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Calling and Election Sure Will God help us?
For the Lord to care about defending a people
there must be a people who are willing to
obey him. Or he could care less as
you will see as the wicked are destroyed by the millions in the war coming
as the warheads hit the forsaken cities
like Sodom.
“We will build up our Zion
after
the pattern that God will show
us, and we will be governed by his law and submit to his
authority and be governed by
the holy priesthood and by the word and will of
God. And then when the time comes that
these calamities we read of, shall overtake the earth, those that are prepared will have the power of
translation, as they had in former times, and the city will be translated. And Zion that
is on the earth will rise, and the Zion above will descend, as we are
told, and we will meet and fall on each other's necks and embrace and kiss
each other. And thus the purposes of God to a certain extent will then be
fulfilled. But there are a great many
things to be brought about before that time. And we are here in an organized capacity trying
to prepare ourselves for all the providences of the Almighty. We are
trying to instill into the hearts of the people the principles of honesty,
truth and integrity, and remove covetousness and iniquity of every
kind.” John Taylor,
“1880” Journal of Discourses Volume 21:253- 255
At another time he
said: “We are gathered here for the express purposes of
God; the world, however, do not understand it. But I tell you what they
will do, by-and-by. You
will see them flocking
to Zion by thousands and tens of thousands; and they will say, "We don't
know anything about your religion, we
don't care much about religious
matters, but you are honest and honorable, and upright and just, and you
have a good, just and secure government, and we
want to put ourselves under your protection, for we cannot feel safe anywhere
else." There is a scripture which says, the time will
come "when he that will not take up his
sword to fight against his neighbor, must needs flee to Zion for safety." And they will come. But we must prepare
ourselves; we have got to have the
invigorating influence of the Spirit of God to permeate all of our
organizations, all feeling that we are under the guidance and protection
of the Almighty, every man in his place, and every man according to the
order of the priesthood in which God has placed him.” John Taylor, “1878” Journal of Discourses 20: 137
CLICK HERE see a John Taylor Vision of women walking
to Utah.
We can’t
be a Zion
people if we don’t obey, and are
just as worthy of the Nuclear Warheads as the wicked world. Huh!
Some people say: Oh, we are the Lord’s people. I say we are just like the people in the time of
Helaman.
Helaman 7: “Yea, how could you have given way to the
enticing of him who is seeking to hurl away your souls down to everlasting
misery and endless wo?
17 O repent ye, repent
ye! Why will ye die? Turn ye, turn ye unto the Lord your
God. Why has he forsaken you?
18 It is because you have hardened your
hearts; yea, ye will not hearken unto the voice of the good shepherd; yea,
ye have provoked him to anger against you.
26 Yea, wo shall come unto
you because of that pride which ye have suffered to enter your
hearts, which has lifted you up beyond that which is good because of your
exceedingly great riches!
27 Yea,
wo be unto you because of your wickedness and abominations!
28 And except ye repent ye shall perish; yea, even
your lands shall be taken from you, and ye shall be destroyed from off the
face of the earth.
29 Behold now, I do not
say that these things shall be, of myself, because it is not of myself
that I know these things; but behold, I know that these things are true
because the Lord God has made them known unto me, therefore I
testify that they shall be.” Helaman 7:16-18, and 26-
29
Read
all of Helaman 8 about his problems just like my problems.
“And those judges were angry with him because he spake
plainly unto them concerning their secret works of darkness;
nevertheless, they durst not lay their own hands upon him, for they feared
the people lest they should cry out against them.
5 Therefore they did cry
unto the people, saying: Why do you suffer this man to revile
against us? For behold he doth
condemn all this people, even unto destruction; yea, and also that these
our great cities shall be taken from us, that we shall have no place in
them.
6 And now we know that
this is impossible, for behold, we are powerful, and our cities
great, therefore our enemies can have no power over us.” Book of Mormon - Helaman 8: 4-6
(Have I said yet that there are hypocrites among
us?) Yes lying hypocrites CLICK HERE and see if
you believe.
