{"id":2948,"date":"1998-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-11-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conferenciaswp.carpa.com\/en\/conferencias\/the-overcomer-who-receives-the-morning-star\/"},"modified":"2021-08-25T02:58:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T02:58:11","slug":"the-overcomer-who-receives-the-morning-star","status":"publish","type":"conferencias","link":"https:\/\/conferenciaswp.carpa.com\/en\/conferencias\/the-overcomer-who-receives-the-morning-star","title":{"rendered":"The Overcomer who receives the Morning Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Good afternoon, beloved brethren and friends present. It is a great blessing for me to be with you on this occasion again, to continue testifying to you of all these things that must happen soon, in this end time, testifying to you of the things that must happen in the fourth watch and then also throughout the Millennial Day, and also of the things that will happen after the Millennial Kingdom.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">I stopped for a while looking for a place there (and I had read it on other occasions, but now when I needed it I spent a little time looking for it; but I got it); and it is one of the things that are appointed to happen at this time; therefore, it is important for us, because those are the things that Christ promised He would make known to us.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">One of them is also our topic for this occasion: <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>\u201cTHE OVERCOMER WHO RECEIVES THE MORNING STAR.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">If He says: \u201cTo him that overcomes I will give the Morning Star,\u201d it is because if He says so, it is important; and we are interested in knowing what it is, what that Star is, and also who receives that Star.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now, let\u2019s read in Revelation, chapter 2, verse 26 and on, where the promise is; and that promise is for the Overcomer. Notice that the Overcomer always receives one or many blessings from God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">God\u2019s overcomers, both from the Hebrew people and the gentile Church of Jesus Christ, have received great blessings in the past; and for the Last Day there will be great blessings for the Overcomer of the Last Day and for all those who will be with the Overcomer, which will also be overcomers in this end time; because if the Overcomer is going to be given that Star, those who will be with the Overcomer will have that Star in their midst.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">It says in Revelation, chapter 2, verse 26 to 28:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cAnd he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>And I will give him the morning star.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Who speaks here? The Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant; and it says that He will give the Overcomer authority over the nations, and He will also give him the bright and Morning Star; and He will also give him of the hidden Manna, and He will also give him a white Stone, and on the Stone a new name written<\/span><\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote1sym\" name=\"sdfootnote1anc\">1<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote2sym\" name=\"sdfootnote2anc\">2<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And now, let\u2019s see who is the Overcomer who will receive the Morning Star, for He says:<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i> \u201cAnd I will give him the morning star\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">, and we will see who is that Morning Star and to whom will the Morning Star be given.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">In order to understand this great promise that Christ has made here and that will be fulfilled in the Last Day (but it was reflected in past ages), as well as all the other promises that are made here in the book of Revelation, we find that they will be fulfilled in all their fullness in the Last Day, but they were reflected in a partial fulfillment through the messengers of each age.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Because just as Christ was reflected in the prophets of the Old Testament and He reflected His First Coming in them (and also His Second Coming), then, when Christ appeared, the fullness of God was manifested in Him, fulfilling what was reflected in the prophets in relation to the First Coming of Christ in all its fullness.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And for the Second Coming of Christ, everything that will be happening has already been reflected in the prophets of the Old Testament and also in the messengers of the Church of Jesus Christ; and the blessings that will be manifested were also reflected.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now, we can see that there is a promise that says: \u201cTo him that overcomes, I will give him to eat of the hidden Manna,\u201d and this was reflected by giving him to eat Manna; in other words, the Message of the age or of each age in the past, that promise was given to him, that Manna was given to each messenger to eat, and he gave, shared with the Church of Jesus Christ, with the group of his age.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Just as manna fell from heaven for 40 years in the midst of the Hebrew people\u2026 notice, the Hebrew people ate manna from heaven for 40 years, and they also ate meat, quails, and drank from the rock that followed them, they drank water that God gave them twice; and the rock was Christ.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And there is the First Coming of Christ, in the first rock that was wounded by Moses and gave water<\/span><\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote3sym\" name=\"sdfootnote3anc\">3<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">. The water represents the Holy Spirit that Christ has given us.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And the second rock, to which God said and of which God said to Moses<\/span><\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote4sym\" name=\"sdfootnote4anc\">4<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">: \u201cGo and talk to the rock, and it will give water,\u201d Moses made a serious mistake, which apparently for many people was not so serious, because they can\u2019t see what that rock and what Moses had to do meant; and since he didn\u2019t do it exactly as God told him, he altered what was being represented there; because the Second Coming of Christ was being represented in that second rock.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And Moses had wounded the first rock, which represented the First Coming of Christ being wounded on Calvary\u2019s Cross. And for the Second Coming of Christ, Moses had to represent it there on the second rock and he had to speak to the second rock; but Moses full of anger\u2026 Remember that when a person is full of anger he always makes serious mistakes, and Moses made a serious mistake before God, which was the worst.