Good evening, beloved friends and brethren present. It is a great blessing to be with you on this occasion, to share some moments of spiritual fellowship with you around the Word of God, and to see where we stand in the Divine Program.<\/p>\n
For this occasion, our subject is: \u201cTHE MYSTERY OF THE WORD OF GOD: FOOD IN DUE SEASON.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n We will be seeing how the Word of God is the spiritual Food for the soul in due season.<\/p>\n We will be reading in Amos chapter 8, verses 11 to 14, and Saint Matthew 4:4. Amos chapter 8, verse 11 and on, says:<\/p>\n \u201cBehold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:<\/em><\/p>\n And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.<\/em><\/p>\n In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst.<\/em><\/p>\n They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beersheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n The Prophet Amos says that days come\u2026 God says:<\/p>\n \u201c…That I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n And in Saint Matthew chapter 4, verse 4, Christ says:<\/p>\n \u201cBut he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Our subject for this occasion, as I told you, is: \u201cTHE MYSTERY OF THE WORD OF GOD: FOOD IN DUE SEASON,\u201d <\/strong>or THE FOOD IN DUE SEASON.<\/p>\n Just as we feel hungry physically and we look for something to eat physically\u2026 natural or material food for our physical body, because if we don\u2019t eat, it starts weakening, it starts to get thin, skinny, it gets sick, it weakens, and dies.<\/p>\n And now, our soul also feels hunger and we have to feed it. And there is only one Food for the soul, and it is the Word of God pertaining to the time in which the person is living.<\/p>\n When Christ was speaking to His disciples, teaching them to pray, one of the things He taught them was to ask for our daily bread.1<\/sup><\/a> And just as we ask for our daily bread for our physical body, we need to ask for our daily Bread for our soul.<\/p>\n And our daily Bread is the Bread for each age and for each dispensation; because just as there are days for our physical body (the seven days of the week), there are also spiritual days before God, which are ages and dispensations and millennia.<\/p>\n And now, notice how God, through the Prophet Moses, spoke to the Hebrew people, to whom He gave bread, manna from heaven. We find that for forty years He made them go through difficult stages, so that what was in their hearts would come out of their hearts (which was not very good).<\/p>\n Because everything that is in people\u2019s hearts has to come out, and that is why God allows many things to happen throughout the journey of each person\u2019s life, to see if they keep serving God in good times, and if they also keep serving God in bad times.<\/p>\n Because serving God in good times is very nice, but when things get difficult, that is when you prove that you truly love God and will serve Him all the days of your life, even if things are difficult, even if the circumstances around you are against you.<\/p>\n Now, notice, when there is a time of persecutions because of the Word of God and His Program pertaining to the time in which one lives, many feel afraid then, and they say: \u201cI am going to save my own skin [protect myself].\u201d<\/p>\n But notice, \u201cWhat shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?\u201d2<\/sup><\/a> And Christ said: \u201cAnd he that denies Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father and before His holy angels.\u201d3<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n So, what good is it to escape a persecution that comes against the true believers in God, in Jesus Christ, if the person who says that he escaped and avoided going through that squeeze or that persecution, and even avoided dying, what did it profit him? It says: \u201cWhoever gains his life will lose it.\u201d4<\/sup><\/a> He gained his earthly life, because he avoided dying or being persecuted, but he will lose it, why? Because notice, he dies (when it\u2019s time for him to die), and then he will go to hell because he denied Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n \u201cBut whoever loses it for My sake and for the sake of the Gospel, of My Word, will find it,\u201d because he will live eternally; because Christ will raise him up at the Last Day, in the seventh millennium, and He will give him a new body that they won\u2019t be able to kill. And even if they persecute him, they won\u2019t be able to do anything to him: he can go from one dimension to another, and disappear in front of his enemies without them realizing it.<\/p>\n And in that body, we will live eternally and reign with Christ a thousand years and for all eternity; a body that won\u2019t grow old, that will always represent eighteen to twenty-one years of age, and that is the body for each of you and also for me, which we are waiting for at this Last Day.<\/p>\n And why are we waiting for it at the Last Day? Because Christ said the following words about His believers in chapter 6, verse 40, of Saint John:<\/p>\n \u201cAnd this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n And one day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day, Second Peter chapter 3, verse 8, tells us; and Psalm 90, verse 4.<\/p>\n That Last Day to God is the seventh millennium to human beings. And the Last Days before God are the fifth and sixth millenniums to human beings.<\/p>\n That is why Saint Paul tells us in his Letter to the Hebrews, in chapter 1, verse 1 and on, the following words. And let\u2019s read here so that we have a clear picture of what Paul the Apostle is speaking about; he says:<\/p>\n \u201cGod, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,<\/em><\/p>\n Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds\u2026<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n When does Saint Paul say that God spoke by His Son, by Jesus Christ? He says: \u201c…In these last days\u2026<\/em>\u201d And two thousand years have already passed. And Saint Paul says that those days in which God was speaking by Jesus were the Last Days.<\/p>\n This is how it is, just like when Saint Peter and Joel said that in the Last Days God would pour out of His Spirit and He poured out of His Spirit on the day of Pentecost.<\/p>\n Saint Peter, in chapter 2 [of Acts], verses 14 to 20, tells us that God had said that through the Prophet Joel\u2014God said through the Prophet Joel that He would pour out of His Spirit in the Last Days. When? In the Last Days. Upon whom? Upon all flesh.<\/p>\n And we have seen that upon all flesh who has repented and washed away his sins in the Blood of Christ, God has poured out of His Holy Spirit, he has received the Holy Spirit; and therefore, he has been born again and come into the mystical Body of Christ, meaning, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, those spiritual children have been born.<\/p>\n In other words, the person, notice, every child of God is first born in a physical, mortal, corruptible body, with a spirit of the world, but his soul is of God. And then he needs a new birth, which Christ spoke to Nicodemus about in chapter 3 of Saint John, telling him: \u201cVerily, verily I say unto you, except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God,\u201d (meaning, he cannot understand It).<\/p>\n And then Nicodemus, interested in the Kingdom of God (because he wanted to enter into the Kingdom of God and he wanted to understand It), he tells Him, he asks Jesus: \u201cHow can these things be? Can a man, when he is old, enter into his mother\u2019s womb and be born again?\u201d Jesus told him it wasn\u2019t that way.<\/p>\n Jesus explained to him, in chapter 3 of Saint John\u2026 Notice, He gave him a clear and full explanation regarding the new birth, without which a person cannot enter into the Kingdom of God, he cannot enter into the mystical Body of Christ; because no one can join the mystical Body of Christ to belong to that mystical Body of Christ, rather, one is born in that mystical Body of Christ, by believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior, washing away our sins in the Blood of Christ, and receiving His Holy Spirit. If one does not receive the Holy Spirit, notice, \u201cthe body without the spirit is dead,\u201d that is what James says.5<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n Now here, notice how Jesus explains it:<\/p>\n \u201cJesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.