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title: 'The attraction is due to: God making history and fulfilling the prophecy'
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<span class="jbp">Good morning to all the brethren gathered today, Saturday, April 5th of this year 2025.</span>

<span class="jbp">Warm greetings to Missionary Miguel Bermudez Marin, and all those who have arrived from different parts of Colombia over here; and also our brethren who have come from Venezuela, and other countries who are sharing in fellowship around the Word of God these days here in Bucaramanga, Colombia; and also all those who are connected through the Amazonas satellite and the Eutelsat 8 satellite too. There in Puerto Rico: may God bless you greatly as well.</span>

<span class="jbp">On this occasion, let’s read in the Gospel according to Matthew, in chapter 17, verse 10 and on, where it tells us:</span>

<span class="jbp">**Matthew 17:10**</span>

<span class="wss">*10 And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias must first come?*</span>

<span class="wss">*11 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.*</span>

<span class="blue jbp">\[JBP\] Here he writes, in this Bible, he writes:</span> <span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>the 4th Elijah</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*».*</span>

<span class="wss">*12 But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.*</span>

<span class="wss">*13 Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.*</span>

<span class="blue jbp">\[JBP\] And he writes there on the left:</span> <span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>The 3rd Elijah</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*».*</span>

<span class="blue jbp">**THE ATTRACTION IS DUE TO:**</span>

<span class="blue jbp">**GOD MAKING HISTORY AND FULFILLING THE PROPHECY**</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] That is the subject for this short chat on this occasion: </span><span class="blue jbp">**“THE ATTRACTION IS DUE TO: GOD MAKING HISTORY AND FULFILLING THE PROPHECY.”**</span>

<span class="jbp">Tomorrow that date will be commemorated, or that date is commemorated as the birth of the forerunner of the Second Coming of the Lord: Reverend William Marrion Branham, who came in the spirit and power of Elijah in his fourth manifestation, whom Jesus Himself about spoke there, in that portion that we were reading.</span>

<span class="jbp">And in this booklet, which was distributed…: it’s from </span><span class="purple jbp">“MY LIFE STORY,” </span><span class="jbp">where brother Branham’s picture is on the cover, his face, and he’s wearing a hat; like a sketch in… like in pencil.</span>

<span class="jbp">Here brother William has this booklet heavily annotated, there are many very, very things here; and which, as God makes known to us the entire fulfillment of this Seventh Seal, we start seeing the history and making history; and that way, the enemy of God doesn’t interrupt the Program that God is carrying out in our time.</span>

<span class="jbp">Look, he was born on April 6, 1909. Here in the… in one of the writings, brother Branham wrote in the front:</span>

<span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>April 6, 1909, brother Branham was born in the early morning; and he also departed in the early morning, in the 3rd watch</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*»*</span><span class="jbp">, he writes there, in this portion here.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Now, let’s read a bit here, of this event, which our brother Branham narrates. Look, on page 8 he says </span><span class="purple jbp">\[</span><span class="purple jbp">**“MY LIFE STORY”**</span><span class="purple jbp">\]</span><span class="jbp">:</span>

<span class="purple cita">\[</span><span class="purple cita">**59-0419A**</span><span class="purple cita"> - “My Life Story,” pp. 7-8, 10-13, 22-23, paras. 40-45, 56-75, 140-141\]</span>

<span class="purple wss">*40 I was born in a little mountain cabin, way up in the mountains of Kentucky. They had one room that we lived in, no rug on the floor, not even wood on the floor, it was just simply a bare floor. And a stump, top of a stump cut off with three legs on it, that was our table. And all those little Branhams would pile around there, and out on the front of the little old cabin, and wallowed out, looked like where a bunch of opossums had been wallowing out there in the dust, you know, all the little brothers. There was nine of us, and one little girl, and she really had a rough time amongst that bunch of boys. We have to respect her yet today from the things that we did in those days. She couldn’t go with us anywhere, we’d run her back, she was a girl. So she couldn’t take it, you know. So we had…And all…*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*41 Remember that back behind the table we had just two chairs, and they were made out of limb bark. Just old hickory saplings put together, and the bottom of them laced with hickory bark. Did anybody ever see a hickory bark chair? Yeah. And I can hear Mama yet. Oh, later on when we got into a place where she could have a wooden floor, with those babies on her lap like this, and rocking that old chair just bangity, bangity…*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] It would go: “creak, creak, creak” when it moved, the creaking... Many, surely, know that little sounds of that rocking chair, that… uh… the wood creaks against wood there when it moves; since those are chairs that are assembled, and the wood fits into an opening, mortise and tenon joints there, in some parts; and otherwise, well, they have screws; but most of the time, in those types woodworkings of chairs and such, they use a dowel (they call it), pieces of dowels, they make them round like that, and they are inserted and assembled.</span>

<span class="jbp">I used to make doors like that, made that way, using tongue-and-groove joints, to make doors, and tabletops; it was the best way to make them more solid. And nowadays there are clamps and screws and all those things; but that is the most solid way to assemble woodwork; if you don't have one large plank, well, you take planks, strips, and put them together like that; you can make tabletops and doors as well.</span>

<span class="jbp">Well, when I was young I worked a lot on that. Later on you would just buy the door, but… at my father’s workshop, well, we used to make those doors; and we also made the cabinets that way. And later came plywood, and now it’s very rare to see work like that; it would be… nowadays they call it “craftsmanship.”</span>

<span class="jbp">Well, he continues here:</span>

<span class="purple wss">*\[41\] And I remember to keep the little ones from going out the door, when she would be washing or something, she’d lay a chair down and turn it kind of catercornered across the door, to keep the little ones from getting out when she had to go to the spring to get water, and so forth.*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] Here, I believe it is in this same place (let’s pause for a moment there)... Look, turn to 25 (in this version it is 25), where brother Branham talks about happiness. Look, it says there in the… paragraph 142 </span><span class="purple jbp">\[</span><span class="purple jbp">**“MY LIFE STORY”**</span><span class="purple jbp">\] \[P. 22\]</span><span class="jbp">:</span>

<span class="purple wss">*141 I found this…*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] A little further up, let’s see; on 141, nearly the last one… last two sentences; it says:</span>

<span class="purple wss">*\[140\] We set up housekeeping. I remember taking and painting a shamrock on the chairs, when I painted them. And, oh, we were happy, though. We had one another, so that was all necessary. And God, by His mercy and His goodness, we was the happiest little couple could be on the earth.*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\]</span><span class="jbp"> On the left he draws a Star of David.</span>

<span class="purple wss">*141 I found this, that happiness does not consist of how much of the world’s goods you own, but how contented you are with the portion that’s allotted to you.*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\]</span><span class="jbp"> And there he draws a Star of David on the left as well.</span>

<span class="jbp">In the front he also writes: </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>Happiness is how content you are with what is allotted to you</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*».*</span>

<span class="jbp">And they lived…, notice that apparently seemed… it was a situation of poverty, but notice, they were happy.</span>

<span class="jbp">He writes there on the right: </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>Happiness</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*».*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Now, he continues to say here, on page… I’m turning to page 9, paragraph 43, it says </span><span class="purple jbp">\[</span><span class="purple jbp">**“MY LIFE STORY”**</span><span class="purple jbp">\] \[P. 8\]</span><span class="jbp">:</span>

