THE THREE
STAGES OF
RAPTURE
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Sunday, 22nd February 1976
Ponce, Puerto RicoTHE THREE STAGES OF RAPTURE
Dr. William Soto Santiago
Sunday, 22nd February, 1976
Ponce, Puerto Rico
We shall start [I Thessalonians:4] in verse 13, and the Word of the Lord says like this:
“But I would not have you to be ignorant brethren,
concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even
as others which have no hope.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so
them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
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
not prevent them which are asleep.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a
shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of
God, and the dead in Christ shall rise frst.
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.
Wherefore, comfort one another with these words.”
Let us pray unto the Lord: Our Father who art in Heaven,
eternal God, behold in this morning we are before Your
presence, we thank You for Your blessings, Oh God. And in
this morning Lord, that we are worshiping and glorifying
Your Name, the moment has come Lord, for You to speak,4 Dr. William Soto Santiago
and for us to hear You, Lord. Oh eternal God, we beseech
You that You may move onto the scene in this morning and
You may teach us Your Word Lord.
Eternal God, Holy God, look unto Your people in this
morning, we are all eager to hear You teaching us Your
Word. We beseech You, that You who is the teacher, Lord,
You may manifest Yourself in that ministry of Yours as
teacher Lord; and You may teach us what we must learn,
and what we must know in this fnal hour in which we are
living, oh God.
Now, Oh eternal God, I beseech you all this in the Name
of the Son of David, King of kings, and Lord of lords. Amen,
Amen.
In this morning, we are going to speak about the subject of:
“THE THREE STAGES OF RAPTURE.”
As we read in this morning, the rapture has three stages and
according to how we have been seeing in the messages that
God has been giving us, we have been seeing, for example, in
the message titled: “The Future Home of the Earthly Bride
and the Heavenly Bridegroom,” we have been seeing, that
everything must be in three, we have been seeing that same
thing, in other messages, where God tells us that everything
must be in threes.
Now, we have also seen that God is perfected in threes;
therefore, everything must be in threes, there are three stages
for everything; after those three stages end, it is then that one
reaches where they had to reach.
The Third Stage, is the stage of perfection, the Third Stage
is the stage where we fnd that it is the stage of fullness;
so therefore, seeing that everything is in three stages, then,
in this morning the theme of: “The Rapture” draws ourThe Three Stages of Rapture 5
attention, because we fnd that we must look at that theme in
the correct way, in order to really see what the rapture is. The
word “rapture” in reality is not found in the Bible, but what
is found in the bible is the word translation or transfer.
That is the correct word: translation, something that is
translated, is something that is taken out from one place, and
put in another, you see? Then, we fnd that the rapture, or
the transfer of the elects, is nothing less than the elects to be
taken out from one place or from one area, and put in another
place or in another area.
Now, we can really see the theme which we are approaching
in this morning; and that we hope that the Lord may help us
to see this theme, and to see the angles which that theme
has; and then in that way, to be able to really learn about that
theme, what we must know and to really see what has already
happened, and what is about to happen; in other words, to see
it from the angles that we must see it.
We see in the message titled: “The Future Home of the
Earthly Bride and the Heavenly Bridegroom,” that God
tells us through Brother Branham, that through the same
process that the Earth goes through, God takes His Church
through it and God takes the human being through it, the
child of God, through the same process; and there are three
processes. We fnd that God takes the Earth through the
process of justifcation, sanctifcation, and baptism of fre.
This is the Earth; this planet Earth was justifed with the
baptism of water of the time of Noah, you see? There are
three baptisms: baptism in water in the time of Noah, what
was the second baptism? It was the time of the sanctifcation
of this Earth, and that stage of sanctifcation was in the time
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Calvary; and then, He poured out His Blood upon the Earth,
and by pouring it upon the Earth, that was the stage or the
time of the baptism of the Earth, the baptism in the Blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ. It was baptized with the Blood of
Jesus Christ, and that was its second stage, which was the
stage of sanctifcation, the Lord sanctifed this planet Earth
by pouring out His Blood upon this Earth. You see?
And then, the Third Stage is the Stage of what? The Stage
of the baptism of fre, that is the third stage, and that baptism
of fre and which will be Holy Fire and literal fre as well,
both fres. This planet Earth will go through a baptism of fre
in order to purify it, in order to cleanse it from all the germs,
natural germs and spiritual germs. To cleanse it upon ... from
all wicked things which are there on this planet Earth; and
that we know that there are many, many wicked things here,
you see? And this Earth will be washed and there will not be
any wicked human being here on this Earth; because they
will all be burned up, you see? They will all be burned up
with the fre which is going to come upon this Earth in order
to purify it; and that fre will come through atomic bombs,
it will also come through volcanoes; and so on and so forth,
you see? This Earth will be changed with a baptism of fre.
Now, I said something here which no, which seems that it
is out of place, I said, purifed with atomic bombs, well, in
those days it is going to be burned with atomic bombs ... in
these days which are coming now, in order to prepare it for
the Millennium, afterwards will come a purifcation by fre,
literal fre and spiritual fre; because there will be volcanoes
exploding and this Earth will be surrounded with literal fre
and spiritual fre; literal fre in order to burn the literal things,
you see? The physical things, the things which can be burnedThe Three Stages of Rapture 7
with physical things; and spiritual fre, in order to burn what?
The spiritual things: all demons, all devils, they will all be
burned with spiritual fre; because those are spiritual things
which cannot be burned with literal fre, and all the sinners,
their physical bodies will be burned with physical fre; but
their spirit and their soul will be burned with spiritual fre, you
see? With God’s fre, where they will stop existing totally;
then this Earth will go through fre, it will be surrounded in
fre, purifed; and afterwards, we shall return to this Earth
in order to live eternally. Do you see the three stages of this
planet Earth?
Now, after that purifcation of this planet Earth by literal
fre and spiritual fre, afterwards what appears? The new
Heavens and the new Earth; and the Tree of Life appears,
and the new people appear who are going to dwell on this
new Earth; and then, everything will be new on this Earth.
Now, you and I, seeing that all these literal things which are
going to happen to the Earth, that typifes the spiritual things
which are going to happen to the Church, and which are
going to happen to you as an individual; the same stages that
the literal Earth goes through, the Church goes through them
in the spiritual aspect and the individual also goes through
them in the spiritual aspect; therefore, we see that then in
the literal aspect the things are going to come, and we know
that in the literal aspect this planet Earth is already in the
second stage and the only thing that is remaining is to enter to
the Third Stage, which will be after the Millennium. But we
must see the spiritual phase; because with the spiritual phase,
is that we as individuals; go through it and the Church as a
group also goes through it.
