Letter One
Some of you, who read this letter, know me as
Wallace F. Ingram — after the manner of the flesh — others do not know me at
all. Yet, it is because of this — the weakness of the flesh — I write this
letter. For in the letters that
follow, there is a change and the gulf is too great for many. a There
is a name, (the flesh cannot understand) for I became a b living letter, as all the elect of God do.
I was reminded by the Word, that when he was
ready to depart he said, c "I have many things to say, but you cannot bear to hear
them now. However when he,
the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he
shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you
things to come." So I
thought it good to go back and write this letter, in the hope that those who
love and seek truth will rejoice in this salute.
I have been coming to the revelations of God
from the time that I began to hunger and thirst for the truth. This to me is
the normal thing for the people of God. It is not something we do on our own,
as though we had the power to understand these things alone. Rather, it is the
gift and power of God. From the beginning I believed the Word, and never
staggered or stumbled at his promises. Starting in John, where the Word states, d “All things that the Father has are mine and the Spirit
of truth will show these things to you.” For, he speaks in
Isaiah, e “behold, I create new
heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into
mind. But you be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create: for,
behold, I create
In John it is written, o “this is ETERNAL
LIFE that they might know you the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have
sent.” How can he be known or understood unless we have the same
mind, have the same knowledge? That is why the Spirit is given — p to teach. Therefore, I confirm what Paul wrote
to the Ephesians, q “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge
of him. The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know
what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his
inheritance in the saints. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to
us‑ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty
power.”
In Isaiah, it is written, r
“Whom shall he teach knowledge? And whom
shall he make to understand doctrine? They that are weaned from the milk, and
drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept;
line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.” This can fall either way. It can be for a snare to
them that love imagery, lies and the world. For the savior said of them, s “Father, I thank you for hiding these things from the
wise and prudent (in their own eyes),
and revealing them to little children,”. To the children — taught
by God — t it is rest, more so it
is the beginning of the kingdom of God.
u Being taught by God brings about correct thinking in a new mind. It
does away with presumption and error. By this reproof and correction peace
comes into existence where it did not exist before. Seeing and receiving the
truth is a joy for righteousness that exists every time it
regenerates. Where it did not exist before, v
peace, joy and righteousness now exist. That is the Kingdom of God. It
came into existence because we invoked the w
laws of grace by seeking, asking and receiving. When we
correctly receive, x what God has
prepared to give us, then we have y judged
those things with mercy and thereby obtain mercy. By this
we then z bless
him, for he then becomes the greatest giver of all. As it is written:
a “It is more blessed to give
than to receive.” Then when
we in turn give what we have received of him, then we too become the blessed.
The blessedness is: that knowledge, that peace, that joy
and righteousness exist only to them that have received it. Our father
has so created it this way; it can never be taken by force.
We are b
born of the Spirit by the washing of the Word. For me it was a great c hunger and thirst. I wanted to d die to gain Christ, and I did. I found I had
to let go of everything, beginning with my own understanding; for
it is written: e “Trust in the LORD with all
your heart; and lean not on your own understanding.” But why should
I, lean on my own understanding? When it is written: f they shall all be taught of me says God. The Word
gave me a thought: I don't know anything as I ought to — and you know
that. Give me a love for truth that nothing can quench, not truth as men
know truth, but as you know truth. And give me a hunger, thirst and a press for
righteousness ¾ the righteousness
that comes from you. After a long time, and many doctrines of
men, I began to g seek
the kingdom of God and his righteousness — then I began to be taught of God.
I considered that since I had never seen
anything that the Spirit was ready to show, then I didn't have the slightest
notion of what it was. Therefore, all my presumptions were images. I
needed to be separated from them and it left me empty! I wanted to reach for
something and nothing was there. I placed all my trust and confidence
in the Spirit and walked by the faith that began to be generated in me by the
Word. It was and is from this h
measure of faith that the revelations of God come. It is not faith for
fleshly things of this world. It is faith that comes from the Word of i spiritual things. The things that the
spirit teaches on: precept upon precept. The line is the plumb line of the revealed
righteousness of God.
The great mistake many have made is they
think they have something, but what is it that they see? Consider this, when
Philip asked to see the father, Jesus answered him, j “Have I been so long
time with you, and yet have you not known me, Philip? He that has seen me has
seen the Father; so how is it that you say, show us the Father?” If then Philip didn't see the Father, then he
didn't see the Son. Then whom did he see? He saw what the flesh always
sees: Jesus Christ in the flesh. That is a thing that comes to an end
for all who die to this world. The apostle Paul stated it this way in his
letter to the Corinthians, k “Wherefore henceforth know
we not anyone after the flesh: yes, though we have known Christ after
the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. For we are new creatures.”
