Santiago de Chile
August 5th, 2016
Day 3
Waking up this morning, we have to admit, that Chile is chilly, very chilly. But we are all well rested and prepared for tonight’s service. While the little propane heater tries to warm up the house, we are fellowshipping with our host family via google translator, because nobody speaks enough of the other language to carry a conversation.
The service starts at 8 p.m. tonight and when we arrive early at the church, there are hardly any seats left; the building can accomodate about 500 people.
Pastor Carlos Canete from Santiago, Pastor Benjamin Silva from Los Andes, and Pastor Jorge Zuñiga from Santiago with some of their congregation are also attending the service tonight.
Pastor Peralta expresses his desire that the believers hear the Word, recognize it to be the truth and act upon it. Pay attention to that voice. We are witnesses, that God’s plan is working perfect.
Brother Vin is speaking – Brother Michael Jennings is interpreting tonight – that “God is moving with such liberty in this wonderful atmosphere, delivers the captives, moves sovereignly in this great elective love, that He has for His people and has provided all things to make a Bride ready in this hour. He will bless us, and we are already blessed with all heavenly blessings in Christ Jesus. We might not have accessed everything and might not be living in the full enjoyment of the blessings, which He has made secure. May He lift our faith and take away the doubts and give us confidence that we know He is reliable, dependable and faithful and He is interested tonight in every need from the smallest to the greatest among us. He proofs His Word by believers and He is stimulating faith tonight.”
“As God revealed His secrets to the prophet to show him his name in the Book, so He will do it for us, so that we can be drawn in a closer fellowship and can get a clearer vision and take a greater grip upon Him.”
The title of the service tonight is:
Rahab, A Mystery Of The Gentile Bride In The Ephesians
And the subject:
Rahab’s Redemption And Marriage At The End Of The Seventh Age At Harvest Time.
Brother Vin reads from Hebrews 11:17-18 and 30-31, from James 2:17-26 and also from Matthew 1:1, and I just want to share a few notes.
Paul and James focused on Abraham and Rahab, when they spoke about faith. And both of them put Rahab in the same category with Abraham. Remember, that’s the faith of Jesus Christ. The just shall live by His faith. That’s the faith of the Son of God in operation in them. And here we see James, picking up Rahab and putting her together with Abraham. What did Paul and James see in Rahab so great and they put that faith in the same category as Abraham offered up his only son? All Scripture is given by inspiration and is profitable for doctrine and for instruction and teaching, that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. The Scripture is the inspiration of God, because the Scripture cannot be broken. Heaven and earth will pass away, but not one jot or tittle can fail. When James and Paul were writing about Rahab, they were seeing something for this hour in her.
We are in the midst of Sodom, where it’s not only one city as back then, but it’s the whole world today. And God in human flesh came down in this day. Branham and Abraham are parallel. Abraham and Sarah were changed back young. They were only a shadow of us.
God, as Elohim back in Eternity, before the foundation of the world, He thought of everything, and He never had a new thought after that. But God couldn’t die as Elohim, couldn’t die as Melchizedek, but He had to become flesh in Jesus. Redemption is God’s purpose.
It is not redemption for creation, it is creation for redemption.
God thought out a plan, which is called the Plan Of Redemption. This plan gives God reason and purpose, how He can make Himself known to all His attributes. This is the day of redemption, and the Bible is the Book of redemption that was sealed with seven Seals and in this day God has broken the Seals, and the Redeemer Himself has come down from Heaven and began to reveal the names, who will be the redeemed in this day of redemption, those who were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the the world and He had to reveal who was chosen. And the Bible is written in a certain way, so you can start from Genesis and begin to read in every age and know who the elect were.
When this which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. If you were in God’s thoughts, you are part of Him and He knew everything about you. All of this was settled. But then there was a day, when you see the Son of Man coming in a Cloud with great power and glory. Look up, your redemption is drawing nigh! Redemption was God’s purpose; the Lamb was slain in God’s thoughts, when there was not even an atom or a molecule.
I want you to see, you are also a Book, an epistle, read of all men, and as the elect of God there is a secret sealed up in your life, that gene of God, Christ in you, the hope of glory, that predestinated seed in your earth. You know yourself after the first birth, just like the prophet. But if this earthly house of this tabernacle is dissolved, you have another one waiting eternal in the Heavens.
Your life is already written in the Bible. All the lives and acts of believers are expressed in these 66 books, written by 40 writers, and it is expressing one revelation, to reveal the secret that this eternal God had in the back part of His mind, and it is written in such a way, that it can only be made known, as He gives inspiration for the things He wants to make known.
But He promised in the days of the Voice of the seventh Angel, when He begins to sound, that mighty Angel, the author of the Book, the principle theme of the Book, is going to come down and makes known what the Book is. When He comes, even about the people that died and went on, we know, who the elect were in the past ages. Then by the same principle He is teaching us how to know if we are elected. Because God is identified by His own characteristics. You in your natural birth carry characteristics of your father and mother. From the time you begin to understand the characteristics in your life, you begin to understand your position. Everyone is designed and equipped according to God’s purpose. And if you understand your calling and you know you are chosen, then abide in the position in that you are called.
Bride is life of His Life, spirit of His Spirit, word of His Word, bone of His Bone, flesh of His Flesh. What He is, she is, part of Him. That first church came back around a second time, so Alpha and Omega is the same, the restoration of the Bride Tree. This is part of the Bridegroom Tree. The works that I do, shall you do also. Because I live, you shall live also. And He has dealt every man a measure of faith. He has placed everyone.
The principle that you know you are part of the Bride must be based on the Word. You are fearfully and wonderfully made, a vessel of honour, sanctified, fit for the Master’s use, prepared for every good work. God prepared your life for the work He called you for. God’s gifts always find their places. Your birth is connected to your placing. The Book is not Jewish history, but it brings you into faith to walk with God.
When God gives you that key, the key to the door, then it gives you access in the things that are shut up. Then you begin to see the mystery and the purpose of your life. Do you realize it’s something more than church attendance?
God’s sovereign will in your life is stronger than your self-will.”
The service concludes at midnight with the admonition to think about these things. God surely has visited us and held the mirror before us, so we can see ourselves in the Book.
After the service we can sit together with our brothers and sisters for a delicious dinner, a labour of love of the faithful sisters here. Because we are all staying in different homes of the local believers, it’s good to connect this way for a short time.
It was an awesome day in His presence.