THE CHURCH, A PRODUCT OF THE MASTERPIECE. Rev. William Soto Santiago Sunday, Abril 15, 2012 Cayey, Puerto Rico

THE CHURCH, A PRODUCT OF THE MASTERPIECE Rev. William Soto Santiago Sunday, Abril 15, 2012 Cayey, Puerto Rico

NOTES TO THE READER It is our intention to do an exact and faithful transcription of this Message, just as was preached; therefore any error in this writing is strictly error of hearing, transcription and impression; and should not be interpreted as errors of the Message. The contained text in this conference can be verified with the recordings of the audio or of the video. This pamphlet should be used only for personal purposes of study, until be published formally. THE CHURCH, A PRODUCT OF THE MASTERPIECE 23 Jesus tells him: It is becoming for us to fulfill all Scriptures, and then he baptized Him. Therefore, it is also becoming for us all to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, for it is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ, and it is unto likeness of death burial and resurrection of Christ, and thus we identify with Christ in His death burial and resurrection. Therefore, you may be baptized, and may Christ baptize you with Holy Spirit and Fire, and may He produce in you the new birth, and we will continue to see each other for all eternity in the glorious Kingdom of Jesus Christ our Savior. Until next Sunday God willing, where we will be again with you all. I leave with you the reverend Jose Benjamin Perez so he may let you know what to do to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in each country I leave the relevant minister in charge to do likewise. May the blessings of Christ our Savior be upon you all and upon me, and continue having a happy afternoon filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior. May God bless you and keep you. THE CHURCH, A PRODUCT OF THE MASTERPIECE.

22 REV. WILLIAM SOTO SANTIAGO save me Lord, make it a reality in me. I beg You, in Your eternal and glorious Name, Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. With our hands raised to Christ, to Heaven, we all say: The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me of all sin! The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me of all sin! The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me of all sin! Amen. Christ has received you in His Kingdom, you will say to me: I want to be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, for He said: He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. (St. Mark chapter 16, verses 15, to 16) When can I be baptized? is the question from the depths of your heart. Therefore, since you have believed in Christ, you may be baptized, and may Christ baptize you with Holy Spirit and Fire and may produce in you the new birth. The baptism in water is typologycall, water does not take away sins, it is the Blood of Christ that cleanses us of all sin, but the baptism in water is a commandment of Christ, which said: He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and He also said: Baptizing them in the Name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. (Matthew chapter 28, verses 16, to 20). And the Name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit: Lord Jesus Christ. That s why the apostles baptized all those that received Christ as only and sufficient Savior, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the apostle Paul also baptized likewise, and Paul himself was baptized in the same way. The water baptism being typological, it is done unto the likeness of the death, burial and resurrection of Christ. In water baptism the person identifies with Christ with His death, burial and resurrection; that is the symbolism, the typology of the baptism in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ Himself went to John the Baptist to be baptized there at Jordan river, and when John sees Him, he tells Him: I need to be baptized by You, and You come to me to be baptized? And THE CHURCH, A PRODUCT OF THE MASTERPIECE Rev. William Soto Santiago Sunday, Abril 15, 2012 Cayey, Puerto Rico G ood Afternoon kind brothers and friends present and those through the satellite Amazonas or through internet in the different nations, may the blessings of Christ the Angel of the Covenant be upon everyone of you and upon me too. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. For this occasion we read in Matthew chapter 16, verses 13, to 20, where it tells us in the following manner. When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I, the Son of man, am? And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist; some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shall loose on earth shall be loosed

4 REV. WILLIAM SOTO SANTIAGO in heaven. Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ. May God bless our soul with His Word and permit us to understand It. THE CHURCH, A PRODUCT OF THE MASTERPIECE. The Masterpiece of God is Jesus Christ, and you can see how from Genesis up to John the Baptist, God was forming that Work, when He reflected Jesus Christ in all the prophets and in all the men of God until coming to Jesus Christ. In all these men of God was the Spirit of God, the very apostle Peter tells us that the Spirit of Christ was dwelling in those persons and was the One that prophesied by means of those instruments. Second Peter chapter, 1, verses 19, to 21, says: We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. In other words, that that divine Word was not brought by will of man, but rather it was the Holy Spirit speaking through different men, through