--- title: 'March 31, 2023 Activity' date: 2023-03-31 activity: 1 place: city: Cayey state: country: PR duration: 00:00:00 public: false thumb: https://directus.carpa.com/assets/6dc97577-0d6d-44a6-841b-21b8e6ab6582.png youtube: translations: - "[es](spa-2023-03-31-1-actividad_del_viernes_31_de_marzo_de_2023-CAYPR)" - "[pt](por-2023-03-31-1-actividade_na_sexta_feira_31_de_marco_de_2023-CAYPR)" - "[fr](fra-2023-03-31-1-activite_du_vendredi_31_mars_2023-CAYPR)" files: - "[audio](https://directus.carpa.com/assets/59cdecdb-bf17-43c4-834c-bf78edc706d2)" - "[booklet](https://directus.carpa.com/assets/e8a45fcc-6a31-481d-913f-5be379db37e0)" --- BIBLE STUDY #294 FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2023 **THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN STARS AND THE SEVEN CANDLESTICKS** *Dr. William Soto Santiago Friday, August 29, 1997 (Third activity) Juarez, Chiapas, Mexico* **Scripture: Revelation 1:10-20**\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] And we read two portions of the Scripture, where it says, in **chapter 1**, **verse 10**: \_¹⁰ I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me \[WSS\] «West» a great voice, as of a trumpet,\_ \_¹¹ Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.\_ \_¹² And I turned to see \[WSS\] «towards the West»\_ \_the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;\_ \_¹³ And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.\_ \[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] And we go to **verse 20** of this same **chapter 1** of the book of **Revelation**: \_²⁰ The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.\_ \[JBP\] May God allow us to see and comprehend on this occasion: **THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN STARS AND THE SEVEN CANDLESTICKS** \[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] It tells us in the message **“**IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE END, SIR?**”** and here is a portion in the book of ***Quotations[¹](#footnote1)***; paragraph 690, page 81, it says: *690 - Brother Jackson’s pyramid dream, partially:* *“¹³¹ And he said, “‘Look upon This. Light has never come upon It before.’” And when all of them got up, and I told them to watch That, and all of them come up to look in.**¹³² But he said, while they were looking in, he looked out of the corner of his eye \[WSS\] «corner of his eye» *(\[JBP\] in other words, from the corner of his eye, when you look this way from the side)*, I believe it was, and watched me. I slipped off \[WSS\] «Elijah» to one side, and started going towards the West, towards the setting of the sun* (\[JBP\] and there he writes on the side): *\[WSS\] «West, Tucson, type of Latin America and the Caribbean»; coming up a hill, going down a hill; coming up a hill, going down a hill; getting smaller and smaller, and went all the way out of sight.**¹³³ And he said, then, when I did that, he said, “Then the brethren turned around, after a while, said, ‘Did he vanish? Where did he go?’” And said, “Some took out that way; some took one way, and some another.” But, a very few stayed and looked on to what I had told them.”*\[JBP\] And he draws a Star of David.And above he writes: *\[WSS\] «Elijah \[He\] left towards the West, at sunset»*. And below he writes: *\[WSS\] «few stayed and looked at what I said. I will see you on the island»*. Look where we have to look towards.\[JBP\] And it is already prophesied there that few stayed and watched what he said, \[WMB\] “I will see you on the island.”\[²\]\[1\] **SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES** **(Ministers Meeting)** *Dr. William Soto Santiago* *Wednesday, April 2, 2003* *Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia*Now, in the Bible, the Holy Scriptures, is all of the divine thought in letter form. We find that everything that God would do is in the Scripture.And now, the things that God spoke through Reverend William Branham, is nothing else but the same thing that is written *here*, God giving more light about what is in the Word. He could not add anything else to the Word, the Holy Spirit could not add anything else to the Word, but He could give more light about the different subjects that are contained in the Holy Scriptures.And now, that is why the message of Reverend William Branham is the Word of God, because it is the same Word that is written *here*, being brought with more light for this end time. God giving more light than what is in the Scripture.Therefore, “Search the Scriptures, for they bear witness of me,” says Christ. “Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.”