When Someone Won't Admit Wrong

New Year's Day 2006

This Work is Finished, yet my journey continues...here:

 

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The Last Great Day (Entry?)

Hsa 14:4 I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

Isa 55:1-13 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. 
 Wherefore do ye spend money for [that which is] not bread? and your labour for [that which] satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye [that which is] good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 
 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, [even] the sure mercies of David. 
 Behold, I have given him [for] a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. 
 Behold, thou shalt call a nation [that] thou knowest not, and nations [that] knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee. 
 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: 
 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. 
 For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD. 
 For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. 
 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: 
 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper [in the thing] whereto I sent it. 
 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap [their] hands. 
 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign [that] shall not be cut off. 

WHEN FOLLOWING LAMBS...THE CHILD CORRECTETH...

Isaiah 11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf with the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

Third Time's A Charm...

Mat 13:33 The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

3 Nephi 11: 1-41

AND now it came to pass that there were a great multitude gathered together, of the people of Nephi, round about the temple which was in the land Bountiful; and they were marveling and wondering one with another, and were showing one to another the great and marvelous change which had taken place.

And they were also conversing about this Jesus Christ, of whom the sign had been given concerning his death.

And it came to pass that while they were thus conversing one with another, they heard a voice as if it came out of heaven; and they cast their eyes round about, for they understood not the voice which they heard; and it was not a harsh voice, neither was it a loud voice; nevertheless, and notwithstanding it being a small voice it did pierce them that did hear to the center, insomuch that there was no part of their frame that it did not cause to quake; yea, it did pierce them to the very soul, and did cause their hearts to burn.

And it came to pass that again they heard the voice, and they understood it not.

And again the third time they did hear the voice, and did open their ears to hear it; and their eyes were towards the sound thereof; and they did look steadfastly towards heaven, from whence the sound came.

And the third time they did understand the voice which they heard; and it said unto them:

Behold my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, in whom I have glorified my name—hear ye him.

And as they understood they cast their eyes up again towards heaven; and they saw a Man descending out of heaven; and he was clothed in a white robe; and he came down and stood in the midst of them; and the eyes of the whole multitude were turned upon him, and they durst not open their mouths, even one to another, andwist not what it meant, for they thought it was an angel that had appeared unto them.

And that he stretched forth his hand and spake unto the people, saying:

Behold, I am Jesus Christ, whom the prophets testified shall come into the world.

I am the light and the life of the world; and I have drunk out of that bitter cup which the Father hath given me, and have glorified the Father in taking upon me the sins of the world, in the which I have suffered the will of the Father in all things from the beginning.

And when Jesus had spoken these words the whole multitude fell to the earth; for they remembered that it had been prophesied among them that Christ should show himself unto them after his ascension into heaven.

And the Lord spake unto them saying:

Arise and come forth unto me, that ye may thrust your hands into my side, and also that ye may feel the prints of the nails in my hands and in my feet, that ye may know that I am the God of Israel, and the God of the whole earth, and have been slain for the sins of the world.

And the multitude went forth, and thrust their hands into his side, and did feel the prints of the nails in his hands and in his feet; and this they did do, going forth one by one until they had all gone forth, and did see with their eyes and did feel with their hands, and did know of a surety and did bear record, that it was he, of whom it was written by the prophets, that should come.

And when they had all gone forth and had witnessed for themselves, they did cry out with one accord, saying:

Hosanna! Blessed be the name of the Most High God! And they did fall down at the feet of Jesus, and did worship him.

And it came to pass that he spake unto Nephi (for Nephi was among the multitude) and he commanded him that he should come forth.

And Nephi arose and went forth, and bowed himself before the Lord and did kiss his feet.

And the Lord commanded him that he should arise. And he arose and stood before him.

And the Lord said unto him: I give unto you power that ye shall baptize this people when I am again ascended into heaven.

And the Lord called others, and said unto them likewise; and he gave unto them power to baptize. And he said unto them: On this wise shall ye baptize; and there shall be no disputations among you.

Verily I say unto you, that whoso repenteth of his sins through your words, and desireth to be baptized in my name, on this wise shall ye baptize them—Ye shall go down and stand in the water, and in my name shall ye baptize them.

And these are the words which ye shall say, calling them by name, saying:

Having authority given me of Jesus Christ, I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amein.

And then shall ye immerse them in the water, and come forth again out of the water.

And after this manner shall ye baptize in my name; for behold, verily I say unto you, that the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost are one; and I am in the Father, and the Father in me, and the Father and I are one.

And according as I have commanded you thus shall ye baptize. And there shall be no disputations among you, as there have hitherto been; neither shall there be disputations among you concerning the points of my doctrine, as there have hitherto been.

For verily, verily I say unto you, he that hath the spirit of contention is not of me, but is of the devil, who is the father of contention, and he stirreth up the hearts of men to contend with anger, one with another.

