The Awakening of God's Elect
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THE AWAKENING OF GOD’S ELECT Sunday, January 4, 1998 (Second activity) Cayey, Puerto Rico NOTE TO READER It is our intention to do an exact and faithful transcription of this Message, just as it was preached; therefore, any error in this writing is strictly an error of hearing, transcription or printing, and should not be interpreted as an error of the Message. The text contained in this booklet can be verified with the audio or video recording. This booklet should be used for personal study purposes only, until it is formally published. THE AWAKENING OF GOD’S ELECT Dr. William Soto Santiago Sunday, January 4, 1998 (Second activity) Cayey, Puerto Rico ood afternoon, beloved friends and brethren present Gand viewers. May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, be upon you all and upon me too, and may we all soon be transformed and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen. I want to read in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, chapter 5, verses 13 and on, where he tells us: “But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.” May God bless His Word in our hearts, and bless our hearts with His Word, and allow us to understand It. Our subject for this occasion is: “THE AWAKENING OF GOD’S ELECT.” When we speak of God’s elect, we are speaking of God’s firstborn, written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of 4 DR. WILLIAM SOTO SANTIAGO Life, since before the foundation of the world. The apostle Saint Paul also spoke of them in his letter to the Hebrews, in chapter 12 and verse 22 and on, where it says: “But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven…” Where are the names of the firstborn written? They are in Heaven, for they are in the Lamb’s Book of Life written since before the foundation of the world. These people are pointed out in the Bible as the sons and daughters of God, who would come to this planet Earth to live to make contact with eternal life and receive Christ as their Savior in the time that they would be given to live on this Earth. Now, these people come from Heaven, these people are the firstborn of God, the elect of God. And just as for the firstborn, there in Egypt, when Egypt was going to be visited with death…, where the firstborn in Egypt were going to die (both of the gentiles and also of the Hebrew people) if they did not have the sign applied, we find that for the salvation of the firstborn, God ordered the death of the paschal lamb, and that this paschal lamb be placed inside the house, roasted in fire and eaten by those who would be inside the house; and there would be the firstborns, inside that house, and the blood of that paschal lamb applied on the lintel and on the doorposts or on the door of the house; and thus the firstborns of the Hebrew people who were inside the houses where the paschal lamb was being eaten would escape death. And now you see how in order for the firstborns of THE AWAKENING OF GOD’S ELECT 5 God —written in Heaven since before the foundation of the world— not to die, but to live eternally, when passing through this Earth we have had the Lamb of God here on this planet Earth, the Paschal Lamb, Jesus Christ, who died on Calvary’s Cross and shed His Blood for all of us. And now we apply His Blood on the lintel of our soul, of our heart, and we have Christ within us; and we eat Christ in the House of God, which is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, where the Blood of Christ is also applied on the Door, on the lintel and on the doorposts of the Door. And so those who are in that House, with the Blood of Christ applied on their souls, have eternal life; and the divine judgment that falls upon the human race, death that falls upon the human race, spiritual death, which has been haunting the human race, can’t kill those sons and daughters of God; they have eternal life. They have passed from death to life when they have believed in Christ as their Savior and have washed away their sins in the Blood of Christ, and have received the Spirit of Jesus Christ, which is the Life of the Blood of Christ, which has returned to the believer in Christ who has washed away his sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ. And now, therefore, we have received eternal life; and the spiritual death, which has been haunting the human race, can’t kill these elect of God who have received Christ as their Savior. And we are all where? Within the House of God, the Church of Jesus Christ, which has the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ; and we all are eating the flesh of Christ, with His Blood applied both in our souls, in our hearts, as well as the Church as Mystical Body of Christ has the Blood of 6 DR. WILLIAM SOTO SANTIAGO Christ applied in her; and therefore there is eternal life within the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, where the sons and daughters of God, the firstborn of God, the elect of God are born. And now, notice how for the end time also, in addition to spiritual death, also physical death will be loose; and there will be a way to escape from the divine judgment that will come upon Earth; and this will be by receiving the transformation of our bodies, which Christ will produce in this Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; and thus we will be filled with the fullness of Christ, with a theophanic body and a physical and eternal body, in which we will live for all eternity. Now, we have reached the time when, just as from age to age these souls of God that have been living in mortal bodies with spirits of the world have awakened, also…; we find that the call of God to awaken in each age came through the manifestation of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit through the messenger of each age; and for each stage of the gentile Church, during these seven stages, there was a spiritual awakening through the manifestation of Jesus Christ in Holy Spirit in the angel messenger of each age. And the elect of God, written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, woke up in every age and entered the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, and thus woke up to eternal life; for they received eternal life, they passed from death to life, as Christ said in John, chapter 5, verse 24, where He says: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed THE AWAKENING OF GOD’S ELECT 7 from death unto life.” Now see how from age to age the Voice of Christ has been speaking to these people whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, who are called by God as God’s elect or God’s firstborn. Christ in each age was manifested in Holy Spirit in the messenger of each age, and thus the Voice of Christ was heard through each messenger; the Trumpet relevant to each age was heard, for the gathering of God’s elect of each age. Just as the Hebrew people were called through the trumpets, so would the elect of each age through the Voice of Christ, which is the Trumpet that sounds in each age, the elect of God are called and gathered in each age; and for the Last Day they are called and gathered to hear the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet, in the Age of the Cornerstone, where a new dispensation is opened, the Dispensation of the Kingdom. This Voice that calls and gathers the elect of God in the Last Day, according to the words of Christ in Matthew 24, verse 31, is the Great Voice of Trumpet. It says: “And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect…” That is the divine promise for the elect in the end time or Last Day, at harvest time, where the last elect of God are gathered in this great harvest of sons and daughters of God. And now, in Revelation, chapter 1, verses 10 to 11, for the Lord’s Day, which is the Last Day or seventh millennium, we have the promise that the Voice of Christ will be speaking, and it will be a Great Voice of Trumpet or as a Great Voice of Trumpet in the Last Day. It says: 8 DR. WILLIAM SOTO SANTIAGO “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, Saying, I am Alpha and Omega…” Here we have the I Am; and the I Am is the Alpha and is the Omega.