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BIBLE STUDY #295
SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 2023
[*Rev. Jose B. Perez**Scripture: Matthew 21:1-11** [Rev. Jose B. Perez] Zechariah, chapter 9, verse 9 onwards, it says:9 _Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass._ [JBP] There it tells us that the Lord would enter Jerusalem on an ass, that is, a donkey.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] And let us read there in The Ages edited, page 133 [p. 124 in Eng.] speaking to us about the donkey, the horse and the mule. Look, he says:Talk about a hybrid. Do you know the most famous hybrid in the world? It has been with us for ages. It is the mule. It is a cross between a donkey and a horse. He is a funny kind of an animal. He can’t reproduce himself. He has no life that can do that. Yet talk about work. He can outwork the horse or the donkey. But watch his nature. He is stubborn and you can never trust him. He is a perfect picture of hybrid religion. A cross between truth and darkness, for the horse is a type of the true believer and the ass a picture of the unrighteous one. Mix them and you have a sterile, formal religion. It hasn’t the seed of life. It is dead. It can talk about truth but it can’t produce it. It doesn’t have God in its midst, yet it gathers together and talks about God, and all the while systematically denies the power. They will deny the Word in the very Name of the Lord. And there is never any hope for them. Do you realize that no organized religion ever had a revival? Never! Once they organized they died. They can’t ever come back. No sir. I can show you that in type. In Exodus 13:13, “And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck; and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.” See, the ass can be redeemed. Every miserable sinner can be redeemed by the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ, or in rejecting Christ be rejected himself. But you don’t redeem the mule. There is no redemption for him. There is no blood for him. There can’t be because the mule takes refuge in the church while the ass takes refuge in the blood. The mule has “no seed” in him that can be quickened, but the ass has seed.[JBP] And it was on an ass, a donkey, that Jesus entered Jerusalem.THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY OF JESUS INTO JERUSALEM Dr. William Soto Santiago Sunday, April 5, 1998 Cayey, Puerto RicoNow, notice how the triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem was for the end time (Jerusalem of the earthly Israel), notice, he also speaks of a triumphal entry of Christ into the heavenly Jerusalem; and he also speaks of a triumphal entry into the heavenly Jerusalem, which will be manifested here on Earth, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.The triumphal entry of Christ there, in the midst of the earthly Israel, is a type and figure of the triumphal entry of Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords, as Son of Man and Son of David, into the heavenly Jerusalem, which is His Church here on Earth.During the Second Coming of Christ, He comes as King of kings and Lord of lords; and that is His triumphal entry into His Church, which is the heavenly Israel and the heavenly Jerusalem…[Rev. Jose B. Perez] In the message “WHAT IS THE ATTRACTION ON THE MOUNTAIN?”1 Reverend William Branham tells us in this message:37 Now, we find that many of the people that had understood… They didn’t have literature as we have today, they didn’t have television or telephones, or anything, of that day, but had been kind of breezed around that He was going to be at the passover. For many of the people, being spiritual-minded, knew that He was that passover Lamb, because He had already told them the things that was going to happen.38 And then, of course, knowing that He was to be there, and loved Him the way they did, they was waiting for Him. There was a crowd that was probably pushing, shoving from one gate to the other one, watching out in every way, for they knew that one of the hours He would appear. They were watching.39 Others were wondering what was the matter with these people running from gate to gate. “What’s the attraction?”40 And they would look this way and look that way, to find out. Looked like they were looking for something, under expectation of something going to happen.41 Oh, how I would like to change my text for a few minutes and say this, that that’s what’s the matter today. The people who are looking for Him coming is under great anticipation and expectations. We can feel it, the pressure. And they are seeking, watching every move and every sign, comparing it with the Scriptures.42 And when they seen all those things that was predicted of Him, right up to the end, they knowed the end was nigh. They wanted to be there, so they watched. Part of the crowds was for Him, in the minority. Some was against Him, most of them, ninety percent was against Him. ([JBP] He writes): [WSS] «10% / 90%».43_ And that’s about the way it is today in the