This is not my doctrine, to stir up the hearts of men with anger, one against another; but this is my doctrine, that such things should be done away.

Verily, I say unto you, I will declare unto you my doctrine.

And this is my doctrine, and it is the doctrine which the Father hath given unto me; and I bear record of the Father, and the Father beareth record of me, and the Holy Ghost beareth record of the Father and me; and I bear record that the Father commandeth all men, everywhere, to repent and believe in me.

And whoso believeth in me, and is baptized, the same shall be saved; and they are they who shall inherit the kingdom of God.

And whoso believeth not in me, and is not baptized, shall be damned.

Verily, I say unto you, that this is my doctrine, and I bear record of it from the Father; and whoso believeth in me believeth in the Father also; and unto him will the Father bear record of me, for he will visit him with the Holy Ghost.

And thus will the Father bear record of me, and the Holy Ghost will bear record unto him of the Father and me; for the Father, and I, and the Holy Ghost are one.

And again I say unto you, ye must repent, and become as a little child, and be baptized in my name, or ye can in nowise receive these things, and ye can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God.

Verily, I say unto you, that this is my doctrine, and whoso buildeth upon this buildeth upon my rock, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against them.

And whoso shall declare more or less than this, and establish it for my doctrine, the same cometh of evil, and is not built upon my rock; but he buildeth upon a sandy foundation, and the gates of hell stand open to receive such when the floods come and the winds beat upon them.

Therefore, go forth unto this people, and declare the words which I have spoken, unto the ends of the earth.

Amein

Rom 9:28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.  

D&C 52:11 For thus saith the Lord, I will cut my work short in righteousness, for the days come that I will send forth judgment unto victory.

Jhn 17:4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

America, The Beautiful

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!

America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassion'd stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.

America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.

O beautiful for heroes prov'd
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.

America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine.

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.

America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.

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Where Do We Go Now?

Hbr 12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected [us], and we gave [them] reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Undefiled Children in the LORD possess a strong sense of Justice. All know that each deserve an equal portion of what the LORD sees fit to bestow upon Us. The vile and their children lusteth and imagine they deserve what they lusteth after, consuming themselves and that which is not fit for the belly nor soul of man.

When people have gone astray from the Just and Right Way of Life, it is hard to possess and instill and behold as sacred, a child's judgment. Such simplicity is perceived as foolish to those who consider themselves to be wise or learned, and such is an abomination to him who is cunning and bloodthirsty. Yet such delivereth the Just and the Innocent from the Grave, whose hold upon the cunning is cruel and unrelenting.

Deu 6:24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as [it is] at this day.

Isa 48:22 [There is] no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.

Be upon your haunches, ye dogs, and enjoy the Way Pleasing...Let It Be and ye shall see the Salvation of the LORD, God Almighty. Stand ye in the ways...give a pleasing and just birth unto him who shall judge aright, unto him willing to walk in the ways...stand by, ready and willing to assist, defend and praise.

Zec 3:7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If thou wilt walk in my ways, and if thou wilt keep my charge, then thou shalt also judge my house, and shalt also keep my courts, and I will give thee places to walk among these that stand by.

Young lambs trust older gentlemen, parents, teachers, rabbis, etc. to legislate fairness in their lives, when they are too blessed and concerned with being children to do so for themselves. As they mature, they discover that life is not always fair, and that evil is a real problem, and that the LORD sends trials and hardships to endure and help them grow strong and ever more faithful to their own and Him. We, as children and as adults, ought to be upset when Justice is not done.

We need an abiding Faith and Knowledge that God is in Control and that Justice does prevail everyday in our world. And it must not be the completely fraudulent justice seen and reported as true on our television and computerscreens. It must be as real and painful to look upon and endure as crucifixion for this is what saves, and this is Justice and Mercy.

Doubt not! If the world say to you, pay me thus and thus, and do thus and thus or else, stand ye firm and wait on the LORD who giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not...The LORD will send His Legions to defeat the Legion. To rout evil and deception and clear the Way, even by Wind and Rain and Fire and Destruction of all who threaten His Anointed and His Children. If ye now realize that Our Nation is in the hand of the Abomination that ought not to be and shall not stand for much longer, stand ye firm and wait upon the LORD and His Salvation.

"Our Laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent, our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian."

U.S. Supreme Court 1892

What has happened?

God in American children is shunned and they are misled and rendered useless by their schools and social strata. Encouraged to become filthy almost at once, often weaned from drug-laced breast milk unto abominations of every variety know to man. Filthy dreamers, I say, policed by wicked task masters who exalt invention and science so-called above and beyond the value of Simplicity in Christ and the Fear and Knowledge of the LORD.

Learning to eat dung and die is a top priority among Americans.

The world we know and all it demands makes being friends hard sometimes, and we all run after different dreams and hide from one another, but I think with my family and friends, former and current, we have an understanding and eternal bond that cannot be broken even when we betray one another and seek after personal glory and miss the Point; misunderstanding the God who placed us here for each other and His Will.

