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BIBLE STUDY #171
SUNDAY, JANUARY 23, 2022
*Rev. Jose B. Perez*And that is why we try to have all these studies available to all the brethren, not only here in Puerto Rico, but in all Latin America.Excerpt taken from book number 68 of the selection of special excerpts “Stay with the Word”:“[Introduction] Therefore, we see that the divine knowledge for this time in which we live is necessary for us to reach the place of security, to reach the place of blessing, which is where the promises of God are for this end time; and therefore, for this, God sends His Angel, as it says in Revelation 22:16: “I Jesus have sent my angel to testify to you these things in the churches.”**This knowledge that the Angel of the Lord brings, this revelation, is precisely to guide the people to the place of security, to the place of victory, where the promises and blessings of God are. For that reason, we need to follow the Message of the Angel of the Lord, as it was given to us, without taking away, without adding to it, but following that line that God has traced for us through His Angel Messenger, William Soto Santiago.**My advice is always: Stay in the Word, stay in the Angel’s Message, because that is where the blessing is for all the children of God.**Your servant and friend: MIGUEL BERMUDEZ MARIN.”* * * TITLE: THE MYSTERY OF THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB Dr. William Soto Santiago Sunday, December 21, 1997 Austin, Texas, United States
**Scripture: Revelation 19:7-10** **THE SON OF THE RIGHT HAND ** **VI Latin American and Caribbean Youth Encounter ** “**The Youth of the Future in the Age of Divine Love.” ** _Dr. William Soto Santiago _ _Sunday, February 25, 1996 _ _(Second activity) _ _Santiago de Chile, Chile _ (Volume 54) And now we have reached the time where that Birthright Blessing given to Ephraim will be seen manifested in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the last ministry that Christ, the heir of all things, the heir of the Birthright Blessing…, who has passed it on, as Jacob passed it on, has passed it on to His gentile Church, represented in Ephraim. Now, it is in the midst of the gentile Church that the Birthright Blessing will be seen in the Last Day manifested, although it has always been there; but it will be manifested in all its fullness, so that the sons and daughters of God, who have been redeemed by the Blood of Jesus Christ, who are the Firstborn written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, will receive their resurrection, those belonging to the past ages and some of ours who have departed; and we who are alive will be transformed. Because the Birthright Blessing, the blessing of the one who is on the right hand, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has it all the time, from the time He was born until this Last Day, where that blessing contained in the Book that was sealed in Heaven with seven seals is spoken; because the Birthright Blessing comes from the Right Hand of God, it is contained in that Book that is in the Right Hand of God. And that Book is opened in the Last Day, and it is brought to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ by our beloved Lord Jesus Christ; and it is delivered to His Church through the ministry that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has in the Last Day, which is the ministry of the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. (...) Now, here when John sees Him in the Lord’s Day, when the ages are past, he says [Revelation 1:16]: _“...and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength._ _And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me…”_ And that is the Right Hand where the Birthright Blessing is. And He places His Right Hand here over John; and John represents the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Last Day, in the Lord’s Day, where Jesus Christ places the ministry of His Angel Messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom. So the Right Hand of Christ is placed over His Church, which will be under the ministry of Christ through His Angel Messenger. And there we can see the Son of the Right Hand, the Son upon whom Jesus Christ places His Right Hand to bless him. By blessing His Angel, He will be blessing all His Church in the Last Day. That is why in Revelation, chapter 10, which is the same, Christ as a Lion descends from Heaven with His face like the sun, with the little Book open in His hand, and cries as when a lion roars, because He comes as the Lion and not as a Lamb, and seven thunders utter their voices. (...) Now, lets see something here: _“And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me…”_ And Jacob placed His right hand upon Ephraim. And now Christ places His Right Hand —which brings the Book of the Seven Seals— upon His Church, by placing His Book of the Seven Seals on John, which represents the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ and the whole Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the Last Day. Now look how here, when Christ placed His right hand upon John, then, in Revelation 10, when He gave him the Book of the Seven Seals, there He is placing His right hand on John, which is type and figure of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ under the ministry of the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ. It always comes to the ministry placed by Christ, the Word; it is always to the ministry that God has placed in every time that Christ’s blessing comes to His Church. And now, in the Last Day, we can see how the blessing of Christ comes to His Church, that Birthright Blessing, that Title Deed: it comes through the ministry that Christ has placed in His Church in the Last Day, which is the ministry of His Angel Messenger, of the messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom and of the Age of the Cornerstone. **THE MYSTERY OF DIVINE GUIDANCE ** **(Ministerial Meeting) ** _Dr. William Soto Santiago _ _Saturday, November 1, 1997 _ _Santiago de Chile, Chile_ We have seen that there will be a judgment for all those who have been the messengers of each stage, and they will be judged with their age group; and there, if they do well, they will return to Earth in eternal bodies; if they don’t do well, they will not return. And if any of the age group doesn’t do well, then the messenger can’t bring them here. So you see how that judgment will be for them. [Rev. Jose B. Perez] And in the book of The Seals, on page 320 [pg. 377 in Eng.], it says (this was when he was there in the sixth dimension):
“[388] And I turned back around (already being up there), and there I was, still laying there. And I thought, ‘Well, now, this is strange.’