[³](#footnote3)Now, the Scriptures bear witness, not only of Christ but of the different messengers that He would send to each age of His Church, in which Christ would be manifested.And now, we find that since Christ is the Word, and the Word is Christ, then, since we were in Christ from before the foundation of the world, we have to be *here* as well, in the Word.And now, when the Word for an age is vindicated, is fulfilled, is made a reality, that is what the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ was waiting for: for it to become a reality, for God to vindicate what He promised for that time, to bring it to life, to fulfillment; and the Church-Bride of Christ receives the Word, receives the messenger and ascends to a new age.The previous age had already died. When the messenger went away: the light of the age went away, the lamp went away, that lamp was extinguished, that wick was extinguished; and therefore, when you in an oil lamp turn off the light, the wick, that lamp is running out of light.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] And in the book of ***Quotations***,[⁴](#footnote4) on page 120, paragraph 1065, our brother Branham says: *1065 - “^\[253\] For why? He was the a-vindicated Light of that day. See?**²⁵⁴ But there’s more Word to be a-vindicated. He’s got to vindicate more Word* (\[JBP\] and he writes there): *\[WSS\] «Jesus, Elijah, Moses». And **when the last Word is vindicated**, is vindicated, rather, then death is swallowed up in victory, and the dead in Christ shall rise, the Millennium will set in…”*\[JBP\] See, it is when the last Word is vindicated that those promises of the resurrection, our transformation, the rapture and the Millennium occur; but it is when the last Word is vindicated, is fulfilled.And there he writes: *\[WSS\] «When the last Word is vindicated, the Lord with Elijah and Moses will be vindicated in the 2nd Coming»*. \[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] He continues saying in the massage that we are reading \[**(MM) “SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES”**\]:\[WSS\] Remember that the seven ages of the Church are represented in the candlestick with seven lighted lamps, each one is lighted in the age to which it belongs. And there comes the Light for that age in and for the Church and for the world; because the Church is the Light of the world also, as Christ is the Light of the world…\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] On page 5… or 4 (because it is part of 4, at the bottom and turns to 5); in paragraph 35 he says \[***Quotations***\][⁵](#footnote5): *35 – “¹⁰⁵ Dear God, I realize that the sunset of this great civilization is now setting, way past spent, the middle of the day is gone, the evening shadows are falling. Great Light is breaking forth from the Kingdom of God, to take its place of this gross darkness coming on the earth.”*\[JBP\] And he draws a Pyramid and the ages.And he writes: *\[WSS\] «Great Light of the Kingdom of God»*. \[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] He continues saying \[**(MM) “SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES”**\]:\[WSS\] …therefore, Christ is reflected through His Church in every age.Each lamp is each age, and every wick lighted with fire is every messenger lighted with the Holy Spirit, with the Fire of the Holy Spirit; and through that messenger runs the Holy Spirit, the Oil (which is the Holy Spirit); and there the Fire of God is lighted in every age, and that age is lighted.When they are denominationalized, the Light of that age is already extinguished. They are denominationalized when the messenger leaves. The messenger leaves: the Light is gone, the wick is gone, the Light is gone, it was left in darkness. And then they begin groping and saying: “This is the best thing to do, and this is the best; and this is the best thing to do to protect the age, to protect the Message.” And they denominationalize, and they make their denominational gates; and all those who disagree with them, they cast them aside, and they break fellowship with each other.That is what Christ found when He came to Earth in human flesh. The denominational world with its great leaders, what did they do? They cast Christ aside.They were nothing less than orthodox, which is the group of people and religious leaders who in addition to the Scripture have the different interpretations of their doctors of divinity. So they were orthodox and Jesus was not orthodox.Jesus did not go with the interpretations of the doctors of divinity, but Jesus went straight to what the Scripture said: “For it is written.”See? He never said, “Doctor of divinity So-and-so, doctor of divinity So-and-so, theologian So-and-so said such-and-such”; no. He said, “Moses said, or Isaiah said, or David said.” See? That is not being orthodox; that is being heterodox: that are exclusively based on the Scripture, and that is THUS SAITH THE LORD.That is not: “Thus says theologian So-and-So or doctor of divinity So-and-So,” but THUS SAYS GOD, THUS SAYS GOD THROUGH HIS HOLY SPIRIT THROUGH HIS INSTRUMENTS.(...) God becomes angry when they do not want to listen to His Voice, the Voice of God through His Holy Spirit by means of the prophets He sends. So it has been in the Old Testament and so it is in the New Testament.Now, we can see why Christ commanded to search the Scriptures.He did not say, “Search what the rabbis have said, search what the doctors of divinity have said, search what the theologians have said.” He did not say, “Search those other books.” He said, “Search the Scriptures.”Because the other books of theological interpretations are the thoughts of the great doctors of theology, but the Scriptures are the thoughts of God expressed through His prophets, and then written for the people of God.So Christ’s recommendation is: “Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of me.”