different prophets; that s what Zechariah chapter 7, verse 11, and on, tells us so that we may have a clear picture on what we are dealing with in this occasion. The Scripture tells us in Zechariah chapter 7, verse 11, to 12, says: But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. Yea they made their hearts as aan adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his Spirit by the former prophets (how did God sent His Word? By means of His Spirit through the prophets); therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts. Now let s see THE CHURCH, A PRODUCT OF THE MASTERPIECE 21 stand up for the prayer for all the people that have come to the Feet of Christ our Savior. With our hands raised to Christ, to Heaven, and with our eyes closed and our heads bowed: Our Father who are in Heaven, hollowed be Your Name, may Your Kingdom come, and Your will be done on Earth as It is done in Heaven, our daily bread give us this day, and forgive our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Yours is the Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. Heavenly Father, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I come to You bringing this people that have received Christ as only and sufficient Savior. I beg You to receive them in Your Kingdom, heavenly Father, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I beg You, to Whom be glory and honor for ever and ever. Amen. And now, those that have come to the Feet of Christ, repeat after me this prayer: Lord Jesus Christ, I heard the preaching of Your Gospel and Your faith was born in my heart. I believe in You with all my soul, I believe in Your first Coming and I believe in Your death on Cavalry s Cross as the Sacrifice of Atonement for my sins and for the sins of every human being. I recognize that I am a sinner and need a Savior. Lord, I testify publicly of my faith in You, recognizing that there is no other Name under Heaven given unto men whereby we can be saved. Lord, I testify publicly of my faith in You and I receive You as my only and sufficient Savior. I beg You to forgive my sins and with Your Blood You may cleanse me of all sin and baptize me with Holy Spirit and Fire after I am baptized in water in Your Name, and may the new birth be produced in me. I want to be born in Your Kingdom, I want to live in Your Kingdom, I want to live eternally. Lord, You gained my salvation on Cavalry s Cross. Make it a reality in my life,

20 REV. WILLIAM SOTO SANTIAGO As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. When he awakes with the likeness of God, this is in an immortal glorified body, that s what the psalmist would say, and that s what every believer in Christ says; if he dies, he will awake, will be resurrected, remember the saints do not die, but rather they sleep. You remember Christ telling His disciples: Our brother Lazarus sleeps, our friend sleeps, the disciples say to Christ: If he sleeps, he is okay, and they did not understand that Christ was telling them that Lazarus His friend had died, and then He tells them: Our brother Lazarus has died, our friend has died, and I am happy of not being there when that happened, let s go there, I am going to wake him up, in other words, I m going to rise him up. Lazarus represents all the believers in Christ that have died, which will be awaken, they will be awaken from the dead, they will be resurrected. Therefore, the believer in Chris is not afraid to die, he knows he will resurrect in an eternal body in the resurrection of all the believers in Christ in the Coming of the Lord. It is important to have that security, that hope, and thus the existing distress disappears, because the human being that does not have this hope lives in distress because he does not know from where he came, he does not know why he is on Earth, and does not know where he will go when he dies, and the thing that a person fears the most, about the existing distress, is not knowing where he has come from, nor why he is on Earth, but the thing he fears the most is where he will go after he dies. It is important to be sure that we will go to Paradise when our physical body dies, being sure that we will rise in glorified bodies in the Coming of the Lord, but if we remain alive, well, we will be transformed, so there is no problem, Paul would say that there is no problem wether we live of die, there is no problem. Let us stand up to pray for the persons that have come to the Feet of Christ our Savior. Those in other countries may also THE CHURCH, A PRODUCT OF THE MASTERPIECE 5 what St. Paul tells us in Hebrews chapter, 1...remember that God is building a Masterpiece that will culminate with the Messiah the Prince in Whom God would have brought into existence a perfect Man, a perfect Work, a Masterpiece. Hebrews chapter 1, verse 1, to 3, says: God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets (how did God speak? By the prophets), 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. Notice, the origin of the Universe is revealed here in the Bible: God created the Universe through Christ the Son of God: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. (St. John chapter, 1, verse 1, and on). There we see clearly that God created the whole universe through Christ; because Christ, before having His body of flesh, He was the Angel of the Covenant in His heavenly body, which was nothing less than the image of the living God, the heavenly body of God, which is Christ, Who also said: Before Abraham was I am. How was He? He was the Angel of the Covenant, the Angel of God, (St John chapter 8, verses 56, to 58). That s why He could also say: The Father and I are one, because Christ in His heavenly body is the Angel of the Covenant, the heavenly or theophanic body of God, and the body of flesh of Christ is the veil of flesh of God, it is the human Temple of God. Remember the words of Christ in St. John chapter 2, which says: Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up. They thought He was speaking of the stone temple there at Jerusalem, but He was speaking of His body as a Temple of God