<\/em><\/p>\n That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.<\/em><\/p>\n Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.<\/em><\/p>\n The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Now we can see that the new birth is required in order to enter into the mystical Body of Christ, because that is the only way the person\u2019s new birth is carried out.<\/p>\n And now, notice that the disciples of Jesus Christ, even though they were with Jesus Christ, they had not been born again; although they were believers in Christ, and they were justified; yet, notice, they had not received the Holy Spirit, and therefore, they had not been born again; because Jesus was still on Earth, and the Holy Spirit had not descended upon them (the disciples); It descended on the day of Pentecost.<\/p>\n And Peter tells them that that was a promise made by God through the Prophet Joel, for when? For the Last Days. \u201cAnd it shall come to pass in these Last Days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men\u2026\u201d Let\u2019s see, let\u2019s read it here:<\/p>\n [Acts 2:17-18]\u00a0\u201cAnd it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:<\/em><\/p>\n And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n When is this for? The Last Days. And in the days of Jesus, Saint Paul tells us that they were already in the Last Days. And in the days when they received the Holy Spirit, on the day of Pentecost, Peter says they were in the Last Days. Why? Because the Last Days before God are the fifth millennium, sixth millennium, and seventh millennium.<\/p>\n Do you see why the Last Days are from the time since Christ? Because they are the three last millenniums of that Divine Cycle of seven millenniums; and the seventh millennium is also called the Lord\u2019s Day or Last Day, when Christ has promised to raise all His believers who have died, but who are sealed with the Seal of the living God\u2014meaning, with the Holy Spirit\u2014unto the Day of Redemption, the Day in which our mortal bodies will be redeemed, the Day in which our mortal bodies will be changed, and theirs will be raised.<\/p>\n They will be raised in incorruptible bodies, eternal bodies; and we will be changed and we will have the eternal body, we will be changed in our atoms. That is the promise of Christ for which day? For the Last Day.<\/p>\n That is why on the first day, meaning in the fifth millennium, the New Testament saints could not rise. The Old Testament saints rose with the resurrection of Christ.<\/p>\n Notice how the first resurrection would be in the Last Days. The resurrection of the Old Testament saints was in the Last Days, on the first of the Last Days, meaning, in the fifth millennium.<\/p>\n And the resurrection of the New Testament saints would be at the Last Day. That is how it is appointed by Christ: it will be in the seventh millennium.<\/p>\n That is why we are waiting for the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive; because the resurrection is first and then the transformation of us who are alive, according to Saint Paul\u2019s words in First Corinthians chapter 15, verses 50 to 55. \u201cFor the Trumpet shall sound\u2026\u201d \u201cAt the Last Trump,\u201d Saint Paul says. Let\u2019s see here, he says:<\/p>\n \u201cNow this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.<\/em><\/p>\n Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.<\/em><\/p>\n In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n What comes first? Well, the resurrection of the dead in Christ. And then? The transformation of us who are alive. And what comes before that? The Last Trump, which is the Voice of Christ speaking to His Church and making known to Her all these things which must shortly be done, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.<\/p>\n That Last Trump or Great Voice of Trumpet is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords.<\/p>\n That is the revelation to be changed and raptured at the Last Day. That is the revelation that Christ gives us as the Lion of the tribe of Judah in Revelation chapter 10, crying as when a lion roars and Seven Thunders uttering their Voices.<\/p>\n That is the revelation of the Seven Thunders of Revelation chapter 10, the revelation of the Seventh Seal, the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work, as the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19, verses 11 to 21.<\/p>\n And now, notice how this mystery\u2014which is promised to be revealed at the Last Day\u2014will be made known to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; because it was not a mystery to be revealed in any of the seven previous ages; that was not the spiritual Food for the seven Gentile Church ages, but for the Age of the Cornerstone; because that is the mystery contained in the Seventh Seal, which no man in Heaven, nor on Earth, nor under the earth, knew.<\/p>\n It was a mystery that only the Father had in His Mind, and He had not even revealed it to His angels;6<\/sup><\/a> and Jesus Himself says: \u201cNot even the Son knows when it will be.\u201d7<\/sup><\/a> Therefore, this mystery of the Second Coming of the Son of man had not been made conscious (to Jesus). In other words, it was not in the conscious of Jesus; it was in His subconscious, meaning, in God\u2019s Mind.<\/p>\n And now, this is the mystery that at the Last Day will bring the faith to be raptured\u2014to be changed and raptured at the Last Day, meaning, in the seventh millennium, when the dead in Christ will rise and we who are alive will be changed.<\/p>\n That is why the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ tells us that the Seven Thunders of Revelation chapter 10 will give the Church Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ the rapturing faith. (Page 148 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals<\/em>.)<\/p>\n And what do the Thunders reveal? What the Thunders reveal is the mystery of the Seventh Seal. Through the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the elect will obtain the faith, the revelation, to be changed and raptured. And it is the revelation of the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19.<\/p>\n In the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals<\/em>, preached by Rev. William Marrion Branham, he tells us the following on pages 151 to 152:<\/p>\n \u201c283 And, Jesus, His Name on earth was \u2018Redeemer,\u2019 Jesus. When He was on earth, He was the Redeemer, that\u2019s true. But when He conquered death and hell, and overcome them, and ascended on High, He received a new Name. That\u2019s the reason you holler the way they do, and they don\u2019t get nothing.<\/em><\/p>\n 284 It\u2019ll be revealed in the Thunders.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Where do we obtain the revelation of the Seventh Seal? Where do we obtain the revelation of the Coming of Christ? Where do we obtain the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ? Let\u2019s see. And where do we obtain the revelation of the new Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, which He received when He ascended to Heaven? In the Thunders. It\u2019ll be revealed where? In the Thunders.<\/p>\n \u201c[284] Uh-huh. See? Notice the mysteries. He is coming, riding\u2026There\u2019s got to be Something to change this Church<\/em>,\u201d (and where is what is coming to change this Church?) It says, \u201cYou know that. There\u2019s got to be Something. Notice, \u201cNo man knowed, but Himself.\u201d Now, notice, \u201cNo man knowed, but Hisself.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name was called The Word of God.<\/em><\/p>\n Oh, my! Notice!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.<\/em><\/p>\n And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he tread the winepress of the fierceness and the wrath of Almighty God.<\/em><\/p>\n And he had on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n (Revelation 19:13-16, or verses 11 to 16.)<\/p>\n \u201c285 There comes the Messiah. There He is\u2026<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n It is the Coming of the Lord.