.”

Many thought John was the Messiah, but he always said: “I am not the Messiah. He is coming after me.” And when He came, John said: “I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize said to me: ‘Whomsoever you see the Holy Spirit descending in the form of a dove and remaining on him, that is He (that is, that is the One for whom you are preparing the way).’”⁵

See here, John the Baptist, in John, chapter 1, says, verses 25 onwards… Here is what I had told you. Verse 19 and on (so you have a clear picture), it says:

“And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?

And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ.

And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No.

Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself?

He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.”

He identified himself with the prophecy of Isaiah, chapter 40, verse 3 and on; and therefore he is identified as the messenger of Malachi, chapter 3, verse 1, whom the Lord would send before Him.

Now, when the Scripture tells us: “The Voice of one crying in the wilderness,” whenever the Scriptures speak of a Voice crying, of a Thunder speaking or of a Trumpet sounding or speaking, there must be a man through whom that Voice of God comes speaking to the people.

And now, “the Voice of one crying in the wilderness” was a prophet giving a Message from God to the Hebrew people; and with that Message preparing the people to receive Him at His First Coming. That was “the voice of one crying in the wilderness.”

Now, we can see that this prophet was a great prophet in the Divine Program, he was the last messenger of the Dispensation of the Law. That is why Jesus says: “The prophets prophesied until John, the prophets and the Law.”⁶

Now, that doesn’t mean that after John the Baptist no more prophets would come; rather what it means is that no more prophets would come from the Dispensation of the Law, but after John the Baptist a prophet greater than John appeared: Our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, a dispensational prophet, greater than John; but John also knew that Jesus was greater than him.

That John knew? Of course he did. John tells us: “After me comes One who was before me and is greater than I.” And He was first before John, and comes after John.

Now, we can see that the one who comes after John is greater than John. The forerunner is less than the foreran.

Now, notice how John the Baptist continues to speak, and how they keep asking him questions, and the conversation continues; and at the end he says:

“And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.

And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet?

John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not.”

John the Baptist knew that the Messiah was already on Earth, although John didn’t know Him; he came to know Him after he baptized Him. Although when John was in his mother’s womb, and the virgin Mary went to visit Elizabeth, John the Baptist jumped for joy in his mother’s womb, because the Messiah was also there: Jesus in Mary’s womb.

Now, you see, John the Baptist says:

“He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.

These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man (that is, a male is coming) which is preferred before me: for he was before me.”

And how is it possible that He was before John, and was born after John? In the same way that it was possible and that was possible that Jesus was before Abraham, did Jesus not say: “Before Abraham was, I am”? John, chapter 8, verse 51 and on, there Jesus Himself tells us that before Abraham was…; chapter 8, verse 56 and on, there it is:

“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.”

And if He was before Abraham, He was before John the Baptist, too; so John the Baptist is correct in what he is saying.

Now, when Jesus says these things:

“Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.”

They didn’t realize that there was a man who, in His theophanic body of the sixth dimension, already existed before John the Baptist and before Abraham.

He is the Word who was with God and was God, He is the One who delivered the Hebrew people, and He is the One who ate with Abraham; and Abraham rejoiced, because Abraham was there seeing the representation of what would be the Coming of the Lord in human form; because God was there in human form with Abraham eating, and also the Archangels Gabriel and Michael; and that was the day before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.⁷

Now, we can see that there was One greater than Abraham, and who was before Abraham; and He is greater than John the Baptist also.

And now, John the Baptist says that he is not worthy to loosen the latchet of His shoes:

“…whose shoe’s latchet I am not worthy to unloose.

These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan (the Scripture says).”

But now, when John sees Jesus and presents Him as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, and says:

“This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me.

And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.”

Now, in order for the Messiah to be manifested to Israel in His coming, His forerunner comes baptizing in water the people who repent.

We have the earthly Israel, which is the Hebrew people, who were waiting for the Coming of the Messiah at that time; the coming of the forerunner and the foreran, the Messiah, was fulfilled, and they didn’t notice it.

And now we have the heavenly Israel, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which has the promise of the Second Coming of Christ and also the promise of the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.

They didn’t realize there, the Hebrew religion with the high priest and the Sanhedrin Council, didn’t realize that the forerunner and the foreran were present there, in the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah and the forerunner of the Messiah (also present there).

