Pastor Juan Radhamés Fernández
Every year I make a pertinent clarification about this message, and it is that we are not fortune-tellers, nor are we among those who go around announcing things that are going to happen; rather, we are prophets. A prophet is not necessarily one who announces things and they come to pass, although the prophet does that; rather, a prophet is one who has a word from God for the people. In the year 2000, we received from the Lord that from the year two thousand onward, every year that followed was going to be a prophetic year, and so he has given us a prophetic message each year. We are prophesying by following what the Bible reveals about numbers, since God is in time and always uses time to mark his kairos, his appointed times. We use what the Bible reveals about numbers, depending on the year, and we draw the message from the Word itself.
Scripture is full of the manifold wisdom of God, and there are unknown dimensions, because the Bible is not only letters but Spirit. It is logos, because it is a word written so that God could communicate his thoughts to men in every language, but the Bible also has a spiritual dimension, which is the rhema. That is why, for thousands of years, the Word has been preached, and the more we draw from it, the more rhemas we find, those illuminated words of God, to give us the timely message. Last year (2023) God spoke to us beautifully and laid out guidelines for us, and I bless God because we have all taken the word seriously, perhaps more than in previous years, and I saw so many brothers and sisters making efforts to repair the cracks as the Lord instructed us. And so we have seen each year how the word is fulfilled. Some have sent me segments, little pieces of messages and videos, showing me things that God said in past years and how they have been fulfilled, incredibly. There was a year when the prophecy ended and what came out in the newspaper the next day was exactly what God had said; that is how God does it.
What God says here does not necessarily set all the guidelines, because perhaps the Lord shows other things to other prophets in other places and to other preachers, for who can say what is going to happen in three hundred sixty-five days? Impossible. I can touch on the context, depending on what God wants, on the way we are interpreting the numbers and applying them to the corresponding year, and I can say something that others have not said, but I am not going to say everything that others are going to say. In many churches, the last day of the year (December 31) is set apart for a special service, and the coming year is proclaimed as “the year of such and such,” according to how the Spirit has guided them. And we thank God for the prophetic gift, and I marvel, because to me there is very great evidence that God loves you as a spiritual house, and it is because of the word that springs up, that arises in our midst. For example, we are entering the year 2024, and from the previous years you have heard, you already know what twenty-four means using the numbers, but the message is more than what the numbers say; although we consult biblical numerology, our prophetic application is based on other things that the Scriptures say, and we thank God for the way he has guided us.
Before beginning to study the meaning of twenty-four, in order to apply it prophetically, I want to tell you that I said to the Lord: “Lord, tell me, what will this year be distinguished by?” And the Lord answered me, and then I went to the Bible and saw it, and I marvel at the consistency of what God says. The number twenty-four is possibly, of all the numbers we have studied and applied so far, the one with the most meanings, and I put it in the plural because there are many. There are numbers we have studied in the past, years that have been glorious in essence, in substance, in the breadth of their prophetic meanings, but this year, this number twenty-four, beloved, is a year of pregnancy, a year full of substance, a year of breadth, a year that there is no way to describe. First, let us look at the five combinations of the number twenty-four: 1) 6X4; 2) 3X8; 3) 14+10; 4) 12+12; 5) 20+4. No number we have studied until now has had five combinations, and five is the number of grace, and you will see that this is a year of grace. I have never seen a year with so much meaning; may God help us. Pay close attention, my beloved, because as we look at the combinations I am also going to be making the prophetic application.
The 24 in Different Combinations
- The first combination of twenty-four: 6X4. Six is the number of man (Genesis 1:27,31), but it also expresses or is associated with the sin of man and his opposition to God, man’s independence from God (Revelation 13:18). For its part, the number four is related to the created world; it is the number of things that have a beginning, and of things that are made, matter itself. In short, four is the number of material fullness, that is, of matter. For example, four is the number of the four material elements of this planet: earth, air, fire, and water. Another example: there are four imaginary points into which the regions of the earth are divided: north, south, east, and west, and that speaks to us of the fullness of the earth geographically. In Revelation, four angels are spoken of standing on the four corners of the earth (Revelation 7:1). Likewise, there are four divisions of the day: morning, midday, evening, and night. Jesus referred to these when he spoke of the second coming and said: “Watch therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning” (Mark 13:35), four times. There are four variations in the phases of the moon: new moon, first quarter, full moon, and last quarter.
Prophetically, the number four is rich in meaning, because all its combinations are loaded with typological and prophetic content; it is a pregnant number (that is what I call it). There is a relationship between six and four with regard to man, since both numbers have to do with man and with matter. Twenty-four is doubly government, and when it is double, the number becomes more intense and consequently so does its meaning, because it amplifies it. Therefore, I can interpret prophetically that the year twenty-four will be one of intense activity in the realm of men, where the opposition of human government to the purpose of the Kingdom of God will be fully and visibly manifested. I see Satan furious, very angry, like one who knows he has little time left; I see him pressing his infernal army to hurry along their evil work against God, his Kingdom, and his purpose; I see him desperate, anguished, pressing the demons in twenty-four. I can hear the cry of the apostle John and I can interpret his lament when he said: “Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time” (Revelation 12:12).
The archenemy, that is, Satan, will do it in such an open, shameless, and desperate way that he will not hide his great anguish and his unbearable fear. Believers and unbelievers alike will be astonished to see the height of the extreme conduct of the demons in 2024. I see many putting their hand over their mouth, showing their astonishment at what their eyes see and their ears hear, as if saying: “Aaah, this is the limit, this is extreme!” The devil has dared to do terrible things for millennia, but he is going to surprise us this year. God showed me that the devil is going to blaspheme God in many ways, and you will see it this year as never before; it will be a time of anguish and pain in many parts of the earth. The principalities of the kingdoms of the nations will oppose the angels of the Lord, as the princes of Persia and Greece did in the time of Daniel (Daniel 10:20); the principalities of the nations will conspire against the Kingdom of God. There will be a titanic and visible war in the spiritual realm (open your eyes, because you are going to see it), and conflicts between nations will increase, and the violence in some places will be extreme, because Satan will release demons that were being held back for this hour, to do harm to the sons of men.
The persecutions of Christians in many nations will increase considerably. In some countries, laws will be enacted against the values and principles of the Christian faith; this is happening, but it will increase this year, because the devil has used man, as he has always used him against God, this year. The devil will bring to public light in this coming year the sins of some church leaders, producing scandals to damage the faith of many. This has happened, but it will increase and be very noticeable this year. In many churches there will be apostasies and divisions, and that will be made public. The war will be frontal and ruthless; I see great racial, social, and political confrontations in the world and in the United States. Demons will possess the sons of men and lead them into violent protests and irrational crimes; hatred will become very evident and visible.