“In a very early
period of the history of this Church, when in its infancy, the Lord said unto us, in a
revelation which is contained in the Doctrine and Covenants, "He that is Tithed shall not be burned."(DC 64:23-24) In several of the revelations the subject of
Tithing is referred to in a general way; but the special revelation on
that subject was given at Far West, Missouri, in July, 1838, in answer to
the question, "O Lord, shew unto thy servants
how much thou
requirest of the
properties of thy people for Tithing."
And by this revelation we learned that we
were required to consecrate all of
our surplus property for the purposes
mentioned therein, and after doing that to pay annually one-tenth of our
increase. This means increase from every
source. For instance, if a man depend only upon the labor of his
own hands, than one-tenth of his earnings would be his lawful Tithing. But
if in addition to this he possess teams or employ other labor, then the
increase of such labor should also be Tithed. Again, if he should be
engaged opening up farms, building or making other improvements, thus
accumulating a surplus around him, one-tenth of the increase of such
property would be due, as Tithing, as well as a tenth of his labor
combined. Then again, should part of his surplus property be in such a
condition as to enable him to invest it in any branch of business, one-tenth of the profits arising there from is due as
Tithing; or should he have money loaned out on interest, on every
dollar so accumulated the sum of ten cents belongs to the Lord, in accordance to his law regulating the Tithing of his
people; and so on, this law strictly applying to our income derived from
every source.
It is not,
as some verily suppose, the Tithing of what you may have left after
deducting all of your expenses; or in
other words, after spending all you can. There are some calling themselves
Latter-day Saints who try to appease their conscience in the belief that
Tithing means the tenth of what may be left after deducting all expenses,
which would amount to this: "What we cannot spend we will give a tenth of
that as our Tithing." How much, my brethren and sisters, do you think the
Lord would get if all of us felt and acted so?
I will here
say, that when this law of Tithing was revealed, in 1843, the Lord said, "This shall be a
standing law unto them forever," and
"shall be an ensample unto all the Stakes of Zion." And we are also told
that all who observe not this law should not be found worthy to abide among the people
of God. And the
Lord further says, "If my people observe not this
law, to keep it holy, and
by this law sanctify the land of Zion unto me, that my statutes and my
judgments might be kept therein, that it may be most holy, behold, verily,
I say unto you, it shall not be a land of Zion unto you" This was the word of the Lord to his people at
that early day, and it has never changed, but is in
force to this day and will remain so forever. Unless certain conditions
are complied with, this chosen land cannot be a land of Zion unto
us.” Erastus Snow JD 19: 336-337
“1878”
Have the commands of God changed
any? Your Bible says:
“Will a man rob God?
Yet ye have robbed
me. But ye say, Wherein have we
robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye
are cursed with a curse: for
ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring ye all the tithes into the
storehouse, that there may be meat in
mine house, and prove me
now herewith, saith the LORD of
hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive
it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for
your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before
the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you
blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of
hosts.
13 Your words have been
stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken
so much against thee?
14 Ye have said, It is vain to
serve God: and what profit is it that we
have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before
the LORD of hosts? (Notice that Bill Gates, $ Billions,
can’t save him!)
15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that
work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even
delivered.
16 Then they that feared the LORD
spake often one to
another: and the LORD
hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and
that thought upon his name.
17 And they shall be mine, saith the
LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I
will spare them, as a
man spareth his own son that serveth him.
18 Then shall ye return,
and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth
God and him that serveth him not.” Malachi 3:8-18 in the Bible.
(That’s the command of God, and I don’t have the
authority to revoke it do I!)
A ticket to heaven does
cost. So buy or fry! Your choice,
that’s what God has said, not me.
But let me tell
you wives that have had a Temple recommend because your husband paid a tithe. And then when you get out on your own and just
ignore the commandments of God and teach your children to do the same;
then you can be classed among the
wicked of this world who rob God. I
have seen it happen often. Women can be hypocrites
too!
I will do a link about tithing in the
future about a true 10%
TITHE. People who think they have tithed in the past, don’t count their FICA deductions
and will burn. People think they can cheat God.
Fools they are. Are you watching the
“quotes”?
“We are not only going to have Zion
throughout this continent, but we will have it over the whole
earth. The whole earth is the Lord's.