We have fun straying from what is right and then we don't know how to communicate and relate to one another in a way that is real and beneficial. I mean we discover who we are not together and grow apart even as we're enjoying each other's company and an unhealthy pride which helps us endure our own personal struggles and overcome obstacles and snares set for us, increases the difficulty of fellowship and acceptance. Yet insomuch as we are all God's children, there will always be the underlying bond that cannot be torn asunder. We can be such Tyrants! To separate us from our delusions and psychosis in which we've perfected a way of enduring all hardship and accomplished what seems like our goals seems worse than the Pact with Death that makes this selfish "lifestyle" possible.

The ignorance that America takes advantage of is the same that was born of an Innocent, Holy Trust in an All Providential and Merciful God, Shepherd and Saviour.

Education in the United States mars the Individual and retards the Greater Ability to Preceive and Channel Divinity into Creation.

It's the Same Old Story with no Brand New Glory...

What I would like to realize is an Educational System, our schools, transformed into Academys of the LORD's Children. Boys and Girls who are encouraged, rewarded for and fundamentally ordered to become like unto the "Perfect Man," instead of doing all we can to retard and bring down the Same.

SIMPLICITY needs to be secured. We need to be concerned with keeping families together and communities strong. Keeping children at home-For Life, because that is what homes are for. We don't want Our children being sent into the world to suceed in the world. We want to keep them from evil. So instead of encouraging kids to become truly useless in college and business of the world, we need to teach them Simplicity in Christ. It may sound crazy, but that is True Fulfillment of who they are.

Hands on gardening, home care, utilizing computers to truly communicate and learn to decipher and defragment the devil's WWW, for the sake of the same and those lost and trapped in the same. There are many hurting units out there who need Salvation, and now, thanks to the Whore, reaching them is easy. No need to send missionaries out, just log on and share the Word and Fellowship.

Eph 4:13, 15-16 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: Speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, [even] Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

A reality in which there is no rush nor demand and days and nights pass at the LORD's Pace. Where we are encouraged to enjoy being wise children. There is structure and schooling but the education is without humanistic, worldly agendas and hypocrisy.

Mat 12:33 Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by [his] fruit.

We have the opportunity to do a Truly Magnificent Work with the world in which we find ourselves barely ekeing out wages.

The Whore has already seen to it that all the buildings and structures, computers, etc. are set in place. All we need to do is betray Her quite openly and shamelessly, which is really no betrayal at all, but love, and will ultimately be Her Salvation.

It's simply a case of one good turn deserves another, an eye for an eye, a tooth for tooth, but We demand neither, only that we may assist the toothless and blind. Turning the tables and setting them upright that we might sit together and enjoy a festive meal and celebration as in days of yore, but with all the ingenuity and marvels of the now and the hope of a much brighter and wondrous future. Rather than let Her commit suicide and spitefully use Us, we shall use Her and society rightly and set it back in proper motion, pleasing for all to have part in, like unto that perfect and everlasting Golden Age to come in the Hereafter. That we might help Her be a charming rather than alarming part of it all.

This is the only reality in which they may also safely experience all other forms of educational and aspirational pursuits but in which the Foundation and Law is Clearly Defined and as never changing as He who brought the Law and Established the Foundation.

We have nearly abandoned this Opportunity because of our Apostasy and our own selfish, stupid worldly desires. We were willing to sacrifice Family, Soul, and Nation for the empty realization of uprofitable dreams and survival of the dim-wittedest!

We have forgotten that we are vile, and take pride in perversity. So that instead of confessing our sins to God and one another, dressing ourselves in humility and striving to overcome together, like haughty beasts, we demand to be accepted and rewarded for being vile!

Alma 38:14 Do not say: O God, I thank thee that we are better than our brethren; but rather say: O Lord, forgive my unworthiness, and remember my brethren in mercy—yea, acknowledge your unworthiness before God at all times.

Most Tyrants want no more than to be coddled by their Mum or rocked to sleep in Daddy's lap...which most desperate Mums and Dads in the world will go to any lengths to secure the right to do for a child whom they can manipulate and pervert to save their own wineskins, in a perverse world which enables such an abominable tresspass. Out in the world of dog eat dog, we have neither option, and must be more creative in finding a surrogate mother which turns out to be the Whore no matter what label she wears and our Dad, the Bank. Both of whom accept us and encourage us to become ever more wicked and abominable, replacing our milk and cookie rewards with booze, cigs, and hot dogs, etc.

The problem lies not with the Youth of America who have been betrayed and sold out, but rather with so-called "men" who remain big boyz. It may be easy to take candy from a baby but it is not easy to take candy from a full grown adult. And now that the boy is big, he has many an acquired taste from the candy aisle, most of which are wicked addictions to abominable treats.

