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THE STAGES OF

THE CHURCH OF

JESUS CHRIST

Rev. William Soto Santiago, Ph.D.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Cayey, Puerto Rico

Very good afternoon, beloved friends and brethren present and those through Amazonas Satellite or Internet in different nations, may the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon all of you and upon me too.

We already heard the announcements that were given at the beginning, therefore, we can go directly to the Scriptures to have a talk about and around the Word of God and to see the time in which we live and why we are believers in Christ. The Scripture speaks to us in Matthew chapter 16, verses 13 and onwards, 13 to 20, and it says as follows:

"When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?

And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?

And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.

And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ."

May God bless our souls with His Word and allow us to understand It.

Our theme for this occasion is: "THE STAGES OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST."

The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, we find that emerged, was born, on the day of Pentecost when hundred and twenty believers in Christ were filled with the Holy Spirit, in other words, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ was born of Christ. About the Church of Jesus Christ has been much talk, and Jesus Christ Himself speaks of It at this time that He was with His disciples and touched that subject when Christ asks to His disciples: "Whom do men say that I the Son of Man am? " and each of them, or they say: "Some people say or think and say you are John the Baptist," because the king himself thought He was John the Baptist that had risen because of the miracles He was doing.

Others thought it was the prophet Elijah, but the Elijah of that time was John the Baptist, others thought it was Jeremiah, perhaps when they saw Him weeping they thought it was Jeremiah, or when He prophesied things that were to happen, they also thought that He was the prophet Jeremiah. And others said: "We do not know which of the prophets is, but He is a prophet, one of the prophets," they thought that one of the prophets had risen and was taking or continuing his ministry.

Therefore, they compared what Jesus used to do with that which previous prophets had done and then they said: "This has to be such a prophet, because He is doing what that prophet did." and then Christ asks His disciples: "And you, whom do you say that I am?" it is a good question.

And now, Peter said: "You, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God," that was the correct answer, and Christ said to Peter, "Blessed are you Simon son of Jonah, for flesh and blood hath not revealed unto you," those who had talked about Jesus, the opinion of others who said: "This is John the Baptist that is risen," others said: "It is Elijah," others said:" This is Jeremiah," others said: "No, it's one of the prophets, but we do not know which one is."

But now Peter had heard from God; the revelation that God had given to Peter was that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the living God, the Christ, the anointed, the Messiah, the promised Messiah, Whom they had being waiting for, and they already had Him in their midst, He was among that simple group, humble, of fishermen and farmers, simple people.

However, the great theologians of that time had not realized that the Coming of the Messiah was fulfilled in their midst, the man anointed with the Holy Spirit, the man with the Holy Spirit within Him, made flesh, Emmanuel, which interpreted is: God with us, that was promised by Isaiah, chapter 7, verse 14.

And God does nothing without first revealing His secrets to His servants, His prophets, and they speak it and then it is prophecy, it is the Word of God to the people, it is the creative Word that at some point will materialize and then it will be the promised Word vindicated, made reality, fulfilled, and that will be the light for the people, to enlighten their minds, the mind and heart to the people of that time when that divine promise is fulfilled.

In the midst of the apostles and thus in the midst of the Hebrew people was the greatest promise made a reality: the Coming of the Messiah as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world.

The Coming of the Lord has two very important parts, and these two parts correspond to two different times. The Coming of the Lord at His first part comes as the Lamb of God to take away the sin of the world, and that promise was fulfilled in the midst of the Hebrew people, so He had to be rejected and had to die for His people and for every person written in Heaven in the Book of Life of the Lamb.

It was necessary for Him to lay His life down as an Atonement for the sins of mankind, to save mankind. Christ Himself said in John, chapter 12, verse 24: "Except a corn of wheat falls to the ground and die, it abideth alone, but if it falls to the ground and die, it bringeth forth much fruit."

Christ is the corn of wheat, the original seed, remember that all children of God are represented in wheat, and Christ Himself, as Son of God, is represented in the corn of wheat, the original seed, which would be sown to reproduce Himself in many sons and daughters of God, and just like every corn to reproduce itself must have a wheat plant, and that wheat plant must come forth, must emerge from the corn of wheat that will reproduce itself.

And Christ being the corn of wheat, the wheat plant is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, of which in this passage that we read here at the beginning, Christ says: "And upon this rock I will build my Church." His Church will be, in symbolic terms, typological, the wheat plant that will have the life of the wheat corn, and the life of the corn of wheat, the life of Christ is the Holy Spirit, and It will be in the wheat plant which is the Church the Lord Jesus Christ.

So in Matthew, chapter 28, verse 20, Christ says: "I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." Therefore, the life of Christ, the life of the wheat corn which is the Holy Spirit, has been in His church since it was born on the Day of Pentecost, it was born of Christ through the Holy Spirit, and It has remained in His Church, which is the wheat plant, Christ reproducing Himself by His Spirit through His Church, reproducing Himself in many corns of wheat, many sons and daughters of God.

Just as God placed all His power in Christ, Christ has placed in His Church all His power, Christ Himself said: "All power is given unto me in heaven and on earth." Matthew, chapter 28, verses 16 to 20, and said, after resurrecting, the day He was to depart to Heaven, after spending 40 days with His disciples, appearing to His disciples on several occasions, He says before leaving to Heaven: "Do not leave Jerusalem; remain in Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high." Acts, chapter 1, verses 1 to 10.

All the power of God, God placed it on Christ and He says: "All power is given unto me in heaven and on earth," and all the power of Christ He has placed it in His Church through the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, which is in His Church.

At the Day of Pentecost it descended upon one hundred and twenty believers in Him and the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ was born, and consequently the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the one with the sons and daughters of God, they are sons and daughters of God by means of God through Christ manifested in the Holy Spirit in the midst of His Church, in order for the sons and daughters of God to be born in the Kingdom of God.