389 And just then a Voice (and above he writes: [WSS] «from the seventh dimension») went to talking to me. I never did see the Voice. It said, ‘You have been gathered, you—you have been gathered to your people.’ And then some men picked me up, set me way up, on a big high thing like this.
I said, ‘Why did you do that?’
Said, ‘In earth you was a leader.’
And I said, ‘Well, I—I don’t understand this.’
390 And that Voice (and above he writes: [WSS] «of the seventh dimension») talking to me. I never could see the Voice. Now, It was just above me, talking to me.
391 I said, ‘Well, if I—if I have passed on, I want to see Jesus.’ I said, ‘I...He was so... He was all my life. I want to see Him.’
And so He said (and he writes: [WSS] «the Voice of the seventh dimension»), ‘You can’t see Him now. He is still higher.’
392 See, it was below the altar, yet, see, the sixth place, (and he writes: [WSS] «sixth dimension») where men go, see; not the seventh, where God is, seventh dimension. The sixth!
393 And they were—and they were all there, and they was passing by. And I said... Looked like there were actually millions of them. I never seen them...And, when I sat there, these women and men still running by and hugging me, calling me ‘brother.’ And I sat there.
394 And then that Voice said, ‘You’ve been gathered to your people, like Jacob was gathered to his people.’
I said, ‘All these, my people? Are all these Branhams?’
He said, ‘No. They’re your converts to Christ.’
395 I looked around. And there was a real pretty woman run up. She looked just about the same. She threw her arm around me, and she said, ‘Oh, my precious brother!’ She looked at me.
396 I thought, ‘My! She looked like an Angel.’ And she passed by.
And that Voice said, ‘Didn’t you recognize her?’
I said, ‘No, I didn’t recognize.’
397 Said, ‘You led her to Christ when she was past ninety.’ Said, ‘You know why she thinks so much of you?’
I said, ‘That pretty girl was past ninety?’
398 ‘Yeah.’ Said, (the voice) ‘She can never change no more now.’ Said, ‘That’s the reason she is saying, ‘Precious brother.’’
399 I thought, ‘Oh, my! And I was afraid of this? Why, these people are real.’ They, they wasn’t going anywhere. They wasn’t tired, being There.
And I said, ‘Well, why can’t I see Jesus?’
400 Said (the voice), ‘Well, now, He will—He will come someday. And He’ll come to you, first, and then you’ll be judged.’ Said, ‘These people are your converts that you have led.’
401 And I said, ‘You mean, by being a leader, that I... that He’ll judge me?’
Said, ‘Yes.’
402 And I said, ‘Does every leader have to be judged like that?’
Said, ‘Yes.’
I said, ‘What about Paul?’
He said, ‘He’ll have to be judged with his.’
[403] ‘Well,’ I said, ‘if his group goes in, so will mine, ’cause I’ve preached exactly the same Word (and he writes there: [WSS] «The judgment begins at the House of God», and he writes: «The Coming of Christ to Paradise, to the sixth dimension, as it was with the saints of the Old Testament»).’”
