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BIBLE STUDY #280
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2023
*Rev. Jose B. Perez*Scripture: Hebrews 12:18-24[Rev. Jose B. Perez] He used the Scripture of Hebrews, chapter 12, verse 18 to 24, but we will read a portion from verse 22. The Holy Spirit says by the mouth of apostle Paul:22 _But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,_ 23 _To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,_ 24 _And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel._ 25 _See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:_ 26 _Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven._ 27 _And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain._ 28 _Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:_ 29 _For our God is a consuming fire._ [JBP] These last portions that we read catch our attention. And in the book of The Ages it tells us of something that happened in Alaska in 1964; and brother Branham speaks to us in the book of The Ages on page 362 (here, in this one it is 365)And perhaps it is a different line to the subject that we have today, this portion; but all the Scriptures are intertwined with each other. Because the Birthright Blessing, in order to obtain it, there is a battle; and to obtain the blessing of God in this end time, which is the blessing of adoption, the blessing of transformation, there is a battle that every elect of God has.As he once said that they had to fight, fight every inch of land that they were going to conquer1 (that is in the book of The Seals,2 and I don’t know if it is in some excerpt of the book of Quotations)3.In other words, we have to fight for every inch of the promised land of the new body, and we have to overcome it. Because to overcome in this time and to be an overcomer, is to overcome the enemy in all aspects: from the thoughts, to the actions; and to overcome the things of the world.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] See, in the book of The Seals (we will leave that one pending for a few moments) on page 115 [p. 136 in Eng. (First Seal)] (at the end of the first paragraph):[150] It still was a symbol. Now watch, He said It would be known in the last day. But It comes forth in a church symbol. Do you understand it, church? [Congregation says, “Amen.”—Ed.] It comes forth in a—a symbol of a church, that they know there is a Seal. But just what It is, yet, they don’t know, because It’s a white-horse rider.151 And only is to be revealed at the last day, when this actual Seal is broken. Broken to who? Not to Christ, but to the Church. Notice, now. Oh, my, that just makes me tremble! I—I—I hope that the Church truly understands It, what I mean, you people. I’m going to call you Bride, see, that You’ll understand It.152 The Voice is a Thunder. The Voice came from where? From the Throne where the Lamb had just left, as Intercessor. Now He is standing here to take His position and His claims. But the Thunder came from the inside of the Throne, thundered out. And the Lamb was standing out here. The Thunder, where the Lamb had left. Left the Father’s Throne, to go to take His Own Throne ([JBP] and he writes): [WSS] «the Age of the Cornerstone». Glory! Now, now don’t miss it, friends.153 We all know, as Christians, that God swore to David that He would raise up Christ to sit on his Throne, and give Him an everlasting kingdom here on the earth. He did it.154 And Jesus said, “He that overcomes the antichrist and all the things of the world ([JBP] see how to overcome), shall sit with Me on My Throne, as I have overcome and have sit down on My Father’s Throne.” See?155 Now, someday He rises from the Father’s Throne, and goes to take His Own Throne.156 Now He comes forth to call His subjects. How is He going to claim them? He’s already got the Book of Redemption in His hand. Glory![JBP] And he writes there: [WSS] «The Throne of the Father. The Throne of the Son». [JBP] And he writes: [WSS] «The overcomers sit on the Throne – The Church and Israel». [Rev. Jose B. Perez] There is an excerpt that speaks of that Throne; of which, just as Christ overcame and sat on the Throne of the Father, Christ will also do with the Overcomer in this time. Look, he tells us:THE AGE THAT CROWNS THE CHURCH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST (Ministers Meeting) Dr. William Soto Santiago Saturday, April 25, 2009 Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, MexicoJust as the heavenly Kingdom of God and heavenly Throne of God will be intertwined with the earthly Throne and earthly Kingdom of God; in other words, with the Kingdom of David and Throne of David.And the one who sat on the heavenly Throne of God will be intertwined with the one who will sit with Christ on His earthly Throne. And in both cases it was the Holy Spirit working for that to happen, operating the Work of God, or God through the Holy Spirit operating in the veil of flesh the work that had to be carried out so that the heir to that Throne, the one who would sit with God on His Throne, would sit on the heavenly Throne.So will Christ also sit with Him on His Throne the one who was chosen by God to occupy that place.It is not that a person will appear and will achieve to occupy that place; it is that God will have that person, which since before the foundation of the world He already had in His Program and therefore, He will manifest it in this end time. It is a matter of divine election in God’s Program.Therefore, we can see that all that will be happening in this end time, in the age that crowns the Church, in other words, the Age of the Cornerstone, the Holy Spirit will be there to fulfill not only some things, but all the things that are promised for this end time, including the vision that was shown to the Reverend William Branham of a Great Tent Cathedral.[JBP] In other words, it is not to fulfill certain things only, but to fulfill all that still needs to be fulfilled among the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone and the Dispensation of the Kingdom.