<span class="purple wss">*42 And Mother was fifteen years old when I was born, Dad was eighteen. And I was the first of the nine children. And they told me that the morning I was born…*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*43 Now, we was very poor, just the poorest of poor. And we did not even have a window in this little cabin. It had like a little wooden door that you open. I doubt whether you ever seen anything like that. A little wooden door that opened instead of a window, you keep it open in the daytime and you closed it at night. We couldn’t turn on the electric lights or even burn kerosene in those days, we had what you call “a grease lamp.” Now, I don’t know whether you ever know what a grease lamp was. Well, what do you…And did you ever buy…burn a pine knot? For just take a pine knot and light it and lay it upon a lid, it’ll burn. And that’s…smoked up a little bit, but they had no furniture, anyhow, to smoke up. So it just…the cabin got the smoking. It drawed good ’cause there was plenty of roof up there for it to draw through. So it…*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*44 And I was born on April the—the 6th, 1909. Course, you know, that makes me a little over twenty-five now. And so, the morning that I was born, Mother said that they opened up the window.*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] There is the writing I read at the beginning, in the front: </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>April 6, 1909, brother Branham was born in the early morning; and he also departed in the early moring, in the 3rd watch</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*».*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*\[44\] Now, we had no doctors, there was a midwife. Just…And that midwife was my grandmother. And so when I was born and my first beginning to cry, and—and Mother wanted to see her child. And—and she was no more than a child herself. And when they opened up the little window, just at the break of day, about five o’clock. And the…There was an old robin sitting by the side of a little bush. As you all have seen the picture of it in—in my book of my life story. An old robin was sitting there just singing for all that was in him.*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*45 I’ve always loved robins. Now, you boys out in radio land, don’t shoot at my birds. You see, they’re—they’re—they’re…Them’s my birds. Did you ever hear the legend of the robin, how he got his red breast? I’ll stop here a moment. How he got his red breast…There was the King of kings was dying one day on the Cross, and He was suffering and no one would come to Him. He had no one to help Him. And there was a little brown bird wanted to take them nails out of the Cross, and he kept flying into the Cross and jerking on those nails. He was too little to pull them out, and he got his little breast all red with blood. And ever since then his breast has been red. Don’t shoot him, boys. Let him alone.*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] Now let’s go a little further, to reach the part we are getting to, here on page 11. Later you can read it at your own pace at home; surely many of you have already read it, but you have that part there where brother Branham narrates that whole beginning since his birth.</span>

<span class="jbp">Look, on page 11, he says… paragraph 57 </span><span class="purple jbp">\[</span><span class="purple jbp">**“MY LIFE STORY”**</span><span class="purple jbp">\] \[P. 10\]</span><span class="jbp">:</span>

<span class="purple wss">*56 And then I remember one day the spring (this little cabin) was just behind the house. And—and during that time after…There’s nine…eleven months difference between me and my next brother, and he was still crawling. And I had a big rock in my hand* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] on the right he writes): </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>a rock</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*»* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] </span><span class="jbp">and he draws a Cornerstone and the ages</span><span class="jbp">)</span><span class="purple wss">*, and I was trying to show him how hard I could throw this rock in the old mud, where the spring had run out of the ground and made the muddy ground* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] on page 11, at the bottom, he writes): </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>Brother Branham was approximately 18 months old</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*»* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] I turned to page 12)</span><span class="purple wss">*. And I heard a bird, and it was singing up in a tree. And I looked up to that tree and the bird flew away, and, when it did, a Voice spoke to me.*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*57 Now, I know you think I could not think and remember that* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] imagine, 18 months old)</span><span class="purple wss">*. But the Lord God Who’s Judge, the earth and the heavens and all there is, knows that I’m telling the truth.*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*58 That bird, when it flew away, a Voice came from where the bird was in the tree…*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] On the right he writes: </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>At approximately 18 months old</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*».*</span>

<span class="jbp">And on the left he writes: </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>the Angel</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*».*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*\[58\] …like a wind caught in the bush, and It said, “You’ll live near a city called New Albany.” And I’ve lived, from the time I was three years old until this time, within three miles of New Albany, Indiana.*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*59 I went in and told my mother about it. Well, she thought I was just dreaming or something.*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*60 Later we moved to Indiana and Father went to work for a man, Mr. Wathen, a rich man. He owns the Wathen Distilleries. And he owned a great shares; he’s a multimillionaire, and the Louisville Colonels, and—and baseball, and so forth. And then we lived near there. And Dad being a poor man, yet he could not do without his drinking, so he—he went to making whiskey in a—in a still.*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*61 And then it worked a hardship on me because I was the oldest of the children. I had to come and pack water to this still, to keep those coils cool while they were making the whiskey. Then he got to selling it, and then he got two or three of those stills. Now, that’s the part I don’t like to tell, but it’s the truth.*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*62 And I remember one day, from the barn, coming up to the house, crying. Because out at the back of the place was a pond, it…where they used to cut ice. Many of you remember when they used to cut ice and put it in sawdust. Well, that’s the way Mr. Wathen kept ice out there in the country. And Father was a—a chauffeur for him, a private chauffeur. And when the…this pond was full of fish and when they would go to cutting the ice and bring it in and put it in the sawdust, then when the ice melted in the summertime as it went down, it was kind of clean I suppose, more like a lake ice, and they could use it, not to drink, but to keep water cold, put it around their buckets and their milk, and so forth.*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*63 And one day packing water from back out at this pump, which was about a city block. I was squalling to who wouldn’t have it, because I had come from school and all the boys had went out to the pond, fishing. I just loved to fish. And so they all got to go fishing but me, and I had to pack water for this still. Of course, my, that had to be mum, it was prohibition. And I…It was such a hardship. And I remember coming along there with a stumped toe, and I had a corn cob wrapped under my toe to keep it out of the dust. Did you ever do that? Just put a corn cob under your toe like this and wrap a string around it. It holds your toe right up like a turtle head almost, you know, sticking up. You could track me everywhere I went, with this corn cob under my toe* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] he was leaving footprints)</span><span class="purple wss">*; where I’d stump it, you know. I didn’t have any shoes to wear. So* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] </span><span class="jbp">there he draws a Star of David on the right</span><span class="jbp">)</span><span class="purple wss"> *we never wore shoes, sometime half the winter. If we did, we…it was just what we could pick up, somebody would give us. And clothes to what somebody, charity would give us.*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] </span><span class="jbp">And he draws another Star of David on the right.</span>

<span class="purple wss">*64 And I stopped under this tree, and I was sitting there just squalling (*</span><span class="purple wss">*<u>**it was in September**</u>*</span><span class="purple wss">*)…*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] </span><span class="purple jbp">“It was in September” </span><span class="jbp">he underlines it.</span>

<span class="jbp">And on the right he writes: </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>September</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*».*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] In September… those months of August, September, are very important.</span>

<span class="jbp">Look, in Puerto Rico those are the dates when hurricanes, storms and all those cyclones are the most prominent; notice, there’s dangerous weather there in Puerto Rico, during that season. Although it has extended past that, and before it too, but it is more prominent in the… the peak months: around September there.</span>

<span class="jbp">Now, that’s the appearing of the Angel there, to brother Branham. Meaning, it is a time where that Angel (uh… August, September, October) appears. And from what it seems (notice), April, May and June, if you look back, nine months back, around that date of August, September, October, is when, uh…, people who are born on those dates of the following year are conceived. So, these are important dates.</span>

<span class="jbp">Now, he writes: </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>September</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*».*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] He continues to say: </span><span class="purple jbp">“Because I wanted…”</span><span class="jbp">; let’s go to paragraph 65 again:</span>

