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BIBLE STUDY #454 – FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2024
Guatemala City, Guatemala
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Good afternoon. Greetings to Missionary Miguel Bermudez Marin and to all the ministers, brothers and sisters in Guatemala; and also those who are connected through the Amazonas satellite and the Eutelsat 8 satellite, and other means of communication.
Today, Friday, October 11th of this year 2024, our subject is:
COME UP HITHER Dr. William Soto Santiago Friday, February 28, 2014 Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
Scripture: Revelation 4:1-5
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Dr. William Soto Santiago used the Scripture of Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1 to 5, in this message; which, let’s read Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1:
Revelation 4:1
1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
[JBP] In verse 1 here, which we read, where it says: “a door was opened in heaven,” there he underlines that part there, it has an arrow coming out, a line coming out of there; he writes: [WSS] «Rev. 8:1», which is the Seventh Seal.
In other words, the opening of the Seventh Seal happens where? Above, at that Door that John looked to and saw beyond the ages, a Door in Heaven.
2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
[JBP] And he writes there: [WSS] «Most Holy Place».
3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
[JBP] And he writes there: [WSS] «Green».
4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
5 And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.
COME UP HITHER
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] It tells us in the message: “WHEN THE OMNIPOTENT SPEAKS, MIRACLES HAPPEN,” preached on June 11, 2016 by Dr. William Soto Santiago, there in Valencia, Venezuela, it says:
WHEN THE OMNIPOTENT SPEAKS, MIRACLES HAPPEN
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Saturday, June 11, 2016
Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela
The Stone cut out without hands in His First Coming was smitten on Calvary’s Cross, for the Stone cut out without hands is Christ in His Coming. He is the Cornerstone. And in His Second Coming, in the proclamation of the day of vengeance of our God, that the statue will be smitten in the feet of iron and clay; that is, the kingdom of the gentiles will be smitten in the stage of the feet of iron and clay, which it has been in for hundreds of years.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Regarding that, in the book of the prophet Daniel, there he shows us this dream that king Nebuchadnezzar had, where he saw that stone smiting that image. Look, it says in chapter 2, verse 31, it says:
Daniel 2:31
31 Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
32 This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
33 His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
35 Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] This is what our brother William is speaking to us about here; he says… he goes on to say [“WHEN THE OMNIPOTENT, SPEAKS MIRACLES HAPPEN”]:
[WSS] But God’s elect will be in the stage of the end time, in the stage of the Stone cut out without hands that is coming in this end time. That is where the elect of the end time will be represented.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] In the message “THE MASTERPIECE,” on page 45, Reverend William Branham tells us here:
[Bible Study #281, 12/Feb/2023 (Sunday), pp. 65-66 / Study “Breaking all barriers,” 28/Sep/2024 (Saturday)]
[64-0705 - “The Masterpiece,” p. 37, para. 209]
209 Don’t let anybody wait too long, Lord. Looks awful close. The harvest is truly ripe. The great combine of God will sweep through the land one of these days, straws will fly every way…
[JBP] See? What we read there in chapter 2 of Daniel, where it says there, in verse 35, that the Stone smites that image, meaning, the gentile kingdom, in that stage; and it says:
Daniel 2:35
35 … and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them…
[JBP] And notice how here brother Branham speaks to us that in His Coming He will sweep the Earth; it says [“THE MASTERPIECE”]:
[209] … one of these days, straws will fly every way; but the Wheat shall be gathered to the garner ([JBP] and he writes): [WSS] «The Harvest» ([JBP] and a Cornerstone), taken up, for in It is Life.
[JBP] And he writes: [WSS] «Rev. 11: and 19: Moses and Elijah».
[WSS] «God’s Coming with Moses and Elijah will sweep the Earth».
That is the Stone cut out without hands. Because what the Seventh Seal is to the Church, which is the Coming of the Lord, is the Seventh Trumpet to Israel, which is Moses and Elijah, the ministries of Moses and Elijah; because the Son of Man comes with His Angels.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now, our brother William goes on to say [“WHEN THE OMNIPOTENT SPEAKS, MIRACLES HAPPEN”]:
[WSS] And the Voice of the Omnipotent will be speaking, and miracles will be happening according to the divine promises. Not only healing miracles, but the miracle of the gathering of the elect…
[JBP] Now notice where that miracle takes place: it’s in the “come up hither,” it’s above; where —in this stage that we are in— where the half hour of silence is being fulfilled on this Earth.