6 REV. WILLIAM SOTO SANTIAGO (St. John chapter 2, verse 19, and on). The Scripture tells us in chapter 3, of first of Corinthians, it says that we are temples of God, know ye not that ye are temples of God, and the Spirit of God dwells in you? that s what Paul says in first of Corinthians; and in chapter 3, St. Paul says that he as a masterbuilder laid the foundation and another buildeth thereon, but let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay that is laid, which is Jesus Christ, and it says that if any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy. All the believers in Christ as individuals are a human temple of God where the Spirit of God dwells, the Holy Spirit, and the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ which is as a Mystical Body of believers a spiritual Temple, She is the House of God, the Church of the living God; the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is a Temple formed by living stones as first Peter chapter 2, verses 4, to 10, tells us. She being a Temple, then It has Outer Court, Holy Place, and Most Holy Place. The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the greatest thing God has on Earth, and His Spirit dwells in His Church; He said: I will not leave you fatherless, I will come to you, how would He come? In Holy Spirit. Also in St. Matthew chapter 28, verse 20, says: I will be with you every day until the end of the world. How would He be? In Holy Spirit in His Church, in His House, His Spiritual Temple, and in each believer in Christ who is a spiritual human temple where the Holy Spirit, Christ in Holy Spirit dwells. Christ in His heavenly body is the image of the living God, and Christ in His body of flesh, in that body He is the physical likeness of God, It is Immanuel, which translated is: God with us. He became man to carry out the Work of Redemption on Cavalry s Cross, so then to produce the new birth of His Church, which Church has been born of Water and of Spirit. The Spirit is the Life of the Blood; that s why Christ spoke to Nicodemus and told him that it is necessary to be born again in order to enter THE CHURCH, A PRODUCT OF THE MASTERPIECE 19 The Church a product of the Masterpiece of God, a product of Christ the Masterpiece, and consequently the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the Masterpiece of Christ. And since there are still persons to come to the Feet of Christ, which are written in Heaven in the Lamb s Book of Life, if you hear His Voice today, and you have not yet received Him as Savior, do not harden your heart, if the faith of Christ has been born in your soul at hearing the preaching of the Gospel of Christ at this moment, you have the opportunity now to give public testimony of your faith in Christ by receiving as your only and sufficient Savior, for which you can come to the front so that we may pray for you. And also those that are in other nations you may come to the Feet of Christ those that have not done it yet, so that you may be included in the prayer that we will be making in this occasion. And the children of ten years and older you can also come to the Feet of Christ our Savior. There is nothing more important than life, and if this physical life is so important, how much more is eternal Life for the believers in Christ. There is nothing else more important in life than eternal Life. Without eternal Life there is no future, without eternal Life the earthly riches are nothing, the studies are worth nothing, the life is the most valuable the human being has, and it is given to the human being to make contact with Christ the eternal Life, so to obtain eternal Life and may have the hope to live in the Kingdom of Christ for all eternity. Without that hope there is no peace for the soul of the person, without that hope the human being becomes like the grass in the field and the flower in a field which exist today and tomorrow are withered away. But Job said in one occasion: For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and thou after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. Therefore we will see Christ very soon in His glorified body. We know that those are divine promises that will be fulfilled, because if He promised it, He will fulfill it. Even the Psalmist David, in psalm 17, verse 15, says:

