Zion and Jerusalem,
September 10, 2013
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you:
not as the world giveth, give I unto you.
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
(New Testament | John 14:27)
Beautiful
Suzanne Singley Seabolt Witt Said in response to one of my written articles.
“will you please quit sending me
these? I go by what the bible says.
I do fear God and love Him above all
else:”
And
I, Miguel Angel, an unworthy and unprofitable servant in the hands of Christ
kindly replied to her,
Fair
enough Suzanne, this is why I am here my lovely sister, because you fear God and
love him. Please, please pardon my
loving stubbornness or insistence. With
all the blogs I send out thru these messages. It is my way of fishing with a
net. I Just wanted to extend you an
invitation get you to know God; and to get you and your loved ones a little
closer to him, even at arms length with intent
to for you and your loved ones to attain a more excellent hope and a
better resurrection; and peace in this world and in the world to come, but not
as the world gives it. This is one of
my ways of expressing mercy and charity to others.
If
you read the last post I sent out concerning the dream I had; it may not mean
much to others as it does to me. But had
not I written it, I would not be having the honor and privilege of talking to
you personally today because you would have not responded to me. But everyone can see that it only shows that
in life or in death, the LORD does what he says. What I lived in my dream where
I was in the verge of the living and burning hell; and the furious flames
thereof did not even burn me, only
attests to the words of the LORD Jesus Christ or Jehovah in Isaiah 43 that say:
BUT now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O
Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I
have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the
rivers, they shall not overflow thee:
“””when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt
not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.”””
For I am
the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel,
thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and
Seba for thee.
Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast
been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and
people for thy life. Fear not: for I am
with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west;
I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my
sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth; Even every one that is called by my
name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made
him. Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.
(Old Testament | Isaiah
43:1 - 8)
The
Bible indeed teaches us much about Jesus Christ, the GOD of my fathers, even
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But thru the
Book of Mormon and the other works we have in the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints, we do not just know about him but can truly KNOW him not only as he was, according
to the Bible, but as he is and as he will be forevermore. Thru the Book of Mormon, the LORD truly
interacts with us in our daily world
affairs. I bear solemn witness of that
because fore me the Book of Mormon is more than a historical account or an
entertaining reading material with good precepts. As a matter if fact, God talkd to me thru the
Book and I talk to him when the marvelous results ara made manifest in my life
and the life of my family.
As
a preacher of righteousness I offend the devil often and he gets furious.
Because I preach, teach write and plagiarizer as if there is no tomorrow the
greatness of the words in the book of Mormon. And I get lots of opposition by
doing that. It is witness to me that the word is good for the words of truth
pierce and offend the wicked soul. And when I was a wicked wicked man, I was
very much offended by it because it showed my most of not all my sins as does
the Holy Bible. IN my profession or vocation or passion, without a firm
foundation, I or anyone in my profession will not make it a single day in the
eyesight of the adversary of all righteousness. If people hate Mormons, they will have to
hate me more because I am more a Mormon than most I have seen lately. It show
even thru my pores.
Yesterday
I went to the doctor like a lamb to the slaughter house for some pain I have
been suffering; and I had n o clued that they were going to inject me with a
painful shot and to draw blood from
me. As I was holding my breath the fair
and young Phlebotomist asked me what I had planned for my day and I told her that
I would go to pick up my daughter at her college, then that I would go and help
a friend in need and that when I get home I would publish a couple of blogs
that I had been writing since dawn, which were the ones I sent out yesterday. She asked me what I write about and I told
him that I write religious stuff about Christ. She asked what Church I go to
and I confessed that I go to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint.
And we talk a little about Prayer, about the bo0k of Mormon, about the church
and about the Mormon missionaries. All this happen while she took my blood for
some tests the doctor recommended. The conversation ended with me asking her to
grab some of the missionaries from the neck tie and demand of them to teach her
about the church and what we preach. And she asked me about where the church
was located and I told her. Today I had
been scheduled for further testing and I went early to the Doctor’s office. But
in the Morning as soon as I woke up I thought about he young lady. And I was
prompted to give her a Book of Mormon. So, I rewrote a testimony that I had in
store concerning the Book of Mormon and its benefits and I placed it in a Book
of Mormon and after doping some daily family errands I headed up to the doctor.
I was the first and I waited a little while and then she appeared for work and
as we saluted, I took opportunity to handle her the great gift with the
personal testimony I have concerning the truthfulness of the Book of
Mormon. And thinking about the three
great drops pf blood that were drawn from me the day before, I told the
phlebotomist, that as Christ, shed his
blood for all of us, that the words of the book of Mormon did cost the best
blood of the ninetieth century to produce.
A
little Later, I discovered that the person that would perform the additional
test did not show up and they sent me to an outside lab. I told them that the work I had come to do
there was already accomplished and left to the outside lab.
I
have been taken time and again for my beliefs and even imprisoned, and my
precious blood has bee taken also in the meantime, which attest that there is
nothing that I would not sacrifice for the love of GOD and the religious truths
I hold dear. What I preach is good because I am counted worthy to suffer as the
ancients witnesses or apostles of Jesus Christ suffered for Christ’ sake. I
have great teachers but God also teaches me personally and his example I follow
for I am a witness of him in all things, in all places at all time and even
unto death. And that is the Baptismal covenant I made with him when I was
baptized. And this is why I enjoy the
spirit of God that guides me more abundantly. I learned this knowledge not from
the Bible but from the Book of Mormon where it is said:
Behold, here are the waters of Mormon (for thus
were they called) and now, as ye are desirous to come into the fold of God, and
to be called his people, and are willing to bear one another's burdens, that
they may be light; Yea, and are willing to mourn with those that mourn; yea,
and comfort those that stand in need of comfort, and to stand as witnesses of
God at all times and in all things, and in all places that ye may be in, even
until death, that ye may be redeemed of God, and be numbered with those of the
first resurrection, that ye may have eternal life— Now I say unto you, if this
be the desire of your hearts, what have you against being baptized in the name
of the Lord, as a witness before him that ye have entered into a covenant with
him, that ye will serve him and keep his commandments, that he may pour out his
Spirit more abundantly upon you?