religious crowds, when it really come down to the Word and Christ, there’s about one percent that would believe It. The other part wouldn’t pay any attention to It, no matter what was done_ ([JBP] he writes): [WSS] «1% will believe», they would pass off some kind of a joke or throw a slam about It. Just about the same. Time, things don’t change very much, history just repeats itself around.44 Well, we find that drawed a nervous tension. It had to. It must do it. They were waiting, they were wondering what He would do when He got there. They wanted to be there to get anything that He done. They wanted It. They wanted to see It. They believed Him. Others had heard He was coming, and they went up there to make fun of Him. So after all the nervous anticipation, a very unusual day, very unusual time, churches asleep, the people’s nerve was on edge, there was so many people there, and then it happened!45 On top of Mount Olive come a little, white donkey coming ([JBP] and he writes there): [WSS] «Rev. 11:3-14, 7:1-17», walking down the hill, with a group of people fanatically screaming…[JBP] Now, he, in a Bible study that was prepared for him (we had posted that excerpt from that message); and he draws the ages and the Pyramid; and he writes: [WSS] «Mount Olive».And there as well, in this message, he draws a Cornerstone and the ages.[45]_ …with a group of people fanatically screaming, pulling off palms’ leaves off the trees, throwing their clothes in the road, screaming, “Hosanna to the Son of David that comes in the Name of the Lord!” The… this little mule, his Rider was none other than God’s anointed Messiah of the hour._ ([JBP] And he writes): [WSS] «The triumphal entry of the Son of David into Jerusalem». «Three types of believers are attracted».46_ God, then, what was He doing? What is that attraction up there on the hill? It’s God making history, and God fulfilling prophecy. And that always causes an attraction. It brings all the critics up, the vultures (of this morning’s Message), and the eagles also. See? They come together to find out what’s going on. Some coming for curiosity, some coming to find fault, others coming to criticize. There’s all kinds gathered, as we said this morning:_ [WSS] «1» _believers,_ «2» make-believers, «3» and unbeliever. What’s on the mountain? Prophecy is being fulfilled. Now we’ll see what takes place.47 Now, in the Book of Zechariah, in the 9th chapter and the 9th verse. Zechariah, one of the prophets, spoke in the Spirit, saying this.“Rejoice greatly, O daughters of Zion; shout, O daughters of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just,… having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, upon the foal, a colt the foal of an ass.”[JBP] And he writes there:[WSS] «Zion – the Bride.Jerusalem – Israel».48 Now, what was the matter with those scribes? What was the matter with those priests? What was the matter with those religious people? This was wrote four hundred and eighty-seven years before it happened, by a vindicated prophet, and was already put into writings and called the Bible, the scrolls of the Old Testament. Why couldn’t they see that that’s prophecy being fulfilled? The same reason they can’t see it today. They had took the Word of God and made It of none effect to the people, by teaching (for traditions) for Doctrine the traditions of man.49 And if scribe, preachers, ministers, spiritual man (so-called), anointed ones, would only read the Bible, they wouldn’t be wondering what’s taking place, they would know what It is. God fulfilling His Word!50 History was being made, prophecy was being fulfilled. Salvation to the world was arriving, the great day that all the prophets had looked forward to. All that was in the grave was waiting for that day (my, think of it), all that had died, all the righteous of the blood of the martyrs and the prophets.[JBP] He writes: [WSS] «If they had read».And he also writes there: [WSS] «See the written promise and then see it fulfilled». «Everyone was waiting for the resurrection».51 Which, He had just screamed out, “Jerusalem, O Jerusalem, you that stone every prophet that I send to you, and kill the righteous, how oft would I have hovered you as a hen did, would her brood, but you would not. But now your hour has come.”52 Everything that was in the grave, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, all the prophets, were waiting for this hour.53 And the church was blind to It. “Who is this that’s causing all of this noise? Who is that Fellow?” They said one time, “Is not that the carpenter’s son over here? We know Him. Where did He get this wisdom? Why, we don’t see Him connected with any of our schools. We don’t know any books He ever learned from. Who is It?”54_ He was the answer of the prophet’s prophecy_ ([JBP] and he draws a Cornerstone). Here He comes, riding upon the foal of an ass. What an attraction! God was fulfilling His promised Word, the hour that had been waiting since four thousand years. In Genesis, the 3rd chapter and the 15th verse, God had made the prediction, “The Seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent’s head, but his head shall bruise her heel,” that prophecy down through the Bible that had been predicted of this Man coming.55 And here just recently there was a prophet who stood up among them, that was vindicated a prophet, Zechariah, and he said, that, “You daughters of Jerusalem and you daughters of Zion, rejoice, shout, scream out, for your King comes to you, meek and lowly and humble, riding upon the foal of an ass.”56_ And here those people that read that Scripture, day by day, watched Him come riding in, and cried, “Who is this?” See?