**THE MESSAGE THAT FORERUNS THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST** **(Ministers Meeting)** *Dr. William Soto Santiago* *Monday, December 16, 2002* *Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia*Let’s see on page 369 \[p. 436 in Eng.\] of the book of *The Seals,* he also says in the last paragraph:\[JBP\] And there he starts to read from the book of *The Seals*, from page 369; and we will have it here on hand. He says:\[WSS\] *“³⁶⁰Notice the last verse of the Sixth Seal, opened. Those who had laughed at the preaching of the Word, of the vindicated Word of the living God…”*In other words, the preaching of the vindicated Word of the living God, that is the preaching of the fulfillment of the Word in human flesh; in other words…, because the vindicated Word of the living God is the fulfilled Word, that which was promised; and that which has been promised is the Coming of the Holy Spirit in human flesh. And let’s see:*“^\[360\]…when them prophets had stood there and performed miracles, closed the sun, and everything else, and all down through the age. See, “They cried for the rocks and the mountains to hide them,” see, to hide them from the Word that they had laughed at, ’cause they seen Him come. “Hide us from the wrath of the Lamb.” He is the Word. See? They had laughed at the Word. And here the Word was, incarnate. And they had made fun of It…”*\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] And here he, in the book of *The Seals,* writes on this part there:*\[WSS\] «They had heard what was coming»*.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] And brother William says in the message \[**(MM) “THE MESSAGE THAT FORERUNS THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST”**\]:\[WSS\] In other words, they will mock, they will scoff, the ministries of the Two Olive Trees, of the ministries of the Two Anointed Ones. And that is the Word coming incarnate; therefore, they will be mocking, scoffing at the Word fulfilled, quickened, incarnate, made real, the promised Word, which was foreshadowed by the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.(\[JBP\] And he continues reading on page 369).\[WSS\] *“^\[360\] …laughed at them, made fun of them.”*\[JBP\] See, they had already done that, you see? “They had laughed,” in other words, there was already a time when they were doing that when those ministries were being operated by the Holy Spirit in the midst of the Lord’s Church. And… He goes on to say:\[WSS\] *“^\[360\]...laughed at them, made fun of them. And the incarnate Word had dropped forth!**³⁶¹ Why didn’t they repent? They couldn’t. It was too far, then* (that is that Christ had already left the Throne of Intercession)*.”*\[JBP\] In other words, surely many are going to realize what they have done; and when they go to appeal, to ask for forgiveness and to go to the Throne of Mercy repented for what they have done: it was already too late, they did not find mercy there. What they found was a Throne of Judgment: what they had heard that had been preached to them.That is why he writes there: *\[WSS\] «they had heard what was coming»*.Our brother William continues saying:\[WSS\] *“^\[361\]So, they knowed that, the punishment. They hear It. They had sat in meetings like this and knowed about It* (in other words, they had heard all of this)*.”*\[JBP\] And there he writes: *\[WSS\] «they had heard what was coming»*.In other words, of course they had heard! And they are listening. But when they realize and try to go looking, repentant for having done what they did, it was already too late; because they had already been told that He was not on the Throne of Intercession. But what happened was that they didn’t believe it, they didn’t believe that it had happened.He goes on to say:\[WSS\] *“\[361\] And they knowed that the things of those prophets, had predicted, was looking them right in the face, the thing that they had rejected.”*Therefore, notice, before Revelation, chapter 6, verse 12 onwards is fulfilled, which is where the great tribulation opens, before that, these prophets had already predicted all those plagues (\[JBP\] before the great tribulation begins), those judgments that would come upon the Earth, because it was none other than the Word quickened, vindicated, fulfilled, in human flesh.When the Word is vindicated, quickened, is when the Word is fulfilled. And if it is promised that the Word will come in human flesh, that Word being quickened, what will it be? The Word quickened will be the Word, the Word made flesh in a man.