The Church as a group is in which stage? And you and I8 Dr. William Soto Santiago
as individuals are in which stage? That is really what must
interest us; because in the literal aspect, the planet Earth in
the literal aspect will go through that stage; but before going
through that last stage, we shall already have passed through
the three stages. You see?
Therefore, who are the ones who are going to live in
that new Earth, and in those new Heavens? The ones who
have gone through those three stages. Therefore, we must
be interested in the stages through which we must pass and
which stage are we in and to see what corresponds to that
stage in which we are or through which we are passing.
Now, we also see that there will be a spiritual Rapture and
this one… and we fnd that just as there is a literal Rapture,
there is a spiritual Rapture; just as we fnd that this literal
body, this literal body will be translated or moved to another
place, we also fnd that there is a spiritual rapture; because
what do the natural or literal things represent or show? The
spiritual things.
Therefore, we know that this literal body that we have,
is going to be moved from this position where it is on this
planet Earth, and in this dimension in which we are, it will
be moved from this dimension, and from this form it will be
moved to another dimension, and to another form superior
to the one that we have, it will be moved, it will be moved
from the carnal or from the physical, it will be moved from
this mortal, it will be moved to immortal, you see? It will be
raptured, it will be translated. You see? It will be taken out or
moved from this dimension to another dimension.
That will happen literally in us. That must happen; because
the immortal will absorb the mortal; in other words, our
theophanic body, which is ours, because you have it althoughThe Three Stages of Rapture 9
you don’t see it, what will that absorb? The mortal. That will
absorb this literal body that we possess in this current time.
So therefore, seeing these things, we must thoroughly, look
at.... all this, so that in that way we can see the hour in which
we are living and not only that, but also to be able to see what
is supposed to happen in our life; and thus in that way, then
that one which must not escape us may not escape us.
Now, I had something I don’t remember where, I had
something... something marked out and I don’t remember
well where it is; but it speaks about… yes, I already found
it. I am going to read it to you, because it is something very
important and it corresponds to this that we are speaking
of in this morning, page 33 of the message titled: “Things
That Are To Be,” we are going to read it in page 33, it says,
paragraph 115 and onwards, 115 and 116, it says:
“See what I mean? Oh, little children, do you feel the
need of that vitamin tonight, that something? There’s a body
waiting yonder. There’s a body waiting to be received. People,
don’t be deceived. Don’t be deceived.”
Deceived, by whom? By the false anointed ones (he is
speaking about the false anointed ones up here) and the false
anointed ones… look what he says with relation to the false
anointed ones, he says:
“And now there’ll be false anointed-ones in the last days,
not false Jesus. They wouldn’t stand for that. (They wouldn’t
stand to be called Jesuses. They wouldn’t stand for that you
see?) But, “false,” anointed. They are anointed, yes, sir, but
they’re anti-Christ.”
They’re anointed with the Spirit, to do the signs and
wonders that Christ did, to do the signs and wonders that
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them.
The same signs and wonders that Christ did, in this time,
the false anointed ones will do them, the literal signs and
wonders that were done.
You see? And they are anointed, they recognize that they
are anointed, that they have the anointing, that they have
anointing, you see? But they are false anointed ones. It
continues saying:
“….but won’t line up with His Word. (with whom? With
the Word of Christ, of Christ today, you see?) With the Word
of the true anointed one today, they don’t want to line up
with that Word; that’s the only thing they have wrong. See:
“Many will come to Me, that Day, and say, ‘Lord, have not
I prophesied, and cast out devils, in Your Name? He say,
“Depart from Me, you that work iniquity. I never even knew
you.” I was Pentecostal, Lord.” I was from Laodicea.
You see? The ones who preach that we are in Laodicea,
false anointed ones. “Lord I recognize and I preach that we
are here in Laodicea, I am Pentecostal.” The false anointed
ones are from there.
“…..I was Pentecostal, Lord. Glory to God! I shouted. I
spoke with tongues. And I laid hands on the sick, and healed
them, cast out devils. Depart from Me, you that work iniquity.
I never knew you.” See what I mean? ”
See what I mean? that they are the false anointed ones of
there of the age of Laodicea, the ones who remained there in
order not to let the people leave, and they remain there; but
the true elect people left from there; but they remained there;
That is why, although they try to pretend that they are true
anointed ones of God, they are false anointed ones; because
they remained there and what shows that they remained thereThe Three Stages of Rapture 11
is the things that they have, you see? The things they have,
well it says where they are from.
For example, do you want to know who are the ones
who are still inside the Law? In this day and age, there are
religions which are still in the Law, look at what they have,
and you will see from where they are: from the Law, the
second Dispensation went over their heads, the dispensation
of Grace, and that dispensation already ended as well and
they’re still inside the Law, keeping days, keeping Sabbaths,
keeping this, keeping meat, instead of eating it, they don’t
eat it, you see? Because the food is sanctifed through prayer,
then the things that they practice, the things that they teach,
the teaching that they have in order to practice, shows from
what dispensation they are, and from what age are.
And that same thing happened in the time of the apostles,
that many came from the frst Dispensation of the Law; and
then what did they try to do? They tried to prevent the people
from leaving from the frst Dispensation and entering fully
to the second Dispensation; and then, they tried to take the
people and to tell them: “yes, the one of Jesus is true, it is
true that He is the Messiah and this one and the other one,
but we must keep the Sabbath, this and the other one is true
but we cannot eat this meat nor the other one nor the other
one… that is true; but we have to keep the new moon, we
have to keep the Sabbath, we have to keep this feast, the
feast of tabernacles, we have to keep these other feasts, we
have to continue keeping this one of the Law; because Moses
said that this would be perpetually forever.” But they did not
realize that it is when one changes from one Dispensation
to another, then those same things which are there in that
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in the other dispensation they continue practicing them, but
in a different scale.
Notice, those literal things in the frst Dispensation, later
came to be practiced but in a spiritual way in the second
Dispensation; For example, notice those feasts that Moses
received by the hand of God so that the people could practice
them: the feast of the unleavened bread, the feast of the
trumpets, the feast of the tabernacles, and so on and so forth.
All those feasts, those feasts afterwards they were kept, and
they were practiced in the second Dispensation, but not in the
same way that they were being practiced in the frst one, not
in the literal way, but in a spiritual way; and each one was
practiced in their time, which then became, the practice of
those feasts became what? Became, they became the seven
Church ages, and the spiritual feast in each age was the literal
feast which was in the Law of Moses. You see?