In other words, when He left the Throne of Intercession, He opened the Book, that, in Revelation, chapter 8, it tells us there that when He opened the Seventh Seal there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour: that opening of the Seventh Seal is when He left the Throne of Intercession.
And that gathering of the elect is the great miracle that is taking place at this end time.
“Wait but…” You may say: “But…” Some people may say: “But he was already gathering the elect. He has said it in many messages, about the gathering of the elect, and all that…” Well, there was a little bit of everything in there.
And notice that in the end is when that separation is made, that segregation; and the elect of God, the wheat, is placed in the Storehouse: in the Age of the Cornerstone. That is the great miracle, one of the great miracles of this time; and let’s continue to see what the other miracle is. It says:
[WSS] … but the miracle of the gathering of the elect, the miracle of the resurrection of the dead in Christ…
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Notice, another miracle that will happen at that time. Now, look, before we go on there, in the message “CONDUCT, ORDER AND DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH,” which is in “QUESTIONS & ANSWERS,” here in book 11, on page 514 it says:
[59-1223 - “Questions And Answers,” p. 3, para. 11]
[11] And then, when God’s people begins to gather back together ([JBP] and there on the right he draws a Cornerstone and the ages, and he circles the Cornerstone. Meaning, when they begin to gather, where? In the Age of the Cornerstone), there’s unity ([JBP] and on the left there he draws a Star of David), there’s power. See? And whenever God’s people gets together completely, I believe the resurrection will take place then.
[JBP] Notice what our brother William is telling us here.
After that gathering of the elect, which is taking place now: the elect being placed in the Age of the Cornerstone, in the Storehouse, above, with the “come up hither,” with the Voice of the Omnipotent; notice, after that gathering is when the resurrection will take place.
[11] … I believe the resurrection will take place then. There’ll be a rapturing time when the Holy Spirit begins to gather it up.
[JBP] When? When the Holy Spirit: [WMB] “That Holy Spirit that we have (it says on page 134 in the book of The Seals) becomes incarnate…,” notice, that is where the Holy Spirit begins that work: Gathering what? Gathering the group, the wheat.
[11] …when the Holy Spirit begins to gather it up. They—it’ll be in the minority, of course, but there will be a great gathering.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now, our brother William continues to say here [“WHEN THE OMNIPOTENT SPEAKS, MIRACLES HAPPEN”]:
[WSS] Not only healing miracles, but the miracle of the gathering of the elect, the miracle of the resurrection of the dead in Christ, the miracle of the transformation of the believers who are alive, believers in Christ in the Mystical Body of Christ; the thirty or forty days of stay on Earth already transformed, where there will be great wonders and miracles being manifested, and many more miracles and wonders promised for that time of stay when the dead in Christ have already resurrected and we who are alive are already transformed.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now it also tells us about this in the message “THE INTER-VEIL” In a… In the version here the title is “THE INTER-VEIL” In the subject, in Quotations, it’s “WHY ARE PEOPLE SO TOSSED ABOUT?” On page 13, look, it says:
[56-0101 - “Why Are People So Tossed About?” p. 17, para. 116- 118] [Bible Study #204, 20/May/2022 (Friday), pp. 10-11]
116 Into this Holy Place, Aaron went, once a year. The congregation watched him. He was dressed right. He had to be anointed right. He had to walk right. Blessed be the Lord! Dressed right, walked right, anointed right. He had bell and a pomegranate on his garment. And as he walked, they played, “Holy, holy, holy, unto the Lord.”
117 He taken before him, a charger of blood, the blood of the lamb, the blood of the atonement. And he was anointed with the Rose of Sharon, and anointing run off his beards, plumb to the hems of his skirt. And he was walking into the inner courts, in the Presence of God. And when he went behind there, the veil fell behind him, and he was shut out ([JBP] he writes): [WSS] «the veil, inner court, M.H.P.» ([JBP] Most Holy Place). He was hid from the outer world. Praise be to God.
118 There is a ([JBP] and an arrow outwards, and a Cornerstone and the ages, and the arrow towards the Cornerstone) hiding place, abiding place ([JBP] there we see the gathering, notice) ([JBP] and he writes): [WSS] «Hiding and abiding place: the Most Holy Place».