I see that we will have to pray as never before for the United States; this Nation will be shaken and tossed to its very foundations. I see that the spirit of confusion will be unleashed in this nation as never before. I saw “Babylon” in the political sense in this nation; the ideological and political struggle will divide the nation even more (more than it is already divided), and it will be difficult to control many people and to preserve order in this nation (and in other nations, but right now I am speaking of the United States). Some politicians will be put to shame and unmasked, as will many church ministers, because the devil, as the Bible says, has been loosed to do harm to the nations. Later I will speak about the Government of God, but that is what twenty-four indicates to me in this combination of six times four.
- Twenty-four is the sum of 10+14. Ten is associated with the perfection of God’s order, or Divine order; it implies that nothing is lacking and nothing is left over; it is the number of what is complete, and so it speaks to us of completeness and totality. For example, the Ten Commandments contain everything that God morally demands of man, and no more than what is necessary. The tithes represent the totality of what God demands of men in the economic realm, that is, in stewardship. Do you remember the ten plagues? They speak of the totality of God’s judgment against Egypt. In fact, Exodus 9:14 says: “For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth” (Exodus 9:14). The ten virgins represent the totality of the Hebrew nation; among other examples, ten speaks of what is complete.
The number fourteen, for its part (we saw it in the 2014 message), is a multiple of seven, and represents what is perfect, but when we studied it on that occasion, I did not concentrate so much on that aspect of the meaning of the sum of seven plus seven, but on other texts of the Bible, and we saw, for example, something very important: we spoke about how Solomon, when he dedicated the temple, was going to celebrate for seven days and extended it to fourteen (1 Kings 8:65). Now this was to give more solemnity and perfection to the feast, but what helped us most to interpret at that time, because I can show many examples, was what Matthew 1:14 says: “So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations”, and it divides into generations times of great importance from Abraham until David. With David everything changes, and from David until Judah was carried into captivity is a very important time, and from there until Jesus came. Applying what we said about fourteen in 2014, it is the year that speaks of the demarcation of time; God marks the times with the number fourteen. From Abraham to David, from David to Babylon, from Babylon to Christ; and possibly the coming of Christ will have to do with fourteen, because if God has divided it this way, fourteen by fourteen, then possibly from Christ until his coming it has to do with that many generations related to a multiple of fourteen. Therefore, ten speaks of what is complete, and fourteen speaks of a demarcation of God’s times.
Now let us apply these thoughts prophetically to the number twenty-four. What does that mean? If the number ten speaks of totality, of what is complete, and the number fourteen speaks of the demarcation of time, then this year 2024 is going to be a year of demarcation. While I was studying, God showed me a clock (several times), and a little while ago I was there, meditating while we were singing, and the image of the clock came to me again, and he said to me: “Apply the demarcation of time, twenty-four on the clock, twice twelve. Jesus said: “Are there not twelve hours in the day?” (John 11:9), and if the day has twelve hours, the night also has twelve hours; in the same way, men more or less divide time from twelve at night to six in the morning, from six in the morning to noon, and from noon again, twelve hours and twelve hours. Twenty-four is a demarcation of time and it is represented on the clock. So the only difference between twenty-four and 2014 is that now it is related again to ten, and that makes the meaning more intense.
So I can conclude that there have been many years that have marked off time, as happened in fourteen, but twenty-four is going to be a doubled demarcation. This is a year that is going to mark many things on God’s prophetic clock, so many things that God is going to reveal in the course of the days of the year, but everyone who keeps watching the prophetic clock is going to see many things this year. This year is going to mark off, just as it happened from Abraham to David, from David to the captivity, from the captivity to Christ, as fourteen marks off. But now, combined with ten, which speaks of what is complete, of totality, this has an incredible prophetic connotation that I cannot put into words; God only said to me, look, the clock has twenty-four hours, and that is what twenty-four is in relation to marking time. The clock is what man uses to mark the days, and the days mark the weeks, the months, and so on and so forth; in fact, you know that a year has twelve months and a day has twenty-four hours, and a tremendous relationship with time.
- The number twenty-four is the multiplication of 8X3. The number eight is associated with a restart, resurrection, regeneration, a new beginning, or the start of an era, of an order. The word eight in Hebrew (shemoneh) speaks to us of what is thick, what is fat, what is abundant, what is substantial or succulent; it means to make thick, what is super abundant. Eight signifies one who abounds in strength; it also means fertility. Three, on the other hand, is the number that denotes divine perfection; it denotes that which is solid, real, substantial, complete, and whole. All things that are complete are marked with the number three: the attributes of God, who is Omnipresent, Omniscient, Omnipotent; three also represents the dimensions of time: present, past, and future.
Applying this in the prophetic sense, by combining the meanings of both numbers (8X3), we can see that 2024 will be a year of super abundance and solidity; it will be distinguished by what is substantial and by what is whole. It will be a year of the fat cows; we will administer abundance like Joseph; we will reap a hundredfold. Many things that were sown in previous years and for which we did not see results, we will harvest in 2024. It will be a very fruitful year, and the fruits will be not only super abundant but solid; there will be quantity, but also quality. Eight speaks to us of quantity, of super abundance, and three speaks to us of what is solid, of quality, because it speaks of divine perfection. 2024 will be a harvest characterized not only by the quantity that eight represents, but by the quality and solidity that the number three represents. God brings a word of consolation to those who sowed with tears in the previous years; the Lord guarantees them that in 2024 they will reap with joy.
This year is a year that marks God’s clock, in government and perfection. I see, prophetically, feasts in the winepresses of the house of God. Do you know what the winepresses were in biblical times? They were vessels where some fruits were pressed to extract their nectar, like olives and grapes. And I see feasts in the winepresses of the house of God, because the vine will yield its fruit with exuberance; we will enjoy God’s new wine and taste with supreme joy the new wine. There will be joy in the house of God, because there will be drink offerings. The libation is the liquid (water, oil, or wine) that was poured out over an offering; therefore, there will be drink offerings in abundance, because both wine and oil will abound in God’s fields. Wine speaks to us of the covenant, and the psalmist says that wine makes glad the heart of man (Psalms 104:15), true, but God emphasized to me, while I was writing, that this is going to be a year when the anointing will overflow, so the prosperity will be not only economic but also in the spiritual area.
People of God, the Lord says: “I will restore to you the years that the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm have eaten, my great army which I sent among you.” In other words, to those who, as it is written in Joel 2:25, for some reason, in the discipline and dealings of God, suffered “plagues,” scarcity, difficult and complicated situations, where there were losses, the Lord says to them: “I am going to restore every loss, and now you are going to gain. Everything those ‘plagues’ ate and destroyed in the fields, I am going to restore. As Joel says, I punished my people, but now I come with blessing for my people.” There will be joy in the house of God, because there will be a drink offering; God is going to restore. There will be great reward for those who believed God in 2023 and made an effort to repair the cracks. They have removed the obstacles and have prepared the way for the Lord so that he can manifest himself in their lives, in their homes, and in their ministries; that is why glory and power will be manifested in them.