Just as God gave Adam a companion, who came from Adam himself, which God took from Adam himself, for Adam to reproduce himself through Eve in many sons and daughters of God, just as Adam was a son of God and Eve also a daughter of God.

They had the commission: Adam, to bring sons and daughters of God, in other words, from them had to come all those who would form the Church of Jesus Christ, they had to be born through Adam and Eve; and all of them would be born with eternal Life, but because of sin Adam lost eternal Life and Eve also, they could no longer physically live forever, and therefore all the descendants of Adam and Eve would become mortal.

And now, God brings Jesus to Earth. His body came by divine creation, by the work and grace of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, that’s why Mary is the most blessed woman of all women, because she was the woman who brought a child, a son, a child without the union with a man, by the work of the Holy Spirit.

That is how Eve had to bring children: God would indicate it to Adam, Adam would speak and Eve would conceive, and then she would give birth on each occasion the children concerned. As simple as that. There's the model of how Adam had to bring sons and daughters of God through Eve.

And now, God brings Jesus Christ, Jesus, to this Earth, and Jesus becomes the second Adam, and Eve, the second Eve, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, She was in Him, that’s why He speaks of His Church, and with the wounds of Christ on the Cross of Calvary, Blood and water came out from Him, and Christ dies, from His death, out of His Blood and water, life emerges, and at the Day of Pentecost the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ was born, just as it comes forth, is born, life in a woman, blood, water, and then the baby.

Thus we find that after the death of Christ on the Cross of Calvary, where Blood and water came from His side, then on the Day of Pentecost, life; and there we find that mystery as the mystery of God the Father and of Christ, of which Paul speaks in Colossians, chapter 2, verse 2 onwards, where it says:

"For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh (and now verse 2 says, and 3);

That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge."

It is important to know the mystery of God the Father and of Christ, where all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden. In other words, knowing the mystery of God the Father and of Christ, the person obtains that divine knowledge, all this divine knowledge which is identified in the Scriptures, he knows who God the Father is and knows who Christ our Savior is, and knows why Christ could say: "The Father and I are one." John, chapter 10, verse 30, and John, chapter 14, verse 6 onwards, Christ says: "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father."

And now, there are other places where Christ says that He existed before He was in that body of flesh, when He says to the Jews on one occasion in chapter 8, verse 56 to 58 of John:

"Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am."

If you were present at that time when Jesus speaks these words, would you understand these words? You would not understand them, but you would believe if you were a believer in Christ, and so it is ...

And how do you know you would be a believer in Christ and would believe? Because what you are at the moment, what you are at this time, if you would live, if you were living at that time, you would be a believer too, you would be nothing else.

A believer in Christ is a believer, no matter the time, generation, age or dispensation that is allotted to him to live. And if you had lived in Noah's time, you would also be a believer in the message of Noah, because Noah's message is the message of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is the Angel of the Covenant, and the Angel of the Covenant is Christ in His angelic body. As simple as that.

The only thing is, that the Bible would not say that eight persons were saved, but nine persons. And if we were all living at the time of Noah, at that time, if we had lived there, then the number would be higher.

Therefore, what we are in our time: believers in God and His Word through Christ the Angel of the Covenant, we would be the same in the time allotted to us to live; if it would not be at this time, no matter which time, we would be firm believers in Christ.

If we were living in the time when believers were thrown to the lions, we would be people who would die for the Name of Christ even if we were meat for the lions, we'd be martyrs. Therefore, we do not worry concerning what time, how we would be in another time, we would be like we are now: believers in Christ and His Word.

All the Word of God throughout the entire Bible, is the Word of God through the Angel of the Covenant which is Christ in His angelic body. See? There's the mystery of God the Father and of Christ.

And now, there is another important mystery: the mystery of Christ and His Church, of which we are speaking on this occasion, because God had not dealt with the Gentiles but with the Hebrew people, because God deals with the Hebrew people as a nation, He deals with Gentiles as individuals.

Therefore, God has been calling a people for His Name’s sake among the Gentiles, and there are also in that people, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, Jews, too, Hebrews too, the Church was born with believers in Christ who were Hebrew from different tribes of the Hebrew people, and then God continues to add to His Church those who are to be saved, and from among the Gentiles He has been calling a people for His Name’s sake, and the large number of those who form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ we can see that they have been among the Gentiles.

That is why the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ among the Gentiles, Paul said that the believers were not to be circumcised, nor have to worry about keeping a weekday: Sabbath; they rather gathered Sundays, on Saturdays they would go to the synagogue and preach the Gospel there, to make known to them about Christ.

But when they met as believers, they gathered to speak of Christ and to hear the Word, the Gospel of Christ, to be edified, taking the Holy Supper as well, and so forth. They met on the first day of the week, says the Scripture, the first day of the week was the resurrection of Christ, which is, Sunday, which is the first day of the week.

Sometimes we think that the first day of the week is Monday, that's the first day of the workweek, but the first day of the week is Sunday itself, the last day of the week, the seventh day of the week is Saturday, and then the first day is Sunday.

And now, the fact that Paul said that the Gentiles did not have to be circumcised or keep the Sabbath, nor carrying out sacrifices of animals or keeping full moon and all those things, and not eating certain foods also, even when the Holy Spirit shows a vision to Peter in the house of one named Simon, where Peter was staying, the Holy Spirit shows him a great sheet with many clean and unclean animals, and a voice says to him: "Peter, kill and eat," and for surely it was a moment when Peter needed to eat, if it was in the morning he needed to have breakfast, or if it was in the evening he needed to have dinner.

And the Holy Spirit says: "Peter, kill and eat," and Peter says: "not so Lord, for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean," the apostle Peter didn’t eat unclean animals, as it is forbidden in the Scripture under the Law, under the covenant of the Law, and the Holy Spirit says: "Do not call unclean what God has made clean." For by the Blood of Christ everything was sanctified, and through prayer that the person makes when eating, food is sanctified.

