--- title: 'April 9, 2023 Activity' date: 2023-04-09 activity: 1 place: city: Cayey state: country: PR duration: 00:00:00 public: false thumb: https://directus.carpa.com/assets/40d6e490-ade9-45a0-90d5-ef45621ddc14.png youtube: translations: - "[pt](por-2023-04-09-1-atividade_no_domingo_9_de_abril_de_2023-CAYPR)" - "[es](spa-2023-04-09-1-actividad_del_domingo_9_de_abril_de_2023-CAYPR)" - "[fr](fra-2023-04-09-1-activite_du_dimanche_9_avril_2023-CAYPR)" files: - "[audio](https://directus.carpa.com/assets/46d65ad7-3c99-480f-a746-317c97df6bc4)" - "[booklet](https://directus.carpa.com/assets/01b549c7-f71a-4ce8-943f-c55baa43cad5)" - "[simple](https://directus.carpa.com/assets/1e3a326d-2d92-40e1-9dcf-dec779b150b4)" --- BIBLE STUDY #297 SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2023 **THE MYSTERY OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST** *Dr. William Soto Santiago Sunday, April 12, 1998 Cayey, Puerto Rico* \[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] We look for the Scripture that he used there, in the Gospel according to **Matthew**, **chapter 28**, **verse 1** and on, where it says:^*1* \_In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day…\_ \[JBP\] And in a study, in this Scripture, he placed there:^*1* \_In the end\_ \_\*\*of the sabbath\*\*\_ *\[WSS\] «Saturday = type of the 7th age»*\_,\_\_ \*\*as it began to dawn toward the first day\*\*\_ *\[WSS\] «Sunday: type of the \[8th\] Golden Age*\_»\_ \_of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.\_ ^*2* \_And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.\_ ^*3* \_His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:\_ ^*4* \_And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.\_ ^*5* \_And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.\_ ^*6* \_He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.\_ \[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] Now we turn for a moment there to the Gospel according to **Luke**, in **chapter 24**, **verse 6**, which is the same account of this historical moment of the human race, which was the resurrection of the Lord. And look, in chapter 24, verse 6, it says:^*6* \_He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee…\_ \[JBP\] And he writes in a Study as well, there in that Scripture, he wrote:*\[WSS\] «These Angel accompanied Jesus in His ministry and knew what Jesus taught»*.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] There are some messages that he speaks to us…; because remember that on Mount Transfiguration Moses and Elijah appeared there in their theophanic bodies, and they were talking to the One who was to be adopted on the way to Jerusalem, that is, of the work that He would carry out on Calvary’s Cross; they had knowledge of all that Work that the Lord would carry out at His First Coming. For He had said so in **Matthew**, **chapter 20**, **verse 18**:^*18*\_Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death,\_ ^*19*\_And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.\_ \[JBP\] He had already spoken about what was going to happen with Him. And that on the third day He was going to resurrect.And look, in a Bible study he writes:*\[WSS\] «No religious leader (prophesied) (said) that he was going to die and after three (3) days he was going to resurrect»*.\[JBP\] Except Jesus. And who else? Moses and Elijah.In other words, no religious leader has ever said that in three days he would be resurrected; only Jesus and Revelation 11.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] In that same chapter that we are reading in **Matthew**, **chapter 28**, already at the end, in the verse that he finished there to… (then we read it when he is reading it there), **verse 10** of chapter 28:^*10* \_Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.\_ \[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] In the book of ***Quotations***^{***[¹](#sdfootnote1sym)***}, on page 145, paragraph 1295. This is an excerpt from the message “IT IS THE RISING OF THE SUN.” It says: *1295 - “*^*73* *On Easter morning, not only did He raise, but His beneficiaries raised with Him. He… They were in Christ at His crucifixion. They were in Him at His resurrection. We are His beneficiaries, quickened after being dead in darkness.*^*74* *The darkened world of unbelief, where churches and denominations, and so forth, had drawed us out. And there’s something in us calling, ‘Oh, we want God! We’re hungering and thirsting for God.’ We joined the Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, and what-more, and still there was something wrong, we just couldn’t find It yet. And all of a sudden, while we was groping in darkness, the great resurrection came to us in the manifestation of the promised Word of God. (...)*^*79* *We are the benefactors of His resurrection, quickened after being dead in the world, in sin and trespasses. ‘He has quickened us together with Him, raised with Him, now sitting in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus.’”*\[JBP\] And he draws a little Cornerstone. And also next to it he draws the ages and the Cornerstone.**THE ONE WHO DESCENDED IS THE** **SAME ONE WHO ALSO ASCENDED** **ABOVE ALL THE HEAVENS** **(Ministers Meeting)** *Dr. William Soto Santiago* *Saturday, April 11, 2009* *Cayey, Puerto Rico*Now, the one that descended carrying our sins, taking them far away, carrying them away and returning them back to the originator, to the devil, remitting them…Remember that when you send a… when you send a letter you put at the top who the sender is, and if the person to whom you send it does not receive it, it is sent back to you.And the believers in Christ, when they receive Christ, then Christ takes the sins and sends them back to the originator: to the devil; because we do not want to receive them. They are returned to the originator. That is done through the Blood of Christ; there is no other way.