God brings me the comforting voices of Isaiah 40: “Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it” (Isaiah 40:4-5). Those brothers and sisters who took it seriously and began working to repair the cracks in their homes and relationships do not know that they were preparing the way for what is coming in 2024. Repairing the cracks was our priesthood (we will speak about that further on), and we are bringing down what is elevated; what is very haughty we bring down, what is very downcast we raise up instead, what is crooked we make straight, what is dirty we clean so that the glory of God may pass. All of them, by their obedience and effort, have made it possible for God not only to bless them but to fulfill his purpose in their lives. Blessed are those who worked to repair the cracks; this year they are going to see the glory and power of God in their lives, as if God were saying: I am the Lord.
The Father, who rewards those who love him, believe him, and obey him, will reward with the best of heaven in 2024 those who have heard his word and obeyed it with reverent fear. The Lord gave an instruction in 2023 and its meaning about a time limit. And when the Lord spoke to us about the limits, it was not to threaten us, but because God knew what was coming in ’24, and that is why he said: “Hurry, work, you have until the year ends to do what you must do, because you cannot go around with cracks, with weakness for what is coming, because what we are going to administer is the pure and exuberant glory of God.”
In the other meaning regarding the combination of eight and three, we can say that the number eight is associated with a restart, resurrection, regeneration, and the beginning of something. But the number three also means resurrection. Jesus rose on the third day, that is, three days into the week, which is the eighth day. Why? Because Sunday is the day that follows the seventh; the seventh day is the Sabbath, and Sunday is the first day of the week, which comes to be eight; so both eight and three represent resurrection. Look at what it says in Hosea: “After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight” (Hosea 6:2). Do you think it is a coincidence that eight, which is a restart and resurrection, joins with three, which is also resurrection? This is resurrection squared. Applying it prophetically, 2024 will also be a year of resurrection, regeneration, and restart. The Lord will impart life to his people; the discouraged, the faint, and the dying will receive the breath of life of the Holy Spirit of God; the power that worked in Christ (Colossians 2:12), raising him from the dead, will be manifested to quicken and activate the sluggish energies of the people of God. Everything that is fainting, discouragement, dejection, double-mindedness (which means spiritual weakness or spiritual death), all of that will be overcome if we believe God.
Many who slept spiritually for years will rise and awaken with courage, life, and power, in such a way that we will not recognize them. Those who for years needed to be encouraged will now minister encouragement to others. This year is pregnant with the word; it is a pregnancy from God; from every angle from which we analyze twenty-four, there is fullness of everything in God. The Lord will lift the heads of many who went around with their heads down because of their shame and failure, and just as the psalmist said: “But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head” (Psalms 3:3), the Lord is going to lift up the heads of many. You will no longer go around looking at the floor, hiding, but you will walk upright, resurrected, because resurrection means a life of being raised up; so announces the Spirit of the Lord. 2024 will be a year of energy, victory, and lifting up for all those who believe the word of God and make themselves ready for his mighty work, because this has to be believed; this will not be fulfilled if you do not believe it, as the Lord Jesus Christ said: “Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?” (John 11:40).
God is speaking here of his plans, of what he wants to do; as happened in the book of the Acts of the Apostles, when they asked: “Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?” (Acts 1:6), and the Lord answered them: “It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power. But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth” (Acts 1:7-8). If you analyze the book of Acts, we will see that the Spirit was telling them: “This is the way: first Jerusalem, then you will go on to Samaria (there he sent Philip), and then to all Judea (there he sent Peter to Dorcas (Acts 9:36-42), to Aeneas (vv. 32-35), and finally to the house of Cornelius, a Gentile (Acts 10); which the apostle Paul later completed with all his journeys, to the uttermost part of the earth (Acts 13). In other words: “These are my plans, follow me; if you follow me we will arrive in Rome, which at that time was the end for them,” and there the book of Acts ends with Paul in Rome (Acts 28:16, 30-31). And God is now saying to us: “This is what I want to do in the coming year; are you following me? Do you believe me? Are you going to walk with me, or are you going to be unbelieving? I am telling you what the route is; walk with me and you will see my glory.”
2024 will be a year of restoration for many who had strayed from the path, but who this year will return to the Lord’s fold. The prodigals will come home, not only to this house; I am prophesying to the churches of Christ in the nations. The fallen will rise, the sad will be comforted, those who have drawn away will draw near, and those whose fire has gone out will be kindled with the powerful fire of the Holy Spirit. There will be consolation, they will draw near, they will be kindled. The God of restoration will give another opportunity to all who have failed, and they will have a fresh start in their lives; the restoration will be such that they will forget the defeats and their past condition and will live as victorious and unconquered Christians.
The word eight is the Hebrew word shemoneh which means “one who abounds in strength,” and as a noun it means fertility. This meaning, combined with the meaning of 3, which is the solidity of what is whole, the fruitful, the fertile, together with the complete, God revealed to me that he will give strength and power to those who, because of some weakness, have not been able to be fruitful. It is good for us this year. Some women who have not had the strength to give birth, this year God announces that they will receive strength to conceive, to carry the pregnancy, and to be fruitful. The Sarahs, the Rebekahs, the Rachels, the Hannahs, and the Elizabeths will give birth; and this applies to the churches that have not been fruitful. In the year 2024 God puts an end to infertility in many men and women in the physical, material, and spiritual sense (he that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches).
- Now we come to the number 24, which is 12+12. Twelve is one of the perfect numbers; its meaning is government, or the perfection of government, for example, the twelve tribes of Israel, the twelve apostles; Jesus said: “Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?” (Matthew 26:53). The whole Bible tells us that twelve represents government, and since twenty-four is twelve plus twelve, it means that the meaning is expressed in a more elevated way, and it makes the number twelve doubly intensive and concentrated; government squared. When I applied prophetically the meaning of twenty-four in the combination six times four, I spoke of the increase in the activities of the government of men and of Satan against the Kingdom of God; now I am going to speak of the Government of God, and this is what God announces:
The Lord, in his sovereign authority, will allow the devil, as prince of this human and sinful world, to move with a certain freedom so that his iniquity may be manifested and his wickedness revealed, but simultaneously this will allow the Lord to fulfill what was prophesied in his Word about the final days, and it will also grant him (that is, the Lord) the opportunity to carry out the plans of his Kingdom and his will. I am going to tell you something that I have said on other occasions but that not many have heard: the devil is a servant of God, except that he does not want God to use him, but God uses him, and that is why I call him an involuntary servant in the hands of God, because he does not want to serve God, and he does not know that God uses everything he does in order to be glorified afterward. As you saw in the book of Job, he finished off Job, he did everything, but in the end God came and finished off the devil; he revealed the heart of Job and of Job’s friends, and the one who triumphed was God. God was hidden while everyone talked and argued, but in the end God appeared and put things in his own order. That is how it will go with the devil: God lets him act, because it is said that God has the devil for a day, and when he wants to discipline, he uses him. When the Lord announced all the things of the last days, they were the works of man and of Satan, and since evil was going to multiply in all its forms, he is announcing the works of Satan, but God takes advantage of it to accomplish his purpose.
