BIBLE STUDY #236 – FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
TITLE: THE MYSTERY OF THE FOURTH WATCH
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Thursday, October 16, 1997
(Second activity)
Arequipa, Peru
Scripture: Matthew 14:22-27
JEHOVAH NISSI
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Sunday, August 30, 1998
Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
Now, being that a day before the Lord is as a thousand years, how much is an hour then? If a day is a thousand years (a day before the Lord is a thousand years for human beings), and a day has 24 hours: we divide 24 hours by 1000 years and we get how many? 41 years with 8 months. That is one hour before God, according to this divine rule that one day before the Lord is like a thousand years, this prophetic table.
This is the same prophetic table used in these watches. And these hours of these watches, of which Christ asks and also says that no one knows at what hour the Son of Man will come, He is referring to these hours of the watches, in relation to the fact that one day before the Lord is like a thousand years for human beings.
And if 1 hour before the Lord is 41 years with 8 months, the 3 hours of the fourth watch of the Last Day, of the seventh millennium…; the first 3 hours of the seventh millennium are…; those first 3 hours before God of the Last Day, are 125 years for human beings; because 41 years with 8 months, multiplied by 3, is 125 years.
That is the fourth watch of the Last Day and in the Last Day. And that is the divine cycle where all these promises, promised by Christ for the Last Day, have to be fulfilled: in those first 125 years of the seventh millennium.
THE SEVENTH SEAL AND THE FOURTH WATCH
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Saturday, May 23, 1998
(Second activity)
San Salvador, El Salvador
Now notice, “at even” were the first years of the Church of Jesus Christ, from the time the Church of Jesus Christ was born on the Day of Pentecost until a certain time; and then, “or at midnight,” when the Church went into the dark ages; and then, “or at the cockcrowing,” this is relevant to the rooster crow, to the hours of 3 to 6 in the morning, where Christ was manifested through His three last messengers of the seven ages of the gentile Church, through Luther, Wesley and Reverend William Branham.
Remember that from 3 in the morning and on, to 6 in the morning, every once in a while you hear something like this: “cock-a-doodle-doo” (if it’s a small rooster) or “Er-er-er” (if it’s a big rooster); that is the cockcrowing; and that is the Voice of Christ through those angel messengers who came in the third watch.
But not in the first watch (which was from 9 to 12 midnight), nor in the second (which was from 12 to 3 in the morning), nor in the third (which was from 3 to 6 in the morning); therefore, there is only one left: the fourth watch. It says:
“…at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning…”
If He did not come in any of those previous three watches, well, then it’s for the morning, which is from 6 to 9 in the morning.
It was in that fourth watch (from 6 to 9 in the morning) that Christ appeared walking on the Sea of Galilee and He appeared to His disciples who were on the ship, which was being hit with strong contrary winds and that almost destroyed the ship; well, the ship is the Church of Jesus Christ, with all the sons and daughters of God represented in the disciples of Jesus Christ.
And now, the ship has been tossed all night, from the time it was born until this end time, but it is in the stage of the morning that Christ delivers His Church from the tempest.
Christ delivers His Church from the tempest. And how will He do it? Well, by coming walking on the waters.
From age to age, He has been walking upon the waters: upon nations, peoples and tongues; because waters represent nations, peoples and tongues, in other words, waters represent people; but the hour of the fourth watch, is when He appears to His Church, He reveals Himself to His Church.
But what happens? When He appeared to His disciples who were on the ship, they said: “It is a spirit!” They were in grave danger.
And at this end time, the Church of Jesus Christ will be in grave danger because the beast, the antichrist will be manifested at this end time; the devil will incarnate himself in the antichrist, in the man of sin, and he will try to destroy the Church of Jesus Christ with winds contrary to the Church of Jesus Christ, and with those ten kings, and the nations and the armies of those ten kings who will give their power and authority to the beast; as it says in Revelation, chapter 17, verse 8 to… (let’s see until which verse we have this event; until verse 18), verses 8 to 18 of Revelation, chapter 17; and also Revelation, chapter 19, verses 19 and on.
That is where the Church of Jesus Christ will have her most difficult stage, but Christ will overcome them.
THOSE TAKEN OUT OF THE CAMP TO RECEIVE GOD
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Sunday, March 17, 1996
Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Now we are in the seventh millennium, in the beginning of the seventh millennium, which is the morning of the seventh millennium, of that millennial day. We are in the morning, in the fourth watch, of the seventh millennium; where the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ would be in serious trouble, great storms arising against the Church of Jesus Christ.
And there are still more storms coming; and there is a squeeze coming upon the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ at this Last Day; where everything will seem like the end of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, like she is going to be destroyed. But that is where the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be seeing Jesus Christ walking on the sea, walking in the Last Day on the waters, on the stormy waters.
(…) And just as John took that Book from the hand of the Mighty Angel, from the hand of Jesus Christ at His Coming, and ate it; the Angel of the Lord Jesus Christ takes it and eats it. And since the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ will be under the ministry of Christ through His Angel Messenger, the Angel Messenger will be passing on to His Church, to the Church of Jesus Christ, that Word, that Title Deed; and She will also be eating it. She will be eating that Word for what? To be restored to eternal life, for every child of God to be transformed at the Last Day, and the dead in Christ to be resurrected in incorruptible bodies.
We are living in the most important time of all times.
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST REVEALED IN THE FOURTH WATCH
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Monday, September 6, 1993
Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico
It is in the morning of the Dispensation of the Kingdom that the fourth watch fulfills all that pertains to this end time. It is in the fourth watch that the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to His disciples, who were in the ship, and He came walking on the waters.
For that reason when the Mighty Angel also descends from heaven, He placed one foot on the earth, but the other on the waters, on the sea. On the waters: waters represent nations, peoples and tongues; we find that the waters also represent the Word.
Now, it was in the fourth watch that He appeared on the stormy waters, and they didn’t believe that He was the Son of Man and Son of God, or Son of God and Son of Man; they believed that He was a ghost.
And it is in the fourth watch that the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ passes through. It is in the fourth watch where a new dispensational day is born, where the Morning Star proclaims that a new day has begun and that the Sun of Righteousness is born; and the Sun of Righteousness is Christ in His Coming, it is the Son of Man, Jesus Christ.
(…) The disciples there said, when He entered the boat and they recognized Him, “You are the Son of God!”; for He was revealing Himself as Son of God and Son of Man in the Dispensation of Grace. And in the Dispensation of the Kingdom He is revealed as Son of David and Son of Man.
Therefore, we say to the Lord Jesus Christ revealed in the fourth watch: “You are the Son of David and Son of Man, revealed in the fourth watch, and within the ship, within the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ, within the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, revealed as Son of David and Son of Man!”
Thus we recognize Him in the fourth watch within the ship, within the Mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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