THE AWAKENING OF GOD’S ELECT

Sunday, January 4, 1998 (Second activity) Cayey, Puerto Rico NOTE TO READER

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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. He is the Alpha… “I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last.” Here we have the I Am, the Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, speaking in the Last Day with “a great voice, as of a trumpet”; and that great voice as a trumpet is with which God’s elect are called and gathered together to obtain the knowledge of all these things which must shortly take place, in the Last Day. That is why in Revelation, chapter 4, verse 1, it says: “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…” Here we have that trumpet again: it is a Voice from Heaven; that is the Trumpet of God or Last Trumpet. It says: “...talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.” All these things that will happen after those that have already happened in the seven stages or ages of the gentile Church, Christ has promised to make them known to His Church through that Voice of Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet. And in order to understand these things that will happen in the end time, we need to hear this Voice of Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet, therefore, we need to find the instrument where this Great Voice of Trumpet will be speaking to the sons and daughters of God; because we need to find the veil of flesh, the prophet messenger The awakening of God’s elect 9 where Jesus Christ will be speaking in the Last Day with this Great Voice of Trumpet, in other words, with this Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and making known to us with that Message all these things that must happen soon, in order to obtain the knowledge of all these things and be prepared to be transformed and raptured in this Last Day; because that is how we will obtain the faith to be transformed and raptured, in other words, the revelation to be transformed and raptured, which is 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. Now, see how this Great Voice of Trumpet, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says, the Reverend William Marrion Branham, in the message entitled “Broken Cisterns,” he says on page 351: “Remember, that, ’They which are alive and remain shall not hinder those which are sleeping, for the Trump of God, that last Trumpet…’ The sixth one has just sounded. And that last Trumpet, like the last Seal, will be the Coming of the Lord (What is the Last Trumpet or final Trumpet? It is the Coming of the Lord). ‘It shall sound, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.’” Now, you see that the content of that Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet is the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ. The Second Coming of Christ will sound; in other words, the Second Coming of Christ will be revealed to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ through the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom being proclaimed by the Holy Spirit through His Angel Messenger; and there we 1 Broken Cisterns – July 26, 1964 10 Dr. William Soto Santiago obtain the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ, which will be sounding for the Last Day; the Second Coming of Christ sounding, the revelation of the Second Coming of Christ sounding; that is, the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet sounding making known to us the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ. The Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom is the Message that contains the revelation of the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, just as the Message of the Gospel of Grace contains the revelation of the mystery of the First Coming of Christ. Now, notice, the Gospel of Grace has been sounding for about two thousand years. Sounding what? Sounding the mystery of the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God taking away sin there on Calvary’s Cross, and then pouring out His Holy Spirit upon every person who believes in Christ as his Savior and washes away his sins in the Blood of Christ. And now, notice how the mystery of the First Coming of Christ is revealed (where?) in the Message of the Gospel of Grace; and the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ is revealed in the Message of the Gospel of the Kingdom. When the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet of the Gospel of the Kingdom sounds: the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, is open to the elect of God, to the firstborn of God, written in Heaven, in the Lamb’s Book of Life, since before the foundation of the world. With that Message all of God’s elect are called and gathered in this Last Day to hear the mystery of the Second Coming of Christ being opened, being revealed The awakening of God’s elect 11 to all God’s elect in the Age of the Cornerstone, in the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ. And that is why with the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet the elect of God of the Last Day are awakened, just as the elect of God of each age were awakened when Christ was speaking through each angel messenger in each age. They were awakened there, in the depths of their souls, they were awakened to eternal life; they received a spiritual awakening, a revival, and so they received eternal life; for in them the new birth was operated in every stage, in every age, and they were placed in the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, where they were born, and so they came to form part of the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, for the end time, for the Last Day, we have the promise of the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet. Saint Paul spoke of this Trumpet in First Thessalonians, chapter 4 and verses 13 and on, where he tells us in the following way [verse 15]: “For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall (we will not be ahead) not prevent them which are asleep.” In other words, there will be a group of people, indicated here in the Scripture, who for the Last Day will be living for the time of the Coming of the Lord and will be seeing the Coming of the Lord fulfilled. And where are those people that for the end time would