The work of Satan is God’s opportunity to manifest his wisdom, his power, and Salvation. While he gives the devil the opportunity to manifest his wickedness and iniquity so that who he is and the consequences of his deeds may be revealed, simultaneously God uses the devil, and it is an opportunity to manifest everything that is his Kingdom (wisdom, power, salvation, holiness, goodness, love, etc.). Since 2024 means doubly government, so will be the operation and intervention of God with supreme authority in human affairs. In other words, if God acted in a certain way in previous years, this time God is going to multiply his supreme, sovereign activity in this world in the coming year. The Almighty and Sovereign God will not only work in 2024 to combat and neutralize satanic works and activities, but will work to fulfill what he had determined beforehand to do in these three hundred sixty-five days of this year. God cannot be overcome by evil, so this year it will be evident that his authority is sovereign and supreme, and that the designs of his will shall be carried out with effectiveness and perfection, without hindrance, because no one can obstruct the straight paths of the Lord.
The year 2024 is a year in which the dominion and power of the God of the Gospel will prevail. Every child of God and every minister of his who submits this year to the dominion of the Government of God will receive a powerful anointing of authority. He who lives for God and submits to God has authority. I saw in my spirit, while I was writing, an impartation of an anointing of authority and power on the ministers who submit to the rule of the Holy Spirit. (I told you that God has shown me at different times: anointing, anointing, anointing in this coming year). The word will be preached with anointing, not only with revelation, but there will be anointing. There will be so much anointing that many will be cut to the heart, and will say as those who said to Peter and the other apostles: “Men and brethren, what shall we do?” (Acts 2:37). Or like that jailer who fell at the feet of Paul and Silas and, trembling, said to them: “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” (Acts 16:30). Others will say as the disciples on the road to Emmaus said to one another: “Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?” (Luke 24:32). When we speak the word, people’s hearts will burn, and they will be cut to the heart and will say: “Brothers, what must we do to be saved?” What the church has lacked for years, through neglect and spiritual decline, may be made up this year if we submit to God and follow God in his ways and in his purposes.
The word will be preached with an anointing of authority, souls will be converted, constrained by the power of the Gospel, and the demons will not only be cast out but will obey us as they did in the ministry of Jesus Christ; the demons will run. Faith will prevail over doubt, love will take dominion over hatred and resentment; weakness will be subdued by the strength of the Power of Christ; the divine will prevail and overcome the unfruitful works of darkness; the kingdom of Satan will totter, hell will be shaken by the anointed authority of the servants who live the life of the Kingdom. This is what the Spirit announces to the church. Light will dispel the darkness, death will be driven away to yield its place to life, sickness will be replaced by health. Do you believe it? You will see the glory of God. The weak will be strong, the fallen will rise, and the church will again live the victory of Christ. That is the Father’s intention for us in 2024 if we believe it and follow him.
The Lord communicates to his beloved church his desires and his plans for 2024; everyone who believes this word will see it fulfilled in his life. The Lord Jesus Christ rises from his throne and says again to the church: “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; […] Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Matthew 28:18-19; Mark 16:15). If we receive this word with faith, and treasure it in our hearts and live it in the spirit, the words of the apostle John in Revelation will be fulfilled in our lives in this year 2024, when he said: “And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever” (Revelation 11:15). Anointing, anointing, anointing, power, an anointing of authority upon the church; awake, thou that sleepest, awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light! This is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith. A time of glory, a time of the presence of the Lord. That is what the Spirit of God announces. The fire of Pentecost, the tongues of fire will fall upon our heads and we will return to zeal, to passion; nothing will take the place of God, nothing will compete with the love of God in our lives.
- The number 24 is the sum of 20+4. Twenty is double ten; ten is the number of the perfection of divine order; it implies what is complete, where nothing is lacking and nothing is excessive; it speaks to us of totality (e.g., the Ten Commandments, the tithes, the ten plagues, the ten virgins, etc.). So the number twenty is double ten, which makes it more intense, makes it more concentrated, and the meaning is increased twofold. This means that the divine order, the complete, the total, is doubled in its meaning, connotation, and significance. That is the number twenty. But when in 2020 (pay attention) we studied the meaning of the number twenty, we saw that the Bible uses it to reveal a time of deliverance, that is, where God’s disciplinary process to set us free is completed. I gave the example of how Jacob waited twenty years to obtain possession of his wives and his property in the house of his father-in-law Laban; do you remember? Laban afflicted him; he worked fourteen years for the two women, and the rest to complete twenty years for his flock, and Jacob said to him: “Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times” (Genesis 31:41). It lasted twenty years, but in those twenty years God was processing him, and at the end of the twenty years God completed the discipline with him. For twenty years Israel waited for a deliverer to put an end to the oppression of Jabin (Judges 4:3, 22). For twenty years Israel waited for its deliverance through Samson (Judges 16:1,30). For twenty years the Ark of the Covenant waited in Kiriath-jearim before David brought it to its resting place (1 Samuel 7:2). For twenty years Solomon waited to build the two houses, the house of God and his own (1 Kings 9:10). In the twentieth year of Artaxerxes, Nehemiah rose up to rebuild the walls (Nehemiah 5:14). I am citing all these examples that we already saw in the year 2020 only to say that in twenty years God completed the process; he finished it.
We have already said that four is the number of the creation of man in his relationship with the world as created; it is the number of the things that have a beginning, and of those that are made, and of material things, and of matter itself; it represents material fullness. Pay attention to this parenthesis (the Spirit reveals that the Lord has not concluded the work he began in 2020, but that this work or process will extend from ’20 to ’29; I am repeating this, I said it in ’20, ’21, ’22, and I said it last year speaking of twenty; in other words, we applied the story of Jacob, of Jabin, the Ark, etc., which ended. But what I see prophetically is that in ’20 God finished something, in ’21 he finished something else, in ’22 he finished something else, in ’23 he finished and removed the cracks, in ’24 he is going to do everything he is saying, in ’25 he will do what he determines, and so on, and when it comes to ’29, before reaching ’30, God will have completed all the things he has set out to do in your life and in mine). I am repeating this and I am going to repeat it next year so that you understand me; this application of twenty did not end in ’20; it continues until ’29 because it is something God is completing, it is a process; he completes one thing first and moves on to the next, and he will keep completing until he reaches total culmination, which is why we will go from glory to glory and from strength to strength until he brings us to fullness. Hallelujah!!