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And now, according to the Divine Program, it was to speak to the rock. The foundation was being placed there in type and figure, in other words, the symbol; because the symbolism of what God is going to do has to be placed first.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And now, in the symbolism of the Second Coming of Christ, Moses full of anger because of the people, which was a rebellious people and was always giving problems (for ten occasions they wanted to stone Moses), now he goes with Aaron and is upset, full of anger; he takes the rod of God with which he had opened the Red Sea and with which he had also wounded the rock, the first rock; and now full of anger he speaks to the people and tells them that he will give them water from that rock.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Let\u2019s see how it says it here: chapter 20 of Numbers, verse 7 and on, it says:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cAnd the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>And Moses took the rod from before the Lord, as he commanded him.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">(it wasn\u2019t a small rock, but a giant rock)<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now look at the big mistake Moses made: striking the rock, when God said: \u201cSpeak to it.\u201d That stage was by the creative Word, being spoken by Moses, that things would happen and God\u2019s blessings would come to the people. And the water, which represents the fullness of the Holy Spirit for the people of God, notice, it would come without striking the rock, only speaking to the rock, which is Christ in His Second Coming.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">But Moses, full of anger, wounded the rock. The rock gave water, but the rock was smitten; and since Christ in His Second Coming, in the fulfillment of His Second Coming, He will not be crucified again in the flesh as He was crucified two thousand years ago (because the Sacrifice for sin was already made), since Moses smote the rock, a second spiritual crucifixion will take place.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And every person who stands up against the Second Coming of Christ and speaks against the Second Coming of Christ, it will be counted to the individual, and also to any group, as a second crucifixion; they will be as people who have crucified Christ for the second time before God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now look at what Moses placed there when he struck the rock.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And now, we can see that the kingdom of the gentiles as well, which was the one that smote the rock there on Calvary\u2019s Cross, is the same one that will also rise at the Last Day according to Revelation, chapter 17, verse 11 and on, and will rise against the Rock, against Christ in His Second Coming.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">It says in Revelation, chapter 17, verse 11 and on:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cAnd the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Those who are with Him are God\u2019s elect of the Last Day and the saints who have departed who are to be resurrected in eternal bodies.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And now you see how the same beast, the Roman empire that rose against Christ back then, and crucified Christ at the request of the Hebrew people, will rise again at the stage of the feet of iron and clay, which is the empire or kingdom of the antichrist for the Last Day, and will rise against Christ, against the Second Coming of Christ; but Christ will overcome him, because He is King of kings and Lord of lords.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">That is why also in Revelation, chapter 19, verse 19, also speaks of the beast and the kings who gave him their power and their authority, and the armies of those kings, which will come against him who rides the white horse of Revelation 19:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cAnd I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now notice how the antichrist, the false prophet, the man of sin, the beast, will rise against the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, which is the Coming of Christ, His Second Coming, and He comes as King of kings and Lord of lords.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And now see how Christ will overcome him, because for this end time the Second Coming of Christ is not to be crucified as Christ was back then two thousand years ago, on Calvary\u2019s Cross, because He already paid the price for sin.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">So this persecution and war that they will do to the Second Coming of Christ will be counted as a second crucifixion, a spiritual crucifixion; but Christ will overcome. And since He will overcome, He will take away the kingdom of the gentiles, He will take the kingdoms of this world and will establish the Millennial Kingdom; and He will reign with His Church over all nations and over the Hebrew people.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now we can see all this Divine Program relevant to the end time and we can see what happened back then, for which Moses couldn\u2019t enter the promised land nor could Aaron enter: because he smote the rock twice back then, that second rock, which couldn\u2019t be wounded but they had to speak to the rock to give water for the people.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Moses then realized what he had done, and he wanted to correct his mistake, his problem, but it was too late. We find Moses trying to get mercy from God, but he couldn\u2019t get it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">See, in the book of Deuteronomy we already find Moses saying goodbye; and in Deuteronomy, chapter 3, verse 23 to 29, see what Moses tells us here regarding the mistake he committed, for which he couldn\u2019t enter the promised land, but he was told: \u201cGo up to the mountain, and from there you will see the promised land, but you will not enter it.\u201d Chapter 3 of Deuteronomy, verse 23 to 29, says:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cAnd I besought the Lord at that time, saying,<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>O Lord God, thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might?<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the Lord said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">God had been angry with Moses for having struck the rock, to which and of which God said: \u201cSpeak to the rock.\u201d God had told him to strike the first rock with the rod, but to the second rock, He said: \u201cSpeak to the rock.\u201d And things must be done in the way God commands, or else God is not pleased with what we do, and then we can\u2019t receive God\u2019s blessings. We have to know what God tells us to do and how He tells us to do things.