And now, perhaps many people would have felt jealous if they were the ones in the position of John the Baptist; but John the Baptist did not feel jealous, instead, he said: “He must increase, and I must decrease.”18 Therefore, the ministry of John the Baptist was declining, it was decreasing, and the ministry of Jesus was increasing. Perhaps some people, and even John’s disciples who stayed with John, said: “Now Jesus, one of John’s followers, now He separated from John, He formed a division among John’s group, and now He is taking John’s disciples, He is taking John’s followers; and in addition, other people are also believing in Him.”
Now, did John’s disciples, the forerunner’s disciples,
do the right thing by going with the One forerun? Of course they did. That is why the forerunner came: to make ready a people for Him, to make ready a people for whom? For the One whose way he was preparing; so that all those who had followed the forerunner would then follow the One forerun. What good is it for people to follow the forerunner if afterwards they don’t follow the One forerun? They stayed in the baptism of John, but they could not receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit; they could not receive the Fire baptism that would be given to them by the One who would come after John the Baptist, of whom John said: “This is He who comes After me. I baptize you with water, but He shall baptize youwith the Holy Ghost and Fire.” It is not enough to believe andfollow the forerunner, we must then follow the One forerun,to receive the blessings brought by the One forerun.
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THE FATHER OF FAMILY
Dr. William Soto Santiago
11 January, 1998
Cayey, Puerto Rico

AND NOW YOU SEE, WE ARE IN A STAGE WHERE WE ARE BEING PREPARED TO BE TRANSFORMED AND RAPTURED IN THIS LAST DAY. THAT'S WHY LET US BE LIVING IN AGREEMENT WITH GOD'S WORD, AND THE THINGS WHICH OUR BROTHER BRANHAM TAUGHT US, THE FORERUNNER OF THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, MUST BE KEPT, FULFILLED, AND WE MUST REMAIN IN ALL THOSE THINGS HE TAUGHT US , SO THAT WE MAY NOT HAVE PROBLEMS WITH GOD, AND WHEN THE DOOR IS CLOSED, HE MAY FIND US WALKING IN THE PURE WORD OF THE LORD JESUS ​​CHRIST.

On December 24th, which is Christmas Eve, we also
remember the departure of our Brother Branham, the
forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ; and we share the
feelings of his family; and we ask God to bless them greatly,
and all the brethren who follow the Message of our Brother
Branham in North America and in all countries.
He is the Elijah who would come forerunning the
Second Coming of Christ.
Just as John the Baptist, the forerunner of the First
Coming of Christ, died an unpleasant death, likewise, our
Brother Branham also departed in a way that was not the best
way we would have wanted for him; but God is the One who
determines how every person living on this Earth will depart.
We share the feelings of his family, and we ask Jesus
Christ for His blessing upon his family. And may God fill
them with the knowledge of His entire Program pertaining to
our time, and may He use them greatly in His Work at this
Last Day.
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And may the fulfillment of all the prophecies that were
given by Rev. William Branham, as they are fulfilled, may
they be seen fulfilled by His family members, by his family,
and by all the followers of our Brother Branham.
Notice, Jesus was not born on the 24th, but our Brother
Branham, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ,
departed on December 24th, on Christmas Eve, which will be a
memorial, a day of remembrance, in the Millennial Kingdom.
Some… that day, the departure of our Brother Branham will
be commemorated; and on the day of his birth, well, the
arrival of our Brother Branham will be commemorated. In
some way, there will be a remembrance of this whole journey
we have gone through.
THE MYSTERY OF THE DATE THAT JESUS WAS BORN

And we have the promise for the end time, before the Dreadful Day of the Lord begins, before the seventh
millennium begins, we have the promise that Elijah will come before the Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord, before the Great Tribulation, to restore the heart of the children to the faith of the fathers, the apostles; and then, upon being restored, the people will go into the Last Day, after Elijah—the forerunner of the Second Coming of
Christ—leaves; because the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ comes in the Spirit and power of Elijah.
THE LIFE OF THE FORERUNNER AND HIS MESSAGE

The Angel of the Lord, the Angel of the Covenant, appeared to Rev. William Marrion Branham in the year 1933,
over the Ohio River, over the skies there, and told him: “As John the Baptist was the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, you will be the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.”2 In other words, Rev. William Marrion Branham was identified as the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.