Twenty represents the doubly complete, but it is also the number of deliverance. Ten represents a decade, so in the twenties God keeps completing, and for ten years he is going to complete. When thirty comes, three times ten, God will continue completing and perfecting. This is the decade of completion and of totality, from ’20 to ’29. According to the meaning of the number twenty, in the ten years of this decade (from ’20 to ’29) the Lord will be completing both in the different areas of our lives (personal, family) and in the ministerial, but above all in our priesthood. At this point it is necessary to explain what priesthood means, because we have limited priesthood to worship, and we are mistaken. Worship, singing, is only one aspect of all that priesthood involves. The priesthood —I will describe it further on— governs everything that has to do with attending to God, the relationship with God, etc., so priesthood is the song, prayer, obedience, service, relationship with the brothers and sisters, sanctification, everything that governs pleasing God.
This is the decade of perfecting and consummation. In 2024 (now comes the application to this year) he has set out to complete his work in certain areas, above all in our priesthood. You will see that this is not an arbitrary application of mine, but that the Bible says so. The number twenty means what is doubly finished or concluded; we gave different examples, but in addition the number four is the number of fullness. The word fullness means the quality of being full; it implies totality, wholeness, the peak, the culminating point. So 2024 will be a year of supreme totality, not totality but supreme totality, of fullness of totality, of fullness of culmination, of peak and of achievements. Notice the meaning of this number, beloved; from whatever angle we look at it, it represents what is grand; we are in God’s times; so 2024 will be a year of supreme totality, of fullness of totality, of fullness of culmination, of fullness of peak, and of fullness of accomplished achievements. Those who believe this prophetic word and receive it as God’s word and promise, upon seeing it fulfilled in certain areas of their lives, will feel so fulfilled in God that they will cry out triumphantly like the psalmist David: “… thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over” (Psalms 23:5), because that is what fullness means. Twenty means the complete, the full, and four means fullness, the same. So this year my cup is going to be running over. How is my cup going to be? Running over. Why? Because goodness and mercy shall follow me this year (Psalms 23:6). How will our cup be in 2024? Running over. My cup this year will be running over; do you know why? Because Jesus is the one who fills all in all. Jesus is the fullness of him that filleth all in all (Colossians 2:10). How are we in Christ? In Christ we are the 10, in Christ we are the 20, and in Christ we are the 24. Why? Because in him we are complete, we lack nothing; he is the one who fills us and makes us overflow.
[I do not know whether you still have an appetite, because remember that the number twenty-four speaks of what is substantial, of what is juicy, so try to digest all this]. I said that the area where the Lord will work most to complete his work and his purpose in us is in our priesthood. The priesthood includes everything that our service to God encompasses: worship, koinonia, diakonia, stewardship, teaching, proclamation of the Gospel, the government of God, self-control, everything that holiness demands, loving God with all our heart, with all our mind, with all our soul. It includes our whole relationship with God, how we please him, and everything we do to please him. Priesthood is my whole relationship with God.
The number four is closely related to our priesthood. It says in the book of Exodus: “And they shall make an ark of acacia wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. […] And thou shalt cast for it four rings of gold, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it” (Exodus 25:10,12). The ark was where the glory of God was manifested, and there is the four in the rings of the ark. “Thou shalt also make a table of acacia wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. […] And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof” (vv. 23,26). There is the four in the table of the bread. “… and in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers” (v. 34); there is the four in the lampstand. “The length of one curtain shall be twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains shall be all of one measure. […] The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits; the eleven curtains shall be all of one size” (Exodus 26:2,8). The four was also in the veils: “… and thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of acacia wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver” (v. 32). Also in the bronze altar: “And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass. […] And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof” (Exodus 27:2, 4). I am speaking of how the four is also related to priesthood; we already saw it in the veil, look at it also in the court when it was finished: “And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver” (Exodus 38:19). Likewise in the breastplate of the high priest: “And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row…” (Exodus 39:10), and so on, the four prevails.
What the Bible Reveals About the 24
Now we come to where God is going to define the most important thing about this year. We have already spoken about the combinations, about the numbers that are multiples of twenty-four; now we are going to see what the Bible reveals regarding the number twenty-four, not regarding numerical combinations, but the revelation that surrounds the Word every time it mentions the number twenty-four. Of all the texts of the Bible that I read that speak of twenty-four and of twenty-four thousand, which has to do with twenty-four, all of them, all of them with the exception of one speak of priesthood, and that one can also be concluded to have to do with government. We will see that the number twenty-four is related to priesthood and government in the Bible. For example, in 1 Chronicles it says: “And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and thus were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers” (1 Chronicles 24:4). How much is 16 + 8? Twenty-four. That means that two generations of the sons of Aaron remained, Eleazar and Ithamar, since the other two (Nadab and Abihu) died when they offered strange fire on the altar (Leviticus 10:1-2). Thus, the courses of the priests in the times of David and Solomon were divided into twenty-four courses, sixteen of Eleazar and eight of Ithamar.
Another example is in the book of Numbers, where a whole chapter speaks of the offerings that the princes of Israel, one from each tribe, brought to God at the dedication of the altar: “This was the dedication of the altar, in the day when it was anointed, by the princes of Israel: twelve chargers of silver, twelve silver bowls, twelve spoons of gold: each charger of silver weighing a hundred and thirty shekels, and each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary. The twelve spoons of gold, full of incense, weighing ten shekels apiece, after the shekel of the sanctuary: all the gold of the spoons was a hundred and twenty shekels. All the oxen for the burnt offering were twelve bullocks, the rams twelve, the lambs of the first year twelve, with their meat offering: and the kids of the goats for sin offering twelve. And all the oxen for the sacrifice of the peace offerings were twenty and four bullocks, the rams sixty, the he goats sixty, the lambs of the first year sixty. This was the dedication of the altar, after that it was anointed” (Numbers 7:84-88). Notice how twelve and 24 prevail, and even sixty, for if you add the sixty rams, with sixty he goats and the sixty lambs of the first year, they make a total of 180, which is 12×15. In conclusion, here we are told of the dedication of the altar, the offerings of the twelve princes who represent the government of Israel, the priesthood of those who governed, and there the two rods come together, “The Rod of the Priesthood and the Rod of Government,” because they are the princes giving their offering to God as priests.