The time will come when it will be translated and be
filled with the spirit and power of God. The atmosphere around it will be the spirit of
the Almighty. We will breathe that Spirit instead of the atmosphere that
we now breathe. But now it is for us to make the preparation, that we may be worthy to be called into the house of
the Lord and receive our second blessings. I do not want the presidents of Stakes to send
any person to our Temples to receive the highest blessings that have ever been bestowed upon man since the
world began, until it can be said of him, "He
pays his full tithing." Messages of the First Presidency of The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 6 vols. (Salt Lake
City: Bookcraft, 1965-75), Volume 3: 313
“Ruling on Temple
anointings, April 14, 1900 1890-April 14-Circular
letter, Church Historian's Library,
Salt Lake City.
The
"second blessings" here referred to are
presumably also on occasion known as "second anointings." Since the sacred nature of Temple ordinances and
ceremonies restricts their discussion outside
the Temples it is pointless to make much comment on this letter. It
is interesting, however, that President Snow restored a practice obtaining
in the administrations of Brigham Young and John
Taylor but which had been suspended during the
administration of Wilford Woodruff. As supplementary material to this
letter the reader might refer to the material on the "Law of Adoption"
(1894) earlier in this volume where justification or explanation is made
on the grounds on which these changes in rules are made by different
Presidents of the L.D.S. Church.” Office of The First
Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Salt
Lake City, Utah, April 14th, 1900.
Prest. David H.
Cannon, St. George
“DEAR
BROTHER:
During the lifetime of
the late President Wilford Woodruff a rule was established by him
not to permit
a woman to be anointed to a
man unless she had lived with him as a wife. This was a
restriction of the rule in such cases which obtained during the
lifetime of Presidents Brigham Young and
John Taylor. After considering the matter we have concluded to restore the practice as expressed in the following, and which will
govern in such cases in the future:
Any woman,
who has been sealed to a man in life or
by proxy, whether she has lived with him or
not, shall have the privilege of being
anointed to
him inasmuch as (as) he shall have had his second blessings.
(2nd.
Anointing – Today women
are Not anointed to men.)
LORENZO SNOW, GEORGE Q. CANNON, JOSEPH F.
SMITH.”
Messages of the First
Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
6 vols. (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft,
1965-75), 3: 325
A man that has NOT received his 2nd.
Anointing is NOT worthy of having any wives in the hereafter.
That is the Law of
God.
They are even told that in
the partial Aaronic
endowment that:
“These blessings
are based upon your faithfulness.”
In a nutshell; people are NOT
faithful and
so don’t get the 2nd. Anointing and come to the point where they
receive their calling and election sure. When you understand the
doctrine that a man must live plural marriage to have the 2nd. Anointing is a
key.
CLICK HERE to
begin to read about Aaronic Endowment.
A person
has to keep all of the commandments of God to make
their calling and election sure. They must as
you have just read “Keep the Law of
tithing.” They must also “Keep the Law of Celestial, or Plural Marriage.”
See Doctrine and Covenants 132: 1-6 If you don’t believe
me. That really decides
who is for God, and who is not.
Men and women
will get mad and “pissed-off” because they don’t want to hear the truth.
I’m just telling you what the rules are. So, Go gripe to God. I have received the promise
from Jesus Christ himself. Decades ago I published a revelation in print
that has never before
been on the internet. Here is a 'part'. "...Yea, the day cometh that those
shall think that they are in an ocean of fire. Thou hast had thine
second
anointings which
have been promised unto the true and faithful. By mine own mouth thou hast
been given the keys of revelation and vision. So be bold in declaring
the truth and the words of mine prophets..." May 25, 1983 in Parowan
Utah.
CLICK HERE to see a couple dozen
revelations.
“Did the people carry out this law? No.