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] Look, on page 18 of the book of ***Quotations****,[⁶](#footnote6)* on paragraph 143, it says: *143 - “^\[18\]The Scriptures, no matter how well you know them, if the Spirit doesn’t quicken them, then the letter killeth. The Spirit giveth Life. See, it must be quickened, or made alive \[WSS\] «fulfilled», by the Spirit. If the Spirit doesn’t liven the Word and make It a reality to you, then the letter is just intellectual. That’s where we have so many confessed Christians today, or professed Christians, is that intellectual conception of Christ.”*\[JBP\] And he writes:*\[WSS\] «The letter kills = intellectual conception»*.*«The Spirit quickens – brings it to Life»*.And he draws a Pyramid and the ages; and an arrow on that first sentence of that paragraph.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] He continues saying \[**(MM) “THE MESSAGE THAT FORERUNS THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST”**\]:\[WSS\] And that is the Word that was given to the Church; which the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Church-Bride for the Last Day will be waiting for.It says on page 120 of the book of *Quotations*,[⁷](#footnote7) it says paragraph 1065, it says:*1065 - “^\[253\]He was the a-vindicated Light of that day.”*In other words, when the Word becomes flesh, that is the vindicated Light of God, of that day, of that age or of that dispensation; that is why Christ, being the Word, the Word made flesh, could say: “I am the Light of the world.”[⁸](#footnote8)John, being a Light, a burning torch; he was the Light, the vindicated Word for his age, the seventh age of the Hebrew Church under the Law.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] We turn to page 42 of the book of ***Quotations***,[⁹](#footnote9) paragraph 343, where it tells us that Israel also had seven ages; and the seventh age ended with John the Baptist, who had the ministry of Elijah in his third manifestation. It says: *343 - “¹⁸² Now, notice also the days of Elijah, when they had rejected Elijah as prophet, that little thread, the ancient church age. One of these days I’ll bring up and show you that Israel had seven church ages, too, and typed exactly with these.”*\[JBP\] And there he draws a Pyramid and the ages \[left side\]; and a Pyramid and the ages \[right side\]; that is, two drawings.And on the left side he writes: *\[WSS\] «Jesus»*, above, in the Cornerstone. And on the seventh he writes: *\[WSS\] «3rd Elijah – John the Baptist»*.And in the other drawing at the top he writes, in the Cornerstone: *\[WSS\] «Christ»*, which means, ‘Anointed One’.And on the seventh stage he writes: *\[WSS\] «4th Elijah – WMB»*. And he writes: *\[WSS\] «Israel had 7 ages»*. \[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] He continues saying \[(**MM) “THE MESSAGE THAT FORERUNS THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST”**\]:\[WSS\] As the vindicated Word for the seventh Church age made flesh, was the promised Word made flesh in Reverend William Branham; he was the Light for the seventh age; he was the wick, the angel, the lighted wick within the candlestick, within the seventh lamp of the candlestick. And the candlestick with its seven lighted lamps represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ with the seven angel messengers lit with the Fire of the Holy Spirit.And now, Reverend William Branham says that after him comes a greater Light; just as John the Baptist announced One greater than he. That is why Christ could say: “I am the Light of the world.” A Light to illuminate the whole world.(...) And the last Word that will be vindicated shall bring what? The resurrection of the dead and the transformation of us who live. (\[JBP\] What will bring the resurrection and transformation? The last vindicated Word). And the mystery of the vindicated Word for this end time is revealed in the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet, which will be none other than the fulfillment of what was foreshadowed by the Reverend William Branham, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.And now, no one can say: “It is enough with what we already received in the past age.”It was not enough with what they received in Luther’s age: God had more Word to vindicate in a new age.A new age came and Wesley appeared with more Word being fulfilled in him, and there Christ, the Light of the world, was shining through Wesley; therefore, he was the Light for that age, Christ in him. And now, just as Paul was set for Light to the gentiles.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] And now look in this study of April 7, 2017, which was the subject of that occasion: “ISRAEL, BEHOLD, THY KING COMETH UNTO THEE”; and we placed there the excerpt of the message **“WHAT IS THE ATTRACTION ON THE MOUNTAIN?”[¹⁰](#footnote10)** And he there, in this portion, look, he says… (Yes… here we can show the little drawing that he did). He says: *³⁴ And He never agreed with any of the church leaders. And, besides that, He followed the very trend of a prophet. He condemned everything that they done, as the ones before Him had; because they were* *\[WSS\] «1» **a portion** of the Word, and He was \[WSS\] «2» **the Word in Its fullness**.