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BIBLE STUDY #175
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2022
TITLE: THE MYSTERY OF THE REVELATION TO UNDERSTAND THE MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN Dr. William Soto Santiago Wednesday, August 6, 1997 (Third activity) San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
**Base Scripture: Matthew 11:25-27** [Rev. Jose B. Perez] It tells us in the message “Is this the sign of the end, sir?”1 It was preached on December 30, 1962 by the Reverend William Branham, forerunner of the Second Coming of the Lord. It says: “[244] A mystery is Scripture, is a previously hidden Truth now Divinely revealed, but (which is) a supernatural element still remains despite the revelation.” **ENTERING THE MYSTERIES OF THE BIBLE ** _Dr. William Soto Santiago _ _Sunday, January 19, 2003 _ _Cayey, Puerto Rico_ And now, THE MYSTERY OF GOD IN CHRIST is the greatest mystery of the time of Jesus; and the greatest mystery for this end time is the mystery of Christ in the midst of His Church. Therefore, in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ, in a new age, the Age of the Cornerstone, will be Christ veiled and revealed, manifested through human flesh. Therefore, this is the great mystery for this end time, among the mysteries of the Bible; that is why Christ always spoke much of the Coming of the Son of Man for this end time. Therefore, let’s always be very alert… [Rev. Jose B. Perez] In the mysteries that our brother Branham here in this page he read,2 he listed them, and down there our brother William put: «Yesterday», and then he put: «Today». That is, for example, brother Branham says: “251 The seventh mystery is of God, even Christ as the incarnate fulness of the Godhead embodied, in Whom all Divine wisdom…252 …and godliness is restored to man.”[Rev. Jose B. Perez] Then he writes: [WSS] «Yesterday: Jesus = Today: Elijah and Moses».Says: Therefore, let’s always be very alert, because from one moment to another Christ will totally allow the opening of that mystery, which for the moment is being held a little bit so that the whole Work of the mystery of the Seventh Seal is not interrupted. [Rev. Jose B. Perez] In the message “The mighty God unveiled before us,”3 our brother Branham tells us (which was preached on June 29, 1964), he says: “[105] How much more would they call...Moses was an oddball. How much more will they call you, who has broke through the veil, has went into the Pillar of Fire, has come out with the Blessing! And now you are veiled. The people can’t see it. They can’t understand It.106 ‘If the natural be glorious, how much more will the supernatural! If the natural, which had an end to it, was to be glorious, how much more This which has no end to it, will be glorious!’107 But, still, It’s veiled. It’s veiled not to the believer, but to the unbeliever. He cannot see It. God always veils Himself from the unbeliever. Traditions hide It. Like they did then, they do it today.108 That was a spiritual veil that we have now, where the natural veil was. They are vindicated by the prophet with the written Word, a prophesier, one who comes with the written Word, to make It plain.109 They knowed the Word was there, but they didn’t know what It meant. And Moses made It plain. He said, ‘The commandment says This, and this is why.’ He made It plain. And before It was made plain, It was veiled.110 And so is it, today, veiled to the people, until It’s revealed and made plain to the people. God, the mighty God, veiled in human flesh, the Word.”[Rev. Jose B. Perez] And he says there: [WSS] «Moses explained the written Word. Before it is declared it is veiled. God always hides from the unbeliever».And our brother William continues to say here:In the reading, or in what was said by the Reverend William Branham in the book of _The Seals_, when he speaks of that mystery, he says: “If I could get the revelation and keep quiet.” See, that was what the Angel had told Reverend William Branham for the First and Second and Third Pulls; in other words, to do what he was told to do, but to keep quiet, without revealing the mystery of those stages. And now, THE MYSTERY OF THE THIRD PULL is the mystery that is contained in the Seventh Seal, in the Coming of the Lord; therefore, we have to be with our eyes open for God to open this mystery, and to open our understanding and our heart and our mind to be able to understand this mystery of the mysteries of the Bible. The Bible contains all the divine mysteries that have already been fulfilled, and those that are being fulfilled in our time, and those that are to be fulfilled. Therefore, we have to enter into the knowledge of these mysteries in humility, in simplicity, to be able to receive the benefits of the fulfillment of these mysteries for this end time. (...) And now, let’s continue all the days of our life obtaining the knowledge of the mysteries of the Bible, because you and I too are in the mysteries of the Bible; we are all there in the