THE REVELATION OF GOD THROUGH THE PROPHETS. Sunday, February 5, 2017 Cayey, Puerto Rico

THE REVELATION OF GOD THROUGH THE PROPHETS Sunday, February 5, 2017 Cayey, Puerto Rico

The revelation of God through the prophets 19 NOTE TO READER It is our intention to do an exact and faithful transcription of this Message, just as it was preached; therefore, any error in this writing is strictly an error of hearing, transcription or printing, and should not be interpreted as an error of the Message. The text contained in this booklet can be verified with the audio or video recording. This booklet should be used for personal study purposes only, until it is formally published. Therefore, it is important to fulfill this commandment, which was given by the Lord Jesus Christ for everyone who would receive Him as their Savior; and it is important to know the reason why, to know the meaning of the baptism in water. He gave the command to Peter and to the rest of the disciples to baptize all those who would receive Christ as their Savior. Therefore, Peter on the Day of Pentecost, when they asked: Men and brethren, what shall we do? Peter said: Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even those who are close. (This is found in chapter 2 of the book of Acts). Therefore, the baptism in water identifies us with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection. It is important to be identified with Christ. You may be baptized; and may Christ baptize you with Holy Spirit and Fire, and bring forth the new birth in you. And we will continue to see each other eternally in the Kingdom of Christ our Savior. May God bless you and keep you; and continue having a happy evening filled with the blessings of Christ our Savior. I leave Reverend Jose Benjamin Perez with you, and in each country I leave the corresponding minister. And until next Friday and Sunday, God willing. THE REVELATION OF GOD THROUGH THE PROPHETS.

18 Christ I pray to You, to whom be the honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. Now repeat this prayer after me which I will be making for each one of you: 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 Name as the only name under Heaven whereby we must be saved. I believe in Your death on Calvary s Cross as the Sacrifice of Atonement for our sins. I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I need a Savior. Lord, I acknowledge that I have sinned against Heaven and against You. I pray that You have mercy on me, forgive me, and with Your Blood may You cleanse me from all sin, and baptize me with Holy Spirit and Fire after I am baptized in water in Your Name, and bring forth the new birth in me. I want to be born in Your Kingdom, I want to live eternally with You in Your Kingdom. I pray to You in Your Eternal and glorious Name, Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen. Christ said in Mark, chapter 16, verses 14 to 16: Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. These are Words of the master Jesus Christ. It is because in water baptism the individual identifies with Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection. When the person receives Christ, he dies to the world; when he is immersed in the baptismal waters, he is being buried; and when he is raised from the baptismal waters, he is raised to a new life. We see all of this in the spiritual realm. THE REVELATION OF GOD THROUGH THE PROPHETS Sunday, February 5, 2017 Cayey, Puerto Rico Good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren present, and those in different nations, ministers and their congregations. Today, Missionary Miguel Bermudez Marin is in Barcelona, Venezuela, where Reverend Jesus Barrolleta is the pastor. My greetings to Missionary Miguel Bermudez Marin and Reverend Barrolleta and the entire congregation there in Barcelona, Venezuela. May God Bless you greatly, and may He open the Scriptures to you and open your understanding in order to comprehend the Word of the Lord corresponding to the subject of our Bible School today, Sunday, February 5, 2017. And to all the ministers and congregations, I express the same to you: May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be with all of you, with all the ministers and congregations, with all brethren; and also with myself and this congregation here in Puerto Rico, and its minister,