[JBP] Which is what is taking place today.
In other words, while the Dispensation of Grace was open, where he said: [WSS] “The Door of the Dispensation of Grace will close soon.”* And then, notice, comes the “come up hither.”
*[2017-01-27 “The Return of the Heavenly Citizens to the Father’s House” —Introduction—/ Bible Study #247, 16/Oct/2022 (Sunday), p. 60 / Bible Study #259, 27/Nov/2022 (Sunday), p. 50]
Those who have gone up to the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, are those who have heard the Voice of the Omnipotent, and have been gathered in the stage or Age of the Cornerstone, where the resurrection and transformation will take place. Whoever hasn’t gone up is still in the Dispensation of Grace. As simple as that.
Now notice, in the front of that message there, he writes:
[WSS] «The abiding place is the Most Holy Place».
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] In the message as well: “WHY CRY? SPEAK!” he also speaks to us something there, on page 10; which is an excerpt that is placed in the book of Quotations, on page 105, so that you have there also the book of Quotations open in that part which I will be going through or reading as well here in the booklet. In the booklet it’s page 10; in the book of Quotations there’s an excerpt, in 907, so that we also see what he wrote in the book of Quotations; but let’s read here in the book, in the message, the booklet “WHY CRY? SPEAK!” which is that excerpt that’s placed there on page 105, paragraph 907; it says:
[63-0714M - “Why Cry? Speak!” p. 9, para. 49] [Bible Study #429, 14-2/July/2024 (Sunday), pp. 93-94]
49 Just as we know now, as a man asked me a few moments ago, about the Coming and the Rapture. We know. We’ve lived the time out, at the time of the Rapture is at hand, and we’re looking for a rapturing faith that can pull the Church together and give It some supernatural strength, that can change these bodies that we live in. When we see a God that can raise the dead off the floor or out of the yard, and bring him back to life again and present him before us, when we see a God who can take a cancer that’s eat a man to a shadow and raise him up to a strong healthy man, that ought to give rapturing faith to the people. That, when that Light flashes from the sky…
[JBP] And there he writes in the message, in the booklet: [WSS] «The 2nd Coming opened in the heavenly age».
[JBP] Where? In the Age of the Cornerstone; that is where the mystery of the Seventh Seal is opened.
Those who are not up there, well, then they can’t understand, they can’t see, they can’t comprehend the mystery of His Coming.
He writes, above there: [WSS] «The 2nd Coming opened in the heavenly age».
[49] …when that Light flashes from the sky, and the trumpet sounds, the Body of Christ will be quickly gathered together, and changed in a moment and taken into the Heavens.
[JBP] And he writes on the left, here in the booklet: [WSS] «When the Light shines: Rapturing Faith».
And he draws a Cornerstone and the ages there.
[49] Yes, there’s got to be something like that happen. And our schools of theology can never produce that, yet they intellectually are all right.
[JBP] In other words, notice, even if there are churches… Here he talks about schools of theology; but notice, even groups that have the Message of brother Branham, and even of our time, who have the Message, intellectually, see, he says: “they are all right”; but he says… he goes on to say:
[49] But you’ve got to meet that Light!
[JBP] If they stay down there, they are not going to see the Pillar of Fire speaking to the people, bringing them the Rapturing Faith, where brother Branham was shown, and when he saw the Tent Vision, where the Angel took him to that activity, and he saw the Pillar of Fire speaking to someone above where he was, in other words, to that instrument [The Seals, “The Seventh Seal,” p. 548 para. 296-299]. And there it was showing that it is the Pillar of Fire working in the midst of the people at that time to which brother Branham was transported.
[49] But you’ve got to meet that Light! ([JBP] And he writes there): [WSS] «The Pillar of Fire». You’ve got to find that Something.
[JBP] See?
And there he draws a Cornerstone on the left, and the ages.
And above he writes… or on the left he writes here in the book of Quotations, of that excerpt, he writes: [WSS] «[The] Rapturing Faith. Transformation».
He writes there next to… in the… in that short part there that we are reading here in the booklet; and in the book of Quotations it is page 105, paragraph 907, where he writes on the left: [WSS] «Rapturing Faith. Transformation».
