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BIBLE STUDY #488 – FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2025
Cayey, Puerto Rico
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Good morning to all those who are connected through the Amazonas satellite and the Eutelsat 8 satellite, and other means of communication, today, Friday, February 7th of this year, 2025.
Our subject is:
THE BLESSING OF FOLLOWING
GOD’S COUNSEL IN OUR TIME
(Ministers’ Meeting)
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Porto Velho, Rondônia, Brazil
Scripture: First Corinthians 2:6-16
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] And let’s read in First Corinthians, chapter 2, verse 6 and on, where it tells us:
7 But we speak…
[JBP] Verse 6:
1 Corinthians 2:6
6 Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:
7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:
[JBP] There he writes: [WSS] «Mt. 11:25-27, 13:11-17».
8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
[JBP] Which took place in the First Coming of the Lord, and will also take place in the Second Coming of the Lord. Meaning, this happens again in the fulfillment of Revelation 11; because the wisdom of the world, of the gentile world, is a human wisdom, an intellectual one (which…), that is, by intellect; which the religious leaders of that time also had, and that is why they killed, crucified, Jesus, the fulfillment of the First Coming of the Lord.
9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
[JBP] In this other Bible, he also writes there: [WSS] «Zech. 7:11-12».
He draws three circles.
And he also writes: [WSS] «Rom. 11; Mt. 13; Is. 40:13» ([JBP] those Scriptures there on the left of this Bible).
THE BLESSING OF FOLLOWING
GOD’S COUNSEL IN OUR TIME
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] In the message “THE OBEDIENT WIFE,” which was preached on Sunday, August 1, 2010 in Santiago, Chile, Dr. William Soto Santiago tells us:
THE OBEDIENT WIFE
(Ministers’ Meeting)
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Sunday, August 1, 2010
(Second activity)
Santiago, Chile
And every born-again believer in Christ has his image just like that of Christ, in other words, his heavenly body from the dimension of God, from the dimension of God’s angels, from the dimension of the heavenly body of Christ; and all that we’re missing is the physical likeness of God, which is the glorified body, like the glorified body that Jesus Christ has.
That is the physical body or likeness of God, in which God dwelt in all His fullness, a body created by God. Likewise, God will also create an eternal and glorified body for the believers in Christ who have died, resurrecting them in glorified bodies, and He will transform us who are alive; because these bodies are also of the dust of the ground and in the form of flesh…
[JBP] Now notice, those who are going to return from the sixth dimension will come in those eternal and glorified bodies once that promise is fulfilled, that prophecy, of Revelation 11; because it’s the second time that a leader —like it was in the First Coming of the Lord— prophecies that he will die and that he will resurrect three days later.
And that takes place again with the ministry of Moses and Elijah, with that instrument. He is the second man who has prophesied and has said that he will rise after three days. None of the messengers who have gone on, who have departed, have returned after three days.
And that ministry of Moses and Elijah, that instrument, after…; and that will be a global sign, and…, as our brother William says: it’s just a short trip for three days - three and a half days*; notice, that sign will be seen worldwide.
Therefore, he is the only instrument who goes, is there during those three and a half days, in that judgment of the sixth dimension…; because they asked brother Branham and they told him…; in other words, brother Branham asked, that “we would like to see Jesus” - he wanted to see Jesus. And he is told: [WMB] “He’ll come to you, and judge you.”*
*[The Seals, “The Fifth Seal,” pp. 367-369, paras. 389-413]
Meaning, that they are waiting for the Coming of the Lord there; and that’s when Revelation 11 is fulfilled; where he will go there, have that judgment there; and he will then come in the same body in which those ministries were operating on Earth. Meaning, it’s only three days, and he will return again, and the Spirit of God will come upon the body once again there (as we see there in Revelation 11); and He then brings those of the sixth dimension, as it happened in the First Coming of the Lord [Matthew 27:51-53].
When Jesus was crucified and buried, He did not take 5 days, 6 days, 7 days, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 5 years, 7 years, to bring the resurrection; it was only three days. Therefore, the Second Coming of the Lord is the same way; he says that [WMB] “it will be parallel in every way.”*
*[63-1229E - “Look Away To Jesus,” p. 7, para. 52]
And we see how people deceive the people: by twisting the Scripture for them, which can even be understood by a child. That’s why the children, because they don’t have that malice, they don’t have that reasoning: the Word, the revelation, comes into them, It reaches them directly, and they believe It; because they don’t start reasoning the Word.
That’s why He says that “if you do not receive…” Let’s read it, let’s search for it there in the Scripture. Luke and Mark speak to us about that. Luke 18, verse 15; and also Mark, chapter 10, verse 13. But let’s go to Luke - Saint Luke, chapter 18, verse 15; and it says:
Luke 18:15
15 And they brought unto him also infants, that he would touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked them.
16 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.
17 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.
[JBP] Notice that in children, because they don’t have that knowledge of good and evil, until they reach the age of 10 and on; but notice, a child… that’s why children go directly to Heaven.
Now, notice how children, from the child’s human side, because they don’t have that - that reasoning, and they don’t reason the Word, rather they believe It, when they receive the revelation…; for example, this very great revelation that God is giving us at this time, regarding what the Seventh Seal is, regarding what the Thunders are, the Coming of the Lord, regarding what Revelation 11 is; when they receive it and see all of that, even a child (it says) understands it, because it is something (let’s say) logical (let’s say); but already, because they are children, and that goes directly to the soul: they believe it.
It’s like when he said that in that Great Tent Cathedral, in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, in those activities and all, he says that there will be a little room there, where that instrument will be and where that person will be, whether it is his office (he says), or to be studying, to study*. And notice, a child sees that, and believes it and knows that there is an instrument there, where God is using him, and where that instrument is using that place to study. Well, logically: a person in an eternal and glorified body can’t come to study in an office. Meaning those are things that, as we say here: “se caen de la mata.” [A Puerto Rican idiom used to express that something is very evident. Literal translation: “It falls off the branch.” –Ed.]
*[Study “The Elect in the Final Movement of the Dispensation of the Kingdom”, 4/Mar/2024 (Monday), pp. 6-7]: 2009-03-25 “Words of Greeting to Ministers”
And, notice, Jesus before being crucified, they asked Him regarding the Coming of the Lord, the Second Coming; and He says: “Not even the Son knows.” [Mark 13:32] When He says that “not even the Son knows;” in other words, He still didn’t have that knowledge there; but notice that afterwards, once He received the glorified body in the resurrection, then He did. In that body, one knows all things; so, one doesn’t have to go into an office to study.
See? Those are such logical things that you don’t need so much education to know these things. But the very simplicity makes the person, the blind person, unable to see that great mystery of the Seventh Seal. And that is the worst illness that a person can have: spiritual illness, being spiritually blind; where they can’t even understand something simple.