You see there is a death, for says he, l “I die daily.” For a long time I did not know
about this death, nor did I understand it. I knew the Word as Philip knew him ¾ in the flesh.
Of m
death our Savior said it is necessary: for n birth, to o
regenerate and to p wage
war. How can we fight a war against spiritual powers of darkness unless we
are spirit? A war against spirits cannot be waged
from the flesh; we would be out of our realm. Moreover to be q spiritually minded in all things, is to understand,
appreciate and partake with our father, our people, all things
in r our
inheritance.
I hope and believe that you who truly want
eternal life will find it s(or rather be chosen of Christ), and I will be
your friend everlasting. By the Word, be of good cheer, be believing and
full of charity
. Amen
Wallace Ingram.
a Revelation 2:17. b 2
Corinthians 3:3. c John 16:12-13. d John
16:15. e
Isaiah 65:17-18.
f 1 Corinthians 2:9, Isaiah 64:4. g John 3:11-12. h Psalms 116:10,
2 Corinthians 4:13. i Romans
1:17. j
Matthew 6:33. k Hebrews 11:1. l John
6:63. m
John 16:13-15. n Revelation 12:11. o John 17:3.
p John 14:26,
16:13-15. q Ephesians 1:17‑19. r Isaiah
28:9-10. s Matthew 11:25. t Romans
14:17. u
Proverbs 6:23, 2 Timothy 3:16, John 14:26, 16:13, 1 John 2:27.
v Romans 14:17, 15:13. w Luke
11:9-10. x Isaiah 65:18. y Matthew 5:7. z
Psalm 145:1-2, Isaiah 65:17-18. a Acts
20:35. b Titus 3:5-6. c Matthew
5:6. d
Matthew 16:24. e Proverbs
3:5. f John 6:45,
Isaiah 54:13. g Matthew 6:33. h
Romans 12:3. i
Romans 8:6. j John 14:8-9.
k 2 Corinthians 5:16-17. l
Galatians 6:14, 1Corinthians 15:31.
m Matthew 16:24-25. n John 3:5-8. o Matthew 19:28-30. p
2 Corinthians 10:3-
q Romans 8:4-6.
r Isaiah 65:18, John 16:13-15. s John 15:16.
For a need, to a more clear understanding of scriptures, that relate to the
subjects that are enclosed, this amenment is added. If you have the love and
faith, God will give you the knowledge, wisdom and understanding, if you ask.
John 16:12-15
“Oh, there is so
much more I want to tell you, but you can’t bear it now. when the Spirit of
truth comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not be presenting his
own ideas; he will be telling you what he has heard. He will tell you about the
future. He will bring me glory by revealing to you whatever he receives from me.
All that the Father has is mine; this is what I mean I will be gone, and you
won’t see me anymore. Then, just a little while when I say that the Spirit will
reveal to you whatever he receives from me.
“In
just a little while after that, you will see me again.”
All things of
God are spirit and comes from our faith. Hear none but the Lord God, for He
said, they shall all be taught of me.
John 6:43-48
It is written in the prophets, And they shall all be taught of God.
All therefore that has heard, and has learned of the Father, comes unto me. Not
that any has seen the Father, except He which is of God, He has seen the
Father. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believes on me has everlasting
life.
EPHESIANS 2:14-22
For Christ himself has made peace between us Jews and you Gentiles
by making us all one people. He has broken down the wall of hostility that used
to separate us. By his death he
ended the whole system of Jewish law that excluded the Gentiles. His purpose
was to make peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new
person from the two groups. Together as one body, Christ
reconciled both groups to God by means of his death, and our hostility toward
each other was put to death. He has brought this
Good News of peace to you Gentiles who were far away from him, and to us Jews
who were near. Now all of us,
both Jews and Gentiles, may come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit
because of what Christ has done for us.