For the end time, Christianity will have the coming of the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, the Elijah who has to come in this end time forerunning the Second Coming of Christ; and then it will have the Coming of the Lord, the Coming of the Messiah, the Coming of the Anointed One.

And we are going to see this tonight, because this is the most important thing for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in this end time.

For the Hebrew people, in those days of Jesus and John the Baptist, what was the most important thing? The programs they had, the religious programs? No! The First Coming of Christ, with His forerunner there present!

And to those who didn’t think that way, Jesus said: “In vain they do worship me.”⁸ They were keeping human commandments.

But Jesus said to them: “Search the Scriptures, for they are they which testify of me. It seems you think you have eternal life in the Scriptures, for it is the Scriptures that testify of me.”⁹ For the Scriptures said that the Messiah would come to the Hebrew people; and He came, and they gave Him no importance:

“He came unto His own, and His own…”¹⁰: the Hebrew people as a nation didn’t receive Him; neither did the Hebrew religion receive Him; neither the high pontiff nor the Sanhedrin Council welcomed Him; rather they condemned Him: they said He was a false one, that He had blasphemed, and condemned Him to death, their own Messiah, the one they were waiting for. They didn’t like the way in which the Coming of the Messiah was fulfilled.

When God promises something great, He fulfills it in a simple way; and when He promises something greater, He fulfills it in an even simpler way.

He promised the coming of the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, and fulfilled that promise in a simple way: In John the Baptist. And when He also promised the Coming of the Messiah, which is a greater promise, He fulfilled it in a simpler way: a young carpenter from Nazareth was the man in whom the Coming of the Messiah was being fulfilled; the greatest promise relevant to that time was being fulfilled in a construction worker.

Perhaps many people could say: “If he were a high priest, it would be different. If he were the son of the high priest, then the high priest would support him; and everybody would believe in him. If he were the son of the wealthiest man among the Hebrew people, the high priest would support him, because he would be at the level of high society, and the high priest belongs to high society; therefore, all high society would support him.”

But the fulfillment of the Coming of the Messiah came in a young carpenter, in a construction worker. He was not supported by the high society, He was not supported by the Sanhedrin Council (Council of the Hebrew religion), He was not supported by the high priest; because they were at a high society level, and Jesus was at a low level, of the common people.

A construction worker is not a man of high society; however, since He was born through the virgin Mary: He was a Prince, a descendant of David!, even though He was poor.

And do you know something? Even if you are poor, even if you are not of high society, since you have come through Jesus Christ our Savior, by receiving Him as our Savior and receiving His Holy Spirit, by washing our sins in the Blood of Christ: Now we belong to a New Creation: we belong to the Church of Jesus Christ; and therefore we are of high society, but not of the high society of this Earth, but of the high society of Heaven; of which God is the highest, and we: children of God, children of the King of the Universe.

And now, you see, God has placed us in the highest position in the whole universe. There is no one who has a higher position than those redeemed with the Blood of Christ. They are children, we are sons and daughters of God! That is the highest position in Heaven and on Earth; there is none higher. We are in the position of Royalty. He is the King of the Universe, and Jesus Christ has made us for our God kings and priests.¹¹

Now, don’t worry if you don’t have a high position here on Earth. The positions here, earthly, are temporary, that is momentary. The position that you have and that I have in the Kingdom of God is for all eternity.

Now, notice how great things come in a simple way; for God works His great promises in a simple way. He promised to send His children here on Earth, and He sends them in a simple way; but we carry the great things inside: Christ inside us; and our soul, which comes from God, is great: it comes from Heaven, it is part of God, we are part of God; that is why we are sons and daughters of God.

And for the sons and daughters of God, you see, God sent the fulfillment of the coming of the forerunner and the Coming of the foreran: The First Coming of Jesus Christ and His forerunner; and for the Last Day we have the promise of the Second Coming of Christ and His forerunner.

If it was all simple two thousand years ago, will it be simple for the Last Day? Of course it will.

Now, many people say: “We know that Elijah has to come before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.” That is the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, just as John the Baptist was the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ.

Jesus Christ said of John the Baptist: “If you are willing to receive him, he is that Elijah who was to come.” Matthew, chapter 11, verse 14; there is where Jesus Christ says about John the Baptist: “And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.”

He said about John: “For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.” In other words, there would be no more prophecies through Old Testament prophets, there would be no more Old Testament prophets; the last one was John the Baptist.