And Paul would say that eating or not eating something, that was of no importance in terms of spiritual matter to God, the person could eat whatever was there to eat, in hard times even in the midst of the Hebrew people they ate a lot of things which in other times they would not eat them, even camels or donkeys, so we find that when there is a famine, the person is not picky as to know whether the meat comes from an unclean animal or not.

And now, those were matters in the Church at its beginning, but that could not be an issue for discussions, for altercations between the believers among the Gentiles and Jewish believers. Paul said: "As God sent Peter to the Jews, I have been sent for the Gentiles," and then Paul would not allow things that belonged to the Law: circumcision, and also keep full moon, keep the Sabbath, and so forth, he did not allow it to become a doctrine to be observed in the midst of Christianity among the Gentiles.

That’s how it was with the Church under the leadership of the Holy Spirit through Paul in the first stage or age among the Gentiles, and that Church age was represented in the church of Ephesus and therefore Paul was the messenger for the age represented in the church of Ephesus. Ephesus is in Asia Minor, Gentile territory.

And now the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ that was born the day of Pentecost, just as Jesus in His physical body was the physical body of God, the physical likeness of God, where the fullness of the Godhead dwelt, where we see the Father in Him carrying out the wonderful works that are related in the Gospel according to Matthew, according to Mark, Luke and John, and we can also see the Holy Spirit manifested speaking through Jesus.

And the mystery of God the Father and of Christ is that in Jesus dwelt the fullness of the Godhead, namely: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, everything was in Him, all that God is, He poured it in Christ, and then all what Christ is, He poured it into His Church.

Therefore, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, made up of believers in Christ, forms God's people of the new Covenant under the Blood of the New Covenant, the Blood of Christ shed on Calvary's Cross, the Blood of the everlasting Covenant, the Blood of the covenant of which Christ spoke when He took bread and giving thanks to the Father in Matthew, chapter 26, verse 26 to 29, He gave to His disciples, saying: "Eat it all, for this is my body," Paul says that Christ said: "My body which is broken for you or for many." First Corinthians, chapter 11, verses 19 and onwards.

He took the cup of wine and gave thanks to the Father and gives to His disciples, saying to them: "Drink ye of it all (in other words, the cup of wine) for this is my Blood of the New Covenant that is shed for you or for many for the remission of sins."

Now Christ speaks here of the new Covenant which God had spoken through the prophet Jeremiah in chapter 31, verses 31 to 36, saying: "Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new Covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant I made with their fathers, which they broke."

And that's where it says that He will make this New Covenant with the house of Israel and that He will write His laws in their mind and soul, in the mind and heart of the people upon whom He will write that New Covenant, which are the believers in Christ that form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, these are the ones within the New Covenant of which God spoke through the prophet Jeremiah. Hebrews, chapter 10, verse 12 onwards says:

"But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord,

I will put my laws into their hearts,

and in their minds will I write them;

And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more."

God will never again remember the sins and transgressions of those who will enter the New Covenant, because they will be covered and cleansed by the Blood of the New Covenant, the Blood of Christ, which cleanses us from all sin;

"Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin."

Christ is the High Priest of the heavenly Temple, that Sacrifice of Christ would not be taken or carried out in the earthly temple, nor His Blood would be taken to the earthly temple, it would not be taken to the Holy of Holies of the earthly temple, but the Blood would be brought into the Holy of Holies of the heavenly Temple.

Christ presented Himself in the heavenly Temple with His own Blood of Atonement and turned it, He converted the Mercy Seat of the heavenly Temple which is the Throne of God in Heaven in the Holy of Holies of the Temple of Heaven, into a Throne of mercy, a Throne of Intercession, where Christ is interceding as High Priest with His own Blood for anyone who would receive Him as only and sufficient Savior.

Those are the persons written in Heaven in the Lamb’s Book of Life who would form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, those are the persons who would be born again, they would be born in the Kingdom of God through the union of Christ and His Church, Christ the second Adam, and His Church the second Eve. And consequently the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the most important thing that Christ has on Earth, and it is so important that Christ has placed His Spirit in the midst of His Church, Christ in the Holy Spirit is in His Church, and She is the only that can say that through the Holy Spirit Christ has been reproducing Himself through Her in many sons and daughters of God, which are born of the Water and the Spirit, they obtain the new birth, and therefore enter the Kingdom of God, are born in the Kingdom of God as sons and daughters of God.

His Church, which was born on the Day of Pentecost is typified, and represented in the Hebrew people, just as the Hebrew people left Egypt as a people, as a nation, the believers in Christ come out, out of the world, out of the kingdom of darkness to be placed in the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, the Kingdom of light, they are taken out of the kingdom of darkness and placed in the Kingdom of light.

Therefore, the different stages which the Hebrew people went through, coming out of Egypt up to the promised Land, in those stages which they went through, are represented, the different stages through which the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ would go through, the people of God under the New Covenant that God promised to establish.

Those stages are also represented in Abraham's life, in those stages which Abraham went through, are represented the stages which the Hebrew people would go through and also the stages which the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ would go through. Therefore we can see what happened in the past and we can see the parallel with the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ and the stages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Church of Jesus Christ is under a New Covenant, covered with the Blood of the New Covenant, the Blood of Christ, the Blood of the everlasting Covenant, of which Paul in Hebrews, chapter 13, verse 20 to 21, says that the Blood of Christ is the Blood of the everlasting Covenant.

The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is represented, its different stages, are represented in the seven Churches of Asia Minor mentioned in Revelation, chapter 1, chapter 2 and chapter 3. These seven Churches existed in Asia Minor, and are the type and figure of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ going through seven stages. And because these Churches are in different cities, the stages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ would be in different nations, in different parts of planet Earth.