But blessed are your eyes, elect of God, and your ears; because many of the prophets desired to see and hear what you are seeing and what you are hearing at this end time.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now, our brother William continues to say, here in this message “THE OBEDIENT WIFE”:
[WSS] … and then we will fully be in the image and likeness of God, we will have the fullness of God, the divine fullness. And then from that point on, things will change a lot for me, and for who else? Well, for each one of you as well.
In the meantime, we take care of the body that we have, because if we lose it, we have to wait in Paradise until we are given the new and eternal body. That is why in these times in which there are so many dangers, we have to take care of ourselves: take care of our health, be careful in traffic as well: while driving, driving correctly, to avoid causing any problem, and avoid others causing us problems as well, always on the lookout, driving carefully.
[JBP] Not driving exacerbated, but being cautious about everything; and looking at the signs too, and respecting the traffic signals.
[WSS] And look, Christ took care of His disciples: when they were on the ship, they were going to be destroyed by that storm, they cried out to Christ and Christ stopped the storm.
[Lectura JBP]
Now, He doesn’t always have to stop the storm; there are times when he says: “Get out of that place.” As He told them back then in the time in which Jerusalem would be destroyed, they wanted to know when it would be, He told them: “When you see Jerusalem compassed with armies, the time of its destruction has come.” [Luke 21:7-24]
[JBP] Now, notice, in the spiritual part (which comes first): before all those things that will come, we must take care of the spiritual part, before the mark of the beast intensifies.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now notice, on page 162 of the book of Quotations, paragraph 1439 it tells us:
[65-0829 “Satan’s Eden,” p. 16, paras. 102-103] [Bible Study #455, 13-2/Oct/2024 (Sunday), pp. 64-65]
1439 - “[102] They’re all uniting together now at the great Ecumenical Council, and going to have the world church all coming under one head, where Satan will be throned, just exactly.
103 And the last call is going out, to catch the Bride before She gets into that. For once in that, she’s took the mark of the beast, and doomed, she’ll never come out of it.”
[JBP] And above he writes: [WSS] «The pope / Head / the mark of the beast».
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] And also on page 52 of the book of Quotations, paragraph 450, it tells us:
[61-0217 - “The Mark Of The Beast And The Seal Of God #2,” pp. 17-18, paras. 107-111] [Bible Study #364, 1-2/Dec/2023 (Friday), pp. 17-18]
450 - “[107] Revelation 14:6-12. That’s the three last angels, three angels. After the seven last angels, there were three special angels come forth. Did you notice that?
108 And now I want you to notice them three last angels: The first angel, that’s Revelation 14:6-12, the first angel had sounded the trumpet of the Gospel, and had the everlasting Gospel preached to all the world; the second angel kind of preached a holiness Gospel, see, because he said that the church had committed fornications; and the third angel roared out to escape the mark of the beast.
109 Watch, the first angel, at the reformation, Luther, preached the Gospel; second angel, Wesley, sanctification, the fornication, he straightened up the church; but the third Message, the Pentecostal Message, should be, the true messenger, warning them to escape the mark of the beast. (...)
110 That’s the very Message today. (...)
111 Notice, the very next verse, the 12th…13th verse, ‘Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord.’ What’s the next? Armageddon. Church is gone then after the third angel’s Message.”
[JBP] And on the right, there he draws a Cornerstone and the seventh age part - of the seventh age.
And above there he writes: [WSS] «Armageddon».
And here at the bottom, on page 52, on the bottom right, under the paragraph where we started reading, he writes: [WSS] «The 3rd Message».
And in the last… the last 3 sentences there, of that bottom left part, there in the center he draws a part of… the lower part of the ages, and only divides the seventh age there.
[JBP] Now notice how important it is to follow the divine counsel, in terms of the spiritual part, which is the most important one.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now look, our brother William continues to say here, later on, in this same message: “THE OBEDIENT WIFE”; he says:
[Lectura JBP]
[WSS] (…) And when a storm comes, when the weather bureau announces that a storm is coming, well, people have to secure their homes. Those who live along the coasts, by the sea, well, they are told to move away from that area, from that place, because the tide will rise, it will probably go up, and if it reaches where they are living, well, they will die; and no one wants their family to die. Ignoring those announcements from the weather bureau is negligence on the person’s part and lack of love for his family.
Don’t think it’s very loving towards your family to take them their food and leave them there in danger; more than taking them their food, you have to get them out of the danger zone. And that’s what Christ did: He told them not to be there, to leave when they saw that Jerusalem was surrounded by armies. Perhaps anyone may have said: “There is the temple, there is the presence of God, we are going to pray there in the temple and God will look after us.” Well, look, He didn’t look after anyone; those who stayed: died; and many were crucified; the crosses were placed along the walls of Jerusalem.
In other words, it wasn’t a matter of saying: “I’m spiritual, I pray to God and God will take care of me.” Rather, it’s like saying… a person who did that and died, and went to Heaven, saying: “I prayed for You to deliver me but You didn’t deliver me.” —“But I told you that when you saw Jerusalem surrounded by armies you should leave that place! See that? You were negligent and you were negligent with your family, you didn’t love your family.”
Therefore, there is no questioning; Christ is the One who will demand an explanation from those ignorant and rebellious people; they fall into the rebellion of Dathan, Korah, Abiram and all those who rebelled against Moses [Numbers 16:1-35], because they didn’t act according to the counsel that they received.
[JBP] Now notice, that will also happen to those who have been disobedient of what Dr. William Soto Santiago spoke; that mighty Archangel who brought us the Good Tidings, who also foreran the Coming of the Lord; as he wrote there: [WSS] «forerunner» or [WSS] «will forerun» or [WSS] «foreruns», as he writes in several places*.
*[Bible Study #259, 27/Nov/2022 (Sunday), pp. 5-6, 10: [WSS] «will forerun».] [Bible study #291, 19/Mar/2023 (Sunday), p. 50 / Bible Study #417, 2-2/June/2024 (Sunday), pp. 42-43: 59-1217 - “What Was the Holy Ghost Given For?” p. 12, paras. 50-51 - [WSS] «forerunning».]
Now notice how he said: [WSS] “There will be a Tent; and the Mighty Angel will be revealing Himself there, the Pillar of Fire will be there. Tune in with the Tent”; and all of that - those advices that he gave.
Now, afterwards, when the person finds themselves in the great tribulation, he will have to go before the leaders who led them; in other words, they told them: “No, don’t tune into that. My congregation isn’t going to tune into that, they will tune into this.” Well look, they aren’t following the divine counsel there, nor the counsel of this time; and when they find themselves there, surely they will search for the leaders…
There is a place where he (I think he said) that [WSS] if they have not departed or those leaders have not taken their lives by then, like Judas did*…; because they will then realize the great harm that they cause: by speaking against Jesus, and getting all those people to go against Jesus, to cause a coup d’état against Jesus and His disciples.
Now, notice that then they will go and demand an explanation from those leaders as to why they are there and they didn’t receive the blessing of the transformation.