\[JBP\] In the message “THE RESTORATION OF THE BRIDE TREE”...That is why we have to leave those mistakes and sins that were already left there, leave them there. Not to be searching and rummaging and taking them out; because they will then be found in the hands of people; and then there is no way to return them there, because He is no longer at the Throne of Intercession; and, therefore, in order to take them there, they have to be brought there in the same way that the person who acted or did that, that mistake or that fault or that sin, the same way that that person who brought it out of there: has to do the same.But since He is no longer at the Throne of Intercession in Heaven, there is judgment there, then what is he going to do when he holds them in his hands? Receive divine judgment. That is why we have to be very careful in bringing things of the brethren to light, taking out their faults or mistakes; we leave that with the devil, because that belongs to the devil.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] In the message **“THE RESTORATION OF THE BRIDE TREE,”**^{**[²](#sdfootnote2sym)**} on page 40 it says at the bottom:^*484* *Where does the fruits grow? It don’t start down here on the bottom. It starts in the top. Where does the sun hit the Tree first? Ah, glory! In the evening Light, the top of the Tree.* (\[JBP\] And he writes): *\[WSS\] «the Sun at the top of the Tree»* (\[JBP\] and he draws a Cornerstone and the ages). *Amen. Not down on the bottom branches, but up there in the top of the Tree is where the fruit ripens at* *\[WSS\] «the fruit ripens at the top»**.* *Amen.*Do you love Him? *Amen! (...) I sure do believe Him, with all my heart.*^*485* *Now, what is it? He’s going to prune off them old dead vines as She comes up, all those organization vines, till She gets right up in the top of the Tree. There is where He’s going to get His fruit. Now notice. God prunes Her. All right. They are dead, and won’t come into the—the Presence of God, won’t come in the first resurrection. But be with… (...) They’ll go into the organizational group, but they won’t come with the fruit of the Vine.*\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] And that, in this message “IT IS THE RISING OF THE SUN,” in one of the messages he writes something there. Look at page 11 of this version of **“IT IS THE RISING OF THE SUN,”**^{**[³](#sdfootnote3sym)**} it says:^*65* *Now, the very essence of the Message that was sent, that, “He is risen from the dead,” we His beneficiaries, we who share the resurrection with Him, draw benefits from this, by proving to the world that He is alive. We cannot do it by word only. We cannot do it by some tradition of man. We only reflect exactly what we’re pointing to.*\[JBP\] Now, there he draws a Cornerstone and the ages; and on the part of the ages he writes: *\[WSS\] «They are already dead»*. \[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] Now look here, where we are reading \[**“THE RESTORATION OF THE BRIDE TREE”**\] \[P. 62\]:^*\[485\]* *There is where He’s going to get His fruit. Now notice. God prunes Her. All right. They are dead, and won’t come into the—the Presence of God, won’t come in the first resurrection. But be with… (...) They’ll go into the organizational group, but they won’t come with the fruit of the Vine.*^*486* *Now look. God never did put out a organization. The church puts the grafts in, an organization, and God cuts it off, cuts off its lifeline. It bears organizational fruit.*^*487* *But if that Vine put forth a branch that come out of the Vine, It’ll bear the same as That did. So, you see, the first one was. And Rome sent their beetles over there and eat It off, but God is going to grow One so high that it can’t touch It* (\[JBP\] and he writes): *\[WSS\] «the Tent»**. It’s going to come on up. Amen. I… Let’s go. The Tree goes from one place to another, from one dispensation to another dispensation* *\[WSS\] «Disp. of Grace to the Disp. of the Kingdom»**. From Luther, It went to Wesley; from Wesley, to Pentecost; from Pentecost, It goes to the Word.*^*488* *It is Easter again for the true believers of His never-failing Word* (\[JBP\] and he writes): *\[WSS\] «Easter. Resurrection»**. It’s Easter. It’s a resurrection. God has got people everywhere. It’s Easter for them. Why? They have risen, amen, risen from those creeds and denomination. Come right up through them. It’s Easter again. The Royal Seed has been hid in the roots, the Word, hid back here in this Word, for years, and years, and years, and just now begin to be revealed. It’s Easter time. Predestinated from the foundation of the world, this Church is begin to stand.*\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] And there is a writing of a message as well, that he writes:*\[WSS\] «The resurrection of Christ Jesus must materialize in every seed of God that was in Christ»*. And he draws a Cornerstone.*\[WSS\] «And in the Church as Mystical Body»*. And he draws another Cornerstone.^*\[488\]* *Notice how that God predestinated, in the beginning. I got…**Well, I’m going to say it, anyhow. All right.*^*489* *Notice here, that, to restore the first perfect Tree in three days after Its death. After the first Tree’s death, He restored it in three days* (\[JBP\] the first Tree is Christ Jesus in His First Coming)*. Is that right? \[Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.\] Restored it back! Now the Bride Tree is also going to be restored in three ages, three stages, rather. Three stages, It’ll be restored. Now look. What? Justification, sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost; one, two, three.* ^*490* *Now notice. After three days, the first Tree restored as at the beginning, having the same signs, same wonders. Jesus come back, the same Jesus, doing the same thing. At the end of the third day, the signs appeared, not the end of the first day. Oh, brother! I hope you’re getting it. At the third day is when the real manifestation of Christ was made known, at the* end *of the third day* *\[WSS\] «at the 4th day»**. (...)*^*491* *Not at the first day, dead form; second day, there was a rumor, see, or, the second day, it was still dead; Luther, Wesley. At the beginning of the third day, there was a rumor around. Nothing on the first day, Luther; nothing on the second day. And in the third day, the dispensation of the Holy Spirit* (\[JBP\] Dispensation of Grace)*, there was a rumor around, that, “He was the same yesterday, today, and forever.”