Then, each Church age, each Church age became one of
those feasts, and the last feast, was the feast of what? Of the
tabernacles. And the literal Feast of the Tabernacles which
is done there came to represent, came to represent the Feast
of Tabernacles which is the spiritual feast of the last church
age, which is the age of Laodicea, you see? God doesn’t take
away anything. What God does is that He enlarges; the one
of one dispensation in the next dispensation is more enlarged,
and when something is enlarged, then it corresponds to the
people of God to move to that which God has enlarged, you
see? Not to remain with what they had earlier in the way in
which it was; because for the next Dispensation that same
thing will be there, but in a greater way, in a more enlarged
way.
That is why we fnd that all those literal things typify theThe Three Stages of Rapture 13
spiritual things; but notice, after the seventh feast which is
the feast of tabernacles, which typifes the Pentecostal feast
or of the Pentecostal age, what comes after that? Afterwards
comes the Holy Convocation, which is the time of Jubilee;
and then… notice, all the people go ascending, they start
below and go ascending, ascending and ascending. But later,
it corresponds to them after they have ascended all those
ages, then it corresponds for them to fly, then it corresponds
to them to ascend much higher or to another place, where
they celebrate the feast or where they celebrate the Holy
Convocation, or where what they fnd is a Jubilee in that time
of Jubilee, in that Year of Jubilee, which is the year number
50. Because 50 is Pentecost, and notice, that the Pentecost
of there of the Day of Pentecost with the 120, that was a
spiritual Pentecost, where they received the frst fruits of the
Holy Spirit, here there is another Pentecost, here there is an
even greater Pentecost than that one, in that one they received
the frst fruits. In this one, they receive the fullness, you see?
In that one, what did they receive? In that one they received
the frst thing, in this one they receive everything, all what the
children of God lost is received in this Pentecost; because this
is the time in which all what the children of God lost, is later
restored to them in this time; and before the elect children of
God leaving from this dimension in the literal aspect, before
leaving from here, they will show, and the people will see
that really... I don’t know how many will see it, but it will be
manifested that the children of God have really returned to
their original position before the fall.
We saw it in Jesus, we saw it in Brother Branham, he had
power and authority, all the power and authority that Adam
and Eve lost, all the power that Adam lost; because Adam,14 Dr. William Soto Santiago
we fnd in the book of: “The Seals,” we fnd that Adam had
all the power and there authority here upon the Earth, he was
God here upon the Earth and God was God of the Universe,
you see? But here on the Earth, God placed Adam as God, he
could say to the mango tree or to the grapefruit tree, or to the
avocado tree, or to any tree which was there, he could say,
move from here to here, and it would move. There was no
problem, he could speak, and the things came to existence;
because he had the Word, he had the Title Deed as Son of
God, he had it; therefore, he on this Earth could do all the
things that he had to do.
All the animals of the feld obeyed him; because he was
their king, their governor here on the Earth. He was the king,
the governor here on the Earth, over all what had been created
here, over the animals, over the fsh, over the birds, over the
trees. He was king over everything, but he lost that position
when they sinned.
Later we fnd God Himself who became human flesh; and
He came and He was the King; that is why, everything had to
obey Him, you see? He was speaking and everything obeyed
Him. He was speaking to any animal and it had to obey him,
He was speaking to nature and nature had to obey Him; that is
why, we fnd that He was speaking to the trees, and the trees
were taking action, and you notice, notice that sometimes,
He spoke blessing; but other times, He spoke judgments.
Even upon the trees, we fnd that that fg tree, because of
not having the fruit which it had to have, because the Lord
wanted it and He needed it, it did not have them, He spoke
words of judgment, of cursing, and it died, you see... but
we also fnd words of blessing in other cases; and what was
spoken through that human flesh, happened.The Three Stages of Rapture 15
We fnd that He spoke to the winds and the winds obeyed;
therefore, we see that He was whom? The Almighty God,
the King of the Universe coming here to the Earth, and since
He was the King of the Universe, the same thing has to obey
Him, any planet from there, as anything here on the Earth,
everything has to obey Him; because everything was made
and created by Him and for Him; therefore, we saw Him
manifested in that way; but after that, we fnd that we had not
seen any man, any human being with all that power restored
in him, all the restored power in him in all its fullness, we
later saw it in one of the children of God, in one of our
beloved brethren, one who is the same with us, one who
was redeemed, you see? We saw it in Jesus; but He was not
one who was redeemed, He was One who came to redeem;
because He was God.
But that same power which Adam and Eve lost, we had
never seen it working fully through any human being in
that full way, except only in Jesus; but later, we have seen
it in this twentieth century in a redeemed one, in one who
was redeemed, in our beloved Brother Branham; we saw it
manifested through him, who? God through him. The Word
manifested through him, the Book of Life restored in his
hands, you see? And when one has the Book of Life, which is
the Word, which is the revelation of the Seals, then anything
that is spoken, it doesn’t matter what is spoken, be it blessing
or be it cursing: it will happen.
Notice: “What you bind on Earth, will be bound in
Heaven. What you loose on Earth will be loosed in Heaven.”1
Therefore, it does not matter what is spoken. It must happen.
And you and I are heading there, we’re heading there; we are
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maturing in that form, we are maturing until we reach total
maturity; and then we shall totally see in us the same thing
that we saw in Jesus, that we saw in Brother Branham and we
will also see it in us.
Now, we see that it is the same thing in Heaven, as on the
Earth, it is the same thing in this dimension, as in the other
dimension, it is the same thing in the physical or material
feld as it is in the spiritual feld, you see? It all depends that
Word is spoken for which feld, if it is spoken for the spiritual
feld, what is spoken must happen in the spiritual feld, it
cannot be spoken for the spiritual feld and to happen in the
literal feld; if it is spoken for the spiritual feld, it will happen
in the spiritual feld, although later on, it is reflected in the
natural feld. You see?
Now, we are going on that way, and all this is supposed
to happen in this day, or in this time of Jubilee; because it
is the time in which the children of God will be adopted, it
is the day of Adoption, you see? The eighth day, or fftieth
day or year, is the day of Adoption, it is the day in which the
children of God will be adopted, it is the day in which the
children of God receive, and take the Title Deed, it is the day
in which they have the cheque book in order to sign all the
cheques that must be done, and in that way, what must be
done, in the Kingdom of God to be done.