<\/p>\n And now, this is the greatest mystery of all the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, of the Kingdom of God. And this mystery is promised to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed, to be fulfilled and revealed to His Church at the Last Day, through the Voice of Christ, which is the Voice of the Seven Thunders crying as when a lion roars and the Seven Thunders are uttering their Voices, and revealing to us that great mystery contained in the Seventh Seal.<\/p>\n And now, notice how it is the Coming of the Holy Spirit. It says, page 154 says [The Revelation Of The Seven Seals<\/em>]:<\/p>\n \u201c302 Glory! Notice! And when this Holy Spirit that we have becomes incarnate to us, the One that\u2019s in our midst now in the form of the Holy Ghost, becomes incarnate to us, in the Person of Jesus Christ, we\u2019ll crown Him King of kings<\/em>,\u201d (and Lord of lords).<\/p>\n Now, notice that it is the Coming of the Holy Spirit becoming incarnate at the Last Day.<\/p>\n And now, on page 318 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals<\/em>, while he is praying, Rev. William Marrion Branham says, in part of the prayer, he says:<\/p>\n \u201c[391] \u2026May the Holy Spirit come down now, the white-horse Rider, while His Spirit, Spirit of Christ, in the face of antichrist, and call His Own.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Who is the white-horse Rider of Revelation? The Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n And now, on page 295 he tells us:<\/p>\n \u201c196. But when our Lord appears here on earth, He\u2019ll be riding on a snow-white horse. And He\u2019ll be completely, fully, the Emmanuel, the Word of God incarnate in a Man.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n What will be the Coming of Christ on a snow-white horse? It will be the Word of God incarnate in a Man, It will be the Holy Spirit incarnate in a Man, It will be the Coming of the Holy Spirit in a Man at the Last Day.<\/p>\n And on page 546 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals<\/em>, let\u2019s see here. When Rev. William Marrion Branham was caught up in the cloud where we find the angels that came for him, where we find the seven angels, he says\u2026 page 546 says:<\/p>\n \u201c275. And did you notice? \u2018That one Angel,\u2019 I said, \u2018in there, was a strange Angel.\u2019 He looked more to me than any of the rest of Them. You remember that? [Congregation says, \u2018Amen.\u2019\u2014Ed.] They were in a constellation; three on a side, and one on top. And the one right next to me here, counting from the left to the right, would have been the seventh Angel. He was brighter, meant more to me than the rest of Them. You remember? I said, \u2018He had His chest out, like that, and was flying eastward\u2019 (you remember) \u2018like that.\u2019 I said, \u2018It picked me up; lifted me up.<\/em>\u2019\u201d (Which of the angels picked up our Brother Branham and took him to that cloud formed by seven angels? It was that Angel who was very different from the rest.) \u201cYou remember that? [\u2018Amen.\u2019]<\/em><\/p>\n 276. Here It is, the one with the Seventh Seal,<\/em>\u201d (and there were…, let’s see), \u201cthe thing that I\u2019ve wondered all my life. Amen! Them other Seals meant a lot to me, of course, but, oh, you don\u2019t know what This has meant\u2026!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n And now, the seven angel-messengers of the seven ages of the Gentile Church were there, in this<\/em> cloud formed by angels. And there was an Angel who was very different from the rest, which was the eighth Angel, if we count our Brother Branham as one of the seven angels of the seven ages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ among the Gentiles.<\/p>\n Now, when our Brother Branham counted, well, he did what anyone would do. If someone tells you\u2026 if there are seven people here in the front, and they tell you: \u201cCount how many people are there,\u201d how many people will you say there are? Well, seven people. But if you are among them, notice, and you count, you will count seven people too; but if someone else counts them, how many will he count? He will count eight people. That\u2019s because when a person counts he never counts himself, unless they tell him: \u201cCount yourself too, including yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, including our Brother Branham, how many were there? Eight angels here<\/em>, eight angels were here<\/em>. And these are the angels that pertain to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; the seven angels of the seven ages of the Gentile Church were here<\/em>, in this<\/em> cloud.<\/p>\n But there was another One who was different from the rest. And where would we put that other One, which is the One who has the Seventh Seal? Well, the first angel-messenger didn\u2019t have the Seventh Seal, the Second Coming of Christ was not fulfilled in him, rather, Christ was manifested in Saint Paul in the portion pertaining to that first age of the Gentile Church.<\/p>\n And in the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh angels, we also didn’t have the fulfillment of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work, and as the Sun of Righteousness shining. But the Spirit of Christ was in them, Christ in Holy Spirit manifested in the portion pertaining to each age.<\/p>\n Therefore, they reflected what would be the manifestation of Christ in Holy Spirit in all His fullness in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.<\/p>\n And that would be none other than\u2026 Notice, what was the ministry of Christ here<\/em>, in each of the Gentile Church ages? It was the manifestation of each of those angel-messengers who appear here<\/em>, who were in their theophanic bodies here in this cloud; when they were manifested, each one in bodies of flesh here, in each of the ages of the Church of the Lord (each one in his age), the ministry of the Holy Spirit pertaining to each age was in each of them.<\/p>\n And through each of them, Christ in Holy Spirit manifested Himself, and brought the spiritual Food for the soul of God\u2019s sons and daughters. And they were fed through the Word of God, which is the Food in due season, for each of God\u2019s sons and daughters.<\/p>\n They were faithful and wise servants which Christ made rulers where? Where did He put them? Over His Household, which is His Church; because the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the House of the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n Where does it tell us that? Let\u2019s see what Saint Paul says about the House of God. In [Hebrews] chapter 3, verses\u2026 let\u2019s see, verses 5 to 6, he says:<\/p>\n \u201cAnd Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;<\/em><\/p>\n But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we\u2026<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Which is the House of Christ? Which is the House of God? The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ: it\u2019s us! It\u2019s us, in our age, and each one of God\u2019s elect in the age in which he was given to live. This is the House of God, the House of Jesus Christ, which Christ was put over, He is the head of that House; just as Moses was put over the House of God in the Old Testament, but as a servant, not as a son.<\/p>\n And now Christ as a Son; and a son is the heir, not the servant.<\/p>\n \u201cBut Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Now, we have seen which is the House of God, that is the House of Christ: His Church.<\/p>\n And in Ephesians chapter 2\u2026 verse 10, let\u2019s read (we\u2019ll read the others later), verse 10 says:<\/p>\n \u201cFor we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n We have been created in Christ Jesus, we are a new Creation. That new Creation of which Christ is the first, the head; that is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which comes through the second Adam; that is why She is born again and She is a new Creation, now She belongs to a new Creation that began with Christ, not with Adam. It goes on to say:<\/p>\n \u201cWherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;<\/em><\/p>\n That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:<\/em><\/p>\n But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.