* ^*492* *But at the* end *of the third day, that’s where He made Himself known, come right among them, come among His people and said, “Look at Me. I’m the same One.”*^*493* *The dead forms went on till they got to Pentecost, then begin to rumor around, that, “He was.”*^*494* *Now, here in the last day, here He is right with us, moving right among us. At the* end *of the third day* (\[JBP\] and he writes): *\[WSS\] «4th day»* (\[JBP\] which is the Age of the Cornerstone)*, He appeared and showed all of them His resurrection sign, that He was living, the same yesterday, today, and forever, living fruits of His Presence. Living fruits of His Presence! Are you getting it? \[Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.\] Was manifested at the very end of the day, when He appeared to all of them, His Church. Amen. Why? They all got together, oh, amen, **at the end of the third day*** (\[JBP\] that is, at the end of the seventh age of the Church)*.*\[JBP\] And he says: *\[WSS\] «All those who were in agreement gathered together»*. *«Last Day = 7th»*. And he draws a Cornerstone and the ages; and the arrow towards the Cornerstone.Where he says: “at the end of the third day” there he draws the arrow towards the Cornerstone, which is what comes after that third day; that is, after where he placed us at that time, and told us that we were in the seventh age and that the Dispensation of Grace had not yet closed; that was in 2000.^{[⁴](#sdfootnote4sym)}See, there was an interlace, as there are in dispensations, there was an interlace of dispensation; and still in 2017, and even 2018, the Dispensation of Grace was already coming to an end; until it closed and the Dispensation of the Kingdom was fully opened, which is intertwining with the Millennial Kingdom.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] Now, he goes on to say… I am in the message that I started to read of brother William \[**(MM) “THE ONE WHO DESCENDED IS THE SAME ONE WHO ALSO ASCENDED…”**\]:\[WSS\] Now, the one who died and in Spirit (angelic body) had to go to hell, He had a struggle there. And everything that happened there is going to be repeated here on Earth; because for this end time hell opens up, the fifth dimension, and it is going to be on Earth. That is why it will happen here on Earth; and that ministry that operated there in Christ and through Christ, will operate again.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] In the message **“IT IS THE RISING OF THE SUN,”**^{**[⁵](#sdfootnote5sym)**} (of this version), on page 14, it says:^*88* *Notice, It was the first corn of God’s Wheat that had been raised from the dead, God’s first corn of Wheat. By God’s quickening Power, God had quickened His life, raised Him up from the dead, and He was the Firstfruits of those that slept, the Firstfruit* (\[JBP\] and he writes): *\[WSS\] «of the Old Testament»**. He was that Sheaf.*^*89* *That’s why they had to wave that sheaf, for it was the first one that come to maturity. And it was waved as a memorial of thanksgiving to God, believing that the rest of them would come. It was a sign.*^*90* *And, today, because He was the first Son of God to come to full maturity, to be in God, He was plucked up from the earth and is waved over the people. Oh, what a glorious lesson! By the quickening Power, the first One! Although, He had—He had been typed; and many times, as we’ll see later, that He was typed. But this was really the Firstfruit of them that slept. He was waved over the promised Seed that had promise of Life.*^*91* *He was waved at the Day of Pentecost, “when there came a sound from Heaven like a waving, mighty rushing wind,” and was waved over the people, the pentecostal people that was up at Pentecost, waiting for the Blessing to come.*^*92* *And to be waved again, we realize, in the last day, according to Luke 17:30, in the Son day again, “in the day that the S-o-n of man will be revealed,” or waved again over the people.*\[JBP\] And he writes: *\[WSS\] «The Day of the Son = 8th Day»*. And above he writes: *\[WSS\] «the 8th Day.**Sunday = Year 50 of Jubilee or 8th festive Year.**Son Day = 8th or 1st age»*.\[JBP\] And a Cornerstone with the ages all divided there; and above in the Cornerstone, he writes: *\[WSS\] «8»*. \[JBP\] Further down, he says… Or we continue here. It says \[**“IT IS THE RISING OF THE SUN”**\]:^*93* *Now, Who is the Son of man? “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.” And if all the teaching that we have, and confirmation of the Word of God; by Word of God, by signs, by wonders, we see today, that in the Book of—of Luke here, that as we just quoted from, or the—the Luke the 17th chapter and the 30th verse; and Malachi 4, and the different Scriptures that we are acquainted with, that that Word again is waved over the people, that the dead traditions of man is dead, and the Son of God is alive again with the baptism of the Holy Spirit right among us, and is giving us Life.*^*94* *As Christ was the first One to raise, from all the prophets, and so forth; although typed in many places, He was the Firstfruits of those that slept* *\[WSS\] «of the Old Testament»* (\[JBP\] he writes there)*. In the Bride, coming of Christ, coming out of the church, there’ll have to be a Sheaf waved again in the last days. Oh, my!*^*95* *Waving of the sheaf! What was the sheaf? The first one that come to mature, the first one that proved it was a wheat, that proved it was a sheaf.*^*96* *Hallelujah! I’m sure you see what I’m talking about. It was waved over the people. And the first time there will come forth, for the Bride age* (\[JBP\] and he writes): *\[WSS\] «8th Day»**, for a resurrection out of dark denominationalism, will be a Message, that the full maturity of the Word has turned back again in Its full Power, and being waved over the people, by the same signs and wonders that He did back there.**\[WSS\] «the Age of the Bride: resurrection»*.\[JBP\] At the beginning: *\[WSS\] «8th Day»*. \[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] And on page 16 it says \[P. 14\]:^*98* *He was waved to them. The Word, which He was, was waved back to them on the Day of Pentecost, the Word made manifest. Now, and as I say, It’s to be waved again in the last day.