He came in the Spirit and power of Elijah in his fourth manifestation, restoring the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ to the faith of the fathers, the apostles, to prepare Her for the Second Coming of Christ as the Lion of the tribe of Judah, as King of kings and Lord of lords.
THE LIFE OF THE FORERUNNER AND HIS MESSAGE

“Why, me an old man, suffered all my life, why did He heal me now? I believe I’ll ride this trail again, I got to bring
a Message!” In other words, Elijah must bring a Message riding the ministerial trail again, riding it for the fifth time.
This was in the year 1965 that he preached this message, on November 28, 1965; and on December 24, 1965
he departed. In other words, the year that he would depart, God gave him the testimony that he was already healed, and the disease that always struck his stomach was not repeated; and thus, he was healed, to go with the Lord that same year, 1965.
THE LIFE OF THE FORERUNNER AND HIS MESSAGE

Saint Paul, explaining this in the Book of Acts, chapter 19, said to a group of followers of the forerunner of the First Coming of Christ, in chapter 19 of the Book of Acts, it says:
“And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.” Notice how behind the disciples of the forerunner were. Why? Because they had not followed the One forerun, the Lord Jesus Christ. And the disciples of the One forerun, the disciples of Jesus Christ, had already received the HolySpirit; and it had been years since all those who believed in the One forerun and followed Him had received the Holy Spirit. And the disciples of the forerunner, the disciples of John the Baptist, had not received the Holy Spirit yet;
because the promise of the Holy Spirit, as the firstfruits, is forthose who would follow the One forerun: Christ, Jesus our
Savior.
And at the Last Day, the promise of receiving thefullness of the Holy Spirit—where the dead in Christ will rise and we who are alive will be changed, and then we will have the fullness of the Holy Spirit—will be for those who will follow the One forerun; because that is the reason for the Coming of the One forerun: to carry out the Work pertaining to the Last Day, which is the Work of the Lion of the tribe of Judah.

Now, the followers of the forerunner, John the Baptist,were very happy following John the Baptist; but the ones howere following Jesus were happier, because they werefollowing the One whom John spoke of and whom heprophesied would come after him.
And now, we find the followers of the One forerun, ofthe Lord Jesus Christ, receiving God’s blessings that werebeing given; and the minds of the disciples of Jesus Christwere being opened by Jesus Christ.He said: “It is given unto you to know the mysteries ofthe Kingdom, but to the others it is not given. That is why I
speak to them in parables.”20 But He spoke openly to Hisdisciples; and the parables He had spoken to the other people,He explained them to His disciples separately; because it wasgiven unto them to know the mysteries of the Kingdom ofHeaven. And that is why they knew the greatest mystery thatwas being fulfilled, manifested, at that time, which was the mystery of the Coming of the Messiah, the Coming of God’s anointed One: Messiah, Christ; and Christ means “anointedOne,” the One anointed with the Holy Spirit.
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INFORNT OF JORDAN
4TH JAN 1987
WILLIAM SOTO SANTIAGO
From 46 to here, if we count that ministry from 46 to here, or if we count it from 33, where the Angel of the Lord appeared with a star when he baptized there in the river, there in Indiana, if we count from the 33, in '73, it was forty years there. ALREADY BY '74 SOMETHING WAS BEGINNING IN GOD'S PROGRAM, WHICH WAS COMPLETELY SEEN IN '75, AND IN '76 IT WAS COMPLETELY ESTABLISHED; AND ALREADY IN '86 IT WAS TEN TO TWELVE YEARS.

Now, notice how God reflected His Church in our Sister Branham, and notice how He reflected the Second
Coming of Christ in Joseph (the son of our Brother Branham), and how He also reflected the different groups that would come from the Message of our Brother Branham—He reflected them in his two daughters Rebekah and Sarah.
THE LIFE OF THE FORERUNNER AND HIS MESSAGE

Why does a forerunner come? To prepare the way forthe One who will come after him, teaching them to believe in
the One who will come after him.But notice, John’s dsciples who stayed with Johnwere slow to understand, hard-hearted, they were people whocould not see in Jesus the fulfillment of the One who wouldcome after John; and they remained the group of theforerunner, the group of John the Baptist, but they werebehind because they did not become part of the group of theOne forerun, the group of the Lord Jesus Christ, which wasthe group that would increase and the group that wouldreceive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire: that was thegroup that would receive the new birth, and therefore, receivethe theophanic body of the sixth dimension.John’s two disciples who, upon hearing John say:

“Behold the Lamb of God,” then followed Jesus—they leftJohn and followed Jesus; not because they disregarded John,but because they saw that John’s Message was being fulfilledin Jesus of Nazareth. And to follow Jesus was to followJohn’s Message correctly, to follow the Lord Jesus Christ wasto follow what God promised through John the Baptist.And those were the best disciples of John the Baptist:the ones who followed Jesus Christ, because they kept
moving forward to receive what John the Baptist said thefollowers of the One forerun would receive: they would
receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit and Fire.

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GREETING TO THE PASTORS
(Ministers Meeting)
Dr. William Soto Santiago November 24, 2012
(Through telephone to São Paulo, Brazil ).