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now see how this very powerful man, Moses, the one that God used for the deliverance of the Hebrew people, now by making that mistake he couldn\u2019t enter the promised land. And it was so serious, because being a prophet, the Program of God was being reflected in him and in what he was doing, Christ was being reflected in him, both in His First Coming, as well as in His Second Coming; because God is reflected through His prophets.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now see how Moses now regrets that he got upset with the people and acted that way, and he also places half or almost all the blame on the people, because it says here:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cBut the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes\u2026\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">One always tries to blame other people, but look, you can\u2019t get angry even if someone else upsets you and tries to make you angry.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Moses, because of the people who upset him so much (and on many occasions they even wanted to stone him and were always complaining), he got angry at the people.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And when one does something in the Work of God in anger, upset, one always makes a mistake. The first thing, the mistake is that one can\u2019t do anything for God in anger; one can\u2019t do the Work of God in anger, one can\u2019t work in the Work of God in anger; you better stay put; pray to God to pull out that root of bitterness from your soul, from your heart.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Look, another angry man: Jonah. He didn\u2019t want to go to take the Message<\/span><\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote5sym\" name=\"sdfootnote5anc\">5<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">, but he went\u2026 he didn\u2019t want to go on a donkey, or a camel, or a boat, but he had to go on a submarine called \u201ca very big fish.<\/span><\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote6sym\" name=\"sdfootnote6anc\">6<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u201d They took him without paying freight; but he was very scared there.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> He gave the Message, and the king and all the people believed, and then they repented before God; and then God said to the prophet Jonah<\/span><\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote7sym\" name=\"sdfootnote7anc\">7<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">: \u201cLook, the king and the people have repented, so I will not send the divine judgment that I was going to send on Nineveh.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And now, instead of the prophet saying: \u201cThank You, Lord, that Your mercy is so great that You have had mercy on this people who deserved destruction; but because they have heard the Word, the Message, and have repented, Your mercy has been extended to this people. Lord, thank you, because my ministry has worked for the good of this nation, this king and all these people who live in this nation; my ministry has been a blessing.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">But no; Jonah said<\/span><\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote8sym\" name=\"sdfootnote8anc\">8<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">: \u201cThat is why I didn\u2019t want to come, because I know that You are a merciful God and that You will repent of the punishment if the people repent; and I knew that if the people repent You will have mercy and You will not send the divine judgment that You have told me You will send. And now I said that the divine judgment would come and now the divine judgment will not come, the mercy of God will come upon the people.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">For then he had to go and tell the people and the king: \u201cGod has seen you, He has seen that you have humbled yourselves, He has seen that you have repented of your sins, He has seen that you have asked God for forgiveness; and now God has had mercy on you, and now God is going to bless you instead of destroying you!\u201d, and give them a positive message so that they would take courage and thank God, and begin a new productive life and of service to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">But Jonah was not interested in the salvation of those people, he was not interested in God\u2019s mercy being manifested in favor of those people; and he leaves very angry.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And God, look, God deals with His prophets, whether they are bad-tempered or not. God knows how to deal with them; but remember that the bad-tempered ones are very few.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And now, it was a very hot day and God makes a gourd grow and cast good leaves; and Jonah, because it was very hot and sunny, went underneath. Think of it as a vine plant, a grape plant, you can place it in a certain way that it gets tangled up and forms a very nice roof; and there, that vine, that grape plant shades anyone who is hot and sits under it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">For the Millennium, it says that we will sit under the vine and eat the fruit, we will drink of the fruit of the vine<\/span><\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote9sym\" name=\"sdfootnote9anc\">9<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And now, Jonah, when he saw that shadow, he immediately looked for the shadow. You know why one looks for the shadow, right? Because the shadow doesn\u2019t look for you; so you immediately look for a place where there is a shadow and then you get in; the only shadow that looks for you or that follows you is your own, and you can\u2019t get under it. But we have a shadow that we can get under<\/span><\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote10sym\" name=\"sdfootnote10anc\">10<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cHe that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Under that shadow is that we can get in, and we will always be safe.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now, Jonah was the happiest under the shadow of that gourd; but not happy that God had had mercy on the people, of Nineveh, a gentile people; in other words, Jonah being a Hebrew was not happy that God had mercy on the gentiles.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">But God, after He gave him that good shade, that gourd that grew in a day and made shade, and Jonah was the happiest that day there in the shade, during the night what you see in some plants happened: some little worms were born, some worms, and they ate the leaves; because a worm was born in that gourd that ate all the leaves; in other words, it was one of those worms that eat a lot: it destroyed all the leaves.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And the next day when the sun began to heat up and the gourd was leafless, and Jonah was under the hot sun, he was upset too; and there God spoke to Jonah and gave him a great lesson that we should all receive.