Now, he continues to say [(MM) “THE OBEDIENT WIFE”]:
[WSS] For example, we also have the case of California. Scientists have already studied California from above and from below, and they have said that the destruction of Los Angeles, California is inevitable…
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] That… Look, there are several places; but let’s read one now, to see… to start seeing the whole picture there. Notice, 141, paragraph 1266, says [Quotations]:
[65-0217 - “A Man Running From The Presence Of The Lord,” p. 16, para. 90] [Bible Study #444, 6-2/Sep/2024 (Friday), p. 27]
1266 - “90 And then two days after that, Alaska sunk, almost, up there. And up-and-down that West Coast has been the thunders and pushings, and everything happening. And one of these days she is going to slide beneath the ocean. Right. What is it? We’re living in the hour of the Coming of the Lord.”
[JBP] And on the left he writes: [WSS] «The Hour».
On the right, upwards he writes: [WSS] «We’re in the Hour».
And he also writes above: [WSS] «The California earthquake».
There he also writes: [WSS] «Jeffersonville = in the East».
And he also writes there: [WSS] «We are in the Hour of the Coming of the Lord».
In three sentences above the paragraph:
[WSS] «The California earthquake».
[WSS] «Jeffersonville = in the East».
[WSS] «We are in the Hour of the Coming of the Lord».
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now, our brother William continues to say [(MM) “THE OBEDIENT WIFE”]:
[WSS] … all of that will go underwater; God has also said so; on television, through the media, on the television channels that share that information (such as Discovery), and other informational channels are saying it as well.
And beyond that: God sent the forerunner of the Second Coming of the Lord and he told them right there, that it would be destroyed; and he told them: “Get out of there (to the believers in Christ)! Don’t stay there.”
[JBP] Now, that’s why he said to us: [WSS] “Have the books of The Seals, Ages, Quotations and the messages of brother Branham; because he was the forerunner of the Second Coming of the Lord; and as he said that it would be taking place and that promise would be fulfilled, that is how it would be.”* And he also prophesied about everything that would be taking place in the midst of the people, in the midst of mankind, with all those divine judgements; like the one for North America, that when he saw it (in the last vision), he turned around and he said that the saw craters and smoke over North America*.
*[The Ages, “The Laodicean Church Age,” p. 322]
Notice, he also prophesied over Los Angeles, California; he also spoke of Florida; he also spoke of England, that it would sink. See? And all of that to be fulfilled at this end time.
That is why we should have those messages and review them, as we do: we read excerpts of brother Branham, and also of the Bible, and also of the messages of our brother William. All of that is the foundation for this end time. God left plenty of Food, an abundant mountain of Bread, for the Church-Bride.
Now, he continues to say:
[WSS] But no one is forced to do what God says, everyone has free will. He is given the information, he is given the recommendation as well, but every person must act according to how he wants to act, because of the free will that he has; because it is the person’s responsibility.
[JBP] That is why when they ask…, because sometimes they ask me “what do we do?” There you have the answer: each person must take on that responsibility. If they moved with the family, well, you are responsible for your family, and for looking out for what’s best for your family.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now notice, in the message “WARNING, THEN JUDGMENT,” it tells us on page 9 of this message, it says:
[63-0724 - “God Doesn't Call Man To Judgment Without First Warning Him,” pp. 6-7, paras. 29-31] [Bible Study #323, 9/July/2023 (Sunday), pp. 31-32]
29 Now, everyone has this. We might say, “Well, this fellow died without a warning.” No, no, no. God never…You don’t know what was in that man’s heart, you don’t know what’s been going on in his life. See? God never brings any man to his death without first warning him about it, telling him, it’s something, a preparation. God is—is sovereign, and He—He knocks at the heart of every man, giving him the opportunity to come. Now, he might warn away and turn It down…
[JBP] That is where he writes on the right, going upwards, in three sentences:
[WSS] «God always gives
the opportunity
for man to choose».
[29] Now, he might warn away and turn It down, and—and shake his head to It and walk away, say, “Ah, it’s just a funny feeling, I’ll get over it.” But, anyhow, it was God, God speaking to him.
30 And God never even brings judgment upon the earth without first giving the people a warning. God never does nothing without declaring it first what He’s going to do. And He gives people a choice, and you can—you can do right or wrong.
[JBP] As we have been talking about since the ministry under the Tent began. But because the person has free will, then he decides, he is the one who chooses either right or wrong. The person can either do right or wrong.
[30] That’s His…See, God can never change His—His nature. His program can never change from what He started with, because He’s infinite and His program and His ideas are all perfect. So, if He would change It, that would show that He had learned more. So, being infinite, He cannot learn more. His—His first—His first decision is always perfect, and there’s nothing can ever change It. See?
31 God, before man ever was put…had a chance to do wrong, God put him on the basis to where he could accept or deny, he could receive or—or not.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] And our brother William goes on to say here [(MM) “THE OBEDIENT WIFE”]:
[WSS] Anyone can say: “Many years have passed, and the California earthquake hasn’t come.” They might say: “I stayed because I knew it wouldn’t come soon.” Yes, but he is considered disobedient to God’s counsel. And if they went against that counsel and said: “I have my business here, my family studies here,” and countless other excuses, that doesn’t count before God, because through the prophet forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, God said to leave; He didn’t say when it would happen, but He recommended that they leave.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now look, there’s also a message here titled: “WATCHMAN, WHAT OF THE NIGHT?” on page 8, it says… Let’s see here… well:
[58-1130 “Watchman, What Of The Night?” p. 10, paras. 64-65] [Bible Study #427, 7-2/July/2024 (Sunday), pp. 29-32]
63 And then as we could go on, hour after hour, on all the prophets, how they have prophesied of this day. Would not it make one cry out, “Watchman, what of the night?”
64 The Pentagon doesn’t have the answer. The United States doesn’t have the answer. Germany, Russia, none of them have the answer. Science doesn’t have the answer.
65 Who has the answer?
[JBP] And on the left, he writes: [WSS] «Rev. 10:1-11».
That is the Coming of the Mighty Angel. Now we know who has the answer.
[65] The Watchman, that’s on the wall, has the answer ([JBP] and he writes): [WSS] «The tower, Watchman, the Holy Spirit». “Watchman, what of the night?” And the Holy Spirit is that Watchman who is making ready the people, and giving warnings from God. He has been set as a Watchman. We see the sick being healed, blinded eyes coming open, deaf ears unstopped, cripples walking, the lame leaking… leaping like a hart. Fulfilling the…What is it? It’s the Coming of the Lord, pressing on.
[JBP] And above he writes: [WSS] «Every angel messenger is the watchman of the night, of the 7 of the Church ages. And the one of the morning is the Angel of Jesus».
[JBP] That is the Messenger to Israel.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now, our brother William goes on to say [(MM) “THE OBEDIENT WIFE”]:
[WSS] If they had left ([JBP] that is, if they had come out of there, out of California), they would have set up their businesses in other places, they would have been at ease in other places and not fearing every day that the earthquake of Los Angeles, California could take place; because every time there’s a shaking, people think it’s the earthquake which even science has been announcing and which is inevitable.