Now the prophets that would come: they would come in the New Testament, they would appear in the Dispensation of Grace. And there appeared the first, the greatest: the dispensational prophet Jesus; and then Jesus placed apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers in His Church.¹²

Now we can see that whenever a dispensation appears, the prophets of the previous dispensation end; and then the Divine Program of a new dispensation begins.

Now, Jesus also said of John the Baptist: “Of those born of women, there was none greater than John.” Matthew, chapter 11, verse 11, says:

“Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”

The smallest in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than John the Baptist.

And how can this be possible? Because in the Old Testament we find the prophets, who are the servants of God, they belong to the people of the servants, they belong to the Hebrew people; and in the New Testament the believers in Jesus Christ, washed with the Blood of Jesus Christ, filled with the Spirit of Christ, who —consequently— have received the new birth and have been born into the Kingdom of God: They are sons and daughters of God.

And which is greater for God: a son or a servant? A son is greater. It doesn’t matter if he is a newborn, he is greater; and he is the heir. A son is heir. A servant is not an heir. Therefore, a son is greater, even if he is the youngest one.

Did you see that there is no contradiction in the Scriptures?

Now, we can see that the least of the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than John the Baptist.

We find that for the First Coming of Christ, God sent John the Baptist: a mighty prophet. And then John the Baptist spoke of One who would come after him. And when He appeared, John the Baptist said: “This is the man, this is the male, of whom I said that He would come after me. I am not worthy to untie the latchet of His shoes.” He said: “I baptize you with water, but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire.”¹³

And now, those who followed John the Baptist in those days, two of them, John and Andrew, heard John the Baptist say: “Behold the Lamb of God,” and they went after Jesus.

Two of John’s disciples left John and went with Jesus. They didn’t go away angry with John; rather they went away thankful to John that he had shown them the man, the male, who would come after him, who was greater than him. And if He was greater than John, who were John’s disciples to follow: the least or the greater one?

John the Baptist had once said about Jesus…, when they said to him: “See, now He to whom you bore witness, more people follow Him than you, and He baptizes more people than you.” John the Baptist says: “It is convenient for Him to increase, and for me to decrease.”¹⁴

John the Baptist was not jealous. John the Baptist was aware that the one who came after him was greater than him; and that was the one who would baptize with the Holy Spirit and Fire.

John the Baptist went as far as water baptism; from there on Jesus continued, who promised His disciples the baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire.

To receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire, which are the first fruits of the Spirit, who was to be followed? Jesus.

Those who believed in John the Baptist and then followed Jesus: They did correctly; because John the Baptist taught them to believe in the one who would come after him.

In the book of Acts, chapter 19, verse 1 and on, Saint Paul teaches the disciples of John the Baptist that John the Baptist taught them to believe in the one who would come after him. It was that Saint Paul met some of John’s disciples, over there around Ephesus, and asked them: “Did you receive the Holy Spirit after you believed (or when you believed)?” Chapter 19:

“And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples,

He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.”

And John the Baptist had told them: “He who comes after me will baptize you with Holy Spirit and Fire.” As if they didn’t know John’s Message very well, although John had spoken to them about the one who would come after him.

It is very important to examine the messages of the forerunner of the Coming of the Lord, because in the messages of the forerunner is what the foreran will do, the one who will come after the forerunner.

And there it was —said by the forerunner— what the foreran would do: “He will baptize you with Holy Spirit and Fire.”

Now, they didn’t even know there was a Holy Spirit.

“And he (Paul) said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism.

Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.

When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.

And all the men were about twelve.”

Now, who were those who were receiving the Holy Spirit, and therefore the new birth? The believers and followers of the foreran; that is, the believers in Jesus Christ.

The believers in John the Baptist would only be left with water baptism. In order to receive the Holy Spirit, and thus be born again, they had to follow the man who would come after John the Baptist, that is, Jesus Christ.

And the baptism of the Holy Spirit is the first fruits of the Spirit, where the person, by believing in Jesus Christ as his Savior and washing his sins in the Blood of Christ, then receives the Spirit of Christ; and therefore receives the new birth, is born in the Kingdom of God; and thus receives a theophanic body of the sixth dimension.

For the Last Day we have the promise that all the sons and daughters of God will receive, in addition to the first fruits of the Spirit, in addition to the baptism of the Holy Spirit and new birth: they will receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit; and therefore, they will receive the transformation of their bodies: they will receive an eternal body, those of us who are alive, and the dead in Christ will be resurrected in an eternal body.