The disciples came, and said
unto Him, why do you speak to them in parables He Answered: Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of
the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. For whosoever has, to them
it shall be given, and they shall have more abundance: but whosoever has not,
from them it shall be taken away even that, that they have. Therefore I
speak to them in parables: because they
seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in
them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which says, By hearing you shall
hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you shall see, and shall not
perceive: For this people’s heart is (callous) waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and
their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their
eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their
heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. But blessed are
your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. For verily I say unto
you, That many prophets and righteous ones have desired to see those things
which your eyes see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things
which you hear, and have not heard them. Hear you therefore the parable
of the sower. When any one hears the word of the kingdom, and dose not understand it, then comes
the wicked one, and (immediately)
catches it away ( catch up, take by force, catch away, pluck, catch
, pull) it which was sown in their heart. These are
they which received seed by the way side. But they that received the seed into
stony places, the same are they that hears the word, and anon (immediatetely) with joy receives it; Yet they have no root in themselves,
but endures for a while: for when tribulation or persecution arises because of
the word, by and by they are offended. They also that received seed among the
thorns are they that hear the word; and the cares of this world, and the
deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and they become unfruitful. But they
that received seed into the good ground are they that hear the word, and
understands it; are they which also bear fruit, and bring forth, some an
hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Matthew13:36-43
All these things spoke Jesus to the multitude in parables; and without a parable He did not speak to them, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:
“I will open My
mouth in parables;
I will utter
things kept secret from the foundation of the world.”
Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples
came to Him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.” He
answered and said to them: “He who sows the
good seed is the Son of Man. The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are
the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the
devil; the harvest is the end of the
world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered
and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man
shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all
things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be
wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the
righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who has ears to hear, let them hear.
Isaiah
6:9-13.
Then I heard the
Lord asking, “Whom should I send as a messenger to my people? Who will go for
us?”
And I said,
“Lord, I’ll go! Send me.”
Then I said,
“Lord, how long must I do this?” And he
replied, “Until their cities are destroyed, with no one left in them. Until
their houses are deserted and the whole country is an utter wasteland. Do
not stop until the Lord has sent
everyone away to distant lands and the entire land of Israel lies deserted. Even if only a tenth—a remnant—survive,
it will be invaded again and burned. Israel will remain a stump, like a tree
that is cut down, but the stump will be a holy seed that will grow again.”
Jeremiah 16:14
“But the time is
coming,” says the Lord, “when people
who are taking an oath will no longer say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives, who rescued the people of
Israel from the land of Egypt.’ Instead, they will say, ‘As surely as
the Lord lives, who brought the
people of Israel back to their own land from the land of the north and
from all the countries to which he had exiled them.’ For I will bring them
back to this land that I gave their ancestors.
“But now I am sending for many fishermen who will catch
them,” says the Lord. “I am
sending for hunters who will search for them in the forests and caves. I am watching them closely, and I see
every sin. They cannot hope to hide from me. I will punish them doubly for all their
sins, because they have defiled my land with lifeless images of their
detestable gods and filled my inheritance with their evil deeds.”
Again we read
Zechariah13:1-9.
Awake,
O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow,
says the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered:
and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. And it shall come to pass, that
in all the land, says the LORD,
two
parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left
therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them
as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my
name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall
say, The LORD is my God.
Here we see
the true (Spiritual) crucifixtion of Jesus Christ in the Spirit, the
cutting off of two thirds and the saving of the one third.
In Hebrews 6:4-6,
For
it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of
the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted
the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall
away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves
the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.
In Luke 16:8-13
It is recorded: What the ungodly should do when they fail.
There are
many kingdoms that may be entered into.
For the children of this world are
in their generation wiser than the children of light. And I say unto you, make
to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when you fail,
they may receive you into everlasting habitations. He that is faithful in that which is least
is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in
much. If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who
will commit to your trust the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another man’s,
who shall give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters:
for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to
the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
I
believe this is where the saying: Misery loves company, comes
from.
What I tell you in darkness, that you speak in light: and
what you hear in the ear, that you preach upon the housetops.
Matthew 6:9-13.
Our Father which is in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done in earth, as is in
it heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we
forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us
from evil: For yours is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,
forever. Amen.
The Temptation is recorded in Revelation 3:7-11.
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things
says he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that
opens, and not any shuts; and shuts, and not any opens; I know your works:
behold, I have set before you an open door, and not any can shut it: for you
have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name.
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they
are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship
before your feet, and to know that I have loved you. Because you have kept the
word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation,
which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth
The temptation is, will we
be succored by another religion or so called church: nation, for they are the
wrath of God. See Joel chapter two. This Evil may be read in Jeremiah 1:11-16,
Joel Chapter 2
Blow ye the
trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the
inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD comes, for it is
nigh at hand; A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick
darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a
strong; there has not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even
to the years of many generations. A
fire devours before them; and behind them a flame burns: the land is as
the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yes, and
nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance
of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. Like the noise of chariots on
the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a
flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather
blackness. They shall run like mighty
men; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one
on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks: Neither shall one thrust
another; they shall walk every one in his path: and when they fall upon
the sword, they shall not be wounded.
