The Privilege of Being Informed Before Things Happen

We are going to listen to what God has for us through the pastor, Reverend Pedro Julio Fernández, he is a man of God, we have known him for many years, he and his wife Belkis have come to the church several times over the years. They have always been faithful in loving us, in sharing with us, he has written several books because he is a man who loves the Word and God has given him the ability to reflect on it and write about it.

He brings some of those books with him so at the end of the service bless him too and bless yourself above all, participating in the flow that God has placed on his life at the end of the service they will be available. There are a couple here that I have, A Rumor is Heard and there is also the book about the event in life Cades Barnea, and they are books for the Christian life, devotional growth, spiritual development of the children of God. I know it will be very useful for you and for us. They pastor a beautiful church in Toronto, Canada where there are many Latinos there in Toronto. And it is a privilege for us to join your ministry today and have you both here, your son Naún also who is there. So… but Julio, give a round of applause for Reverend Pedro Julio Fernández.

God bless you brother. Welcome. Amen.

Glory to Jesus, here as we are debtors, glory to God. We have received a lot in León de Judá and I am a virtual member of the church because they send me my email and I also get involved as they say, right? On the Internet and there are many blessings that I have taken from here, I put them in the context of Toronto and they know that it is from here that I have taken them, I am only telling you that. No one is going to say that over there when it is their turn to go, but... we have taken a lot from here to there, and how good the Lord is! Glory in Jesus, I am very grateful to Pastor Miranda for this brilliant opportunity that he offers us to be here in the House of the Lord and well, he has already introduced my family and so I would like us to go once and for all to the word of the Lord to the book of Apocalypse, chapter 1.

Revelation, chapter 1. Let's read the first three verses. In that same position, brothers, we are going to read and hopefully this word will quickly enter the same context in which they were said and the motive and reason why the Lord allowed this to be written. Thus says the word, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to manifest to his servants the things that must happen soon; and he declared it by sending it by means of his angel to his servant John who has borne witness to the word of God and of the testimony of Jesus Christ and of all the things that he has seen. Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep the things written in it because the time is near. Oh, glory to God. More blessings may he add Lord to his holy and blessed word, glory to Jesus. I think that this introduction to the book of Revelation was very necessary from the Lord because after everything is written, all the books of the Bible, the enemy of justice seemed to It has something to this book in particular, and it has made a very bad reputation for it, even within the people of God, there are Christians who can read any book of the Bible and stop at Revelation.

So, what the enemy's propaganda says, they have taken it very seriously and they do not want to touch the book of Revelation because they have sold the idea that it is not understood, that it is very figurative language and that it only talks about dragons. , of beasts, of animals and there is no one who can... thank you, Sister... who can understand what is written here. But what happens, we cannot get away from his opinion, much less we can get away from the opinion that the world has of the word of God, since what we have just read here firstly informs us how trustworthy the word of the Lord is , what has been the channel used by God for something so wonderful to reach us.

It is something from God placed in the hand of Jesus, Jesus sends an angel to take this to John and John sends it to us and passing through so many hands, this was not altered at all. So, a thing as big as the book of Revelation, God has trusted His Church to be well aware of the future. You know what we have something for sure, sure that they speak to us of human destiny completely here on earth, the book of Revelation.

The introduction says to whom it is sent, to His servants. This is a book written for us, it is something sent to us. God wants you as a Church to be well informed of the things of the present but also of the things of the future since we are the ones called to tell the world what is happening. It is not the world that has to come here to tell us this. I assure you brothers that even in matters of economy and finance, we can tell the president of the Federal Reserve what is happening.

Look, there are few amines, at least the ones present here, because perhaps people are saying more on the Internet. The Church has such a great capacity that it is the call to tell the empire what is happening. She is the call to tell the empire what to do because those who know are saying what to do but they themselves say: we have to get out of this but we don't know where we are going; but the Church does know what is happening and knows where we are going. Oh, glory to God.