For whom will this blessing be? This blessing will be for God’s elect who in the Last Day will be hearing the Great Voice of Trumpet. “For the Last Trumpet will sound, and the dead in Christ will rise first, they will resurrect in incorruptible bodies, and we who are alive will be changed.”¹⁵ We are required to be hearing the Last Trumpet.

When it speaks of a Voice crying, or a Trumpet speaking or sounding, or a Thunder sounding, it is a man proclaiming a Message.

And now we have the promise, for the Last Day, of the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet calling and gathering all the elect of God; that is the Voice of Christ speaking to His people in the Last Day.

That is why in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 10 to 11, it says:

“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day…”

Which is the Lord’s Day? The seventh millennium; for “one day before the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.”¹⁶ And the last days are the fifth millennium, sixth millennium and seventh millennium.

And now, the Last Day before God is the seventh millennium; that is the Lord’s Day.

“…and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet…”

Whose voice is this great voice like a trumpet? Let’s see whose voice it is:

“…Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last…”

It is the Voice of Jesus Christ our Savior; for He is the Alpha and Omega, He is the first and the last. It is Christ speaking to His Church in the Last Day, in the seventh millennium. And with His Voice He gives us His Last Message, and calls and gathers all His elect in the Last Day:

“And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect…” Matthew, chapter 24, verse 31.

And now, what will this Voice be speaking? What will Christ be speaking in the Last Day? In Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1, 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; which said (here we have again that Voice of Trumpet; it is the Voice of Christ. He said), Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”

The Voice of Christ in the Last Day will be making known the things that must happen soon, in this end time.

And now, how are we going to listen to that Voice in order to understand the things that will be happening in this end time? In the same way that the Voice of Christ has been heard throughout these two thousand years that have passed.

Saint Paul said:¹⁷ “It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me.” And in the manifestation of the Holy Spirit through the apostles, through Saint Peter, through Saint Paul and through the different angel messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church, Christ in Holy Spirit has been speaking, and has been calling and gathering His children from stage to stage; and thus He has been fulfilling His promise of John, chapter 10, verse 14 to 16, where it says:

“I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.

As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold (that is, they are not of the Hebrew people): them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”

How will they hear the Voice of Christ? Through the manifestation of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit through each of His messengers.

From age to age, Christ has been manifested in the messenger of each stage: speaking, and calling and gathering His elect, and has been placing them in His Fold, which is His Church, His Mystical Body of believers.

And for the Last Day, how are we to hear the Voice of Christ making known to us all these things that must happen soon? There has to be an instrument through which these things that must come to pass are made known.

That instrument has to be a man anointed with the Holy Spirit in the Last Day, he has to be a prophet.

And now, let’s see if the Bible speaks of a messenger through whom these things are made known; because if it is a promise, that promise has to be fulfilled to the Church of Jesus Christ in this Last Day. Revelation, chapter 22, verse 6 and on, it says:

“And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.”

There we have the Angel Messenger, the prophet messenger of Jesus Christ, sent to make known to the Church of Jesus Christ all these things that must happen soon. That is the one sent by God for this end time, to make known all these things that must shortly be done, which Jesus Christ said He would make known to those who would come up to where He was: “Come up hither, and I will show you the things which must shortly come to pass after these things.”

We must go up to the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the Golden Age of the Church of Jesus Christ; and there Jesus Christ will be manifested in Holy Spirit in His Angel Messenger, in this Angel Messenger that He sends to make known all these things that must happen soon. Just as He spoke through the angel messengers of the seven ages, He speaks in the Last Day to His Church in the Age of the Cornerstone.

Revelation 22, verse 16, says:

“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”

Whom has Jesus Christ sent? His Angel Messenger, to give testimony of all these things that must come to pass, to give testimony of these things to the churches.

Therefore, for the Last Day all the churches will have the opportunity and blessing to have on Earth the Angel Messenger of Jesus Christ giving testimony of all these things that must shortly be done. And he that is of God, will hear the Voice of God,¹⁸ the Voice of Jesus Christ through His Angel Messenger:

“I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.”

But is it not necessary that Elijah should come first, forerunning the Second Coming of Christ? Thus said the disciples of Jesus Christ, because the Pharisees and Sadducees had said to them: “It is necessary that Elijah comes first and restore all things.”