be living and would be seeing the Coming of the Lord? Well, here we are present in Latin America and the Caribbean; for they are the people who will be living in the time of the Age of the Cornerstone and in the territory 12 Dr. William Soto Santiago where the Age of the Cornerstone will be fulfilled, and that will be hearing that Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet, with which they are awakened in the Last Day to see the fulfillment of the divine promises relevant to this end time: to see the Coming of the Lord to His Church in this Last Day. He goes on to say: “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout (in the other old version it says ’with acclamation’), with the voice of the archangel…” In other words, it will not be with the voice of an angel of the seven ages of the gentile Church; because they are represented in angels, not in archangels. For a messenger to be represented in an archangel, he has to be a dispensational prophet messenger; for the dispensational prophets, the representation is archangels or archangel. And now, with the voice of what? “...with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first (first the dead in Christ are resurrected): Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” About those of us who are alive, the apostle Saint Paul gives us more information in First Corinthians, chapter 15, and he tells us: “Behold, I am telling you a mystery.” Chapter 15, verse 51 and on, he says: “Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be The awakening of God’s elect 13 raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” When Saint Paul speaks in First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verse 13 to 17, when he says that the dead will be resurrected, he says that the dead will be resurrected first, but then he doesn’t say that we will be transformed; but he says that we, who are left, “shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air”; and to be caught up literally, to be raptured, we need to be transformed first. And that is why in First Corinthians he tells us that we who are alive, who are left, he says: “...the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” We will be transformed; and we will also have an eternal and glorious body, in order to go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven; and there we will meet our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, and there we will be with Him for three and half years, in that Great Marriage Supper of the Lamb; and then we will return to Earth, after the three and half years of the great tribulation we will return to Earth for the glorious Millennial Kingdom of Christ with His Church. Now notice how God speaks to us, through Saint Paul, that there will be a Trumpet sounding, a Great Voice of Trumpet, also called Trumpet of God; because it is the Voice of God, the Voice of Christ speaking to His Church in the Last Day with the Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet, through the Angel Messenger of the Dispensation of the Kingdom and Angel Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ, represented in an archangel; because it is the Voice of Archangel. It is a dispensational Message, always, the Voice of 14 Dr. William Soto Santiago Archangel; and a dispensational Message has to always come through a dispensational messenger for the opening of a new dispensation. Now we can see how, just as Christ was manifested in each angel messenger of each age of the gentile Church during the seven stages, now He will be manifested in the Age of the Cornerstone in a dispensational angel messenger, pointed out as an archangel, because it will be a greater ministry, a dispensational ministry; and that is why so many important signs have been seen in heaven, so many signs that speak of what God would be doing in this end time. We have seen how, for every stage where God sends a dispensational messenger, there are planetary alignments and things like that, which testify of what God will be doing on Earth. Now, see how for this end time different planets have been placed in line, testifying of what Christ would be doing in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom. Now, we can see that just as we can look to the sky and see those signs in the sky, we have to look to the Mystical Body of Christ and see how Christ fulfills in His Mystical Body of believers those things that He has promised for the Last Day, which then He reflects in the sky. For example, at the appearance of the angels on February 28, 1963, when seven angels appeared to the Reverend William Branham and took him in that constellation or cloud of angels (and that picture was taken there in the sky), there were seven angels plus the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ. Therefore, there were eight angels there: the seven The awakening of God’s elect 15 angels of the seven ages of the gentile Church and another Angel who was very different from the rest, which is the Mighty Angel, Jesus Christ; which descends to His Church for the Last Day, for the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, and manifests Himself through His Angel Messenger to make known to us all these things that must happen soon, and speak to us through that Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet, and make known to us all these mysteries of the Kingdom of God relevant to a new age and a new dispensation; and thus revealing to us the mystery of His Coming to the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, and thus revealing to us everything that He will be doing in this end time; so that we are not living in ignorance of the prophecies relevant to the end time and the way in which Christ is fulfilling them as the time comes for each of those prophecies to be fulfilled. We have the greatest privilege that any son or daughter of God has had in past ages. In past ages they lived ignoring, mostly, ignoring what God was doing; although they received the messenger of their age (the chosen ones of each age), but they didn’t understand what was happening in the Divine Program, they didn’t understand this of angels of ages and Messages for each age, they didn’t understand this mystery of the seven ages of the gentile Church. But then the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ opened this mystery; and