Now, we are in this glorious time in which, well, we are
maturing; just imagine, for example, if you as a father, then
you have money in the bank, and you are a rich person, you
have to see that your son is a mature person, and that he
has reached a maturity in which you can trust him with the
money or the inheritance that you have, all what is going to
be the inheritance for him, all the inheritance; because whatThe Three Stages of Rapture 17
you have will belong to your children, you see? Then, that
one you are not going to trust him just for the sake of it,
without knowing that he will know how to use that money,
and he will know how to administer all the properties that
you have; because if you do it, what he is going to do is going
to squander it all, to misuse it. And instead of what he does
being of blessing, it is going to be a curse, instead of being
of beneft it is not going to be of beneft to him, instead of
helping him, what it is going to do it is going to fail to help
him, instead of doing a work in beneft, what kind of a work
is it going to do? Of destruction.
And at the end he is going to behave so badly, and he will
continue behaving so badly in what he was permitted to use,
that what will happen to him? The last thing that will happen
to him is that he is going to kill himself with all what you
have given him, just imagine, if he is not mature, maybe he
buys a race car, and he is going to race, and in that way he is
going to kill himself. You see? The same thing happens in the
spiritual aspect, it is a treasure, it is a very great inheritance, it
is the Book of Life, it is the Title Deed of the children of God,
it is the inheritance of the children of God, it is the Word
in all its Fullness. But just imagine that a person without
having spiritual maturity, without having reached maturity,
the Fullness of the Word, is placed in his hands, that Title is
placed in his hands, and I am saying as an individual, I am
speaking now as an individual; and you come, well, now I’m
the one in charge here; because it is like that.
Then, for example, when the son of the family is adopted
in the house, this one they were practicing it, it is practiced
there in the East, then in the father’s businesses, in all the
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son who was adopted, then he comes: “this is going to be
done like this, in this way,” he speaks and the things are done
as he says it; because the time of adoption has come for him,
it is the same thing as if the father was giving everyone must
obey him, and nature, the Heavens, the Earth, the trees, the
animals, and remember the animals, and among the animals
there is the serpent, and the serpent’s seed is around there
also, you see?
Therefore, all human being, all the angels, all what exists,
must obey the children of God, when they as individuals
have the Title Deed in their hands, you see? What is spoken
happens; because it has been spoken by one who can speak it,
and is authorized to speak what he must speak and everything
must obey him. Did we not see that in Jesus? The eternal
King making Himself man, then it had to be done like that
and everything had to obey Him, what was in the Heavens,
what was on the Earth, what was under the Earth, everything
had to obey Him.
We also saw it manifested, now in one of the children of
God, the frst one of them: Brother Branham, the frst one
among them who was redeemed, you see? Who reached
maturity; and then, by reaching maturity, he could then speak,
and what he spoke had to happen; he spoke the squirrels into
existence, and not only on one occasion, he went to hunt a
number of times and there were not there and he spoke them
into existence, and they appeared.
It is that when one who has authority, and who has the
inheritance in his hands, what belongs to him, when he says:
“Let this be done in this way,” if it is not there, it has to appear
so that it can be done, you see? When he needs something, it
is like... like when a boss enters or the owner of a company,The Three Stages of Rapture 19
he enters to his property and he’s looking for something, and
he says, “I want such a thing. Such a thing is not there? Well,
if it is not there, and then let them look for it, but it must be
there; because I need it, look for it wherever it can be, and
don’t appear to me here without it; because I asked for it and
I need it.” You see? And what is fulflled? What he spoke.
Then, when the children of God, the elects as individuals
already adopted, when they need such or such a thing; and it
is not here on the Earth it has to be created by the Word, you
see? It must appear. Therefore, that is where we are heading
to, but frst of all you and I must receive what? The Book,
the Title Deed, to receive it, we must receive it, and when we
have it in our hands, when we have it with us, then the thing
will change. You see?
And what is the Book of Life? What is the Title Deed? The
Book of Life, the Title Deed was opened, it is the revelation
of the Seals, it is the Book of the Seals sealed with Seven
Seals; but when it was opened, then the Book was opened,
the Title Deed was opened, and then, the next step is, the next
step is: The true children of God to receive that Book. You
see?
It is already opened and it was opened for the children of
God, then to receive it, to receive it is easier than to open it,
you see? God had to open it, but the one who receives it is
you, you see? You could not open it, that was God’s work,
but you can certainly receive it.
Therefore, we are in a very important stage, a very glorious
one in which, notice, through the same process that this world
goes through the Church goes through it, and you and I go
through it as individuals.
Now, the Title Deed which is the Seals, which is the Book,20 Dr. William Soto Santiago
which is the Word. Adam lost the Title Deed, and where did
it return to? To the hands of God, notice, God had placed it
in Adam’s hands, but Adam lost it when he sinned and God
took it, the devil could not take it; just imagine if the devil
takes the Title Deed of the children of God, what could the
devil not have done? Him without having it and look at all
what he has done; but the devil cannot do one thing, the devil
cannot create, what he does is that he perverts what God
already created; but if the devil would have managed to take
possession of the Book of Life, the Title Deed of the children
of God when Adam lost it, the devil would have… would
have turned into what? Into a creator; because the Title Deed
is the Word, and the Heavens and the Earth were made by the
Word, and all what is made, what was created, was created by
what? By the Word, but the devil could not take possession of
it, God picked it up again, He took it again, He had given it to
Adam, Adam lost it, God took it; but the devil took what God
had made, what He had created through the Word, what had
been made with the Book of Life, with the Word, the devil
took possession of that, but he could not take charge of the
Word, of the Book of Life, of the Title Deed.
Therefore, the devil then took all what God had created, and
started to pervert all what God had created, you see? Then, he
started to pervert it all; and that is why, that he started to link
one thing with another in order to take out what? Something
else, in other words, the devil is an imitator; and the devil
with the perversions, what he does or tries to do is that he
tries to create, but since he is not a creator, he then does the
same thing that the scientists do. As the scientists are not
creators, then what they do is that they link one thing here,
with another thing here, and they bring out a product, youThe Three Stages of Rapture 21
see? Then, they connect this one here, with this one here and
they bring out something else; and that is how the devil does,
as they do, the way the devil does is the way that who does?
The scientists; because the science of the scientists comes
from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, you see? The
science of scientists comes from the devil; that is why, the
scientifc line comes through there, it comes from the devil;
and that is why, what they do is to link one thing with another,
of the things that God already created. You see?
Then they take; for example, the atomic bomb, look, that
is not a creation, that is a perversion of what God created,
that is a perversion, and then, what is it that the perversions
produces? The perversion always produces what? They
produce death.