They had no reason nor encouragement to choose otherwise, and once you are filthy and sinking in the mire, it is incredibly hard to give up any sin, never mind all sin which God demands of Us. It's easier to wax philosophical or claim keeping ordinances and feasts without heeding the Greater Commandments will deliver you...And that is where we are headed because no one is or ever really was willing to be a living sacrifice, a walking testimony.

Only letting go, admitting to vileness and having complete Faith upon God will deliver Us now. He knows you very intimately, if that makes you uncomfortable, good. Such may deliver you from guile and apostatical urges and wanderings...or worse...

Rom 9:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

Exd 33:19 And he said, I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.

Now we MUST let the Worthy Lead or perish trying to justify that which cannot be justified.

D&C 88:35, 86 That which breaketh a law, and abideth not by law, but seeketh to become a law unto itself, and willeth to abide in sin, and altogether abideth in sin, cannot be sanctified by law, neither by mercy, justice, nor judgment.

Abide ye in the Liberty wherewith ye are made free; entangle not yourselves in sin, but let your hands be clean, until the Lord comes.

I wish to be among devoted souls and spirits, who love Liberty more than freedom; God more than country, and simplicity and the value of patient instruction more than winning and riches so-called. I think our real victory lies in what makes up our souls, not how many ways we can express and sell this wealth of generations, but in how much we cherish and hold dear all we are and have been and reward only those in agreement.

In America, everything is cheap and easily had. It's all become too plastic like a Japan or something. It's mostly worthless. It seems all for show; there is no Soul in it. Everything is for sale. Our lives, homes, children, are but items on shelves, going at half price, whatever, just give me money so I can feed an illicit need within me...

This isn't what made nor what makes any nation or people great. What makes us great is how we endure lack and want and how we generously and freely bless in times of abundance, long-suffering and patient endurance in which we find the time and strength to mold our souls and wills to do truly great things, and make lasting impressions of righteousness upon our world, all to the Glory of God. The kind of history that America may box and sell cheaply, but that is worth all the world in the Nation of its origin, and outshines modern day America even during dark ages.

Heleman 12:3-6 And thus we see that except the Lord doth chasten his people with many afflictions, yea, except he doth visit them with death and with terror, and with famine and with all manner of pestilence, they will not remember him. O how foolish, and how vain, and how evil, and devilish, and how quick to do iniquity, and how slow to do good, are the children of men; yea, how quick to hearken unto the words of the evil one, and to set their hearts upon the vain things of the world! Yea, how quick to be lifted up in pride; yea, how quick to boast, and do all manner of that which is iniquity; and how slow are they to remember the Lord their God, and to give ear unto his counsels, yea, how slow to walk in wisdom’s paths! Behold, they do not desire that the Lord their God, who hath created them, should rule and reign over them; notwithstanding his great goodness and his mercy towards them, they do set at naught his counsels, and they will not that he should be their guide.

America has become the land of perversion and want of real justice, and its because every official seat is had at a price of filthy dollars and every governing branch stems from a root of corruption and wickedness. Hollywood glitzes it up and edits out the real background, but it's a ship that is sinking fast and we can't find enough willing hands to bail her out. We've got to trust God who dries up the deep at His Will and satifies the parched land with an abundance of rain when needed. The sun has set on too many lives throughout the world, and love waxes cold in too many a heart. People need a Real Hope, and Solution, and such is only available in God and His Chosen Messiah, the Christ, whom we crucify daily.

So come, let us reason together, while there is still Hope and express our willingness to try on Charity and Faith and see if they wont suit us anew and be made of a more durable and lasting fabric than gold.

Isa 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Isa 51:6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

There is always something to do, you know? But not always the urge to do it. I need motivation and reward. I think that is why God gave Eve to Adam, you know? Motivation and reward...but they failed because of satan. Yet God remained faithful. Children, family and fellowship brought more motivation and reward...And of course, eventual Salvation and the Gifts of the Kingdom.

Some people bring out the good in me. I am not always good, you know? God alone is Always Good. I don't think many people are good, but when we have a good motivator and reward, it becomes easier to do good and desire such for ourselves and others...We just need inspiration and then we only need to follow through with directives...Like in the Bible, God is the Inspiration and He tells His people what they must do, and they do it, and success follows...whether the motivator was fear or love or devotion and emotion, they could always count on miraculous success in the end if they had Faith...and getting there was worth all the trouble, and the trip was rich with memories and affectations that are as everlasting as the Source of Life Itself.

God is so Faithful and merciful and just.

