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 Letter Thirteen

Dear Elect brethren you may know that antichrist has already come; for John writes of it in: 1 John 4:1-3: Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that that does not  confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof you have heard that it should come; and even now already is in the world.

 In Galatians 4:11-20: The apostle Paul writes: I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as you are: you have not injured me at all. You know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at the first. And my temptation which was in my flesh you despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.Where is then the blessedness you spoke of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

They zealously affect you, but not well; yes, they would exclude you, that you might affect them. But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.

As seen here, it is clear that antichrist has come from the beginning. For from this time onward ― from the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh ― the sun has been darkened a nd the Lord God has been calling the northern families down from the kingdoms of the north, starting in the 1500’s ― as prophesied by Jeremiah in 604 BC, during the reign of Josiah king of Judah. See Jeremiah ch1-7. and Joel ch 2.

            The nations are God’s armies, the nations are the religions that test the elect of God. The land before them was like the garden of Eden and after they have gone over it, it is left a burnt wilderness. The land is called Zion: because it means burnt ― she is our Mother, the new Earth, New Jerusalem and Covenant.  See: Isaiah 66:5-14: Hear the word of the LORD, you that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that renders recompense to his enemies. Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? says the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? says your God.  Rejoice you with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all you that mourn for her: That you may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that you may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory. For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall you suck, you shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees. As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. And when you see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.

In Luke 12: 49-53:   “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!  But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed!   Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division.  From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

            From this time onward, there has been many times that fire has broken out: John Hus and John Wycliffe during the 14th century were an example; Martin Luther received great insights, of the Word of God along with thoses brights lights: such as Anne Askew: who at the tender age of twenry five was so racked (stretched) that she could not walk, but had to be carried to the stake where she was burnt to death.

(see:  www.Anne Askew.com).

            There are those that are refined as the Lord intended

It appears to be that of the Elect of God, the two thirds that are cut off, that die are seen here in Zechariah 13:7-9:

 “Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,

against the man who is close to me!”

declares the LORD Almighty.

“Strike the shepherd,

and the sheep will be scattered,

and I will turn my hand against the little ones.

 In the whole land,” declares the LORD,

“two-thirds will be struck down and perish;

yet one-third will be left in it.

This third I will bring into the fire;

I will refine them like silver

and test them like gold.

They will call on my name

and I will answer them;

I will say, ‘They are my people,’

and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”

 

Here in Deuteronomy 30:17-18. we read of those, that are cut off and why.

Moses, Deuteronomy 30:1-3: When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations,  and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today,  then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you.

            Deuteronomy 30:17-18 But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,  I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

 

            Our Savior said I am meek and lowly of heart, so you.be also.

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Brethren, what many call the reformation is a carnal movement ― that is not spiritual  ― of the nations a(that is: the families of the northern kingdoms) to speak in their own tongue ― that is create their own translations ― of this, they do not understand why they do it. God is not speaking to the Nations, He is speaking to those called to the Election: b Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them 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:  .   For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith you may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. They did not understand, nor hear the Apostle Paul, when he said: c Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more. Wherefore if anyone is in Christ, they are a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. d This is where two thirds are cut off and die. The Nations are a tool used by God to shape and test his Elect people. As it is written: e Enter in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and many are there which go in that way: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leads unto life, and few there be that find it. 

            The advice given to those who fail, is as follows in Luke: fAnd the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. And I say to you, make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when you fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations.

Let us stop here, go back and clarify some things. When we hear and understand what Jesus Christ said to the woman at the well   g The woman said to him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshipped on this mountain; and you say, that in Jerusalem is the place where God’s people ought to worship. Jesus said to her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when you shall neither in this mountain, nor at Jerusalem, worship the Father. You worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.  Here it is clear that salvation is of the Jews, next who is a Jew?  The apostle Paul answers that very well: h For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. At this Zechariah tells us who the Jew is:   i Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith 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 they are that one third refined and tested, that we read of above.

For in the trial it is written in Luke: j For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. 23But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. 

Wrath is understood in this way: k For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written,  The just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of those, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has showed it unto them.  For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:  Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Therefore, what is seen and understood as carnal is God’s wrath and is evil. God and all things pertaining to the God of truth are spiritual.

            Who are       the Nations ― they are the kingdoms: the religions of this world ― and what is their purpose: l Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and you shall be hated of all nations,  And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come. Remember, God’s word is spiritual always, never carnal. One must be spiritual to see and understand these things. The old being must die.

            The Lord God speaks in Jeremiah: mMoreover 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 of it 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 his 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.

         The north is where all images, fornications, adultery, murders and all unclean things come from. And as our Lord has said, recorded in Matthew:  nWoe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when they becomes one, you make them twice as much a son of hell as you are. Thus the northern families place their thrones at the entrance to the kingdom of heaven to prohibit entrance.

            It is the Prodical son that is the lost sheep and called to the Election and will return to his Father ― with an humble heart and a hunger for truth  ―  Jesus continued: nn “There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them.

 “Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living.  After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need.  So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.   He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

 “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have food to spare, and here I am starving to death   I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven ― a place of plenty for the just and godly ― and against you.  I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men.’  So he got up and went to his father.    See superscript:   “n”

This agrees perfectly with Moses:  o And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where the Lord your God has driven you, And you shall return unto the Lord your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all of your heart, and with all your soul; 3That then the Lord your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion upon you, and will return and gather you from all the nations, where the Lord your God has scattered you. If any of yours be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from there will the Lord your God gather you, and from there will he fetch you: And the Lord your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers. 6And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love the Lord your God with all of your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live. And the Lord your God will put all these curses upon your enemies, and on them that hate you, which persecuted you. And you shall return and obey the voice of the Lord, and do all his commandments which I command you this day. And the Lord your God will make you plenteous in every work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:If you shall hearken unto the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if you turn unto the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.

      For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not hidden from you, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? But the word is very nigh unto you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.

See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command you this day to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou may live and multiply: and the Lord your God shall bless you in the land whither you go to possess it. But if your heart turn away, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I tell you this day, that you shall surely perish, and that you shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither you pass over Jordan to go to possess it. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your seed may live: That you may love the Lord your God, and that you may obey his voice, and that you may cleave unto him: for he is your life, and the length of your days: that you may dwell in the land which the Lord sware to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.

      This brings now Zeckariah : pAwake, 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. These are the ones the Lord comes to save ― the one third.

a Jeremiah 1:11-19,  Joel 2,  b Isaiah 28: 9-13,  c 2Corinthians 5: 15-17,  d Zechariah 13:7-9,  e  Matthew 7: 13-14,  f  Luke 16: 8-9,   g John 4: 19-24,  h  Romans 2: 28-29,  I  Zechariah 13: 7-9,  j  Luke 21: 20-24,  k Romans 1:17-22,  l Matthew 24: 9, 14,  m Jeremiah 1: 11-16,  n Matthew 23: 13,15.  nn  Luke 15: 11-32,  o  Deuteronny 30: 1-20,    p  Zechariah 13: 7-9, 

                                                                                                              Amen,

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