Then we find that in the things which were in those cities are also a type and figure of the things that each stage of the Church would have, things which the Church would have and the world would have at that time, and above all, in the territory where these stages would be fulfilled.

For each stage there was a messenger, just as for each church of the seven churches mentioned in Revelation in Minor Asia, although there were more churches in Minor Asia, but the chosen ones to typify these different stages of the Church among the Gentiles, were those seven Churches, because they had the characteristics of what would happen at different stages of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. And each pastor represented each messenger that God would send to His Church from stage to stage.

And after the seven stages of the Church in Minor Asia, which represents seven stages of the Church among the Gentiles, what else would the Church have? What else is there to represent what the Church would have after the seven ages or seven stages? Because we find that after seven stages or seven ages there is a golden age, the age representing or the age or stage representing the Coming of the Lord, the Coming of the Cornerstone or Chief stone which is Christ, and consequently there has to emerge a cornerstone stage.

And in what place is it represented? In the place where John received the revelation of the book of Revelation, in the isle of Patmos, because that's where Christ came to. Christ promised to John the apostle that he would not see death, would not see death until He come; on Mount of Transfiguration we find that Christ showed the order of His Second Coming with His Angels, that’s why Moses and Elijah appeared, which are the Angels the Son of Man, the ministries of the two Olive Trees for the Last Day.

But we find that when Christ speaks of His Church and also speaks to John in the Gospel of John, the last chapter of John, and He says, when Peter says to him ... while walking with Jesus, Peter walking, Christ already risen, John the beloved disciple is following Jesus. In other words, Peter wanted to talk to Jesus and … we will read the passage here, chapter 21, verse 20 onwards says:

Then Peter, turning about (that is, looking back), seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?

Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do?

Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me (says Jesus to Peter)."

There at that time went a saying abroad among the disciples that John would not die until Christ returned, until the Second Coming of Christ would be fulfilled. See:

Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die (that is, he would live forever). But Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? (In other words, Peter had nothing to say in the matter, Christ wanted him(John) to tarry until He would return).

"This is the disciple which testifieth of these things (that is, that John is saying here what happened, a historical event), and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.

And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen."

And at that time they used to write on scrolls, parchments, so a library with all that Jesus did and spoke, notice, it was so much in three and half years of ministry, that John, whom remained close to Jesus, he who heard Jesus, who saw all the things that Jesus did and the miracles that took place, he says, he finds, that if they would be written that even the world itself could not contain the books. Now, John the apostle would receive the fulfillment of what Christ said: "I will that he tarry until I come, what is that to you? (Says to Peter) you follow me."

This also teaches us that you and I can not look, can not be looking at someone else whether he follows or does not follow the Lord, whether he goes away or he doesn’t go away from the Lord, God deals with that person, and you pray for that person and help him in everything that you can help, but remember it's a deal between God and the person, because God deals with the members of His Church as individuals.

Therefore, no matter if someone goes away, Christ says: "Follow thou me," he who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is not fit for the Kingdom. Therefore, we follow Christ every day of our lives.

Now, did Christ fulfill to John what He said: "If I will that he tarry until I come," for that time of the revelation of the book of Apocalypse on the Island of Patmos, Peter had already departed, John would have been some 90 years old, about 90 years old, very old, and he was the youngest of all the disciples, and Christ came to the isle of Patmos in Revelation chapter 10. In Revelation, chapter 1 onwards John also sees Christ with His eyes like flame of fire, His hair white as wool, girded with a long robe to the feet (this would be a tunic), and with a girdle of gold in the chest.

Remember the governors and the presidents, when they win the elections and are presented at the inauguration, a ribbon is placed from the shoulders to the hips, a belt or ribbon, and that identifies him as the president that begins his term, starting a new government, and Christ appears in Revelation like that, chapter 1, verse 2 onwards, His feet like fine brass. The bronze and feet of brass representing judgment.

And now, this vision and Jesus with His white hair, eyes like a flame of fire, and out of His mouth goes a sharp two-edged sword, there it appears, which is the Word, remember they are the symbols of Christ Coming in the Last Day. When He ascended into Heaven, He began His Work of Intercession as High Priest without the golden girdle on His shoulders, but with the girdle on His waist as the high priest did, because as High Priest does not have the girdle, the girdle over the shoulder and upon His breast, but the girdle on the waist, because He is the High Priest to intercede.

When He has it on the shoulders and chest, is as King, therefore, there Christ is presented as King in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, this is in the midst of His Church, it is His Church that is waiting for His Coming, and His Coming will be as King, as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, when He will have finished His Work of Intercession in Heaven as High Priest in the heavenly Temple, in the Most Holy Place in Heaven.

His Church is also a spiritual Temple, and all that which Christ does in Heaven is reflected in His Church. He intercedes in Heaven for those who receive Him as Savior, cleanses them from all sin, their names are written in Heaven, and where do they appear? They appear in the Church as believers in Christ, we would say the words of Peter: "Sitting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Heaven and heavenly things becoming flesh on Earth, because the heavenly things themselves would be purified with better sacrifices than those sacrifices carried out under the old covenant, purified, cleansed from all sin by the Blood of Christ, a product of Christ's Sacrifice on the Cross of Calvary.

The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ under the New Covenant is the Lord's people of the New Covenant, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the second Eve, and therefore the Bride of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, that’s why in the book of Revelation, chapter 19, and Chapter 21, points Her out as the Bride of the Lamb, which has many members, who are the believers in Christ; just as the physical body has many members, but form one body, likewise the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has many members, many believers in Christ, but they form a single body, the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ. It has gone through different stages, the first stage among the Gentiles, which was born in Jerusalem with Jews, but then when God goes over to the Gentiles, He begins to deal with the Gentiles, it began in the house of Cornelius when He sent Peter, and then Peter did not want to go to the Gentiles to preach the Gospel, and that’s why God showed Peter a great sheet with many clean and unclean animals, and says to him: "Kill and eat."