mysteries of the Bible. Therefore, keep studying the Scriptures and the messages pertaining to our time, and those you find from Reverend William Branham, because we are living in a very important time for us... [Rev. Jose B. Perez] In the book of The Seals, it tells us, page 107 [p. 129 in Eng.], our brother Branham says: “[97] If they was eight hundred went in the Rapture tonight, you would never hear a word about it tomorrow, or the next day, or no other time. They’d be gone and you’d know nothing about it. See, it’d just be the same thing.98 What am I trying to say? I’m not trying to scare you, worry you. I—I want you to be on your toes. Be ready, watching, every minute. Quit your nonsense. Just get down to business with God, ’cause it’s later than you think.”And our brother William continues saying here:…a very important time for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is waiting for the Second Coming of Christ and is waiting for the transformation of those of us who are alive, and is waiting for the resurrection of the dead in Christ, and is waiting for the rapture, that is, the translation of all the elect to the House of our heavenly Father, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Therefore, let each one of you keep your faults, errors and sins confessed to Christ, that you may be clean from all sin; and serving Christ our Savior all the days of your life. Always listening to His Word and being edified with His Word. **THE TREASURES OF GOD’S WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE ** _Dr. William Soto Santiago _ _Sunday, January 26, 2003 _ _Cayey, Puerto Rico_ For this end time the mystery of Christ in the midst of the Church will be manifested; and that mystery under the Seventh Seal, which will be known by those who will be hearing the Voice of Christ in the Last Day, the Voice of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, through His Angel Messenger… because it will be through the Angel Messenger that Christ in Holy Spirit will reveal that mystery of the Seventh Seal. First he will be the one to know it; and he will not tell it to anyone, until the time comes when Christ tells him to tell it. Therefore, we don’t know how long he will live with this mystery, reserved in his heart; but at some point he will have to give it to the Church of Jesus Christ, so that all may be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.4But the elect will suspect the entire time, they will be suspecting what the mystery of the Seventh Seal is; and some will know what the mystery of the Seventh Seal is, although they can’t explain it; and although they can’t fully understand it, they will know, they will know, the mystery of the Seventh Seal. Although they will not be able to put all the pieces of the puzzle, all in order, because the only one who will be able to put the puzzle in order will be the Holy Spirit through His Angel Messenger, to whom He will say: “Move _this_ piece and place it _here_, and this one _here_, and this other one _here_.” And he will have the puzzle; which has been a puzzle to the theologians, as the First Coming of Christ was a puzzle to the theologians of the Hebrew religion; and it is still a puzzle because they haven’t yet understood it. The mystery of the Second Coming of Christ is a puzzle for the theologians of Christianity; and they have been trying to assemble the puzzle, but they haven’t been able to assemble it. [Rev. Jose B. Perez] There is a part that our brother Branham talks about this. He says on page 17 of “Christ is the mystery of God revealed,”5 he says: “[122] And that’s why people has added those, and got their—their—their jigsaw puzzle all mixed up. See? They can’t make it right, ‘same yesterday, today, and forever.’123 But, if the thing is put together right, there is the entire picture of the fall and regeneration. The whole picture of creation, and God’s whole plan revealed right in Jesus Christ (and he writes there: [WSS] «Have the entire picture»). Amen! That’s the whole picture set together, every little crook and corner. It’s just like...Now, I don’t mean to be sacrilegious by this, but it’s just like putting a jigsaw puzzle together.124 That’s why we got pictures today that looks horrible. Say, ‘We are believers,’ and the cow picking grass up in top of the tree. Don’t work. That’s when they say, ‘Yeah, He’s every way, but just of a certain... He’s the same yesterday, today, and forever, all but a certain thing.’ See? Then you ruin your picture.125 The Bible said He is the same!”He goes on to say:It is that all these messianic prophecies pertaining to the Second Coming of Christ, the only one who can assemble them well, and form the whole picture of the puzzle correctly, is Christ in Holy Spirit in the midst of His Church, in His final manifestation, which will be through His Angel Messenger. Apart from that manifestation of Christ in His Angel Messenger, placing everything in its place, apart from that no one else will be able to assemble the puzzle of the Second Coming of Christ. Whoever assembles it, will be blessed. And only ONE will be able to assemble it. And the people that will be listening to him will be blessed, because they will have the faith —and faith is revelation—, they will have the faith, the revelation, of the Seventh Seal, of the Second Coming of Christ; and that is the faith, the revelation, to be changed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Therefore, they will be believing with all their soul in the mystery of the Seventh Seal, in the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ. (...) Pray much for me, I will pray for you too; and remember that you will have the spiritual food stored; you have it stored so you can use it. It will be served to you both _here_ and in the other place, and also in booklets; it is in videos and in tapes also. So even though I am traveling I don’t leave you without spiritual food, you will have all the Food you need for the days I am traveling. And let each one of you remain, with fear and trembling, serving Christ our Savior, and always taking care of yourself from all danger; for the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Always take care of yourselves and live according to the Word of God. Someday the struggles, sufferings and problems will be over, which will be when we have the new body, when we are transformed. So with the wisdom and knowledge of God given by Christ to you and me, let’s continue forward with our Christian life in the Mystical Body of Christ, and someday we will be transformed and go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. **THE NEW TESTAMENT: THE LOVE STORY ** _Dr. William Soto Santiago _ _Sunday, February 13, 2000 _ _(Second activity) _ _Cayey, Puerto Rico_ Perhaps on some occasion, if God allows me to speak again about Puerto Rico and the blessing of Puerto Rico, I will have to show you by obligation the coat of arms of Puerto Rico or speak to you about the coat of arms of Puerto Rico, where we have the Book of the Seven Seals and the Lamb on the Book of the Seven Seals. In the Psalms the psalmist says that the coat of arms are the Lord’s.6 You see, in the coat of arms of each one of the tribes, in the flag of each tribe, there was what God had with each tribe. And now, in the coat of arms of Puerto Rico, God shows us a great blessing for all of us; and we are going to leave it there. When God allows us to see a little bit of that great blessing, we will be seeing it with all the details that He allows us. We will even have to mention the place where John the apostle was, where the Mighty Angel descended with the little Book open in His hand; and it was an island. And if it was on an island there, where John received the revelation and where the Mighty Angel descended from Heaven, then there is an island, somewhere on planet Earth, that will have a blessing; a very great blessing; where Christ will express His divine love to His Church, and from there that revelation will spread to other nations. And the Seven Thunders will utter their voices, and the Voice of Christ revealing the mystery of the Seventh Seal will cover all other nations. Well, let’s leave that alone. Where did John hear the Seven Thunders? On an island. When the Mighty Angel placed his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land. In other words, he placed his left foot on an island and the other in the sea, in the sea that reached that island. [Rev. Jose B. Perez] And there is a part that Reverend William Branham speaks to us in the message “Is this the Sign of the End, Sir?”7; on page 20, he says: “138 Then he got to thinking about me. And he got up on a little knoll (He writes there: [WSS] «little island»), to look over and see if there was a little, bitty, narrow ledge, you know, that I could have walked around. But, said, ‘There wasn’t nothing.’ And he got worried. He said, ‘What happened to our brother? Wonder what happened to Brother Branham?’ And when he got scared, he said he heard me speak. And I was standing up on top of a mountain (And he writes: [WSS] «Standing at the top of God’s mountain, the Church»). And told Brother Beeler an interpretation of a dream that I had give him not long ago, and told him to wait on the Lord, that someday I’d meet him on an island. And there he was (and there he writes: [WSS] «the fifth Elijah»).139 Now, the interpretation of that dream is this: Insomuch that the stream was large, it was the stream of life. I was going westward (And he writes there: [WSS] «America») on it, and so was he; because, he was on a road, he was running small... down this road. And on the other side was lots of grass, but lots of thickets, and briers, and jungle; but in there was much grass. And that’s the way we hunt for the Lord, and the Food of the Lord, through difficult. Rounding up the cattle, was this church, keeping them on that side. Cattle will actually go on the smooth road, the denomination, if they can; which, the road represented denomination. I started him back up the road, to