18 REV. WILLIAM SOTO SANTIAGO chapter 3, verse 20, to 21, says: For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. Notice, for which purpose is the Coming of the Lord for the Last Day? It is to transform our bodies and to make them as His glorified body, and to resurrect the believers in Him which departed in different past times, and some from our time which have departed, it says: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body. That it may be fashioned like His glorious body He has, which is an inter-dimensional body that can travel from one dimension unto another without any problem, an immortal, incorruptible and glorified body, at the final trumpet, for the final trumpet will sound and the dead in Christ will rise first incorruptible, and we that remain shall be changed, (Fist Corinthians chapter, 15, verses 49, to 58), then the problem of dying will end, the problem of the person becoming old will end, because the person will remain young throughout eternity, as Christ is as young as when He ascended to Heaven. Thus will be with the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, with all the believers belonging to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Church will be the Masterpiece of Christ that will reach perfection in this end time, and each believer in Christ as individual will be a masterpiece of Christ our Savior, when we be transformed and have the glorified body as He has promised. Therefore, let s be prepared, because at any time the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be completed, and consequently She will become the masterpiece of Christ, the Church of the Lord Jesus will be the One that will receive Christ in His Coming at the Last Day for Her transformation, He will come to His spiritual Temple which is His Church. THE CHURCH, A PRODUCT OF THE MASTERPIECE 7 into the Kingdom of God (St. John chapter 3, verse 1, to 6). And now, Jesus Christ is nothing less than the only person wherein the fullness of the Godhead dwelt, dwells and will dwell eternally, which is Father, Son and Holy Spirit; in Jesus dwelt all the fullness of God; that s why He could say: The Father and I are one. St. John chapter 10, verse 27, to 30). And He says: The Father is greater than me, because God is greater that His heavenly body and He is greater than His physical body which is the body of Jesus Christ, just as you ad I, concerning our soul, which is what in reality we are, our soul is greater than our spiritual body and greater than our physical body. Remember that since God created the human being in His image and likeness, we find that the human being is as God: soul, spirit and body, the human being is the only one created unto the image and likeness of God, for the angels do not have physical body, they do not have the physical likeness of God, they have the image of God, but do not have the physical likeness of God. The physical likeness of God is the physical body of Jesus Christ, who is already glorified, and for that reason all the believers, when they are born again they receive a spiritual heavenly body, theophanic body, then in the second part of the Redemption they will obtain the physical likeness of God, the physical likeness of God is the physical body of Jesus Christ, which body is already glorified, and that s the reason why the believers in Christ will receive a physical glorified body when the dead in Christ are resurrected and the ones that are alive are transformed and everyone will be in the image and likeness of Jesus Christ, in other words, of God. Remember that Christ is Immanuel, which translated is: God with us. We will all be equal to Christ. Remember that to all that which Christ is an heir, are also all the believers in Christ. Christ said: I am the light of the world, he that follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life (St. John chapter 10, verse 9); and also in St. Matthew Christ says: You are the light of the world.

8 REV. WILLIAM SOTO SANTIAGO In other words, to all which Christ is an heir, are also the believers in Christ, they are joint-heirs with Christ, heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ our Savior; that s found in Romans chapter 8, verse 14, and on, you could even read up to verse 31, and there you ll find a clear picture of these things of which I am speaking of. Christ is the image of the living God, and He is also the physical likeness of the living God. Colossians chapter 1, verses 12, to 25, tells us that Christ is the image of God, and in Hebrews chapter 1, where we were reading and we stopped a few minutes ago, says: Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name that they. Here it shows us that Christ is the brightness of God s glory and the express image of God. The image,...and the express image of his person, and upholding all things with the power of his word. Christ is God s Masterpiece, it took Him some four thousand years, from Adam up to John the Baptist, for God to have for Himself a Masterpiece, which was Jesus Christ. And now we find that all that which God is, He poured it, He placed it in Jesus Christ; and all that which Christ is, He placed it in His Church. His Church is His Spiritual Temple, His House, His Family. Is the Church of Jesus Christ, the Family of Christ? Let s see, Hebrews, chapter 3, verse 5, and on, says... let s read verse 1, and on, up to verse 6, (Hebrews chapter 3, verse 1, to 6), it says: Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus (who is the Apostle and High Priest of our profession? Christ); who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses THE CHURCH, A PRODUCT OF THE MASTERPIECE 17 Christ It was completed and appeared a perfect prophet anointed with Godhead. Thus will also be for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in this end time. Therefore, the Church in this end time, the group of born again believers of the Last Day, will be the group that will reach perfection, and consequently in that group will be that the Masterpiece of Christ will be fulfilled. The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is Christ s Masterpiece, which will reach perfection in this end time, and that will be Christ s Masterpiece, as Christ is the Masterpiece of God, and there is where each one of the believers in Christ will reach perfection, and consequently as individuals they will be Christ s masterpiece