*\[JBP\] There on the side he draws the Pyramid, and he draws the seven ages with the little streaks; but he places in the 5th, 6th and 7th: *\[WSS\] «1»* **a portion**, see. And in the part of the Cornerstone he writes: *\[WSS\] «2»*. In other words, it is in the Age of the Cornerstone where those two portions will be.And so he refers there to that portion that was in the ages; there he writes: *\[WSS\] «1»*. But where he says: “and He was the Word in His fullness,” there he writes the *\[WSS\] «2»*. \[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] And he goes on to say, reading here, I am reading from the portion **“WHAT IS THE ATTRACTION ON THE MOUNTAIN?”** he says \[P. 6\]: *³⁵ But in the midst of all of it, through every age and every prophet that had been or would be, there is going to be a certain amount of people that’s predestinated to hear that Message, and they’ll follow It. Those ignore the crowds. They ignore the criticism of the unbeliever.*\[JBP\] They ignore the criticism of the unbeliever. That is why you have to ignore the unbeliever, you don’t pay attention to them. *^\[35\] They—they have no argument with them. They’ve got one thing to do, that’s believe and to get every bit of It they can, soak It in like Mary who set at the feet of Jesus.**³⁶ And Martha was fixing His dinner, and Jesus said to her, “But, Martha, you are so concerned about the things of life, but Mary has sought the better things,” see, the things of Eternal Life.*\[JBP\] In other words, we are in this end time to do (he says): “They’ve got one thing to do, that’s believe and to get every bit of It they can, soak It in,” like Mary got soaked there at the feet of Jesus listening to all that Jesus was saying.And at this time we sit at the Table of the Lord soaking in the Rapturing Faith, soaking in what will adopt us. And therefore, we are receiving and placed in the best part, like Mary.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] He goes on to say \[**“(MM) THE MESSAGE THAT FORERUNS THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST”**\]:\[WSS\] It is that through every lit wick in every lamp of the candlestick, the Light that is within the Most Holy Place is reflected, because the One who lit the Fire upon the Sacrifice was the One who is within the Most Holy Place.And so we find that now the Light of the Most Holy Place is reflected where? In the lamps of the candlestick. The Fire is, the Light is in the messenger, which is the wick of every lamp, shining in every age.And now, there is more Light. And where is the Light? Within the Most Holy Place, the original Light, the Light where no artificial lights are required.There is more Word to be vindicated; and no one can prevent that.Let’s look at another place: page 128 of the book of *Quotations*,[¹¹](#footnote11) paragraph 1141, where it says:*1141 - “^\[115\]The Word made flesh is the Light of the age; when you see It…”*\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] Let’s turn to 128, since he quoted it there, to see there that portion that I just read to you, where there in that portion he writes:*\[WSS\] «The Light is the Word made flesh»*.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] He continues saying \[**“(MM) THE MESSAGE THAT FORERUNS THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST”**\]:\[WSS\] That is very important to know.And on page 124, paragraph 1105, it says \[*Quotations*\][¹²](#footnote12):*1105 - “^\[130\]Wherever the Word is, It’s veiled. 131 Moses had the Word. Now remember, after the Word was made manifest, Moses was Moses again. See? But while that Word was in him to be give out, he was God; well, he wasn’t Moses no more. He had the Word of the Lord for that age. Nothing could touch him till that was over… He had the Word. And he was the Word to them.”*\[JBP\] And there he draws a Star of David, at the end of that paragraph.And he also writes: *\[WSS\] «Moses was the Word for the people. Nothing could touch him until the Work was finished»*. And he also writes there at the end: *\[WSS\] «this age and dispensation»*. And at the bottom he also writes: *\[WSS\] «Rev. 11:3-6. Nothing could touch him»*. \[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] Notice here in **Revelation**, **chapter 11**, **verse 7**, it says: \_⁷ And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.\_ \[JBP\] Now see how it is after finishing that Work; because notice that… just as he said there: “Nothing could touch Moses until he would perform (that is), fulfill it, the Work for which God had sent him.” And so it is for the Two Olive Trees.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] And our brother William continues to say, and now goes to 1106 \[**(RM) “THE MESSAGE THAT FORERUNS THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST”**\]:\[WSS\] And further down, the next paragraph, 1106 says:[¹³](#footnote13)*“1106 - “^\[142\]Now, God has to veil Hisself, as He promised, in human flesh. God! Do you get It? God has to veil Hisself in human flesh, and put a spiritual veil over them, (say, ‘Well, I’m this and I’m that’), in order to speak to the people.’”