Matthew, chapter 17, verse 10 and on, says…, after they came down from Mount Transfiguration, where they had the vision of the coming of the Kingdom of God, with the Son of Man and His Angels coming in the Kingdom of God; and there they saw Moses and Elijah, and Jesus with His face like the sun.

And now, when they come down from Mount Transfiguration, in chapter 17, verses 10 to 13, we are told:

“And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things (he is speaking of the Elijah who will come in this end time, for the restoration of all things).

But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.

Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.”

There we can notice that they (the people) had not realized that Elijah, the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, had already come and gone; he had died, and they still had not realized that John the Baptist was the Elijah who was to come at that time.

The religion of that time expected the fulfillment of that prophecy literally: They expected the prophet Elijah, who left in a chariot of fire or flying saucer, to return in a flying saucer, the same Elijah.

But when God promises the coming of a prophet who already came in the past and had his ministry, when He sends him again, in the fulfillment of the promise that He will send Elijah again, it is the coming of the Holy Spirit in another man operating the ministry of Elijah.

The ministry of Elijah was manifested in Elijah the Tishbite by the Holy Spirit. That is why Saint Peter says: “The Spirit of Christ that was in them (that is, in the prophets), that was the one who foretold the sufferings of the Messiah.”¹⁹

And now, the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit, in another man coming and operating the ministry of Elijah, will be the fulfillment of the coming of Elijah.

The ministry of Elijah was in Elijah the Tishbite, operated by the Holy Spirit; and then it was in a double portion —manifested by the Holy Spirit— in Elisha, who asked for a double portion of the spirit that was in Elijah; and it was granted to him.

And when the sons of the prophets noticed that Elisha took Elijah’s mantle (when Elijah had departed in a chariot of fire) and smote the Jordan: The Jordan was opened, as Elijah the prophet had done. And the sons of the prophets said: “The spirit of Elijah has rested upon Elisha.”²⁰

It was the second time that the ministry of Elijah was manifested on Earth; but it was manifested in another man: the veil of flesh was called Elisha; the ministry was the ministry of Elijah.

And the third occasion that this ministry was manifested on Earth was in John the Baptist. He is that Elijah who was to come preparing the way for the Lord in His First Coming.

And the fourth occasion in which the ministry of Elijah would be manifested on Earth would be as the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ. In the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ would be the ministry of Elijah operated by the Holy Spirit for the fourth time.

And for those who say and wish to know regarding Elijah forerunning the Second Coming of Christ, I want to tell you that Elijah already came and foreran the Second Coming of Christ: it was the Holy Spirit manifested in the Reverend William Branham operating the ministry of Elijah for the fourth time. He has already come and gone! And he already carried out his Work, his labor: he foreran the Second Coming of Christ.

Now, do you know what? Elijah will come again, for the fifth time; and that is the Elijah who will be in the midst of the gentile Church and also in the midst of the Hebrew people, and who will convert the Hebrew people.

But Elijah will not come alone: Moses will also come. We will have the ministry of Elijah for the fifth time, the ministry of Moses for the second time and the ministry of Jesus for the second time.

And who is the one who has had those ministries and has operated them? The Holy Spirit. It was the Holy Spirit in Moses, in Elijah and in Jesus.

Saint Paul says in Hebrews, chapter 1, verse 1 to 2:

“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…”

The same God, who spoke through the prophets in the Old Testament, spoke through Jesus. The same God, the same Holy Spirit, is the one who spoke through the prophets and the one who operated those ministries in the prophets; and the one who manifested Himself in Jesus in all His fullness and operated the ministry of Jesus, the messianic ministry.

He is the only one who has ministries: The Holy Spirit, and He operates them from time to time in the prophets He sends.

For this end time, what will be the coming of Elijah in his fifth manifestation as one of the Two Olive Trees of Revelation, chapter 11, and Zechariah, chapter 4?

For those Two Olive Trees are the Two Anointed Ones who stand before the presence of God.

The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, speaking of what will be the ministry of Elijah for the fifth time (which will convert the Hebrew people to Christ, which will be together with Moses) and what will be Elijah coming for the fifth time: On page 399 of the book of The Seals in Spanish, on question number 11, notice what the Reverend William Branham is asked:²¹

“¹⁸² ‘Is the Elijah, who comes to preach to the Jews, the real man who lived on the earth, in the days of Ahab (that is, is it Elijah Tishbite), or will he be the spirit of Elijah in some other man?”’