whom Christ will bring to perfection and they will be in the image and likeness of Christ our Savior, they will be like Christ. We will arrive, because it s a promise. THE CHURCH, A PRODUCT OF THE MASTERPIECE, the Church a product of Christ, the masterpiece, which He has been building for two thousand years, from the time of the Day of Pentecost to the present, or from the time of His death at Cavalry s Cross, and as individuals we are all a work that will be crowned and we will all be a masterpiece of Christ as individuals. Consequently the Church is the Masterpiece of Christ, as Christ is the Masterpiece of God. It took God four thousand years to build that Masterpiece by divine creation, which is Jesus Christ our Savior. And now, to build His Masterpiece as a Church it has taken Him two thousand years, it has taken God two thousand years to bring a perfect Church in the Last Day by means of Christ, a masterpiece in which the fullness of God will dwell, Christ will dwell in It in all His fullness, and consequently they will all be transformed and will reach perfection, they will be equal to Jesus Christ, that s what s promised and consequently it will come to pass, and that s what all the believers in Christ, the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be believing. Philipians,

16 REV. WILLIAM SOTO SANTIAGO twelve patriarchs. Therefore we will see that with more details later on, each messenger represents his group, and he will present his group to Christ. And now, the Church a product of Christ the Masterpiece, wherein Christ has placed all His power, all that which Christ is, He has placed It in His Church, just like all that which God is, He has placed It in Christ, and Christ has been constructing His Masterpiece from stage to stage; He laid down the foundation with the apostles and prophets, and the Chief Stone is Jesus Christ our Savior. Then the different stages or ages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ have transpired, wherein that Masterpiece that Christ has been building is being carried out. That Masterpiece will be crowned with the Church of the Lord Jesus that is living in this end time, which will come to perfection, and that will be God s Masterpiece through Christ, in other words, the Masterpiece of Christ, which He has been creating, building, constructing, which is His Church, His spiritual Temple. She is the anointed Church, the Messiah Church, all that which Christ is, also His Church is. The Holy Spirit has been in His Church since the day of Pentecost, and has continued in His Church, for He said: I will be with you every day until the end of the world, He is in His Church in Holy Spirit. And for this end time the adoption of His Church and consequently of each believer in Christ born again will be carried out; and that s how the Church of the Lord Jesus will be crowned in the golden stage of the Church, the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone, as was crowned the Church of the old covenant two thousand years ago with the presence of Christ being filled with the fullness of God. In Christ was crowned that Masterpiece that God was constructing from stage to stage by means of the manifestation of the Spirit of God in all the prophets beginning with Adam up to John the Baptist, and then in Christ was realized, was manifested the Masterpiece; which God was building gradually; then in THE CHURCH, A PRODUCT OF THE MASTERPIECE 9 was faithful in all his house. For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath mor honor than the huse. For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. And Moses verily was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; but 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. And now, Christ over His own House, whose House are who? Whose House are we, His House, His Family. His House is composed by all believers in Him, His House, His Family are all the sons and daughters of God by means of Christ our Savior. He has been placed as Son over His House, He is the Firstborn of all creation, the Firstborn of all the dead, He is the Firstfruit of all those that slept. He is the first fruit, He is the Sheaf which was waved when He resurrected Sunday morning of that such important week, in which He resurrected in the following Sunday of that holy week, He resurrected very early in the morning, in the first day of the following week, which was the eight day, counting the week and counting Sunday as the eight day. He is the First-fruit of all the fruits of the harvest of those times. The literal agriculture typifies the spiritual agriculture. For that reason the believers in Christ are represented in the wheat. And now, Christ being the image of the living God, His spiritual body is the heavenly body of God, the theophanic body of God, called the Angel of the Covenant. Each believer in Christ has also his heavenly body, his theophanic body. Look at what James, speaking of the resurrection of Christ, he says in chapter 1, verse 18: Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