\[WSS\] «Elijah and Moses»*.And he also writes: *\[WSS\] «For God to speak to the people He has to veil Himself»*. \[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] And our brother William continues saying \[**“(MM) THE MESSAGE THAT FORERUNS THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST”**\]:\[WSS\] He continues to say in paragraph 1107 of page 125:[¹⁴](#footnote14)*1107 - “^\[148\] And it was a vindicated prophet that unfolded the Word and told them, ‘Thou shalt not! Thou shall! And thou shall not!’ See?**¹⁴⁹ To give His Word to that generation, He veiled Himself in a human being, or the Word would have blinded even the called-out.”*\[JBP\] And there he writes: *\[WSS\] «He revealed Himself in a human being, or the Word would have blinded even the elect»*. And he also writes: *\[WSS\] «A vindicated prophet»*. \[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] And our brother William continues to say:\[WSS\] See? If He does not veil Himself in human flesh, the chosen ones are also blinded; because they would be blind to what was promised.\[JBP\] Notice, if God does not veil Himself, at the time when the elect would be expecting to receive the promises for each time, then the elect would also be blinded.\[WSS\] …because they would be blind to what was promised.But when He veils Himself in human flesh, through - in human flesh He fulfills what He promised, and through human flesh He gives us Light, the Light of the hour, the revelation of the hour; and it illuminates our understanding, it illuminates our soul, it illuminates our spirit and our whole being. And then we have understanding of the whole Program of God relevant to the time we are living in.And then we do not walk blind to the Program that God is carrying out, because God has veiled Himself in human flesh, to reveal Himself to us through human flesh and make known to us His entire Program pertaining to our time.Therefore, wherever it may be, the Word will be veiled. The Word of each age is always veiled in the messenger of each age; and there is the Holy Spirit, with that messenger, to make known all that God wants to make known at that time.\[JBP\] Now, notice how he had told us in this same message, where he said that \[WSS\] “it was not enough with what they received in Luther’s age”; and it was not enough with what they received in Wesley’s age either; and it was not enough with what they received in Laodicea in Pentecost either, back in the Pentecostal age.And so also in that seventh stage where he placed us, but then at the end he left. And we can say: It is not enough with what he left us up to there. There has to be… the Word has to be there veiled, to enlighten us in a new dispensational day and bring to fulfillment the promise that the elect are waiting for; because if not, they are blinded too.**SPEAK, LORD, FOR YOUR SERVANT HEARS** **(Ministers Meeting)** *Dr. William Soto Santiago* *Saturday, September 25, 2010* *Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico*And remember that the candlestick with its seven lamps represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and before the candlestick goes out…In the New Testament the candlestick represents the Church; and the Church from age to age has been lit with the Fire of the Holy Spirit; but notice, it is already in the seventh Church age where the seventh Light is: His messenger; God through him illuminating in the temple, in the Holy Place.And before that Light of the seventh age goes out, the Holy Spirit shining through that seventh messenger…; because the lamp is the Church and the lighted wick is the messenger lit with the Holy Spirit; and before it goes out, God has to call a man who will be a man like Samuel. A man like Samuel who will be the one who will make that interlace of the Dispensation of the Kingdom with the Dispensation of Grace, of the Gospel of the Kingdom with the Gospel of Grace, and so on; a man of interlace.Samuel, we see him as a young man, who received the call of God; and we find him in the house of God, the tabernacle, which represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the New Testament; a man where God spoke, in the house of God, there in the tabernacle.At the Last Day, there will be a man in the House of God, the Church where God has been speaking by His Spirit through the messengers from stage to stage, from age to age. And we find God speaking to her.\[JBP\] Speaking to whom? To His Church.\[WSS\] For the Last Day, before the last light or candlestick goes out…; because when all the seven messengers are gone the candlestick went out and there is no more Light for any of the seven ages, because the Light of every lamp went out: the messenger departed. As simple as that.\[JBP\] How does the Light turn off in each age? When the messenger departs.And our brother William says:\[WSS\] May at the Last Day the Spirit of God have that man; and may we see him and hear what God will be speaking to him, revealing to all of us.