those who received it could understand the mystery of the seven ages of the gentile Church, which was fulfilled in the seven ages, and they could see what was happening in that seventh age; but then they couldn’t understand the mysteries pertaining 16 Dr. William Soto Santiago to the Age of the Cornerstone, to an eternal age, the age represented in the number eight and also in the fiftieth year of the jubilee; they couldn’t understand what would come later on, because that mystery was sealed under the Seventh Seal. And only the Voice of Christ in the Last Day, by means of His manifestation through His Angel Messenger of the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, would make known to us that mystery of the Seventh Seal, that mystery of the Second Coming of Christ, and the things that He would be doing in His Coming in the Last Day. All this would be under the Last Trumpet or Great Voice of Trumpet, through which we would hear all these things, and through which we would hear the call of God’s elect to awaken and be in the Mystical Body of Christ, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom; in order to obtain the blessings of God, Christ to illuminate our understanding and our soul, with the Light of His Word in His Coming and manifestation in and to His Church in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, in the Last Day, that is, in the seventh millennium, which has begun if we add to the calendar the years it is behind. By the year 1966, somewhere around there, the seventh millennium started, if we add to the calendar the years it is behind; or maybe a little after the year 1967, or maybe a little before the year 1967 or 66. Now, we leave that alone. We already know that we are in the seventh millennium. And in what year of the seventh millennium? We’ll also leave that alone. The important thing is that we are in the Last Day, which is the seventh The awakening of God’s elect 17 millennium, where the dead in Christ will resurrect first and then we who are alive will be transformed. The dead in Christ will hear that Great Voice of Trumpet and will resurrect; and those of us who are alive will be hearing that Great Voice of Trumpet and we will be obtaining the knowledge of all these things which must shortly come to pass, and we will be being prepared for our transformation. And now, notice how with the First Coming of Christ and His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross we receive the knowledge for our salvation, to obtain the new birth, and thus to obtain a theophanic body of the sixth dimension; to thus receive the first fruits of the Spirit: to receive Christ as our Savior, to wash away our sins in the Blood of Christ and to receive His Holy Spirit, and thus to obtain a theophanic body of the sixth dimension. And to receive the physical and eternal and glorified body, the Second Coming of Christ is required. And with the knowledge that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will obtain through the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdom, she will obtain the knowledge of the Second Coming of Christ and His Reclaiming Work, and thus she will obtain the knowledge for each physical body of the elect to be transformed in this Last Day. Notice, with the First Coming of Christ we obtain the new birth, and thus we obtain the theophanic body; and with the Second Coming of Christ we will obtain the physical and eternal and glorified body that He has promised for each one of us, and this is how we will obtain the fullness of the Spirit of God. This is for this end time, which is pointed out in the 18 Dr. William Soto Santiago Scripture as the Day of Redemption2, the day when our physical bodies will be redeemed, that is, they will be transformed, and thus we will obtain the eternal body. To redeem is to return to where it was first. And, notice, each son and daughter of God, just as God placed Adam in a body created by God, and Jesus (you see) was living in a body created by God as well, each son and daughter of God will be placed in a body created by God, in an eternal body; in other words, each son or daughter of God will come to be an eternal person, with an eternal physical body and an eternal theophanic body as well. In other words, the sons and daughters of God will again have eternal bodies as well as eternal theophanic spirits, to live for all eternity in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. This is how the image and likeness of God, which man had and lost with the fall, will be restored. And now, you see, God has shown us what it is to have the image and likeness of God, He has shown it in Jesus Christ; and now we will all be in the image and likeness of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, who is the Word that was with God and was God and became flesh. In the same way that God became flesh, became man, and dwelt among human beings: in an eternal body, in an immortal body, in a body created by God, we find that the sons and daughters of God will also live in eternal bodies. See how the sons and daughters of God have been taking the same path that God took. When we have believed in Christ as our Savior and have washed away our sins in the Blood of Christ and received His Holy Spirit: we have taken the path of God when God created a 2 Ephesians 4:30 The awakening of God’s elect 19 theophanic body and lived in that theophanic body called the Word of God. And then, from that body He created all things. And then, later on, that Word became flesh and dwelt among human beings; and the Word, who was with God, was God, and therefore was Emmanuel, which translated is: God with us3. “Great is the mystery of godliness: God has been manifested in flesh”, that is, He became man, He became flesh among human beings. First Timothy, chapter 3, verse 16. And that same trajectory that God has taken to become man in the midst of human beings and to be known by the name of Jesus, is the same trajectory that every son and daughter of God has taken 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 Christ: thus they have received a theophanic body. And then, at the Last Day, those who have obtained that theophanic body (of past ages) will be resurrected in eternal bodies as well; and so they will be in one body, just as God was with His theophanic body within the body of