<span class="purple wss">*64 And I stopped under this tree, and I was sitting there just squalling (it was in September) because I wanted to go fishing, I had to pack several tubs of water with little molassey buckets, just about that high, half a gallon, ’cause I was just a little lad of about seven years old* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] on the right he writes): </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>At approximately 7 years old</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*»* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] </span><span class="red jbp">«approx.» </span><span class="jbp">abbreviated)</span><span class="purple wss">*. And I’d pour them in a big tub and then go back and get another two buckets and come back, pumping it. That’s the water we had. And they was going to run off a batch of that corn whiskey that night, these men with Daddy, up at the house.*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*65 And I was crying, and all at once I heard something making a noise like a whirlwind, something like this (now, I hope it isn’t too loud), going “Whoooossssh, whoooossssh,” just a noise like that. Well, it was awful quiet* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] there on the right, he writes): </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>the Angel</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*»*</span><span class="purple wss">*, and I looked around. And you know what, a little whirlwind, I believe you call them a little cyclones? In the fall of the year they pick up through the corn field, you know, the leaves and so forth, in the autumn there, the leaves had just begin turning. And I was under a great white poplar tree* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] </span><span class="jbp">there he draws a Star of David on the left</span><span class="jbp">)</span><span class="purple wss">*, stood about halfway between the barn and the—the house. And I heard that noise. And I looked around, it was just as quiet as it is in this room. Not a leaf blowing nowhere, or nothing. And I thought, “Where’s that noise coming from?” Well, I thought, “Must be away from here.” Just a lad. And it got louder and louder.*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*66 I picked up my little buckets and squalled a couple more times and started up the lane, I was resting. And I got just few feet from that, out from under the branches of this big tree, and, oh, my, it made a whirl sounding. And I turned to look, and about halfway up that tree was another whirlwind, caught in that tree just going around and around, moving those leaves. Well, I thought nothing strange about that because it just in that time of year, and the autumn, why, those whirlwinds come. Little…We call them “whirlwinds.” And they—and they pick up dust. You’ve seen them on the desert like that. Same thing. So I watched, but it didn’t leave off. Usually it’s just a puff for a moment, then it goes, but it had already been in there two minutes or more.*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*67 Well, I started up the lane again. And I turned to look at this again. And when It did, a human Voice just as audible as mine is, said, “Don’t you never drink, smoke, or defile your body in any way. There’ll be a work for you to do when you get older.”* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] and on the left he writes): </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>The Angel</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*»* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] </span><span class="jbp">and he also draws a Star of David there</span><span class="jbp">)</span><span class="purple wss"> *Why, it liked to scared me to death! You could imagine how a little fellow felt. I dropped those buckets, and home I went just as hard as I could go, screaming the top of my voice.*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*68 And there was copperheads in that country, snakes, and they’re very poison. Mother thought, coming alongside of the garden I had perhaps got my foot on a copperhead and she ran to meet me. And I jumped up in her arms, screaming, hugging her and kissing her. And she said, “What’s the matter, did you get snakebit?” Looked me all over.*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*I said, “No, Mama! There’s a man in that tree down there.”*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*69 And she said, “Oh, Billy, Billy! Come on!” And she said, “Did you stop and go to sleep?”*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*70 I said, “No, ma’am! There’s a man in that tree, and He told me not to drink and not to smoke.”*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\]</span><span class="jbp"> And he draws a Star of David on the left there.</span>

<span class="purple wss">*71 “Drink whiskies and—and things.” And I was packing water to a moonshine still, right then. And He said, “Don’t you never drink or defile your body in any way.”* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] on the right he writes): </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>the Angel</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*»*</span><span class="purple wss">*. That’s immoral, you know, and my child…young manhood with women. And to my best, I have never one time been guilty of such. The Lord helped me of those things, and as I go along you’ll find out. So then, “Don’t drink or don’t smoke, or do not defile your body, for there will be a work for you to do when you get older.”*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] </span><span class="jbp">And he draws a Star of David on the left.</span>

<span class="purple wss">*72 Well, I told that to Mama, and—and she just laughed at me. And I was just hysterically. She called the doctor, and the doctor said, “Well, he’s just nervous, that’s all.” So she put me to bed. And I never, from that day to this, ever passed by that tree again. I was scared. I’d go down the other side of the garden, because I thought there was a man up in that tree and He was talking to me, great* </span><span class="purple wss">***deep*** </span><span class="purple wss">*Voice that spoke.*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\]</span><span class="jbp"> He draws a Star of David on the left.</span>

<span class="jbp">And he writes on the right: </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>Angel</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*».*</span>

<span class="jbp">And below </span><span class="purple jbp">“deep”</span><span class="jbp"> he writes: </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>Deep, low</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*».*</span>

<span class="jbp">That is, a deep, low voice.</span>

<span class="jbp">He continues to say:</span>

<span class="purple wss">*73 And then sometime about a month after that, I was playing marbles out with my little brothers, out in the front yard. And all at once I had a strange feeling come on me. And I stopped and set down aside of a tree. And we were right up on the bank from the Ohio River. And I looked down towards Jeffersonville, and I seen a bridge rise up and go across that, the river, span the river. And I seen sixteen men (I counted them) that dropped off of there and lost their lives on that bridge. I run in real quick and told my mother, and she thought I went to sleep. But they kept it in mind, and twenty-two years from then the Municipal Bridge now (that many of you cross when you cross there)* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] </span><span class="jbp">there he draws a Star of David on the left</span><span class="jbp">)</span><span class="purple wss"> *crossed the river at the same place, and sixteen men lost their life building that bridge across the river.*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*74 It’s never failed to be perfectly true. As you see It here in the auditorium, It’s been that way all the time.*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] Now notice what… Look, that paragraph 76 </span><span class="purple jbp">\[75 in Eng.\]</span><span class="jbp">, let’s finish there; he says:</span>

<span class="purple wss">*75 Now, they thought I was just nervous. Which, I am a nervous person, that’s true* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] there on the right he writes): </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>nervous</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*»*</span><span class="purple wss">*. And, if you ever notice, people who are—are inclined to be spiritual are nervous.*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\]</span><span class="jbp"> And he draws a Star of David on the right.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] Now, Reverend William Branham, being the forerunner of the Second Coming of the Lord, according to how it was promised, he tells us that the vindication that he was the forerunner of the Second Coming of the Lord is the return of Christ.</span>

<span class="jbp">Now, that is the Work that the Angel there (in what we read) was telling him that when he came of age, he would carry out a very great Work; like the Work that John the Baptist carried out, where Jesus Himself said: “Among all the prophets who have come, Jesus - John (correction), John the Baptist is the greatest.” And notice, his ministry was only six months long, and he was greater than all those who came before; because notice, he was the messenger who foreran the Second Coming of the Lord.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Now, here, in this message of </span><span class="purple jbp">*The Ages*</span><span class="jbp">, here it would be page 365 of </span><span class="purple jbp">*The Ages* </span><span class="jbp">un… unedited (in the red one it would be 369, in this one it is 365). Because notice, while we find that page here… Look in the book of Luke, to have that Scripture that we read from memory, where Jesus says in Luke…, it should be around chapter 7…, verse 28 - verse 24 says:</span>

<span class="jbp">**Luke 7:24**</span>

<span class="wss">*24 And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?*</span>

<span class="wss">*25 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.*</span>

<span class="wss">*26 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.*</span>

<span class="wss">*27 This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.*</span>

<span class="wss">*28 For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist* </span><span class="blue jbp">(\[JBP\] see?)</span><span class="wss">*: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.*</span>

<span class="blue jbp">\[JBP\] In other words, a son is greater than a servant.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Now, notice, here, on this page 365 of the book of </span><span class="purple jbp">***The Ages***</span><span class="jbp">, it says </span><span class="purple jbp">\[P. 325\]</span><span class="jbp">:</span>

<span class="purple wss">The reason that He called John Elijah, was because the same Spirit that was upon Elijah had come back upon John, even as that Spirit had come back upon Elisha after the reign of King Ahab. Now once again that Spirit will come back upon another man just before Jesus comes. He will be a prophet. He will be vindicated as such by God. Since Jesus, Himself, in the flesh won’t be here to vindicate him, (as He did John) it will be done by the Holy Spirit </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] now notice how important that is there)</span><span class="purple wss"> so that this prophet’s ministry will be attended by great and wonderful manifestation. As a prophet, every revelation will be vindicated, for every revelation will come to pass. Wonderful acts of power will be performed at his commands in faith. Then will be brought forth the message that God has given him in the Word to turn the people back to truth and the true power of God. Some will listen, but the majority will run true to form and reject him.</span>