[JBP] Which, recently, look at that disaster that occurred, but it was by fire, where several hectares burned in that territory of Los Angeles, California.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now look, on 148… Those are all divine judgments. Paragraph 1322 says [Quotations]:
[65-0429E - “The Choosing Of A Bride,” p. 31, para. 231] [Bible Study #280, 10/Feb/2023 (Friday), pp. 17-18 / Bible Study #444, 6-2/Sep/2024 (Friday), p. 29]
1322 - “231 Thou city, who claims to be the city of the Angels, who has exalted yourself into heaven, and sent all the dirty, filthy things of fashions and things ([JBP] on the right write he writes): [WSS] «Los Angeles, California», till even the foreign countries come here to pick up our filth and send it away, to your fine churches and steeples, and so forth, the way you do. Remember, one day you’ll be laying in the bottom of the sea, your great honeycomb under you right now. The wrath of God is belching right beneath you ([JBP] and on top of that he writes): [WSS] «hell». How much longer He will hold this sandbar hanging out over that? When, that ocean out yonder, a mile deep, will slide in there, plumb back to the Salton Sea.”
[JBP] And on the right he writes: [WSS] «Pacific».
And there at the bottom he writes: [WSS] «Salton Sea».
And above he writes (in two sentences):
[WSS] «USA / The California earthquake
was symbolized in the one of Alaska».
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] And on page 151, paragraph 1346, it also tells us there [Quotations]:
[65-0718M - “Trying To Do God A Service Without Being The Will Of God,” p. 33, paras. 184-185] [Study “The Judgment Seat = the Son,” 6/Jan/2024 (Saturday), p. 30 / Bible Study #409, 5-2/May/2024 (Sunday), pp. 17-18 / Bible Study #444, 6-2/Sep/2024 (Friday), pp. 35-36]
1346 - “[184] Looky yonder, that nearly one-tenth of the earth…”
[JBP] There on the right he writes: [WSS] «10%».
And above: [WSS] «California, earthquake».
1346 - “[184] …one-tenth of the earth is ready to fall in. Science says that. They’re looking on the clock. Few years ago, said, ‘It’s only three minutes now till midnight.’ Might be a minute, might be a half a minute now.
They said, ‘It won’t happen in our generation.’
185 ‘It could happen in five minutes.’ And notice…”
[JBP] I was watching that they moved up the clock (they say it’s the Doomsday Clock) by a little bit; that is, it’s already… it was brought up; it’s closer now, they say*.
*[CNN Science. (Tue January 28, 2025). Doomsday Clock 2025: Scientists set new time. It is 89 Seconds to Midnight. CNN Science. Retrieved February 7, 2025, from
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/28/science/doomsday-clock-2025-time-wellness/index.html
1346 - “[185] And notice the next thing he said, ‘Five years.’ I never said that now. He said that, the scientist. They’re swarming away from California like flies. See? Well, the day that Lot went out ([JBP] and above he writes): [WSS] «the foolish» of Sodom, the same day it rained fire down upon the earth.
One of these days God is going to take our Message, and we’re going to leave here. Something is going to happen, sure enough ([JBP] and above “something,” he writes): [WSS] «Rapture», then, when the Church is gone, His Body, His Bride.”
[JBP] And he writes below that: [WSS] «The earthquake of California and 10%».
And below he writes: [WSS] «When Lot went out».
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now, our brother William continues to say [(MM) “THE OBEDIENT WIFE”]:
[WSS] Now, anyone may say: “It’s not necessary to leave that place.” Well, it’s not necessary, but it’s prudent, for two reasons: because if it happens, well, one isn’t there; and the other thing is: God recommended it, and God’s counsel is worth more than anything else on this Earth. The Scripture says that God will repay recompense to the islands [Isaiah 59:17-18].
With the earthquake of Los Angeles, California, that will impact the entire planet Earth and it will cause such a gigantic tsunami, that it will destroy (let’s say) one tenth of North America, that the waves will reach other states in North America, and the coasts will be affected, not only in North America, but that entire coast stretching down from California, which goes (through where?) through Mexico, Panama, Guatemala, that whole coast, (how far does it go?) Panama, Chile as well… If they received the blessing in 1906, when the Spirit of God came and brought, opened the seventh age, the Pentecostal age, well, that will also come… what will happen in North America will also come down there; that entire coast will be greatly affected.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] On page 118 of the book of Quotations, paragraph 1051, it says:
[63-1229M - “There Is A Man Here That Can Turn On The Light,” p. 30, paras. 168, 171] [Bible Study #222, 22-2/July/2022 (Friday), pp. 9-11]
1051 - “[168] The early church, started in the East; it went from there, jumped across the—the—the—the sea, over into Germany. It’s made three pulls. Look here. From Asia, down in—in Palestine, it jumped across the ocean to Germany; that was Luther. And it jumped from Luther, across the English Channel, over into England; by Wesley. And from Wesley, she’s jumped to the West Coast, to the United States ([JBP] and there he writes): [WSS] «To Los Angeles, California [on Azusa Street]» ([JBP] he writes on top there). And this, if you go any further, it’s coming back East again. (...)
[171] And look at those three jumps, three pulls. We’ll get into that tonight, see, see, how we’re at the end time.”
[JBP] On the left he also writes: [WSS] «1906».
And upwards, two sentences:
[WSS] «Azusa Street,
California, U.S.A.».
And on the right, in the corner, there on the right, at the end of the paragraph, he writes: [WSS] «West, everything has to happen here; and then to the East».
And at the top he writes: [WSS] «The 1st Church started in the East».
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now, our brother William continues to say [(MM) “THE OBEDIENT WIFE”]:
[WSS] Now, every person should know the things that are going to happen. The same people who have spoken about California, have also said: “When that San Andreas Fault goes down, that problem will affect that whole coast down there: Mexico, Panama, and also Colombia, Peru; all the ones along that side, along that coast, will be affected; Chile is also around there. And as for Chile, scientific scholars say that something big is coming, and they have been announcing it here too, and they are preparing themselves for a great earthquake that will come.
[JBP] He is preaching this there in Chile, in Santiago.
[WSS] And if it is the effect of the great earthquake of Los Angeles, California, then, by those days, surely the resurrection or the one of the resurrection will happen. But if an earthquake that affects part of Latin America happens before that, then they will go to Heaven before, and in the resurrection they will return in glorified bodies; but whoever wants to remain until he is transformed, will thus take the necessary precautions to remain alive.
[JBP] See? Because once a person’s days end on this planet Earth, there is no longer an opportunity to do anything in the Work of God; they go over there and rest until the resurrection occurs.