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now, God has sent us to take the Message, what for? For God to have mercy on other people. Don\u2019t go condemning them. Go and bring them the Message; and in the Message they will hear that the divine judgment is coming upon the Earth, but that there is mercy for those who cry out to God and seek God\u2019s mercy. And he that is of God, will hear the Voice of God; and when he hears the Voice of God, he will receive God\u2019s mercy; and therefore God\u2019s blessing will come upon the person.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">So let us take the Word, the Message, everywhere, so that God may have mercy on other people; for what is coming later is terrible: the judgments of the great tribulation. And none of us want those judgments; therefore, we don\u2019t want those judgments to fall upon people either; and the only way is to bring them the Message so that they may seek God. If they seek God in repentance: they will obtain mercy.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We don\u2019t want any of God\u2019s elect to perish. And taking the Message is that they will be able to receive the Word of God, hear the Voice of God. We are living in the time, in the most important divine cycle of the entire Divine Program.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Let\u2019s see here, what happened here\u2026 let\u2019s see what happened here: chapter 4, verse 1 and on, it says [book of Jonah]:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cBut it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">(not like Jonah, who was quick to anger)<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Ungrateful too. God gives us life, let us be grateful to God, who gives us life and who gives us the opportunity to live and serve God every day of our life.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">It is a privilege to live on this Earth in these mortal bodies, although they are not perfect bodies. It gives us the opportunity to make contact with Christ, Eternal Life, and serve Christ, and be prepared to receive the new body that He has promised for all of us.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">But if we are not faithful in the few things: in this mortal, corruptible and temporary body, how can we want the new body, which is eternal? We have to prove, being in these temporary bodies, that we love Christ and that we will serve Him all the days of our life; whether it is in this temporary body or in the eternal body; and we prove it by being in this temporary body, we prove that we will serve God in the eternal body for all eternity.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now, it goes on to say:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cThen said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And the question for the ones who get angry: \u201cAre you doing the right thing by getting so angry?\u201d You are not doing any good.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Was Moses right to be angry with the people and to strike the rock when God said to him: speak to the rock? He didn\u2019t do right, he did wrong, and he lost the opportunity to enter the promised land in the physical body, being in the physical body; he entered but being in his theophanic body, not in the physical body he had. The theophanic body entered, because the person continues living in the other body, in the theophanic body. And then he appeared on Mount Transfiguration with Jesus and the prophet Elijah.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now, is it good to get angry? It\u2019s not good, it\u2019s even bad for your health to be angry. But a happy, joyful and grateful heart to God is medicine for your body, it is the best medicine a person can take, that is the best medicine.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">But the worst poison is anger, rage, hatred; all these things are poison for the physical body, they are roots of bitterness that one can\u2019t have in the heart; what they do is harm, they poison the person\u2019s soul.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cThen said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now, from afar he is looking to see what is going to happen in the city; but God already told Jonah: \u201cLook, the king has repented with the people.\u201d In chapter 3 is where He tells him: chapter 3, verse 10, it says:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cAnd God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And now Jonah looks from afar and sees that no evil is coming; the fortieth day has passed away. The people of Nineveh and the king were not angry with Jonah, but they were grateful to Jonah: \u201cThank God that He sent us this prophet! He didn\u2019t want to come but God brought him for our blessing.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Surely the king said: \u201cAnd where has he gone? Where has Jonah gone, because we love him: he brought us the Message from God; and in receiving his Message we received God\u2019s mercy; we didn\u2019t know that God would destroy us.\u201d But because God will do nothing without first revealing His secrets to His servants His prophets (even though they are bad-tempered), you see, he brought the Message and they received it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Some people look at the messengers of God and sometimes they say: \u201cNo, I don\u2019t receive the message from this one, because either he is very serious or I see him somewhat angry,\u201d well, look, the king and the people of Nineveh saw that Jonah was a prophet who was angry but they received his Message, and they received God\u2019s mercy.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">One has to look at God and see the Message from God even if one doesn\u2019t like the messenger very much, through whom God sends you the Message; because what the person needs is the Message that comes from God, he needs to believe it with all his soul, with all his heart, so that it will bring him God\u2019s blessings.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And now, Jonah remained in the shadow of that bower that he made with that plant, gourd, which was born, and he looked towards the city to see what would happen; and nothing happened; and the divine judgment didn\u2019t fall upon Nineveh.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And now look what it says in chapter 4, verse 6 and on; it says:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cAnd the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief\u2026\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Look, even by God helping Jonah to get rid of the discomfort he was having, he was upset; and you know that when the sun is hot and you are sweating a lot and the sun is hitting you, sometimes you get a little upset. But look, God made a gourd grow over Jonah, which covered all that area, and now he had a natural air conditioning; because trees or gourds like that, they make the environment cool, because they absorb the heat of the sun and they don\u2019t allow the sun to pass through, they don\u2019t allow the heat to pass through and the sun to pass through, and now the place is cooler.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">If you stand in the sun, you feel it is hot, you stand in the shade of a tree and you feel it is cooler there, why? Because all the heat is being received by the tree and it\u2019s not going down; and you are in the shade of that tree, receiving the benefits of the shade of that tree that is there.