<span class="purple wss">Since this prophet messenger of Revelation 10:7 will be the same as Malachi 4:5-6 he will be naturally like Elijah and John. Both were men set apart from the accepted religious schools of their day. Both were men of the wilderness. Both acted only when they had “Thus saith the Lord,” straight from God by revelation. Both lashed out against the religious orders and leaders of their day. But not only was that so, they lashed out against all who were corrupt or would corrupt others. And notice, both prophesied much against immoral women and their ways. Elijah cried out against Jezebel, and John rebuked Herodias, Philip’s wife.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Now look, let’s pause there for a moment, and let’s turn here to the message </span><span class="purple jbp">“THE SERPENT’S SEED.”</span><span class="jbp"> Because notice how that ministry of Elijah, there in the book of </span><span class="purple jbp">*The Ages*</span><span class="jbp"> (in the part that we are reading) he tells us that at that time, both of Elijah in his first manifestation, in Elijah the Tishbite, and notice, Elijah in his third manifestation as well, and also Elijah in his fourth manifestation: they all spoke those things and that way. And that is also how the fifth Elijah is.</span>

<span class="jbp">Now notice a case here which is in </span><span class="purple jbp">“THE SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL,” </span><span class="jbp">and in other places as well, where brother Branham narrates about that woman who passed by that place where brother Branham was preaching, which was the tabernacle</span><span class="jbp">\*</span><span class="jbp">; but look, he narrates it… Let’s see if we can quickly find the page where he narrates the part about… that’s on page 95 (in this one here it’s 83), 94 and 95 of </span><span class="purple jbp">**“THE SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL,”**</span><span class="jbp"> there he narrates the part about that young woman; and he says that she was… in paragraph 147:</span>

<span class="cita">\* </span><span class="cita">• </span><span class="purple cita">\[</span><span class="purple cita">*The Seventy Weeks Of Daniel*</span><span class="purple cita"> - </span><span class="purple cita">**61-0730E**</span><span class="purple cita"> - “The Sixfold Purpose Of Gabriel's Visit To Daniel,” pp. 70-71, paras. 147-148 </span><span class="purple cita">/ </span><span class="blue cita">Bible Study #351, 15-2/Oct/2023 (Sunday), pp. 29-30 / Study “The Cleansing of the Sanctuary,” 10-2/Oct/2024 (Thursday), pp. 28-29</span><span class="purple cita">\] </span><span class="purple cita">• \[</span><span class="purple cita">**62-0601**</span><span class="purple cita"> - “Taking Sides With Jesus,” pp. 46-47 paras. 263-267 /</span><span class="blue cita"> Study “The Cleansing of the Sanctuary,” 10-2/Oct/2024 (Thursday), pp. 22-27</span><span class="purple cita">\]</span>

<span class="purple cita">\[</span><span class="purple cita">*The Seventy Weeks Of Daniel*</span><span class="purple cita"> - </span><span class="purple cita">**61-0730E**</span><span class="purple cita"> - “The Sixfold Purpose Of Gabriel's Visit To Daniel,” p. 70, para. 147\]</span>

<span class="purple wss">147 I remember a woman standing at the door one night…</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Now, he narrates a bit there. But look, in this message </span><span class="purple jbp">**“THE SERPENT’S SEED”**</span><span class="jbp"> he gives details here that he didn't give in that one - that series of </span><span class="purple jbp">“THE SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL”</span><span class="jbp">; which was, this, in the message of </span><span class="purple jbp">“THE SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL,” </span><span class="jbp">it was the… in ‘61, July 30, ‘61; but in… here, in ‘58, he preaches </span><span class="purple jbp">“THE SERPENT’S SEED,”</span><span class="jbp"> he gives some details that he does not give later on. But notice what he says here..., he starts talking... uh...; page 38, paragraph 195 of this version, he says:</span>

<span class="purple cita">\[</span><span class="purple cita">**58-0928E**</span><span class="purple cita"> - “The Serpent's Seed,” pp. 31-32, paras. 243-252\]</span>

<span class="purple wss">*243 If somebody told me that—that Jesus Christ was a great healer, and my church told me, “The days of miracles was past,” and I had a need of healing, I’d run just as fast as I could, to that altar, to get healed. I sure would.*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*244 If I was a preacher, and had a—a woman preacher in my pulpit, and I read in that Bible and seen that a woman wasn’t supposed to preach, I’d take her out of there, if it took the hide off my back.*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] Here in the… in this writing, in the Notes, he said that he would take her out or cast her out.</span>

<span class="jbp">Because notice, a woman is not meant to preach nor to be a preacher either. In other words, to lead a… uh… a service and start preaching. You already know how Paul, Saint Paul has spoken about that; and we see brother Branham as well.</span>

<span class="jbp">Now, look, he continues to say:</span>

<span class="purple wss">*245 Remember, sitting right back where Sister Wright is at, one night, that a woman was going to throw me out the door for doing something like that. Yes, sir. I said, “You’re not coming in my church with your old…” When they used to wear, or cut their dresses way down like this, and that funny-looking stuff, and about half of their body exposed* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] meaning, miniskirts, short clothes)</span><span class="purple wss">*. I said, “They ever come in my church, I’ll sure put them out.” And some little old snickle-fritz down here, she died not long after that; and then she called on me, dying. She was a Catholic girl, walked up there and set down with that like that.*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] Now notice, here he already gives some details; because the young woman there, he says that she passed by and spoke like that from outside; but here he is saying that she went inside. In other words, it was a person who was there, inside that place.</span>

<span class="purple wss">*\[245\] I looked back and I spied her, sitting up here, and they was singing* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] meaning, they were in the devotional)</span><span class="purple wss">*. Took off my coat* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] now look, see the details? How, brother Branham goes, takes off his coat, meaning his suit jacket) </span><span class="purple wss">*walked back there, put it up around her shoulders. I said, “Madam, if you’re going to listen to me preach, would you please wear this coat while you’re in the church of God.”*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] He gave her his coat, his mantle, notice.</span>

<span class="jbp">Now, notice how there are people who are given the Word… And that’s why He said: “Don’t cast pearls before swine,” \[</span><span class="cita">Matthew 7:6</span><span class="jbp">\] (now look…) you know that Scripture.</span>

<span class="jbp">Now, notice how he put his suit jacket around that young woman who was there; but it was for her to cover up because she was wrong. Perhaps she should have felt honored by that: “Well, the preacher here, look, he’s covering me. I’ll, out of respect, I’ll let him put it on me, and I’ll keep it on”; even if afterwards she would go outside and take it off. But that act of the prophet there…</span>

<span class="jbp">Now notice, God always gives a warning.</span>

<span class="jbp">Look, there’s a place here, in the book of </span><span class="purple jbp">***Quotations***</span><span class="jbp">, on page… book of </span><span class="purple jbp">*Quotations*</span><span class="jbp">…, </span><span class="purple jbp">*Quotations*</span><span class="jbp">, page 154, paragraph… let’s see here… or 106, let’s go to 106, it’s 106, </span><span class="purple jbp">paragraph 917</span><span class="jbp">, it says:</span>

<span class="purple cita">\[</span><span class="purple cita">**63-0724**</span><span class="purple cita"> - “God Doesn't Call Man To Judgment Without First Warning Him,” p. 6, para. 29\]</span>

<span class="purple wss">*917 - “\[29\] God never brings any man to his death without first warning him about it, telling him, it’s something, a preparation. God is sovereign, and He knocks at the heart of every man, giving him the opportunity to come.”*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] And notice, there he was giving her an opportunity; in other words, by taking her… look, by putting that suit jacket, his coat, his jacket, on her; he was giving that woman an opportunity! Now, he told her politely first; he says</span><span class="purple jbp"> \[</span><span class="purple jbp">**“THE SERPENT’S SEED”**</span><span class="purple jbp">\] \[P. 32\]</span><span class="jbp">:</span>

<span class="purple wss">*\[245\] “…would you please wear this coat while you’re in the church...”*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] And he goes on to say…, I’m on page 39, paragraph 198, of this version here:</span>

<span class="purple wss">*246 She stomped out of there…*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] In other words, she… she didn’t let him put it on her; surely she gave it back or threw it back at him, based on what brother Branham tells us there; but he says she left:</span>