10 REV. WILLIAM SOTO SANTIAGO The firstfruits, the firstborns of God are the believers in Christ under the New Covenant that God established by means of Christ. All the believers in Christ that would be born in the Kingdom of God through the Holy Sprit, they would be born from the Water and the Spirit as Christ said to Nicodemus, they have their names written in Heaven in the Lamb s Book of Life. That s why St. Paul in Hebrews chapter 12, verse 22, and on, says: But ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven... The congregation of the firstborns written in Heaven, or in Heavens, is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, written in Heaven in the Lamb s Book of Life, which is the Book sealed with seven Seals that appears in Revelation chapter 5, at the right hand of God, the One sitting in the Throne:...and to God the judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. The mediator of the new Covenant is Christ, which intercedes with His own Blood, He mediates for and in favor of all those that receive Him as only and sufficient Savior. Notice, Hebrews chapter 13, verses 20, to 21, tells us: Now the God of peace, that brought from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant. Which is the Blood of the everlasting Covenant? The Blood of Christ, which is the Blood of the new Covenant, the eternal Covenant; that s why in the last supper with His disciples, taking bread and giving thanks to the Father, He brakes it and gives to His disciples, and tells them, eat this is my body... St. Paul explains it a little more and says. This is my body which is THE CHURCH, A PRODUCT OF THE MASTERPIECE 15 until our time. In other words, that Property Deed has names written, the names of those that would form His Church, and consequently my name is there, and who else s name? The name of each one of you also, the name God chose for each one of His sons and daughters that would form His Church. The materialization of the Property Deed will end with the elect of this end time, and then the dead in Christ will rise in glorified bodies in the Reclaiming Work of Christ when He claims back all that which He has redeemed with His Blood and we that remain alive will be transformed. Therefore, although your body may be in an advanced age, hold on a little, because when the number of the elect is completed, the number of the chosen, the number of the sons and daughters of God written in Heaven in the Lamb s Book of Life, the resurrection will come, and then the transformation of them that are alive, when we see the dead in Christ resurrecting. They will resurrect in a young body, because the glorify body is young, it is eternal immortal and incorruptible and glorified, as the glorified body of Jesus Christ our Savior, and when we see Him, we will be transformed. Then we will be a season of 30, to 40, days here on Earth already adopted and consequently with all the power of Christ manifested in and through His Church and consequently through each one of the sons and daughters of God, they will all have all the divine power. But in the House of God, in the Family of God there will always be a divine order. Each messenger will represent his group, each messenger is as the twelve patriarchs sons of Jacob, and as the twelve apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ, which appear in Revelation chapter 4, and chapter 5, sitting upon twenty four thrones, twelve thrones for the patriarchs and twelve thrones for the twelve apostles, which have to deal with the Hebrew people. And thus it is also with the different messengers of the different stages of the Church amongst the Gentiles, It s seven messengers will have a position as the position of the twelve apostles and the

14 REV. WILLIAM SOTO SANTIAGO Masterpiece. The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will have in the Last Day the fullness of Christ. Christ in all His fullness will manifest in His Church to carry out the Reclamation Work, which is the second part of the Program of Redemption, the redemption of the body which is the adoption of the sons and daughters of God in the Kingdom of God, to be adopted physically, and transformed, the transformation is the adoption; and for the dead in Christ will the resurrection in eternal bodies, so to go with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, and after that feast which will last three and a half years in Heaven, we will return to Earth to begin the glorious Kingdom of the Messiah, also known as the Millennial Kingdom of Christ, the Messiah. Everything is simple, but all these things are under those seven Seals, or under the Book sealed with seven Seals, which is the abstract Property Deed, in other words, It had not been materialized, but It s been materialized and being made a reality, being fulfilled and materialized throughout the different stages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we will not speak much of that on this occasion, because then we will be led to speak of things that will be revealed at the time when Christ completes His Church. When Christ completes His Church then He will come out from the Throne of Intercession, He will take the Property Deed as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as the elder presents Him in Revelation 5, verse 1, and on, but when John beholds, he sees Jesus Christ, and announces Him a bloody Lamb, because he did not know Him as Lion, but as the Lamb of God which took away the sin of the world. But the Lion of the tribe of Judah, and the Lamb of God is the same person: it is Christ our Redeemer, our Savior. This will come to pass when Christ completes His Church, and then He will materialize the Property Deed, the Lamb s Book of Life, where are written the names of all the persons that would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, beginning with the apostles THE CHURCH, A PRODUCT OF THE MASTERPIECE 11 broken for many, and taking the cup of wine, and giving thanks to the Father says: Drink ye of it all, for this is the Blood of the new Testament which is shed for many for the remission of sins. (Matthew chapter 