And on top of that paragraph he writes: [WSS] «The Trumpet. Rapture time».
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] And our brother William continues to say [“WHEN THE OMNIPOTENT SPEAKS, MIRACLES HAPPEN”]:
[WSS] And at that time there will also be great revelations for the believers in Christ and for the Hebrew people. And it will all come to its climax in the fulfillment of the Third Pull…
[JBP] Now notice, if there are great revelations, if “there will be great revelations” at that time, brother William says here in 2016, well that is because at that time God would be speaking through His last dispensational messenger, which is the seventh dispensational angel messenger, with the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom; and thus fulfilling the promise of the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels; “Surely the Lord will do nothing without first revealing His secrets first to His servants, His prophets.” [Amos 3:7] He says:
[WSS] And at that time there will also be great revelations for the believers in Christ and for the Hebrew people. And it will all come to its climax in the fulfillment of the Third Pull, which is the stage of the Word coming out from the mouth of the Son of Man, the two-edged Sword, the Word of God, which is like a two-edged sword [Hebrews 4:12].
It is the Voice of the Omnipotent coming out of the mouth of the Son of Man at the Last Day, in the fulfillment of the Third Pull, in the Tent Vision, in a Great Tent Cathedral and with a little wooden room. The Angel of the Covenant, Christ, will be there; the Pillar of Fire whirls away to there, which has been from age to age with the messenger of every age; it will whirl away and be there.
Reverend William Branham will be there as well; and if he isn’t there, then he would represent the one who will be there…
[JBP] In other words, notice, he says that brother Brahnam will be…, he says that he may be in theophany (he spoke it in some messages), in his theophanic body*; or once he comes in the resurrection, he will be there; or, notice here, brother Branham may be representing the one who will be there, brother William says there.
*[Bible Study #297, 9-1/Apr/2023 (Sunday), p. 29: MM 2009-04-11 “The one who descended is the same one who also ascended above all the Heavens”]
In other words, everything that was shown, typified, symbolized, in brother Branham, is about that last messenger who is alive in the midst of the Church-Bride at this end time —as simple as that—, that instrument, that veil of flesh, which is where God is carrying out the ministry of the Second Coming of the Lord.
Now look, on page 80 from the book of Quotations, paragraph 683…
That is why when, in 254 of the book of The Seals, he said that when that Bride, that is: [WMB] “When that group can take the Word (meaning, the Message), and place the Word right…”
In other words, it’s not about having the Message and: “Well, it’s because he said this over here, he said that, he said this…” They place the Message where they think it’s best and where it looks the prettiest. But it is not a matter of it looking pretty, nor that they interpret it the way they think it is, because he spoke a certain way, but rather the way that God gave that Message and that Word and that prophecy, and everything that Reverend William Branham and Dr. William Soto Santiago brought, it’s about placing it according to how God saw it, and God’s interpretation of that Word.
The Word comes interpreted already; and as it is said: this is how God is carrying out what He promised!
What we are seeing at this end time is what He promised: what Reverend William Branham foreran, and the Good Tidings brought by Dr. William Soto Santiago.
Now look, on page 80…
We have to place the Word right to have results. To have the results of Rapturing Faith, the Word must be placed right, where? In the Age of the Cornerstone, in the stage relevant to this end time; the current stage with the current messenger who is alive in the midst of the Church. As simple as that.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] On page 80 from the book of Quotations, paragraph 683, he says:
[62-1230M - “Absolute,” p. 30, paras. 225-226] [Study “The forerunner of the coming Word,” 6/Apr/2024 (Saturday), pp. 20-21]
683 – “225 And I remember when He swept down there in that big Light, standing yonder at the bottom of the river, 1933, in June, when He said, ‘As—as John the Baptist was sent forth and forerun the first coming of Christ, I send you with a Message to the world, to forerun the second Coming of Christ.’ And around the world She’s went, when revival fires had been built for fifteen years on nearly every mountain. Divine healing across the nations, and the power, and restoration.
226 And now I believe She is ready to strike that final climax ([JBP] and he writes there): [WSS] «5th Elijah» yonder, to bring forth a Faith that will rapture the Church into Glory. And She is laying in the Messages.”
[JBP] And there he draws an arrow and a Cornerstone and the ages, and the arrow towards the Cornerstone.