<\/em><\/p>\n For he is our peace, who hath made both one<\/em>,\u201d (He made both Hebrews and Gentiles, how many? One people: the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; those are one people, that is the heavenly Israel), \u201cand hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;<\/em><\/p>\n Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace\u2026<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Now notice, we have a new Creation that is made up of those redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ: who have believed in Christ as our Savior, and have washed away their sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ, and have received His Holy Spirit; and therefore, they have received a theophanic body, a theophanic spirit of the sixth dimension, and thus, they have come into Eternal Life; because when one receives the Spirit of Christ, and thus, obtains the spirit of the sixth dimension: one has obtained Eternal Life, because one has received the Spirit of Christ.<\/p>\n And now, let\u2019s continue reading here. It says:<\/p>\n \u201c… for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;<\/em><\/p>\n And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross\u2026<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Both in what? In one Body, in this mystical Body of Christ. Here are the ones who are reconciled to God through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, the Atonement for the human being\u2019s reconciliation to God; which was reflected in the Hebrew people\u2019s atonement, which appears in chapter 16 of Leviticus and in chapter 23 of Leviticus as well.<\/p>\n And now, let\u2019s continue reading where it says:<\/p>\n \u201cAnd that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n And now, we have also been reconciled in one body: the body of Jesus Christ, which died on Calvary\u2019s Cross.<\/p>\n \u201c…Having slain the enmity thereby:<\/em><\/p>\n And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh.<\/em><\/p>\n For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n How is it that we have access to the Father? By the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n \u201cNow therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God\u2026<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Notice how one is a member of the Household of God manifested here on Earth: It is by believing in Christ as our Savior and receiving His Holy Spirit, upon washing away our sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ; we are reconciled to God, and now we have been born as sons and daughters of God in the Kingdom of God, in the mystical Body of Jesus Christ, and we are sitting (where?) in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n Because our theophanic spirit, which we have received with the new birth, belongs to the sixth dimension, and we are in heavenly places in our spirit, although our flesh is here on Earth. But as Christ said on one occasion:<\/p>\n \u201cAnd no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.<\/em>\u201d8<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n And His physical body was here on Earth; but His Spirit is of the sixth dimension, and His soul is of the seventh dimension. Now notice, He was in Heaven in Spirit and in soul, even though His body was on Earth.<\/p>\n And now, our soul is of the seventh dimension, our spirit is of the sixth dimension, and all we have left of this earthly, mortal, and corruptible dimension is the physical body, which will be changed soon; and we will be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, and we will have an immortal, incorruptible, and interdimensional body.<\/p>\n And just as Christ could go from one dimension to another and disappear, it will also be that way in and for us in our eternal body that we will receive.<\/p>\n And now, this will be for those who will be receiving the faith to be changed and raptured, which is where? In the Thunders. And what the Thunders reveal is the Seventh Seal. And the Seventh Seal is the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work, and as the Sun of Righteousness, and as the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19, which is the Coming of the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit manifested at the Last Day; and that is the Word, the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of the Lord, the Word incarnate in a Man.<\/p>\n In order to see and receive the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19, in order to see and receive the Seventh Seal revealed, we have to find the veil of flesh in whom the Word will be made flesh at the Last Day. And where do we have to find him? We have to find him in the mystical Body of Christ, because that is where he has to be; and he must be in the age and the dispensation pertaining to the fulfillment of the Coming of the white-horse Rider of Revelation.<\/p>\n And now, he was not found in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh age, in the fulfillment of Revelation 19; although Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, was there in each age, manifested through each messenger, in the portion pertaining to each age; but there has to be a perfect age: the Age of Love Divine, where Christ comes in Holy Spirit manifested in human flesh.<\/p>\n He was manifested in human flesh in each angel-messenger, but in the portion pertaining to each age; and in those messengers, He reflected what He will do in the Age of the Cornerstone; where He will have a veil of flesh through which Christ will be manifested in Holy Spirit, speaking to us with that Great Voice of Trumpet, and with those Seven Thunders of Revelation, and making known to us the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Coming of the Angel who was very different from the rest, manifested in human flesh at the Last Day.<\/p>\n Without the Coming of this Angel who was very different from the rest in human flesh, there is no Seventh Seal opened, there is no fulfillment of the Seventh Seal, and therefore, there is no Second Coming of Christ. So there can be no rapturing faith, and there can be no transformation, nor resurrection, nor rapture for the elect; because the rapturing faith is produced by the Seven Thunders of Revelation chapter 10, and they reveal the Seventh Seal.<\/p>\n With the revelation of the Seventh Seal, with the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ, of the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 10, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ obtains the faith to be changed and raptured.<\/p>\n Just like in order to be saved, we obtained the faith (how?) with the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God in His Work of Redemption on Calvary\u2019s Cross, dying, rising, and ascending to Heaven, and sitting on the right hand of God, and pouring out of His Holy Spirit upon all the believers in Him who wash away their sins in the Blood of the Lamb, and then they receive His Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n And how do we receive all of this? By believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior. With what do we receive\u2026? What gives us the faith to receive the new birth? It\u2019s the First Coming of Christ revealed and preached in the Gospel of Grace; that is what it gives us the revelation, the faith, to be saved.<\/p>\n And now the faith to be changed and raptured is given by the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in His Claiming Work.<\/p>\n That is what the Seventh Seal gives us, and that is what Christ reveals to us and gives us with His Voice of Seven Thunders uttering their Voices, and revealing us the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of His Coming; the mystery of His Coming to a new age and a new dispensation: to the Age of the Cornerstone and the Dispensation of the Kingdom.<\/p>\n Now, will the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ come into a new dispensation? When the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ was alive, he said that a change of dispensation was already taking place, a new dispensation was overlapping. And that new dispensation is none other than the Dispensation of the Kingdom. Because, what came after the Dispensation of Law? Well, the Dispensation of Grace. And what comes after the Dispensation of Grace? Well, the Dispensation of the Kingdom. And a dispensation cannot come without a dispensational prophet.