_ ([JBP] He writes): [WSS] «Rejoice / the Year of Jubilee». God fulfilling His Word to the people that should have knowed what It was, but they didn’t know It.57 When God fulfills His Word, It always causes an attraction, always does. Causes an attraction, for It is the unusual. So unusual, when He fulfills His Word to the modern trend of the day, ’cause the modern trend of the day don’t believe in It. They have their own way.[JBP] And he writes there: [WSS] «When God fulfills His Word it always causes an attraction».58 Now, we see, and let us go back in the Scriptures and take some other unusual events, just for a few more minutes, when God fulfilled His prophecy. When God says anything, He’s going to do it. All heavens and earth will pass away, but that Word can never pass away. So It usually causes a scene, an unusual scene.59 Notice how ridiculous that the Word of God to a—a people who is supposed to believe It, and yet It’s so unusual they cry out, “Well, what’s this? Where’d you get that stuff? Who is this? What is this?” When, they ought to have been screaming, “Hosanna to the King that cometh in the Name of the Lord!” But there was just a little group doing that, just a little group. Of four thousand years of prophecy, for the greatest thing that could ever happen to the nation, for all the hope of the dead rested upon It…[JBP] As all the hope of those who have departed in the New Testament rests in the Second Coming of the Lord. And that hope of those who had departed in the Old Testament rested there, rested in that promise, in the fulfillment of His First Coming.[59] …all the future laid in It; and the religious people, that claimed they believe It, was screaming out, “Who is It? And what’s this attraction?” Something unusual! About the same, it just don’t change, now unusual.FOLLOWING GOD’S COUNSEL IN OUR TIME (Ministers Meeting) Dr. William Soto Santiago Saturday, September 18, 2010 Porto Velho, Rondônia, BrazilSo we can see that something is going to happen very soon.Jesus Christ Himself speaks to us in Matthew, chapter 23, verse 37 to 39… In chapter 21, He had already had His triumphal entry into Jerusalem and was rejected, but now look at what He tells us here:“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.”This will be fulfilled at the Second Coming of the Lord. He already had His triumphal entry as King and was rejected; but He will have His triumphal entry as King and will be welcomed: that is for the end time, for the restoration of the Kingdom of God on Earth.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] And on the backside of a Study he wrote:[WSS] «Israel, by rejecting the Lord Jesus Christ as King in His triumphal entry, they rejected the Coming of the Kingdom and the restoration [establishment] of the Kingdom and Throne of David, which is the Kingdom and Throne of God on Earth». And he also writes: [WSS] «This man shall not reign over us».This happened during the First Coming in the midst of the Hebrew people. And so it will be also among the gentiles. They will say, “This man shall not reign over us”; but on this occasion, the Hebrew people will receive Him.[WSS] «The Kingdom of God shall be taken and is given to another who carries the fruit of the Kingdom, the sons and daughters of God».[JBP] During the First Coming the Hebrew people rejected Him, but the gentiles received Him; which is that kingdom they received, as it says there: [WSS] «The Kingdom of God shall be taken and is given to another…», that is, to the gentiles.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] He goes on to say [(MM) “FOLLOWING GOD’S COUNSEL IN OUR TIME”]:[WSS] Therefore, when they see Him coming for His Church they will say, “This is the one we are waiting for.”And it is all tied to the Tent Vision; therefore, where the Tent Vision is fulfilled, God will be manifesting Himself; and the Jews will see God manifesting Himself and they will say, “This is the one we are waiting for.”Therefore, following the Counsel of God in our time, we have the blessing of God.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] In the book of Quotations,2 on page 73, paragraph 629 says: 629 - “[20] _And they didn’t know. Looked like a bird, to them. They never knowed nothing about it_ ([JBP] that is when they saw an airplane that would return them to Israel). So their priest stood out, the rabbi, rather, and he stood out and he said, “Listen! Our prophet told us that we would be carried back to the homeland on the wings of an eagle.