Just receiving this makes you and me committed to a message that is highly credible. God has honored us by letting us know the future; the present and the future, so that the Church is clear where it is going on its journey towards the promised land. Nothing should surprise us, we are fully informed of what has to happen. I don't know, but in this Bible it still says that bad men will go from bad to worse, they haven't removed that from here. He still says that bad men will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived, which is what we have seen in recent years when these crises have been uncovered because there was trust first in the system, second in people.

We do not trust any of these things, we move in levels of trust because we live here, but the Church raises its eyes to the mountains, no, to God who made the mountains, to God the creator of all things and we continue to trust fully in Him, because He moves the Church, He protects it, He cares for it, He is the one who carries it. So, we have information from God that we have to get out of this place and we have to tell people what is happening. But we must also tell him what to do. Praised be the name of Jesus.

In recent times, I think that the Holy Spirit of the Lord has motivated me a lot to re-study the apostolic advice of Paul, Peter, Judas, and James because they are very relevant to what is happening now, not only in the world but also within the Church of Lord Jesus Christ where, even if you don't believe it, there are people who are very disoriented... but very disoriented, regarding the things that are happening in the first world, on the first level, on the level that he considered himself excellent, know-it-all, and even master of himself.

No, brothers, for us this is too clear. What is happening is a lesson after the Biblical one for any of us because the Church has to know what is happening. And here clearly, the Word is telling us things that must happen soon; He is speaking the Word to manifest his deer. Hey, how humble our God is. Because I think that it is an act of humiliation of sovereign God, Almighty God, to reveal a bit of history and let us know what is going to happen. But also to make us see what is already happening, inside and outside the Church that is going to Heaven. Glory to God.

In one of the apostolic councils of the Apostle Peter, I met this man, a very humble man too, because Peter went through some processes that he does not hide later, tremendous falls that any of us probably does not even want to touch that theme of the past of one and more a past within the Gospel already. But the man believes that by telling his story he does well, he does well so that another does not fall where he fell; and he is writing to the people and he is warning them of things that happened in the Old Testament and that probably happened in his time and in ours too... of people with false ideas that were going to penetrate trusted circles such as the Church to alter or subvert a good, pure and true thing like the Word of God.

He tells him: look, we as Christians have to know how to measure the spiritual experience we have and there is no spiritual experience that can be measured outside of something other than the Bible; If we measure a spiritual experience with other parameters outside the Bible, there is great danger. So, he says: look, what I am telling you about the power of God, about the coming of Christ Jesus, about the first, is not according to artificial fables. An artificial fable, a person with all the premeditation in the world, sits down to design something that he knows to be false, that he knows to be a lie, that the only one who is sure that it is a lie is him. That is the only truth within the contrived fable: creating a scenario that has no support in the Scriptures to be liked or to get something from someone.

It says: "we do not make known the power of God nor his coming according to fable according to a powerful testimony." He says: "we were in the mountains..." and there he begins to tell his experience. And being on the holy mountain, Moses, Elijah, James, John, Peter, Jesus. Being in that place the glory of God, the majesty of God, was manifested there but it occurred to me to interpret what was happening in a private way. He is a sincere man, I told you, he is a man who is full of the presence of God because life is what the majesty of God says, on that mountain that is called holy because it was set aside for God. One thing is beautiful my brother, Christ is transfigured in front of these people, Elijah and Moses, people who knew him through the Scriptures but never personally because they had already disappeared from the terrestrial scene.

Now they appear there, speaking with Jesus, the plans of Christ, his departure from Jerusalem, speaking. He, without anyone telling him, decides to interpret what is happening. What would it be, my brother, when you don't give the Holy Spirit a chance to finish doing what you have to do, you kind of get desperate and you get caught up in the Spirit and you start on one side, brother, which is not the direction of the; like you have to wait, decant a little as they say, to find out what is happening to us. So, there it says, look Jesus here we have to make three canopies. That is a person who was invited to the holy mountain and he is already taking control of the matter, even saying what must be done.