(The answer was):

I’m inclined to believe that it will be anointed men, of their spirit. Because, see, when Elijah went up and Elisha encountered the sons of the prophets, he says, ‘Does not…on Elisha? Does not the spirit of Elijah rest on Elisha?’ See, ‘the spirit of Elijah.’ And he done just like Elijah did, see.”

What will be the coming of Elijah’s ministry for the fifth time? What will be the coming of Elijah to preach to the Hebrew people and convert them to Christ? It will be the coming of a man of this time, anointed with the ministry of Elijah. The Holy Spirit will be in that man, anointing him with that ministry, and therefore the ministry of Elijah will be on this planet Earth for the fifth time.

Also, in the book of The Seals, page 449, he says:²²

“⁸⁹ Now, there is only one person could fulfill that, only one Spirit that’s ever been on the earth, that I know of. Would either be… It would have to be Elijah, in his time. And it was predicted that it would be, which is nothing but the Spirit of Christ.

⁹⁰ When Christ come, He was the fullness. He was the Prophet. He was the—the God of the prophets.”

Now, notice how the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, was in the prophet Elijah (Elijah the Tishbite), was in Elisha, was in John the Baptist…

The Archangel Gabriel said, speaking of John the Baptist, before he was born, he told the priest Zechariah that he would be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.²³

It is the Holy Spirit who has ministries and operates those ministries in His messengers, who are sent to God’s people. So it was in the Old Testament and so it is in the New Testament.

And for those who are waiting for Elijah in his fifth manifestation, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said: “He will be a man of this time anointed with that spirit.” Just as Elisha was, just as John the Baptist was and just as Reverend William Branham was: they were not literally the prophet Elijah, but the ministry that the Holy Spirit was operating in them was the ministry of Elijah. It was the ministry of Elijah having a new veil of flesh and having a new name: the name that had the new veil of flesh.

Now we can notice that when God promises the coming of a prophet who has already come in the past, it is the coming of the Holy Spirit in a man of the time in which God fulfills that promise; and through that man God fulfills all that He has promised to do under that ministry of that prophet.

Now, we have seen throughout Scripture what Elijah would do in his fourth manifestation: he would forerun the Second Coming of Christ. That Divine Work was done by the Holy Spirit through the Reverend William Branham; he was the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, and he is already gone.

Now, when he spoke of the Coming of the Lord, do you know what he said? He spoke just like John the Baptist. Notice what John the Baptist said: “After me comes a man, a man of whom I am not worthy to untie the latchet of His shoes.” And when they told him that the one to whom he bore witness, more people came to Him and more people followed Him, and He baptized more people than John, he said: “It is convenient for Him to increase, and for me to decrease.”

John was like the evening sun, which wanes until it disappears; and Jesus was like the morning sun, which increases until the day is perfect.

Didn’t Jesus say: “I am the Light of the world”? When the sun rises, it rises to travel the entire world.

Now, in the evening time, when the sun is waning, what is it doing? It is shining in the last place it is going to shine, and it is already disappearing; but a new day will come. That already speaks of a new dispensational day, of a new dispensation, where the Sun rises in the morning.

Now, many times people notice the sunset, and they get excited; and when the sun disappears, they cry. That happened when John the Baptist was taken prisoner: there the setting of the Sun was taking place; and when John the Baptist died, there the evening Sun died, and all were sad. But those who followed Jesus were with the Sun of a new day, of a new dispensation, with the Light of a new dispensational day; and they were very happy and glad, although the death of John the Baptist caused them sadness. But with Jesus Christ in their midst, the blessing of God was so abundant that they were rejoicing with the Light of a new dispensational day.

And now, let us notice what the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said. On page 474 and 475 of the book of The Seals, it says:²⁴

“³²⁶ I don’t know who is going to (he is talking about one who will come after him)… what’s going to take place. I do not know. I just know that those Seven Thunders holds that mystery. The Heavens was quiet. Everybody understand? 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 (he is speaking like John the Baptist, as John the Baptist spoke: saying that after him would come another, a man).

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.”

That is why he had to go: because he had finished his work. And now there is a Message of foundation for the one who comes after him; for the one who is to come, for whom he prepared the way.

“There won’t be two of us here the same time. See? If it is, he’ll increase; I’ll decrease.”