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now see how it goes on to say:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201c&#8230;So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">(on a sunny day, anyone can be happy when they find a little shade in which to get under)<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Here it doesn\u2019t specify whether it ate the leaves; it could have eaten the leaves or it could have eaten the root; and by eating the root the gourd is lifeless, the leaves dry up; and dry leaves give no shade. And now:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cAnd it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind\u2026\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Notice, he is testing the prophet and He is teaching the prophet, He is putting him through certain trials; because when they are sort of stubborn they need to go through hard stages, where that way of being angry is taken away from them.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And now, see how it says:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cAnd it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">He is still angry, he is still asking for death; but, notice, he was still living; because the person has one day to be born and one day to die, and God is the one who determines when He is going to take His children.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now, let\u2019s see here:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cAnd God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd?\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">See, God is still dealing with His prophet, even though he is an angry prophet; but he is God\u2019s prophet. And what we are talking about is not criticizing Jonah, but rather the bad temper; which is called bad temper, but it is that form of rebellion and being angry with all situations and with God Himself.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And now God says to him:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cDoest thou well to be angry for the gourd?\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now he was angry because his gourd dried up and now he had no shade, and the sun was beating down on his head; and when the sun beats down on your head on a very sunny day, you sweat a lot and get upset, and you touch your head and it\u2019s hot, and you can\u2019t find a place to get under, you can\u2019t find a shady place. And in those territories there are few trees, in those territories that are very arid, they are like areas of many deserts; finding a shade there seems to be difficult for Jonah. And now he is very angry; because of such a simple thing (a gourd); but look, God is giving him a lesson.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">How many want God to teach them a lesson like that? No one, right? Don\u2019t worry that none of you are bad-tempered like that; you don\u2019t get angry with God, nor with His Program; therefore, don\u2019t worry about that part.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now, we take the Message with divine love, of good will; because it is a privilege for us to take the Message and see that God has mercy for people when they receive the Message. And our desire is that every human being receives It, our desire is that all Latin America and the Caribbean receive the Word of God and obtain God\u2019s mercy; whether they are good or bad, that they receive the Word and repent, so that God may have mercy on them.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cAnd God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Wow! The way he answers God!: \u201cA lot!\u201d He doesn\u2019t say: \u201cA little\u201d: <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cI do well to be angry, even unto death.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> Angry until death. And God has mercy and patience with Jonah; he was the prophet of the hour for that people and God couldn\u2019t change him.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And in Jonah, He is representing something that would be fulfilled in Christ; and it was when Jonah was in the whale\u2019s belly for three days. And as Jonah was in the belly of the whale or big fish for three days, so would the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, be in the heart of the Earth for three days<\/span><\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote11sym\" name=\"sdfootnote11anc\">11<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">. See? Because the Program that God will carry out later on is reflected in God\u2019s prophets; even in prophets that have become angry, like Moses and like Jonah. There are very few who get angry, but some get angry at times.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Who got angry on another occasion? Elisha was angry with some young boys, with some boys who began to criticize him, and they told him<\/span><\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote12sym\" name=\"sdfootnote12anc\">12<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">: \u201cGo up, bald man, go up!\u201d He had no hair and they were mocking him; and since the prophet Elijah had gone up in a chariot of fire, they were telling him to go up too. But he got angry and cursed those pesky boys, and two bears came out and ate them, killing those boys, forty-two boys.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">It is better to see a prophet happy and not angry; for if he is angry, it is hard for him to speak blessings; but if he is happy, he can\u2019t stop the blessings that God will put in his mouth for all the people.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Anyone can say: Why is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, of the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet given to Latin American and Caribbean people, why is it sent to them? Because that is how it was determined in the Program of God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And on one occasion Isaac said to Esau\u2026 when he had blessed Jacob, and then Esau came looking for the Birthright Blessing, and Isaac was blind\u2026 being a prophet and he was blind; because it doesn\u2019t matter that a prophet has some health problem, that doesn\u2019t take away that he is God\u2019s prophet for that time.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And we find Isaac who was already blind, and that was a blessing to Jacob, so that he could obtain the Birthright Blessing being spoken by Isaac; for even though he was blind he could speak the blessings of God.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And now, he spoke the blessings of the Birthright for Jacob and then Jacob left; and when Esau came looking for the Birthright Blessing it had already been given to another person, to his brother Jacob. And when Isaac asks Esau<\/span><\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote13sym\" name=\"sdfootnote13anc\">13<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">: \u201cWho are you?