And he writes above: [WSS] «The final climax».
And below, he writes: [WSS] «The Rapturing Faith = in the final climax».
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now, our brother William continues to say [“WHEN THE OMNIPOTENT SPEAKS, MIRACLES HAPPEN”]:
[WSS] … just as Elijah represents the prophets who will have the ministry that he had. Therefore, he represents… the first Elijah represents the second Elijah, the third, the fourth, the fifth ([JBP] he listed it there); and that is why the ministry of each one of them is the ministry of Elijah; and at the Last Day: with a double portion, with the portion relevant to the Last Day.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] In the message “THE SEED OF DISCREPANCY,” there he speaks to us about those ministries; which there is a portion of here that we will also be reading, which is from the book of Quotations, page 141, paragraph 1260. But let’s read here directly from the message, a little before reaching that paragraph; it says, page 5 says:
[65-0118 - “The Seed Of Discrepancy,” pp. 4-5, paras. 14-21]
14 Two years later, I had been praying in a cave where I would go to pray. Got dusty in the cave, and one afternoon I walked out, laid my Bible on a log, and the wind blowed It open to Hebrews, the 6th chapter. Which said, that in the last days, how it would be if we fell away from the Truth and renewed ourselves again unto repentance, there was no more sacrifice for sin, and how that thorns and thistles, which was nigh unto rejection, whose end is to be burned; but the rain cometh upon the earth, often, to water it, to dress it; but the thorns and thistles would be rejected, but the wheat would be gathered. And I thought, “Well, it just the wind happened to blow that open.” Well, I just laid the Bible down again. And I thought, “Well, now I’ll just…” And here come the wind and blowed It open. That happened three times ([JBP] Hah!). And I thought, “Well, now, that’s strange.”
15 And then as I raised up, and I thought, “Lord, why would You open that Bible for me to read that, I…when I get down to that, where ‘thorns and thistles, which is nigh unto rejection, whose end is to be burned’?” I thought, “Why, would You open that to me there?” And as looking out across…
16 Now, these real visions come without pulling into any gear. That’s just God. See? I looked and I seen an earth that was turning out in front of me, and I seen it was all disked up. There was a man dressed in white, went around sowing wheat. And after he went around the curvature of the earth; around come a man, looked horrible, he was dressed in black, and he was throwing weed seeds all over it. They both come up together. And when they did, they both was thirsty, because a rain was needed. And each one looked like was praying, with his little head bent over…
[JBP] That is, both the wheat and that weed that the horrible man was sowing there; meaning, it is the tares.
[16] “Lord, send the rain, send the rain.” And the great clouds come up, and the rain fell upon both of them. When it did, the little wheat jumped up and begin to say, “Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!” And the little weed jumped up right at the same side, and said, “Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!”
[Study “Identifying the fulfillment of the Scripture,” 4-2/May/2024 (Saturday), pp. 46-47 (PARAS. 17-21)]
17 And then the vision was interpreted: The rain ([JBP] and he writes): [WSS] «H.S.» ([JBP] that is, Holy Spirit) falls on the just and the unjust. The same Spirit can fall in a meeting, and everybody rejoice in it: hypocrites, Christians, and all together. Exactly right.
[JBP] Didn’t he say, in a writing, that the wheat… the wheat and the tares, and he says: [WSS] «The tares will sit next to the wheat»?* But notice, in the end… there is another place where he says: “They went out from our midst, because they were not of us”**; because that separation is taking place there. It says:
*Study “A Message of Separation,” 6/Aug/2022 (Saturday), p. 17 / Bible Study #325, 16-2/July/2023 (Sunday), p. 14 / Bible Study #418, 7/June/2024 (Friday), p. 54: [WSS] «The tares will come and sit by the wheat».
**[65-0801M - “The God Of This Evil Age,” p. 15, para. 76 / Bible Study #278, 3/Feb/2023 (Friday), pp. 42-43 / Bible Study #382, 2/Feb/2024 (Friday), pp. 17-18] [Study “The Coming of the Creator,” 3/Feb/2024 (Saturday), pp. 21-22: 63-1124E - “Three Kinds Of Believers,” p. 25, para. 190 - [WSS] «those who leave, went out from us because they weren’t it».]
[17] But what is it? By their fruits they are known. See? That’s the only way it can ever be known.