[*Rev. Jose B. Perez“Each message to each age holds out an incentive to the believer, encouraging him to be an overcomer and thereby be rewarded of the Lord. In this age the Spirit is promising the hidden manna and a new name written in a white stone.
Now since each of these messages is directed to the ‘angel’ — (human messenger) a very great responsibility as well as a wonderful privilege is his lot. To these men God makes special promises, as in the case of the twelve apostles sitting on twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Then, remember Paul was given a special promise: that of presenting the people of the bride in his day to Jesus, II Corinthians 11:2, ‘For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.’ So it will be with every messenger who has been faithful to the Word of his hour and his age. It will be so in the last day. It will be the same special reward that was given to Paul.”
[*Rev. Jose B. Perez“The man said, ‘We are resting here while waiting for the coming of the Lord.’
I replied, ‘I want to see Him.’
He said, ‘You can’t see Him just yet; but He is coming soon, and when He does He will come to you first, and you will be judged according to the Gospel you have preached, and we will be your subjects.’ (he writes there: [WSS] «Subjects: His people, His nation; and he writes on the other side: «He will come to the forerunner»).
I said, ‘Do you mean I am responsible for all these?’
He said, ‘Every one. You were born a leader.’
I asked him, ‘Will every one be responsible? What about Saint Paul?’
He answered me, ‘He will be responsible for his day.’
‘Well,’ I said, ‘I’ve preached the same Gospel that Paul preached.’ And the multitude cried, ‘We’re resting on that.’
[*Rev. Jose B. PerezAnd how will it be for us, being here on Earth? Because the judgment begins where? In the House of God. That is a judgment in the House of God for those of the past ages and for those of us who live here on Earth. So at the end of our work we will see —in that judgment that He will make for us— whether we will enter or not. Therefore, let everyone be careful; for the Scripture said, Saint Paul said, that every man’s work shall be tried, and the fire shall try him: and it says that the work of some will be burned up.1 [Rev. Jose B. Perez] And in the book of “SOULS THAT ARE IN PRISON NOW,”2 on page 57, it says (he places this reference there in The Seals), it says:
“415 The Lord bless you, make His Son and grace to shine upon you. And the Lord give you Eternal Life, and be with you here in this world, and the world that is to come hereafter. And, Life Eternal, may you serve Him all through the aeons of time that is to come.
416 If this is the time, and we have arrived at that place, I am not ashamed of what I have preached. And if each minister has to stand with his congregation and be judged, as I saw in the vision, (see?, as he saw there) I’m thankful for the Gospel that I have preached, because it’s the same Gospel that Paul and them preached (and right there beside it he writes: [WSS] «Every minister with his congregation will be judged»).”
[*Rev. Jose B. PerezSo you have to be aware of this reality, and work in the Work of Christ with divine love and with reverence, with respect and with holiness in the Work of the Lord, aware that we are not working for any person here on Earth, but for God; and He expects a correct behavior from all of us; that we don’t get into trouble or look for trouble, but that we work being faithful to Christ and His Work in the time in which we live. [Rev. Jose B. Perez] And also here in the message [“THE PATMOS VISION”]3, it says:
“176 Oh, there He was, those eyes. And, remember, one day, those eyes that were dimmed with tears, those eyes will stand at the judgment. Now they’re like fiery flames running to and fro through the whole earth, and there’s nothing happens but what He knows it. Oh, my, it’s recorded. Running to and fro through the earth watching every move, perceiving…”
He goes on to say:
And always avoiding doing things that will be of stumbling to the Lord’s Church. Never thinking as any person may think: “He who stumbles, let him stumble.” That is an irresponsible attitude and thinking; for which he will have to give an account to God. [Rev. Jose B. Perez] And there is a message... And soon, those days of Ananias and Sapphira are about to appear. It says in the message “Giving an account for our brother,”4 says:
[WSS] The world will always try to accuse the children of God, as the devil will also try to accuse the children of God; but by protecting one another, with the manifestation of divine love for one another, by caring for one another…; because God has placed us on this Earth to care for and protect one another; and He will also ask an account of our brother, and of our brethren.