The only one who continues to carry out a work is Revelation 11; who only goes for three days, he says that [WSS] “it’s a trip (he says), a vacation in that place”; but notice, he will be carrying out a work over there, and then he will stand up on his feet. In other words, it is the same instrument that He is using at this time in the midst of the Church-Bride, giving Her the Rapturing Faith. As simple as that.
[WSS] For years now, in Puerto Rico I have also said that the coasts of Puerto Rico are in great danger. Well, you can understand why we are in Cayey. There are only sandy shores near the rivers; the high part is most favorable, though it is not free of earthquakes and storms, but it is safer than the coast.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] On page 149 of the book of Quotations, paragraph 1326, it tells us:
[65-0711 - “Ashamed,” p. 9-10, paras. 60-61] [Bible Study #444, 6-2/Sep/2024 (Friday), p. 30 in Spanish]
1326 - “60 This was a sermon that I preached on when, I believe, Brother Elij’ Perry might have been deacon here in the church at the time, for all I know. But it said, ‘The time will come…’ I didn’t know it until Mrs. Simpson brought me the—the sermon the other day. And I got it wrote in a little book, that, ‘The desert…’ that, ‘The ocean shall weep its way into the desert.’ That was thirty years ago.
61 And, of course, the Salton Sea is about two hundred feet below sea level, and if that big churning, that earth swallowing in like that, with hundreds of square miles, hundreds and hundreds of square miles sinking into the earth, that will throw a tidal wave plum to Arizona. Sure, it would.”
[JBP] And there on the right, upwards, he writes: [WSS] «The tidal wave will reach as far as Arizona».
And above he writes: [WSS] «The California earthquake».
And in a corner, he writes (on the left): [WSS] «USA».
And he also writes on top of that paragraph: [WSS] «Hebrews 12:25-29».
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] On page 150, paragraph 1336 it also tells us there [Quotations]:
[65-0718M - “Trying To Do God A Service Without Being The Will Of God,” p. 6, para. 25] [Bible Study #280, 10/Feb/2023 (Friday), p. 15 / Bible Study #409, 05-2/May/2024 (Sunday), pp. 15-16 / Bible Study #444, 06-2/Sep/2024 (Friday), pp. 31-32 in Spanish]
1336 - “[25] She went and got a prophecy that I made, about 1935 or something like that, and said, ‘The time would come,’ it’s written in a book somewhere, ‘that the sea would weep its way into the desert.’
Look what’ll take place. If that thousands of square miles falls down into the lava of the earth, and slides in, there will be millions die at one time. And that’ll cause such a tidal wave! Remember, plumb up into the Salton Sea, is a hundred or two hundred feet* lower than the sea level. That water will probably come almost to Tucson, with that tidal wave coming across there. ‘And the sea shall weep its way into the desert.’”
*100 or 200 feet = 30.48 or 60.96 meters
[JBP] At the bottom there he writes: [WSS] «The Salton Sea in the West, in USA, as it was in Sodom and Gomorrah».
And above he writes (in two sentences):
[WSS] «It will fall in the boiling hot lava,
in hell».
And another sentence: [WSS] «The earthquake of Los Angeles, California».
And he also writes on the left there: [WSS] «Tucson».
[JBP] Now that’s how it happened with - in Moses’ time with Dathan, Abiram and Korah, the earth opened up and they went down into hell alive. [Numbers 16:25-33]
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] On page 161, paragraph 1434, it says [Quotations]:
[65-0822E - “A Thinking Man's Filter,” p. 25, para. 145] [Bible Study #340, 08/Sep/2023 (Friday), p. 20-21/ Bible Study “The Coming of the Creator”, 03/Feb/2024 (Saturday), p.39/ Bible Study #444, 6-2/Sep/2024 (Friday) p. 37 in Spanish]
1434 - “145 Nations are breaking. The world is falling apart. Fifteen-hundred- mile chunk of it, three- or four-hundred-miles wide, will sink, hundred...or maybe forty miles down into that great fault out yonder, one of these days, and waves will shoot plumb out to the state of Kentucky. And when it does, it’ll shake the world so hard that everything on top of it will shake down.”
[JBP] Above he writes: [WSS] «The earthquake».
[WSS] «1500 x 400 x 400» (there’s a zero there, it’s cut off).
And he also writes down there: [WSS] «Everything will be shaken» (on top).
[WSS] «The earthquake [California]. 1500 x 400 x 400».
[WSS] «Everything will be shaken».
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now, our brother William goes on to say [(MM) “THE OBEDIENT WIFE”]:
[WSS] And now, never take recommendations as though you are forced to follow them, but as a warning, so that whoever wants to escape the problems that are coming, knows how to escape, what to do. Even animals look for the safest place. And for the human being not to look for the safest places, would mean being less intelligent than animals.
We must always look for what is safest, not only for ourselves, but for our family, so that later on we aren’t crying: “But this or that… now…” Who will help you then? While there is time, one finds a way to secure things and secure the family, in the safest places, if he can and if he wants to; if he can but doesn’t want to, well, that is his responsibility. Remember that every person will be responsible for his family.
The Scripture says that Christ cherishes His Church [Ephesians 5:29]; a man has to cherish his wife and his children. Recommendations are always good; and in the message of each age and of each dispensation, there are always the recommendations from God.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] On page 169 of the book of Quotations, paragraph 1511, it says:
[65-1204 - “The Rapture,” p. 36, paras. 197-198] [Bible Study #444, 6-2/Sep/2024 (Friday), p. 38]
1511 - “197 ‘You that call yourself by the name of the Angels; if the mighty works had been done in Sodom ([JBP] or if they were done in Sodom), that been done in you, it’d stood today. But your hour has come.’
You watch and see. If it ain’t, I’m a false prophet. See? There she is. She’s laying there.
198 I remember that night, ’fore I seen that, I seen the preview of the Bride.”
[JBP] And he draws a Star of David on the right.
Before what happens? The earthquake of Los Angeles, California.
And he writes there at the top: [WSS] «The Vision of the Bride».
[WSS] «The earthquake of Los Angeles, California».
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now notice something very important, because he says that before seeing that, he saw the vision of the Bride; which, on page… he touched on this vision in many messages. But notice, let’s go to “THE MASTERPIECE,” on page 42, where he tells us:
[64-0705 - The Masterpiece,” p. , paras. 195-196] [Bible Study #455, 13-2/Oct/2024 (Sunday) DRAFT]
195 And, then, I have to watch Her. She’ll get out of step with that Word if I don’t watch, when She is passing by, if She gets by. Maybe it’ll be my time, when I’m over, see, when I’m finished, or whatever it is.
[JBP] When the ministry of Elijah in its fourth manifestation is finished. But because it was promised that the ministry of Elijah would be in its fifth manifestation, well, then the ministry of Elijah in its fifth manifestation is in the midst of the Church, watching the Church-Bride; and not only the ministry of Elijah, but the one of Moses; and not only of Moses, but of Jesus.
Now, he writes there on the left, going upwards (three sentences):
[WSS] «The vision of the Bride,
Maybe when he is
[right side] on the other side».