flesh called Jesus. And we who are alive will therefore be transformed, and will also have the eternal body, and will dwell in that eternal body with the theophanic body that we have received by believing in Christ as our Savior and receiving His Holy Spirit, after washing away our sins in the Blood of Jesus Christ. Now, look how the same Program by which God was manifested in human flesh among human beings is the one that we have taken when we have believed in Christ as our 3 Matthew 1:23 20 Dr. William Soto Santiago Savior and we have washed away our sins in the Blood of Christ and have received His Holy Spirit; so that then, at the Last Day, we will receive the eternal body that God has promised for each one of us. He who doesn’t take that route can’t live forever with an eternal body. And only God’s elect will live in those eternal bodies. Only the elect of God from past ages, who received the Spirit of Christ, that is, who have the theophanic body, are the ones who will be resurrected in eternal bodies; and those of us who are alive will be transformed. Who will be the ones who will be transformed? Those who have their theophanic bodies; and they will be waiting for the transformation of their bodies because they will be hearing the Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet, with which Christ awakens all His elect in this Last Day, calls them and gathers them together in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, to receive the revelation of His Coming as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords; and thus to obtain the knowledge of all His Work pertaining to this end time, and thus to have the faith, the revelation, to be transformed and raptured in this Last Day. That is why the call of Christ with that Great Voice of Trumpet is a call to awaken or of awakening for all the elect of God; and that call or awakening is also represented in the seven thunders of Revelation, chapter 10. With that call of the seven thunders of Revelation, chapter 10, the elect obtain in the Age of the Cornerstone the awakening, the promised revival, to thus receive the knowledge of the whole Divine Program, and to be prepared to be transformed and raptured in this Last Day. See, in the book of The Seals in Spanish, page 212, the The awakening of God’s elect 21 forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says this way4: “182 Now that’s what’s the reason today, that, the—the revivals that we’re supposed to have (If he kept talking, he would say: ‘We don’t have them’), we have denominational revivals. We haven’t had a real stirring. No, no, no. No, sir. Don’t think we got revivals. We haven’t. Oh, they’ve got millions and millions and millions of church members, but not a revival nowhere. No. No. 183 The—the Bride hasn’t had a revival yet. See? There’s been no revival there, no manifestation of God to stir the Bride yet. See? We’re looking for it now. It’ll take those seven unknown Thunders back there, to wake Her up again, see. Yeah. He’ll send it. He promised it.” What is it that awakens the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, that gives her a revival, a spiritual awakening, a revival for the souls of the sons and daughters of God? What is it that awakens them and places them in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom? It is the Voice of Christ as when a lion roars and the seven thunders utter their voices. Christ coming in the Age of the Cornerstone with that Voice, that Great Voice of Trumpet (which is the same Voice of Christ as when a lion roars and seven thunders uttering their voices), with the Voice of Christ uttering their voices and making known to us the mystery of the Seventh Seal, the mystery of His Coming: produces in His Church the awakening of the Last Day, in other words, of the seventh millennium; an awakening that will continue throughout the glorious Millennial Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ; an awakening that begins in the midst of the gentiles in the Age of the Cornerstone, and it will pass 4 The Seals in English, pages 250-251 22 Dr. William Soto Santiago over to the Hebrew people when the dead in Christ are resurrected and we who are alive are transformed, then it will pass over (that revival, that spiritual awakening) to the Hebrew people. It is the awakening that Christ brings in His Coming as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords, in the Last Day, in and to the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, where He speaks to us as when a lion roars and seven thunders utter their voices. The Voice of the Seven Thunders, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ says, reveals the mystery of the Seventh Seal5; that is, it is the Voice of Christ speaking in the Last Day, in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom, through His Angel Messenger, who reveals that mystery of the Seventh Seal, that mystery 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. Just as the Voice of Christ was in each angel messenger, in each past age, speaking and revealing to His children in each age the mystery of the First Coming of Christ as the Lamb of God and His Work of Redemption on Calvary’s Cross; so also the Voice of Christ will be in the Last Day in His Angel Messenger, in the Age of the Cornerstone, revealing to us the mystery 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. And that is how He calls us and gathers us in the Age of Cornerstone to hear that Great Voice of Trumpet, to be gathered under that Great Voice of Trumpet or Last 5 The Seals in English, page 573, paragraph 391 The awakening of God’s elect 23 Trumpet, and be prepared to be transformed and raptured in this Last Day. We have seen the awakening of God’s elect, that awakening there in the soul of every elect of God, to receive the blessings of the Throne of God being manifested in the Age of the Cornerstone, which is the Throne of the Lord Jesus Christ in His Church in this Last Day as an age. Just as He was in each age manifested through each angel messenger, so for the Last Day He will be manifested in His Angel Messenger in the Age of the Cornerstone. We have seen THE MYSTERY OF THE AWAKENING OF GOD’S ELECT, of that awakening there in the soul of every son and daughter of God; to be transformed and raptured in this Last Day, according to the divine