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] Now, let’s go to where we left off in the book of The Ages, it says [Page 323]: “Whose voice then shook the earth: but now He hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.” [WSS] «by Moses and Elijah. Rev. 11:3». Once more God will shake the earth and with it shake everything loose that can be shaken.[JBP] See that over there in Turkey these days, with that earthquake that took place there…; and that place in Turkey and all that area, if you look at the map, all that in that area corresponds to the places where the Church ages are represented: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea, all that area there.And see how God is showing there, that just as the ages had the presence of God through the Holy Spirit in each angel messenger of each age…; and the messenger died and God took him away, then they became denominationalized, and consequently died. And all that trajectory…In this picture,4 that whole area there is the, that whole area of Turkey and that whole there of Asia Minor, is the region where the ages are represented; and the divine judgment will therefore be falling upon all those territories where the Spirit of God has moved from.In other words, a blessing comes through the messenger for the chosen ones of that territory; and after God takes the messenger away, the divine judgment comes. And so it is in every place and every territory that God fulfilled the stages of the ages.In other words, all those territories… Look where this started now, because the Earth…[Rev. Jose B. Perez] Let’s see for a moment where it says that the Earth will start with its violent contractions. Let’s go to 373 [p. 440 in Eng. (Sixth Seal)], at the bottom it says [The Seals]:[391] …for we realize we have just a short time. And the Church might go at any time.392 The Lamb might, at any time, leave the sanctuary up There, or the Throne of sacrifice, come forth from the Throne of God where the sacrifice lays…[JBP] Now, remember that it is no longer Throne of Mercy; and what brother Branham is speaking here, is already in the past. In other words, what he said about what would be happening would be fulfilled in the future, it is no longer future for us, it is already something that is happening, it is already present.[392] … and then it’s over; there is no more hopes for the world…[JBP] In other words, there will no longer be time for redemption, there will no longer be time for mercy; there will no longer be time for people to become part of the Mystical Body of Christ, of the stage corresponding to the Age of the Cornerstone.[392] …she is finished. Then she goes into flusterations, of great spasms of earthquakes, and—and great shakings like it was at the resurrection. And—and, the—the…393 As Christ rose from the grave, when the saints rise, the same thing will take place. Lord, it could be…[JBP] Now see, all that is a sign, it is the Earth already groaning with its contractions; and look where it has started. Although they have started before and there have been earthquakes and everything, but all these that are happening now (especially that one too), it marks something there, because that is where the Age of Ephesus started around there.So that can be, it can continue to scale up all that territory: Germany, France, England; all those countries will receive the divine judgment in this end time.And the United States of America also, which the Reverend William Branham saw, when he looked back in one of the visions, and he said he saw craters and smoke over North America.5And in one of those earthquakes, as our brother William has said, that [WSS] in one of those earthquakes is that the resurrection will happen,6 as it happened when the Lord resurrected back then.[393] …the same thing will take place. Lord, it could be…[JBP] And that, surely, is the earthquake of California, where a tenth of the United States will sink; all of that will be flooded.There is a part in the book of Quotations that he says that the water will go all the way to Kentucky, around there. Look, look it up, to see where that part is there. And also Florida, all that there, Miami and all that, it will all disappear, it will disappear. Hollywood, he said all that (Los Angeles, California), was the door to hell.7[Rev. Jose B. Perez] Now, he goes on to say here in the book of The Seals:[393] Lord, it could be at any minute. We’re watching for that glad day to arrive.[JBP] See, destruction will come, and says: [WBM] “for that glad day to arrive”; because for God’s chosen ones it will be of happiness; because we will be seeing again those who have departed: our loved ones, our relatives, the believing chosen ones of God written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. They will be those who God has already ordained since before the foundation of the world, for the first resurrection.Because those who are not written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, they will resurrect, but in the second resurrection, after the thousand years. And there we of course have claimed our relatives and all those that we have loved, God will give them to us; and we will have them all in eternity.Now, those who are written in the Book of Life and who have done favors to God’s chosen ones will also be resurrected: those will also come out well in the Last Judgment and will enter eternity.There are those…, let’s see if we have time to read a part there which says that those who are written in the Book of Life, but who have fought against the Work of God in every age and every dispensation, will be erased from the Book of Life; therefore, they will cease to exist.[393] We’re watching for that glad day to arrive.394 Take Your children under Your arm, Father, now. Draw Your little lambs to Your bosom. Grant it. And feed them on the Word, till they’re in strength for service.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] Let’s see page 161, paragraph 1434, says [Quotations]:8 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 ([JBP] You see? Notice). And when it does, it’ll shake the world so hard that everything on top of it will shake down.”[JBP] And he writes: [WSS] «The earthquake 1500 x 400 x 40» ([JBP] It’s sort of cut off) ([JBP] And he writes): «All will be shaken». [Rev. Jose B. Perez] Look at 150, paragraph 1336 [Quotations]:9 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.’”