What do the perversions always produce? Evil for those
who receive them, the one who receives an exploded atomic
bomb doesn’t receive anything good, right? The one who
receives... the one whom an atomic bomb explodes on top
of them doesn’t receive anything good, what they receive is
death, destruction and all those things.
And it also happens like that in this time in the spiritual
aspect. What does he tell us... what does Brother Branham
tell us an atomic bomb is? [An audio cut] ... children of God,
because it is a defence against the enemy; but notice, that
when intellectually one takes from here from the Word, from
here, from here, from here, they form a denomination, they
form an intellectual concept of what God said; and then, that
being the Word: an atomic bomb, just imagine what they are
doing with that, then it is going to explode for them in their
very hands and it is going to kill them spiritually and that is
what happens to them by linking one thing with another, they22 Dr. William Soto Santiago
are doing that kind of experiments, and producing, producing
intellectual things, the same Word kills them; and is it not the
same one, the same atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs and all
those things which the scientists have discovered and which
the scientists have made, is that not the same thing that is
going to destroy this mankind? Is it not atomic power that is
going to destroy these people, this civilization, within a short
while? That same thing is what is going to destroy them!
Because they took the atom who made it? God, you see? But
they started to break it down; and it happens like that with
the Word, the one who breaks down the Word, it is going to
bring him destruction and he is going to die through atomic
power, by starting to break down the Word of God, that same
Word which they break down, the same Word is going to kill
them. You see?
Therefore, we fnd that then, that that Book of Life, the
Seals, which is the Book of Life, which is the Title Deed that
Adam lost, that Book would be restored again to whom? That
Book would be restored to the children of God; that Book is
the Word. In the meantime, that Book was sealed. No one
could open it; therefore, no one, no one could do what? No
one, no one could use it, no one, no one could use the Title
Deed on this Earth; because it was in the hands of God and it
was closed, understand that well.
But one day, the Title Deed would be restored to the
children of God, in order to be restored, it had to then be
taken or to come out from the hands of God, and later, to be
delivered again to God’s children, you see? Then, that was
what happened when? That is what happened in 1963 with
the opening of the Seals, that the Lamb, the Lamb who turned
into what? He turned into Lion, the Lamb came and changedThe Three Stages of Rapture 23
His work of Lamb, He moved it or changed it to Lion, and
when He changed it to Lion, He became the Lion of the Tribe
of Judah.
He then came to carry out something very important for
the beneft of all of God’s children, He then came, and took
the Book from the hand of God, He took it from the Eternal
Spirit; and then what did He do? He opened it and gave it to
the Church, He gave it to the children of God, He gave it to the
Church, then, He declared it to them, He opened it to them,
He brought it to the Church and He opened it, He declared it
to His Church, to His Bride, you see? Then, by declaring it
to His Bride, the Bride then, as a group, as a group then, the
Bride got to the Stage of Adoption as a group, you see? They
got to the Stage of Adoption as a group, and the Bride then
had the Fullness of God in human flesh when they had God
in all the Fullness in Brother Branham. You see?
Now realize, when things are as a group, look at how the
things work when they are as a group.
Now, we must also see how the things are when the things
are as individuals. We see that the Church as a group, the Bride
as a group, what were they receiving? The Book of Life; and
then we fnd, that from ‘63 upto here, when the revelation of
the Seals was opened, what were they receiving? And what
was God giving to the people? What was God giving to His
Bride? He was giving them the Book of Life, the Word, the
Title Deed, that was what He was giving to the Bride.
That is why the Bride as a group could come before the
presence of God who was in human flesh and desire such
and such a thing; and what was it that God said? They were
moving like this, in the prayer line, they were moving like this
and he told them, moreover, without them talking to him, he24 Dr. William Soto Santiago
said what was the desire of their heart, in that way it fulflled,
that even before they spoke, God would hear and He would
answer them. You see? Do you see it. God working like that
as a group, look at how before them speaking, God already
knew what they were going to ask for and what they were
going to ask for was already granted to them, even before
them speaking. What was it? Even the desire of the heart
God already knew it and He was answering the desire of the
heart and it was granted to them; then, he told them: “Your
sickness is such and such, and you live in such and such a
place; so therefore go, you’re healed.” You see? It was God
Himself doing and speaking and granting to them the desire
of their hearts of the Church as a group, you see? He was
discerning the heart of the Church. You see?
Now, all that afterwards, later on, in another time and
in another stage, that same thing would move to the scene
again; and then, it would be as an individual, a dealing of
God with individuals and no longer with the Church as a
group, but with you as an individual; because just as the
Church, the tabernacle of the living God, the entire Church,
is the tabernacle of the living God, you as an individual, you
are also the tabernacle of the living God; in other words, that
the same thing that the Church is as a group, you are that as
an individual; therefore, the same process that the Church as
a group goes through, you go through it as an individual; so
therefore, the same process that this Earth goes through as a
planet, the Church as a group goes through it, and you and
I as individuals go through it; because notice, the Earth, this
planet Earth, what is it? The Earth is dust, and the Church,
the Church was formed from what? The Church of the Lord
was formed by people who belong to the dust of the Earth; inThe Three Stages of Rapture 25
other words, that they are Earth as well; our bodies are Earth.
So therefore, notice, that we are the same thing that the
planet is, but now in a more advanced state. So therefore,
we then fnd, that when the stage of God working with
individuals, and not with groups would then move onto the
scene, then the thing would be even more glorious; because,
notice, when He worked with His Bride as a group, the Book
of Life was restored to them, and all what the Bride asked
for was granted to them, all what they asked for was granted
to them. And we fnd that all what God spoke, all what God
spoke through that Bride, through that adopted Bride, all
what God spoke through that adopted Bride, all of it was:
“Thus saith the Lord.” Well, and how did God speak through
the Bride? And how was the Bride adopted? The Bride was
adopted as a group and God spoke through the Bride as
a group, but who was the mouth of the Bride as a group?
Malachi 4:5. You see?
All what we have, God spoke it through the Bride, God
speaking through the Bride, but the instrument was Brother
Branham, the Bride or the members of the Bride as individuals,
we had nothing to speak, it was God who had to speak. And
God, notice, one body, well, but He was speaking through
so-and-so, you see a person speaking, so-and-so is speaking
or so-and-so, but what happens? The arm is not speaking,
the feet are not speaking, the neck is not speaking, nothing is
speaking. Who is the one who is speaking? The mouth of the
individual is speaking.