He is speaking as John the Baptist spoke; and he is speaking of another man, another prophet, another man, who will come after him, for whom he has prepared the way. And he says: “I don’t know who is going to… what’s going to take place.” And now he laid the foundation for the one who will come after him.

On page 277 of the book of The Seals, speaking of the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, which is the Coming of the Lord, he tells us:²⁵

“^[391] …may the Holy Spirit come down now, the white-horse Rider, while His Spirit, Spirit of Christ, in the face of antichrist, and call His Own.”

It is the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit, the white horse Rider of Revelation 19. He is the one coming in the Last Day.

Now, how is He coming in the Last Day? The forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said, on page 256 of the book of The Seals:²⁶

“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.”

That is what he foreran: The Coming of the Word, the Coming of the Angel of the Covenant, the Coming of the Angel of the Lord, the Coming of the Holy Spirit, in a man of the Last Day; the Coming of the Word, the Word incarnate in a man.

That was also the First Coming of Christ: It was the Coming of the Holy Spirit, of the Word, made flesh in the midst of the Hebrew people, in a young carpenter of Nazareth. The Word, God, the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant, had become flesh in a construction worker. That was the great mystery for that time, that was the mystery of the First Coming of Christ.

And now we have noticed what is the mystery of the Coming of Christ for the Last Day: it is the Coming of the Holy Spirit manifested in the Last Day in human flesh, in a man of this end time.

And when we hear the Voice of Christ, the Voice of the Holy Spirit, that Great Voice of Trumpet: The Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, revealing to us all these things that must happen soon, and we are prepared, and we are transformed, and the dead in Christ resurrected, then we will see our beloved Lord Jesus Christ in His glorified body; because we will also have a glorified body, as our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

We have seen the mystery.

And now, how will Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, come, making known to us all these things that must happen soon?

“And this Voice said unto me, this Voice of a Trumpet, Come up hither, and I will show you the things which must happen after these.”

Then, through the Angel sent by Jesus Christ, in Revelation 22, verse 6, all these things which must happen soon are made known.

It is through His Angel Messenger that Jesus Christ in the Last Day in Holy Spirit manifests Himself: anointing His Angel Messenger and placing in His Angel Messenger the revelation of all these things which must happen soon.

And His Angel Messenger will be speaking, inspired by the Holy Spirit, all these things that must happen soon; and thus he will be making known to us all these mysteries of the Last Day (those of the Last Day, which are those of the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom); and thus the mystery of the Seventh Seal is opened to the Church of Jesus Christ in the Last Day.

But the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ is not the Lord Jesus Christ; he is only an instrument of the Lord Jesus Christ, for Jesus Christ —through His Angel Messenger— to fulfill these promises that He has made to His Church, and to make known to her all these things that must happen soon, and to fulfill every promise that He has made for this end time.

And so the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ will be working in the business of the Lord Jesus Christ, of his heavenly Father. And while his Father is working, he will be working in those businesses of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is to fulfill His promises pertaining to the Last Day.

And where will he be working? He will be working in construction Work, because he will be a construction worker too: he will be a worker in the construction of the spiritual Temple of Jesus Christ! He will be working in that construction Work, which will be coming to its end in this end time.

Christ has been building a Temple for God: A Temple with living stones, with human beings; as Saint Peter told us: that God is building a Temple with living stones,²⁷ which are you and me, and God’s elect of past ages. That Temple is the spiritual Temple of God, the Church of Jesus Christ.

That is why neither the tabernacle built by Moses nor the temple built by Solomon is needed; Jesus Christ has already been building a Temple. And for the Last Day, for this end time, the construction of that Temple will be completed, and it will be dedicated to God for the dwelling of God in Holy Spirit in all His fullness.

God has been dwelling in Holy Spirit in the first fruits of the Spirit, producing the new birth in all who have their names in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life. And for the Last Day He will manifest Himself in all His fullness in His Church, resurrecting the dead in Christ and transforming us who are alive, and dwelling in us in all His fullness; and thus we will be adopted. That is the adoption: the transformation of our bodies, the redemption of the body.²⁸

And now, God has already sent us Elijah, the forerunner, preparing the way for the one who would come after him. And now we see that the one who comes after him is the Holy Spirit manifested in His Angel Messenger in the Last Day, giving us testimony of all these things that must come to pass in this end time.