4 Reverend Jose Benjamin Perez. In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. On this occasion, we have the reading of Amos, chapter 3, verse 7; and Zechariah, chapter 7, verses 11 to 12. Amos, chapter 3, verse 7, says: Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets. The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy? And 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 an 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: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts. May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand it. Our subject for the Bible study of today s Sunday Bible School is: THE REVELATION OF GOD THROUGH THE PROPHETS. It is important to know how God s revelation comes to His people from stage to stage, from age to age; for which, it is important to know that for each period of time God has a work to carry out in His Program. There is Word of God to be fulfilled in each stage of the human race, there is Word of God to be fulfilled with Israel, there is Word of God to be fulfilled with the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, it is important to know how that Word of God comes to His people, for that Word to be materialized and produce the fruit relevant to that time. The revelation of God through the prophets 17 THE REVELATION OF GOD THROUGH THE PROPHETS. If there is anyone who has not yet received Christ as Savior, you may do so at this time; and we will be praying for you so that Christ receives you in His Kingdom, forgives you and with His Blood cleanses you from all sin; and be baptized in water in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and Christ baptizes you with the Holy Spirit and Fire, and brings forth the new birth in you. Therefore, you may come to the front and we will be praying for you here or in the country where you are. Children ten years old and above may also come to the Feet of Christ our Savior. God has many people in Puerto Rico and Latin America and the Caribbean, and He is calling them at this end time; for which, He will bring them to the Fold of Christ, the Good Shepherd, to give them eternal life there. We are on this Earth with and for a divine purpose, otherwise, life would have no meaning; but life does have meaning. That is why the Gospel of Christ is made known, and that is why what the Scriptures say from Genesis to Revelation is made known: so that the human being knows the meaning of his existence on Earth and the opportunity he has to live eternally. Let us stand to pray for all the people who are coming to the Feet of Christ our Savior. With our heads bowed and our eyes closed: Heavenly Father, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I come to You with all these people who are receiving Christ as their only and sufficient Savior. I pray that You receive them in Your Kingdom and that You give them eternal life. In the Name of the Lord Jesus

16 nations, all the nations will be under the Government of Israel. It is as simple as that. And that is why there will be peace, because the Prince of Peace of Isaiah, chapter 9, verses 6 to 7, is the Prince Messiah of Peace, who will bring peace to Israel; and from Israel it will flow out like a river to all nations. That is why for permanent global peace, necessarily - we need the Coming of the Prince of Peace, the Son of David, the King of Israel, the Prince Messiah to establish His Kingdom, restore the Kingdom of David and govern over Israel and over all nations. With Israel, Jerusalem as the capitol, and all the territory of Israel as the Federal District. That will be the most glorious time for the Hebrew people; and that time is just around the corner. Therefore, let us pray for Israel, because they have a great blessing for this end time which cannot be lost. If they lose it, they will cease to exist; if they do not lose it, they will reign with the Prince Messiah and rule over all the nations. Therefore, Israel has a great blessing; and the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ also has a great blessing. Therefore, let us be prepared and up to date as to all the divine revelation that God sends us in this end time according to the order in which the divine revelation of God is to come to the people of God. THE REVELATION OF GOD THROUGH THE PROPHETS. We saw the order for the revelation of God to come, and the reason why many leaders have many different ideas; but one man will only have one idea. That is why when God sends a messenger, He only sends one for each age and each dispensation, too. The revelation of God through the prophets 5 Every time God is going to do something, He announces it beforehand, because that is what is in God s thoughts since before the foundation of the world; for which He will always have an instrument to reveal Himself to him, reveal His Program relevant to that time, in order for him to reveal it to the people of God under the dispensation in which that person lives, according to the Divine Covenant, divine dispensation being lived. For example, a person cannot come saying he received a message, a divine revelation from God to build an ark. He is behind by thousands of years, because the person who had to receive that revelation already received it, and that promise was fulfilled for the salvation of everyone who would enter that materialized promise, Noah s ark. The person must know the time in which he is living and what God s promise is for that time in which he is living, and what instrument God has for that time; because there will be many impersonators as there have been at all times and in our time too; but there has always been a true prophet of God in each time, to whom the Word of God came. Because surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He revealeth His secret unto His servants His prophets. Everything God will do on Earth, He reveals it beforehand to the prophet He has for that time. And the prophets that prophesied the same things in past times are vindicated when the prophet appears for the time in which God will fulfill what He has promised. It is as simple as that. Now, why does it have to be a prophet? Because prophets are the ones sent by God for that purpose, with both consciouses together. An ordinary person has to have a dream to do what a prophet can do awake. An ordinary