Every minister will be asked to give an account of the brethren He has placed in his congregation. You cannot say: “I do this, no matter who stumbles.” Remember: God is going to ask you for an account. I will also be there with Him…
[*Rev. Jose B. Pere[WSS] I will also be there with Him, with Christ; and I will not be able to do anything for you if you act in that manner.
You have to protect all the brethren, as a good shepherd, protecting the sheep (whom are not yours, but Christ’s, the Good Shepherd), so that you will receive the rewards from Christ for having been a good shepherd shepherding the sheep of our Shepherd, Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd.
We must always keep people and brethren from stumbling over us; always seeking what is best for them; knowing that they are the Lord’s sheep, the sons and daughters of God, the firstborn of God, the chosen of God, the children of the second Adam —as we all are—; for we will have to give an account for our brother and our brethren; as will every minister of past ages and every messenger of past ages.
That is why they, those who were in Paradise, said to our brother [Branham], when he wanted to see Jesus, they said: “He is higher above.” They were there in the sixth dimension, and they said to him: “He is higher above.” Where was he? In the seventh dimension, because he is making intercession in Heaven.
And now, he was eager to see Jesus, and they tell him: “Do not worry, He will come to you first and judge you.” And he wanted to see Jesus and now he was frightened when they told him: “It is not you who is going to see Him, He is the one who is going to see you. He is going to come to you and judge you first, for what you have preached.”
When he said this to him, he was frightened; and this while he was in the theophanic body. If he were in the body of flesh, the fright would be greater; as Moses was when he was on Mount Sinai.
And now, just as every messenger will have to give an account for the people of his age, so will each minister for the people God has given him to shepherd; and for the work, not only for the congregation, but for the people of the city, the community and the country as well.
That responsibility is upon the ministers and upon the messenger of each age. And the messenger of each age carries the Message, but also the ministers in and of each age have to take it, to cover all the people, so that the Word reaches them, and so they have the opportunity —every person— to receive eternal life. The gathering does not take place if we do not work on that task.”
[*Rev. Jose B. PerezWe can’t be stumbling stones, but of blessing, for all the sons and daughters of God; always helping each other in everything, and knowing that at the end of the road, at the end of our work, and at the end of the work of the Work of Christ in this Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone, comes that little part, where those who are in Paradise, the messengers with their group, will be judged, and we also here on Earth. **THE MYSTERY OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT APPLIED TO THE LAST DAY ** _Dr. William Soto Santiago _ _Sunday, December 14, 1997 _ _Cayey, Puerto Rico_ You see, Moses, who was the humblest man of all the people, at that moment he was filled with anger; and all the good things he had done weren’t enough for God to forgive him that fault. And for that reason he couldn’t enter the promised land in the body of flesh. He did enter in his theophanic body; you find him later on Mount Transfiguration in the midst of the Hebrew people; but he couldn’t enter in his body of flesh, he couldn’t pass to the other side of the Jordan; although the territory where the prophet Moses died belongs to the Hebrew people, it belongs to the tribes that took inheritance before crossing the Jordan; in other words, in the territory that they conquered before passing to the other side of the Jordan, which were the tribes of Reuben and Manasseh. And now, you see how one can’t be angry, because anger causes serious mistakes and problems for the person before God. You will find, throughout biblical history, that every person who has served God and has become angry to carry out the Work of God, and has done it in anger: has had problems before God. An example is the prophet Moses. Now, you see, throughout the biblical history, how every person who serves God has to do it with all his heart, with love, expressing to Him even in the work he does in the Work of God, expressing love to God. Because he is serving God with all his strength, in the labors that he is doing in favor of the Work of God; and he is serving God with all his spirit and with all his mind, doing things with understanding, doing them well done; and he is doing them also in spirit, and he is doing them also with all his soul. That is, with body, spirit and soul working, working in the Work of God, and with divine love. Anger doesn’t produce good fruits for people who let themselves be carried away by anger; and then, at the end of the road, they lose all the blessing they had, that has happened in many people throughout history. (...) Now, you see, how we have to act: with divine love and with sincerity in the Divine Program, loving one another as Jesus Christ said. He said: “Love one another.” Saint John also said it, he said: “By this you will know that you are truly my disciples: that you love one another.”5 We can’t be contending with our brethren, because that displeases God. (...) We are not to be fighting with one another, ministers with ministers, or brethren against brethren; but to be in harmony, in divine love, helping one another; and receiving the Word, and also carrying the Word, the Message, to other people. [Rev. Jose B. Perez] There is an excerpt from the message [“THE CHURCH AND ITS CONDITION”]6, it says:
“[101] ‘What’s the question, Brother Branham?’