Therefore, the mouth, the mouth was the one which had
to speak and the mouth of God is always what? A prophet.
Therefore, God spoke through the mouth of His Bride; so
therefore we then fnd, that God was speaking through His26 Dr. William Soto Santiago
Bride in this time, God spoke through His Bride and God
did all what He did through His Bride as a group, you see?
God did it, but many do not realize that God doing all those
things, He had one part of that body, of that Bride which was
the instrument that God was using, you see?
Then, we saw how God moved to the scene, working in
the Church or the Bride as a group; but through the same
process that the Earth goes through, the Church as a group
goes through it and the individual goes through it.
And now notice, now in this time in which we are in, we
are in the stage in which God is not working in the Church
as a group; because God has moved in order to work in you
as an individual and you are the tabernacle of the living God.
And now He is working in you as an individual; therefore,
the thing has nothing to do with if so-and-so accepts it or if
so-and-so sees it, and then I see it, no; because it is something
now, it is an individual stage. Many can see and you don’t see
anything, or you to see and others are not seeing anything,
you see?
Now, God has moved on to the scene in order to work in us
as individuals, but by moving on to the scene in order to work
as individuals, notice, He must move onto the scene as He
moved there as well, as He moved there in order for Him to
do what He did there as a group, to be able to do it here in us
as individuals, you see? Then there He had to move, because
for Him to move in the midst of His people, what does He
have? He has His way of doing it, He doesn’t move through
just anything, He moves through what He predestinated for
Him to move, you see? Then the redemption, redemption did
not come through just anything, it came through the channel
that God predestinated for Him to carry out the redemption,The Three Stages of Rapture 27
and what was it? Jesus of Nazareth, it could not be just
anyone, it had to be a special One, One predestinated for that
work and for that purpose.
We fnd that the perfection of the Bride or the Church as a
group, and the restoration of the Book of Life to the Church
as a group, neither could it come through just anyone, it could
not come through such a minister, or such a minister, or such
a minister or any brother of the congregation, it had to come
through the way that God predestinated for Him to carry it
out, you see? Then He predestinated that He would come
through, what? Through a Lamb or a through a Lion? It had
to come through the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
Therefore, there must have then been a manifestation from
God in human flesh which was matching up with the Lion
of the Tribe of Judah, then, that had to be God working,
carrying that out through human flesh, identifying Himself or
identifed with the symbol of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah,
and that one we fnd it and that is why in this day and age we
know who is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah and what is the
Name of the Son of David, you see? Who overcame, who
overcame and took the Book, and opened it and declared it
to us.
So therefore, we see that the Lion of the Tribe of Judah
already opened the Book, He opened the Seals and declared
it, He revealed it, He brought it to the Bride or to the Church
as a group. But what happens? As individuals we had not
understood, because God was not dealing with His Church
as individuals, but as a group; He was dealing with the Bride
as a group and not as individuals, that is why He said, “After
I go, then you will understand the Message.” How? What
does that mean? Well, in clearer words: “All the revelation28 Dr. William Soto Santiago
is coming, and as individuals you are misinterpreting it, you
understand it wrong, you as individuals are misunderstanding
these things, but when I go you will understand well.” You
see?
Now, if for God, notice, in order for God to bring the Book
of Life, His Word, the revelation of the Seals, and to bring it
to the Church as a group, what did He do? Did it come just
like that? Did it come from the air? Or the Church as a group
met together and started to guess this… we think that this is
this? No, no, it came through the channel predestinated by
God, it came through one, through one of the group in whom
was the ministry which corresponded for God to declare or to
bring the revelation of all those mysteries, in order for God to
bring to His people the Book of Life, in other words, the Title
Deed that Adam had lost.
And now, for when God is dealing with us as individuals,
then each one as an individual is not going to try to search
and to fnd those things, God from among each one of us as
individuals, from among all the elects as individuals, God
will have those that He has predestinated in that in them is the
ministry which corresponds for God to then take that Word
which was revealed to the Church as a group, it was revealed
as a Bride, but as individuals we did not understand anything,
then the time would come in which we would understand;
because he said that after he left we would understand.
So then, after He left we would understand, we would
then have to be waiting from one moment to another to
understand it all, to understand what was the mystery of
the Seventh Seal that although it was revealed and it was
brought... as individuals we did not understand it, but we
had the revelation, we had it because it was brought, but weThe Three Stages of Rapture 29
did not understand that revelation which was brought, we
also had to understand what was the mystery of the Seven
Thunders, what was that which the Thunders revealed, we
also had to understand, what was the mystery of the New
Name and what the New Name was, we had to understand
it, it was revealed, it was brought to the Church as a group, it
was brought to the Bride as a group, everything was brought,
but as individuals we did not know anything about that.
Then there would be a time in which God promised that we
as individuals would understand, what would we understand?
We would understand the Message, the Message which
corresponds to this Third Dispensation, and although the
Church or the Bride as a group was in the Third Dispensation
as a group, as individuals we were not in the Third
Dispensation, as individuals we were not in the Age of the
Word, as individuals we were still inside and believing that
we were in Laodicea and still inside Laodicea, as individuals;
but as a group we were above, in the Age of the Word. Then
to the same place where the Lord took, lifted up His Bride up
as a group, He had to take us up as individuals.
Now, I am asking you where are you as an individual?
Are you in Laodicea? Where do you think you are as an
individual? Individually, where do you place yourself? Or,
where did the Lord place you? You see? Where did the
Lord put you as an individual currently? Therefore, now the
thing is individual, you see? Then, notice what was it that
took the Bride as a group and took her up to the Age of the
Cornerstone? Raptured Her to the Age of the Cornerstone, the
Bride as a group spiritually, the Bride spiritually as a group
they were raptured, they were raptured, they were raptured
from here from Laodicea and they were taken or raptured to30 Dr. William Soto Santiago
the Cornerstone, to the Age of the Word as a group, what was
it that did that Rapture? Christ the Word, the Word is the One
who took Her up, He took Her out from Laodicea and took
Her up above, you see? The Word, and Christ is the Word.
Then, Christ, the Word in a man and through a man, being
expressed in Brother Branham, was the One who did that
work, it was the Word coming through him which took the
Church up, because the One who does the Rapture is Christ,
He is the One who raptures His Church. Now, understand
well that we are saying that the Church was raptured with
the Word and She was raptured from Laodicea and taken
to the Age of the Cornerstone, and we are speaking of a
spiritual Rapture which already took place, although the
literal Rapture of all the elects, the translation of all the elects
has not yet happened, you see? Because it must frst happen
in the spiritual aspect and afterwards that spiritual one is
materialized; and later it is carried out in the physical aspect
as well, in the literal aspect.