(...) And when the Jews see that…; only when we are seeing that approach, we have to have our eyes wide open, because the stage that will be for the Jews will be introduced, while the Church is still here; because the introduction is one thing and the full entrance is another thing (\[JBP\] they are two different things).It will be the only one they will welcome. And they will surely want to take him away from the Church at the Last Day (\[JBP\] and that has not happened). They are going to say for sure, “No, this one is ours.” All that is going to happen. When you see that happening, remember I told you those things are going to be happening.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] And in the book of ***Quotations****,[¹⁵](#footnote15)* on page 41, notice, in paragraph 333 it says: *333 - “³⁰¹ Now, when is the Gospel returning to the Jews? **When the day of the Gentile** \[WSS\] «The Dispensation of Grace»* ***is finished, the Gospel is ready*** *\[WSS\] «Gospel of the Kingdom», go to the Jews.” Oh, I could, if I could just foretell you a little something that’s fixing to happen right here, see, right in this day. You see? It’s fixing to happen. We get it in the Church Age. And this great thing is fixing to happen, will carry over to Revelation 11 and pick up those two prophets, Elijah and the Moses returning back again for the Jews. We’re ready for it. Everything is setting in order, just ready. This Gentile Message, as the Jews brought it to the Gentiles, the Gentiles will take it right back to the Jews again. And the Rapture will come.”*\[JBP\] That is an excerpt of the book of *The Ages,* on page…, some are on page 30.He also writes at the top here, on this 333:*\[WSS\] «The Gentile Day = the Dispensation of Grace»*.\[JBP\] And in the continuation of 333, at the top, he writes: *\[WSS\] «The gentiles (Moses and Elijah) take the Message to the Jews and the Rapture will come»*. \[JBP\] And now look at 334 as well, of this page 41 \[***Quotations***\][¹⁶](#footnote16): *334 - “³³⁴ Oh! Oh, Joseph, when he seen little Benjamin standing there* (\[JBP\] and he writes): *\[WSS\] «Joseph»! That’s his little brother. You see little Benjamin now up…?… over yonder, setting over there? The tribes of the—of the earth, of the Jews, returned back there where there’ll be a hundred and forty-four thousand of them standing there, to receive Christ when they see Him Coming. They’ll say, ‘Lo, this is our God Who we’ve waited on.’ Then they’ll see the pierced… ‘Where did these comes?’* (\[JBP\] that is, the wounds) *He said, ‘In the house of My friend.’**³³⁵ And they’ll wail and they’ll cry. And each family, their tribes of David and Nepthalim and all, will separate themselves, each family, and weep to themself when they see Him standing in the air, the One they pierced.”*\[JBP\] And there he draws a Pyramid and the ages. *\[WSS\] «Rev. 4:1»*, which is the Door open in Heaven, the Age of the Cornerstone.\[JBP\] And there he writes, also on 334 at the top:*\[WSS\] «The Jews will see Christ come and will say: “This is our God”».*\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] He goes on to say \[(**MM**) **“SPEAK, LORD, FOR YOUR SERVANT HEARS”**\]:\[WSS\] Remember that they are waiting for Elijah, and they know what Elijah is going to be speaking; and they will be waiting for a man like Moses, a prophet also like Moses; and they are waiting for the Messiah.So… and they also know and say that it will not be a literal Elijah; it will be a man of this time.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] And on page 2-A, on paragraph 15 (at the bottom), says \[***Quotations***\][¹⁷](#footnote17): *15 - “^\[233\]‘The same Holy Ghost that fell on the Day of Pentecost is right here for you.’**²³⁴ Then the Gospel goes back to the Jews right there at that time. Then there’ll be a revival amongst those Jews right there that’ll carry thousands and tens of thousands and… a hundred and forty-four thousand, into the Kingdom of God, will be sealed by the sealing Angel \[WSS\] «Moses». \[...\]**²³⁶ And right there, as soon as that sealing Angel begins to seal that hundred and forty-four thousand* (\[JBP\] and he writes): *\[WSS\] «Rev. 7:2, 11:3-7, 14:1»* (\[JBP\] and the ministries of Moses and Elijah are there)*, the Gentile Church door is closed, and the Jews takes the Holy Ghost to the Jews. And they’ll have a revival that’ll sweep the entire world. Hallelujah! And the power of God will be manifested amongst the Jews.”*\[JBP\] And he writes: *\[WSS\] «Moses and Elijah and the 144,000»*. \[**(MM) “SPEAK, LORD, FOR YOUR SERVANT HEARS”**\]\[WSS\] So we are in a very glorious time, where that man will be saying: “Lord, speak Lord, Your servant hears”; and then he will be communicating to the people what he heard, or at least what he should tell them. And what is for him, he will keep to himself; and there will be no way to take it out of him, because it is for him; and what is for the people, he will give it to the people; and let’s say, if he gives them a fourth part or at most, half, it is a lot, because no one will have given them as much as that messenger will be giving to the people. And he will be giving things in a simple way for everyone to understand. He will be part of the Mystical Body of Christ.