<\/p>\n And this is the first time that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, after being born on the day of Pentecost, receives a dispensational messenger! The first time and the only time! Because after him, no other dispensational prophet is promised, because there are no more dispensations after the seventh dispensation. He is God\u2019s last dispensational prophet, and also [God\u2019s last prophet] of an age, because he is from the Age of the Cornerstone, the Age of Love Divine.<\/p>\n This <\/em>is the diagram that Rev. William Branham drew, that he had in the preaching of the message \u201cThe Stature Of A Perfect Man,\u201d9<\/sup><\/a> and also in the message An Exposition Of The Seven <\/em>[Gentile] Church Ages<\/em>. In other words, this is not my diagram; I use it because it is an accurate diagram, which shows the different stages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. If it were not perfect, I wouldn\u2019t use it because it wouldn\u2019t work in the Divine Program.<\/p>\n Now, here <\/em>we have the whole Divine Program that He would be carrying out during the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church. And after the seventh age of the Gentile Church, there would be a gap, where the Holy Spirit would be manifested. And then there would be an age: the Age of the Cornerstone, where God\u2019s elect are called and gathered together with the Great Voice of Trumpet; where, in Revelation chapter 4, verse 1, it says: \u201cCome up hither, and I will show you things which must be hereafter.\u201d<\/p>\n In each age, the call was made by the Holy Spirit through the messenger of each age: \u201cHe that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.\u201d10<\/sup><\/a> Jesus Christ was speaking in Holy Spirit through the messenger of each age. Speaking what? The Message of each age.<\/p>\n And since Christ said, \u201cHe that is of God hears God\u2019s Voice\u201d and \u201cMy sheep hear My Voice, and they follow Me\u201d: Christ\u2019s sheep of the first age heard the Voice of God through Saint Paul; the ones of the second age through Irenaeus; the ones of the third age through Martin; the ones of the fourth age through Columba; the ones of the fifth age through Luther; the ones of the sixth age through Wesley; the ones of the seventh age through Rev. William Marrion Branham.<\/p>\n And for the Age of the Cornerstone, God\u2019s elect will hear the Voice of Christ through the instrument He will have here, <\/em>in the Age of the Cornerstone, in whom He will be manifested in human flesh, just as He was in the messengers of the previous ages.<\/p>\n Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit will be there, the white-horse Rider of Revelation, manifested in human flesh:<\/p>\n \u201c[196] When our Lord appears here on earth, He\u2019ll be riding on a snow-white horse. And He\u2019ll be completely, fully, the Emmanuel, the Word of God incarnate in a Man.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n This is here, <\/em>in the Age of the Cornerstone. And that is where the white-horse Rider comes, this Angel who was very different from the rest, who has the Seventh Seal. The rest, well, they didn\u2019t have It; the One who has It is this <\/em>Angel.<\/p>\n And He must materialize Himself, become flesh, manifest Himself in human flesh, at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, to fulfill the Seventh Seal, and for the Seventh Seal to be opened (in terms of Its fulfillment), and for the mystery of the Seventh Seal to be revealed, and to make known to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ the fulfillment of the Seventh Seal, which is the Coming of the white-horse Rider of Revelation, the Holy Spirit incarnate in a Man. And that Man must be a Prophet, because all Divine Revelation must come to a prophet.<\/p>\n And the Thunders, being the Voice of Christ and the revelation of the Seventh Seal, well, that must come to a Prophet. And we have already had seven messengers, and the Seven Thunders were not revealed in the seven ages. God must have a Prophet-Messenger here<\/em>, through whom Christ is manifested and puts His Word in the mouth of that prophet.<\/p>\n Where does God put His Word? The Prophet Moses tells us where. Deuteronomy chapter 18, verses 15 to 19, says:<\/p>\n \u201cThe Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken<\/em>,\u201d (in other words, it\u2019s not: \u201cIf you want to hear him, then hear him.\u201d No. \u201cHim ye shall hearken!\u201d)<\/p>\n \u201cAccording to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.<\/em><\/p>\n And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken.<\/em><\/p>\n I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee<\/em>,\u201d (meaning, like Moses), \u201cand will put my words<\/em>,\u201d (where?) in his mouth\u2026<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Where does God put His Words? In the mouth of the prophet He sends. And the Words of God are the spiritual Food for the soul; It is the spiritual Bread for our soul; because \u201cman shall not live by literal bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of\u00a0God,\u201d11<\/sup><\/a> and the mouth of God is God\u2019s prophets; that is why He puts His Word in the mouth of the prophet He sends.<\/p>\n That is why we have the Bible, because God has put His Word in the mouth of His prophets; and they have spoken It, and then that Word has been left in writing.<\/p>\n God\u2019s prophets are the mouth of God for the age and dispensation in which God sends them; and there are prophets of ages and there are prophets of dispensations. A dispensational prophet is the greatest thing\u2014as a prophet\u2014that God can send. It says:<\/p>\n \u201c…And will put my words in his mouth<\/em>\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n If he is a prophet of an age, what Word does God put in the mouth of that prophet? The Word, the Message, the spiritual Food, for the age in which God sends him. That is where we find the Word that feeds the soul, in the due season of each age and each dispensation.<\/p>\n That is the season: each age and each dispensation is the season in which God sends a prophet, with His Word in the mouth of that prophet, to give that spiritual Food to the people, and for God\u2019s sons and daughters to be fed (where?) in the Household of God; because the House of God is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, contained in this <\/em>diagram by Rev. William Branham.<\/p>\n And now, notice how God has put His Word in the mouth of each of these messengers of God, for each age where they were sent or in which they were sent.<\/p>\n And now the Word of God for the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom must come in a prophet, in the mouth of a prophet.<\/p>\n God must send a prophet; and if he is for a new dispensation, what message must he bring? Well, a dispensational Message. And the only Message promised for the Last Day, for the seventh millennium, is the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, represented in the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet. And that Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ, around the Seventh Seal, is the spiritual Food for the soul of God\u2019s elect in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom!<\/p>\n And with that Food, we obtain the faith, the revelation, to be raptured\u2014to be changed and raptured at the Last Day.<\/p>\n It is not a revelation for us to be arguing with each other; it is not a revelation for us to be fighting with each other; but rather, to receive it in our soul and to feed our soul with that revelation, with that Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah and as the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19, and as the Sun of Righteousness rising for those who fear the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, which are God\u2019s elect in the Age of the Cornerstone; and then the Hebrew people.