BIBLE STUDY #212 – FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 2022
TITLE: THE MYSTERY OF THE RESURRECTION AND THE FORTY DAYS
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Thursday, August 28, 1997
(Third activity)
Campeche, Mexico
Scripture: John 6:39-40
BOOK OF QUOTATIONS (in Spanish)
Jehovah-Jireh
Sioux Falls, SD, 2-24-56
Rev. William M. Branham
96 – “[49] Now, it’s written between the lines lot of times. 50 When we get our big tent up out here somewhere, we’ll take plenty of time and go through them in-between the lines. Watch the resurrection thing how it moves in there, just beautifully. Just get in love with Him and He will reveal it to you.”
THE PRIVATE MINISTRY OF JESUS CHRIST AFTER HIS RESURRECTION
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Sunday, April 15, 2001
(Second activity)
Cayey, Puerto Rico
And just as there was a private ministry of Christ for about 40 days, there will be a ministry that will be very private in the Mystical Body of Christ. It will no longer be a public ministry, as it was in the different ages, where the apostles and also the angel messengers of the different ages preached and did miracles and wonders publicly, in their ages. But for this end time, when the dead in Christ resurrect and we are changed, the fullness of God will be manifested in the Church of Jesus Christ, but it will be a private ministry, which is promised to be manifested in this end time. And there, at that stage, the half hour of silence will be fully fulfilled.
The Door of Grace will already be closed and Christ will be in the midst of His Church fully manifested, in the full fulfillment of His Second Coming to His Church. And that will be what the Hebrew people will see in the midst of the Church of Jesus Christ, and they will say: “This is the one we are waiting for.” But they will see that manifestation in the midst of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which will be all young.
And if we think that this place is big, I want to tell you that it is very small for that great youth congress that we will have very soon, which is of millions of young people that will come to be with us in that great stage of the private ministry of Christ in the midst of His Church in this end time.
And the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will have a private ministry in this end time; just as Christ had it. It will be Christ in His Church at the Last Day, in the manifestation of the final ministry of Christ to shake this world as He has never done before.
And that is where the Tent Vision will be fully fulfilled, and where great wonders, miracles and signs will be carried out. But no one will know how those miracles and wonders will be done; only the one who will be there with the Pillar of Fire will be the one who will know the mechanics and the mystery of those great miracles and wonders that will be done at that stage of that private ministry, which will not be seen publicly, but the results will be seen publicly.
And even the people who will receive those miracles and wonders will not understand how they were performed; but the one who will be there with the Pillar of Fire, where the Pillar of Fire will go and will be talking to that person, that person to whom the Pillar of Fire will go to be manifesting Himself, will know the mystery of what will be happening there.
FOR THE GLORY OF GOD
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Sunday, October 17, 1982
Cayey, Puerto Rico
The Church of the Lord, throughout the past ages has been dying physically; and we find that the New Testament saints (the majority) are in the grave. But Lazarus’ case shows us that at the end, on the fourth spiritual day, which is the day when the Word appears…
For “in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; and the Word became flesh.” There appeared the Word incarnate to call Lazarus.
And it is in the end time, in the fourth spiritual day, that the Word has to appear.
He has a Name, He is the Word of God; therefore, He appears at the Day of the Word of God.
That was the Day of the Word, because Jesus appeared there. Although it seemed that He was coming very late; but He is never late.
(…) Here is the divine promise for the great resurrection of the righteous; and that will be as it was with Lazarus. Lazarus is the type and figure of the resurrection of the saints —of the beloved of the Lord and of those who love the Lord— who have already died; and Martha and Mary representing those who are alive.
Well, how troublesome were they! They could not understand, they could not grasp, the great miracle that was to be done. They could not see that it was all for the glory of God.
(…) So we can see, throughout all of the biblical prophecy, the numerous angles that the resurrection presents. That is why you cannot stand at one angle looking at the resurrection, because you will not be able to see the other angles.
So you will have to see, you will have to understand, that that great resurrection will be carried out here on Earth; and “they will hear the Voice of the Son of God,”1 they will hear the Voice of the Lord. Why? “For the Lord Himself with a Shout, with the Voice of the Archangel, and with the Trumpet of God, shall descend from Heaven: and the dead in Christ shall resurrect first.”2
Such is the order of the Coming of the Lord, such is the order of the resurrection of the Lord.
And that it has taken so long for the Lord to come to carry out the resurrection, all of that has been for the glory of God; because He has a great Plan, which He has been developing. And you are in that Plan! You are part of that Divine Plan.
And you should appreciate, and you should thank God, that He has had you in mind since before the foundation of the world to be part of that Divine Plan. It was not you who made the choice; it was God who chose you. And He did it since before the foundation of the world so that you would be part of that Divine Program; that Divine Program that is for the glory of God.
God is then glorified in His Program, He is glorified in everything He does in His Program.
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1 John 5:25
2 1 Thessalonians 4:16