The Coming of the Lord to His Church is the secret, the greatest mystery, the most greatest secrets of all the secrets. The mystery of the Seventh Seal is so great that when it was opened in Heaven there was silence.
Therefore, the Message that Reverend William Branham brought is the one that sheds light on how all this mystery will be carried out. Therefore, one must be aware of everything which Reverend William Branham said, because his Message will introduce Christ; because the Message and the messenger is one thing. Reverend William Branham being the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, what he said and with what he said brings about the introduction of the Second Coming of Christ to His Church and to all of Christianity, and to the whole world.
Therefore, be aware of everything Reverend William Branham said in relation to the Second Coming of Christ, with everything he said also in relation to the Third Pull, and with everything he said in relation to Moses and Elijah. , with everything he said in relation to the Sixth Seal, and everything he said in relation to the Seventh Seal, and with everything he said about the Vision of the Great Tent Cathedral what was shown to him, where the Third Pull will be fulfilled.
Be aware, with your eyes wide open, to those things that I have told you, because those things will be and will be carried out in the Coming of the Lord to His Church, in order to give faith for the transformation of the believers in Christ, members of the Church-Bride of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Age of Gold of the Church, in the Age of the Cornerstone, the age that comes after the seventh age of the Church, the age that comes after the seventh age of Laodicea (in other words, the age that represents the Church in the seventh age, represented in the Laodicean Age).
Therefore, be aware of everything that the Reverend William Branham, the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ, said; be aware of everything he said about the Second Coming of Christ, the Coming of the Lord to His Church in the Last Day, the faith of the rapture, the faith to be transformed and raptured, the Third Pull and the Vision of the Tent; All what he said in relation to those things, be aware, because the coming of the lord to His church will be as the Spirit of God said through the Reverend William Branham - in those things that I mentioned - the Coming of the Lord to His Church will be like that. And with the opening of the Seventh Seal to His Church in the Last Day, in the fulfillment of the Third Pull in this end time, all will be and all that will be fulfilled; and the Seventh Seal will be revealed to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Because the Seven Thunders of Revelation 10, the Voice of Christ speaking to His Church consecutively, it will be opening this mystery and thus giving them the faith to be transformed and taken with Christ, the believers in Christ of the Last Day, in the age corresponding to this end time and in this end time.
Therefore, ministers, be aware, have your congregations aware, to be aware of everything [63-1229E] “Looking Away to Jesus,” paragraph. 50-52, p. 86 of this book. what was said (and missionary Miguel Bermúdez Marín), have at the disposal of all the brethren and all the congregations with which you have fellowship with, all what Reverend William Branham said in relation to the Coming of the Lord, to the Seventh Seal, to the seven voices of the Seven Thunders, to the Third Pull and the Vision of the Tent; because they need it, for when the Seventh Seal is opened to the Church they will have the foundation, the foundation, of all what the Spirit of God said through Reverend William Branham; because all what he said about the Second Coming of Christ, of the Coming of Christ to His Church for the Last Day, all what he said about the Third Pull, all what he said about the Seventh Seal and everything he said about The Great Tent Cathedral, will be fulfilled.
And therefore, the Coming of the Lord to His Church, which will be a secret and which is a mystery for which there was silence in Heaven for about half an hour, will be what will be identifying the Coming of the Lord to His Church in this end time; and it will also be what will vindicate that Reverend William Branham was the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.
Without the fulfillment of what was said by the Spirit of God through Reverend William Branham in relation to the Second Coming of Christ, in relation to the Seventh Seal, in relation to the Third Pull and in relation to the Vision of The Great Tent Cathedral; without the fulfillment of that, Reverend William Branham will not be vindicated as the forerunner of the Second Coming of Christ.
Therefore, in some place it is going to be fulfilled everything which was said by Reverend William Branham in relation to the Second Coming of Christ to His Church, in relation to the Third Pull, in relation to the seven voices of the Seven Thunder, and in relation to the Vision of the Great Tent Cathedral which was shown to Reverend William Branham.
Therefore, it is important that you have all what he spoke: place it in the hands of all the ministers and all the brethren of your congregations, so that they have the basis that prepares them for the Coming of the Lord, for the faith in order to be transformed and raptured; and thus they will be prepared to go with Christ to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, because everything will be as it was foretold by the Holy Spirit through the Reverend William Branham.

Therefore, keep yourself studying the Scripture and the messages pertaining to our time, and the
messages you find of Rev. William Branham, because we are living in a very important time for
us; a very important time for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is waiting for the
Second Coming of Christ, and waiting for the transformation of us who are alive, and waiting for
the resurrection of the dead in Christ, and waiting for the rapture, in other words, the translation
of all the elect to the House of our Heavenly Father, to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
GOING INTO THE MYSTERIES OF THE BIBLE
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Sunday, January 19, 2003
Cayey, Puerto Rico