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And through each of those faithful and wise servants, Jesus Christ has been manifested from age to age, carrying out His Work pertaining to each age. But through which of those servants will Jesus Christ, the Master of the heavenly House… through the manifestation of which of those faithful and wise servants will the Door of that House be shut? Well, it will be shut before the Great Tribulation begins.
And when the very last elect has come in, the Door will be shut. And he that is filthy, let him be filthy still, or, he will be filthy still. Why? Because he will no longer be able to wash away his sins in the Blood of Christ, because He will have already left the Throne of Intercession in Heaven. And in Revelation it says that he who is filthy will then remain filthy still;3 because there will be nothing to wash away his sins with. In Revelation, it tells us about this mystery.
Now, we can see that one day the Door of the House of God (to enter) will be shut, and there will be no more call to come into the mystical Body of the Lord Jesus Christ; that happens when the last elect has come into the House of God. And then Christ leaves the Throne of Intercession in Heaven and makes the claim for His redeemed, the ones He has redeemed.
The Door will be shut at the end time, when the faithful and wise servant or faithful and wise steward of and in the stage of the Cornerstone Age is present; and no one else will be able to form part of the mystical Body of Christ.
It says that the Master of the House will rise up and shut the Door. The Master of the House—who is God or Jesus Christ through the Messenger that will be on Earth at this time—will shut the Door. And He is the One who shuts and no man opens, and opens and no man shuts.
Under the ministry of Jesus Christ over His House, through the different messengers, the Door has been open. And under the ministry of the Messenger of the Last Day or seventh millennium and Dispensation of the Kingdom, the Door will be open at the beginning of the ministry of Jesus Christ through His Angel-Messenger; but at a certain point in His ministry, at the end, the Door will be shut because Christ will shut It; and all of God’s elect will already be inside the House of God. And then the Divine Judgment will be poured out upon Earth, and
there shall be (what?) weeping and gnashing of teeth for those who had not entered into the House of God through the Door of that House.
One enters into the House of God through a Door: the Door is Christ in His First Coming as the Lamb of God. And through the Door, which is Christ in His Second Coming, one goes to Heaven or enters into Heaven for the Marriage of the Lamb.
Saint John had entered into the House of God through the Door of the First Coming of Christ; but then, in the apocalyptic revelation, then he saw a Door opened (where?) in Heaven.6 That Door opened in Heaven in the Seventh Seal opened in Heaven, which is the Second Coming of Christ. And John the Apostle entered through that Door in the vision, and in Heaven he saw all the wonderful things that he later narrates to us in his apocalyptic vision: he saw a Throne established in Heaven, one who sat upon the Throne, and he saw all the things that were there.
And through that Door opened in Heaven, which is the Second Coming of Christ… because Christ is the Door, both in His First Coming and for His Second Coming. Now, we need to enter through that Door of the Second Coming of Christ to go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
And the Door of Mercy will be shut at the end time; but we have a Door open in Heaven, which is Christ in His Second Coming, to enter and see all the things that John saw being materialized, and to be changed and raptured at the end time and go to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
We have seen, “THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE OF GOD.” And Christ is the One who opens and no man shuts, and shuts and no man opens.
He is the One who shut the Door of the Dispensation of Law, and no one has been able to open It; and He opened the Door of the Dispensation of Grace, which is Christ, but someday He will shut that Door, and no one will be able to enter through that Door.
And the Door that takes us to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in the rapture, notice, is Christ in His Second Coming, for those who have entered through the Door, which is Christ in His First Coming; we must enter through that Door first.
Now, we can see this mystery, and we can see the reason why Noah made a door for the ark at the bottom—by Divine Order—and then he made a door for it at the top, on the third story (a door or window). And when that door or window opened, they could look to heaven. Notice, that is the Door of the Second Coming of Christ: a Door opened in Heaven.
In order to see that Door, we must do what Jesus said: “Lift up your heads to Heaven, for your redemption draws nigh.” When John heard that Voice or Great Voice of Trumpet speaking with him, a Voice from Heaven, that was when he looked to heaven and saw a Door opened in Heaven.
The Door will be shut as a blessing to God’s sons and daughters. “THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE OF GOD.”
We have seen that the Door is that strait Gate, which is Christ our Savior. And someday, the Door of entrance into the House of God, which is Christ in His First Coming as the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world, will be shut. And no one else among the Gentiles will be able to enter through that Door into the House of God: It will already be shut and no one else will enter, the number of God’s elect will have been completed.
When the Angel lifts up His hand to heaven, His right hand to heaven, and swears by Him that lives for ever and ever that there should be time no longer: that is when the Door, which is Christ, is shut or has been shut; and from that point on, God will work within His House in favor of His elect, and then in favor of the Hebrew people.
To open the Door, which is Christ, as the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world on Calvary’s Cross. That was the Door that Peter opened on the day of Pentecost to the Hebrews, and then he opened It to the Gentiles at the house of Cornelius; but someday that Door will be shut.
That is the Eastern Gate. And notice that the Eastern Gate, which is Christ in His First Coming, that Door is represented in the “eastern gate” among the Hebrew people. And the “eastern gate” of the wall or the walls is closed, they call it “the golden gate;” and they say that gate will be opened for the Messiah to enter through that gate.