\u201d, and Esau says: \u201cWell, I am your son, your firstborn\u201d, Isaac says: \u201cYour brother came before you; and I blessed him, and he will be blessed.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And the Birthright Blessing is spoken for the Church of Jesus Christ, and in the Age of the Cornerstone the blessing is spoken for us to be transformed in this end time; and we will be transformed!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The blessing to be adopted, to be transformed in this end time, that is for the Age of the Cornerstone; and if the Age of the Cornerstone is filled with Latin American and Caribbean people, those are the ones that will be adopted, those are the ones that will be transformed.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">It doesn\u2019t matter that there are many people in other nations, if they don\u2019t receive the Word of blessing, the Word of God for the Last Day, the Word of the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, they can\u2019t be adopted, they can\u2019t be changed; but those who receive It, even if they are Latin American and Caribbean people, they will be changed; because that is the Word of Blessing for God\u2019s elect of the Last Day.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ may say to Jesus Christ: \u201cI have given them Your Word and they received It. And I have told them that the transformation is for those who receive Your Word; and they have received It and believe It with all their soul. And I have blessed them in Your Name, and they will be blessed.\u201d This is how the blessing comes for God\u2019s elect of the Last Day, this is how the faith comes to be changed and raptured in this end time.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">That is why the bright and Morning Star is given to the Overcomer. And the Overcomer is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Last Day, who will be in the ministry of the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, who will be living on Earth at that time and ministering for the time of the Coming of the Lord, the Coming of the Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven; to be, the Angel of Jesus Christ, the messenger who receives the bright and Morning Star.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And what is the bright and Morning Star? Let\u2019s see what the bright and Morning Star is. Revelation, chapter 22, verse 16, says:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cI Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Who is the bright and Morning Star? Our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, He is that bright and Morning Star, and He is the root and offspring of David; and He will give the Overcomer the bright and Morning Star.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">In other words, the Overcomer will have Christ manifested in Him as the bright and Morning Star; therefore, Christ through the Overcomer will be shining in the morning of the seventh millennium and of the seventh dispensation; and He will be giving us His Light, His revelation, the revelation that a new dispensational day has begun and that a new millennial day has also begun; and that we are in the morning, at the breaking of dawn.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The Light of the new millennial day and of the new dispensation (the seventh dispensation) is already shining our understanding and our heart; it is the Light of the Morning Star that is shining in the Church of Jesus Christ in this Last Day; it is the manifestation of Christ, the bright and Morning Star, through His Angel Messenger in the Last Day, through the Overcomer of the Last Day.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Just as the manifestation of Christ as the Sun of Righteousness for the Last Day will be in the Overcomer as well; and also the other blessings that Christ has promised for His Church, we will see them manifested by Christ through His Angel Messenger.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">That is why John the apostle wanted to worship the Angel on two occasions: in Revelation, chapter 19, verse 6 to 10, and Revelation 22, verses 6 to 10 also, and the Angel said to him: \u201cLook, don\u2019t do it; I am your fellow servant, and with your brothers the prophets, and with those who have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Worship God.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">He identifies himself as a redeemed by the Blood of Christ and as one of the prophets of Jesus Christ. So the Angel is only the instrument of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ for this end time.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And with joy, from the depths of his heart, he will be giving the Message of Christ for all human beings; and he will be very grateful to Christ for everything that the Message of Christ does in favor of all Latin American and Caribbean people, and all other people in all other nations.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">He will be giving thanks to Christ for Christ having mercy on the Latin American and Caribbean people, and all other people that Christ will have mercy on in the Last Day by receiving the Message of Christ, the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom; and he will continue to be the Overcomer with the bright and Morning Star.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">If Christ says: \u201cI will give him the bright and Morning Star,\u201d then he will have it. And what is that? Well, Christ is the bright and Morning Star. Just as Christ was in each of the seven angel messengers, in the portion pertaining to each age, He will be in His Angel Messenger manifested in what pertains to the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Christ in Holy Spirit will be manifested and will be reflecting Himself through His Angel Messenger, and fulfilling the things that He has promised to His Church<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> He said: \u201cCome up hither, I will show you the things that will happen after these.\u201d Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 6, it says: \u201cAnd he said unto me, These words are faithful and true. And the Lord God of the spirits of the prophets sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done (the things which must be done, in other words, that must happen soon).\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Through whom does He make them known? Through His Angel Messenger; because it is in His Angel Messenger that the bright and Morning Star would be for the Last Day, which is Christ manifested making known to us all these things that must happen soon; and thus shining in this Last Day, in the morning of a new dispensational day and in the morning of a new millennial day, in the morning of the seventh millennium.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now, we have seen this mystery of the bright and Morning Star, we have seen that this bright and Morning Star is Jesus Christ. He said: \u201cI am the bright and Morning Star.\u201d Revelation 22, verse 16.