<\/p>\n Which was represented in the vision of\u00a0Mount Transfiguration, and was also represented in Revelation chapter 1, and in Revelation chapter 10: the Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven with His face as the Sun, which is the Coming of Christ as the sun, meaning, as King of kings and Lord of lords; because the sun is the king of the stars, and Christ is the King of kings and Lord of lords. And He is the Light of the world, He said: \u201cAnd He that follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life.\u201d12<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n Now we can see this mystery of the Word of God that feeds in due season.<\/p>\n Now, the ones of the first age were fed with the Word of God which came through the Apostle Saint Paul; the ones of the second age were fed through the Word of God that came through Irenaeus; the ones of the third age were fed with the Word of God that came through Martin; the ones of the fourth age were fed with the Word of God that came through Columba; the ones of the fifth age were fed with the Word of God that came through Luther; the ones of the sixth age were fed with the Word of God that came through Wesley; the ones of seventh age were fed with the Word of God that came through William Marrion Branham.<\/p>\n And the ones of the Age of the Cornerstone, the ones of the Eighth Age (the number eight represents eternity and infinity [\u221e]), the ones of the Age of the Cornerstone are fed by Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit through the dispensational Prophet-Messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, who is the one that comes testifying all these things which must shortly be done.<\/p>\n Now, Christ said: \u201cCome up hither, and I will show you things which must be hereafter.\u201d That Voice as of a trumpet is the Voice of Christ speaking higher, higher than where John was. John represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and Her messengers going through Her different ages.<\/p>\n And now, for all of those who are here <\/em>or here, <\/em>the call is: \u201cCome up hither.\u201d Just as the call for each age was: \u201cCome up hither,\u201d to the age that pertained to the people who were living in each age. And the call was to come up to that age and hear the Voice of Christ through the angel-messenger of that age.<\/p>\n And now the call is up here: <\/em>\u00a0\u201cCome up hither, and I will show you things which must be hereafter,\u201d (after which things? After these things that have happened in the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church).<\/p>\n And now no one will be able to understand, to comprehend the things that will happen in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, unless it is through the Voice of Christ through the instrument that He has here in the Age of the Cornerstone, which is a dispensational Prophet, the Prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom; the first time that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has a dispensational Messenger-Prophet.<\/p>\n And now, the promise is: \u201cCome up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.\u201d That is what Christ says with that Voice of Trumpet.<\/p>\n In Revelation chapter 1, John also says (chapter 1, verses 10 to 11): \u201cI was in the Spirit on the Lord\u2019s Day\u2026\u201d Let\u2019s look at that here, and let\u2019s see what he saw or heard, it says:<\/p>\n \u201cI was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me\u2026<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Now, before that, he was in the Spirit (where?) on the Lord\u2019s Day. He was transported in the Spirit; not in the physical body, but in the Spirit: in his theophanic body, he was transported to which day? To the Lord\u2019s Day, meaning, to the seventh millennium, to the Last Day. And it says:<\/p>\n \u201c…And heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,<\/em>\u201d (what did he hear? A Great Voice as of a trumpet),<\/p>\n \u201cSaying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Who is the Alpha and Omega? Who is the first and the last? Well, our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. It\u2019s Christ veiled and revealed, speaking to His Church at the Last Day, in the seventh millennium, in the Age of the Cornerstone.<\/p>\n And now, let\u2019s see the things He says He will be speaking. He said: \u201cCome up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.\u201d And let\u2019s see through whom Christ is speaking and reveals these things; because, through the instrument He has\u2014through which He will be manifested\u2014we will be hearing all these things which must shortly be done.<\/p>\n And by hearing these things which must shortly come to pass being revealed by that instrument of Christ, we will be hearing (what?) The Great Voice of Trumpet that John heard on the Lord\u2019s Day, making known to him all these things which must shortly come to pass; because wherever Christ is, the Word, He must be veiled, He must veil Himself in human flesh, to then reveal Himself through that veil of flesh in the age or dispensation in which He is veiled and revealed.<\/p>\n He veiled Himself in Saint Paul in the portion relevant to that age and revealed Himself through Saint Paul. That is how it was through each messenger, and that is also how it must be here in the Age of the Cornerstone.<\/p>\n And now, let\u2019s see who is that instrument of Christ through whom we will be hearing and we will be understanding and receiving all these things which must shortly be done. Revelation chapter 22, verse 6, says:<\/p>\n \u201cAnd he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true<\/em>,\u201d (in other words, they are not human words, but Divine Words), \u201cand the Lord God of the holy prophets\u2026<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n The holy prophets, those theophanic spirits of the sixth dimension, of prophets that He sends, to bring, to minister the Word to His Church, belong to whom? (Because He sends those angels, which are holy prophets or spirits of prophets, in human flesh, in each age and in each dispensation, to minister to His servants, to His children, to the heirs of salvation, to minister what to them? The Word of God, these Divine goods.) It says:<\/p>\n \u201cAnd the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel<\/em>,\u201d who has He sent? His Angel, what for? \u201cto shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n To show what? The things which must shortly be done. No one will be able to understand these things which must shortly be done, after the things which have already happened in the seven Gentile church ages, except those who receive and hear the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ making known these things which must shortly be done.<\/p>\n Outside of that, there is no way to understand the things Christ will be fulfilling in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom. There is no other way to be able to understand what the Seven Thunders spoke in an unknown language to Saint Paul.<\/p>\n Perhaps Saint Paul did not speak Spanish, English, or German. He may have spoken some languages, but perhaps he did not speak Spanish. And if he did speak Spanish, well that\u2019s fine; but he preached in his language, and sometimes in the language of the Romans (because he knew it too), because he grew up in a place in Tarsus, which belonged to the Roman Empire. It was a Gentile territory, although Paul was a Hebrew, but he was born and raised there; and then he received his education in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n And now, notice, God spoke through Saint Paul, but He spoke in the language of Saint Paul. And sometimes, well, he could speak in some other language, if the people who were hearing him spoke a different language that he knew; if not, he looked for an interpreter.<\/p>\n And now, the Seven Thunders didn\u2019t speak their Voices through Saint Paul, therefore, they didn\u2019t speak in Saint Paul\u2019s language. Saint Paul didn\u2019t know what the Seven Thunders spoke. And if (when he went to the third heaven)13<\/sup><\/a> he was able to hear what the Thunders spoke, he couldn\u2019t understand it because it was in another language.