He says: "here you have to make three pavilions, one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah." Doctor Lucas, who was a very investigative man, finding out all the details that another did not say because he says so. And Doctor Lucas in his gospel says that Peter was saying what he did not know, that Peter was saying what he did not know, in other words, Peter was saying a gentleman nonsense but a man who is with the glory of God because how can this man think of equating Jesus with Moses and Elijah. It means that he is not evaluating the experience with the Scriptures.

Oh, blessed be the name of the Lord, the Book of Hebrew has to appear, this book has to appear interpreting the entire narrative of the Old Testament, which has to do with that person of Christ Jesus to say that Christ is greater first than the angels, second to Moses, than Aaron, than Joshua, than The Law, than The Covenant, than The Creation, that Jesus is greater than everything.

Oh, glory to God. Blessed be the name of the Lord, that Moses was a great servant of God, that Elijah was also, but Jesus cannot be compared with them. And notice that when Christ himself asks: what opinion do people have of me? Who do they think I am? Nobody hit her, as we say, nobody, everyone kept Christ at the level of another prophet. And, probably, that is the opinion that people outside of this place still have. Who is Jesus? Anything they say. Elías, Moisés, Mengá, one more prophet. That is the opinion that people have of Jesus.

It means that at that point of Jesus having appeared, of John the Baptist having said two or three times: "behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world," at the time of Jesus having gone to the synagogue, taking the Book from Isaiah chapter 61 to say: "I am the Anointed," still the opinion that people have is that he is one more prophet but the Church cannot have that opinion, a person like Peter cannot have that opinion because he himself was the one who He said you are the Christ, the son of the living God.

Oh, bless the Lord. But Jesus Christ also clarified it and said: look, Peter, what you are saying is not a human being who has revealed it to you, although your brother Andrés met me first and he brought you, it was not through him that the revelation came . What you are saying, you are saying because God is revealing it to you. Verily I am the Son of God, verily I am the Anointed, I am the Christ. For later, come with the project of making three ramadas and even stay up there on the holy mountain and, I said, not come down from there.

Well, I told you at the beginning that the man was very sincere, seriously brothers, he is counting where he was wrong because it is that one filled with the Holy Spirit is something so great, the glory of God in a clay vessel, that there are moments that even one abuses trust. The good thing about the case is that he says, "we also have the most certain prophetic word to which the Church does well to pay attention..." and right there he is saying why things are in the dark. This is dark, my brother, and a world in darkness, I don't know where they are going. But you and I know, look, we know where you and I are going and we know where they are going if they don't fix their path.

It says: until the morning star shines, the most certain prophetic word, the written word, is a living word, is a current word, is a pertinent word for this time said by the Lord that comes to life in the context in which it's you and me, brothers. He means that his good advice is that we refer to the Scriptures, as a sure anchor, as a word that cannot fail, that we are called to evaluate what is happening only with the word of God.

I remember in… at least in December of '99, December of 1999, I know that it was all of '99, the debates were first that if the 20th century ended there, on December 31 of '99, and there were the theorists and people counting and going back and collecting stories because no one knows this, brother, where we are, we say 2009 but no one is sure that this is the case. People start that if the 20th century ends now or on December 31, 2000. Well, debates come and go, many of them were not even edifying.

Then came the next debate with computers, on December 31, 1999. And I'm telling you, my brother, without offending anyone, but even the idiots gave their opinions about computers, information technology, about anything as if they were experts in the field. That the planes, that the elevators, that here, that here. At the moment all this is coming to the Church and the brothers are already worried, a disoriented Church... that the building's concierge said that the elevators are not going to work that night... that the planes are all going to crash because the computers are going to read 2000 as if it were a zero, that there are evils in the last two digits.

Brothers, experts have risen up, I don't know if some have risen up here. Brother, as happened to me once in a job that I went to apply for in Santo Domingo and they called me at that industrial company, they took me to the human resources department and with the first question I had to leave there. I thought I qualified for that job, the manager tells me: do you know how to operate a computer? I told him: I don't even know how to turn it on, I don't even know where it turns on. That was the end of the interview. Have a good afternoon and may the next one come.