[JBP] And he writes there:[WSS] «It will fall into the boiling lava in hell».«The earthquake of Los Angeles, California».And he also writes there: [WSS] «The Salton Sea in the West, in USA, as it was in Sodom and Gomorrah». [JBP] Notice the United States represented in Sodom and Gomorrah there.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] And on page 148 it says… Let’s finish the book of The Ages, which we stayed there for a moment. The book of The Ages, where we left off [Page 323]:Once more God will shake the earth and with it shake everything loose that can be shaken. Then He will renovate it. Just last March, 1964, that Good Friday earthquake of Alaska shook the whole world though it did not unbalance it. But God was warning by a world tremor what He will soon do on a greater scale. He is going to blast and rock this sin-cursed world, my brother, my sister, and there is only one place that can stand that shock, and that is in the fold of the Lord Jesus [WSS] «the 8th Age». And I would beseech you…[JBP] And he draws a Cornerstone and the ages.And he writes there: [WSS] «The earthquake of Alaska». [JBP] And in the other book of Quotations there are also a few annotations, but we have already read them.10And I would beseech you while God’s mercy is still available to you, that you give your whole life, unreservedly to Jesus Christ, Who as the faithful Shepherd will save you and care for you and present you faultless in glory with exceeding great joy.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] And now see on page 148, paragraph 1322, it says [Quotations]:11 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, 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 [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 [WSS] «Pacific».”[JBP] [WBM] “Salton Sea,” and he writes: [WSS] «Salton Sea» ([JBP] big).[JBP] And he writes: [WSS] «USA / The California earthquake was symbolized in the Alaska one». And to the side he writes: [WSS] «Los Angeles, California». [JBP] Now, notice how this is represented there, in that Alaska earthquake, which represents that great earthquake that will occur there in Los Angeles, California.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] And there is another place here, on page 149, right here, next to it, in paragraph 1331, it says [Quotations]:12 1331 - “147 No matter how much the world is against It, how much the denominations are against It, God is proving It to be the Truth. When the great hour finally strikes, things will happen maybe that we didn’t think about.”[JBP] And he writes: [WSS] «At the final hour: great things will happen».«Rev. 11:3-6; 7:2».[Rev. Jose B. Perez] And we still haven’t dived into the subject. But we have moved as God has directed us now, for this that He wants to tell us. Page 12-A, 125, look, it says [Quotations]:13 125 - “[214] O Lord, our first visit here with these fine bunch of people here on the coast, which, we know that someday it’ll go beneath the ocean, and there won’t be a stone left upon another. There’ll be… Oh, what a time is laying ahead!”[JBP] And that was preached in the message “CHRIST IS IDENTIFIED THE SAME IN ALL GENERATIONS” in Tampa, Florida.And he writes: [WSS] «Tampa, Florida – will be underwater». [JBP] Remember that the Coming of the Lord, His glorified body doesn’t step on Earth, as we saw in these past days.14 And if we are going to see Him in the air, then it is the Holy Spirit, God working in the midst of the human race; and that Work that He will be carrying out before the resurrection and the transformation, is nothing less than the fulfillment of His Coming to His Church; because He comes for His Bride, He comes for His Church.That is why when the Jews see Him in the midst of the Church, they will say, “But this is the one we are waiting for! This is our Joseph!” This is the same one that at the time when there was that famine there in Egypt, they saw him among the gentiles: the only place where there was food in the whole world.15And the only place where there is spiritual food, fresh Manna, is in the Age of the Cornerstone, in the Dispensation of the Kingdom, among the Latin American and Caribbean people![Rev. Jose B. Perez] Look, it says on page 13-A, paragraph 135 [Quotations]:16 135 - “[47] Look at the earthquakes over here in California. I predict, before the coming of the Lord Jesus, that God will sink that place. I believe that Hollywood and Los Angeles, and them filthy places over there, that God Almighty will sink them. They’ll go beneath the bottom of the sea.”[JBP] And he writes: [WSS] «The California earthquake before the Coming of the Lord». [JBP] See, because that earthquake is the earthquake of the resurrection, as far as we have been told by brother Branham and also by brother William: that surely it is that earthquake in Los Angeles, California, which will mark the moment of the resurrection; as it happened at the time of those who resurrected with Jesus there in Jerusalem.17[Rev. Jose B. Perez] Now, we are going to see here: in the message “REVELATION, CHAPTER FOUR #3,”18 it says, on page 24 at the bottom… He is reading from Exodus, chapter 19, he says:110 Now, notice the 17th verse:“And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet… God; (Oh, my! I want to meet Him in peace, not like that.) and they stood at the nether part of the mountain. (Way back.)111 Remember, that mountain had lines drawed around it. Even if a cow touched that mountain, it had to die right there, can’t come in the Presence of God. And God…“And Moses brought forth the people.”[JBP] Remember Moses means ‘brought out of the waters’. It was the work that he was going to carry out at that time, which was the deliverance of the Hebrew people from Egypt. He goes on to say:112 Now, the 18th verse, the next verse:“And mount Sinai was altogether on… smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire:… (Just smoking and burning like a furnace.)”113 What did He descend? Not in His Shekinah Glory, but in the wrath of His judgments ([JBP] and he writes): [WSS] «not in the Glory Shekinah»… and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. (Brother, I don’t want to be there!) ([JBP] says brother Branham).And when the voice of the trumpet sound long, and waxed louder and louder ([JBP] and he writes): [WSS] «the Trumpet», Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice. (Moses spoke ([JBP] says brother Branham there); not the people, they were shaking to pieces.)