<span class="purple wss">*246 She stomped out of there, and spread them little lips up. She went out the building* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] meaning, moving her lips like that, surely upset)</span><span class="purple wss">*. She said, “*</span><span class="purple wss">***If he has got religion***</span><span class="purple wss">*, I wouldn’t let my cow have that kind of religion.”*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] </span><span class="purple jbp">“If he has got religion,”</span> <span class="jbp">look, and there brother Branham \[William\] he draws a Star of David on the right.</span>

<span class="purple wss">*I said, “Don’t worry, she won’t have it.”*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*247 Then we had* </span><span class="purple wss">*<u>**the tent**</u>*</span><span class="purple wss">*, they called for me when she was dying.*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] </span><span class="jbp">He circles the word </span><span class="purple jbp">“the tent,” </span><span class="jbp">underlines it.</span>

<span class="jbp">And on the left he writes: </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>The Tent</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*».*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Now, notice there, in the account he gave us, it was at that very moment, a couple of… an hour… We should check ho-... where it is that he says the time. Let’s see if it is here, in </span><span class="purple jbp">**“THE SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL,”**</span><span class="jbp"> that he tells us... on page 95 (this is page 83) of </span><span class="purple jbp">“THE SEVENTY WEEKS OF DANIEL”</span><span class="jbp">: “Five minutes…,” let’s see… “less than one hour,” see? When he says:</span>

<span class="purple cita">\[</span><span class="purple cita">*The Seventy Weeks Of Daniel*</span><span class="purple cita"> - 61-0730E - “The Sixfold Purpose Of Gabriel's Visit To Daniel,” p. 70, paras. 147\]</span>

<span class="purple wss">\[147\] “I wouldn’t let my cow have the kind of religion he’s got!” Less than one hour, I was called to the hospital.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] He was… he had to leave a person in charge there, so that he could go. But notice how brother Branham here spoke something and said something that he leaves (let’s say) between the lines, and how he connects that event to the Tent.</span>

<span class="jbp">And he writes there: </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>The Tent</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*».*</span>

<span class="purple jbp">\[</span><span class="purple jbp">**“THE SERPENT’S SEED”**</span><span class="purple jbp">\]</span>

<span class="purple wss">*247 Then we had the tent, they called for me when she was dying. She had a heart attack, and she was dying. Her husband come. He, “Can, come quickly!” And I was right in the meeting. Big, tall boy, standing at the door, waiting for me* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] now notice how he puts there… that part of the Tent came in there; but then he says: “the door…,” from where he was speaking)</span><span class="purple wss">*. And I run as…*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*248 I got in my car and run out there. As I went up, I met that old nurse out there, that lives down in Howard Park, yet. She said, “Reverend, there is no need of coming.” That’s been about twenty years ago, maybe a little better.*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] And he gives a time here: </span><span class="purple jbp">“about twenty years ago or more”</span><span class="jbp">; it could be 21, 22, 23, 24.</span>

<span class="jbp">Now, there is a date there, that I have spoken something a while ago,</span><span class="jbp">\*</span><span class="jbp"> about a dream that our brother William had, where he put a name in that Bible study that he was studying from, which I have it; and that was in 2004. In other words, last year was the 20th anniversary of that dream. And he told me everything, how he saw everything that was happening there, where she was lying down and all that; and notice that he has a relationship there with a person who has blasphemed and is against the Third Pull.</span>

<span class="cita">\*</span><span class="blue cita">\[Bible Study #203, 15/May/2022 (Sunday), pp. 13-15 / Study “The Thunders increasing the Faith for the Rapture of God’s chosen ones,” 15-2/Jan/2024 (Monday), pp. 10-11 / Bible Study #447, 15-2/Sep/2024 (Sunday), p. 49\]</span>

<span class="jbp">This here is something that was already shown, notice, from brother Branham’s time, with that young woman there; and he even gives the place and everything: the Tent; he also puts the date.</span>

<span class="jbp">Now, everything is reaching a point where everything that prophets speak and prophets see, whether in dreams, visions, must be fulfilled. Therefore, notice what he says there, where he says:</span>

<span class="purple wss">*\[248\] That’s been about twenty years ago, maybe a little better. Said, “She is dead.” Said, “She’s been dead about three minutes.” Said, “She screamed as hard as she could, for you.” Said, “I got a message for you.”* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] Meaning, the nurse said).</span>

<span class="purple wss">*Said, “What?”*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*249 Said* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] the nurse told brother Branham what the young woman said)</span><span class="purple wss">*, “Tell that preacher, that I said that about, ‘Please forgive me.’”*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] In other words, for him to forg-... to forgive her. In other words, before she died, notice, she repented, she realized what she had done. But look:</span>

<span class="purple wss">*250 I went down there to look at her. Beautiful woman; and she had suffered so hard. She had little freckles across her nose; a pretty woman. And the freckles, looked like, stood out. And her eyes had pushed completely out of the sockets, and was halfway turned back. Course, her bowels and kidneys had moved, and the steam coming up all over the bed, like that.*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*251 And her husband looked at me, said, “Brother Branham, say a prayer, ’cause she wanted to see you.”*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] But look, she scorned Elijah’s mantle, she scorned Elijah’s mantle! In other words, when he covered her. Which, today, the Word is being given, that Mantle is being placed in the elect of God; and whoever scorns It, things will not go well for him.</span>

<span class="jbp">Now look, he says:</span>

<span class="purple wss">*\[251\] …’cause she wanted to see you.”*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*I said, “A prayer for her now would do no good.”*</span>

<span class="purple wss">*252 “The way the tree leans, that’s the way it falls.” See? “Be not deceived; God is not mocked* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] </span><span class="jbp">and he draws on the left a Star of David</span><span class="jbp">)</span><span class="purple wss">*. Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he reap.”*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] In other words, they can mock and all that, and criticize and blaspheme, but sooner or later they will reap what they have sown and are sowing; and then later on there won’t be anything left to do for that person.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Now, let’s continue here, on</span><span class="purple jbp"> page 365</span><span class="jbp">, where we had paused from the book of</span> <span class="purple jbp">***The Ages***</span><span class="jbp">; we left off here where he finished that paragraph saying</span><span class="purple jbp"> \[P. 326\]</span><span class="jbp">:</span>

<span class="purple wss">Elijah cried out against Jezebel, and John rebuked Herodias, Philip’s wife.</span>

<span class="purple wss">Though he will not be popular, he will be vindicated by God. As Jesus authenticated John, and the Holy Ghost authenticated Jesus, we can well expect this man will be first of all authenticated by the Spirit working in his life in acts of power that are indisputable and found nowhere else; and Jesus Himself, in returning, will authenticate him, even as He authenticated John. John witnessed that Jesus was coming, — and so will this man, like John, witness that Jesus is coming. And the very return of Christ will prove that this man indeed was the forerunner of His second coming </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] and he writes): </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>the final evidence</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*»*</span><span class="purple wss">. This is the final evidence that this indeed is the prophet of Malachi 4, for the end of the Gentile period </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] and he writes): </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>of the Dispensation of Grace</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*»*</span> <span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] in this book, the blue one) </span><span class="purple wss">will be Jesus, Himself, appearing. Then it will be too late for those who have rejected him.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] </span><span class="jbp">And he draws a Cornerstone and the ages, and the seventh age as well.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Now, notice something here, in this message, where brother </span><span class="jbp">William</span><span class="jbp"> speaks to us some words of greetings to the pastors, and it was here in Bucaramanga, Colombia, on January 30, 2009; he says:</span>

<span class="jbp">\[Message from Sunday’s study, August 25, 2024</span><span class="wss">**\]**</span>

<span class="red wss">**PASTORS ATTENTIVE AND OBEDIENT TO THE WORD OF GOD**</span>

<span class="red wss">**(Ministers’ Meeting)**</span>

<span class="red wss">*Dr. William Soto Santiago*</span>

<span class="red wss">*Friday, January 30, 2009*</span>

<span class="red wss">*Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia*</span>

<span class="red wss">\[P. 14\] Reverend William Branham, when speaking of the Third Pull, also says that this stage will happen when the time of redemption has already come to an end… </span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] That is, the time of what? The Dispensation of Grace has come to an end. And there (what we read), notice that it is at the end of the Dispensation of Grace that the Lord appears in His Coming.</span>