They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall,
they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a
thief. The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun
and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining: And the
LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very
great: for he is strong that executes his word: for the day of the LORD is
great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
Jeremiah 1:1-
Moreover the word
of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see
a rod of an almond tree. Then said the LORD unto me, you have well seen: for I
will hasten my word to perform it. And the word of the LORD came unto me the
second time, saying, What do you see?
And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north. Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north
an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land. For, lo, I will call all the families of the
kingdoms of the north, says the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set
every one their throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against
all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah. And I
will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have
forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works
of their own hands.
Isaiah
66:
This is what the Lord says: “Heaven is my throne, and the
earth is my footstool. Could you ever build me a temple as good as that? Could
you build a dwelling place for me? My hands have made both heaven and earth,
and they are mine. I, the Lord,
have spoken!
“I will bless
those who have humble and contrite hearts, who tremble at my word. But those who choose their own ways,
delighting in their sins, are cursed. Their offerings will not be accepted.
When such people sacrifice an ox, it is no more acceptable than a human
sacrifice. When they sacrifice a lamb or bring an offering of grain, it is as
bad as putting a dog or the blood of a pig on the altar! When they burn
incense, it is as if they had blessed an idol. I will send great troubles against
them—all the things they feared. For when I called, they did not answer. When I
spoke, they did not listen. They deliberately sinned—before my very eyes—and
chose to do what they know I despise.” Hear this message from the Lord, and tremble at his words: “Your
close relatives hate you and throw you out for being loyal to my name. ‘Let the
Lord be honored!’ they scoff. ‘Be
joyful in him!’ But they will be put to shame. What is all the commotion in the
city? What is that terrible noise from the Temple? It is the voice of the Lord taking vengeance against his
enemies.
“Before the birth
pains even begin, Jerusalem gives birth to a son. Who has ever seen
or heard of anything as strange as this? Has a nation ever been born in a
single day? Has a country ever come forth in a mere moment? But by the time
Jerusalem’s birth pains begin, the baby will be born; the nation will come
forth. Would I ever bring this nation to the point of birth and
then not deliver it?” asks the Lord.
“No! I would never keep this nation from being born,” says your God.
“Rejoice with
Jerusalem! Be glad with her, all you who love her and mourn for her. Delight in
Jerusalem! Drink deeply of her glory even as an infant drinks at its mother’s
generous breasts. Peace and prosperity will overflow Jerusalem like a river,”
says the Lord. “The wealth of the nations will flow to her. Her
children will be nursed at her breasts, carried in her arms, and treated with
love. I will comfort
you there as a child is comforted by its mother.”
When you see
these things, your heart will rejoice. Vigorous health will be yours! Everyone
will see the good hand of the Lord
on his people—and his anger against his enemies. See, the Lord is coming with fire, and his swift
chariots of destruction roar like a whirlwind. He will bring punishment with
the fury of his anger and the flaming fire of his hot rebuke. The Lord will punish the world by fire and
by his sword, and many will be killed by the Lord.
“Those who
‘purify’ themselves in a sacred garden, feasting on pork and rats and other
forbidden meats, will come to a terrible end,” says the Lord. “I can see what they are doing, and I know what they
are thinking. So I will gather all nations and peoples together, and they will
see my glory. I will perform a
sign among them. And I will send those who survive to be messengers to the
nations—to Tarshish, to the Libyans and Lydians (who are famous as archers), to
Tubal and Greece, and to all the lands beyond the sea that have not heard of my
fame or seen my glory. There they will declare my glory to the nations. They will bring the remnant of your
people back from every nation. They will bring them to my holy mountain in
Jerusalem as an offering to the Lord.
They will ride on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,”
says the Lord. “And I will appoint
some of those who return to be my priests and Levites. I, the Lord, have spoken “As surely as my
new heavens and earth will remain, so will you always be my people, with a name
that will never disappear,” says the Lord.
“All humanity
will come to worship me from week to week and from month to month. And as they go out, they will see the
dead bodies of those who have rebelled against me. For the worms that devour
them will never die, and the fire that burns them will never go out. All who
pass by will view them with utter horror.”
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For, behold, I create
new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come
into mind. But be you glad and rejoice
forever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a
rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I
will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people.
In this paragraph, we see
that Zion, the Earth and Jerusalem are all equated
with all three names, for Zion means burnt, as she gives birth to us and was
with us in the great trial: tribulation. She is our Mother and our Covenant.
In Jude ver.22
And of some have
compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them
out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.