*\[JBP\] And he draws a Cornerstone and an arrow towards there: *\[WSS\] «8»*. And the ages at the bottom, and *\[WSS\] «7»* in the seventh age.And he writes: *\[WSS\] «waved two times back then and waved two times now»*. And he also writes there: *\[WSS\] «(The 2nd Coming of Christ). Waved again today. Last Day»*. \[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] Our brother William goes on to say here \[**(MM) “THE ONE WHO DESCENDED IS THE SAME ONE WHO ALSO ASCENDED…”**\]:\[WSS\] Christ has the keys of the Kingdom of the Heavens, and He gave them to Peter^{[⁶](#sdfootnote6sym)}, but He also has the keys of David or the key of David; and that is for this end time, to be able to open the door of the Kingdom of David. And we will see that in more detail, perhaps when we see it being fulfilled, of how that will be.And He has the keys of hell and death as well; therefore, He will be able to bring out of physical death all the believers who have died in the past; and He will be able to cast into hell whoever He wants to cast in.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] There is also a message, a study, which we have read^{[⁷](#sdfootnote7sym)}, where they placed the Scripture of **John**, **chapter 5**, **verse 25 to 28**, where there, Christ speaking, says:^*25* \_Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God…\_ \[JBP\] And brother William writes there: *\[WSS\] «of the Holy Spirit in flesh»*. \[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] That is, now see how he says… In other words, that someone will have those keys as Peter had them there, and he will be able to say… he says \[**(MM) “THE ONE WHO DESCENDED IS THE SAME ONE WHO ALSO ASCENDED…”**\]:\[WSS\] …therefore, He will be able to bring all believers who died in the past out of physical death (\[JBP\] that is, by the Word being spoken); and he will be able to cast into hell whoever He wants to cast in. And then, for the judgment, He will be able to bring all out of hell to judge them at the Final Judgment. (\[JBP\] remember that Christ has the keys of hell and of death, when He went there and he snatched them from the devil, he took them away from him).And He will also be able to bind the devil with a great chain and cast him out… let’s see how it says it here… Where is that passage?\[Revelation 20:1-3\] *“And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.**And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,**And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.”*So, you see, this Angel has the key to the bottomless pit, and He is going to use it. Christ had to take the keys of Hades (of hell) and death, in order to get out, open and come out; and He did. That is why believers in Christ who died are going to be resurrected.\[JBP\] As it also was in the resurrection in the First Coming of the Lord.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] Look, in the message **“DEMONOLOGY,”**^{**[⁸](#sdfootnote8sym)**} page 40 and 41, it says:^*199* *If I could think of how that Jesus, when He died, He went and preached to the souls that were in prison. He died, a sinner, knowing no sin, yet our sin was on Him. And God, for His sins, sent Him to hell. The Bible said, “He went and preached to the souls.”*\[JBP\] And he writes: *\[WSS\] «imprisoned souls»*. And he draws a Star of David, and the Scripture of: *\[WSS\] «1 Peter 1:17-22»*. ^*200* *Some people say, “Brother Branham, I can’t understand it.” Said, “Jesus rose on the third day. He died Friday afternoon and rose up on Sunday morning, why, He was only dead one day.”*^*201* *He said, “Within them time,” for He had one Scripture in the Bible, that He could stand on. For, David, a man that backslid later, but he was saved, but a prophet under the inspiration of God, said, “I’ll not leave His soul in hell, neither will I suffer My Holy One to see corruption.” And he knowed, three days and nights, that that body would set in corruption. And God had done said to the prophet, “He’ll not see corruption.”…?… \[Blank spot on tape—Ed.\]**Hallelujah! He took God’s Word. He defeated Satan, every time, on It. He defeated death, on the Word of God. Hallelujah! He defeated death. And when they killed Him, and He died, a sinner, my sins and your sins upon Him, He went down, I can see Him knock at that door there.**And them lost souls come out and said, “Well, Who are You?”*^*202* *He said, “Why didn’t you listen to Enoch? Why didn’t you listen to those other prophets that preached?” They was condemned. “I’m the Son of God that once lived. I have… My Blood has been shed. I come to tell you, I’m fulfilled, what the prophets said I’d do.” Right on down a-past the demons, right into hell, taking the keys of death and hell away from the devil, hung them on His side, started back up. Hallelujah!*\[JBP\] And he draws a Star of David, and he writes: *\[WSS\] «The keys of death and of hell»*. ^*203* *Getting early in the morning. Hallelujah! Let’s draw a little picture here. Early in the morning, there’s another group laying over here in Paradise. They’re not there now.*\[JBP\] That in the Study of **“THE DIMENSIONS,”**^{**[⁹](#sdfootnote9sym)**} there we speak of that place, which he told us that the 144,000 and the foolish are there and go there.^*204* *Now you big Catholic friends that believe the intercession of saints. If you’re talking to a saint in your church, that man is a sinner, he’s in hell, or—or waiting yonder for his judgment. And if he was a saint, he’s in the glory of God and can’t come back. That’s right. I can prove that. The blood of bulls wouldn’t take away sin, but the Blood of Jesus divorced sins.*^*205* *I can see Jesus go up to there where, Paradise, there’s old Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and them in there, Samuel and all the rest of them in there.*\[JBP\] Remember that the sixth one was still not… that dimension; they were there in that place called Paradise \[Abraham’s Bosom\].^*\[205\]* *I can hear Him knock at the door. \[Brother Branham knocks on the pulpit six times—Ed.