Ether 4:11-19 But he that believeth these things which I have spoken, him will I visit with the manifestations of my Spirit, and he shall know and bear record. For because of my Spirit he shall know that these things are true; for it persuadeth men to do good. And whatsoever thing persuadeth men to do good is of me; for good cometh of none save it be of me. I am the same that leadeth men to all good; he that will not believe my words will not believe me—that I am; and he that will not believe me will not believe the Father who sent me. For behold, I am the Father, I am the light, and the life, and the truth of the world. Come unto me, O ye Gentiles, and I will show unto you the greater things, the knowledge which is hid up because of unbelief. Come unto me, O ye house of Israel, and it shall be made manifest unto you how great things the Father hath laid up for you, from the foundation of the world; and it hath not come unto you, because of unbelief. Behold, when ye shall rend that veil of unbelief which doth cause you to remain in your awful state of wickedness, and hardness of heart, and blindness of mind, then shall the great and marvelous things which have been hid up from the foundation of the world from you—yea, when ye shall call upon the Father in my name, with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, then shall ye know that the Father hath remembered the covenant which he made unto your fathers, O house of Israel. And then shall my revelations which I have caused to be written by my servant John be unfolded in the eyes of all the people. Remember, when ye see these things, ye shall know that the time is at hand that they shall be made manifest in very deed. Therefore, when ye shall receive this record ye may know that the work of the Father has commenced upon all the face of the land. Therefore, repent all ye ends of the earth, and come unto me, and believe in my gospel, and be baptized in my name; for he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned; and signs shall follow them that believe in my name. And blessed is he that is found faithful unto my name at the last day, for he shall be lifted up to dwell in the kingdom prepared for him from the foundation of the world. And behold it is I that hath spoken it. Amen.

CH Spurgeon Concurs

"And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible." --Jeremiah 15:21

Note the glorious personality of the promise. I will, I will. The Lord Jehovah Himself interposes to deliver and redeem His people. He pledges Himself personally to rescue them. His own arm shall do it, that He may have the glory. Here is not a word said of any effort of our own which may be needed to assist the Lord. Neither our strength nor our weakness is taken into the account, but the lone I, like the sun in the heavens, shines out resplendent in all-sufficience. Why then do we calculate our forces, and consult with flesh and blood to our grievous wounding? Jehovah has power enough without borrowing from our puny arm. Peace, ye unbelieving thoughts, be still, and know that the Lord reigneth. Nor is there a hint concerning secondary means and causes. The Lord says nothing of friends and helpers: He undertakes the work alone, and feels no need of human arms to aid Him. Vain are all our lookings around to companions and relatives; they are broken reeds if we lean upon them--often unwilling when able, and unable when they are willing. Since the promise comes alone from God, it would be well to wait only upon Him; and when we do so, our expectation never fails us. Who are the wicked that we should fear them? The Lord will utterly consume them; they are to be pitied rather than feared. As for terrible ones, they are only terrors to those who have no God to fly to, for when the Lord is on our side, whom shall we fear? If we run into sin to please the wicked, we have cause to be alarmed, but if we hold fast our integrity, the rage of tyrants shall be overruled for our good. When the fish swallowed Jonah, he found him a morsel which he could not digest; and when the world devours the church, it is glad to be rid of it again. In all times of fiery trial, in patience let us possess our souls.

"And be not conformed to this world." --Romans 12:2

If a Christian can by possibility be saved while he conforms to this world, at any rate it must be so as by fire. Such a bare salvation is almost as much to be dreaded as desired. Reader, would you wish to leave this world in the darkness of a desponding death bed, and enter heaven as a shipwrecked mariner climbs the rocks of his native country? then be worldly; be mixed up with Mammonites, and refuse to go without the camp bearing Christ's reproach. But would you have a heaven below as well as a heaven above? Would you comprehend with all saints what are the heights and depths, and know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge? Would you receive an abundant entrance into the joy of your Lord? Then come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing. Would you attain the full assurance of faith? you cannot gain it while you commune with sinners. Would you flame with vehement love? your love will be damped by the drenchings of godless society. You cannot become a great Christian--you may be a babe in grace, but you never can be a perfect man in Christ Jesus while you yield yourself to the worldly maxims and modes of business of men of the world. It is ill for an heir of heaven to be a great friend with the heirs of hell. It has a bad look when a courtier is too intimate with his king's enemies. Even small inconsistencies are dangerous. Little thorns make great blisters, little moths destroy fine garments, and little frivolities and little rogueries will rob religion of a thousand joys. O professor, too little separated from sinners, you know not what you lose by your conformity to the world. It cuts the tendons of your strength, and makes you creep where you ought to run. Then, for your own comfort's sake, and for the sake of your growth in grace, if you be a Christian, be a Christian, and be a marked and distinct one.

La parte Tres~It's All About Closure

Sin bringeth the Law which means one may have to go through the Fire for purification and/or anointment, or repent and enter the water of baptism, to be washed clean, forgiven and be "Saved," entering into His Rest and the Way Everlasting. If one cannot and is unable to flee from sin and walk in the Way, one must go through the flames of purification, which means one's Relationship with God undergoes a change. One can no longer accept God in His Pure and undefiled Form of Being/Spirit into their "temple" or body. The direct fellowship and communication is broken. The understanding is marred or impared and the creature must be bridled else destroyed. Going through the Fire means separation and anxiety to say the least, which frequently hardens a man's heart and spirit against God's Holy Spirit. In either case, one may still receive the Gift which is freely bestowed upon all.