[JBP] And above he writes there:
[WSS] «The Rain of the Holy Spirit = the Former Rain».
«The Latter Rain of the Holy Spirit for the transformation, gathering of the wheat».
[JBP] What is the Latter Rain for? Notice, the Latter Rain of the Holy Spirit is for the transformation, gathering of the wheat.
18 Then you see that now, since wild oats, or wild wheat and grain sometimes impersonates a genuine, domestic grain, so close that it would deceive the very Elected. I think we’re living in a timely age, when these things should be preached on and talked about.
[JBP] Notice, that time of which he spoke, of which brother Branham spoke there, is this time in which we are living, where all those mysteries being revealed are spoken, and where all of that is spoken, and where it is made known who is wheat and who is tares; by the Word. Because it says: “They must be preached and spoken,” and look, that Teaching has been preached, which that ministry was promised to be making known in a Great Tent Cathedral, where the separation, the segregation, would be carried out. Which did not happen in the ages, rather that was for this end time.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now, look…, and now let’s get to that paragraph that’s in the book of Quotations, page 141, paragraph 1260, it says…; here on page 6 of this excerpt that he places here [“THE SEED OF DISCREPANCY”]:
19 Notice in verse 41, the two also very close, so close in the last days till He didn’t do… He could not depend on some certain church to separate them, say, the Methodist or the Baptist, or the Pentecostals, to separate them. He said, ‘He sends His angels to separate them.’ An angel is coming to bring the separation, the segregation between the right and the wrong. And no one can do that but the Angel of the Lord. He’s the One that is going to tell which is right and which is wrong. God said He will send His angels at the last times. Not angels down through here ([JBP] in other words, through the ages), but angels at the last time ([JBP] At which time? At this time, in the Age of the Cornerstone), and would gather together.
[JBP] That is why that did not happen in the time of our brother Branham, nor in the time of our brother William Soto Santiago; he did not bring the separation; they did not bring the segregation. That work is being carried out at this end time.
[19] We know that this is the coming harvest time now ([JBP] When is the harvest carried out? At this end time, in the “come up hither”). Now, an angel is actually interpreted a “messenger.” And we see that there is seven angels of the seven churches, and now…no, through the church ages.
[JBP] And here in the booklet, on the right he draws a Cornerstone and the last three ages.
There in the book of Quotations, there he writes the writings that you already have there, which we have spoken and have already said to you - I have said it*. It says:
*[Study “Moses and Elijah, the gathering and the harvest,” 30/July/2022 (Saturday), pp. 16-17 / Study “A Message of separation,” 6/Aug/2022 (Saturday), pp. 12-13 / Bible Study #239, 18/Sep/2022 (Sunday), pp. 29-30: [WSS] «Rev 22:16, 22:6, 1:1, 11:3-6, 7:2». / Bible Study #340, 8/Sep/2023 (Friday), pp. 8-10]
[WSS] «He will send His Angels in the separation».
And he also writes: [WSS] «Moses and Elijah, the gathering and Harvest».
[JBP] What do Moses and Elijah do? Gather, harvest. See? He does that work of separation, of gathering, of harvest.
And there he also draws 3 Cornerstones, there on the right side.
And below, in that same line, on the bottom right there, in the corner: the bottom part of the ages.
And he also writes on the left: [WSS] «Reap».
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] And he continues to say in the booklet:
20 Notice who He said that the sowers were, and also what the seed was. One, the sower was He, the Son of God, Who went forth sowing Seed. And an enemy ([JBP] and he writes): [WSS] «the antichrist» came behind Him, which was the devil, and sowed the seed of discrepancy, behind the sowing of the right Seed. Now, friends, that has happened through every age since we’ve had a world. Exactly. All the way from the beginning, it started the very same thing.
21 Now He said, “The Seed of God, the Word of God.” Jesus said, in a certain place, that “The Word is a Seed.” And every seed will bring forth of its kind. And now if the Christian, the children of God, the children of the Kingdom has become the Seed of God, then they must be the Word of God, the Word of God manifested in the age that they’re living in, for the promised Seed of that age. God gave His Word at the beginning, and each age has had its Seed, its time, its promises.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now notice, our brother William continues saying, in the message that we are reading [“WHEN THE OMNIPOTENT SPEAKS, MIRACLES HAPPEN”]:
[WSS] There are great things that will be revealed in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision…
[JBP] If they are going to be revealed, then there must be an instrument for God to make known what He said would be revealed; “surely the Lord will do nothing without first revealing His secrets unto His servants, His prophets.”