See, that was typological, and Peter says no, that he has never eaten anything unclean, God says to him: "Do not call unclean what God has cleansed," he understood that he was to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles, that’s why he was told that a person will come to look for him sent by a Roman centurion and that he should go to that place, that house, it was the house of Cornelius, the Roman army officer, who was a believer in God.

And now, that believer in God is also written in Heaven in the Lamb’s Book of Life and therefore he will believe in Christ, but someone has to preach to him. Peter goes, begins to speak about Christ, the Angel had already appeared to Cornelius, who had sent for Peter as to how the Angel told him to do, and that Peter was going to explain to him what he had to understand.

Peter begins to explain, to preach, and they were filled with the Holy Spirit, and were then baptized in water and so God began dealing with the Gentiles, God began to call individuals from among the Gentiles to call a people for His Name’s sake.

Then the Gospel moved among the Gentiles, Paul came on the scene in the midst of Christianity, and became the messenger to the Gentiles, he filled all of Asia Minor with the Gospel of Christ and also went to the land of Israel.

And now, from among the Gentiles and among the Gentiles began a great work, calling from among the Gentiles a people for His Name’s sake, among whom there were surely and there are many who are also Hebrew descendants, but what counts is that the person is written in Heaven in the Lamb’s Book of Life, and therefore the Gospel of Christ will reach the person, the faith in Christ will be born in his soul, he will receive Him as only and sufficient Savior, will be baptized in water in His Name, Christ with His Blood will cleanse him from all sin and will baptize him with the Holy Spirit and Fire and will produce in the person the new birth, and so the person will be born in the Kingdom of Christ and will become part of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And now, watch all this mystery of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, how It emerged and how from among the Gentiles He has been calling a people for His Name’s sake, and that's why you and I, although we are in Gentile territories or in Gentile territory, we have been called by the Holy Spirit through the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, and we can say as Paul said: "I am not ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God, the power of God unto salvation."

For salvation to the Jews, Greeks, Greek, and when it comes to the Greek, then that includes Jews among the Gentiles, or non-Jews, therefore, it is the power of God unto salvation. The preaching of the Gospel of Christ is a manifestation of the power of God, there's the power of God being manifested for salvation to those who hear it, and the faith of Christ is born in them, they believe and receive Him as only and sufficient Savior.

Now, going back to the isle of Patmos again, John seeing Jesus in the midst of seven golden candlesticks, he is seeing Christ as King in the midst of His Church when the intercession of Christ as High Priest in Heaven will have finished, in other words, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has been seeing Christ for two thousand years, about two thousand years, from the Day of Pentecost until now, She has been seeing Him as the Lamb of God and High Priest, but there will come a time when She is going to see Him as King of kings and Lord of lords and Lion of the tribe of Judah, that time will come and that will be the Coming of the Lord to His Church, which is waiting for Him.

So in Revelation, chapter 10, John sees a Mighty Angel descending, coming down from Heaven with the Book, a little Book opened in His hand, that is, the Little Book or Book of the Seven Seals opened in His hand which Christ took, and cries, puts His right foot on the sea and His left foot on Earth and cries as when a lion roars and seven thunders uttered their voices.

Look, He is already as a Lion, and therefore as King of kings and Lord of lords speaking, crying, bringing His message on the Last Day. John hears Him and therefore he heard, and went to write, so he understood what He spoke, John heard what the thunders spoke and was about to write.

We do not know if it was in symbols, if it were symbols what he heard or what they were, but the content of those seven thunders is the mystery of the Seventh Seal; in plainer words, he heard the revelation of the mystery of the Seventh Seal, and the mystery of Seventh Seal is the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ.

That is what the Seventh Seal contains, and therefore everything that will be happening in the Coming of the Lord as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, crying as when a lion roars, therefore John saw, saw Christ coming to His Church, in vision, and there was fulfilled what Christ said: "If I will that he tarry till I come," there came Christ, he saw Him as Lion and as King, as Lion He is King, He will be speaking as Lion and therefore His message as King and Lion will be the message that will revolve around the Second Coming of Christ, which will give the faith to be changed and brought by Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, that message will be for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Just as the message of the Gospel of Grace was preached which revolves around the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world and as the High Priest making intercession in Heaven with His Blood for all who would receive Him as only and sufficient Savior.

His Church has been going through different stages and we find that for each stage there was a territory, a message, a messenger, and a people who would form that stage or that age. Among the Gentiles began the stages and ages represented in the seven churches of Asia Minor mentioned in the book of Revelation, they began in Minor Asia, that age or stage was represented in the church of Ephesus, and so each church represented every stage and represented every territory where each of the stages would be fulfilled.

The characteristics that the cities would have where these churches would be, would be the characteristics that the territories would have where these stages would be fulfilled. And the features that the world would have at that time, would be the characteristics that the world would have in this end time.

I told you what was the first age of the church among the Gentiles, it was in Asia Minor, represented in the Church of Ephesus, and Paul was its messenger. Then came other stages and the last stage of the seven ages or stages is represented in the Laodicean Church, and the city of Laodicea, is a type and figure of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, of Christianity in the seventh stage of the Church, and the territory of the City of Laodicea represents North America.

The characteristics of the City of Laodicea materializes in North America under the time of the seventh messenger, the Rev. William Branham, who was its messenger, and therefore he was the greatest man that America has had, and he was a great prophet that God sent to His Church, we have his prophecies written and recorded, many were already fulfilled, others are in process of fulfillment, and some are for later, but all that remain to be fulfilled, will be fulfilled as well. God gave more light to His Church through the ministry of the Holy Spirit through the Rev. William Branham.