see that they did not go to any denomination (And he writes: [WSS] «Jeffersonville Tabernacle would remain in the denomination. And if they could…»).140 Insomuch that he saw a wall that was totally impossible to pass, that kept me from going west, was that tax case with the government. Nobody can understand how I ever got out of it. It was a wall that blocked me off, but the Lord taken me through it, and I was over it. I’ll meet you, Brother Beeler, on the island (And he writes: [WSS] «The Island. The fifth Elijah»).”And on page 18, he says: “[130] God moved upon the water. And—and then, in the beginning, He spoke for light. And, naturally, down under there, in the age that formation was, that light had never come upon that stone (in other words, upon the cornerstone).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, I believe it was, and watched me. I slipped off to one side, and started going towards the West, towards the setting of the sun; coming up a hill, going down a hill; coming up a hill, going down a hill…”[Rev. Jose B. Perez] And he does the little drawing of the ages with an arrow towards the West. (Can you see it here? I don’t know if the little part – if the camera can capture this little part here, where the little drawing of the pyramid is, and the arrow towards the West). And that represents the ages.And there is a little drawing that he also put in the book of The Seals, where he puts: The East, he writes: [WSS] «EAST», which is the part over there where the ages began.[WSS] «[SOUTH-EAST / CENTER-EAST (he puts the little arrow in red) —–>NORTH-EAST]».Continues traveling that way —–> the «NORTH/ EUROPE».Continues traveling —–> arrives here at the «WEST» and arrives at the «CENTER-WEST» (which is): the seventh age».And goes down and arrives in Puerto Rico.He writes there: [WSS] «PUERTO RICO: the eight age».And from there he makes many little dashes, and he writes: [WSS] «SOUTH-WEST».[WSS] «AMERICA – THE NEW WORLD».And that is what brother Branham is saying there, he says: “I slipped off to one side, and started going towards the West, towards the setting of the sun; coming up a hill, going down a hill (see?); coming up a hill, going down a hill; getting smaller and smaller (in other words, the pyramid is getting 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.”And he goes on to say:And let’s leave that alone there; and if next Sunday God gives me something more about the great blessing that God has placed among us, then we will be talking about all those things, and then we will be able to understand why God has prospered us so much here in Puerto Rico. Look, we arrived here, we had nothing; and then we got a cream-colored, sand-colored tent. How many of you remember that first tent? And now, you see the whole trajectory. He gave us different tents. And then He gave us this place. He has given us land too. In other words, He has continued His Work, and His Work will continue to grow here in Puerto Rico. He has great blessings for all of us. And I have always said that this place (although it is not full yet) is going to be very small for all that God is going to be doing when we are adopted; because the Tent Vision that Reverend William Branham saw, that is the and in the adoption of a messenger in the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone. That is why Reverend William Branham could never fulfill the Tent Vision; although he tried. But someone will fulfill it. Through someone, Christ will fulfill that Tent Vision. When the number of the elect of the Mystical Body of Christ is completed, we will see the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, to then come the call for the Hebrew people. They will see Christ working the great wonders that He has promised for this end time, when we are all adopted. In other words, it is a promise for when we are adopted. At least one must be adopted, at least the messenger who will be the instrument of Christ; but with the adoption of one, the adoption will come for all the others. So we can see why God has been working and blessing us, and in a progressive way we have come as far as we have come; and we will continue onward. And He will continue to bless us in the New Covenant and under the New Covenant in the New Testament, in this story of divine love. [Rev. Jose B. Perez] And what I read to you on Friday, for those who did not hear it, it says… These are some words of greeting to some pastors there in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico:[WSS] Therefore, notice, the Angel was there and saw; the Angel was the one that took brother Branham; therefore, the Angel knows, that Angel knows everything related to the Tent Vision, and He was the one that gave him the Tent Vision; therefore, He will be there. He will also have to do with the whole project of the Tent Vision. That Angel is included there in that Tent Vision.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] What a great blessing we have here in Puerto Rico! We are a blessed people!* * *