[22] There it was, that bird, the airplane.23 They got off, they says, “Looking for a Messiah.” They wasn’t looking for the homeland; they was looking to see the Messiah. When the Jew goes to looking for that, something is at hand. They read this Book, and they said, “We believe our prophets, and we know Messiah is going to be a Prophet when He comes.” Said, “If this be the Messiah, then He is living, let us see Him do the sign of the Prophet. We’ll believe Him.” Hum! What a perfect, what a perfect thing!24 I’d like to call five or six hundred of them together. “You mean that? Let’s see whether He is alive, or not. And right on the grounds where your fathers rejected Him, now receive Him.” The Gentile is finished then.”[JBP] And he writes: [WSS] «The gentile is finished…».[JBP] And he writes at the top: [WSS] «The Messiah shall be a prophet and the sign».THE PROPHECIES FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE KINGDOM OF DAVID (Ministers Meeting) Dr. William Soto Santiago Saturday, July 8, 2006 (Second service) Santiago de Chile, ChileAnd now, those that are secrets (because they are not revealed), in order to be revealed, God will always have a prophet for the time that He will reveal those secrets; and He places His Word in the mouth of that prophet, His Word, to speak those mysteries, to open them. It has always been that way.And so, they will no longer be secrets, they will be divine revelations for the people living at that time, and for their children and for their grandchildren, and so on; for all the generations that will come after that time. That is, for our time: those that pertain to our time; and those revealed secrets will carry on for those who will live in the Millennial Kingdom.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] And in the message “WHO DO YOU SAY THIS IS?”3 Reverend William Branham says:136 The Prophet of the day is this Word. That’s right. The Prophet, today, is not all these here different… Here is a Methodist prophet, a Baptist prophet, a Pentecostal prophet, all kinds of prophets around, across the country. But still remains: there’s One True Prophet, the same yesterday, today, and forever. That’s right. Jesus Christ! And He is the Word. That’s right. He is the Word: the Anointed Word of the hour.[JBP] And he writes: [WSS] «The anointed Word of the hour is the prophet of the hour; and in whomever it is, makes him the prophet of the hour, the Anointed [Messiah] of the hour. Thus it was, is and shall always be».[Rev. Jose B. Perez] Our brother William goes on to say [(MM) “THE PROPHECIES FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE KINGDOM OF DAVID”]:[WSS] The Bible will definitely have more pages over there that will tell the story of the different stages of the Church; just like the Old Testament, in the Bible, tells the history of the Hebrew people from the Old Testament. And in the book of Acts it tells part of the story of the Church in its beginning; but the rest, the rest is going to be known and placed in the glorious Millennial Kingdom of the Messiah.The Messiah for the Jews will be a man who will appear at this time. And Elijah will also be a man who will appear at this time and who will announce the Kingdom, and who will prepare the people to receive the Messiah and receive the Kingdom of the Messiah.And I don’t explain too much of that so that everything goes well, because sometimes there are people who listen and already want to take all of that and try to do what is not theirs to do, but what belongs to someone else.Now, everything is being prepared for what is promised in the biblical prophecies for our time, and it is God who will be fulfilling everything.And now, for the time in which the prophecy of the coming of Elijah is fulfilled, the Seventh Trumpet must be sounding, the Great Voice of Trumpet, which also corresponds to the Feast of Trumpets being fulfilled. And we are not going to explain much there either, so that nobody comes along and says that they have that Trumpet; it is better that they do not understand anything. Let us leave it at that.The thing is that the true messenger, in whom the spirit and power of Elijah will be found, will know what that Trumpet is and will know what this Trumpet must be speaking; he will know the mystery before making it known to the people. And since it is a mystery that is sealed, only he will know it when it is revealed to him and only he will be able to make it known.No other person will be able to do it because they do not know the secret of that mystery, but the one who it belongs to, he will recognize it; and it will work. It is going to work with and among Christianity, and it is going to work in the midst of Judaism, and any other group that God sends it to.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] In the book of Quotations,4 paragraph 104… Look… Look where brother Branham speaks a part of that secret that will be in the heart. Look… Let us read it in its entirety; it says: 104 – Brother Branham relates about the first trip to Mexico, and continues:“[116] And I said, ‘That’s right.’ So, we come back up.And then I heard Mr. Arganbright was on his road up to see me.117 I went out to pray at my cave, and ask the Lord what. He showed me another vision. He said, ‘Dead fishes.’ It was laying, and He told me what it was. Said, ‘Go back. But this is really not the time, but I’ll bless it.’118 I went back down there, and somewhere around forty, fifty thousand people come to Christ. A dead baby was raised from the dead, and great things taken place.119 Now I’m waiting for the hour. You can imagine how minor this seems to be now, that these things are taking place, these great things that has already took place.”[JBP] There when he talks about the “dead fish,” he writes: [WSS] «Dead fish – when he departs / the dead in Christ». 104 - “119 Now I’m waiting for the hour. You can imagine how minor this seems to be now, that these things are taking place, these great things that has already took place.120_ The other night, I, not knowing… How many was at the Philadelphian Church when they heard me say at a certain person, ‘Cursed be the person that raises their eyes while I’m praying for this blind woman’_ ([JBP] and he writes): [WSS] «the woman who lifted her eyes…»? That’s what I was doing. See?121 The Lord is fixing to visit His people, in a great, marvelous something, friends. And I would… It has to be a secret in my own heart ([JBP] and he draws a Star of David and he writes): [WSS] «the little room in the Tent». But as you know me, and you believe me, and love me, and respect me as God’s servant; just remember, I’m telling you, a blessing is on the road [WSS] «the Tent» ([JBP] and a Star of David), that’s right, coming. And it will not be weakening. It will never weaken me no more. And it’ll be far beyond anything that’s ever happened here or anytime else. It’s just something the Lord has given. And I want…122 That would make me a—a believer in grace. After I had done, and the things that I had done, and the way that I had acted, and condemned before God, and yet, when God speaks anything and makes a… He’s going to do it, anyhow.”[JBP] Now look where and in whom that secret will be: it is in the ministry that the Holy Spirit will be operating there, in that ministry in the midst of the Church, which only he knows.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] Our brother William goes on to say [(MM) “THE PROPHECIES FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE KINGDOM OF DAVID”]:[WSS] Remember that God sent Elijah, and also Elisha, not only to the Jews but to the Assyrians as well? Elijah was a prophet not only to Jews but to gentiles as well. Therefore, the promised Elijah will know how to deal with Jews and how to deal with gentiles.And what are we going to do? Stand hand in hand with him in that work that he has to do. Therefore, the believers in Christ and the ministers who are ordained to see him, will see him and stand with him for the work that God has bestowed upon him.Therefore, we have to keep our eyes wide open, because the Reverend William Branham also said that the whole mystery of the Seventh Seal and its manifestation, if we are not watchful, we would (what?) miss it and we would not see it. In other words, we have to be aware, alert, and see what the Scripture says is going to be done by the Holy Spirit through Elijah, and what the Messiah is going to do.And as we are seeing what will be happening, we will be saying: “This is what it says here in the Scripture in this book of this prophet and in this chapter and in this verse; and this is what God said through the Reverend William Branham as well; we are seeing it with our own eyes.” And our exclamation is going to be, “This is the time that the apostles, the messengers of the seven ages, wished to live in, but I have been called to live in this time.”Therefore, we can say as Jesus Christ said to His disciples: “Blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.”5And now, those who will be seeing the fulfillment of the prophecies of the coming of Elijah and the coming of the Messiah will be blessed people, with blessed eyes and with blessed ears. Eyes to see and ears to hear ([JBP] and like a little song that Tirzo taught us: “And a heart to believe”): to see the fulfillment of what God has promised, and to listen to what the one who appears in the fulfillment of what was promised will be saying.Because if there are people who will be blessed to see, something will be happening; and if there are people who will have their ears blessed to hear, something will be being spoken. Therefore, they will be speaking and seeing what is promised for our time to be (what?) fulfilled, and to be proclaimed, to be made known to the people.This is the time for the blessed. This is the time when many will be blessed, many ministers and many congregations will be blessed; and they will be hand in hand working in the Work of God corresponding to our time.