Through Mormon Scripture, which often errs, one may get the idea that all must go through the fire to receive the Holy Ghost, but such is not so which can be clearly seen by the example set by Christ. Fire visits the disobedient, the Holy Ghost visits all and remains with the Chosen and elect and "saved."

The Law preserveth. It does not wax old nor decay. It is Perfect and so are we when we are able to keep It, but we don't and we do get old and weary and denial and delusion often set in and deliver us from fear for brief periods of time, yet if we put on Faith, Charity and the Hope of Our eventual Salvation, doubting nothing, we can endure with Love and Devotion all things and live in Truth, admitting our faults and sins and being made worthy in Him.

Jam 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth [therein], he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

This is especially urgent for so-called Christians who imagine the Law defunct and that they are saved by saying some man made prayer and "welcoming Jesus into their hearts." If Jesus had entered any of these people's hearts, their hearts would be utterly destroyed and they would know that they never belonged to Him.

On the other hand, or rather paw, the beautiful thing about Christians is that no matter how wrong and violently sinful they maybecome during their sojourn in the wilderness of sin and separation, they never really take upon themselves the spirit of the world and always recognize and pay obeisance and show devotion to those who have overcome with Him, because as hard and dark as they may become they truely love God, though their sense of humor is often most perverse and sometimes cruel, they concede to His Sovereignty in all matters and in all they try to do or get caught trying to get away with.

"Balls" don't come until after the Fall and therefore really aren't balls at all...I speak of the "Family Jewels;" the "Secrets."

If a man hath the courage to be meek, humble and loving towards his fellows, his Secrets are probably pretty hefty indeed and are the envy of the entire tribe.

Num 12:3 (Now the man Moses [was] very meek, above all the men which [were] upon the face of the earth.)

Mat 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Mar 12:37b And the common people heard him gladly.

Jam 1:19-20 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

There is no nobility quite like unto modesty, devotion, purity, and charity, all touched with eager, zealous, self-abasement(which is NOT humiliation!). To be rejected of the world is to be rich in Christ. When the Lord "brings the LORD" He does so to show from whence His Authority comes from, not to puff himself up, but to show his undeniable right to reign, yet unmistakable reluctance to "Lord it over anyone" or to be crowned King. The fact that he does not wish to reign, ought and doth often prompt even his enemies toward becoming desirous to be under His Divine Yoke. It's the Yoke of the Miraculous which makes enduring anything easier.

Nobody likes looking foolish, yet certainly, there is nothing more foolish looking in all of Creation at present than the American Male. He has no honor, dignity, divine understanding, real natural strength, charm, class, etc. And it is because he is unwilling to use Jesus as a role model. Opting instead for a male actor in a beer commercial. The Whore has won, yet Ultimate Victory belongeth to the LORD.

Remember the "runt" of the litter? His name be Mephibosheth.

2Sa 9:8, 10-11, 13 And he bowed himself, and said, What [is] thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I [am]?

Thou therefore, and thy sons, and thy servants, shall till the land for him, and thou shalt bring in [the fruits], that thy master's son may have food to eat: but Mephibosheth thy master's son shall eat bread alway at my table.

Then said Ziba unto the king, According to all that my lord the king hath commanded his servant, so shall thy servant do. As for Mephibosheth, [said the king], he shall eat at my table, as one of the king's sons.

So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem: for he did eat continually at the king's table; and was lame on both his feet.

Invited to the king's table, no less! Lame and afflicted as he was...worthy!

It is time to become men in earnest. Admit your folly and deny the Whore even while part of her body. Fight against your urges and base reactions. Admit defeat and you may win. Those who have been made "strong" by allegiance to her are wasting the strength and using it to corrupt that which is truly strong and remain corrupted themselves. Those who are supposedly "weak" are being ridiculed and with their reaction, waste the Grace of Christ. Rats take any and all advantage of an upperhand. Only Christ will enable one ridiculed and embarrassed to turn the tables and make circumstance profit the "victim" and imprison or justly punish the victimizer. Rats want the guilty to go free and the just condemned, not realizing that this desire condemns them everlastingly. They have been doing so with uncommon zeal and success in this Age in America, bringing down Saints and Lionizing the vilest, because men were caught nodding off, with their pants around their ankles watching a football game, wondering where their wives had gone and how come their beer was warm, though they had presciently used a koozie. Yet, America was accepted and protected by God's Spirit because She was concerned with Justice and at least admiring and enjoying vicariously, and at her best encouraging and enabling the multitude of Gifts bestowed upon the Sons of God and the Blessed quality of Innocence and Holiness they Unnaturally channel into Creation. But Evil and Tyranny cloaked in pretentious posturing has enabled the lowest form of decrepit hatred to lead lambs down an abominable road to Hell.