102 Come back to a lamb, come back to be gentle, come back to know nothing, come back to just submit yourself to Christ. Don’t try, don’t try to know nothing. Just walk meekly, quietly, humbly, gently, and the Dove will lead you. But whenever you see...go to listening to that gossip, whenever you go to getting that temper up, whenever you go to thinking you got a right to do this and do that, the Dove just takes Her flight and goes on away. Then you don’t have It anymore. Now, she’s not very far from you this morning, church. She’s sitting right out there on the limb of peace, waiting for your nature to be changed. Amen.”
[*Rev. Jose B. PerezNow, you see how the work of God must be done in and with divine love; not in anger. The one who works in anger will be seen at the end of the road badly, because his work will not be pleasing before God, and will be burned; and the person will have problems before God. Now, if he is predestined, an elect, he will hold on to the messenger of his time. And if he doesn’t hold on, then he will testify —with that action— that he doesn’t have his name in the section of the Lamb’s Book of Life; and he runs the risk that his name will be erased, because he is in the other section: in the section of the Book of Life, from where some names can be erased; and the messenger will not recognize him as part of his group. This is so for the seven ages of the gentile Church and for our age as well. **THE VOICE OF THE SIGN ** _Dr. William Soto Santiago _ _Friday, June 5, 2015 _ _Cayey, Puerto Rico_ Different ages have passed, where Christ through His Spirit has been cutting those living stones, those believers who would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ; each one, each one, in the age that corresponds to him. Seven stages of the gentile Church or among the gentiles have already passed, and now we are in the stage of the Cornerstone; where He cuts through His Spirit the living stones that will form that stage of the Church, the Cornerstone stage, which is the most important stage of all the ages, of all the stages, because it is the stage that crowns and with which Christ crowns His Church. That is the stage that we are allotted to live in. That is the stage for which there is the promise of a Third Pull to be manifested in a Great Tent Cathedral. Therefore, the sign of the wonders that will happen in that manifestation of the Third Pull, from God in all His fullness, will have a Voice: which is the Final Message of God, which is the Seven Thunders, the Voice of Christ speaking as the Lion of the tribe of Judah to His Church, and thus giving them the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. It is at that stage where the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will receive the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ to His Church. That is the parallel stage to the First Coming of Christ. That stage is the most glorious of all the stages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, because it is the stage where the Church will receive the faith to go with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. It is the stage in which Christ will come in His Second Coming and will manifest Himself in all His fullness. Therefore, it is the most glorious stage of all the stages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And it is a great privilege to live in the time relevant to that stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, where He will fulfill all the promises He has made to His Church. We have great promises in the Scriptures, to be fulfilled in this end time. It is promised that Christ will manifest Himself in all His fullness in the midst of His Church, and the Jews will know Him. Here, on page 41, paragraph 189 of this booklet or message “The Feast of Trumpets,” preached on July 19, 1964, it says: _“_[252] _This will be the Trumpet; the feast, be rejected, then their Messiah made known._ 253 _Notice, they’ll (that is, the Jews) know their Messiah when they see Him. He is coming in power, this time, the One they looked for. He is coming in power, for the Gentile Bride, and the Jews are going to recognize Him.”_ In other words, the manifestation of Christ in the Last Day, in the fulfillment of that Third Pull, where He will be manifested in all His fullness in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, the Jews will see that manifestation and they will say: “But this is the one we are waiting for!” Israel is waiting for the Coming of the Messiah; and the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is also waiting for the Coming of the Lord. Since the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is in the New Covenant, which is in force, it is to the Church that He will come in this end time. * * *