[_Rev. Jose B. Perez_] In the message: THE MESSAGE THAT FORESHADOWS THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST (Ministers Meeting) Dr. William Soto Santiago Monday, December 16, 2002 Cali, Valle del Cauca, ColombiaTherefore, by keeping ourselves united in divine love we shall keep ourselves well, without giving private interpretations; for the Word is not for giving – it is not for private interpretation. It is given by the Holy Spirit, and therefore, it is the revelation of the Spirit of God.And if there is anything that has not been understood correctly, the Spirit of God makes us understand, because He speaks to us again about that very thing; and if there is any question, it is asked, and anything made clear. And we leave that work to who was sent for that work: The Holy Spirit, to guide us into all righteousness and all truth; and He has always done it through the corresponding messenger of every age.Well, remain steadfast in the Message, each one of you, without causing trouble or divisions in other congregations, and without trying to conquer ministers to go with… to leave like that, to join you, to try to take people out of other sister congregations. That is not to be done, for that would be a movement of contention; and is seen by God as a movement of rebellion against God Himself and His Program that He is carrying out.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] Now, in a Bible study that was also preached, look, it was also a day like today; it was also the day of the triumphal entry; which was commemorated in that year on April 17, 2011, where the title he had for that occasion was: “THE KING RIDING ON A COLT.”Now, look at what he speaks to us - he writes on the backside of this Bible study; he writes several important things here. Because remember that one time… Let us see if it is in this very message…, yes, in this very one, on page 7 of “WHAT IS THE ATTRACTION ON THE MOUNTAIN?”6 it says:29 Now if I would take a text from that, for about thirty minutes before the prayer line begins, I would like to take this for a text: What Is The Attraction On The Mountain?30 Now, it had been a very weary, nervous day, and it was an unusual day. We find Jesus here coming up to Jerusalem, ready to attend the passover. And the passover is where the paschal lamb was killed, and the blood was spread upon the mercy seat for the—the atonement for—for the people. And He had come up from Bethphage and had come to the top of the Mount of Olives, which looks down upon another little hill where Jerusalem was built. And as He looked, and knowed that this was His final visit.[JBP] He draws a Cornerstone, and an arrow towards the Cornerstone, and the ages.[30] …and knowed that this was His final visit.[JBP] See, it was the last visit there in the midst of the Hebrew people, in the Age of the Cornerstone. And it is the last visitation of God on the updated Mount Olives, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the stage and Age of the Cornerstone where He would be. It would be the last visit, the Visitation of God for the last time.And he writes: [WSS] «Ready to attend the Passover, He knew what awaited Him there».We could read this on Friday, but let us… Since I have it here. Look, it says:31 This was the time that when He would be delivered into the hands of sinful men and they would kill Him. He would die the horriblest death that was ever died by a mortal, and be buried. He would be betrayed by His Own, some of them standing right with Him. And Him, being God, knew what was in their hearts, and knew from the beginning who would betray Him.[JBP] There is a message that he speaks to us about that (we will read it later; in the next few days, maybe on Friday), where he said: “But, Lord, if You know who they are, why don’t You take them out?” And there he says, brother William says: [WSS] “And do you want to do that job? Let them be, let them do what they have to do.”7 He knew who it was and who they were.[31] And knowed that man was with Him who set by His side and counted His money to Him, and so forth, knowed that man would betray Him. And knew that a cruel Roman cross waited for Him out there. He knew that His water in His body and the Blood of His body would separate, and that the Blood would drop off of His forehead, great big drops like perspiration. He knew all that was before Him. And He stands upon the mountain, looking over to Jerusalem. ([JBP] And he draws a Star of David.)32 The people of that day, the… what they called that day, “a better religious class of people,” hated Him. The churches of that day hated Him and denounced Him, and denounced all that listened to Him. And if they went and attended His campaigns, they were immediately excommunicated from the fellowship of the church. No wonder the Scripture said, “He came unto His Own, and His Own received Him not.” The ones who ought to have loved Him, the ones who ought to have been for Him, was His bitter, bitterest enemies.