6 person must be asleep in order to have that dream. This is because dreams are related to the conscious and the subconscious, with the conscious and subconscious; and since a prophet of God has both consciouses together, he has no problem. What an ordinary person must sleep to have in a dream, a prophet can have it awake. Therefore, he has no problem receiving the revelation of God without having to sleep in order to dream. They are God s ambassadors on this Earth, they are God s instruments, through whom God has revealed Himself from age to age and from dispensation to dispensation. That is why Zechariah says (the passage we read) that they did not want to hear. Hear who? God. How? Through a prophet....yea, they made their hearts as an 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 the Word of God come, the Word that God spoke? Through the prophets. God reveals it to them, speaks to them and they speak to the people. Anyone can say that any person can receive the Message of God. After it is given, in the heart, he is called to receive it; but only the messenger relevant to that time receives It directly from God to proclaim It. Let us see what Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verse 15 and on, says: The 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... Who does God say we should hear? The prophet He raises and sends. The revelation of God through the prophets 15 be in the Age of Cornerstone. It is given by the Voice of Christ roaring as when a lion roars in Revelation, chapter 10, wherein the Voice of Christ as a Lion is like seven thunders speaking to us; because the Voice of God, the Voice of Christ as the Lion, is thundering; and consequently, the Thunders, which is the Voice of God, the Message of God, the Message of the Mighty Angel that descends from Heaven (who is Christ) will give us the revelation of the Coming of the Son of Man, His revelation; and will give us the faith to be changed and taken with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Just as the faith for the Dispensation of Grace revolves around the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God, the faith for the physical transformation revolves around the Coming of the Mighty Angel as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, as the King of kings and Lord of lords in His Work of Reclamation; and that will be for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ at the end time. Therefore, God will have His people gathered at the Age of the Cornerstone to give them the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; then, it will be Israel s turn for the blessing of the restoration of the Kingdom of David and the Throne of David, for the establishment of a new era in which Israel will be the head and it will be at the top of all nations; it will be the Federal District, especially Jerusalem, which is the Throne of God; and consequently, the riches of the Earth will be taken to Israel. In other words, Israel will be the wealthiest country in the world in the Kingdom of the Messiah. The political, religious and judicial branches will be there, all of that will be in Israel; and from there, His Government will guide all

14 that? [Congregation says, Amen. -Ed.] Let s prove it. Let us see Revelation 22, verse 9 let s see if it was a eagle. Yea. See, he was a Sure, he was an angel, he s the messenger, but it was a prophet that revealed this whole Book of Revelation to him Watch what John seen here: I John saw these things, and heard them And when I heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed these things which shewed me these things. (And he, then the angel See?) Then said he to me, See thou do it not: (No true prophet would be worshipped or messenger of any kind. See, see?) For I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them that keeps the sayings of this book: worship God. See? Now, the Book was so important that it is the Word of God. Now, watch. And when the Word of God is brought forth, it s got to be brought by the prophet, because that s who the Word of God comes to. In other words, for each age or dispensation, the Word relevant to each age and each dispensation has to come to the messenger corresponding for that age; and God only has one for each age, for each stage of His Church, as He did with the Hebrew people, the Church of the Old Testament. And at the end, with the Cornerstone, He crowns the full manifestation of God for that divine cycle of that dispensation. And at that point comes For example, when the divine cycle came in the Age of the Cornerstone in the days of Jesus Christ, there came the resurrection of the dead of the Old Testament and a rapture as well. That is how it will be in this end time in the stage of Cornerstone. We find that the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb will always The revelation of God through the prophets 7 According 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. And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that which they have spoken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. Where does God put His Word? In the mouth of a prophet. For what? So that he may speak It to the people. And He says: Unto him ye shall hearken. And He says:...and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. In other words, it is not a matter of I do not believe that what He is saying is true ; God will hold accountable whoever does not listen to the messenger that He sends for each time. A person may say: I do not like how he speaks. I do not like his style. God gave him that style, He designed him that way; therefore, he comes as God designed him. John the Baptist came dressed in sheep skins; and similarly, others come in different ways, as God designed them since before the foundation of the world. That is why