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And now, the bright and Morning Star, the one who will have it manifested in him will be the Overcomer, the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; just as Christ was manifested in each messenger of past ages, and Christ was reflected in each one of them; that is why they were also stars, but they were not\u2026 &#8211; none of them was the manifestation, or in none of them was the full manifestation of the bright and Morning Star; because they lived during the night and not during the morning of a new dispensational day.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">So they were stars; and Christ was reflected through them, because Christ is the bright and Morning Star and He reflected Himself through them, but none of them and in none of them was that promise fully fulfilled; only partially, them being the star of each of the ages, the star, in other words, the messenger of each of those ages.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And now Christ, the bright and Morning Star, by being in His Angel Messenger, Christ will be through His Angel Messenger as the Messenger to His Church and the Messenger to the Hebrew people also; because Christ is the Angel of the Covenant that descends from Heaven wrapped in a cloud, with His face as the sun, and He is the Messenger to Israel and He is also the Messenger to His gentile Church.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And, in order to manifest Himself as the Messenger to His Church and as the Messenger to the Hebrew people, He will be veiling Himself in human flesh and revealing Himself through human flesh through the Overcomer, where that bright and Morning Star will be, Christ coming as the bright and Morning Star, as the Messenger to Israel.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And that is how Christ will reveal Himself to the Hebrew people; but first He comes to His gentile Church, because His Church is about to be raptured, because His Church has reached the end and has to obtain the faith to be changed and raptured, and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And that faith can only be received through the manifestation of Christ, the bright and Morning Star, and the Sun of Righteousness, and the white horse Rider of Revelation 19, and the Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven, which is the same Person: our beloved Lord Jesus Christ in His final manifestation through His Angel Messenger.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">But remember: His Angel is not the Lord Jesus Christ, he is only the instrument of Christ for this end time.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We have seen this mystery of the bright and Morning Star. We have seen that in the Bible, since Genesis, it speaks of stars, it also speaks of bright stars and it speaks of the moon and the sun as well.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">For example, the dream that Joseph had, Jacob\u2019s son, where he saw the sun, the moon and eleven stars bowing down before him<\/span><\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote14sym\" name=\"sdfootnote14anc\">14<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">, God was showing him there that the time would come when Jacob and also Joseph\u2019s brothers would bow down before Joseph<\/span><\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote15sym\" name=\"sdfootnote15anc\">15<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And this happened when Joseph became second-in-command in the Pharaoh\u2019s empire; and they bowed down before Joseph, whom they knew not as their brother, because he was dressed like a gentile, and spoke the language of the gentiles, and was fashioned like a gentile, and his hair and all was like a gentile; and he was married to a gentile.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">And they didn\u2019t know that that gentile was their brother Joseph; he was a Hebrew who passed as a gentile, but he was a son of Jacob, the one who had the Birthright Blessing, and he was a prophet as well. That is why Christ was reflected in him in such a great way, to such a degree that He reflected in Joseph His First Coming and also His Second Coming.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now, we can see that Joseph had seen eleven stars, the sun and the moon; in other words, eleven stars: his eleven brothers; his father Jacob as the sun and his mother as the moon; although his mother had already departed; but they all bowed down before him.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now, Joseph saw eleven stars, but when you look, how many do you see? You see twelve stars, because each of the patriarchs is a star.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Just like when we can look through Revelation and see seven stars in the right hand of the Son of Man, but when you look with divine revelation, you see eight stars. Why? Because you see the seven stars, which are the seven angel messengers of the seven ages, and you see the bright and Morning Star, which is the Son of Man, who has those other seven stars in His hand.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, is the bright and Morning Star; and when you see Jesus Christ with seven stars in His hand, you see seven stars in the hand of Christ, and you see Christ as the bright and Morning Star, that Greater Star.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now, you see how all these things that for this end time would be happening are placed in the book of Revelation, and also in the book of the prophet Daniel and other books of the Bible; all these things are placed in prophetic symbols, which are open in our time in order to understand them and to be able to join the biblical symbolism with the fulfillment of that symbolism; and thus to have a clear picture of those apocalyptic symbols that contain the things that will happen in this end time, as they also contain the things that already happened in past ages.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Now, we have seen the bright and Morning Star, which is our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, and we have also seen who is the Overcomer that receives that Star: it is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, the faithful and wise Servant.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the bright and Morning Star, be upon all of you and upon me too; and may it enlighten us completely, and fill us with the knowledge of all His Program; and may what was prophesied by the Reverend William Branham in the book of <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>The Ages<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> be fulfilled, when he said on page 266<\/span><\/span><\/span><sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a class=\"sdfootnoteanc\" href=\"#sdfootnote16sym\" name=\"sdfootnote16anc\">16<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/sup><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cIf ever a people needed a promise embracing the land where there is no night, it was the people of the Dark Ages. And that is why the Spirit is promising them the morning star. He is telling them that the Chief Star, even Jesus, Who dwelleth in Light unto which no man can approach, will in the future kingdom illuminate them by His own personal presence. He will not be using the stars (<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">in other words, <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>messengers) to give light in darkness any longer <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">(that is, He will not be using the seven angel messengers)<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>. It will be Jesus, Himself, speaking to them face to face as He shares His kingdom with them.