[JBP] And he goes on there, we will continue it later. But look here what our brother William says, what he writes. He says:[WSS] «Protect the Work of God. If someone comes to speak against the Church, the pastor and the brethren: do not listen to them, do not receive them. Keep attending Church and preparing for the Coming of the Lord with the saints, and the transformation and the rapture. Remain steadfast in Christ».And here he writes:[WSS] «When the ministry reaches the lowest level and seems to disappear, God adopts him».«Ecclesiastes 3:11-17 (he writes that Scripture)».«What is past is done, and God restores what is past; and there is nothing new under heaven. Dispensations and ages (cycles) repeat themselves; such as the millennia, the centuries, the years, the months, the weeks, the days, the hours, the minutes, the seconds. Everything is the repetition of past things with new people, with other people, as in the days of Noah, Abraham, Lot, Isaac, Jacob and Esau, Jesus said in Luke 17: , 18:8, 21:25-36».[JBP] And he writes: [WSS] «“Blasphemous names”».In that message, the last page talks about when a ministry reaches the point where it almost can’t, like it almost leaves: then God crowns him, in other words, He adopts him. He goes on to say:[WSS] «In the days of Noah,in the days of Abraham,in the days of Jacob,in the days of Joseph - they accused him, there were false witnesses;in the days of Moses - Aaron and Miriam, 10 spies, etc.;in the days of Joshua,in the days of the Judges,in the days of the prophets - they killed the prophets;in the days of David - David’s own friend to kill him;in the days of John the Baptist,in the days of Jesus - there was a traitor, also false witnesses;in the days of the apostles and of the messengers of the Church.And they will also be present in our day, against the final messenger of the Age ([JBP] and he draws a Cornerstone: “of the Cornerstone”). Do not be one of them, of those Judas’, Ananias and Sapphira. Be on the side of the Word».[JBP] Look at the recommendation and exhortation he gives us here: Don’t be one of those Judas’, be one of those on the side of the Word.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] Our brother William continues saying [(MM) “THE MESSAGE THAT FORESHADOWS THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST”]:[WSS] And therefore, it would be recognized by God as something that the enemy would be doing to disrupt the whole Program of God that He is carrying out, in which He is preparing us to be transformed and taken with Him to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.[JBP] Because the enemy of God, the devil, does not want to hand over these kingdoms; therefore, he will try to interpose himself so that the children of God will not be restored, just as the entire planet Earth will be restored. In other words, the devil will always be against everything that God will be fulfilling in this time for the blessing of His children.In other words, every movement that you see going against the Program of God for this end time are called the Judas. And he has told us that this is how it happened in past times: which prophets were not prosecuted? So it will be in this end time. But we are on the side of the Word.[WSS] The goal is to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.So remember: troublemakers will not be recognized as part of the group that will be transformed when we are transformed.Those who will be in divine love working in the Work of Christ will always work together and help one another whenever necessary, and pray for one another.Do not allow people with ideas and spiritual poison of bitterness and strife to come and try to separate us, or to speak against you or our brother Bermudez. Remain steadfast and faithful to Christ.Anybody who tries to interrupt or speak against Bermudez, our brother Bermudez, would be speaking against me, because I am working with him in the entire Work in Latin America and the Caribbean; and therefore, they would be speaking against God and His Program, because it is God’s Work and His Program of this end time, in the stage of the Age of the Cornerstone.[JBP] And I say the same thing at this time: Anyone who is against speaking against our brother Miguel, is speaking against me; and, consequently, against God.THE TWO ANOINTED ONES BEFORE THE PRESENCE OF GOD (Ministers Meeting) Dr. William Soto Santiago Thursday, June 2, 2005 (Second service) Pereira, Risaralda, ColombiaEverything has its time. Soon, from one moment to another, another stage of the Divine Program corresponding to the Age of the Cornerstone will begin.[JBP] Now look, 2005, there we were at the place where he told us in 2000 that we were entering: the seventh stage. And what is the next one? The Cornerstone, what was going to come next.