Another text, 1 Kings 15:33: “In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years”, there it says that Baasha reigned twenty-four years, which speaks to us of government. In Nehemiah 9:1: “Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them”, that is, they humbled themselves before God from the 24th day, but the whole chapter speaks of the people’s humbling before the Lord, which highlights the relationship of twenty-four and twelve with government and priesthood. We also see in the book of Daniel, which says: “And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel” (Daniel 10:4). That was the day on which Daniel had the vision, and on which the angel of the Lord appeared to him to strengthen him (v. 12). That is, from the day Daniel began to pray (because he was fasting and praying), while he was ministering to the Lord in his priesthood, there was a battle in heaven in which God’s angels, Michael and Gabriel, were fighting against the opposition of the prince of Persia and the prince of Greece (v. 13). It means that there was government there, the battle of the government of heaven with the government of the kingdom of Satan; but Daniel was in his priesthood, praying and fasting before the Lord, on the twenty-fourth day.
Now let us look at the book of Haggai, which says: “And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, in the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king” (Haggai 1:14-15), when the Lord sent the prophet to encourage the priests to continue rebuilding the temple; and he did it on the twenty-fourth. It also says further on, speaking to the priests about the offerings and questioning them about the law: “In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No” (Haggai 2:10-12), and so on he went on confronting them, because they were bringing something unclean to the house of the Lord, and for that reason the Lord did not bless their barns and they were ruined. But now the Lord says: “Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider it. Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you” (Haggai 2:18-19). In other words, you have sown and have not reaped, everything has been reduced, your priesthood has been wrong, but count from this twenty-fourth day onward, from when you laid the foundation of the temple and began to do my work, what is going to happen.
Then the prophet addresses Zerubbabel: “And again the word of the Lord came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying, Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth; and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother” (Haggai 2:20-22). Who was Zerubbabel? The governor of Judah. That is, God had already spoken to the priests on the twenty-fourth day; now that same day he spoke to the government, to Zerubbabel. God speaks to the priests and speaks to his government on the twenty-fourth, and the people responded to the prophetic call on that day. And applying this word prophetically, I say: in the year 2024 the Lord will stir up the spirit of the leaders, or government, of the church, as he stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel; also the spirit of the priests, that is, the worshipers, he will join the two rods (the rod of the priesthood and the rod of government), and we will live a time of glory, the fulfillment of the purpose with the pleasing offering of the priests of the Lord. The Lord, well pleased, will raise up his power and effectiveness with the rod of his government; there will be direction and results in the ministries of the church and of the Lord.
This year God is going to join the two rods: the rod of government and the rod of the priesthood. With the rod of the priesthood, God is pleased, and a pleased God sends the anointing of authority, as we have already prophesied. If there is no priesthood, there is no authority. When God is pleased with the priesthood, with our way of living, that is when God sends his authority, his blessing, and eternal life. We will not walk limping or stumbling like Israel in the wilderness, which wandered in its own ways, but our feet will be firm upon the rock and we will walk on straight paths and on right roads. What does God say to Zerubbabel after that day? That through Zerubbabel, his government, he will shake the heavens and the earth, overthrow the thrones of kingdoms, destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, overthrow the chariots and those who ride in them, and the horses with their riders will come down, as he prophesied. And do you know how that chapter of Haggai ends? “In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the Lord, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord of hosts” (Haggai 2:23). Hear this, elders, pastors, leaders! In Zerubbabel God is speaking to us, to him on the twenty-fourth day and to us in the year 2024, and he says that from now on there will be no scant harvest and our enemies will not govern us; something is going to happen on the twenty-fourth day, in the year twenty-four. This year God is going to honor his government by giving it honor, power, and authority. As the Lord showed the prophet Zechariah that, for the enemies who had harassed Jerusalem, God raised up four carpenters who represented four horns that came to cast down the power of the nations that had risen up against his people (Zechariah 1:7-21).
Likewise, we see the 24, government, in the New Testament: “And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold” (Revelation 4:4). Note: twenty-four thrones, government. The twenty-four elders fulfill what God promises in Revelation 1:6, where it says that God made us kings and priests unto God his Father. They were kings and priests, and notice their garments: they were clothed in white (ephod), representing purity. And these twenty-four elders with crowns and thrones reigned (government). Let us continue reading: “And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind” (Revelation 4:5-6). How many living creatures? Four, a symbolic number that we have already seen in the furnishings of the tabernacle, in the ark, in the table, also in the breastplate of the priests, etc. (read Ezekiel 1 and 10, where it speaks of the four living creatures).
Let us continue: “And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, the four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne…” (Revelation 4:8-10). Further on we also see: “And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints; […] And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever” (Revelation 5:8,14). The twenty-four is represented by elders who in turn represent government and priesthood, for we see that they had thrones and crowns, but at the same time they fell down worshiping the Lord, because they were also priests. In twenty-four, government and priesthood are united; with the rod of the priesthood God is pleased, and with the rod of government God responds to do mightily what he has set out to do. And I see here that all who govern cast down their crowns and worship the Lord. Authority is not for me to boast, to exalt myself, to stand out; rather, everything God gives me, every crown of glory, I rise from the throne of government, I take off the crown of my government and cast it at the feet of the King of kings and Lord of lords. Like substance and form, you cannot separate government from priesthood.
The number twenty-four thousand, like twenty-four, is always related to priesthood and government. For example, in the rebellion of Baal-peor, where there was a plague among the people of God because they had left the women of Moab alive, who, by the counsel of Balaam, led the people to trespass against the Lord (Numbers 25:9; 31:16), there God killed twenty-four thousand of the people. In 1 Chronicles 23:1-4 we read: “So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel. And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites. Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand. Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house of the Lord; and six thousand were officers and judges”. Notice how David calls the princes and the priests to unite to lead the new time. Further on it says: “Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand” (1 Chronicles 27:1). David divided his kingdom into twelve divisions of twenty-four thousand, with twelve chiefs who came in and went out once a month, resulting in twelve leaders for twelve months; and there were twenty-four thousand in each group, twelve groups, in all one hundred forty-four thousand (that is very powerful). It means that both the priests and the princes of Israel were divided into twenty-four. A coincidence? I do not think so: government and priesthood.