\] Amen! Oh, I love this. I’m getting right… feel kind of religious now. I can see Him look over there. I can hear him say* (\[JBP\] to Abraham)*, “Who is out there? Who is It there?” He said, “I, this is Abraham talking. Who is It?”*^*206* *“I’m the Seed of Abraham.” Amen. I can see Abraham come to the door, open up the door. He said, “I’m the Seed of Abraham.”**Daniel said, “Look at there! There’s the Stone that I saw hewed out of the mountain.”*\[JBP\] And he draws a Star of David, and he writes: *\[WSS\] «The Stone hewed out of the Mountain = Jesus Christ»*. ^*207* *I can hear Ezekiel say, “There He is! I’ve seen Him, like dust under His feet, the clouds a-moving, when the rams… clapped their hands, the leaves, and they all shouted.” Oh, I can see the different ones there in Paradise, waiting for Him.*^*208* *I can hear Him say, “Come on! It’s breaking daylight over in Jerusalem. We got to go out of here. We’re going up, because you trusted in the blood of the bulls and goats, waiting for the time of My Blood. But My Blood has been shed up there on Calvary. I am the incarnate Son of God. All sin debts is paid. We’re on our road out!”*\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] That psalm that was read at the beginning today, that Reverend William Perez read, there he places… See, in that **Psalm 24**, look, in chapter \[verse\] 7 and 8… In chapter **\[verse\] 6**:^*6* \_This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob.\_ \[JBP\] He writes there: *\[WSS\] «Rev. 1:15 and 10:1»* which is the Coming of that Mighty Angel.And in \[verse\] 7 and 8, next to it he writes: *\[WSS\] «rapture of the saints of O.T.»*, of Old Testament.And in \[verse\] 9 and 10, he writes there: *\[WSS\] «rapture of the Church of N.T.»*, that is, the New Testament.And he writes: *\[WSS\] «Rev. 19:11-21, 17:14, 14:14-20, 1:10-20, 1:6-8, 10:1-11, 1:18»*. \[JBP\] Look how in this psalm of David it also speaks to us there of those two raptures.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] And here, further on it says, in the message **“DEMONOLOGY,”** page 42 \[P. 33\]:^*210* *Not old no more; that was Abraham and Sarah. And they vanished. They looked, “Somebody is watching us.” They could vanish just like He went through the wall, the same kind of a body.*\[JBP\] See? The same kind of body that Jesus had, they also had it; and we will have it, you and me, we will also have that body.^*\[210\]* *Right. Here is all the prophets and them, walking around, looking around the city.*^*211* *And Jesus led right on up in, or up over the stars, moon, clouds, and led captive captive, give gifts unto men. Jesus sets today at the right hand of the Father, climbed up there, set down, till all His foes be made His footstool.*\[JBP\] And he writes there: *\[WSS\] «In Jerusalem they saw Abraham and Sarah after they were resurrected»*. And it is in the spiritual Jerusalem, the Church of the Lord, where the promise of the resurrection will be fulfilled, and where all the departed of the ages and also of our time will be seen.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] Our brother William goes on to say \[**(MM) “THE ONE WHO DESCENDED IS THE SAME ONE WHO ALSO ASCENDED…”**\]:\[WSS\] (...) And now, Christ is in Heaven, on the heavenly Throne, as King, reigning. All power has been given to Him in Heaven and on Earth; because the heavenly Kingdom and the heavenly Throne rules over all the Heavens, over all the dimensions, over the invisible world and over the visible world; rules over all the galaxies.And we are not going to go into detail to find out if there are people like us on other planets or in other galaxies. We have enough to do here, to get off this planet before the great tribulation begins.Therefore, there are angels, archangels and all, and there is a type of government in the universe; but we are going to see that when we are already transformed.Now we have to take care of our salvation with fear and trembling, as the Scripture says^{[¹⁰](#sdfootnote10sym)}; and work in the Work of the Lord so that soon the Church will be completed. And soon all that pertains to the Vision of The Great Tent Cathedral and the manifestation of that Third Pull be carried out, where the Third Pull will be in full fulfillment.Therefore, it will also be there that we will be seeing and the mystery of the Seventh Seal being opened; and also all those mysteries of the Plagues, the Trumpets, all that is going to be clarified there.\[JBP\] Where? In The Great Tent Cathedral. Here. And we have been clearing that up for a while now.\[WSS\] So we pray to Christ to help us and to use us, and that the Tent Vision will soon be fulfilled; and also what God has to do with the Jews to be done (which corresponds before the great tribulation), and what will also be with His Church.We are almost at the end, or the end time; therefore, already the strong winds of the great tribulation, which precede the great tribulation, we are sort of already feeling them on planet Earth; it is like the prelude to the great tribulation.\[JBP\] This morning, at about 9:00, I was talking with Julio Angel, I was writing to him, and he writes: “Look, did you feel the…?” There was sort of a tremor. And I said: “No, I didn’t feel it.” The TV, his monitor moved; and I told him: “Find out.” When he found out on the news, it had indeed happened in Guanica, I think it was a 4.8 (you can look it up).And that has been happening and it has been happening; and it is going to get more and more intense each time.Look, there is an excerpt that he…, in this same message we are going to hear it when brother William quotes it, which is on page 373 of the book of *The Seals*, where “the Earth will begin with its flusterations and great shakings,”^{[¹¹](#sdfootnote11sym)} as it happened in the First Coming of the Lord in the resurrection. In other words, all that is already prophesied to happen and is going to happen.