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] And in the book of ***Quotations****,[¹⁸](#footnote18)* there also on page 23, he says in paragraph 190: *190 – “^\[77\]He’s obligated to at least one time present it to you, so that you’ll be without an excuse at that day.**⁷⁸Oh, I feel in my heart. Wait till sometime God sends me to Palestine* (\[JBP\] he draws a Star of David)*. The Jews look for that.”*\[JBP\] Now notice, He is obligated to present it to you. And at this time He is presenting Himself in a simple way. What for? So that on that day you will be without excuse. *190 – “^\[78\]The Jews look for that. They read the New Testament—them that come up out of Iran. They begin to read it. They said, ‘You mean Messiah’s been here.’**‘Yes, He’s dead and raised—raised again.’**He said, ‘Let us do Him—let us see Him do the sign of the prophet and we will believe it.’**I like to see them—call them out like this here, thousands. Say, ‘Now, you accept the Messiah then,’ and on the same grounds where the Holy Ghost poured out the first time, God will **pour It out again on the Jews.** Then the Gentiles are finished. You know that. They’ll trod the walls of Jerusalem down until the Gentiles be finished. When the Jews gets the Holy Ghost \[WSS\] «incarnate», and receives the Gospel, and starts, they’ll missionary the world. They’ll take it where the Gentiles didn’t even think of going.”*\[JBP\] And he writes: \_\[WSS\] «The Gentile Age finishes when the Jews receive the Message». \_And he draws a Pyramid and the ages, and a Star of David.\[JBP\] And he writes… where it says: “will pour It out again on the Jews”:*\[WSS\] «Yesterday was the Day of Pentecost / Today: Pentecost...* \[but it is cut off\] *Year»*. In other words, *«Today»* would be: \_«the Year of Pentecost».\_ \[JBP\] Well, we have seen a little lightly all this great mystery of what God is doing in this end time; which we have seen in the different stages and ages of the gentile Church, and now it is up to us to do this double portion.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] Notice, there is a part where he says that: \[WMB\] “We will return with two portions.” And that second portion is the eternal, glorified body. 597 says, from page 69, look, it says \[***Quotations***\][¹⁹](#footnote19): *597 - “⁶¹ And as Elijah went down to Jordan one day, and struck it, with Elisha, and it parted back, and he crossed over \[WSS\] «2nd Elijah = Elisha». He come back with a double portion.**⁶² And when we strike Jordan, with Christ \[WSS\] «Elisha – Moses and Elijah, the Holy Spirit», we got one portion* (\[JBP\] notice, each age has only one portion)*, but when we return, we’re coming with two portions. We got Eternal Life, resurrection from sin, now, in righteousness with the Holy Ghost. And then on the return, with Christ, we come back with both physical resurrection, and we already got spiritual resurrection. We have a double portion of it.”*\[JBP\] And he draws a Cornerstone.And above he writes: *\[WSS\] «Double portion:**The spiritual resurrection.**The physical resurrection, in the return with Christ»*.\[JBP\] We stand up, and we thus leave this subject: **“THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN STARS AND THE SEVEN CANDLESTICKS”** our beloved brother and friend, Dr. William Soto Santiago.\* \* \* \* \* \* \[¹\]\[2\] 62-1230E – “Is This The Sign Of The End, Sir?” p. 17, paras. 131-133 \[²\]\[3\] 62-1230E – “Is This the Sign of the End, Sir?” pp. 18-19, paras. 138 and 140 \[³\]\[4\] John 5:39 \[⁴\]\[5\] 64-0112 – “Shalom,” p. 40, paras. 253-254 \[⁵\]\[6\] 53-0608A – “Demonology, Physical Realm,” p. 19, paras. 105 \[⁶\]\[7\] 57-0908M – “Hebrews, Chapter Five and Six #1,” p. 3, para. 18 \[⁷\]\[8\] 64-0112 – “Shalom,” p. 40, para. 253 \[⁸\]\[9\] John 8:12 \[⁹\]\[10\] 60-1204E – “The Patmos Vision,” p. 38, paras. 182 \[¹⁰\]\[11\] 65-0725E – “What is the Attraction On the Mountain?” p. 6, paras. 34-36 \[¹¹\]\[12\] 64-0719M – “The Feast of the Trumpets,” p. 16, para. 115 \[¹²\]\[13\] 64-0614M – “The Unveiling of God,” p. 1, para. 130-131 \[¹³\]\[14\] 64-0614M – “The Unveiling of God,” p. 23, para. 142 \[¹⁴\]\[15\] 64-0614M – “The Unveiling of God,” p. 23, para. 148-149 \[¹⁵\]\[16\] 60-1204M – “The Revelation of Jesus Christ,” p. 41 , para. 301 \[¹⁶\]\[17\] 60-1204M – “The Revelation of Jesus Christ,” p. 46, para. 334 \[¹⁷\]\[18\] 54-0103M – “Questions and Answers #1,” p. 36, paras. 233-236 \[¹⁸\]\[19\] 56-0427 – “Faith,” p. 31, paras. 77-78 \[¹⁹\]\[20\] 62-0513M – “The Way of a True Prophet of God,” p. 9-10, paras. 61–62 \[1\]: #footnote2 \[2\]: #footnote1back \[3\]: #footnote2back \[4\]: #footnote3back \[5\]: #footnote4back \[6\]: #footnote5back \[7\]: #footnote6back \[8\]: #footnote7back \[9\]: #footnote8back \[10\]: #footnote9back \[11\]: #footnote10back \[12\]: #footnote11back \[13\]: #footnote12back \[14\]: #footnote13back \[15\]: #footnote14back \[16\]: #footnote15back \[17\]: #footnote16back \[18\]: #footnote17back \[19\]: #footnote18back \[20\]: #footnote19back