26, verses 26, to 29). A Covenant cannot be made without shedding of Blood for the remission of sins. Now, the new Covenant was made by Christ, He established It because He is the Angel of the Covenant who came to establish the new Covenant, and everyone who receives Christ as Savior at hearing the preaching of the Gospel of Christ and the faith of Christ being born in their soul by receiving Him as Savior, and being baptized in water in His Name and Christ baptizing them with Holy Spirit and Fire, they have been born again, and consequently they have been born in the Kingdom of Christ and have entered into eternal Life, they have entered into the new Covenant established by God, and consequently that is the Family of God under the new Covenant; that s the House of God, that s the Temple of God under the new Covenant, of which Paul spoke to us in first of Timothy chapter 3, verses 14, to 16, Paul says writing to Timothy: These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly: but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth (the church of the living God is the House of God and It is pillar and groung of the truch). And without controversy great is the mystery o godlines: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. And now, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the House of God, the Temple of God, and consequently the Coming of the

12 REV. WILLIAM SOTO SANTIAGO Lord two thousand years ago was to His House, His physical body, His spiritual Temple, and then He also went to the temple which was in Jerusalem, which was built by Herod. Now, the human temple is more important than the temple of stones. The temple of stones represents the human temple, the temple of stones also represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ composed of living stones, human beings. Notice that Christ said (John the Baptist also said), that God can give sons to Abraham from these stones, He is speaking of persons that were being baptized by John the Baptist, He was not speaking of literal stones, because literal stones are not sons and daughters of God. Now we find that the House of God under the new Covenant is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ as a Mystical Body of believers, She is the body of flesh through which Christ is being manifested from the day of Pentecost to the present time. And just as there were great promises for the Coming of the Messiah, His first Coming, those same promises are then applied and fulfilled in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, because His Church is His Mystical Body of believers. We find that just as Christ after dying would resurrect at the third day, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ begun some two thousand years back at the day of Pentecost, there the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ was born, which was in Christ. Two thousand years have already gone by and we are at the third day wherein the dead in Christ are going to rise in glorified bodies and those that remain will be transformed, third millennial day, for a day before the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is as a day, the same is applied to Israel. In Hosea, chapter 6, verse 1, and on, says: Come and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days he will revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. For what day, before the Lord will be the resurrection of THE CHURCH, A PRODUCT OF THE MASTERPIECE 13 Israel and consequently the resurrection of the Church of the Lord, which is the House of Christ, the Family of Christ, the descendant of Christ? For the third millennial day; because a day before the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day. (Psalm 90, verse 4, and second Peter chapter 3, verse 8). Now, the Church of the Lord Jesus, which is the Family of God, and is the House of God, the Temple of God under the new Covenant, She receives the blessings of all these prophecies also. The same prophecies that are applied to Christ, then are applied to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ which is formed by the firstborns of God written in Heaven in the Lamb s Book of Life. And so the prophecies that are applied to Jesus Christ the Firstborn of God, then are applied to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the firstborns of God written in Heaven in the Lamb s Book of Life, the Firstborn Church of God, and Israel as a people, as a nation, Israel is the only earthly nation called by God His firstborn people: Israel is my son, my firstborn son. (Exodus chapter 4, verse 22, and on). In other words, the prophecies have double or triple fulfilment, multiple fulfilment. And now, this shows us that the second Coming of Christ is for the Temple of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is His Church. It is as simple as that. The Jews are waiting for the Coming of the Lord, they are not waiting for the second Coming of Christ because they did not receive Him in His first Coming, therefore, for them the second Coming of the Messiah will be the first Coming but then thy will become aware that the first Coming was fulfilled two thousand years ago, and then they will understand that that which took place in this end time was the second Coming of the Messiah, in other words, the Coming of the anointed of God, wherein the fullness of the Lord will be manifested. Just as in Christ dwelt the fullness of God, and He was the Masterpiece, the second Coming of Christ will be that Masterpiece, and the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be that