[JBP] Now, see that the one who spoke there was Moses. In other words, it was up to the people to pay attention to Moses.What we were talking about these days, of a Scripture that (was it Wednesday?, at night, and Thursday morning)..., we were talking about something that when I looked it up… (It is a portion that we had already read).19But look, in paragraph 40, which was the Word that I was thinking about that early morning…; and in the morning I told it to the guys (I told some of them); and when we looked it up it referred to that Scripture that we have already read, but that, notice here…: page 5-A of the book of Quotations, paragraph 40, it says:20 40 - “[101] Look at me just a moment.”[JBP] Notice, the people are called to look, in every age and in every dispensation, to the messenger that God has placed in the midst of His Church. And at that moment he was capturing the attention of the people.And it was that on that occasion, in the early morning, there was like… a big group; and at that moment they turned to take care of something; and there I said: “Disturbance…” or “Look this way, pay attention here”; and everybody turned this way and paid attention. And when we looked, it was this Scripture where it says: 40 - “[101] Look at me just a moment. Disturbance in the audience...? ([JBP] Now, see the next thing)… I’ll be glad when I get my little room to myself. They’ll only hear through a microphone then.”[JBP] And he writes: [WSS] «The little room and the microphone». And he writes: [WSS] «The Tent and the little room». [JBP] In other words, we can’t overlook that which has moved in these days (it was at about 4:00 in the morning), and I am speaking as a testimony: that it remains… That was on Wednesday to Thursday (because it was on Thursday that the lamps were mounted), Wednesday to Thursday; and the first thing I told them, the first one I saw, was that, wasn’t it? And there were two people there or three; and we looked and it was that quote; which, something big is about to happen soon.In other words, the environment that has to be in the midst of the people for God to take the next step… (because He is waiting for His people), it is for what each and every one of us has come this far: for our adoption. Because God’s purpose is for us to be like Him. We already have the image, but the likeness is missing.In other words, we have to focus our canons towards that in order to obtain it; in other words, to overcome all the obstacles there are and there will be, so that nothing gets in the way for God to do the Work He has to do with you and with me.Because it is an individual work and no one will stand up for you; only the messenger. In other words: [WMB] “He will present them as trophies,”21 he says in one part. So this is something that is individual. God works among the gentiles as individuals; with Israel as a group.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] [Quote 296].22 This was when he had the Vision; that is, it was one of the occasions that God allowed him to see behind the curtain of time; that is, to see there, to be there; because he says on some occasions, that he looked down and saw his body; that is, it was something real, because he pinched himself and felt, but his body was there.In other words, it is a real place: there are trees, there are birds, there is grass; one is there in a theophanic body, but it is real. And on that occasion he wanted to see Jesus: [WMB] “I want to see Jesus. He is my everything ([JBP] he says in the book of The Seals), He is my life.” And he says: 296 - “[155] I said, ‘Oh, where is Jesus? I want to see Him, so bad.’156 They said, ‘Now, He is just a little higher, right up that way.’ Said, ‘Someday He will come to you.’ See? Said, ‘You were sent, for a leader. And God will come. And when He does, He’ll judge you according to what you taught them, first, whether they go in or not. We’ll go in according to your teaching.’ [...]159 And them people screamed, and said, ‘We know that ([JBP] there he writes): [WSS] «Jesus will judge you» ([JBP] and he draws a Cornerstone and the ages). And we know we’re going with you, someday, back to earth.’ ([JBP] In other words, he is speaking of the resurrection). Said, ‘Jesus will come, and you’ll be judged according to the Word that you preached us. And then if you are accepted at that time, which you will be,’...”[JBP] And do you know why we know that he was accepted? Because he came down with the Angel to the little room; in other words, it had already happened. And already there he shows us that he will come to be in our midst with his group. 296 - “[159] …and said, ‘then you will present us to Him, as your trophies of your ministry.’”[JBP] Now notice, each messenger will present his group.Now notice that just as the Hebrew people there once said, “We do not want this man to rule over us,”23 so they will also say in the midst of the gentiles.But the elect will: they will receive Him at His Coming. 296 - “[159] Said, ‘You will guide us to Him, and, all together, we’ll go back to the earth, to live forever.’”