If I don't know about that, brothers, what am I going to say that I don't know about that? So, people who know absolutely nothing, you see them giving their opinion; but the great thing about the case is according to the apostle Peter that the problem is not that this person gets up, that is not the problem. The problem is the people who follow this person, so they are as disoriented as the same person who is guiding them because it has no foundation.

The written word from God is a legacy that is worth gold. Look at all the effort that God has made, we only look at the end of the 15th century or the 16th century with the Protestant Reformation and that this book, both John Gutenberg and Martin Luther, can begin to translate this, brother. The privilege that we Hispanics have because Casiodoro de Reina was already very close to there and had the Bible in Spanish for us.

And like God, through men, women, agencies... Brothers, that the Bible be translated, translated, translated, there is a general effort for the written word to be in every language, every dialect, every nation... that know from a sure source what God's will is, what He wants for us.

All the Apocalypse, all this preamble, all this prologue, brothers, is conducive for us to be clear and lovers of Biblical reading, of hearing the word, of keeping the word, of practicing the word because the more we practice it, the more it becomes They exercise our senses. I understand that it is very good when we tell people to yearn for the word of God like milk, like a child yearns for milk. That's right, unadulterated, pure milk from mother to child. But are we going to stay that size forever? Are we always going to be inexperienced, always depending on mom's breast?

The word of God aspires for one to grow in knowledge that one exercises the word of the Lord so that he is right-handed so that he has experience and can handle all these kinds of things as an expert in the word of the Lord. You are going to arrive at work or the study center tomorrow and you are the one who is right, brother, you are the one who can give a based opinion, because your opinion has to heal whoever is listening to you. Oh glory to Jesus.

This gentleman who was a very great emperor, this Nebuchadnezzar. That man had many revelations from God. God in his infinite mercy speaking to this man to change, and on one occasion God gave him a dream and as God always does, he blocks astrologers and fortune tellers from saying what is not because they are experts saying what is not is and look good with the king. So, the man tells the dream and no one, no one comes up with the interpretation, but Daniel, who has the correct interpretation, told this man: look, this dream is this, this, this, this, the other, and that's you. Now, after telling you the interpretation of the dream, now I am going to give you some advice: repent of your sins, repent, King of your sins, humble yourself before God.

Because brother, we cannot remain silent when we are previously informed by God of what is going to happen. You and I have to put ourselves in the gap, in the study center, in the workplace, in the neighborhood, at home... where God allows it to tell the world what the level is, what is happening.

I mean, I recommend that you repent. Say that to that man; He didn't have to write, he just had to make signs and they cut off Daniel's head, easily. And the man did not take into account the divine advice through a man and spent 12 months doing the same thing and after 12 months came the sentence of God, the fulfillment and the man went completely crazy for seven years... worse than completely . Informed and we have to speak but always based on the word of God. We have to see any movement of the Holy Spirit of God, I am not talking about strange doctrines or strange spirits but of the Holy Spirit of God, even that movement must be evaluated by what is already written because God is not going to violate himself himself, his hand word God is not going to corrupt it. So, if I can't measure that in the light of the word of the Lord, the least I can do is remain calm and hope that God himself, perhaps over time, will explain to me what experience I went through. Oh glory to Jesus.

In the Book of Acts, there is also another experience that Luke narrates because he was a very observant man, due to his training, a professional who had more of the Holy Spirit in his life, he was a man who could observe and write what he observed experimentally whatever you want to call it. And the Bible says that he and Paul and others came to a place called Thessalonica and the brothers in Thessalonica received the Word of God in the midst of great tribulation, terrible trouble. And Paul being persecuted, accused, stoned, but there God helped him so that for more or less three weeks Paul could spend time with them and explain the word of the Lord, beautiful brothers from Thessalonica.