Every time in Israel there was priesthood, there was government, and when the two rods came together, there was prosperity and blessing among the people. God gave Moses the rod that performed so many miracles (Exodus 7:15), the rod of government, and to Aaron the rod that budded, the rod of the priesthood (Numbers 17:23), and he united the rods in those two brothers. In the time of Joshua, while Joshua lived, Joshua was government and Eleazar, who lived at that time, was the priest, and between the two of them they conquered Canaan, the two rods together (Joshua 14:1). Time passed, and a generation arose that did not know the Lord, which was the time of the judges (Judges 2:10). The judges did not seek God, the government was scattered, and there was no priesthood either, and as a result there were three hundred years of ruin because the rods were not together. In the time of Samuel, Samuel was a judge (government) and was also a priest and prophet, so he had both rods (1 Samuel 3:20). Saul, for his part, as king of Israel was a failure, for despite being a tremendous leader, he had no priesthood and did not obey God. Although Samuel wanted to help him as a priest, he would not let him and did not obey (1 Samuel 15:28). Then David came, and with him everything changed. Although David did not have the title of priest, he had affection for the house of God; he changed worship in Israel, and God used him for many arrangements, the Bible says. David had a tremendous relationship with Nathan, who was a prophet (1 Chronicles 17:2), and also with Samuel. Even when they were persecuting him, he would go to the priest to inquire of the Lord before making any decision (1 Samuel 16:13). David’s time was a time of glory, because he, as government, got along well with Zadok the high priest, and also with Nathan the prophet; there was glory in Israel (1 Kings 1:32).
Afterward Solomon was chosen king to succeed his father David. Solomon continued the relationship his father had with Zadok, and at first it went very well for him (1 Chronicles 29:22), but afterward he prostituted himself when he turned away from God and there was no longer priesthood, and as a consequence his government failed (1 Kings 11:6). When Solomon dies, Israel is divided into two kingdoms, the northern kingdom (Israel) and the southern kingdom (Judah) (1 Kings 11:31). The northern kingdom, or Israel, was given to Jeroboam, and he immediately made two altars, for fear of losing the throne, thus prostituting the priesthood and separating the people from God (1 Kings 12:26-30). For 209 years none of the kings of the northern kingdom served the Lord. That means that the rod of government was divorced from the rod of the priesthood, and although God sent Elijah, Elisha, and many other prophets, they never listened to God, until the Lord sent them to the nations and scattered them. The southern kingdom, or Judah, for its part (the sons of David), had some kings who were faithful, but not all did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, like David their father (1 Kings 15:3; 2 Kings 14:3; 16:2; 2 Chronicles 28:1). Among the sons of David there were some who stood out, such as Asa and Hezekiah, among others. The latter carried out a tremendous religious reform, and the people returned to God, and there the two rods came together. Josiah did the same; he joined the two rods, and there was prosperity (2 Kings 22, 23). Then, in the time when the captivity ended, Ezra and Zerubbabel, priest and governor respectively, also united the two rods. Then Joshua, the high priest, is added. And we see that when government and priesthood were united, when the two rods came together, there was prosperity and blessing among the people.
In the New Testament we see the same thing. On the day of Pentecost they were together ministering to the Lord, and suddenly an outburst came from heaven and many souls were saved. And if we keep reading in the book of Acts, we will see that everything was done with prayer. In chapter 10, Peter was praying on the housetop, and Cornelius was ministering to the Lord in his house, and God brought the two together, and there the Gospel began on behalf of the Gentiles. Peter was imprisoned in jail, but the church was praying without ceasing for him, chapter 12. In chapter 13 we read that the apostles, teachers, and prophets were praying and ministering to the Lord, and the Holy Spirit said: “Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them” (Acts 13:2). Every time the church has priesthood, power comes, because God extends the rod of his authority.
Prophetic Application for 2024
Finally, I want to share something very tender with you, and with this I close. Just as the number twenty-four is very rich in meanings, so will be the prophetic fulfillment of 2024. The year 2024 will be a glorious year in events and prophetic fulfillment. The Spirit announces that it will exceed in glory all the previous years we have lived until now. 2024 is going to exceed all previous years. In my prophetic vision I can see the Father’s heart (and God revealed his heart to me), and he desires to manifest his good will, as he did in the announcement to the shepherds of Bethlehem: “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men!” (Luke 2:14). Do you know what good will is? It is when you do something with pleasure, with satisfaction, willingly; and God, with great satisfaction, will work on behalf of his church and its purpose this year.
The Lord says: “My heart is full of grace and mercy. I desire to bless and honor my children as never before. My good will in my Son Jesus Christ is arranged in favor of my people.” Now note God’s questions: “Where are the people who long for me? Where are the saints who seek me? Where are the sheep who call for me and need me? Where are the children who hunger and thirst for the Father? Where are those who love the truth, are zealous for justice, and prefer my glory over temporary and worldly pleasures? Where are they? asks God. Where are the servants who desire to see the Kingdom of their Lord? Where are those who crave the eternal and are not content with this age? Where are they? asks the Father. Where do they dwell, those who, weary of the desires and illusory vanities of the world, cry out in desperation for the manifestation of eternal glory, those who are not satisfied with anything material or temporary, but who seek the heavenly and the everlasting? Where are they? asks the Father, where are they?
Do you know why he asks? The heavenly Father answers before you answer: “I, the Father, call you, and I go out in search of you in 2024. Where are you? I am going to look for you and I am going to call you in 2024. [Pay attention to every word, because this moved me deeply; I have never prophesied anything as tender as this]. I call “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price” (Isaiah 55:1). Great and divine is my desire to bless my people; it is more than a longing, it is an urgent and pressing need, my insides are stirred,” says the Father. “My heart trembles; my good will is served as a delicious and succulent banquet for you. Come and eat without money and without price.” Hallelujah!
In 2024 God’s good will favors us. It is more than a longing; it is a glorious impulse; his insides tremble with so much love, as happened with Ephraim when he said: “Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord” (Jeremiah 31:20). Listen, because these are weighty words: “I feel the same in 2024 as I felt when I called my Son and said to him, after his victory on the cross: ‘Sit thou at my right hand…’ (Psalms 110:1). I feel the same as at that moment. What a pleasure it was to see my Son again after our separation! How great was my joy to see him again and to feel him at my side, close to my divine breast. In other words, the same thing I felt when I said to my Son, come, sit at my right hand, and he sat down and I felt him so near; it is the same that I feel for you in 2024.” These words are too sublime for me; I do not understand them.
And look at what he goes on to say: “Can you understand it? That is what I am feeling in my Son on your behalf; make the most of the time of your visitation in 2024, make the most of the moving of the water, the manifestation of divine grace, and the times of refreshing in the presence of God.” Let us take advantage of the fact that God wants it, let us take advantage of the fact that God desires it, let us take advantage of the fact that God feels an urgency to do it. My God! This is too much, and look at what God says: “I challenge you and I tell you, prepare the way for me in 2024, and I assure you by my Holiness, as I swore to David, that my glory will be manifested and thousands and thousands will see it, because my mouth has spoken it. This is the year of my priesthood and of my government; I have purposed in my Holy Son to join together in 2024 the two rods: the rod of the priesthood and the rod of my government, and of my authority. If you please me with your priesthood, I, well pleased, will work mightily with the rod of my power and dominion. With your priesthood you prepare the way for me, and I, with my authority and Lordship, pass by to manifest my glory and my power.” God challenges us: prepare the way for me with our priesthood and I will pass by with my glory, doing miracles, signs, wonders, and I am going to make the kingdom of Satan and of men tremble.