The revelation of God through the prophets 13 Jeremiah and also Isaiah, say that before being born their names were already written in the Book of God, and that God had chosen them to be prophets. That is why they could hear from God and even see the angels, hear the angels who were sent, as prophet Daniel did, to whom God sent the Angel or Archangel Gabriel to reveal to him the things that were to happen. And even the Archangel Gabriel said to Daniel: For thou art greatly beloved in Heaven. [Daniel 9:23] In other words, He expressed that the messengers of God and the people of God are beloved in Heaven. And it is out of love that God has carried out the Work of Redemption in favor of the human being, through Jesus Christ, the prophet of Nazareth (as He was called), the Word made flesh, God made flesh in the midst of the Hebrew people, to speak to them and carry out the Work He had to carry out in His First Coming, to die as the Sacrifice of Atonement for the sins of Israel and for the sins of every human being. Therefore, it is important to know that Jesus Christ was a prophet like Moses. And a dispensational prophet is always a prophet like Moses, because Moses was a dispensational prophet: the prophet of the Dispensation of the Law. And what does this subject regarding a prophet like Moses and the revelation of God through a prophet, or through the prophets, have to do with us? It is because we have the promise that for this end time God will send a prophet for the Jews, and he will also be in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is that simple. And he will bring the revelation of Jesus Christ for the end time, he will bring the divine revelation of God for this end time, for the blessing of the Church of the him the revelation of the book of Revelation, Reverend William Branham says that he was a prophet....cause the Bible later said, that, I Jesus have sent my angel to testify these things which must shortly come to pass. Then we find out that when John started to worship the angel, the angel said, See that you do it not. Revelation 22, I believe it is. And he said, For I am of thy fellow servants and of the prophets. It might have been Elijah. It might have been one of the prophets. John was an apostle. But this prophet was sent. And John, being an apostle, look at the nature of the rest of his epistles, prove that it wasn t John wrote it, because it has no nature like John. Take First John, Second John, so forth, and read it. And look at the nature of that, then look at the nature of this. John was a writer and was an apostle, but this is the spirit of a prophet. It s a different person, altogether. We have seen what Reverend William Branham said in the book The Seven Church Ages, in this quote we read. Now let us see what he said in the book of The Seals, where we took this passage from. Here in the book of Quotations, paragraph 811. It says: 811 - Have you caught anything? I might not have to tell you then, Sunday. Notice And then according to the-the time that God was going to deliver the antediluvian world, He sent the eagle. (Remember that an eagle represents what? A prophet.) And the time He was going to deliver Israel, He sent the eagle, (Who was it? Moses.) Do you believe that the time, even on John, on the Isle of Patmos, this Message was so perfect that He couldn t trust It with an Angel? You know, an angel is a messenger. But do you know the messenger was a prophet? You believe