[WSS] …from one moment to another, another stage of the Divine Program will begin, which corresponds to the Age of the Cornerstone.Just like during the seven ages, you see, it took seven stages for God to do what He did, and to send seven messengers, and to speak seven times to the Church by seven messengers.But for the Age of the Cornerstone, Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, in Revelation 10 speaks consecutively, speaks seven times but consecutively. Therefore, He will speak consecutively through the messenger of the Last Day, and He will open all these divine mysteries that were not opened in the past.Through Reverend William Branham, God was showing what He will do in this end time, He was showing what the Third Pull will be, which is the Word being spoken and things happening.And although it appears as though the Seals were opened at the time of the Reverend William Branham, actually, the true revelation and full revelation of the Seals was not made, because the Seals are opened by Christ, the Lamb, when He finishes His Work of Intercession, and He rises from the Throne of the Father, and takes the Title Deed. And then the intercession ends, the time of redemption ends, and Christ does His Reclaiming Work.And in taking the Title Deed He then gives it to a man who eats it, and therefore, he has eaten the Title Deed of eternal life. And that is where all the dead in Christ will have the restoration to eternal life and the transformation of us who are alive.Therefore, God was reflecting in the Reverend William Branham all that He will be doing in this end time.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] And he, with that group…, look at what he says in this same message “WHAT IS THE ATTRACTION ON THE MOUNTAIN?”8 on page 22, it says:118 Oh, just look at the Scriptures! “The Son of man,” Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever, growed past denominations, growed into the top of the Tree. What did He say in John 14, or 15? “Every branch that’s in Me, that doesn’t bring forth the fruit, it’ll be cut off and pruned, throwed into the fire and burned. But every branch that’ll bring forth fruit, it’ll be purged.”119 Oh, there will be a true former and latter rain in the last days upon that little group that come with Him…[JBP] He draws a Cornerstone above “group.” And on “that come with Him,” he writes: [WSS] «Jesus, Moses and Elijah».[119] …on this little donkey, low and humble, no don-…or denomination, crying, “Hosanna to the King that comes in the Name of the Lord!” What’s the matter today? What’s the attraction on the mount?[Rev. Jose B. Perez] That is in the book of Quotations.9 Let’s see there, because he wrote something on that page, in that portion of that message, which was in July ‘65 (July 25th). Let’s look at 1383: 1383 - “119 Oh, there will be a true former and latter rain in the last days upon that little group that come with Him on this little donkey, low and humble, no don-... or denomination, crying, ‘Hosanna to the King that comes in the Name of the Lord!’ What’s the matter today? What’s the attraction on the mount?”[JBP] And there he writes: [WSS] «The Latter Rain».[WSS] «The King comes on a donkey in His 2nd Coming». «Israel: Son in the wilderness».[JBP] There is a place where we had read that said something like [WSS] «the Caribbean, the desert»10. So everything that God will be fulfilling and is fulfilling in this time, is nothing other than the Word that has been spoken and that is written, being fulfilled, being materialized.[Rev. Jose B. Perez] There is another place here, in this same message “WHAT IS THE ATTRACTION ON THE MOUNTAIN?” where it tells us… Let’s see if I can find it. On this page 13, look, a little paragraph here on page 13 says [Page 11]:68 What was the attraction the second day after that, at Mount Sinai, when all the people was commanded not to come at their wives, when they was asked to wash their clothes and sanctify themselves, and gather around a mountain where a man by the name of Moses had said he met God in a Pillar of Fire? And God had said to Moses, “I’m going to come down amongst the people. I’m going to confirm that what I told you, and Who I am. I’m going to show them that I am that God.” That was the attraction, God fulfilling His Word.[JBP] And there is where he writes: [WSS] «What was the attraction? = God fulfilling His Word».[JBP] “THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY OF THE SON OF DAVID INTO JERUSALEM.” That is the topic that we will be listening to and watching on this occasion.We stand up, and we leave this topic that we have prepared for today, in this Holy Week; where God is already blessing us and will continue to bless us! Because it is an inexhaustible source of blessings that God has for us in this end time.And the greatest blessing we will have is the visit of all those who have departed, not only of the ages, but of our time, back into our midst; and they will soon be with us, and we will be transformed when we see them.There are so many promises that God has for us, which He will fulfill at this time, that we thank God for having placed us to live in this wonderful time, and for each one of us to be on the side of the Word.May God bless you, God keep you; and we immediately leave with us our dear brother and friend in this topic: “THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY OF THE SON OF DAVID INTO JERUSALEM,” our beloved brother and friend, Dr. William Soto Santiago.* * *