Why? Because they had imbibed the
notions which had prevailed among the people of the whole earth, and these
notions were in direct opposition to the order of heaven. The notions and
traditions of the world were that every man must be for himself, every
family for themselves, and they must labor with their might, mind and
strength to gain all they possibly could gain, and use it only for
themselves and their generations after them, caring nothing at all about
their neighbors. These traditions had been instilled into our minds,
and we were too full of covetousness and of false notions about property
to carry out the law of God, and
hence many, when they came up to Zion, looked abroad upon that beautiful,
rich soil, and the excellent groves of timber, and the fine prairies and
meadows, with springs breaking forth in numerous places, as they do in
Jackson County, and their souls lusted after these things, and the rich
man said, "No, I will not consecrate all my property, I will go the General
Land Office and purchase for myself, and I will buy largely in order that
I may sell to my poor brethren when they come up here. I will buy land and
speculate upon it, and make my fortune." That was the feeling which
existed in the hearts of some of the Latter-day Saints. God saw this, and
reproved us by revelation, and he said to the people of Jackson County, by
the mouth of his servant Joseph, that if they did not
repent of this
covetousness he would pluck them up and send them out of Zion, for said he, "The rebellious are not of the blood
of Ephraim, wherefore they shall be plucked up, and sent away out of the
land." God fulfilled this revelation—he did pluck
up the people; he
did cast them away out of
that land in the year
1833. Some two
years and a few months after we first began to settle that country we were
cast out of the land—plucked up, just as
the Lord had predicted, and we were told that it
was because of our
sins and covetousness that we were sent away.
But let me refer you to the fullness of the law of
tithing, for, although an inferior law, I fear that, as a people we
have not kept it. The first part of that
law requires every man, when he comes into the midst of the people of
God, to consecrate
all his surplus
property, reserving to himself a certain portion. This is not a full
consecration like the higher law.
Latter-day Saints, have we kept this inferior law? Has the man who
possessed great riches, when he came to these mountains, and numbered
himself with the people of God, consecrated all his surplus property, and afterwards paid a tenth of all his annual
income? I will tell you what we have done—as a general thing we, rich and poor, have kept all the
property we had when we came here, and some have consecrated one-tenth part of
their income, and so far as this is
concerned the people have no doubt done very well, with some few
exceptions; and I am happy to be able to state, from information I have
obtained from some of the Bishops of the Church, that the Latter-day
Saints, now, are showing more determination to pay their tithing, than
they ever have done heretofore.
But let us
come back to the other portion of this inferior law. Have we felt a disposition to consecrate our
surplus property? Go east, west, north and south, into all our
settlements, and you will find that the men are
few and far between who
consecrated their surplus property,
when they came here. In the first place, there have been but few wealthy
persons who have come amongst us, and the people
have been their own judges. Every man thought that he had no surplus, when
he came here. If he had a hundred thousand dollars on his arrival
he has said or thought, "O, I have made such and such calculations. I wish
to become a merchant in the midst of the people, and I need thousands and
thousands of dollars to set me up. I wish to make thirty, forty, fifty or
a hundred per cent out of these poor people, and to enable me to do so I
do not think that any of this hundred thousand dollars can be called
surplus property. I need it all, I can not carry on my merchandising
unless I have it all to set me up.”
Orson Pratt “1873”
Journal of
Discourses Volume 16: 5-6
The
2nd. Week that I was brought home, after months in the
Hospital in Salt Lake City after my plane crash.
CLICK HERE to see that Plane.
I had my oldest son push me
the two blocks to church in my wheelchair. I was cast both legs from the
waist down to my toes.
And had a cast on my right arm from my fingers
to my shoulder.
I had him push me into the Bishop’s office and
excuse himself so I could talk to the Bishop. There I told the Bishop I
had learned on the other side of the veil that I had to consecrate everything to the Lord.
I then had over 1000 acres of
prime farmland with sprinkler systems on all of it. And more than another
1000 acres ( 2 square miles) of range for cattle. Big long haul trucks and
trailers, farm machinery, and homes, and silos with over $150,000 dollars
worth of grain in them. And about $100,000 dollars in bailed hay stacked
ready to sell.
The Bishop was amazed and
dumbfounded, and said he never heard of such a thing and that he would
have to talk to the Stake President.
He then talked with the General
Authorities in SLC and I went up to see them. The LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley has been
in my home for a visit. Then about six months later I was
excommunicated from the LDS Church. Because I believed what I was
told and they said that I was apostate. Not the end of the story. Now see who has received the promise from Jesus
Christ. And read around on my web site and
see who is “Really Apostate.” And will get to be in the fires of hell.
Just like God has
said would happen.
His words not just mine.
Would
you like to be a multi- millionaire? I have said before here
on my web site that I am the richest man
alive because I have received the promises of God. And I was not
even born as a Mormon. So if I could do it, so can you! Can you read what
is required for eternity? A long time.