Only honest hatred and intolerance of all She has come to stand for will force a real change and not more bulldung, deception and empty promises luring and corrupting the Divine Right within the Children of God in our midst to fulfill the will of the evil one and the childish egos of "men" in government.

2Sa 10:12 Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.

Alma 46:12 And it came to pass that he rent his coat; and he took a piece thereof, and wrote upon it--In memory of our God, our religion, and freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our children—and he fastened it upon the end of a pole.

Men do not go to war because they love war. They go to war because they HATE evil. And children of God ought to be made to realize that these men are victims, captive beasts without freewill but with a choice and deserve no more recognition than acknowledgement of having a righteous heart that would choose the Right, however wrong the Right has become. It's when they turn it all into a prideful circus show that is more evil than the evil they meant to rout, that it becomes impossible to Justify on a Divine Level and therefore will not see further success and will turn on itself and "cave" and self-destruct.

2 Samuel 2:26 Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?

All this, this whole bogus nation within Our Nation, this grand facade, this cauldron of hatred some call a "melting pot;" all meticulously constructed to destroy the Holy Child within any and every last male child in America.

No need to wonder why the LORD went about destroying nations who threatened His Children and Chosen Ones. We've become one of those nations probably because we fell and have had to fight off those nations. Dealing with the wicked, makes one wicked. Standing firm in and for Christ makes one righteous.

Gal 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, [saying], In thee shall all nations be blessed.

Jhn 17:15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

My God! We're force feeding our children to the Evil One. We can't shovel them into the Grave fast enough!

If men wish to be remembered as men who meant something to the American Child within us all, we must CARE and be HUMBLE. We must suppress and deny our inner beast . We must become the Innocence we wish to bring out, nuture and honor in our children at every opportunity and use our inner beast to destroy that which threatens this possibility and devotion to divinity.

You are called now to be shepherds and shepherds you will be, no matter how absurd that may seem to a world gorging on technological overload. Such a decision and Way will make useful and prosperous the technology being gifted us but which we often make sure shall be useless to all. We were cunning enough to invade a foreign country and make it seem like an auspicious decision with a like outcome, but it was a desperate attempt to preserve a Union that is strained and has grown increasingly unworthy apace with the sins of our Nation.

The Only Way to Truly Strengthen Our Nation is to form a New Union in Christ. Christendom must be born at once and with all due intolerance and hatred for anything that threatens It. This ship called America is going down, and if we hope to preserve our lives and the lives of our children, we must bail and make provisions for those who would Sail on a New Sea, in a New Ship made of, by and for Christ and Jews/Christians.

Believe and Receive. The LORD has already made the Way, all you have to do is look and see and follow Him.

Where to look? In the Book.

1Sa 12:14-15 If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God:

But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as [it was] against your fathers.

2Ki 25:24 And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you.

Jer 27:6,17 And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.

Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?

When Israel failedto be obedient, they lost their freedom. Their Liberty was LONG gone, but they were still scrapping it out for "freedom," it was only a matter of time till the world caught on and Israel was taken anew into captivity. The LORD preserved their Freedom by setting the King of Babylon over them. Things were hard, but we new we deserved every lick, and we were at least conscience of being on the Road back to Glory and Him and His Kingdom. The King of Babylon was/is not a nice guy, but he is anointed and easier to face than the LORD or the Evil One.

And much better than Pharoah's rule, though he also was anointed and chosen to oppress Israel. We will never receive more than our due comeuppance...and some of us, you know who you are, deserve quite a bit of maltreatment it is sad to say.

Setting the King of Babylon over Israel was merciful because the LORD was making a Way to Preserve what matters within the Kingdom. Israel, now filthy and rejected, had a purpose at least and if they could not obey God at least they could obey the King of Babylon or suffer worse, and they know what that "worse" is.

Dan 11:31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily [sacrifice], and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.

Mat 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

This again is when we find out what people are made of and who has a superior spirit and strength of will and why. Not that any have reason to boast of anything at all, but that we find those who love God receive the strength and will to endure all to the Glory of God.

Rev 5:12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.

True Liberty is too much for man. It will never endure until sin is vanquished and all mankind "saved" and made incorruptible. Until the last soul knows Salvation, we will have chaos and strife.

Jhn 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

We had reached the Promised Land long ago, and yet we failed to enter, and then when we did, we did the abominable and thought we could "improve" on God's Plan and Design. Whether in Law, Pratice, Faith or simple Worship, we took the reigns from out of God's Hand and each went in his own direction, failing to keep the Unity and sacrificing the Peace and Providence of Our Father. Through much hardship, the disciples of Paul did not enter the Kingdom, nor did they need to endure such to enter. They needed to return to Him and walk in the Way Easy. They needed Faith and Patience and the ability to look and see. Instead, they went the hard way and produced works of evil that helped them endure evil. Now they imagine themselves wiser than God, and will be damned if they wont show Him up. This produced the Roman Catholic Church and Its Papal Absurdity, and now it has produced the WWW and it's many abominations.