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] It says \[**(MM) “THE ONE WHO DESCENDED IS THE SAME ONE WHO ALSO ASCENDED…”**\]:\[WSS\] And if things are difficult now, what will it be like in the great tribulation for the human race? It is going to be very, very difficult. But we hope to be ready as soon as possible to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.But remember one thing: we will not be transformed and we will not be caught up to Heaven without the fulfillment of the Tent Vision. Therefore, that is a very important project, that all who hope to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb should be working on so that it will soon become a reality.Perhaps in any country anyone could say: “And why are you working on such a project?” The question would be: “Do you think the Tent Vision is important?” They will immediately say: “Of course it is!”— “And why, if it is so important, aren’t you working to… do something in favor of that project?”We are working because we believe it is important and that there is a great vision - a great blessing, to obtain the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.And without the fulfillment of the Tent Vision there will be no resurrection nor transformation nor rapture (in other words, no catching away), to go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.Therefore, this may be the most important tangible physical project in God’s Program for this end time, as was the building of the tabernacle and the building of the temple in Jerusalem (the building of the tabernacle in the wilderness).So, as a physical project that is more important than the building of a congregation building in any country; although it is important, but that one is more important: because it is linked to the Seventh Seal, it is linked to the Third Pull, it is linked to everything that God is going to be doing in His final manifestation.And they are going to be there: the Pillar of Fire, the Angel that accompanied Reverend William Branham, and when Reverend William Branham returns he will be there as well; but probably, before he returns in a glorified physical body he may also be, if it is in God’s Program, that he may be in a spiritual body, an angelic body.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] In the message:**THE LORD JESUS CHRIST OPENING DOORS** **(Ministers Meeting)** *Dr. William Soto Santiago* *January 31, 2009* *(Second service)* *Bogota, Colombia*And now, the one who has the key of David is the one who can open the Door; because God’s Program of dealing with the Hebrew people is tied to David, to the Kingdom of David and to the Throne of David.Therefore, the key to that Door, to enter into that Program of the Kingdom of God, to be established on Earth (which will be the restoration of the Kingdom of David), God has the key. Just as He gave it to Peter, the one of the Kingdom of Heaven, He will surely give it to someone, in other words…, or He will operate it through someone; because it was God who operated it through Peter: it was given to Peter, but the one who operated it was the Holy Spirit.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] In the message **“CHRIST IS THE MYSTERY OF GOD REVEALED,”**^{**[¹²](#sdfootnote12sym)**} on page 31 and 32 (31 at the bottom), it says:^*231* *Now, Peter, when he called, said, “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”* ^*232* *Now watch. “Blessed art thou, Simon* Bar-jona,*” says, which means, “son of Jona.” See? “Blessed art thou, for flesh and blood never revealed This to you. You never learned It from some school. But My Father which is in Heaven has revealed It to you.” Notice what He said to him, “Upon this rock…”* (\[JBP\] and he writes): *\[WSS\] «upon this rock = the revelation»* *That’s Peter, the predestinated Seed of God that had received this Light, and given the keys to the Kingdom. “Upon this rock of revelation of Who Jesus Christ is,” He is the full, manifested God. “Upon this rock…”* *Not a Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; and Him being the second Person. “Upon this rock I’ll build My Church, and the gates of hell will never shake It down, never prevail against It.” See? “I’ll build My Church upon this rock,” a revelation of Jesus Christ.*\[JBP\] And he writes there: *\[WSS\] «The Keys of the Kingdom»*. And he writes: *\[WSS\] «(And today = upon whom is His revelation in today)»*. **THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH POSSESSING** **THE KINGDOM OF GOD:** **THE FIFTH EMPIRE** **(General Ministers Meeting)** *Dr. William Soto Santiago* *Saturday, November 7, 2009* *Franca, São Paulo, Brazil*Now, also in Luke, chapter 13, verses 25 to 27, it says that when the Father of the family has risen up and shut the door, then the people will come and say: “Lord, Lord, open! Lord, in our streets you have taught!” (\[JBP\] In other words, notice, they will identify Him as the Lord).\[JBP\] As Saul identified Him there when He appeared to him in that Light^{[¹³](#sdfootnote13sym)}:— “Lord, who are you?” — “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.”In other words, he identified Him as the Lord, the God Creator of the Heavens and Earth.And see how here, that parable of Matthew, chapter 25, when they come knocking at the door because they have no oil in their lamps, and the wise: “Lest we lack it, you had better go and find it yourselves.” And the bridegroom came and took them away. And when they returned, the door was already shut. And they began to knock. See, they recognized who the Lord was.\[**(GMM) “THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH POSSESSING THE KINGDOM OF GOD: THE FIFTH EMPIRE”**\]\[WSS\] “Lord, Lord, open! Lord, you have taught us in our streets!” And He will say to them, “I do not know where you are from, I do not know you.”So the Door of the Dispensation of Grace is going to be closed (\[JBP\] and it is already closed), but the Door of the Dispensation of the Kingdom is opened.\[JBP\] In other words, someone had to receive those keys to close one dispensation and open another dispensation.