There when people get there, even people of this time who get to that part, when they hear that he said that in the Tent Vision, in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision, great things were going to be revealed: “No but it’s because he is going to return and he is going to speak that”; they are already adding to It there. And the person who adds to It runs the risk of his name being taken away if he takes away from It, and if he adds to It that plagues will be added to the person [Revelation 22:18-19].
Now notice, he continues saying:
[WSS] There are great things that will be revealed in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision…
[JBP] Because in order for it to make sense for them, then they have to take away from the Word or add to It, so that the interpretations, the reasonings of each one of them, make sense, they then have to avoid all this and avoid that at the end of time God was going to have His last dispensational prophet, the Benjamin of the prophets. And they don’t want to believe that, just as they didn’t want to believe in Jesus back then.
He goes on to say:
[WSS] There are [many] that will be revealed in the fulfillment of the Tent Vision; the Coming of Christ with His Angels to His Church at the Last Day will be revealed, which will give Her the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
[JBP] Notice, and if they can’t believe what God is carrying out, well, none of those who do not believe that will be transformed and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; they will be bound and cast into the great tribulation. As simple as that.
[WSS] And the Son of Man is coming to reward each one according to his work, and He comes with His Angels. He comes this way because that is how it is promised.
[JBP] Not because the person likes it a certain way, but because God already has it in His Program that it should be that way.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] On page 4 of the book of Quotations look paragraph 28 it tells us there, it says:
[53-0328 - “Israel and the Church #4,” p. 11, para. 73] [Study “The Dispensation of Adoption,” 22/Aug/2022 (Monday), pp. 10-11]
28 - “[73] I truly believe, before the Church can have the Rapture, it’s got to have rapturing faith. We can’t even have faith for Divine healing, let alone rapturing faith.”
[JBP] And he said this in ‘53; later in ‘63 he spoke about that in the book of The Seals, where he said that “we can’t have enough faith for divine healing, hardly.” [The Seals, “The First Seal,” p. 123, para. 75]
He continues saying:
28 - “[73] Got to have a faith that’ll change and quicken this body, and be taken away.”
[JBP] There we have the “come up hither,” that faith to go up and be placed in that Age where the Rapturing Faith would be spoken and the people who would be transformed: would receive It.
28 - “[73] I believe there’s a Church on its road tonight, a power of the living God, that men will speak the Word here and there, and it’ll flash like lightning.”
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Didn’t He say that in Matthew, chapter 24, verse 29? where it tells us… Let’s see here; verse 31 says:
Matthew 24:31
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] And also in verse 27:
Matthew 24:27
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] Now notice, there he is speaking to us about that power of the Divine God; he says [Quotations]:
28 - “[73] …a power of the living God, that men will speak the Word here and there, and it’ll flash like lightning.”
[JBP] What we read there from chapter 24, verse 27 and also verse 31; because it is the Coming of the Son of Man with His Angels.
28 - “[73] And a Church is coming out; not a psychologist, not some of this put-on, make-belief; but a real, true, genuine, anointed, Holy Ghost, called-out Church!”
[JBP] And on the right, he writes upwards: [WSS] «Like lightning».
And above he writes: [WSS] «He will speak!», and he draws a Cornerstone.
And he writes: [WSS] «The Rapturing Faith».
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] And also on page 32 of the book of Quotations, paragraph 267, it says:
[59-1223 - “Questions And Answers,” p. 3, para. 11] [Study “God interprets His Word by fulfilling It,” 17/Feb/2024 (Saturday), pp. 38-39]
267 - “[11] And then, when God’s people begins to gather back together, there’s unity, there’s power. See? And whenever God’s people gets together completely, I believe the resurrection will take place then. There’ll be a rapturing time when the Holy Spirit begins to gather it up ([JBP] and there he draws an arrow, and a Cornerstone and the ages). They—it’ll be in the minority, of course, but there will be a great gathering.”
[JBP] That is the excerpt that we read directly from the message, where he wrote what we read a few minutes ago there; here is the excerpt.