When Israel was denied the will and power to enter the promised land, it was His Will. They were not ready. They did not believe and the generation that left Egypt had to die off to rid the new of old superstitions and error, as they honed all their ability and will power to understand the Scriptures and the Spiritual Truths and Wisdom that would enable them to see where God was leading and when He was not, and why and why not...They were becoming "babes," thirsty for pure spiritual "milk." Trial and Error, trial and error...success! Backsliding, more trial and error, success, pride, failure, back and forth, in and out, etc.

The generation that left Egypt were not always the "strong and the brave" though they boasted of being so. Like dumb animals, they had grown accustomed to hard knocks and figured their ways of dealing with these was knowledge or wisdom and this produced an evil pride that has always been with us since the Fall, and our first coverings were made for us...We left the garden and did not know how to get back in...There was no Way. We needed animal coats to keep us warm, we needed to work, and deal with lots of problems, and this too only built upon our pride.

This generation, was always willing to war but would never lay down their lives for anyone. And they desperately tried to lead any they could back to Egypt to perish with them. They did not think ahead. Did not know what endurance was for. They simply endured. These are still mixed in amongst us, they are they who have lost the right to be parents and grandparents and it's hard but if they wish to retain the rights and privledges of Christendom, they must submit to a different and much Higher Authority than US Government, which is locked in Egypt/Debt/Pride/Stubborness/Guilt/Agressive Competiveness/The Inability to Forgive and Be Forgiven...

Deu 1:35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,

Egypt lived on in many a heart, the lingering apostatical longing for produced Babylon and a rod of wickedness that has been with us ever since. And it has become impossible for those who enforce it to escape this service without somehow losing who they are or what they have become in the process. So many sacrifices have been made on both sides, it seems an impossibility to to judge and reward or punish aright.

And on the other hand, the Faithful and the Just, who entered the Promiseland, did so with a soul and understanding forever marred and perverted by its inability to fully trust and follow the LORD, which is understandable as the LORD's Ways are truly mysterious and too awesome to hope to imitate. The only One to really enter the Promiseland, as a New Creation, was and is, the LORD, Himself.

Jer 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Rev 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Rev 3:8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

The LORD created the Door and Is the Door and Opened It for Himself.

How did the LORD enter?

Mat 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Exd 29:45 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

Num 18:20 And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any part among them: I [am] thy part and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

Deu 1:39 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither,and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

Those who misheard Paul or through Paul's own misunderstanding stumbled on the stumbling block they meant to reveal or hide? Was Paul becoming a disciple who would not allow children to approach the Messiah?

1Cr 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Becoming a man of God is infinitely differently than becominga "man of the world." A man of God may seem foolish and even insane when touched by the Spirit of Prophecy and Revelation, touched by the Hand of the Almighty.

Street people, rejects of society, mental ward patients. These are they most often touched with more spiritual guidance, power and insight than rabbis, priests, idols, artisans, politicians, architects, athletes, demagogues, kings, royalty, etc.

1Cr 1:27-29 God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, [yea], and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:That no flesh should glory in his presence.

Mad frustrating, aint it?

 

Israel had this mark against them going in...They had failed the One who delivered them though they gained a blessing from Moses when they did well, they would too often backslide again, the guilt of which they carried around in the dessert and into the promised land. And some begrudged God and still do to this day. None had the nobility of Moses, who received the pronouncement that he would not be allowed to enter the Promised Land matter-of-factly.

Deu 1:37 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.

Deu 4:21-22 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance:

But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land.

What strength! What dignity! He just let go...

Deu 5:29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

Controlled Chaos is what the Devil desires. Catalogue the Universe. Cage everyone and everything, tag it and bag it...Abominable!

Jer 31:37 Thus saith the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith the LORD.

God Desires a Natural, Peaceful, Graceful State of Being. Classical, even predictable Spiritual Growth.

Exd 20:25b for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

Isa 40:11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom, [and] shall gently lead those that are with young.

Because, let's face it, all Little Lords and Ladies ever really needed was someone to put a healthy meal upon their plates at least once a day and to instruct in righteousness by setting an example.

Jhn 13:15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.

1Ti 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Jam 5:10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

3Ne. 18:16

And as I have prayed among you even so shall ye pray in my church, among my people who do repent and are baptized in my name. Behold I am the light; I have set an example for you.

 

D&C 88:130-131

And when he cometh into the house of God, for he should be first in the house—behold, this is beautiful, that he may be an example—

Let him offer himself in prayer upon his knees before God, in token or remembrance of the everlasting covenant.