What would you give for eternal life? You decide if it’s worth it.
Jesus said: “For
what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his
own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his
soul?” Matthew 16: 26
Most people trade it off for a little trash for a few years.
Now does the 6th. Lecture on Faith make sense to you? CLICK HERE
it’s on link #1
To receive the promises from God. You know that you are going to die soon.
If you will keep in your
mind that you may have only a month left to prepare for eternity, what can you do?
What record will
your last days on earth show? You can’t take anything with you but your
record. All those dreams and ideas you plan for are “zip” gone!
Just how long is
eternity?
Jesus said: “No man 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. Ye cannot serve God and
mammon.
25
Therefore I say unto
you, Take no thought for
your life, what ye shall eat, or what
ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not
the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not,
neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father
feedeth them. Are ye not much better than
they?” Matthew 6: 24-26 So
do you really believe him?
Can you do it? And get to see God.
Go read verses 19 to 34 yourself. Are you worth saving? You can decide if you want to
change, or just continue until you die.
“Then said one unto
him, Lord, are there few
that be saved? And he said unto
them,
24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate:
for many, I say unto you,
will seek to enter in, and shall
not be
able.” Luke 13: 23-24
“Enter ye in at the strait gate:
for wide is the gate, and broad is
the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there
be which go in
thereat:
14 Because
strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth
unto life, and
few there be that find
it.”
Matthew 7: 13-14
“I also have charity
for the Gentiles. But behold, for none of
these can I hope except they shall be reconciled unto Christ, and enter into the narrow
gate, and walk
in the strait path which
leads to life, and continue in the path until the end of the day of
probation.” 2
Nephi 33: 9
“And it came to pass that when Jesus had ended
these sayings he said unto his disciples: Enter ye in at the strait
gate; for
strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leads to life,
and few there
be that find it; but wide is the gate, and broad the way which leads to
death, and many there be that travel therein, until the night
cometh, wherein no man can work.” (Are you the few to find it?)
3 Nephi 27: 33
“Wherefore, although a
man should be baptized an hundred times it availeth him nothing, for you cannot enter in at the strait gate by the law
of Moses, neither by your dead works.” Doctrine and
Covenants
22: 2 (Moses law is
Aaronic judgment law.)
“Verily, verily,
I say unto you, except
ye abide my law ye cannot attain to this glory. (MY law! = My
Law! )
22 For strait is the gate, and narrow
the way that leadeth unto the exaltation and continuation of the
lives, and few there be that find
it, because ye receive me not in the world
neither do ye know me.
23 But if ye receive me in the
world, then shall ye know me, and shall receive your exaltation; that where I am ye shall be
also.
24 This is eternal lives—to know the only wise and
true God, and Jesus Christ, whom he hath sent. I am he. Receive ye, therefore, my
law.
25 Broad is the gate, and
wide the way that
leadeth to the deaths;
and many there are that go in thereat, because they receive me
not, neither
do they abide in
my law.” Doctrine and Covenants 132: 21-25
“I am the Lord thy God,
and will give unto thee
the law of my Holy Priesthood,
as was ordained by me and my Father before
the world was. (Eternal Law,
before the world was!)
33 But if ye enter not into my law ye cannot receive the promise of my Father, which he made unto
Abraham.
34 God commanded Abraham, and Sarah gave Hagar to Abraham to
wife. And why did she do it? Because this was the
law; and from Hagar sprang many
people. This, therefore, was fulfilling, among other things, the
promises.
35 Was Abraham, therefore, under condemnation?
Verily I say unto you, Nay; for I, the Lord, commanded it.”
Doctrine and Covenants 132: 28, 33-35
Perhaps in just a
month or so you are going to die. What will you do in your last days on
earth? Do you want to live in eternity? You now have some habits
that need changing, starting right now as you read this. Tomorrow may be
too late! Huh ! !
Long
ago I wrote a letter to my friend Don. I then was using DOS on my
computer before the internet. On the Net I had to program each page style,
content, and format. A lot of work. HTML codes! To see each page in code,
click View-then Source. See what I wrote to Don about
Polygamy CLICK
HERE
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