I write this morning as a witness of the wheat from the tares. I bare a simple but profound witness that the Earth is being cleansed of its wickedness. This should not take anyone by surprise that is reading this for there are signs all around us; what may be less evident in the lives of the Saints and their family members is the separation of the wheat from the tares as found in Matthew 13 and DC 86. This is taking place as I write this. There are refuges or stakes in Zion being establish to harbor those righteous Saints of all religions who will hearken to the voice of the Lord. I pray we will all seek our own personal testimony to where we go and when to go there to be amongst the wheat. The Lord should be the one who should tell you where and when.
However, this may be a difficult task if we are recently being awakened to this fact. Keep in mind it was by faith Noah built the Ark and his actions are what lead to the condemnation of all those around him. There are Noah’s around us today. Not all will have the testimony of Noah but none-the-less the people would have been safe if they listen to him. As Sam hearken to Nephi we can conclude that he was a righteous man and was saved but did not have the same witness or testimony as Nephi did. We need to seek like Nephi; but at minimum believe as Sam and follow those Nephi types.
Here is the warning of what we can not do, we can not murmur or justify ourselves as Laman and Lemuel did. Really think about this comment, “We [put our name here] know that the people [our church can go here] who were in the land of Jerusalem were a righteous people; for the kept the statutes and judgments of the Lord, and all his commandments, according to the Law of Moses; wherefore, we know that they are a righteous people…”
What is our “law of Moses? Do we not go to church religiously, attend the temple, pay our tithes, do our ministering, read our scriptures, etc. From this we can easily conclude we are good people and could be found amongst those Laman and Lemuel call “righteous”. But do we have true faith in Christ, do we seek after, receiving, and acting upon revelation directly from the Lord himself? If not we can consider ourselves the un-wise virgins or those who where left in Jerusalem in Lehi’s time. For the wise amongst us know how to and actively seek revelation, they sacrifice everything and place this desire to seek the Lord’s face as their greatest desires; this is truly the definition of faith. They also repent often and systematical forsake all the things of the world. They are often looked at as an outcast as John the Baptist or Lehi when he took his family and left the prophet Jeremiah, along with his temple and church. Don’t forget Christ himself was excommunicated from the “true” church at the time. Or we can go back to Noah saying a flood is coming in a desert and being laughed at as a crazy man.
Why oh why do we believe we at this time are any different or have some special right to safety because we believe we are more righteous than those in the scriptures and we obey our Law of Moses? Does that law save us? No, not one bit. In fact, neither the Church nor the Law will save anyone or anything - only the Lord Jesus Christ can do this. The Law and the Church’s primary purpose are to point us to Christ period.
“And for this intent we keep the Law of Moses, it pointing our souls to him. (Jacob 4:5)” and again “Now they did not suppose that salvation came by the law of Moses; but the law of Moses did serve to strengthen their faith in Christ; and thus they did retain a hope through faith (seeking, receiving, and acting), unto eternal salvation, relying upon the spirit of prophecy, which spake of those things to come (Alma 25:16).” See Mosiah 13: 28, 30, 32 and 2 Nephi 11:4. For clarity Mosiah 12:32 is how we will typically answer or how the Church at the time answered Abinadi. Yes King Noah was acting president of the Church and his councilors are his apostles, the scriptures are for those who read it not others.
My heart brakes when the false notion of wearing a masks or faith in a vaccination is herald as a savior of this pandemic or that we should pray for things to return to normal and look forward to the day when it does. The truth is that the day will not return to any one of our previous norms. The Earth is now being prepared for the return of our Savior Jesus Christ; the Heavens are open and the Davidic servant is on the Earth, the righteous are separating them selves from Babylon, Zion is being established, there are many receiving their Baptism of Fire and Baptism of the Holy Ghost which ordinance is only sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise or Jesus Christ himself. They have enter in by the gate and are now holding onto the Iron Rod.
This is all happening before our eyes and most look to a man to tell them what to do or where to go as if there are not such things as false prophets or that the scriptures don’t testify of our prominent leaders misleading the people as the people’s faith are often in man. Just read and listen closely to the message and direction of those messengers or those professing to speak for the Lord. If they are not leading you to Christ they are in fact anti-Christ. Stop kidding yourselves.
We must use the gospel for what it is designed to do, to lead us to Christ; use the temple and put it into practice in your daily life, understand “everything” in the temple is symbolic (even marriage) and will only be sealed by those with “proper” authority in due time to those that are faithful and when the fullness is restored by Joseph Smith the end time servant. It will not be restored to a condemned Church or people. I pray that we will receive the pure doctrine of Christ as our guide. Which is that all must come unto Him to be saved with a broken heart and a contrite spirit; this is the forsaken covenant found in the Book of Mormon. Thus pray diligently for all the experiences necessary to receive the Baptism of Fire and the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. Let the Lord know you are ready for these experiences necessary to start right now!!
If we believe we have already received this we are most likely mistaken and will stop searching for it that is the deception of the adversary. If we are not speaking with angles nor receiving constant and steady communication from heaven the warning and message would be to keep search and praying to receive our Baptism of Fire and Baptism of the Holy Ghost that we may then enter onto the straight and narrow path. A closer look at the tree of life vision is that most have not even entered onto the path.
I know that many of these ideas may be hard to hear but I desire to speak truth, I repeat as Nephi did, “I [know] that I [have] spoken hard things against the wicked, according to the truth; and the righteous have I justified and testified that they should be lifted up at the last day; wherefore, the guilty taketh the truth to be hard, for it cutteth them to the very center.” Wherefore stand ye in holy places, and be not moved, until the day of the Lord come; for behold, it cometh quickly, saith the Lord. Amen. (DC 87:8)
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