<span class="purple jbp">\[</span><span class="purple jbp">***The Ages***</span><span class="purple jbp">\] \[P. 326\]</span>

<span class="purple">… <span class="wss">for the end of the Gentile period will be Jesus, Himself, appearing. </span></span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] In other words, and he writes there): </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>of the Dispensation of Grace</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*»*</span><span class="purple wss">.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] And here he tells us that it’s at the end of the Dispensation of Grace, that is, at the end of the time of Redemption is when the Third Pull would come to fulfillment.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Now it continues to say </span><span class="red jbp">\[</span><span class="red jbp">**(MM) “PASTORS ATTENTIVE AND OBEDIENT TO THE WORD OF GOD”**</span><span class="red jbp">\]</span><span class="jbp">:</span>

<span class="red wss">\[WSS\] \[P. 14\] … but there will be a great manifestation of the power of God, and that will be in the midst of His Church.</span>

<span class="red wss">And Reverend William Branham says that when the Jews see that, they will say: “This is the One we are waiting for.” \[</span><span class="purple cita">57-1006 - “Questions And Answers On Hebrews Part III,” p. 26, paras. 729-734</span><span class="red wss">\] Because that Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven, which is the Angel of the Covenant, the Messenger to Israel, the One that gave the Law to the Hebrew people, will now come to His Church; and they will see Him coming to His Church at the end time, in that full manifestation called: the Third Pull.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] That is why he was telling us that this Mighty Angel: that Scripture of Revelation 10 had not been fulfilled yet.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Look, in this message: </span><span class="red jbp">“THE VOICE THAT WILL SHAKE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH,”</span><span class="jbp"> in 205, May 4th, he tells us:</span>

<span class="jbp">\[Message from Sunday’s study, August 13, 2023\]</span>

<span class="red wss">**THE VOICE THAT WILL SHAKE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH**</span>

<span class="red wss">*Dr. William Soto Santiago*</span>

<span class="red wss">*Wednesday, May 4, 2005*</span>

<span class="red wss">*(Third activity)*</span>

<span class="red wss">*Talcahuano, Biobio, Chile*</span>

<span class="red wss">\[P. 38\] Christ is still in Heaven, in His Throne of Intercession; the Second Coming of Christ has not taken place yet; the Coming of the Mighty Angel has not taken place yet; because Christ is still on the Father’s Throne making intercession with His Blood.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Notice, and here it is where he tells us </span><span class="red jbp">\[</span><span class="red jbp">**(MM) “PASTORS ATTENTIVE AND OBEDIENT TO THE WORD OF GOD”**</span><span class="red jbp">\]</span><span class="jbp">:</span>

<span class="red wss">\[WSS\] \[P. 15\] Because that Mighty Angel who comes down from Heaven, which is the Angel of the Covenant, the Messenger to Israel, the One that gave the Law to the Hebrew people, will now come to His Church…</span>

<span class="blue jbp">\[JBP\] It was in 2005 that he said that; and in 2009 he was still speaking to us and showing us that this Mighty Angel was going to manifest Himself —which is Christ in His Coming— in and under the fulfillment of the Third Pull, which is outside of the Dispensation of Grace. </span>

<span class="blue jbp">He continues saying:</span>

<span class="red wss">\[WSS\] … and they will see Him coming to His Church at the end time, in that full manifestation called: the Third Pull.</span>

<span class="red wss">And at the end time there will be a giant Tent Cathedral, which was seen by Reverend William Branham, where he saw the Pillar of Fire positioning Itself in a small room; therefore, the instrument that He will be using at that time will have to be there, and the Name of God will also be there.</span>

<span class="blue jbp">\[JBP\] Because if there is an instrument there, in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, and a ministry there, then he has to have a name.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Now look, that is what he spoke to us in the message of… that he preached to the pastors in Xalapa (there was a greeting), on March 25, 2009; he says:</span>

<span class="red wss">**WORDS OF GREETINGS TO MINISTERS**</span>

<span class="red wss">**(Ministers’ Meeting)**</span>

<span class="red wss">*Dr. William Soto Santiago*</span>

<span class="red wss">*Wednesday, March 25, 2009*</span>

<span class="red wss">*Xalapa, Veracruz, México*</span>

<span class="red wss">Notice, and all of that, see, will be in a place already destined for one person; and that will be his chamber or his office, to… whether it is to be studying or praying for the sick… That will be in that way.</span>

<span class="red wss">And how will he do it? The sample was given by the Reverend William Branham in the five manifestations, where he saw the mighty hand of the Lord. </span><span class="red wss">See?</span><span class="red wss"> All of that then became - was a reality; and then it becomes a type and figure of what the Third Pull will be in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] Now, notice that everything is taking place progressively; because remember, the Third Pull is the Word being spoken. And there will come a time when there will be no need to pray in a certain way… uh…, as it is usually done; and the time will come when that part of studying there will already be in the past, because we will already be in a much greater stage. But notice, it has to move progressively: it is used to study, and the instrument is there; and everything will also be coming together as it unfolds; but things are not spoken openly so that imitations don’t arise.</span>

<span class="jbp">The vindication of that ministry is what God is carrying out and would be carrying out later on. It is always in a progressive way.</span>

<span class="jbp">But notice that if it is a place prepared by a person to study, well, he is still in that body and needs to study, for God to reveal it to him; he has to study a lot, read, search here and there; and there God opens the whole picture. And God works and has always worked that way. </span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Now, he continues saying here, in words of greeting to the pastors, but on January 30, 2009 here in Bucaramanga; he continues saying a bit further on </span><span class="red jbp">\[</span><span class="red jbp">**(MM) “PASTORS ATTENTIVE AND OBEDIENT TO THE WORD OF GOD”**</span><span class="red jbp">\]</span><span class="jbp">:</span>

<span class="red wss">\[WSS\] \[P. 19\] Now anyone might say: “Maybe we don’t need so much land and such a big building” </span><span class="blue jbp">(\[JBP\] that is, the one in Puerto Rico)</span><span class="red wss">. Well, don’t worry: you don’t need it, but the Work of God does. Thank God you don’t need it, because then you wouldn’t be able to help the Work, because you would spend it all on yourself.</span>

<span class="red wss">But in the Divine Program it was already shown that there would be a big Tent Cathedral, and it has to appear somewhere; and it has to appear in the territory where God is working, where that eternal age is being fulfilled.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Now look, in this message </span><span class="red jbp">“WHAT KEEPS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST ON THE THRONE OF INTERCESSION,”</span><span class="jbp"> which was preached November 11, 2001 in Cayey, Puerto Rico, Dr. William Soto Santiago says:</span>

<span class="red wss">**WHAT KEEPS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST ON THE THRONE OF INTERCESSION**</span>

<span class="red wss">**(Ministers’ Meeting)**</span>

<span class="red wss">*Dr. William Soto Santiago*</span>

<span class="red wss">*Sunday, November 11, 2001*</span>

<span class="red wss">*Cayey, Puerto Rico*</span>

<span class="red wss">And then Christ will deliver - He will take the Title Deed, He will open it in Heaven, and will bring it and give it to a man to eat it and for It to become flesh in him. That is a </span><span class="red wss">very</span><span class="red wss"> great mystery, but we are going to leave it alone; because notice, that Title Deed, which is so important in Heaven, and that nobody could open it but Christ, now Christ takes it, opens it, and then brings it to Earth and gives it to a man.</span>

<span class="blue jbp">\[JBP\] And now they want to say that one of the messengers had It and took It back to Heaven.</span>

<span class="blue jbp">Upon that Title Deed being brought to Earth, It has to remain on Earth in the midst of the people of God; because without the Title Deed there can be no resurrection or transformation.</span>

<span class="blue jbp">He goes on to say:</span>

<span class="red wss">\[WSS\] It is because for adoption, Christ has to come with that Title Deed and give it to a man of the Mystical Body of Christ, and he has to be a messenger: the messenger who is here at that time, the one who is given to minister at that time in the Mystical Body of Christ.</span>