To the «[right side]» it’s a bit further dow-..., it’s another sentence there; it would be the fourth one.
[WSS] «The vision of the Bride,
Maybe when he is
on the other side».
[JBP] And on the bottom there, upwards, as well: [WSS] «[right side]», which is what he is going to read more about… - what he will talk about later.
196 What? They was getting back. Trying their best, and was getting back…
[JBP] Now, there he also draws a little Cornerstone on the right, on the right part.
And he writes, beside the little Cornerstone: [WSS] «We must walk in the center of the Word for the moment [promised, vindicated, fulfilled], for the Age of the Grain, the Age of the Cornerstone».
196 What? They was getting back. Trying their best, and was getting back, just get in line; ’cause, they—they was looking out somewhere else, watching about that church that just went out into chaos.
[JBP] And above he writes: [WSS] «Laodicean».
And that’s where he writes…, that is, now - further on is where he writes the part on the right. He says:
But two…The front ones, never. The back ones, just two or three of them, was kind of stepped out a little bit to the right-hand side…
And there on the right he writes: [WSS] «The right = right-hand».
And where he had written «the Age of the Grain», there is an arrow pointing to that part of the writing.
And on the left he draws a Cornerstone and the ages, and the arrow towards the Cornerstone.
He says:
[196] …just two or three of them, was kind of stepped out a little bit to the right-hand side, and looked like was trying to get back in line as they went by. They was just past me, oh, far as here to the wall, past me. And I was standing there. And then I just seen it all move out and leave.
But, you notice, the church ([JBP] at the bottom there he writes): [WSS] «Coming back to put things in order with the Word, in the 8th step» only came into view once, each nation, the church. But the Bride come in twice. See, see what it was? Now, not knowing it, but look at it with my Message this morning. Not knowing that. See?
[JBP] And up there he writes: [WSS] «The Bride comes two times».
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now, our brother William continues to say [(MM) “THE OBEDIENT WIFE”]:
[WSS] For example, in the time of Noah there was the recommendation, the Message of God, the warning that a flood would come upon the Earth and that the only way to escape was in the ark.
But notice, the Scripture says that they didn’t understand, Jesus says: “And they knew not, and the flood came and took them all away.” [Matthew 24:38-39] Those who “don’t understand” have problems: the divine judgment comes and takes them away; the wise will understand [Daniel 12:10], and the wise will escape, one of the proverbs says that “the wise man foresees evil and flees, escapes.” [Proverbs 22:3] But the unwise: doesn’t see anything, and then he’s in trouble.
It’s like when there is a storm in a country and it is announced: the “[un]wise” knows that some winds are coming which are a sign that the storm is already near —they are hurricane winds, which are warning through strong winds that the hurricane is already coming— but he says: “No, that’s just a little wind there,” and if it catches the person out of a safe place, it destroys him. And if he didn’t fully secure his house, the doors and the windows, it destroys his home and his children as well.
[Lectura JBP]
And who is responsible? The storm? No; it’s the person who was negligent and didn’t understand; he wasn’t wise, and he can’t say that he loved his family. Shedding some tears later on is all an act; anyone can cry over anything else too. It was lack of love for their family that caused them not to secure their family.
And also from age to age, when problems come or will come —or from dispensation to dispensation— it would be a lack of love from the messenger if they didn’t say what was coming.
[JBP] That is why: for the sake of the elect, notice, a warning is given; and to every human being. Because the recommendations are given, the counsel is given to everyone; but see, the only ones who accept that counsel, and heed it, are the elect, those who will be transformed; the rest will realize it later.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now notice, in this same message: “WARNING, THEN JUDGMENT,” on page 14, Reverend William Branham tells us in this message…, page 14 says (at the bottom):
[63-0724 - “God Doesn't Call Man To Judgment Without First Warning Him,” pp. 11-12, paras. 60-70]
60 Remember, God is always in threes. Like Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; and justification, and bap-…and sanctification, baptism of the Holy Ghost; so forth; He’s in threes.
61 Now, God is that message of repentance to the church nominal. God’s in that message of Divine healing to the church Pentecostal. God’s in the Message to the Bride. See? So we find out that all of them calling, one to this, this to that, and that to that. God calling the church out of the world; the…calling the church in the denominal church into Pentecost; and calling the Bride out of Pentecost. See?
[JBP] There on the right, he draws a Cornerstone and the ages.
62 Like Luther, Wesley, and now. See, it’s just all perfectly typed up and there’s no mistake about it. I’ve hit all around the ends of it, and sides of it, and inside and outside of it, and showed it by the Scripture, the chronology of it, till we know that it’s absolutely the Truth. See? There’s no mistake. Sunday I hope that God sinks it so deep that you’ll never be able to get away from it. See?
63 Now, God giving warning, “Prepare for a judgment.” The atomic bombs are in the hangars, everything setting ready ([JBP] on the right he writes): [WSS] «atomic bombs». And God, before He can let this thing happen, He makes a call down through, like He did in Sodom, “Come out of it. Get ready. There is something going to happen.”
64 Like in the days of Noah, before God sent the waters to destroy the world in the great antediluvian world that had come off into sin, as Jesus clearly said that it was a day just like this. “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man.” ([JBP] and on the left he writes, upwards): [WSS] «the Son of Man» How that the women on the rampage, and—and marrying and giving in marriage, and—and the great scientific achievements, and the smart educated going into the intellectual sides, and the little humble Flock sitting off to one side waiting the pending judgment and the escape. And before God sent that judgment, He sent a prophet. Um-hum ([JBP] that was Noah).
65 Just like He did to Hezekiah, He said, “Get ready, for the judgments are ready to fall.”
66 And he made the people ready for the time. Noah made the people ready, and it was a call of mercy before judgment.
[JBP] There was a call of mercy before judgment; which is the message of Elijah and Moses, he says: [WSS] «He who receives his Message, receives mercy»*. He says: [WMB] “They spurned God’s mercy for the last time”; because we are living as in the days of Noah, where there was a dispensational prophet.
*Study “In the 3rd Pull: They had to recognize Him,” 17/Nov/2022 (Thursday), p. 15: The Seals, “The Sixth Seal,” pp. 424-425, paras. 360-36 - [WSS] «Elijah and Moses, he who receives His Message receives mercy».
And on the right, there he draws a Cornerstone and the ages.
And in the previous paragraph he also draws a Cornerstone and the ages.
67 Nineveh was made to know before their time. God looked down to Nineveh, and He said, “I’m—I’m just sick and tired of these things.” I—I—I understand that—that the…though that great, heathen, Gentile world…Their city, as it was in them days, they judged them by city; now it’s by nations, now after the population has spread the way it has. He said, “That great city is give over, altogether, to sin.”
68 And God, before He would send judgment, He sent a warning message, “Come out of it! Get right!” Watch, the prophet never said nothing but—but to get…Said, “Within forty days this city will be destroyed.”