\[WSS\] Christ in Revelation, chapter 3, verse 7, says that He has the key of David, that He is the one who opens and no one closes, and closes and no one opens.Therefore, that key of David, Christ —who is in Holy Spirit in the midst of His Church— is going to use it in His final manifestation through the last messenger that He will have in the Church; and He will open the Door of the Dispensation of the Kingdom, He will open the Door for the restoration of the Kingdom of David, because He has the key of David.He also has the keys of Hades…\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] Now look, in one writing he tells us there something very important as to why it could not happen that every child of God would receive the eternal and glorified body in the Dispensation of Grace. Look, he says… he writes:*\[WSS\] «In the Age (7th Dispensation) of the Kingdom the spiritual and material blessings will be united (and we will have the theophanic spiritual body* (\[JBP\] those are the spiritual blessings) *and the glorified material body \[material blessing\]), and all the material inheritance. That is why the glorified physical body could not come in the 6th Dispensation of Grace, which has the spiritual blessings»*.\[JBP\] In other words, one could not receive that material blessing of the glorified body in the Dispensation of Grace.Those who are waiting in that past stage for the physical blessing of the eternal, glorified body: they will not receive it there; it has to be in the Dispensation of the Kingdom, in the Cornerstone: where the grain, where the wheat ripens, where the Sun beats down on it.\[**(GMM) “THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH POSSESSING THE KINGDOM OF GOD: THE FIFTH EMPIRE”**\]\[WSS\] He also has the keys to Hades and death (that is somewhere around chapter 1, verse 18 of Revelation); that is why He will be able to bring about the resurrection of the dead in Christ.\[JBP\] And we read there in John, chapter 5, that it is the Holy Spirit speaking in flesh, so that the dead in Christ may come.\[WSS\] For each Door there is a key.Therefore, this is a very important time, where we know that many things have to be opened; and therefore, the Lord has the keys, and He is going to use them in His final manifestation through the last instrument that He will have on Earth.For example, the Seventh Seal. That mystery is going to be opened; there is a key.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] In the book of ***Quotations***^{***[¹⁴](#sdfootnote14sym)***}, on page 151, paragraph 1347, it says: *1347 - “*^*\[187\]* *So say I, in the Name of Jesus Christ: Don’t you add one thing, don’t take, put your own ideas in It, you just say what is said on those tapes, you just do exactly what the Lord God has commanded to do; don’t add to It! (...)*^*\[188\]* *Don’t take from It. Just believe It and walk humble before the Lord your God, for we’re nearing the going into the Land. (...)*^*189* *Don’t take some new thing. They’re flying everywhere, and there’ll be more than that come. But don’t take these new things.**The Lord your God has declared to you what is Truth.*^*190* *Don’t never start or try an organization. Don’t try to build upon anything else.**But stay humble before the Lord your God, for it looks like the gates may open into the promised Land soon* (\[JBP\] and he writes there): *\[WSS\] «there is a key for each Door – 2nd Coming of Christ»**. Then let us go in with the true singing and rejoicing, when the Bride and Groom takes its place at the Throne.”**\[WSS\] «Come up hither: The Eternal Age»*\[JBP\] and he draws a Cornerstone.And here the Cornerstone, with an arrow towards the Cornerstone; and the ages.And below here he writes: *\[WSS\] «The promised land and the Door»*. And he also draws there a Cornerstone, and a door like this in the little Stone; and he writes: *\[WSS\] «The doors to the promised land»*.^{[¹⁵](#sdfootnote15sym)}\[JBP\] We are going to go… we are going to stop there for today. Later we can go on to talk about the key of David and who has the key of David; and we will leave that subject for another time.And now we have: **“THE MYSTERY OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST,”** which was preached on April 12, 1998.\[*Rev. Jose B. Perez*\] Now look… Let’s look at one more portion there, where it says that \[WMB\] “we come back with two portions.” We read it a little while ago.^{[¹⁶](#sdfootnote16sym)} Page 69, paragraph 597, it says \[***Quotations***\]^{[¹⁷](#sdfootnote17sym)}: *597 - “*^*61**And as Elijah went down to Jordan one day, and struck it, with Elisha, and it parted back, and he crossed over. He come back* *\[WSS\] «2nd Elijah = Elisha**» with a double portion.*^*62**And when we strike Jordan, with Christ…”*\[JBP\] And he writes: *\[WSS\] «Elisha – Moses and Elijah, the Holy Spirit»*. “When we shall strike the Jordan with Christ,” with the Anointed One, with Moses and Elijah. *597 - “*^*\[62\]**…we got 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 writes: *\[WSS\] «Double portion. The spiritual resurrection. The physical resurrection, on the return with Christ»*. \[JBP\] And we are going to smite Jordan!, that is, the great tribulation; because we are not going to go through Jordan, we are going to cross over on dry land; we are not going to go through the great tribulation.That is why he said: \[WMB\] “When the persecution comes, don’t get scared. There is a Light, said He would catch His people away. She’ll not go through the tribulation.”^{[¹⁸](#sdfootnote18sym)}In other words, that is why it is very important to follow that Light, which is the Pillar of Fire. While it was detained, they did not move in the wilderness; while She moved, they picked up everything and moved.The Pillar of Fire is standing still in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; but from one moment to another, when the time of resurrection and transformation comes, that Light will be gone; and it will be like Jesus: making way towards the presence of God, to the seventh dimension.That is why you cannot lose sight of the Light, the Pillar of Fire which is among His people today; for one of these days that Light will take us and rapture us, and take us to the House of our heavenly Father, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.Continue looking at the Light, the Pillar of Fire, which is in the midst of His Church.Let us stand up, and so we leave the subject that we have for today: **“THE MYSTERY OF THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.”**Well, we thus leave immediately with us, our dear brother and friend, Dr. William Soto Santiago.\* \* \*