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>It is the morning star that is visible when the light of the sun commences to shine. When our Sun, (Jesus) comes, there will be no further need of messengers; He will bring us His message of cheer Himself; and as He rules His kingdom, and we live in His presence, the light of the Word will become brighter and brighter in our perfect day <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">(that is, in the seventh millennium, which is the Last Day; and seventh dispensation, which is the Dispensation of the Kingdom)<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>What else could we desire above Jesus Himself? Is He not everything, even Perfect Everything?\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Here, notice, he presents to us what the bright and Morning Star is: it is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, who will be enlightening us, illuminating us, in this end time, and will be filling us with the knowledge of all His Program.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i>\u201cHe that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. Amen. Even so, Lord God, by Thy Spirit, let us hear Thy truth.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a name=\"_GoBack\"><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We have reached the end time, we have reached the time of the bright and Morning Star for all of us, to see and receive His Light, and be filled with the knowledge of the entire Program of Jesus Christ for this Last Day, on the morning of this new dispensational day and this new millennial day.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">May the blessings of the Light of Christ enlighten our soul, our mind and our whole being, and may all the Scriptures enlighten us, all the prophecies pertaining to this end time, so that everyone, even children, may see them and may clearly understand them; and may children, adults, young people and the elderly and everyone thank Christ for His blessing of the bright and Morning Star shining in this end time. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">God bless you, God keep you. And remember one thing: never get angry. Look at what those who got angry lost. And what remained to be read to you of Jonah, read it in your homes, so that you may see that it is not good to be angry.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">We are in a time to be filled with joy and gratefulness to our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. This is the time of Jubilee for the Church of Jesus Christ with all His members, for each of you and for me too.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>\u201cTHE OVERCOMER WHO RECEIVES THE MORNING STAR.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote1\">\n<p class=\"sdfootnote\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote1anc\" name=\"sdfootnote1sym\">1<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Revelation 2:17<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote2\">\n<p class=\"sdfootnote\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote2anc\" name=\"sdfootnote2sym\">2<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Revelation 2:7<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote3\">\n<p class=\"sdfootnote\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote3anc\" name=\"sdfootnote3sym\">3<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Exodus 17:5-6<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote4\">\n<p class=\"sdfootnote\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote4anc\" name=\"sdfootnote4sym\">4<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Numbers 20:7-13<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote5\">\n<p class=\"sdfootnote\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote5anc\" name=\"sdfootnote5sym\">5<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Jonah 1:1-3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote6\">\n<p class=\"sdfootnote\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote6anc\" name=\"sdfootnote6sym\">6<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Jonah 1:15-17<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote7\">\n<p class=\"sdfootnote\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote7anc\" name=\"sdfootnote7sym\">7<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Jonah 3:1-10<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote8\">\n<p class=\"sdfootnote\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote8anc\" name=\"sdfootnote8sym\">8<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Jonah 4:1-11<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote9\">\n<p class=\"sdfootnote\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote9anc\" name=\"sdfootnote9sym\">9<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Zechariah 3:10<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote10\">\n<p class=\"sdfootnote\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote10anc\" name=\"sdfootnote10sym\">10<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Psalm 91:1<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote11\">\n<p class=\"sdfootnote\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote11anc\" name=\"sdfootnote11sym\">11<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Matthew 12:39-40<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote12\">\n<p class=\"sdfootnote\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote12anc\" name=\"sdfootnote12sym\">12<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Second Kings 2:23-24<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote13\">\n<p class=\"sdfootnote\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote13anc\" name=\"sdfootnote13sym\">13<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Genesis 27:32-33<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote14\">\n<p class=\"sdfootnote\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote14anc\" name=\"sdfootnote14sym\">14<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Genesis 37:9<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote15\">\n<p class=\"sdfootnote\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote15anc\" name=\"sdfootnote15sym\">15<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Genesis 42:6, 41:41-44<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sdfootnote16\">\n<p class=\"sdfootnote\"><a class=\"sdfootnotesym\" href=\"#sdfootnote16anc\" name=\"sdfootnote16sym\">16<\/a> <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><i>The Ages<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"> in English, page 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