[JBP] And he writes: [WSS] «You will present us to Christ». [JBP] That Scripture, I have it there for an occasion to be read, and all that was spoken by brother Branham and by all the messengers.Because remember, the Seventh Seal has been announced since Genesis,24 everything speaks of the Second Coming of the Lord; therefore, everything will have its fulfillment, and everything is being fulfilled as that Seventh Seal is being opened more and more to the Church, and there they will openly know what is the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels; because in that mystery and knowing that mystery completely is what gives the Rapturing Faith.Without the knowledge of that mystery the person cannot be raptured, cannot be transformed, cannot be adopted; in other words, cannot overcome; because you have to overcome in order to obtain all the blessings contained in the Birthright.We are going to round up, because I had been notified from Chile that our brother Miguel had to travel (because it is far away from where he is), and the message today is also a little extensive. So we are going to round up already, and we still haven’t touched on today’s subject.But just to read something here quickly to… excuse me brother Miguel if I take a little more time here; just a paragraph, or two or three little paragraphs there.Because for some reason…, something had to be said; and we have to see here everything that has been spoken, the small amount. Because all this that is happening in the world shows us great things that are happening in the Divine Program, and we have to keep our spiritual eyes wide open so that nothing escapes us; but to be aware that we are in this stage of preparation, in this stage of adoption, which we cannot lose; because this stage is what our preparation to leave from here depends on.Remember that the winds of divine judgments are already being felt with all these things; and from one moment to another the great tribulation will also be established by means of the spoken Word.Everything will be established by the spoken Word.And this stage is very, very important before all that is spoken; because we will not be here. In other words, the elect of God will not be here when that is happening. The Bride, brother Branham says, she will not go through the tribulation.25 But we have to be aware that everything is hurrying along, we are very, very close to all of that happening.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] Now, notice, we didn’t finish reading here…, we left off halfway through “REVELATION, CHAPTER FOUR.” I think we jumped from there; we left off on page 25 [Page 20]:[113] …and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. (Brother, I don’t want to be there!)And when the voice of the trumpet sound long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice. (Moses spoke; not the people ([JBP] that is where we left off), they were shaking to pieces.) ([JBP] It was up to there).And the—and the Lord came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain: and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mountain; and Moses went up.And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, and charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.114 [Blank spot on tape—Ed.] People sit in the back of the church and laugh at somebody speaking with tongues, or dance in the Spirit; gone, blasphemed the Holy Ghost, sealed forever! “Whosoever speaks a word against the Holy Ghost will never be forgiven in this world, neither in the world to come.” Don’t gaze upon It! Stay away from It or either accept It!115 We better leave that Scripture. Read it on, the rest of it, see what God said. And the people said, “Oh, Moses, you speak. Don’t let God speak anymore! We wish now we hadn’t have asked for this.” See? “Let you speak to us, Moses ([JBP] in other words, first they wanted it to be God: “No, we want God and not Moses”; now they were asking for Moses). God speaks, we’ll all die.” See, God had made an atonement.116 Now, “The Voice of the Throne.” Notice in this Throne, “before the Throne was the seven stars,” the Voice of the stars. “Voices,” you see. There was more in the Revelation 4 here, or 5, we find out, “And out of the Throne proceeded lightning, thunders, and voices.” Not one voice; “voices,” plural. What was it? God speaking to the church, reflecting Himself through the seven Spirits ([JBP] that is, of the seven messengers of the seven ages). When the true anointed of God speaks, it’s the Voice of God! To reject It is to remove the candlestick ([JBP] Look). See? “Voices,” the Voice of the Seven Church Ages (over here in the corner), the voices speaking with thunder and lightning.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] And on page 23, we had read it before26, but see here where he says [“REVELATION, CHAPTER FOUR”] [P. 19]:105 But you notice in here, it was not mercy seat, for there was “lightnings and thunder and voices.” There’s no lightning and thunders at mercy. That’s judgment.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] In other words, there, on that Throne, then…, Look at Revelation, chapter 8, what appears there; this is when the Seventh Seal was opened, which, the silence in Heaven occurred.Now, if the Seventh Seal was opened in Heaven…, and look at the things that happen during that half hour of silence; as it is on page 80 [p. 96 in Eng. (The Breach)] of the book of The Seals, which says… It is that all these Scriptures are coming together. It says, halfway down the first paragraph:[208] So, here come the Lamb, now. His intercessory days is over, the mediatorial days.209 That’s when this Angel is going to stand there. You wait till we get in the Seals. “And time shall be no more.” That’s right. That “half hour of silence.” Watch what takes place in that half hour of silence, when that Seventh Seal, next Sunday night, the Lord willing.210 He comes forth (what?) to take His claims now [WSS] «the Throne of the Father». Oh, my! Comes forth to take His claims![JBP] In other words, He, see here one of the things that He does during that half an hour of the Seventh Seal: The Claiming Work! And the chosen one can say: “I want You to claim me, Lord!” Notice:[210] Now, He had done the Kinsman work ([JBP] in other words, He has already redeemed us, now we need Him to claim us). He had come down, become Man, died. He done the Kinsman work of redemption, but had not as yet called for His claim. Now He comes on the scene to claim His rights, (watch what takes place) oh, my, for which He was slain, for as becoming a Kinsman to man, to die in his place, to redeem him. But, the elder was right when he said He was a “Lion,” see. The elder called Him, said, a “Lion.” Because, He had been a Lamb, an Intercessor, a bloody Lamb, but now He is coming forth as a Lion. His days of intercession is over.211 “Let him that’s filthy be filthy still. Let him that’s righteous be righteous still. Let him that’s holy be holy still.” The thing is closed. Oh, brother! Then what? Then what?212 And, remember, it comes at the seventh church age, when the mysteries of God will be opened up.