Listen, God says: “I took my government and authority away from Adam, because he lost his priesthood, but I granted my Son Jesus Christ all authority and lordship in heaven and on earth, because he honored me and perfectly pleased me through his priestly life. That is why I made him high priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek; in him and through him I have made you kings and priests forever. In other words, the life of Christ was a life of priesthood, in the way he honored God and served God. And what did God do afterward? He said to him, come, sit at my right hand, and we are going to make his enemies his footstool (government). Listen well and carefully, says God: “There is no government and authority if the priesthood is not worthy of me. The priesthood is what moves my heart so that then my all-powerful hand moves on your behalf and on behalf of my purpose.” In other words, the priesthood moves the heart, and then the hand of God moves to impose his authority on the earth. “If you want to move my hand so that I work with power on your behalf and on behalf of my purpose, then exercise your priesthood with holiness, truth, and integrity.” Do you want to see the power and authority of God manifested in your lives, in the church, in the world, and in Israel? Beloved, it has always been through worship that we have been reconciled with God throughout the whole history of the people of God.
The rod of the priesthood is what moves the rod of government, the rod of authority and power. Authority does not lie in our position (I am an elder, I am a prophet, I am a superintendent, etc.) and appointment, but in a life like that of Christ. In other words, he who lives for God has authority. There are people here in the church who are not ministers in the sense of being an elder, but they are people who have spiritual authority, because they spend nights and days in the presence of God and live in such a way that the devil trembles and God draws near to them. Authority does not lie in our position or appointment but in a life like that of Christ; he who lives according to God will work according to God, in other words, he will have power like God. The life of God in our priesthood is what makes the authority of God manifest in our life. Without priesthood there is only weakness; with priesthood there will be power, life, honor, and authority. God says that this is the year of the Priesthood and of Government.
Every time the Bible speaks of the 24 it speaks of priesthood and government, and among so many wonders that God told us through all the numerical combinations, God wants to sum up everything in what was said above: what he is going to do depends on whether there is a faithful priesthood. God said, when the house of Eli dishonored him, he said: “And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever” (1 Samuel 2:35). That is what God wants to do this year; he wants to make a priesthood according to his heart so that he may move his heart, as he said, on our behalf. In a minute we will see the year of the good will of the Lord, the year in which the two rods come together. There is the glory, there is the firstfruits. Look, everyone, in seconds you will see the year of the glory of God, the year of the priesthood. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Do you know? Since August we have entered the year thirty, after we crossed the Jordan, the year of the priesthood, and we are finishing the book we have titled “The Royal Priesthood – Worship According to God,” and it is almost finished.
While I was running, a moment ago, with the two rods, God revealed something to me. A young man gave me this rod, Bernarda’s son. He prepared it a few years ago to be the rod of power, of authority; and with this rod, as a symbol, Pastor Hugo traveled through many countries of the world carrying the authority of God. But God told me, let us make a more representative rod, because he told me this about the two rods on Friday. So, I called Hugo and said to him: Do you have a rod around there? Yes, he answered me, I have a little one. And this is the one I am now holding in my hands, but we are going to make one like this, a beautiful one, equal to the rod of the priesthood. For many years Pastor Hugo traveled with this one, strangely on an airplane, doing the spiritual work. And this year God sent him to the center of the earth, and to the north, to different places with the rod, carrying an altar to the Lord. And God said to me: “He, in the place of God and of us, carried the two rods; he carried one and then carried the other; now we will carry the two of them, together they are the twins of God. Church! Priesthood so that there may be Government. Prepare the way with the priesthood and I will manifest my glory and all flesh shall see it, said the Lord. That is why he sent us to repair the cracks, so that there may be no obstacle; that is priesthood.
“Father, in the blessed name of Jesus Christ. Oh, Father! How good it is to say on behalf of everyone, nothing but thank you, thank you for this word. How you speak to us, Lord! This cannot come from any man; it is the revelation of the Scriptures; this language is not strange, this is biblical language, it is the language of your heart; we know this language, Lord. Forgive us; for twenty centuries the church has divorced itself from the Priesthood, and carnality and humanness have prevailed, and that is why we have lacked power and have been put to shame before the nations. The first church had priesthood, had government, had authority; the ministry of Christ was one of priesthood and authority, and you did extraordinary miracles and Satan trembled; so it was in the time of the apostles. Afterward the church lost its priesthood and the priesthood was prostituted, and we fell into religion and religious formalism, oh, Lord, to this very day! And now you open our eyes to see that throughout the Bible, when there was priesthood, your heart was pleased, and then your glory came on behalf of your people, Lord, and also on behalf of your holy purpose.
“Thank you for all the things you have announced for the coming year, Lord; we want to live those things with you. That is why you asked, where are you? And we say: here we are, speak, for your servants hear, speak, for your children hear. If you ask, who are those who are willing to leave everything for you? Here we are, speak, for your children hear; here we are, take us as entirely yours, use us in your service, take us, Lord, and give us the priesthood of Christ so that we may have the authority of Christ. Christ is the high priest, but he is the King of kings and Lord of lords, and in him the two rods come together. As it says in Psalm 110: “The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek” (Psalms 110:4). And then it says that your people will submit to you in the day of your power, and he delivers up the Kingdom until all your enemies are made the footstool of his feet.
“Lord God, thank you for speaking to us; we give you our hearts so that you may do what you have purposed. Today we leave our carnal attitudes on the altar, our weaknesses, our clumsiness, and our hardness of heart, haughtiness, pride, arrogance, everything that is an obstacle. Today, Lord, we bring it to the altar and we say to you: Lord, work in us; Lord, we want to live in the Spirit; Lord, we want to live in the new man you gave us, in the new heart you gave us, in the new spirit you gave us. We want to be spiritual men and women; we want to be what you want us to be in this time. Lord, if you are willing, we will not shame you anymore; we want to honor you as never before. Here we are, God, bring this to completion now; please, we will not do it with our weakness, we will do it with your strength; we will not do it with our resources, we will do it with the glory of Christ. Lord, give us that priesthood and place upon us the rod of the power of Christ. We declare 2024 the year of the good will of the Lord, the year of the Priesthood and of the Government of God. Thank you for speaking to us.”
Happy New Year in the Word of God!