Now, notice, the Word raptured the Church as a group, the
Bride as a group, that is why he says the Bride is married, the
Bride is married, he says it from there, from ‘63 upto now,
the Bride is married to the virtuous Son of God, you see? And
we also fnd that the Bride as a group, as a group you fnd in
some places that the Bride was in the Supper as a group, and
you also fnd, you fnd that the Rapture, the Rapture takes the
Bride to the Supper of the Lamb. You see?
Now, notice that it took Her from the age of Laodicea, it
moved Her to another land, or to another dimension, with a
new Heaven, you see? Then it moved Her towards there; and
later you fnd that the Lord shows us that… notice He shows
us [a] Shout, [the] Voice of Archangel and the Trumpet ofThe Three Stages of Rapture 31
God. When the Lord descends He does the three things at
the same time, He does the three things; now remember,
those are three stages, you see? First, the Shout is a Message
calling the Bride, calling the people, a Message, and later,
when He calls the Bride, He calls Her with that Message, it
is that Message, the revelation of the Seals, the revelation of
the Seals, the opening of the Seals is the Shout.
Then, what is the other step? The other step is the Shout…
rather the other step, rather, what is the other step…? The
other step is the Voice of [the] Archangel, the Voice of the
Archangel. Now, we are going to read it here:
“Therefore the message calls the Bride together.”
Now look, look a little bit before, page 30 of the message
titled, “The Rapture,” it says, [paragraph 163 - Ed.]
“We can forgive but not forget. I could forgive you, but I
always remember you done these evil things. Then, you’re
not just; you’re forgiven.
But, in the sight of God, the Bride is justifed. She never
done it, in the frst place. Amen. Standing there, married to
the virtuous Son of God; never sinned, in the frst place.”
You see? Now, notice that God there is speaking of His
Bride as a group. Now he says:
“Therefore, the Message calls the Bride together, see, the
shout.”
Which is the Message, is what calls the Bride. Here in page
28, him also speaking about the Shout he says, [paragraph
152 - Ed.]:
“Now, it’s the frst thing, is the sounding. The frst thing
is a trumpet and a…or a voice…A shout; and then a voice;
and then a trumpet. Shout: a messenger getting the people
ready.”32 Dr. William Soto Santiago
The Shout is a Message getting the people ready.
“The second is a voice of the resurrection: the same voice,
that, a loud voice in Saint John 11:38-44, that called Lazarus
from the grave. Getting the Bride together; and then the
resurrection of the dead, see; to be caught up with It
Now watch the three things takes place. The next is what?
Was a trumpet. A voice…A shout; a voice; a trumpet. Now,
the third thing, is a trumpet, which, always, at the Feast of
Trumpets, is calling the people to the feast. (Don’t let these
things pass you by) And that’ll be the Bride’s Supper, the
Lamb’s Supper with the Bride, in the sky. See?”
Now, remember as we have already studied and we
have seen that the Lord has shown us that the Heaven is:
atmosphere, you see? In the Heaven, there is a literal Heaven
and there is a spiritual Heaven, don’t lose that. When we speak
of the literal thing, then it will be literal Heaven, when we are
speaking of the thing in the spiritual feld, then, Heaven is a
spiritual Heaven and the Earth is a spiritual Earth you see?
And then, where is the Supper? There in Heaven. You see?
Well, and what is the Supper for? In order to eat, and when
does the Supper come? The Supper comes in the Third Stage
of the Rapture, the Supper comes in the Trumpet of God
and what is the Trumpet for? In order to gather the people
together, in order:
“The frst thing comes forth is His Message, calling the
Bride together. The next thing is a resurrection of the sleeping
Bride; the—the ones died, back in the other ages, they’re
caught together. And the trumpet, the Feast in the heavens,
in the sky.”
And they will all be caught together with the Trumpet,
what are they gathered with? With the Trumpet in the feast,The Three Stages of Rapture 33
for one feast and in one feast in the Heavens.
Well, and notice this little part here in front it says:
“Now, the third thing, is a trumpet, which, always, at the
Feast of Trumpets, is calling the people to the feast.”
And then, the Trumpet is, which is the third phase, what does
it do? Well, in order to call the people to a feast as well, what
feast will it be? What feast will it be to which the Trumpet of
God calls the people? It is a feast, then... how many feasts are
there? There are seven feasts, but after the seven feasts, there
would be one greater than all of them, what would be there?
A Jubilee; so therefore that is more than a feast. The Jubilee,
where everything belongs, all what belongs to the children of
God would return to the hands of God’s children. And what
belongs to the children of God? The Title Deed. And what is
the Title Deed? The revelation of the Seals, and what is the
revelation of the Seals? The revelation of the Word in all Its
Fullness, you see? And that must return to the hands of the
children of God as individuals. You see?
Now, notice that when the Lord was dealing in His Church,
with His Church as a group, He carried out the three things in
the spiritual aspect and no one realized, you see? He called the
people, you see? With the Shout the people were called; later
what happened with the other one? He brought a resurrection
from the denominations, He took them out literally, He took
them out from the denominations, was that not what He did?
To take us out from the denominations? That is the second
stage, the second phase of the Rapture; because it is the Lord
Himself, the Lord Himself, not another one, the Lord Himself
with the Shout, the Voice of the Archangel and Trumpet of
God, you see? With the Shout He brought a Message in order
to call the people, then what happened? With the Voice of34 Dr. William Soto Santiago
Archangel manifested in the same person, what did He bring?
He brought a resurrection, resurrecting His Bride as a group,
He resurrected Her from all the denominations, you see? He
took out a group, He took Her out as a group, from where?
From the denominational graves and we fell in that group, we
entered in that group. You see?
And then what happened? Afterwards the next one was the
Trumpet of God, taking Her in the Rapture to the Age of the
Word; that is why, you fnd in the Messages that he always
says that we are not in the age of Laodicea but in the Age of
the Word, the Age of the Bride, the Age of the Coming or of
the Dispensation of the Coming of the Son of Man. (With
your permission we have such a little time in order to do the
things that we have to advance so much.)
We are going to see, if around here somewhere there is a
place where it is spoken about the current Dispensation, I
would want to fnd it here, let me see if I can fnd it:
“…The Tree goes from one place to another, from one
dispensation to another dispensation.”2
And remember that we are the tree, the Bride tree, the Tree
of Life is His Church, His Bride, speaking of the group, you
see? It says:
“From Luther, It went to Wesley; from Wesley, to Pentecost;
from Pentecost, It goes to the Word.