[JBP] And remember that all that is in the seventh dispensation, in other words, it is the Dispensation of the Kingdom, which is represented and reflected in the seventh Church age, of Laodicea.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] Now look at Revelation, chapter 8, it says:1 _And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour._ 2 _And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets._ 3 _And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne._ 4 _And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand._ 5 _And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake._ [JBP] Now notice, all of that, as it tells us there in what we are reading, that there cannot be lightning and thundering on a Throne of Mercy; because it is a Throne that now is of judgment.And the mercy of God in this end time is not on the heavenly Throne; it is in the human Throne in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom: The new Mercy Seat. God’s mercy is no longer obtained through Christ on the heavenly Throne.Now, that stage in which the Church is in at this end time today, is the stage of the reward that God will give to the Church with the adoption. It is that time where Ruth was rewarded; which previously had been the time of rest, and before, of service, and before, the decision.27Those are stages that were reflected in Ruth; which was fulfilled in the seven stages or ages in the time of the breach, and also in the time where he placed there: [WSS] «until 77».28 All that was fulfilled from the year 53 to 77; and then those stages are repeated again in the scale of the Dispensation of the Kingdom.Now we are in the last one, in the fourth stage; because four [4] (as we read on Sunday)29 is liberation, it represents deliverance. And that is the fourth stage, which is the fourth watch, wherein all the promises yet to be fulfilled to and in the midst of the Church will take place; which we are those belonging to that assembly of the firstborn of God written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, which will receive that blessing.Now remember one thing: that without the Birthright Blessing (which comes through the descendants of the ten tribes represented in Ephraim), the kingdom of Israel can’t be established; in other words, the Birthright Blessing has to be there and it has to be spoken; in other words, it has been spoken, because notice that in a message he said: [WSS] “I have given you the Birthright Blessing. I blessed you and you will be blessed.”In other words, the Birthright Blessing is in the midst of the Church; which, in this end time, are the members of the Mystical Body of Christ, which is His Church in the Golden Age, the Age of the Cornerstone.And being already there that Blessing that was brought by that descendant of Ephraim… Which is represented in the northern tribes, the ten tribes, which also comes from the line of Joshua. And on the other side, which is the tribe of Judah, represented in the two tribes: that of Judah and that of Benjamin, which are the two southern tribes.Through Jeroboam, who is the tribe of Ephraim, composed of the ten northern tribes; and Rehoboam (who is the son of Solomon), represented in the two southern tribes: of Judah and Benjamin, who is the descendant or line of David (Solomon, David), through the line that the Messiah came in His First Coming.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] And now, look…, he writes there in Ezekiel, above, he writes:[WSS] «of Judah — Jesus».«of Ephraim — the Angel of Jesus».[JBP] Now, see how far that offspring of Ephraim goes; because he identified himself as one from the offspring of Ephraim. But it is through the line of Judah that this part of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels would be fulfilled.In other words, in the hand of the prophet, in the end time, will be the stick of Joseph for Ephraim and the stick of Judah will be in the hand of the prophet. Notice how the Birthright Blessing is present in the restoration of the Kingdom of Israel, the Kingdom of the Messiah.But there we have to talk about other quotes to have a foundation there. Let’s leave that for another occasion.THE RIGHTS OF GOD’S FIRSTBORN Dr. William Soto Santiago Sunday, November 3, 1991 (Second activity) Cayey, Puerto RicoSo the Birthright, manifested in the Lord Jesus Christ, then passes to the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, who are the firstborn of God written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life.Just as the Lord Jesus Christ had the right of the manifestation of God in all His fullness in human flesh: the firstborn of God, the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, at the end of time have the right of the full manifestation of God in His Mystical Body, according to the rights of the Birthright.(...) Now, the Mystical Body of the Lord, the firstborn of God, notice that they have the right of the Birthright. Therefore, in the Birthright there are countless blessings and rights that correspond to the firstborn of God, just as the Lord Jesus Christ also had those rights in the Birthright.Notice, He also says: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.” [Revelation 3:21].Notice, the same rights that are in the Birthright, that He has and that He had, also pass on to the firstborn of God.The Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ also has the right, composed of the firstborn of God:• has the right to the Coming of the Lord with His Angels ([JBP] look at one of the rights; in other words, it is a blessing for the firstborn), with the Great Voice of Trumpet calling and gathering the elect;• and also has the right (the Mystical Body of the Lord composed of the firstborn) to the Eternal Name of God;• has the right to the Coming of the Lord as Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords;• has the right to the manifestation of the promises made to the elect for the end of time.