<\/p>\n And now, it wasn\u2019t a language known to Saint Paul, nor to Irenaeus, nor to Martin, nor to Columba, nor to Luther, nor to Wesley, nor to Rev. William Marrion Branham, because when he heard the Thunders, he said that they were (what?) in an unknown language (unknown to him).14<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n But if the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, through the Seven Thunders, would receive the revelation of the Seventh Seal and received the rapturing faith, it would be in a language that the Church would know in the last stage of the Church; because the Church would be in its last stage, in the stage of the Cornerstone Age; and the language that would be used here in the stage of the Cornerstone Age would be the language in which the Thunders would utter their Voices; therefore, that stage is very important.<\/p>\n Now, the first stage was fulfilled in Asia Minor, and the language Paul spoke was the language they knew there in Asia Minor.<\/p>\n The language of the second age was in the French language, and God\u2019s instrument was a Frenchman: Irenaeus; this man here spoke French, and Christ spoke through him in French.<\/p>\n Notice Christ speaking in different languages; Christ in Holy Spirit speaking in different languages through these angel-messengers.<\/p>\n And so on, He spoke in each language spoken by the angel-messenger of each age. But it was Christ in the angel-messenger, using that language of that messenger and using that messenger. But the Voice, the Message, the revelation, was Christ\u2019s.<\/p>\n Now, the Thunders utter their Voices in a language unknown to the seventh angel-messenger; so it is not English; and it was also unknown to these other messengers of the seven Gentile Church ages.<\/p>\n But it must be the language known to the Prophet-Messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom; because Christ will be speaking through that Prophet-Messenger at the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; because that Prophet-Messenger is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n He is the Angel-Messenger of the Lord Jesus Christ, who comes at the Last Day making known all these things which must shortly come to pass. And he comes making them known in the language relevant to the Age of the Cornerstone.<\/p>\n And just as each age was fulfilled in each territory… notice: the first age was fulfilled in Asia Minor, the second in France, the third in Hungary and France, the fourth in Ireland and Scotland, the fifth in Germany, the sixth in England, the seventh in North America. And from there, from each of those territories, the Gospel spread to other nations; the Message of each age spread to other nations from the territory where it was fulfilled.<\/p>\n And now, which is the territory for the Age of the Cornerstone? According to the territory and the main language spoken in that territory, that is how Christ will be speaking through His Angel-Messenger; because He sends His people the messenger of that stage, of that age, (notice) He sends him to the territory where that age is fulfilled, he appears in that territory.<\/p>\n And notice, Paul was born there in Tarsus, a territory that is part of that area of Asia Minor, right? Around there, it belonged to Asia Minor, or near Asia Minor, and Asia Minor because his ministry would be in Asia Minor.<\/p>\n For Luther, notice, in Germany; because his ministry would be in Germany. Wesley in England, because his ministry would be in England. Rev. William Branham in North America, because he would be in North America, because the seventh age would fulfill in North America. And those seven ages have already ended.<\/p>\n And now, where is it? Which is the territory where Christ will be manifested in Holy Spirit through His Angel-Messenger? Since Christ is building His Church, and His Church is His spiritual Temple: just as the Temple which is in Heaven is built, as well as the tabernacle Moses built, and the temple Solomon built, in the same way, Christ has been building His Church; because He cannot use another blueprint, another diagram or another pattern. It must be after the pattern that God showed, because that pattern is according to the one that is in Heaven.<\/p>\n And notice, [in] the temple Moses built, the outer court was in the East, and it also covered some of the sides. And now, the holy place was further inside; but walking from East to West was always how one could go from the outer court to the holy place. And then, passing from the holy place, walking West, where did one reach? The holy of holies; because the holy of holies was on the west side of the temple.<\/p>\n And now notice how Christ has come from the East: from the land of Israel, which is in the Middle East, walking in the construction of His Temple. We can see this stage of the apostles (down here<\/em>, in this<\/em> small space), then we can see the first age there in Asia Minor, still around the east side, but going up a little bit; and then we can see the five ages that were fulfilled in Europe.<\/p>\n Notice, Christ went up and walked West; and then He walked further West and got all the way to North America; He got to the West, to the western continent, which is the continent of the Americas, which consists of North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean (the Caribbean belongs to Central America).<\/p>\n And now, notice how Christ builds His spiritual Temple, His Church, in those territories.<\/p>\n And for a temple to be dedicated to God without a holy of holies, that is not a temple where God can dwell; because God\u2019s dwelling place in all His fullness is the Holy of Holies. And we have the promise from God, that God will be manifested in all His fullness in His Church.<\/p>\n But notice, He was walking from age to age in the portion pertaining to each age. And at the Last Day, notice, He goes from North America, where He fulfilled the seventh Gentile Church age, which pertains to which place? To the Holy Place. Because the seventh age pertains to the Holy Place, just as the sixth, fifth, fourth, third, second and first ages, represented in the golden candlestick with seven lamps and seven lights: the seven messengers and the seven ages.<\/p>\n And now He goes from His Work in the Holy Place, in the seventh Gentile Church age in North America, now He goes on to Latin America and the Caribbean to build the Holy of Holies of His spiritual Temple, to build the Age of the Cornerstone.<\/p>\n And to do that, Christ in Holy Spirit sends His Angel-Messenger, the Angel-Messenger of Revelation chapter 1, verse 1 to 3, and Revelation chapter 22, verse 6, and Revelation chapter 22, verse 16.<\/p>\n Revelation 22, verse 16, says:<\/p>\n \u201cI Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Whom does Jesus Christ say He has sent? His Angel-Messenger. What for? To testify these things. What things? These things which must shortly be done.<\/p>\n And now, notice how the greatest blessing in the mystical Body of Christ, in the construction of this mystical Body (represented in this<\/em> diagram), pertains to the territory of Latin America and the Caribbean.<\/p>\n This is the territory where the Age of the Cornerstone is fulfilled, this is the territory where the Angel with the Seventh Seal comes, this is the territory where the white-horse Rider of Revelation 19 comes, which is the Word of God, the Word incarnate in a Man: in the Prophet-Messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, which is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n It is the first time that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ receives a dispensational messenger, with a dispensational Message; what for? So that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ may receive the faith, the revelation, to be changed and raptured at this Last Day.<\/p>\n Now, this is what Christ has promised for His Church for the Last Day.<\/p>\n And now, why in the West? Because the holy of holies of the temple built by Moses and the temple built by Solomon was in the West. Therefore, Christ cannot build the Holy of Holies of His spiritual Temple in any other territory but the West. And He cannot build it in North America, because He already built the seventh age there in North America.<\/p>\n It must be in what\u2019s left of the continent of the Americas; and what\u2019s left is Latin America and the Caribbean. And from there, and there, Christ will manifest Himself in all His fullness; and that is where the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive will come. And from there, we will go in the rapture with our Lord Jesus Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.<\/p>\n Not from any of these<\/em> ages, because those ages already ended. In the Age of the Cornerstone is where the resurrection of the dead in Christ and the transformation of us who are alive will take place.<\/p>\n That is where we receive the faith, the revelation to be changed and raptured, which is the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ, the revelation that the Thunders bring us, speak to us; which is the revelation of the Seventh Seal, the revelation of the Angel who was very different from the rest, coming in human flesh at the Last Day in the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and veiling Himself and revealing Himself through His Angel-Messenger, and making known to us all these things which must shortly be done; because wherever the Angel of the Covenant (the Angel of the Lord) may be, He will be veiled.<\/p>\n And now, notice, just as He veiled Himself in each messenger of each age, in the portion pertaining to each age, He veils Himself in human flesh in the Angel-Messenger of Jesus Christ, the Angel-Messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom and of the Age of the Cornerstone.<\/p>\n There we have the mystery of the Angel who was very different from the rest: which must be manifested in human flesh just as the other seven angel-messengers manifested themselves in the other seven Gentile Church ages that have passed.<\/p>\n For the Age of the Cornerstone, the eternal and perfect age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ (the perfect age that the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ refers to on page 6 of the message \u201cThe Stature Of A Perfect Man,\u201d in which he tells us about a perfect age that will come, and refers to it as the Age of the Capstone or Cornerstone in this<\/em> diagram), there, in that perfect age, is where a perfect Message will come: the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom, the Message of the Seven Thunders revealing the mystery of the Seventh Seal, revealing the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Claiming Work; and as the Sun of Righteousness shining, rising to those who fear the Name of the Lord; and as the white-horse Rider of Revelation chapter 19, which is the Word of God incarnate in a Man, as the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ said on page 295 of the Book The Revelation Of The Seven Seals<\/em>.<\/p>\n That is what was forerun by William Marrion Branham; forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ in the seventh Gentile Church age, and in the gap between the seventh age and the Age of the Cornerstone. Notice what he foreran: he foreran the Coming of the Word, the Word incarnate in a Man.<\/p>\n And now notice how he also tells us the following on page 552 [The Revelation Of The Seven Seals<\/em>]:<\/p>\n \u201c[326] I don\u2019t know who is going to\u2026<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Who is he talking about? The One forerun, who will come after him.<\/p>\n \u201c[326] I don\u2019t know who is going to\u2026<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Who is he talking about? The Seventh Seal, which is the One forerun; whose way he is preparing .<\/p>\n \u201c[326] I don\u2019t know who is going to\u2026what\u2019s going to take place. I do not know. I just know that those Seven Thunders holds that mystery. The Heavens was quiet. Everybody understand? [Congregation says, \u2018Amen.\u2019\u2014Ed.]<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n And there was silence in Heaven when the Seventh Seal was opened in Revelation chapter 8, verse 1; and that is none other than the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ.<\/p>\n \u201c[326] It may be time, it may be the hour now, that this great person that we\u2019re expecting to rise on the scene may arise on the scene.<\/em><\/p>\n 327 Maybe this ministry, that I have tried to take people back to the Word, has laid a foundation; and if it has, I\u2019ll be leaving you, for good. There won\u2019t be two of us here the same time<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThere won\u2019t be two of us here at the same time\u201d: the forerunner and the One forerun won\u2019t be here [at the same time]; but if they were present, what would happen? Well, the same thing that happened with John the Baptist and Jesus: the forerunner and the One forerun were there. Let\u2019s see what he says\u2026<\/p>\n When the forerunner and the One forerun were present on Earth two thousand years ago (John the Baptist and Jesus), what happened? They came to tell John: \u201cLook, the One to whom you bore witness, now more people follow Him than you, and He baptizes more people than you,\u201d although Jesus did not baptize people, the disciples of Jesus were the ones who baptized people. And now, John says: \u201cHe must increase, and I must decrease.\u201d15<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n John was the light of the seventh lamp of the seventh age of the Hebrew Church under Law; because the Hebrew people had seven ages under the Dispensation of Law, and John the Baptist was the last prophet of the Dispensation of Law. That is why Jesus said: \u201cThe prophets prophesied until John.\u201d16<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n So, no more prophets came after him? Of course they did. Jesus was a Prophet greater than John; and Saint Paul and Saint Peter were prophets too. And Christ said that He would put, He would send prophets too; and He would send apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, in the Dispensation of Grace among His Church.17<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n And won\u2019t there be prophets for the Dispensation of the Kingdom? Of course there will be: the Prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom.<\/p>\n And now, notice, John had to decrease, because John was the Light of the seventh age of the Hebrew Church under the Law, which was fading out. When he was in prison, he sent them to ask Jesus: \u201cAre You He that should come, or do we look for another?\u201d18<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n Notice how he was fading out, to the point that he himself sent people to ask if Jesus was the One who would come, the One forerun; when he had introduced Him as the One forerun, he had introduced Him as the Messiah, as the Lamb of God, as the One who would come after him; and now he sends them to tell Him, to ask Him, if it was Him or if they should look for another.<\/p>\n The Light was fading out. And when the Light of an age starts to fade, notice, even the messenger himself starts seeing things a bit cloudy and needs Light. And the only One who can give It to him is (whom?) the One forerun, whom he said would come after him.<\/p>\n He can give him Light regarding the Scriptures pertaining to the One forerun; because He is the One who has all the Light, and the One who brings them to light, makes them known to all the children of God.<\/p>\n And now, what did John the Baptist say? \u201cHe must increase, and I must decrease.\u201d John was the evening Light there, that was fading; because the day\u2019s evening light must (what?) decrease; and the morning light is the one that must increase. It increases, it shines more and more as the shining light (meaning, its light increases), until the perfect day.19<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n In the beginning, things look a bit dark; and some people say: \u201cBut if it were the morning light everything would be lit up; because some time ago, a few days ago, everything looked bright at noon;\u201d but they don\u2019t realize that the sun is rising, that the day is breaking. And if the day is breaking, he won\u2019t see things the way he did at noon when the light was shining directly and making everything brighter.<\/p>\n And now: \u201cUnto those that fear My Name, shall the Sun of Righteousness arise.\u201d20<\/sup><\/a> In other words, it comes as the rising sun, the day starts breaking. It starts to look brighter. And when it starts to get brighter, one knows it\u2019s the light of the sun, and one knows the fourth watch is already beginning.<\/p>\n