Then, Paul had to flee and from there he arrived at a place called Berea and this is where Doctor Lucas's observation comes from because in Berea he saw that the brothers received the word with solicitude but these were different from those of Thessalonica because they scrutinized in what was written probably the old testament nothing else, to see if what Paul was saying was so or not so.

Lucas is not a protagonist there, Lucas is observing things and observing the profile of these brothers I seem to see speaking with the Apostle Paul telling him: I notice the difference; The brothers from Thessalonica are loving, they have faith, they have hope, they move without commanding them, they do this, these people are incredible, they win over Macedonia, here and everything for Christ. But I see a certain difference between those and these, those here are more noble, those are noble but those here are more noble because these are scrutinizing the scriptures day by day to verify that what Paul is preaching or teaching is in accordance with what that is written.

And here comes then brother on behalf of one, the concern, most likely, why Paul never sent a letter to the brothers of Berea? Why don't you write to them? And what do you think could be the answer? Why shouldn't you send letters to a brother like that? With people like the one from Berea, don't you have to send them letters? The Thessalonians look at it there, Paul leaves, leaves, then they send a question. He says, now we are troubled, we don't know well about this rapture, who comes first if the antichrist, the apostasy, no, we are troubled. And Pablo says: I didn't tell you when I was there.

Paul says it First and Second Thessalonians. He says: but when I was with you I didn't tell you this? Yes, you said so but we didn't pay much attention. The typical case of someone who asks for a very difficult address, the other explains it to them and then says: did you understand? And he says, no, nothing. He says, I told you how things were, do you know why that happened to you? Look, some guys even got up there saying that there was no resurrection and they believed that. Come, brothers, how the Church can be completely disoriented without that compass that is the word of God. Brothers, when the intention to read it, to listen to it, to practice it, to keep the word of God is removed.

Look, brothers, the spiritual senses are exercised, anything that happens anywhere one quickly filters them through the word of God but in fractions of a second it receives approval or that is not good, but quickly. And if you do not have the mental capacity for that, do not make any decision, wait to get home, open your Bible, call the pastor, a teacher or someone to guide you because if the kings called the prophets, call your pastor, call your teacher. I don't want to put any more work on you, brother, but... Oh, glory to God.

Or those who are close because the pastor must have a lot of work. Glory to God. I think the same thing happens to us, there are many people who approach me or my wife and say, oh, we didn't do that because you're always so busy. And me: no, no, wait a minute sister, we are always busy but we are always available. We are always available because that is why one is in this and one is not in this because one wanted to, it was because from up there they got one into this because nobody with normal judgment gets into this.

One is in this because God trusted and put one in this matter but, otherwise, one would be as the group is too. Glory to God. Well, I feel that the healing of that Church, lay in having the Holy Scriptures as the highest authority, as an infallible word, as the word of command and recognizing that God is through these people.

Brother, and entering the now conclusive part of this presentation I find, for example, in the case of Daniel and I bring Daniel here so that he can guide us a little concerning the situation that Daniel says twice in chapter two... He He is talking about an eschatological situation, which is also a bit confusing. He says, a lot of people move from one place to another, migrations for any reason, at the moment, right now I am speaking and there must be more than three million moving or displaced somewhere in the world that we are in a place that is not we are from there, that we arrived because someone did not bring or whatever but that we are not. He talks about the growth of science in an exorbitant way and so many things like happening very fast, happening like very fast so he says, look, the experts will understand, the experts will understand, the experts will understand what is happening and , who are the experts?

I do not find this here in the Church, I do not find that the Church is the one understood, the conscience of humanity. God has had confidence in us, brother, he has told us there is my word, there is the revelation understand it, understand it, go out and explain to people what is happening, do it based on the word of God not on any book of Pastor Pedro Julio, in what the Bible says.

You can read it the books too. But it has to be the biblical authority, the word of the Lord. He says, "the knowledgeable will understand, the knowledgeable." Who is the understood? He who previously informed from God of the things that are happening in the present and of the things that are going to happen in the not too distant future. Glory to God.