• The Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ has the right to the manifestation of the Lord according as He has promised, that manifestation being pointed out as the Third Pull, in the fulfillment of that Third Pull for the Bride —who is the Bride of the Lamb— first; and then it will extend from the firstborn to the rest of the children of God.Because that Third Pull, being manifested in the midst of the firstborn of God, it will be for the Bride (which is the Bride of the Lamb); and it will also extend for the Church (the foolish) and also for the lost. A powerful manifestation of the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of the firstborn of God.The firstborn, the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, also have the right to the promises of the Tent Vision in the age relevant to our time, after the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church have already passed and the stage in which the Second Coming of the Lord was forerun.Therefore, the Age of the Cornerstone, where the firstborn of God are placed, has the right (that age and the firstborn of God in that age) to the manifestation of the Lord, of the Pillar of Fire, in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision; to all that has been promised under the Tent Vision, under the manifestation of the Third Pull, under the mystery that caused silence in Heaven when it was opened; in other words, under the mystery of the Seventh Seal, which is the Coming of the Lord as King of kings and Lord of lords, carrying out His Work in this new dispensation, the Dispensation of the Kingdom, in the Age of the Cornerstone.[JBP] Now see how there in ‘91 he speaks as if at that time we were living in the Dispensation of the Kingdom. And then, 30 years later (more or less) he tells us that [WSS] the Dispensation of Grace has not yet closed.30 And that is where the confusion apparently comes in for some.But the chosen one of God understands and comprehends. And that is why I can tell you tonight:If you have understood the change of dispensation, and you are aware that we are in the Dispensation of the Kingdom; and you are receiving the rights that correspond to you, which is the fulfillment of the Tent Vision and all that would be spoken there (that is, what was spoken, is being spoken and what will be spoken); and everything that pertains to the fulfillment of the Two Olive Trees; and all that pertains to the Teaching under Tent; I have news for you tonight:You can say with all assurance and certainty: “I am a firstborn written in the Lamb’s Book of Life!”For it is to you that God has given the right to obtain all those blessings contained in the Birthright Blessing; and they are all fulfilled in this end time for you and for me. In other words, it gives you the right to obtain them because you are a firstborn of God written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.And that is why you are understanding and you are seeing the Pillar of Fire working in the midst of the Church of the Lord at this time, and fulfilling what was already promised. It is not something new. It is something that God has already promised in His Word.But of this the Angel had told brother Branham: [WMB] “Of this you will tell nobody.” In other words, what is being done and what God is doing in the midst of the Church is what was said to the Reverend William Branham: [WMB] “You will tell nobody of this, lest imitations arise, as it happened in the First Pull and in the Second Pull, that the ministers began to imitate.”31Where, in The Seals,32 there we spoke that the ministers is where the problem always is (in some), because they always want an explanation; but not to bring the people to the one in whom God is working, but to divert the attention of the people from what God is fulfilling.Because the things that God will be doing for that people to be adopted is something that they can imitate (that is, it is imitable, let’s say), because it is in the human. God always works with human beings.They can only know some things; but they do not have the most important thing: the ministries. And without the ministries they can dance, jump, leap (as it was there, on Mount Carmel, was it? The challenge; and there Elijah told them a few things)33, and it will not be fulfilled in the way you are expecting it; in other words, to those who are expecting it in another way.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] Now, those who are believing and are seeing the Holy Spirit, which flew from brother Branham, that is, the Pillar of Fire…Look, let’s read it a little bit further on, because he talks about that here. He continues saying in this same message, a little further on [“THE RIGHTS OF GOD’S FIRSTBORN”]:[WSS] (...) • The children of God have the right to the transformation of their bodies; and those who died in the past and in this Age of the Cornerstone have the right to the resurrection.• And just as Jesus was glorified, in this end time the firstborn have the right to be glorified, to be transformed, and thus to be glorified and have an eternal body.• The firstborn have the right to an inheritance in Heaven and on Earth; for we are heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ Jesus our Lord; and we shall receive our inheritance when we are transformed.Now see all the rights that we have: All these and others, many more, which I have not mentioned to you tonight.And why do the firstborn have these rights?Because the firstborn have the Birthright with all that comes with having the Birthright; therefore, they have the right to all the blessings contained in the Birthright.Now, the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ…[JBP] Now, look at this. Because an angel is a messenger, and you have to know who he is referring to.