[1](#sdfootnote1anc) 65-0418M – “It is the Rising of the Sun,” p. 11, para. 73-74, 79

[2](#sdfootnote2anc) 62-0422 – “The Restoration of the Bride Tree,” p. 62, paras. 484-494

[3](#sdfootnote3anc) 62-0422 – “It is the Rising of the Sun,” p. 10, para. 65

[4](#sdfootnote4anc) 2000-04-23 “Words of greeting and closing of baptisms” / Bible Study #267, Dec/25/2022 (Sunday), pp. 22-25 of the booklet

[5](#sdfootnote5anc) 65-0418M – “It is the Rising of the Sun,” p. 13, paras. 88-96, 98

[6](#sdfootnote6anc) Matthew 16:18-19

[7](#sdfootnote7anc) Study “In the 3rd Pull: They had to recognize Him,” Nov/17/2022 (Thursday), pp. 58-59, 61 of the booklet / Bible Study #256, Nov/18/2022 (Friday), p. 26 of the booklet / “Words for the departure of Reverend Neudis Fermin of La Trilla, San Felipe, Venezuela,” Nov/26-2/2022 (Saturday), p. 5 of the booklet

[8](#sdfootnote8anc) 53-0609A – “Demonology, Religious Realm,” p. 32, paras. 199-208, 210-211

[9](#sdfootnote9anc) Study “The seven dimensions,” Jul/2/2022 (Saturday), pp. 14-21 of the booklet

[10](#sdfootnote10anc) Philippians 2:12

[11](#sdfootnote11anc) *The Seals*, “The Sixth Seal,” p. 440, para. 392

[12](#sdfootnote12anc) 63-0728 – “Christ is the Mystery of God Revealed,” p. 32, paras. 231-232

[13](#sdfootnote13anc) Acts 9:3-5; 22:6-8; 22:12-15

[14](#sdfootnote14anc) 65-0718M – “Trying to Do God a Service Without Being the Will of God,” p. 34, paras. 187-190

[15](#sdfootnote15anc) Study “The promised land and the Door,” Oct/1/2022 (Saturday), pp. 9-11 of the booklet

[16](#sdfootnote16anc) Bible Study #294, Mar/31/2023 (Friday), pp. 32-33 of the booklet

[17](#sdfootnote17anc) 62-0513M – “The Way of a True Prophet of God,” p. 9, paras. 61-62

[18](#sdfootnote18anc) 63-1229M – “There is a Man Here That Can Turn On the Light,” p. 50, para. 279