After the seventh stage in North America was fulfilled, what remains for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ? Well, everything that happened on the isle of Patmos corresponds to the territory and the people with whom God is dealing after the seventh stage or Church age among the Gentiles, and then the Gospel of the Kingdom will go over to the Hebrew people.

Therefore, Latin America and the Caribbean have a great blessing, there is a great blessing given in the Divine Program for the territory of Latin America and the Caribbean, and then the blessing will spread to other nations.

Therefore, just as the Spirit of God moved, the Holy Spirit, Christ in the Holy Spirit, moved from age to age, likewise It has done in this end time. Christ in the Holy Spirit is with the people of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit, is blessing Latin America and the Caribbean, and from there the blessing spreads to other nations.

With all the problems that exist in the environment, in the political and economic world, we can see what other nations see, that Latin America is self-sufficient. What other nations are short of, Latin America and the Caribbean has it: it has food, food in abundance, abundant water, it has everything in abundance, mining in Latin America is large, Latin America and the Caribbean has everything.

Therefore, the sight of the whole world, if it is not placed completely in Latin America and the Caribbean, it will do it, because they depend on Latin America and the Caribbean, without Latin America and the Caribbean all nations would have many problems.

It is that every time the Spirit of God moves in a territory, the blessing of God moves into that territory, and for the sake of the elect, for the sake of His Church, where a stage takes place, God blesses the whole territory including all the nations in that territory.

For the sake of the elect, for the sake of the Church and those who form It, the blessing comes upon everyone. For as the rain and the sun come over the Earth, upon good and evil, likewise God's blessings comes also upon the good and the evil ones.

The blessing is because of the work that God is carrying out in this territory. It's like when one is performing a task or is building some building or a development, that development will be a blessing for the one who is building it, because he will make money, and for those who will live there because they will live in a better place than living in a place where there is no watchmen and no facilities which this development will have.

With the construction of this building there will be a blessing for those who will live there, there are blessings to many people because many people will be working on this project and will be earning money for their family and to live better and will send their children to school, will buy clothes, buy food and pay for studies, too, university, and so forth.

See? Therefore, with the construction of the Holy of Holies of the spiritual Temple of Christ, as well as the construction of different parts of the Holy Place of the Church of the Lord which was fulfilled in Israel, in Asia Minor, Europe and North America, on these stages blessings came for those territories.

And now, with the construction of the Holy of Holies of the spiritual Temple of Christ, made up of believers in Christ, great blessings are appointed for the Latin American and Caribbean territory in the divine Program, but the greatest blessing is for those who are believers in Christ who form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in the golden age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Just as the kingdom of the Gentiles started with the head of gold at the time of Nebuchadnezzar, who was the head of gold with his kingdom, and passed unto the chest and arms of silver with the Medo-Persian empire, and continued with the belly and thighs of brass with the Greek empire of Alexander the Great, and then with his four generals who inherited the kingdom, and from there the fourth stage passed onto the Roman Empire, which is the legs of iron, and then to the feet of iron and clay. This is how the blessing of God has moved by means of the work that Christ has been doing through His Spirit.

And now, we are in the time in which the kingdom of the Gentiles has been descending up to the feet of iron and clay, where it is currently found today, and that is the final stage of the kingdom of the Gentiles, and this stage will disappear with the Second Coming of Christ, because the stone not cut by hands at His Coming, with His Coming the feet of iron and clay will be broken into pieces, the legs of iron, the belly and thighs of bronze, chest and arms of silver and the head of gold, all those places and all the residues of those empires will disappear.

And the Empire or Kingdom of the Messiah will be established on Earth, because the stone not cut by hands according to Daniel, chapter 2, verse 30 to 45, will grow and will form a great Mountain, a great Kingdom, covering the whole Earth, for the Kingdom of the Messiah will be worldwide.

And now, we must be aware at what stage of the Church of Jesus Christ we are living in and where was that stage represented, it was represented in the isle of Patmos, and who did he represent there, and which message was represented there? John the Apostle represented the messenger that God has for this end time, and the message that was given to him, in that apocalyptic revelation, there is contained the message that will be given to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in this end time, and there we will not explain much as not to enter into things which would take an hour or two hours.

The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be hearing on the Last Day on the stage represented in the isle of Patmos and the apocalyptic message which John the apostle received, She will be receiving and hearing the apocalyptic revelation in this end time. It will revolve around the book of Revelation, around all that apocalyptic revelation which was given to John the apostle, and from there it is going to interlace with all the Scriptures from Genesis to Revelation.

Therefore, we are living in the most glorious stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, where the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will receive the faith to be transformed and brought by Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, wherein every believer in Christ will receive the faith, the revelation of the Seven Thunders of the book of Revelation, in other words, the contents.

What the seven thunders uttered the believers in Christ will know, and that will give them faith to be transformed and brought with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, they will get an understanding, not only of the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God and High Priest, but they will also have knowledge of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah and as King of kings and Lord of lords and Judge of all the Earth.

And just as with the knowledge of the First Coming of Christ through the Gospel of Grace being preached, all that knowledge being revealed, we obtain faith to receive Christ as Savior and we obtain that inner transformation and we obtain salvation and eternal Life, and obtain the new birth, and obtain the angelic body, likewise with the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work through the preaching of Gospel of the Kingdom which revolves around the Second Coming of Christ, the Bride Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will obtain faith to be transformed and brought by Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

To receive that physical transformation, as each believer received the spiritual transformation, each believer in Christ will also receive the physical transformation in the Last Day, and then we will be able to go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, the dead in Christ will rise in eternal and glorified bodies like the glorified body of Christ and young for eternity, and those who are alive, born again believers in Christ, they will be transformed, we will see those who will be resurrected and we will be transformed, we will be young forever representing from 18 to 21 years of age.