It is Easter again for the true believers of His never-failing
Word. It’s Easter. It’s a resurrection. God has got people
everywhere. It’s Easter for them. Why? They have risen,
amen, risen from those creeds and denomination.”
You see? Do you see it? Where have they resurrected from?
From creeds and denominations, from Laodicea, which
2 62-0422 The Restoration Of The Bride Tree, page 63, par. 487 - 493The Three Stages of Rapture 35
is where we were, and where did we move to? To the day
of resurrection, to the day of Passover, which is the eighth
day; because the Lord resurrected on the eighth day which
is Sunday and this is our spiritual Sunday not literal Sunday
but spiritual Sunday in a spiritual resurrection and a spiritual
Easter.
“…Come right up through them. (From the denominations
and the creeds) It’s Easter again. The Royal Seed has been hid
in the roots, the Word, hid back here in this Word, for years,
and years, and years, and just now begin to be revealed. It’s
Easter time. Predestinated from the foundation of the world,
this Church is begin to stand.
Notice how that God predestinated, in the beginning. Well,
I’m going to say it, anyhow. All right.
Notice here, that, to restore the frst perfect Tree in three
days after Its death. After the frst Tree’s death, He restored it
in three days. Is that right? Restored it back! Now the Bride
Tree is also going to be restored in three ages, three stages,
rather. Three stages, It’ll be restored. Now look. What?
Justifcation, sanctifcation, baptism of the Holy Ghost; one,
two, three.
Now notice. After three days, the frst Tree restored as at
the beginning, having the same signs, same wonders. Jesus
come back, the same Jesus, doing the same thing. At the end
of the third day, the signs appeared, not the end of the frst
day. Oh, brother! I hope you’re getting it.”
In other words, understanding what he is talking about,
knowing that we in the spiritual aspect we are or we were in
the third day, after the third day which is Laodicea, which is
the Pentecostal age, after that third day it was then the day in
which the Lord would appear, He would appear resurrected.36 Dr. William Soto Santiago
“Oh, brother! I hope you’re getting it. At the third day is
when the real manifestation of Christ was made known, at
the end of the third day. See? Notice. Are you getting it?
Not at the frst day, dead form; second day, there was
a rumor, see, or, the second day, it was still dead; Luther,
(there still dead) Wesley. (there was a simple rumor, but what
happened?) At the beginning of the third day, there was a
rumor around. Nothing on the frst day, Luther; nothing on
the second day. And in the third day, the dispensation of the
Holy Spirit, there was a rumor around, that, “He was the
same yesterday, today, and forever.”
But at the end of the third day, that’s where He made
Himself known, come right among them, come among His
people and said, “Look at Me. I’m the same One.”
After what ended? The third day, after the age of Laodicea
ended was that He appeared and said, “I am the same One,”
you see?
“…The dead forms went on till they got to Pentecost, then
begin to rumor around, that, “He was.”
Now, here in the last day, here He is right with us, moving
right among us. At the end of the third day, He appeared and
showed all of them His resurrection sign, that He was living,
the same yesterday, today, and forever, living fruits of His
Presence. Living fruits of His Presence! Are you getting it?
Was manifested at the very end of the day, when He appeared
to all of them, His Church. Amen. Why? They all got together,
oh, amen, at the end of the third day.”
Now, notice the hour in which we are in, notice the time
in which we are living; and then, meditate about the hour
in which we are in and think and know that the same thing
that the Lord did there in the literal aspect when He died andThe Three Stages of Rapture 37
resurrected in the literal aspect, He has done it here, working
with the Bride Tree in the Resurrection of His Body: the
Church; but you and I must also go through that process; the
Church already, the Bride went through the three processes
in a spiritual way, you see? They went through the three
processes in a spiritual way: they went through the Shout,
they went through the Voice of Archangel.
Notice in the Church ages, seven angels, but for the Age of
the Word: one Archangel who is more than an angel; because
when God in... when God manifests Himself fully through
the seventh angel, what is that? It is no longer the seventh
angel as an individual, the seventh turned into what? Into
the eighth, he turned into the Archangel. Notice that, it is
not that there is an eighth one, but it is the same seventh, the
same seventh angel then becoming what? Then becoming,
the Full manifestation of God; in other words, God in all His
Fullness.
Then, being the Lord Himself using the veil of flesh of the
seventh age, using that veil of flesh, that seventh messenger,
He then used it for Him, (God), to manifest Himself in all
His Fullness in the Age of the Word. Then it became what?
Voice of Archangel, the Voice of Christ, the same Christ
bringing what? Or producing what? The resurrection of His
Bride as a group, He resurrected her, from where? From the
denominations, it is a spiritual resurrection. You see?
Now, also remember that through those same processes
that the Church goes through as a group spiritually, you and
I also go through them as individuals spiritually; and later
you and I and all the dead in Christ as well go through that
same process in the literal aspect as well. We are not going to
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has a time; but the spiritual one also has a time. You see?
Then we see that now, the cycle that began some time
ago, is the cycle in which God is moving in a spiritual way,
dealing with you as an individual spiritually; He is no longer
dealing with the Bride as group.
Now, that perhaps sounds a bit hard for many, who don’t
understand these things, but it is in that way; because God
already dealt with the Bride as a group and did what He was
going to do.
Now He is dealing with the Bride as individuals; that is
why the thing is not... notice, what God is doing now, has
nothing to do with if the rest of the Bride receives it or they
don’t receive it, it has nothing to do with if the Bride as a
group... as a group they receive it or they don’t receive it,
what it has to do is that you and I as individuals we receive it,
it is not a matter of groups, it is not if that group, or the other
group, or the other group or the other group receives it. You
see? It is if you and I as individuals we receive it; because
God already gave the Title Deed to His Bride as a group, it is
the revelation of all the mysteries, the revelation of the Seals.
That is the Title Deed, the Bride has it as a group; as a group
certainly; and that is why, it is as a group, God being in Her
midst, when He was in human flesh in Brother Branham, what
could not be done? Everything thing was possible; because
God was dealing with His Bride as a group, you see? And
anything that the group wanted was given to them, you see?
And God did tremendous things with His Bride as a group;
He did all what He had to do.
Then we now fnd that the Bride as a group, they even
entered into the Holy Convocation, which is the Age of
the Word, it is the Eighth Day or Fiftieth Day, or FiftiethThe Three Stages of R