<span class="blue jbp">\[JBP\] So clear! He says:</span>

<span class="red wss">\[WSS\] The seven angel messengers have already finished; therefore </span><span class="blue jbp">(\[JBP\] and Dr. William Soto Santiago also finished and left)</span><span class="red wss">, the only one who will be on Earth will be the faithful and wise servant, called the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ; that will be the one who will receive the Title Deed.</span>

<span class="blue jbp">\[JBP\] An a</span><span class="blue jbp">*ngel*</span><span class="blue jbp"> is a ‘messenger.’ And remember that the Scriptures have multiple fulfillments, multiple revelations.</span><span class="blue jbp">\*</span><span class="blue jbp"> Perhaps we will be seeing that a bit tomorrow, in tomorrow’s Study.</span>

<span class="cita">\*</span><span class="blue cita">\[Bible Study #212, 17/June/2022 (Friday), pp. 18-19: </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>Prophecy has multiple fulfillments, short term, \[intermediate\], and long term; double and triple</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*».*</span><span class="blue cita"> / Bible Study #233, 28-1/Aug/2022 (Sunday), pp. 29-30 / Study “In the 3rd Pull: They had to recognize Him,” 17/Nov/2022 (Thursday), p. 7\]</span>

<span class="red wss">\[WSS\] The seven angel messengers have already finished…</span>

<span class="blue jbp">\[JBP\] I already read that one. A bit further down, he goes on to say:</span>

<span class="red wss">\[WSS\] Now, when he receives it, well, the content of that Title Deed under the Seventh Seal will have already been fulfilled in him and in his group; in other words, the Seventh Seal is being fulfilled, the content of the Seventh Seal is being manifested, the elect who are under the Seventh Seal.</span>

<span class="blue jbp">\[JBP\] And brother William says:</span>

<span class="red wss">\[WSS\] But the Second Coming of Christ has not been fulfilled yet, because He comes with the Lamb’s Book of Life, which is the Title Deed, the Book of the Seven Seals.</span>

<span class="blue jbp">\[JBP\] Notice, he had said it here too, in 2001; then, in 2005 (what we read), where he emphasizes and says that </span><span class="red jbp">\[WSS\] “the Second Coming of Christ has not taken place yet”</span><span class="blue jbp">; in other words, the Coming of the white-horse Rider, the Coming of the Angel who was different from the rest.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Now, he goes on to say </span><span class="red jbp">\[</span><span class="red jbp">**(MM) “PASTORS ATTENTIVE AND OBEDIENT TO THE WORD OF GOD”**</span><span class="red jbp">\]</span><span class="jbp">:</span>

<span class="red wss">\[WSS\] \[P. 19\] It can’t be in </span><span class="red wss">the… in</span><span class="red wss"> another age, it has to be in the age that is in effect, and it has to be with the people who are in that age, and it has to be with the instrument that God is using in that age.</span>

<span class="red wss">That is why Reverend William Branham tried, although he was the instrument of his time, but The Tent Cathedral wasn’t for his time; he was only given the vision, and like a good messenger, he wanted to make it a reality in his time, but he wasn’t allowed to.</span>

<span class="blue jbp">\[JBP\] Just like Dr. William Soto Santiago: he desired for the Tent Vision to be fulfilled under his ministry; but then God showed him that he was not the one; he was not the instrument, and it would be for that next one; because he then showed us who would continue that ministry; he spoke it clearly in the messages. As simple as that.</span>

<span class="blue jbp">But notice how we can now see it now. God has given us and pulled back that veil for us, and we have entered into the Most Holy Place; and now we can see the ministries of Moses and Elijah, and we see the Pillar of Fire, the Shekinah, the ministry of Jesus, the Word, in a man. </span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Now notice, in a writing, on a little piece of paper, he writes there, it’s stuck to the… the Scripture of Matthew. I had that writing written here. He said - he wrote there:</span>

<span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>All the apocalyptic promises made to the Overcomer in Rev. 2:1, 3:1, 21:7; and the types and figures of Rev. 1, 10:1-11, 19:11-21, 7:2, 14:14-20, attributes of Christ, will be fulfilled in the last manifestation of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant veiled and revealed in His Angel (or) the Angel of Jesus of Rev. 1:1, 22:6, 22:16</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*».* </span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] See how simple everything is?</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Now, he goes on to say </span><span class="red jbp">\[</span><span class="red jbp">**(MM) “PASTORS ATTENTIVE AND OBEDIENT TO THE WORD OF GOD”**</span><span class="red jbp">\]</span><span class="jbp">:</span>

<span class="red wss">\[WSS\] \[P. 19\] That is why Reverend William Branham tried…</span>

<span class="blue jbp">\[JBP\] Now, remember, notice that the seven angel messengers left; so, it couldn’t be any of them. Dr. William Soto Santiago left; then he is not the one in whom that last manifestation is fulfilled either, where everything will reach the climax in the resurrection and transformation. It has to be a messenger who is alive, who is the faithful and wise servant, in whom all those prophecies and all those Scriptures are being fulfilled.</span>

<span class="red">“<span class="jbp">The same…,”</span></span><span class="blue jbp"> let’s go to:</span>

<span class="red wss">\[WSS\] That is why Reverend William Branham tried, although he was the instrument of his time, but The Tent Cathedral wasn’t for his time; he was only given the vision, and like a good messenger, he wanted to make it a reality in his time, but he wasn’t allowed to.</span>

<span class="red wss">The same with going to the Hebrews, to the Jews, to take the Gospel: he wanted to, but he was forbidden, because he wasn’t the messenger with the fifth ministry of Elijah. \[</span><span class="purple cita">*The Seventy Weeks of Daniel*</span><span class="purple cita"> - 61-0730M - “Gabriel’s Instructions To Daniel,” pp. 30-32, paras. 152-157</span><span class="red wss">\] As simple as that.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Look, in this message: </span><span class="red jbp">“THE PROPHETIC WORD GIVEN BY THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY,”</span><span class="jbp"> which was December 30, 2002, there he tells us in a short part here; he says:</span>

<span class="red wss">**THE PROPHETIC WORD GIVEN BY THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY**</span>

<span class="red wss">*Dr. William Soto Santiago*</span>

<span class="red wss">*Monday, December 30, 2002*</span>

<span class="red wss">*Cayey, Puerto Rico*</span>

<span class="red wss">See?</span>

<span class="red wss">Since the opening of the Seals or from the preaching of </span><span class="red wss">*The Seven Seals*</span><span class="red wss"> and on, God has been opening the book of Revelation more and more; even though Christ has not taken the Book of the Seven Seals yet.</span>

<span class="red wss">But God has typified what He will do when Christ rises from the Father’s Throne… </span>

<span class="blue jbp">\[JBP\] See? What was He doing in the ministry of Reverend William Branham and in the ministry of Dr. William Soto Santiago? Typifying, reflecting, what He is going to do when He leaves the Throne of Intercession; as he tells us here:</span>

<span class="red wss">\[WSS\] But God has typified what He will do when Christ rises from the Father’s Throne and has finished His Work of Intercession and takes the Title Deed, the Book of the Seven Seals, and opens It in Heaven; then He brings It to Earth and will give It to a man for him to eat It. Christ already typified all of that through Reverend William Branham.</span>

<span class="red wss">That is why, notice, when God is reflecting, typifying something in a prophet, some people think that it is already being fulfilled in that prophet, but it is only a reflection; later on it will be fulfilled.</span>

<span class="blue jbp">\[JBP\] And those of our time do the same thing too, they say: </span><span class="jbp">*“No, it has already been fulfilled in Dr. William Soto Santiago.”*</span><span class="blue jbp"> Oh, then why hasn’t the resurrection happened yet? </span><span class="jbp">*“No, it is because he is doing a work over there.”*</span><span class="blue jbp"> Hmph! In other words, they try to add to the Word, to the revelation, where it was already spoken that whoever takes away from It: his name will be taken away, and whoever adds to It: the plagues will be added to him \[</span><span class="cita">Revelation 22:18-19</span><span class="blue jbp">\].</span>