That is the age that the glorified body of every believer in Christ will be when they receive it, like the glorified body of Christ represents from 18 to 21 years of age, because that is the prime of youth. No wonder when He resurrected, they did not know Him.

We can see that Abraham went through these stages and the Hebrew people also with Moses, and then with Joshua entering the promised land, and then through the stages which also Jesus Christ passed, the Church goes through them, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has been going through those stages in the way She had to go through them; in other words, in the things that would happen in and to the Church, and it would be parallel to the things that happened to Jesus Christ, which also the Hebrew people went through when they left with Moses in the Exodus and it continued with Joshua entering the promised land, and also the things that happened to the patriarch Abraham. Everything is represented, typified in those people, and there are more people and places in which and in whom were typified the things in which the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ would go through, which are parallel to those things that happened in the past.

And now we are in the most glorious stage of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Golden Age of the Church of the Lord, the Church has been ascending, the kingdom of the Gentiles has been descending from the head of gold to the feet of iron and clay, that’s how the kingdom of the Gentiles has been descending, that is the trajectory of the kingdom of the Gentiles.

But the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Christ, has been rising: from the stage of the feet from the time of the apostles, going through different stages until reaching the stage of the golden head of the Age of the Cornerstone, as simple as that. Now it is found in the golden head of Christ's Kingdom, the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom wherein we are all found, in the Kingdom of God, which is in the spiritual realm.

It is the stage in and to which Christ will come at the Last Day, for the other stages have already passed, therefore it will be in the golden Age of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, in which we live, where the Coming of the Lord is going to be fulfilled, the resurrection of the dead also, the transformation of the living, and the rapture or catching away of the Church of the Lord also, to go to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.

Now, we do not know the year, we do not know, let alone the month, week, day or literal hour, but we know it is for this end time, for the Last Day, which is the seventh millennium from Adam to the present or third millennium from Christ to the present, in which millennium we are living, and we have been within that millennium for about 12 years, which is the Last Day. Remember that the last days began in the time of Christ, because the last days are the fifth millennium, sixth millennium and seventh millennium.

"THE STAGES OF THE CHURCH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST."

We have thus seen quickly these stages, in another occasion we'll talk with more details about each stage in a message dedicated to each stage, to each age of the Church if God allows it, and we will see it with more details, God willing, if not, we will briefly touch the different stages of the Church on different occasions, but most important of all is to know at what stage of the Church are we living.

"And when the Bride Church of Jesus Christ recognizes Her position," that is, the place, the stage, that is allotted to Her to live, then She will be hearing the message corresponding to that stage and there She is going to receive the revelation of the Seventh Seal, at the relevant time She will get the knowledge of what the seven thunders spoke, and what the thunders spoke it is what Christ was speaking as a Lion.

Therefore, it is important to be aware at what stage we are living, to know what message Christ has for His Church and therefore for all believers in Christ in this end time, and it is important to know all the promises that are there for the members of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ who live in this end time.

We continue to preaching the Gospel of Christ because there are still people lacking to be added to the Church, and until Christ completes His Church, we cannot leave this Earth, we can not be changed or carried with Christ to the Wedding Supper of the Lamb until He intercedes for the last one which will be part of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, we continue preaching the Gospel of Christ and giving the opportunity for every person who hears the preaching of the Gospel of Christ to receive Christ as only and sufficient Savior.

Therefore, if there is someone who has not yet received Christ as Savior, you can do it right now and we will be praying for you so that Christ may receive you in His Kingdom, forgive you and cleanse you with His Blood from sin and baptize you with Holy Spirit and Fire and produce in you the new birth, for which you can come here to the front and we will be praying for you.

And those in other nations may also come to the Feet of Christ for Christ to receive you in His Kingdom, forgive you, and to cleanse you with His Blood from all sin, and to baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire after you are baptized in water in His Name and Christ may add you to His Church in this end time.

In other nations you may continue coming to the Feet of Christ so that Christ may receive you in His Kingdom and thus you may have hope to live eternally in the Kingdom of God, the most important thing is eternal Life, there is nothing more important than eternal Life, there is nothing more important for you to receive than salvation and eternal Life.

And who can give us eternal life? First John, chapter 5, verses 10 to 13 says, "God has given us eternal life," and how has He given us eternal Life?, It says: "God has given us eternal Life, and this life is in His Son, who has the Son (that is, has Jesus Christ because he received Him as Saviour) has Life, "which life does he have? Eternal Life, he secured his future with Christ in His eternal Kingdom.

He who does not have Christ, who hath not the Son of God hath not life, that is, has no eternal Life, what he has is a temporary life that is going to end and he doesn’t even know when it will end, earthly life will be finished, and some people say: "I'm still young and I still have to do many things, enjoy life and when I’m already an old man then I will receive Jesus Christ as Savior."

But nobody knows when his time comes to leave this planet Earth, children are dying, even babies die, young people, adults, the elderly die, in other words, there is no specific age at which the person or persons have to die. God indeed knows the day that the person will die, it is important that everyone has secured his eternal future with Christ in His eternal Kingdom. That’s why we dedicate our children since time they are babies, babies, to Christ, so they be secured in the Kingdom of God.

Therefore, adults, seniors, adults, young people, children, may continue coming, and babies, if they have not yet been dedicated to Christ, to present them to Christ, the minister will pray, he’ll dedicate them to Christ, and Christ will receive them in His Kingdom.

Children ten years and older can come to the Feet of Christ also, young people, adults, seniors also which are present, and those in other nations that have not yet received Christ as Savior.

We will stand on our feet to pray for people who are coming to the Feet of Christ our Savior. In other nations, if they can let us know when they are ready, back in Mexico, Villahermosa, and other places, and also in Venezuela you can also pass them on the screen if they have the facilities, there in Colombia also if they have the facilities or elsewhere so that when they are ready we may pray for all who are receiving Christ as only and sufficient Savior.