69 And, oh, how sometime it’s hard to do such things as that, to tell people. If the prophet don’t watch, he’ll get in trouble, because he’ll kind of go off to one side, trying to make it easy, or compromise a little bit here and a little bit there.
[JBP] Notice, it is a great responsibility for a prophet, and especially when he is a dispensational prophet. But notice, committing himself, knowing that he will make a lot of enemies because of what he says…; but he sees the Divine Program, and God by His Holy Spirit guides him to speak everything that he has to speak.
And that’s how it was in each age and in each dispensation; and the Word was fulfilled, It was materialized, in the portion relevant to the time in which God sent that messenger.
But look, many suffered; as it happens at this end time, regarding that instrument who has eaten the Book: because he ate It, notice, many persecutions, many problems, have come, will come, and will continue to come upon him, because of that Book. It says: “It will make your belly bitter… It was sweet in my mouth, but it made my belly bitter” [Revelation 10:8-11]; those are the struggles, the persecutions, and all because of the Book.
[69] …or compromise a little bit here and a little bit there. But the real prophet’s got the order from God, should never compromise nothing, he should absolutely lay it right on the line ([JBP] See?).
70 That’s the reason He used the spirit of Elijah so much, see, because that that spirit always carried out His orders.
[JBP] That’s why I am fulfilling every order, everything that He has told me to speak; and I don’t compromise for anyone, rather I’m committed to God and His Word. No matter what problems, enemies, come my way; but the elect will understand, they will understand, and they will align themselves and follow the divine counsel.
[70] You see? See, it brought His orders just exactly what It was, and always a “Come back to the Word!” See? Always a bring ’em back to the Word.
[JBP] And he says it again there:
[70] “Come back to the Word!” See? Always a bring ’em back to the Word.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Look, on page 154, of the book of Quotations, paragraph 1381, it tells us:
[65-0725E - “What Is The Attraction On The Mountain?” pp. 15-16, paras. 97-98] [Bible Study #444, 06-2/Sep/2024 (Friday), p.39-37]
1381 - “97 [Zechariah 14:4-5] Another earthquake splitting open the earth! If you want to follow out a Scripture here, notice in this 5th verse, it applies that the cleaving of the Mount of Olives is due to an earthquake, and this is confirmed by Isaiah 29:6 and Revelation 16:9. Exactly! What is it? The same prophet told of His first coming, seen His second Coming. Notice, ‘As in the days of the earthquake.’ See what the earthquakes are doing? See the predictions of them? (...)
[98] (That earthquake to the Gentiles, to the last day.)”
[JBP] And above “that earthquake to the Gentiles” he writes: [WSS] «California».
And on “the last day” he writes: [WSS] «Last Day, 7th millennium».
And on top he writes: [WSS] «The earthquake at the Last Day. Rev. 16:18».
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Let’s turn there: ti Revelation 16, verse 18, where it tells us:
Revelation 16:18
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
[JBP] Let’s read it starting from 17, it says:
Revelation 16:17
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
[JBP] On top of verse 18 there, in that part he writes: [WSS] «Rev. 21:6, 11:19, 15:5».
18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great.
[JBP] There we see that earthquake.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now notice here in Job. Let’s turn to Job, where it tells us…; in chapter 22… - or chapter 28, verse 22, says:
Job 38:22
22 Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,
23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
[JBP] There on the left he writes: [WSS] «Snow, hail».
And also several Scriptures: [WSS] «Rev. 11:15-19, 15:1-5, 8:1-5 (all of that is also the Seventh Seal), 2:18, 1:14, 10:1-11, 19:11-21. 11:1-19».
Notice, all of that is the Coming of the Lord or in the Coming of the Lord.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now, our brother William goes on to say here, a bit further on, he says…, in the message that I’m reading from: “THE OBEDIENT WIFE”:
[WSS] (…) Therefore, those are things that will happen, the believers in Christ, well, try to find the best way to be and to have their family, so that the problems that are coming due to global warming, because the human being has damaged nature…; and now nature is not working as it should, instead of working in favor of the human being, it is working against the human being.
All those who want to take advice, well, follow the advice of the Word; whoever wants to stay in a dangerous place with his family, has free will, too. On one occasion, they say that there was... it’s a story of a man who was very spiritual, he prayed a lot to God, he believed God’s promises, but sometimes there are people who get a little fanatic and go to extremes; one has to stay in the center, stray to the right nor to the left.
And they announced a storm…
[JBP] Now, it’s like when a person asks for prayer: “Look, I have this; and the doctor is telling me this, and that; for you to pray for me.” And they have always been told: “Well you have to follow the recommendations that the doctor gives you, and I will pray that everything goes well; but you also have to follow the doctor’s advice.” And he comes and says: “Well, I already told you to pray for me, so I won’t go to any doctor anymore.”
Notice, you can’t tempt the Lord either. Of course you will believe it with all your heart!; and perhaps you don’t even have to walk out the door, because before you know it, you’re healed, or when they are going to do a medical examination on you, they may find that there’s nothing there anymore, see? Because you believed; but you followed the relevant steps, you didn’t sit back and relax.
That’s what happened to brother Branham’s wife (which, we talk about that case every time). Notice, he could have said: “Well, I pray for the sick and God heals them; and I’ll tell her to keep believing and I won’t send her to the doctor.” No, he took all the relevant steps: she had her pre-admission, the admission, and everything; she took all the documents; his wife prepared everything there (those who helped her), she had someone look after the children; notice, the whole process that took place; and she had the tumor there.
But notice, through that, God was also showing one of the great manifestations of God’s power in the Third Pull; which, by the spoken Word at distance… Notice, she didn’t - she didn’t hear him, nor did she know that he had pronounced those words. Now, notice, when the doctor went to touch her to operate on her, the tumor was not there anymore*. See?
*[Sister Meda Branham’s Healing: pp. 290-295, paras. 71-136 ([64-0120] “His Unfailing Words Of Promise”)]
One has to do what the doctor says; if it is a recommendation of something that… or some illness. And also if it is something, a recommendation, an advice, in terms of dangerous places, well, take precautions.
Now… But remember that the person has free will. One can’t say: “Tell me what to do.” Because if one tells them: “Well, pick everything up and leave,” but they still have some things to take care of or to do, or they can’t move in that moment because of certain things, and something happens: “But he told me to leave.” But it’s your decision, you have free will together with your family, to do what’s best for your family.
Now, he goes on to say [(MM) “THE OBEDIENT WIFE”]:
[WSS] And they announced a storm, but he said ([JBP] that is the story he is telling): “God is going to deliver me; I’m going to stay here with my family because God is going to deliver me, the Lord is going to deliver me, He is my Savior.” The government took all the people out of the danger zone, but he didn’t want to leave. He said: “No, the Lord Jesus Christ will deliver me, He is my Savior.” The bad weather started, they went in boats looking for people (left behind) in their houses, because the water had already risen ([JBP] that is, they went on boats looking for people) the water level; they took the people they found, and they tell him and his family to get on the boat, but he says: “No, the Lord Jesus Christ will deliver me, He is my Savior.”