promise, before the great tribulation begins, which will last three and a half years. Now, where would they be and where are the elect of God who would be awakened in this Last Day and would be listening to the Great Voice of Trumpet, that Great Voice of Trumpet which are also the seven thunders of Revelation, chapter 10? Here we are, in this Last Day, hearing the Voice of Christ as a Great Voice of Trumpet in the Lord’s Day, in the Last Day, in other words, in the seventh millennium; here we are hearing the Voice of Christ as when a lion roars and seven thunders uttering their voices, and making known to us the mystery of His Coming to His Church in this Last Day as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords in His Reclaiming Work. Here we are hearing the Voice of Christ in this Last Day, through His manifestation in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom through His Angel 24 Dr. William Soto Santiago Messenger; but His Angel Messenger is not the Lord Jesus Christ: He is only His prophet messenger for the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom. Here we are present, in this end time, in Latin America and the Caribbean, hearing that Great Voice of Trumpet in this Last Day. He has awakened us with His Message of the Great Voice of Trumpet and is making known to us all these things that must happen soon; as it tells us in Revelation, chapter 22, verse 6, where it says: “...and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to (manifest) shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.” To manifest unto His servants, to show His servants, the things (what?) that must happen soon. And Revelation 22, verse 16, says: “I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.” Through this manifestation of Christ through His Angel Messenger is that we would hear that Great Voice of Trumpet or Last Trumpet making known to us all these things that must happen soon. And we thank Christ for this great blessing He has given us, of giving us that Great Voice of Trumpet in this Last Day, and awaken us with that Great Voice of Trumpet, and to make known to us all these things that must happen soon, in this Last Day. Here we are hearing His Voice, His Great Voice of Trumpet, making known to us all these things that must happen soon, in the Last Day, that is, in the seventh millennium. May the blessings of Jesus Christ, the Angel of the The awakening of God’s elect 25 Covenant, our beloved Savior Jesus Christ, be upon each of you and me too; and may we soon all be transformed and raptured, and taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven. In the Eternal Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen. May God continue to bless you all, may God keep you; and I leave again with us the Reverend Miguel Bermudez Marin to continue and finish our part in this afternoon, thanking Christ for His blessings, and thus reach the end of this second activity. Then I will be accompanying Miguel, and all those who will be in the third activity of this afternoon, which will be (where, Miguel?, here?)... it will be here next door (where we always have the activities of the mighty men and women, also of birthdays, and of farewells of the year, and also of Christmas Eve). We will be there - I will be there with all the people who will be there, in that third activity, to share, with all those who will be there, some moments of spiritual fellowship. And then… (We are not going to travel yet, right, Miguel?) I will still be with you; for next Friday and Sunday, I will still be here in Puerto Rico, sharing with all of you these activities that we are going to have, where we expect great blessings from our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. So God bless you, God keep you; and continue having a day - an afternoon full of the blessings of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ, in this awakening of God’s elect. We are in THE AWAKENING OF GOD’S ELECT in the Age of the Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom. Look where the awakening of God’s elect with the 26 Dr. William Soto Santiago Seven Thunders for the Last Day would be; and the territory, look, would be Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as for each age there was a territory where each age was fulfilled. I tell you this because it is good to make this clear, so that we know where the awakening of the elect of the Last Day would be; just as we can identify the awakening of the elect of each age, and we can identify the territory where it occurred and from where God moved and called and gathered all His elect in each age. And now God works from Latin America and the Caribbean, Jesus Christ works, in the awakening of the elect of the Last Day; and this blessing will be extended to all nations and all human beings; and it will also reach the Hebrew people, who are waiting for the Coming of the Messiah. And the Scripture says that it will be revealed to the Hebrew people; and the Hebrew people are waiting for it, and the Hebrew people have been despairing; but the promise for the Hebrew people will not be delayed. When the dead in Christ are resurrected and we who are alive are transformed, then it will be the turn of the Hebrew people for their opportunity and the blessing of God for the restoration of the Hebrew people, and the Kingdom of God in the midst of the Hebrew people, and the restoration of the Throne of David in the midst of the Hebrew people. All this is in THE AWAKENING OF GOD’S ELECT of the Last Day; but first it is for the elect of the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is the heavenly Israel. First the heavenly Israel, and then the earthly Israel. The awakening of God’s elect 27 Well, we have seen this mystery of “THE AWAKENING OF GOD’S ELECT” for this Last Day, both for the elect from among the gentiles and for the Hebrew people. May God continue to bless you all, may God keep you; thank you very much for your kind attention. And we will see each other in the next activity, all of you who will be in the next activity, in the third activity here, in a few moments; and those who cannot be here, well, then we will see you Friday and Sunday in the next activities that we will have in this very place. May God bless and keep you all, and with us Miguel Bermudez Marin. “THE AWAKENING OF GOD’S ELECT.”