In other nations may also stand on your feet, we are about to pray for those who are receiving Christ as only and sufficient Savior. With our hands lifted up to Christ, to Heaven, and everyone, our eyes closed, and those who have come to the Feet of Christ at this time, repeat after me this prayer that we will be doing.

Heavenly Father, in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ I come to You with all these people that have received You as only and sufficient Savior, I pray you receive them.

Now repeat after me this prayer:

Lord Jesus Christ, I heard the preaching of Your Gospel and Your faith was born in my heart. I believe in You with all my soul, I believe in Your first Coming and I believe in Your Name as the only Name under Heaven whereby we must be saved. I believe in Your Sacrifice on the Cross of Calvary as the only Sacrifice of Atonement for our sins.

I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I need a Savior. I give public testimony of my faith in You, and I receive You as my only and sufficient Savior. I beg You to forgive my sins and cleanse me with Your Blood from all sin, and baptize me with the Holy Spirit and Fire after I am baptized in water in Your Name, and may the new birth be produced in me.

I want to be born in Your Kingdom, I want to live forever. Lord, save me, I believe wholeheartedly that You, with Your Sacrifice on the Cross of Calvary paid the price for my salvation and purchased the salvation for me and for everyone who receives You as only and sufficient Savior.

I beg You that the salvation you purchased on Calvary’s Cross may become a reality in my life and in the life of everyone written in Heaven in the Lamb’s Book of Life. Lord, into Your hands I commit my soul. Save me Lord, let Your salvation become real in my soul, in my life. I pray, Lord, in Your eternal and glorious Name, Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.

With our hands raised to heaven, to Christ, we all say: The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! The Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ has cleansed me from all sin! Amen.

Christ has received you in His Kingdom, has forgiven your sins and with His Blood has cleansed you from all sin, because you have received Christ as your only and sufficient Savior. You will say to me: "I heard the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, faith in Christ was born in my soul, I believed, and received Him as my only and sufficient Savior." For He said:

"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be damned." St. Mark, chapter 16, verses 15 to 16.

"When can I be baptized?" It's the question from the depths of your heart. Inasmuch as you have believed in Christ with all your heart, you may well be baptized and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produce in you the new birth.

Water baptism does not take away sins, it is the Blood of Christ that cleanses us from all sin. Water baptism is typological. Water baptism is in the likeness of death, burial and resurrection of Christ. That’s why in water baptism a person is identified with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection, and therefore, being that it is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ, one does the will of Christ, fulfilling the commandment of Christ, who said:

"He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved."

It is a commandment of Christ, which we find that millions of people who have heard the preaching of the Gospel of Christ, have believed, millions were baptized, and now the blessing has been allotted to you to identify yourself with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection.

Christ Himself went to the territory of Judea when John the Baptist was preaching and baptizing those who believed, who entered Jordan, into the waters of Jordan, and remember that Jordan represents death.

Then we find that Jesus came, John was preaching and baptizing, there were people there being baptized, and when it's the time for Jesus to be baptized, and John sees Him before him, John the Baptist tells Him... remember that they were cousins, although John did not know who would be the Messiah, but as far as is known John knew Jesus, they were cousins, surely they played as children, remember that Mary and Elizabeth, the mother of John, and Mary, the mother of Jesus, they were relatives.

But John knew who he was preparing the way to, in those days; he says he did not know, did not know Him, now when he sees Jesus coming, and as he knew Jesus, so he says: "I have need to be baptized by You, "we don’t know if there he remembers that Elizabeth his mother told him about Jesus and we do not know if Mary also spoke about Jesus and who knows what things they spoke as children, if they had met together as children, and it is not known what they spoke about Jesus.

But Jesus, until He was anointed by the Holy Spirit, until the Holy Spirit came upon Him, He was not the Messiah, and how can it be possible that He was not the Messiah? Because Messiah means Anointed, anointed with the oil of the Holy Spirit to carry out the work that the promised Messiah would carry out.

And John, when he sees Jesus, he does not want to baptize him, and Jesus says: "It is becoming us to fulfill all righteousness," and then he baptized Him. If Jesus needed to be baptized to fulfill all righteousness, how much more do we need to identify with Christ in His death, burial and resurrection.

When a person receives Christ as Savior, he dies to the world. When the minister immerses him in the baptismal waters, he is being buried typologically, symbolically. And when he rises him from the waters of baptism, he is being resurrected to a new life, is representing, in that moment, that he is rising to a new life with Christ in His eternal Kingdom. As simple as that is the symbolism of water baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and it is very important to know the symbolism to know what you are doing when you are being baptized.

Therefore, you may well be baptized, and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produce in you the new birth, and thus you have secured your eternal future with Christ in His eternal Kingdom.

You may well be baptized those who have received Christ as Savior and are now here present or in any other country, and now have heard the preaching of the Gospel of Christ and have received Christ as only and sufficient Savior, and may Christ baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire and produce in you the new birth, and we will continue to see each other for all eternity.

Continue having a happy evening, filled with the blessings of Christ our Saviour, and until Sunday God willing. Always bring your family, because we all want our families also to live forever, and our friends, and we also want our neighbors to live forever.

So, bring your family and friends too, because no one knows if a family member is the last one to complete the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ or a neighbor or a friend.

So, it's missionary work that is done in that way, because all believers in Christ are called to bring the message of the Gospel of Christ to others, proclaiming to them the Gospel of Christ, telling them what Christ did in His first Coming.

May the blessings of Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon you and me too, and until next Sunday, God willing.

I leave with you the Rev. Jose Benjamin Perez to let you know how to be baptized, those who have received Christ, and in every country I leave to the minister concerned. May God bless you and keep you all.

"THE STAGES OF THE CHURCH OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST."