Good afternoon, ministers and fellow workers present, and also in other countries.<\/p>\n
For this occasion, let\u2019s read in Joshua, chapter 1, verse 1 and on; and it says the following:<\/p>\n
\u201cNow after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord it came to pass, that the Lord spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying,<\/em><\/p>\n Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.<\/em><\/p>\n From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.<\/em><\/p>\n There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.<\/em><\/p>\n Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.<\/em><\/p>\n Only be thou strong and very courageous, <\/em>(what for?) that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.<\/em><\/p>\n This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.<\/em><\/p>\n Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It, and may He open the Scriptures to us and our understanding so that we understand.<\/p>\n \u201cBE NOT AFRAID, NEITHER BE THOU DISMAYED.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Just as God was with Moses, He was then with Joshua, to put the people in the promised land. And just as He was with Joshua, as He had been with Moses, we then find that He was with Jesus Christ. And then, just as He was with Jesus Christ, He was with the apostles. And then, just as He was with Jesus Christ and the apostles, He has been with each angel-messenger from age to age, in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ under the New Covenant.<\/p>\n That is why the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is represented in the virgin Mary, as well as in other women of the Bible, women of faith.<\/p>\n Now let\u2019s see, page 187 of the book of The Seven Church Ages<\/em>, in this version in Spanish, it says\u2026 Let\u2019s read a bit before, starting from page 186 [p. 171 in Eng.], it says:<\/p>\n \u201cThe first son (Adam) was the spoken seed-Word of God. He was given a bride to reproduce himself. That is why the bride was given to him, to reproduce himself; to produce another son of God. But she fell. She fell by hybridization. She caused him to die.<\/em><\/p>\n The second Son (Jesus), also a spoken Seed-Word of God was given a bride like as was Adam. But before He could marry her, she also had fallen. She, like Adam\u2019s wife, was put to the test whether she would believe the Word of God and live, or doubt the Word and die. She doubted. She left the Word. She died.<\/em><\/p>\n From a little group of the true seed of the Word, God will present Christ with a beloved bride. She is a virgin of His Word. She is a virgin because she knows no man-made creeds or dogmas. By and through the members of the bride will be fulfilled all that was promised of God to be made manifest in the virgin.<\/em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n It is important to know that everything that has been promised by God to be manifested in the Church-Virgin, He will fulfill it through the members of His Bride-Church. That is one of the mysteries of God\u2019s Plan that is carried out in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n \u201cThe word of promise came to the virgin Mary. But that Word of promise was He, Himself, to be made manifest. God was made manifest. He, Himself, acted at that time and fulfilled His own Word of promise in the virgin. It was an angel that had brought her the message. But the angel\u2019s message was the Word of God. Isaiah 9:6. He fulfilled at that time all that was written of Him because she accepted His Word to her.<\/em><\/p>\n The members of the virgin bride will love Him, and they will have His potentials, for He is their head, and all power belongs to Him. They are subject to Him as the members of our bodies are subject to our heads.<\/em><\/p>\n Notice the harmony of the Father and the Son. Jesus never did anything until it was first showed Him by the Father. John 5:19. This harmony is now to exist between the Groom and His bride. He shows her His Word of life. She receives it. She never doubts it. Therefore, nothing can harm her, not even death. For if the seed be planted, the water will raise it up again. Here is the secret of this. The Word is in the bride (as it was in Mary). The bride has the mind of Christ for she knows what He wants done with the Word. She performs the command of the Word in His name for she has \u2018thus saith the Lord.\u2019 Then the Word is quickened by the Spirit and it comes to pass. Like a seed that is planted and watered, it comes to full harvest, serving its purpose.<\/em><\/p>\n Those in the bride do only His will. No one can make them do otherwise. They have \u2018thus saith the Lord\u2019 or they keep still. They know that it has to be God in them doing the works, fulfilling His own Word. He did not complete all His work while in His earthly ministry so now He works in and through the bride.<\/em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n How does He work? In and through the Bride. Such is the Work of Jesus Christ on this Earth: God working through Christ in and through His Bride-Church, which was born on the Day of Pentecost.<\/p>\n \u201cShe knows that, for it was not yet time for Him to do certain things that He must now do. But He will now fulfill through the bride that work which He left for this specific time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n There is a Work that He left to be carried out at this end time, which He didn\u2019t do in past ages and that has to be done by Christ at this end time; and therefore, Christ in Holy Spirit, in His Church and through His Church, will carry out the Work of the Last Day. What is promised to be carried out, Christ will carry it out in and through His Bride-Church. As simple as that.<\/p>\n He said: \u201cI will be with you always, even unto the end of the world.\u201d[1]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a> How would He be? In Holy Spirit, working and fulfilling what God is to carry out in the midst of His Church and through His Church.<\/p>\n Therefore, we must have our eyes fixed on what is promised for the Last Day, the things that God will do, and know that He will do them by His Spirit through His Church.<\/p>\n That is how He has worked from age to age: always fulfilling what is promised for His Church in each age; for which He has raised a messenger, to whom He has revealed Himself and through whom He has then spoken to the people, to His Church, fulfilling what He has promised; and then, from the Church and the messenger, the Message has gone forth to all the nations.<\/p>\n God always working through the Holy Spirit in His spiritual Temple, which is His Church, which is under the New Covenant in the Dispensation of Grace; which will be completed \u2014the Work of the Dispensation of Grace\u2014 at this end time, in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, with which the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be crowned.<\/p>\n Because the Age of the Cornerstone is the King\u2019s Chamber, it is the Messianic stage or Age for the Coming of the Cornerstone, which is the Second Coming of Christ; just like two thousand years ago He came to the people who were under the Covenant relevant to that time, in the Dispensation of the Law.<\/p>\n The crowning Stone came at that time; and therefore, the age or stage was the Age of the Cornerstone, with which and in which He fulfilled His First Coming and the works that He would carry out in His First Coming, in which He came as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world. That is why when John the Baptist introduced Him, he said: \u201cBehold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.\u201d[2]<\/sup><\/strong><\/sup><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n That is why John talked a lot about the Coming of the Messiah and the symbol of the Lamb of God, because He had to carry out the Work of Redemption as the Lamb of God. As it happened in Egypt when He delivered Israel from bondage in Egypt, and when He delivered the firstborn from death, the night when death was passing through all the homes in Egypt; and whoever didn\u2019t have the token of the blood of the paschal lamb on the door, on the lintel and the posts of the entrance door to the home, every firstborn who was in that house would die.<\/p>\n It\u2019s because that paschal lamb represented Christ, the Messiah in His First Coming, who would come to deliver from death all those written in Heaven, in the Lamb\u2019s Book of Life, who are the firstborn written in the Lamb\u2019s Book of Life, from which no name can be blotted out.<\/p>\n There is another section in the Book of Life from which names can be blotted out; but in the section called: of the Lamb\u2019s Book of Life, no name can be blotted out of there. Those are the names of the ones who would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and they are unerasable.<\/p>\n That is why He \u2014Christ\u2014 had to come to carry out the redemption of all those people who have their names written in Heaven, in the Lamb\u2019s Book of Life. They may go through many problems on this Earth, many difficult situations, but their names can\u2019t be blotted out of the section of the Lamb\u2019s Book of Life.<\/p>\n And the more careful we are, the better it is for us: the less problems we will have before God and before men.<\/p>\n Therefore, aware that our names are written in Heaven, in the section called the Lamb\u2019s Book of Life\u2026 It is only one Book, the Book of Life, but It has two sections: one from which names can be blotted out and another from which names cannot be blotted out, because those are the names of those who would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the time of the Dispensation of Grace.<\/p>\n Knowing this Biblical truth is a great blessing for us: knowing that our names have been written before the foundation of the world in the section of the Lamb\u2019s Book of Life. Therefore, fear not, for the Lord is with you and with me too.<\/p>\n \u201cBE NOT AFRAID, NEITHER BE THOU DISMAYED.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n As He was with the true believers of past times, He is also with us. He has placed us in the most important stage of all the stages of His Church: at the top of that Mystical Body of believers, in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone.<\/p>\n The stage of the Age of the Cornerstone is the stage for the Coming of the Cornerstone, the Coming of the Lord at this end time. That is the greatest mystery of the entire Bible: the Second Coming of Christ; and that mystery will be opened in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision. That is where this mystery will be opened, and it will give the faith to be transformed and raptured to all the believers who will go in the rapture to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.<\/p>\n They are going to receive rapturing faith. Just as one obtains – as people have faith for Divine healing, they will obtain faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.<\/p>\n Therefore: \u201cBE NOT AFRAID, NEITHER BE THOU DISMAYED,\u201d <\/strong>for the Lord is with us.<\/p>\n He is with us just as He was with Moses, with Joshua, with the judges, with the prophets, with Jesus, with the apostles, with the angel-messengers of each age; likewise, He is also with us at this end time, in Holy Spirit, carrying out the Divine Program relevant to this end time, just as He did in past times: past ages and dispensations. And that is by carrying out the Work of God relevant to this end time.<\/p>\n God in Spirit is with us to help us with everything we need, and to use us in every way that He desires to use us at this end time.<\/p>\n Therefore, \u201cbe not afraid, neither be thou dismayed,\u201d \u201cbe strong and of a good courage!\u201d He will help us; just as He has always helped us, He will also help us in the time that is left. Therefore, we will reach the goal of the transformation; and if someone goes before that: he will return in the resurrection of the dead believers in Christ, to be resurrected in a new, eternal, immortal, incorruptible, and glorified body, like the glorified body of Christ our Savior; but if he remains alive, when we see them resurrected: we will be transformed.<\/p>\n \u201cBE NOT AFRAID, NEITHER BE THOU DISMAYED.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n As He was with Moses, with Joshua, and with all these men of God, and the people of God and past ages of God and past dispensations, He is with us; and He is with us confirming the New Covenant to us, confirming all the promises to us, and gradually fulfilling each Divine promise relevant to this end time to His Bride-Church in the Age of the Cornerstone.<\/p>\n Just as She went up from one age to the other, She has come all the way up to the top of the Mountain of God, of the spiritual Mount Zion, which is His Church; She has come all the way up to the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, and He has also brought us up, with the: \u201cCome up hither.\u201d[3]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a> Come up where? To the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the age to fulfill all the promises of the Last Day and to give us the blessings that are promised for us all.<\/p>\n Therefore, onward, without fear, without being afraid, for the Lord is with us.<\/p>\n \u201cBE NOT AFRAID, NEITHER BE THOU DISMAYED.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n May God bless all of you who are present here and those who are in other nations. And we will see each other tomorrow, God willing, in the morning, for the relevant activity for tomorrow, Sunday, for the Bible school early in the morning, so that the time coincides with the time in Puerto Rico; because there is a difference of about two hours, we have to be there at a good time to tune in with Puerto Rico, and so that all those in different countries are tuned in to tomorrow\u2019s Sunday activity.<\/p>\n May God bless you and keep you; and continue having a happy afternoon, filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior.<\/p>\n I leave Reverend Andr\u00e9s Cruz Gallegos with you to continue, and in each country I leave the relevant minister to continue.<\/p>\n \u201cBE NOT AFRAID, NEITHER BE THOU DISMAYED.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n [1]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a> Matthew 28:20<\/p>\n