And above he writes: [WSS] «Rapturing Time (Rapturing Faith)».
And he also writes: [WSS] «The gathering is above».
And he draws a Cornerstone.
Where is the gathering? Above, in the “come up hither.”
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] And our brother William continues to say [“WHEN THE OMNIPOTENT SPEAKS, MIRACLES HAPPEN”]:
[WSS] And in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 12, it says: “And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.” The reward will be according to his work.
Eternal life is for receiving Christ as Savior, and then the rewards are for what you have worked in the Work of Christ in your life as a believer in Christ, in the Divine Program, which has subprograms; and the believers in Christ of the Last Day will be working in each program of Christ for that stage…
[JBP] For which stage? For that stage. It says: “That there will also be believers in Christ working for that stage.” Not standing around with their arms folded, but rather working with the Seventh Seal as well.
[WSS] … and the believers in Christ of the Last Day will be working in each program of Christ for that stage, with love, dedication and respect for Christ and for His Work pertaining to the different programs or projects that [He] has [in] the Divine Program for this end time.
The Omnipotent had been speaking for each age, and wonders and miracles were taking place. That is how it will be at this end time in the Age of the Cornerstone…
[JBP] Notice, he is saying that in the Age of the Cornerstone, when that time comes, that is how it will be; because we were still living in the Dispensation of Grace; but after the Dispensation of Grace would come the Age of the Cornerstone, the “come up hither.”
[WSS] … the Omnipotent will be speaking, and wonders and miracles will be happening at this end time.
[JBP] How will He be speaking? Through that prophet messenger.
[WSS] But don’t just look at physical miracles like divine healing, or miracles in the field of divine healing, but there are greater miracles than the healing of a paralyzed person or of a blind man. For a person’s eyes to be opened to the Divine Program, and for them to receive Christ as [their] Savior ([JBP] notice, that was in the Dispensation of Grace), [and that miracle] that is a greater miracle than the miracle of a blind man receiving his sight…
[JBP] Notice, for the Dispensation of Grace that was the greatest miracle for a person; but notice, in the Dispensation of the Kingdom, what is the greatest miracle? Good question! The greatest miracle is seeing the fulfillment of the Second Coming of the Lord! That is the greatest miracle, greater than a physical healing!
It says, he goes on to say:
[WSS] … because his spiritual eyes are opened to see the Divine Program and to see Christ manifested in the midst of His Church, opening the eyes of those who are blind to God’s Program for the end time.
So, there are physical miracles, but there are miracles that have to do with the spiritual realm. And He will open our spiritual eyes, He will enlighten our understanding, He will enlighten us in the Scriptures to us, He will open the Scriptures to us, and then we will say: “Now I understand the whole Divine Program; now I understand, above all, the Program that has to do with this end time and what it has to do with me in God’s Program.”
[JBP] Those are the ones above, in the Age of the Cornerstone, who, at this end time, have said that: “Now I understand, Lord, the whole Divine Program; now I understand, Lord, the whole Program that is relevant at this end time; and now I understand everything that has to do with me in the Age of the Cornerstone.”
[Dr. Jose B. Perez] And look, on page 111, in paragraph 975, it tells us [Quotations]:
[63-0825E - “Perfect Faith,” p. 24, para. 159] [Bible Study #262, 9/Dec/2022 (Friday), p. 23]
975 – “159 Think of that! The Word of God is That, a Discerner of the intents of the heart. ‘For the Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and of spirit, and of the joints and of the marrow, and is a Discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.’ The Word made flesh! Hallelujah! The Word operating in human flesh, by physical signs, by material signs, by Scriptural signs, perfectly, to bring to you a Perfect Faith for a Perfect Rapture.’”
[JBP] And there on the left he draws a Cornerstone and the ages, and a Star of David.
And above he writes: [WSS] «The Word in the flesh brings the Perfect Faith: Rapturing Faith».
[JBP] In the manifestation of God at this end time, which is the Word in flesh, what is He bringing to the Church-Bride? He brings the Perfect Faith, the Rapturing Faith, in the “come up hither.”
“COME UP HITHER.”
That is the subject that we have for this occasion. Let’s stand, and thus leave, on this occasion, under this subject: “COME UP HITHER” our dear brother and friend, Dr. William Soto Santiago.