But His Angel is not the Lord Jesus Christ; but the one who comes manifested in His Angel, that is the Lord Jesus Christ. He comes anointed with the Holy Spirit: Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in His Angel Messenger in this end time, calling us and gathering us in the Age of the Cornerstone, in the part of the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple, to complete the construction of His Temple.

And just as He called and gathered His elect in the first age among the gentiles, in Asia Minor, and used Saint Paul in the construction of His Temple; and then He went on to Europe, where He completed five ages and where He sent five messengers; and then He went on to North America, where He sent the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ; and thus He was building the different stages of His spiritual Temple in the part of the Holy Place; for this end time He builds the part of the Most Holy Place.

Because a Temple for God must have the Most Holy Place, because it is where God will dwell in all His fullness in the Last Day.

And now the part of the Most Holy Place corresponds to Latin America and the Caribbean, where He calls and gathers His elect, and places them in the spiritual Temple of Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the Age of the Most Holy Place of the spiritual Temple of Christ, for God to dwell in each one of us in this Last Day in all His fullness.

When He transforms us and thus gives us the new body, God will dwell in us, He will be in us in all His fullness manifested; and that is the adoption of the sons and daughters of God.

Now, notice the great blessing that has been allotted to Latin America and the Caribbean. We are the most privileged people: we are the people who have God’s blessing of the Last Day.

Let us take good advantage of the great opportunity that God has given us in His Program to receive His blessings, and soon be transformed in this end time, and then go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, and see Him in His glorified body; and we will also be with a glorified body, as His own body; and thus we will be in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ our Savior.

Now, how will we know the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ? We will know him because he will be working in the business of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the House of God, in the Church of Jesus Christ, in the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple, in the construction of that part of His spiritual Temple.

And as long as Christ works, he will be working; because Christ is the one who carries out the Work, and His Angel Messenger is the instrument of Christ for this end time. Therefore, he will be working in the Work of Jesus Christ, in the business of the Lord Jesus Christ for this end time; and he will be able to say: “My Father, Jesus Christ, works, works; and I work. He works in His Church, in the Age of the Cornerstone; and I work in His Church, in the Age of the Cornerstone.”

It is through His Angel that Jesus Christ would reveal to us all these things that must happen soon; He would reveal to us the greatest mystery of all mysteries: The mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Reclaiming Work, and other mysteries that revolve around His Second Coming.

It has been a great privilege for me to be with you testifying to you of these things promised to come to pass in this end time.

And now, just as they worked with Christ in each age, when Christ worked through each messenger in each past age…, where there were many people who believed and worked with the messenger of each age, and therefore they were working with Christ in the Work of Christ of their time.

For this time, we would also have many people working in the Work of Jesus Christ with the Angel Messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ; and therefore, we would all be working with Christ in His Work of construction of His spiritual Temple; and we would be (where?) in the Age of the Cornerstone, the Age of the Most Holy Place of His spiritual Temple.

We have reached the most glorious time of all times, where we can all say: “I work while He works”: WORKING WHILE THE FATHER WORKS, working while Jesus Christ works.

So would be His Angel Messenger: Working while Jesus Christ works. And all the elect of God of this end time would be working while Jesus Christ works, and His Angel Messenger also works.

And all working in the Work of Christ in this end time for the glory of God, so that the Mystical Body of Christ may be completed; and the dead in Christ may be resurrected in eternal bodies, and we who are alive may be transformed.

“WORKING WHILE THE FATHER WORKS,” while Jesus Christ works.

Let us continue to work with divine love, wholeheartedly, in the Work of the Lord Jesus Christ, in His House, His Church, His spiritual Temple.

May the blessings of Jesus Christ our Savior be upon all of you and upon me also, and may He use us greatly in His Work in this Last Day. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.

Thank you very much for your kind attention, kind friends and brethren present. And may God continue to bless you all, and may you all have a very good evening.

I leave with us again the reverend Tirzo Ramiro Giron, to continue and finish our part tonight, giving thanks to our beloved Lord Jesus Christ.

Remember that I told you that the Angel of Jesus Christ is not Jesus Christ; he is only His instrument, through whom Christ would manifest Himself in this end time and would make known to us all these things, and thus the Work of Christ of the Last Day would be carried out.

But Christ is the one who works, Christ is the one who manifests Himself, and uses His Angel Messenger and uses all of us in His Work in this Last Day. Christ is the one who does the Work.

“WORKING WHILE THE FATHER WORKS.”