<span class="red wss">\[WSS\] For example, God spoke many things through the prophet Isaiah, and through the prophet and King David; and notice, he said, “I can count all my bones,” \[</span><span class="cita">Psalms 22:17</span><span class="red wss">\] and so on, for he was going through a situation like that at the time; and Christ was reflecting Himself in David, reflecting what would happen to Him later on, when He would be crucified.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] Now, our brother William goes on to say here… I’m on the… I’m going back to the message of words of greeting to the pastors, January 30, 2009; he goes on to say </span><span class="red jbp">\[</span><span class="red jbp">**(MM) “PASTORS ATTENTIVE AND OBEDIENT TO THE WORD OF GOD”**</span><span class="red jbp">\]</span><span class="jbp">:</span>

<span class="red wss">\[WSS\] \[P. 19\] And now, God has many blessings, much prophetic Word to be made a reality, to be fulfilled at this end time; a lot has already been made a reality among us, and the mystery of </span><span class="blue jbp">\[the\]</span> <span class="red wss">those</span><span class="red wss"> prophecies relevant to our time has also been opened, but there are others that are still sealed </span><span class="red wss">and</span><span class="red wss"> that must become a reality as well, and be identified in the prophetic Word as the prophecies that are being fulfilled.</span>

<span class="blue jbp">\[JBP\] Notice, the same thing that happened in the time of brother Branham, happened in the time of brother William: prophecies that were being fulfilled there; but the ones that would still need to be fulfilled later on, he says </span><span class="red jbp">\[WSS\] those prophecies would also be or will be identified in the Word as the prophecies that are being fulfilled at that time</span><span class="blue jbp">. And now is the time for God to fulfill the prophecies that were not fulfilled in the past time.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] On </span><span class="purple jbp">page 154</span><span class="jbp">, in </span><span class="purple jbp">paragraph 1380</span><span class="jbp">, it tells us there </span><span class="purple jbp">\[</span><span class="purple jbp">***Quotations***</span><span class="purple jbp">\]</span><span class="jbp">:</span>

<span class="purple cita">\[</span><span class="purple cita">**65-0725E**</span><span class="purple cita"> - “What Is The Attraction On The Mountain?” p. 8, para. 46\]</span><span class="blue cita"> \[BIble Study #241, 25/Sep/2022 (Sunday), p. 27\]</span>

<span class="purple wss">*1380 - “\[46\] What is that attraction up there on the hill? It’s God making history, and God fulfilling prophecy. And that always causes an attraction. It brings all the critics up, the vultures (of this morning’s Message), and the eagles also. See? They come together to find out* </span><span class="jbp">(\[JBP\] it is cut off here) </span><span class="purple wss">*what’s going on. Some coming for curiosity, some coming to find fault, others coming to criticize. There’s all kinds gathered…”*</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] See? At this time, how many have gathered for that? In other words, each has gathered in their own group. Each one goes and joins, and is part of where that spirit of error is; and another group from where the Spirit of God is. They have to gather according to where each spirit comes from. As simple as that.</span>

<span class="jbp">And there he writes… that is why in a place he writes - he says:</span><span class="red jbp"> \[WSS\] “Judah went to his place of origin, where he came from.”</span><span class="jbp">\*</span>

<span class="cita">\*• </span><span class="purple cita">\[</span><span class="purple cita">**60-1209**</span><span class="purple cita"> - “The Sardisean Church Age,” pp. 16-17, paras. 80-82\] </span><span class="blue cita">• \[Study “The Theophany in all dimensions,” 30/Mar/2024 (Saturday), p. 43:</span> <span class="purple cita">**65-0118**</span><span class="purple cita"> - “The Seed Of Discrepancy,” pp. 7-8, paras. 35-36 - </span><span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>Judas came from hell</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*». \[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>Jesus = from the 6th dimension</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*». «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>Judas = from the 5th dimension, hell</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*».*</span><span class="blue cita">\]</span>

<span class="red">• <span class="cita">**2009-07-06 “The Reaping Angels when the dawn breaks”**</span></span><span class="red cita">: </span><span class="red wss">\[WSS\] And now, we find according to the words of Christ, that even within Christianity there would be the good and the bad; and as an example, in the group of Christ’s followers—His disciples—Christ says, speaking about the group that was with Him: “Did I not choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?” In other words, even from the days of Jesus among the followers there was also the bad seed or offspring. And when he died, look, it says he went to his place, his place of origin, he came from the fifth dimension and went back to the fifth dimension.</span>

<span class="jbp">Each one will return to the place where he came from. And if it is someone who is written in the Book of Life, and he repents on time: not waiting for…; like what happened to that young woman, who had to… already when she was about to leave…, which perhaps if brother Branham had arrived there, while she was alive, and she would have asked him for forgiveness, surely God would have moved in mercy and forgiven her.</span>

<span class="jbp">Like Judas, instead of going to Jesus, he went over to the high priest to say he had repented; he went to the wrong place \[</span><span class="cita">Matthew 27:3-5</span><span class="jbp">\]. </span>

<span class="jbp">And notice that after the young woman died, the husband: </span><span class="jbp">*“Look, pray for her, please.”*</span> <span class="purple jbp">\[WMB\] “No, it is already too late.”</span>

<span class="jbp">Once that time comes, once the person dies, it is already too late. Even while they are alive: if they don’t go to the right place, it’s too late for that person.</span>

<span class="jbp">Now notice, there he writes above:</span>

<span class="red wss">*\[WSS\] «*</span><span class="red wss">*<u>The attraction is due to: God making history and fulfilling the prophecy</u>*</span><span class="red wss">*»*</span><span class="jbp">, he writes there at the top, in this paragraph.</span><span style="color: #c00000;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">  
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<span class="jbp">\[</span><span class="jbp">*Dr. Jose B. Perez*</span><span class="jbp">\] He continues to say in the message that we were reading </span><span class="red jbp">\[</span><span class="red jbp">**(MM) “PASTORS ATTENTIVE AND OBEDIENT TO THE WORD OF GOD”**</span><span class="red jbp">\]</span><span class="jbp">:</span>

<span class="red wss">\[WSS\] \[P. 20\] Sometimes we speak to you about some that are not fulfilled, and we tell you that they will be fulfilled; in other words, that is already showing that </span><span class="red wss">certain… - </span><span class="red wss">a certain prophetic Word is coming forth to be fulfilled.</span>

<span class="jbp">\[JBP\] The same thing he always said regarding that Word that had not been fulfilled, that prophetic Word, and which God would be carrying out later on; all that prophetic Word that was not fulfilled, he was telling you, and here brother William is telling you, that sometimes they speak - sometimes he speaks about things that are not fulfilled, and that he says that he tells you that they are going to be fulfilled. In other words, he is already showing you that there is a prophetic Word to be fulfilled later on; and you have to keep your spiritual eye wide open so that you do not overlook it.</span>

<span class="jbp">Now, we have seen </span><span class="blue jbp">**“THE ATTRACTION IS DUE TO: GOD MAKING HISTORY AND FULFILLING THE PROPHECY.”**</span>

<span class="jbp">It has truly been a great blessing and privilege to be able, on this occasion, to give these words under this subject; and we will see each other tomorrow, Sunday, April 6 of this year 2025, in the place that is already being prepared for tomorrow’s activity.</span>

<span class="jbp">Pray a lot for that activity, so that God gives us all the Word that will be spoken, read and studied, for edification and spiritual growth; and may all that Word become incarnate, may much Word become incarnate, so that the Rapturing Faith increases day by day under the Teaching of the Tent.</span>

<span class="blue">“<span class="jbp">**THE ATTRACTION IS DUE TO: GOD MAKING HISTORY AND FULFILLING THE PROPHECY.”**</span></span>

<span class="jbp">Continue having a happy day, filled with God’s blessings.</span>