[WSS] Now, the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ sent to the firstborn has the same rights; therefore:• He has the right to the transformation of His body ([JBP] well, then He is alive),• He has the right to the manifestation of the Pillar of Fire…[JBP] See you can try to imitate, but you do not have that right that messenger has; which in the Tent Vision was…Let’s go on a little bit further:[WSS] • He has the right to the manifestation of the Pillar of Fire, of the Lord Jesus Christ, in all His fullness, to fulfill that which was promised for the Third Pull under the fulfillment of the Tent Vision;• He has a right to all that has been promised that God will do in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision.And the firstborn have the right to have Him fulfill that promise in their midst!• The Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ has the right to have the Pillar of Fire fly to him, and speak to him, and use him.And the Mystical Body of the Lord, the firstborn, have the right to have the Pillar of Fire fly to them, to their age and dispensation, and to manifest Himself in their age and dispensation fulfilling what has been promised.• The Angel of the Lord also has a right to a small white Stone with a New Name written on it; and all the firstborn as well.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] Now look, in the Tent Vision, in one of them… If it is not in the book of Quotations, it may be in the book of The Seals, when he says that [WMB] “that Light that you see in the picture flew and was talking to somebody else”; we read it I think on Sunday. Let’s see if it is the one in The Seals, when he talks… Seals 471 [p. 561 in Eng. (Seventh Seal)], he says:298 A Voice come, said, “You can’t teach Pentecostal babies supernatural things.” Said, “Now, let them alone!”299 And just then He picked me up. He took me up, and sit me way up high, to where a meeting was going on. Looked like a tent or a cathedral, of some sort. And I looked, and there was a little box, like, little place over in the side. And I seen that Light was talking to somebody, above me, that Light that you see there on the picture ([JBP] and you already know all that he marked there)34. It whirled away from me, like that, and went over that tent.[JBP] You see, that Light left and was talking to someone higher up, that is, in the Age of the Cornerstone.That is why that Angel has the right for the Pillar of Fire to fly to him! and speak to him! and use him! in that stage where miracles and signs were seen in all their fullness worldwide. But first He will be using him to bring the Rapturing Faith to the Church, the Faith of Transformation, the Faith that is in the Thunders.And all of this under this great mystery of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels to the general assembly of the firstborn written in the Heavens; because it is for you and for me.In other words, the blessing that has been allotted to us in the midst of the Church is the Pillar of Fire; not like in the time of Moses that there was… The people, we saw there that they wanted (let’s say) God to speak to them; but then when they saw all that, they said: “No, it is better that Moses is the one who speaks to us.”Well, now the Church of the Lord has the blessing that the Pillar of Fire is speaking to someone; and He is using him to bring to the people of God, to the firstborn written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, to bring them the Rapturing Faith, the faith to be at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb when the rapture occurs.In other words, it will be —that powerful manifestation of God— in all His fullness, in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision in this end time in the midst of His Church; which is now being fulfilled.First we receive the faith, the revelation, to then be adopted; and thus obtain the eternal and glorified body; and then, after 30 to 40 days, be taken to the House of our heavenly Father, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.We stand up and we pause here; and then we leave this for another occasion, what we were going to read today.Look, I did not touch all this, because the Holy Spirit took us there through other places; and one has to do what He says to do. Because see, He is the one who speaks and He is the one who acts. In other words, things…For example, in the time of brother Branham, he saw the Angel doing things and he did them; but it was the Angel who fulfilled them. He was the instrument to speak. The responsibility was to speak it; God was in charge of fulfilling it.[WMB] “Disturbance in the audience.” In other words, we have to reach a time where there is no disturbance, for God to work as He has already has programmed to work in the midst of the Church; because our adoption depends on all that; in other words, the right we have for God to fulfill that promise: everything that is an obstacle for that to happen, we have to remove it.He caught their attention: [WMB] “Look at me,” and there he said quickly: [WMB] “Disturbance in the audience”; that is, in the congregation, that is, among the people. There can be no disturbance in the people.And the other thing he said: [WMB] “I will be very happy when I have the little wooden room; then you will hear me.”Something is moving there. And you must ask, cry out, go into desperation, for God to work in that stage that is still to be worked; and then we can fully see the mystery of the Seventh Seal; because that is the key, as Jesus was the key back then.And he wrote: [WSS] «Jesus — Moses and Elijah».35 The key here will be: The ministries of Moses and Elijah.Well, “THE MYSTERY OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE FIRSTBORN WRITTEN IN HEAVEN.” We immediately leave with us our dear brother and friend, Dr. William Soto Santiago.* * *
54 There’s where the church is failing today, on that walk. Do you know that even your own behavior can knock somebody else out of getting healed? Your misbehavior, of unconfessed sins of you believers, can cause this church to bitterly fail. And at the Day of the Judgment you’ll be responsible for every bit of it. “Oh,” you say, “now, wait a minute, Brother Branham.” Well, that’s the Truth. Think of it!
55 Joshua, after he crossed over into the land, God gave him the promise that… Just think, to fight an entire campaign without losing a man, without even getting a scratch, without having to have a nurse, or a first aid or a band. Amen. God said, “The land’s yours, go fight.”