Then, later on, the water level continues to rise, he climbs up to the top part of the house, a helicopter flies by picking up more people (if there were any) and they ask him to come up, but he says: “No, the Lord will deliver me,” and he didn’t want to; and the water kept rising, and he and his family drowned. And when he reached Heaven, he starts to ask for an explanation up there —this is a story— ([JBP] he says), he starts to ask for an explanation up there from the Lord: “Lord, I believed in You, I believe in You, and You didn’t save me; my family and I drowned, and we asked You to save us.” He tells him: “I sent you a boat, I also sent you a helicopter, and you didn’t want to!”
[JBP] Now, they (some) may say when they are in the great tribulation: “Lord, I believed in You, in Your Message, I believed in everything You had said; but You didn’t come. Because we were thinking, believing, that You would come, You Yourself, who left; that You would return in that body, in a young glorified body, and in that body You would save us.”
—“Well, I sent you the two ministries of Moses and Elijah, so that you could believe the Message that they would be giving, and receive that divine counsel, receive the Thunders, receive the Rapturing Faith, so that you would be under the ministry under the Tent, but you didn’t want to!”
He goes on to say:
[WSS] It’s because sometimes we think or don’t know that God uses many things to bless us, to help us, and to deliver us from some dangers. And when one sees the opportunity, one should take hold of it quickly, because otherwise it has already passed then and there is no way to get that same opportunity.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now notice, in the message “SOULS THAT ARE IN PRISON NOW,” our brother Branham says here, brother Branham somewhere here, where he also tells us about something that happened in Ireland (let’s see where it was… Ireland), another story as well; page 49 of “SOULS THAT ARE IN PRISON NOW,” he says:
[63-1110M - “Souls That Are In Prison Now,” pp. 47-48, paras. 350-355] [Study “The ministry of Moses and Elijah coming to perfection,” 19/Oct/2024 (Saturday), pp. 11-15]
350 Let me tell you this just before closing now. I’m closing. It was told, about in Ireland, facing the waters. There was a great reef that goes down along the side of the bank, and up on this great hill. And there was a man going, walking along there one day, just—just at the time ([JBP] there he circles “the time”) for the tides to come in. And there was a noble man who lived on the hill…
[JBP] And he writes: [WSS] «In the Cornerstone, Moses and Elijah».
And today that noble man is in the Age of the Cornerstone, at the top, giving the warning, giving the counsel.
[350] And there was a noble man who lived on the hill, that knowed these tides ([JBP] and he writes): [WSS] «the judgments». He knowed the time of day that the tides was supposed to come ([JBP] and again he writes): [WSS] «the judgments». He knew what time the tide set in ([JBP] and he writes): [WSS] «the Zero Hour». This guy didn’t care what time. He was one of these know-it-alls. He had his own idea.
[JBP] The same thing that’s happening at this time: ministers and brethren with their own ideas; those are the know-it-alls.
And there on the left he writes: [WSS] «The noble man and the know-it-all».
He also writes: [WSS] «At the Zero Hour».
[350] He was an athletical man, smart, intelligent fellow, but he just didn’t know the time of the tide ([JBP] and he writes): [WSS] «of the judgments». He didn’t know the country. He didn’t know the time the sign was right, when the moon had dropped ([JBP] he writes): [WSS] «Laodicean - church» its back from the earth.
351 And when God ever drops His Spirit from the earth, brother, she is gone, it’s all over.
[JBP] Now, notice another place where he says: “When He that letteth is taken out of the way.” Do you remember the Scripture? We have read and we have spoken about this on several occasions*.
*[Study “The Union by the Manifested Word Made Flesh”, 10-1/Nov2024/ (Sunday) DRAFT]
Now, he also shows us here… Remember, when the Holy Spirit is taken away from the Church, is taken away from the Earth, taken away from the ages… He says: [WMB] “Not down here,” when he speaks in that part about the segregation of the Angels: [WMB] “Not angels down here,” meaning, on Earth, in… (speaking in spiritual terms), in… under the seven ages, under the Dispensation of Grace, He is taken away, and becomes incarnate, he says: [WMB] “And comes incarnate in a man,” where? In the Age of the Cornerstone.
351 And when God ever drops His Spirit from the earth, brother, she is gone, it’s all over.
[JBP] And he writes: [WSS] «6th Seal».
And on the right, upwards, he writes: [WSS] «The sign of judgement: the moon went away».
352 That moon would ever move out of its place ([JBP] he writes): [WSS] «the church» , the waters ([JBP] and above he writes): [WSS] «the fire» would cover the earth like it was when God started it, in Genesis 1. But the moon set there ([JBP] and he writes): [WSS] «Church» , and when it just even turns its head, the tides start running in.
353 This wise old man who lived there ([JBP] he writes): [WSS] «Moses and Elijah» in the presence of it, knowed what time that was. This guy didn’t know. He never studied it. He didn’t care about it.
[JBP] How many don’t care about anything either, at this time.
[353] And this wise old man run out, and said, “My good man, darest thou go any farther. Turn back, quickly. There is a wall. You can’t get up the wall. You’ll perish. The…It’s the signs are on, the time. The—the tide will gush in all at once, and you cannot return. Don’t go any farther.”
[JBP] They’re going down the wrong paths; and then it is going to be difficult or will be difficult to return.
354 And the man turned around, and laughed at him, said…
[JBP] Because they always hear the warnings, the advice, and instead what they do is laugh, scoff, mock. There are always mockers.
On the left he writes: [WSS] «The noble man and the know-it-all / the judgment».
[354] “Go take care of your own business. I know what I can do and what I can’t.” And the tides caught him. See?
355 It may be later than we think. See? It’ll catch you. Don’t go any further. Don’t you do it, people. If you’ve always believed in me as being God’s servant, take my word this morning, if you ever did. It might be already too late. So much Scripture shows it that way.
[JBP] And he draws a Star of David on the left.
And on the right he also draws a Star of David.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] And our brother William goes on to say [(MM) “THE OBEDIENT WIFE”]:
[WSS] If there is an opportunity, it’s another opportunity ([JBP] that is, if there were to be another one, then it would be an additional one). And if you spurn the one that God sends, and you spurn the knowledge that He gives of the things that will happen (as Christ tells us here says here, in the passage that we read of Saint Luke, chapter 21, verses 25 and on, and Revelation, chapter 16), if we don’t pay attention and wake up to the reality that we are at that time when He says that these things will happen, well, if they are going to happen, then we have to be careful.
[JBP] Not to spurn the mercy of God for the last time.
“THE BLESSING OF FOLLOWING GOD’S COUNSEL IN OUR TIME.”
[JBP] Let’s stand, and thus leave with us, in this message, our dear brother and friend, Dr. William Soto Santiago.