From there, from Daniel, chapter 12, we fall once again to the Apostle Peter's second letter, chapter three, where he says, brother, this is the second time that I have written to you and it is not a bother for me to write to you to awaken your clear understanding... his clear understanding; and it rains again when it pours to explain the things that are within God's eschatological agenda. This must happen in this way, therefore, let us return to chapter 14 of the Gospel of John and our hearts are not troubled, let us believe in God, let us also believe in the word of Christ Jesus who is the eternal logos, which is the word that is human and dwelt among us.

He clarified things for us so that now in a comfortable way, we only have to step where he stepped. Oh, glory to God, how nice it is to have the written word as a sure anchor! How well we do to follow that word like a burning torch in the midst of a world that is in darkness and we have to pay attention to that scripture until Christ appears. Glory to God. Then we will tell God Scripture, because Christ has arrived, the consummator of all things.

Church of Jesus Christ that is here present in León de Judá and those who are listening through the Internet, this is a golden time for the Church. This is one of the best moments of the Church of Jesus Christ, sleep is over for us. We now have to occupy the position to which God has called us, see yourself as a watchman in the city, see yourself as an instrument of God in the place where you are, we are not called to spread rumors. I think our language has been somewhat damaged in recent months and we have exchanged one reality for another. I'm not saying we hide a thing by saying that there isn't, but brother, God is still there, he hasn't changed. I don't know what happens to many people, God is there, brothers.

Jacob left him for 20 years and came back to find him in the same place where he was. He said: look, I am here, I have not moved from here. You made me a promise here in Bethel and here I am waiting for you. God does not change, the things of God seem absurd but when we believe them, that is clear. Elias move. Oh, glory to God, holy is the Lord. Move Elias. After being in a five-star hotel, my brother, God feeding him, brother, pure water and food twice a day. The stream dries up and Elijah goes outside. And where am I going? where a widow Where, in Sarepta de Sidon, out of the country. I already talked to her so that she supports you. Elías arrives, greets the lady and says. Doña, tell me what is in your house. The lady tells her: food for one day and two people. Oh, glory to God.

And Elias looks up. Did you send me here? Did you talk to this lady? Because there is food for one day and two people and there are three of us with me and I am not going to last a day here. Brother, God is in the same place, God has not moved. Oh glory to Jesus. Yes sir in the name of Jesus for good, God unleashes a blessing for his people and God tests our disposition, brothers. God sees if we are willing or not willing to serve and obey his blessed word. God begins to measure us from here from the inside, seeing our disposition. God is in the same place, our vocabulary cannot be altered, it must be maintained equally, brothers.

We have to recognize what is happening, we have already been informed. Glory to God. On another occasion I think that we can continue talking because time has run out and well and there are so many things to say about the words of the Lord that time is not enough, it is never enough because one talks and talks and this flows and flows like a honeycomb but of pure honey. Glory to God.

But we are going to use prudence and we are going to stop at this point, brothers, asking you to please bow your face and close your eyes. Oh, blessed be your name! Father how much we love you! How much we love you! How blessed are we the first beatitude of the book of Revelation, read your word, hear your word, keep your word Lord, pertinent to the entire Bible but well emphasized in the revelation of Revelation.

Thank you Lord for the privilege of being informed before things happen, not to appropriate this information, not to interpret it privately, to go out, to start at home, to talk to our relatives and tell them biblically what is happening. Thank you because we are the José of this time. Thank you, Lord, because we hope not to disappoint the trust that you have placed in us as a Church.

Oh God, remove from our hearts, remove from our minds concerns that do not come from you and affirm it in hope, trust, patience and faith. God grabbed that secure anchor, your written word. We thank you Lord. Look God if there is any heart touched, willing to be born again, my God entering that operating room with your Holy Spirit, God to produce that redemption. I bless that decision, Lord, I bless you for the Internet, I bless you here, my God. May your word cover us, may your word guide us God clearly. Oh, Lord, we thank you, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen and amen.