Moses there and He passed in front of Moses, and Moses saw the backside of God. [Exodus 33:18-23] And no man has ever seen God. Then whom did he see? The heavenly body of God, which is the image of the living God and which is also called the Holy Spirit. He saw a spirit, but not any spirit, but the Holy Spirit; because a spirit is a body from another dimension. Therefore, it is important to know that the only one who can reveal the things of God is the Holy Spirit, the Angel of the Covenant. God through His Angel, the Angel of the Covenant, is how He speaks and uses veils of flesh called prophets, and He is veiled in them; and through them He tells the people what the people must know: the things that have happened, the ones that are happening and the ones that will happen further on. When Reverend William Branham spoke about the book of Revelation in the series of The Seven Church Ages, and also in The Book of the Seals, he spoke about how the revelation of the book of Revelation came to John the apostle. And I want to read to you what he said, so that we have a clear picture as to how God works through human beings sent with both consciouses together, called prophets, and are the ambassadors which God sends to the people. It says in the book of Quotations, passage taken from the book The Revelation of Jesus Christ, page 35, preached in Jeffersonville on April 12th of the year 1960, says: 330 - And it was sent to the And signified this by his angel unto John. We do not know who the angel was. The Bible doesn t say who the angel was. But we know that it was a prophet The Angel that was sent to John the apostle, to give Lord Jesus Christ, to receive the faith to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; and for the Hebrew people it will be of blessing, for the restoration of Israel, for the introduction to the Kingdom of the Messiah, to the Kingdom of the Son of David. That is why in Malachi, chapter 4, it tells us that God will send Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the Lord. He already sent Elijah for the first occasion: Elijah the Tishbite. Then the second Elijah was Elisha, a prophet with a double portion that was in Elijah; and consequently, he was the second Elijah. Then, He sent John the Baptist with the spirit and virtue of Elijah; that was the third Elijah or the third manifestation of the ministry of Elijah in a man, in a prophet. And for the fourth occasion, He sent another prophet, Reverend William Branham from North América; he was the fourth Elijah, forerunning the Second Coming of Christ. Therefore, the Second Coming of Christ will be according to how he said it would be. Then, we have the promise that there will be a fifth Elijah, who will come with the spirit and virtue of Elijah, and with the spirit and virtue of the Holy Spirit for the Hebrew people. In other words, this is a time parallel to the time of John the Baptist and Jesus; and consequently the age or stage is parallel to the stage in which John the Baptist and Jesus or Yeshua came. That was a stage of Cornerstone, of Yeshua or Jesus Christ. John s stage was the seventh stage of the Hebrew Church under the Law. For this end time, God sent Reverend William Branham with the ministry of Elijah for the fourth time, forerunning the Second Coming of Christ in the seventh age of the gentile Church, represented in the Age or Church of

Laodicea. Then: the promise of the foreran for the Age of the Cornerstone, who must also be a prophet, but a dispensational prophet; and the things that must be spoken to His Church, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and to the Hebrew people will be revealed unto him. He will be a David. Remember that David was the eighth son of Jesse. And just as Jesse had eight sons, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has eight stages with eight messengers, each one for each age. The first seven sons of Jesse are type and figure of the seven messengers of the seven Church ages; and the eighth son, David, is type and figure of the Coming of Christ at the Last Day, in His final manifestation, the Coming of the Son of Man as the Son of David, according to how it is prophesied. In other words, the one who will have the greatest blessing will be the one of the eighth age, which is the Age of the Cornerstone, as it was two thousand years ago. Therefore, all revelation for this end time (after the revelation that came for each age, and consequently all the revelation that came to Paul and to each one of the messengers, and to Reverend William Branham) is then crowned with the revelation that comes to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Age of the Cornerstone through the manifestation of God in Holy Spirit through the messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone; who will be a dispensational prophet, the prophet of the Dispensation of the Kingdom to introduce the Kingdom of God on Earth and to introduce the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of David to the Hebrew people, restoring that Kingdom by joining together the lost tribes of Israel with the Tribe of Judah and Benjamin. It seems simple, and it will be simple for God; but for the human being it is impossible, if not for the manifestation of the Spirit of God in the Last Day in the prophetic ministry regarding the ministry of the messenger of the Age of Cornerstone, who will come with the Spirit of God, through whom God will be carrying out that Work. In First of Corinthians, chapter 2, verses 9 and on, it says: But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. How did God reveal these things to us? Through His Spirit: for the Holy Spirit searcheth all things, even the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. And now, all the mysteries, all the divine secrets, the only One who knows them is the Holy Spirit; and the Holy Spirit is the Angel of the Covenant, the heavenly body of God, the theophany of God, the image of God. When the prophets wanted to see God, and they were granted a glimpse of God, God said to Moses: No man can see me. No man hath seen God at any time, and He told him that whoever saw God would die; but then He took him to a part of the rock, to a clift of the rock, and put