(Book of Mormon | Mosiah 18:8 - 10)
And
there is nothing I do that I have not seen my father do and as far as I know
them all the works of Christ I do and the sky is the limit. For in the book of
Mormon he not only said but commanded unto me:
Now this is the
commandment:
Repent, all ye ends of the earth, and come unto me
and be baptized in my name, that ye may be sanctified by the reception of the
Holy Ghost, that ye may stand spotless before me at the last day. Verily,
verily, I say unto you, this is my gospel; and ye know the things that ye must
do in my church; for the works which ye have seen me do that shall ye also do;
for that which ye have seen me do even that shall ye do; Therefore, if ye do
these things blessed are ye, for ye shall be lifted up at the last day.
(Book of Mormon | 3 Nephi 27:20 - 22)
The
results of my beliefs in the doctrines of the Bible and of the Book of Mormon
are vibrant. I walk the talk. I may not have many results with the world but I
know that my work is with my GOD. And this we can do not only by hearing, bur
by emulating his the LORD’s perfect example in all things and become doers of
the word as you see me do unceasingly. Because
the one of the ways to know if the doctrines of the apostles and prophets are
true and effective is by doing them and reaping the everlasting results unlike
those that only know but do not.
And he answered and said unto them, My mother and
my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.
(New Testament | Luke
8:21)
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only,
deceiving your own selves.
(New Testament | James
1:22)
Besides,
I am not as happy just to know about GOD, I want to know him; and the bible
mainly teaches about him and it verily gives one or two accounts of what it
means to be born again in the day of Pentecost and the conversion of Nicodemus
and perhaps of Paul. But in the Book of
Mormon we have countless accounts of how to achieve that process or a great
many more accounts and what these people did to achieve communion with GOD and
remain faithful saint since the LORD took them by hand. Even many of us Mormons
despite all the blessings we have had have, still have not had that glorious
experience of being born again and received of the fullness of Christ, but they
are in the way to do so. Even in a way
that as the LIVING CHRIST some of us can attest that as the son is one with the Father and in the
father and in the Holy Ghost, so we are one with him and he is in us for to
this end the plan of mercy exist to makes us whole and one with GOD. For the
father and the son can be in us, as he was in Christ by the power of the Holy
Ghost thru works of faith or thru obedience and sacrifice. Some even
say that we worship another Jesus, but the truth is that we are the ones
that know him as he is or better than most. Most people know him as he was, even the Jesus
that was a faithful minister, who was rejected,
betrayed and crucified. And who taught well. We also know him as such,
but they do not know him as he is. They
do not perceive that it is him that is searching for his sheep thru us his
servants despite all opposition. And this we know by following his example and
becoming not the Christ, but Christlike.
You may know the passage of the Bible which says:
" I am he that liveth, and was
dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen;"
(New
Testament | Revelation 1:18)
The
LORD Jesus Christ knows his sheep and his sheep know him and hear his voice
because they will not listen to a stranger nor will the LORD take care of
another’s fold Sheep to let them pasture in his fold. It is no tin the
shepherds manual. If you know Jesus, even the premortal great Jehovan as
recorded in the Old Testament, The
Messiah known as Jesus Christ in the new testemtn, he who was crucified; and
the Resurrected Christ which is witnessed to have been seen and ministered to a
great many in the book of Mormon, then
you will recognize his voice which he speaks everywhere, even the glorified
being or deity as recorded in the Book of Doctrine and covenants. Therefore you will know that he is the one
that speaks in Isaiah in the Bible and the book of Mormon and says:
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I
called, was there none to
answer? Is my hand shortened at all,
that it cannot redeem? or have I no
power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I
dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make
sackcloth their covering. The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned,
that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine
ear to hear as the learned. The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not
rebellious, neither turned away back.
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to
them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall
I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that
I shall not be ashamed. He is near
that justifieth me; who will contend with me?
let us stand together: who is
mine adversary? let him come near to me.
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo,
they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up. Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that
obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light?
let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in
the light of your fire, and in the sparks that
ye have kindled. This shall ye have of
mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.
(Old Testament | Isaiah 50:2 - 11)
And he that will contend against the word of the
Lord, let him be accursed; and he that shall deny these things, let him be
accursed; for unto them will I show no greater things, saith Jesus Christ; for
I am he who speaketh.
And at my command the heavens are opened and are
shut; and at my word the earth shall shake; and at my command the inhabitants
thereof shall pass away, even so as by fire. And he that believeth not my words
believeth not my disciples; and if it so be that I do not speak, judge ye; for
ye shall know that it is I that speaketh, at the last day.
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.
(Book of Mormon | Ether
4:8 - 19)
As you see, I do not
speak of myself or of anything that is not supported by the law and the
prophets or harmonize faithfully with the law and the testimony. Therefore, If you do not recognize the words
of the LORD in the scriptures above
maybe, maybe an unbiased testimony of a Baptist Preacher will persuade you. But if not, maybe THE GREAT PROLOGUE, a
fireside sermon or speech given by an apostle of Jesus Christ who I believe is
a direct descendant of Mark, the Son of the Apostle Peter will persuade you to
believe. And if that does not get thru you, then surely, my dear sis, you
either have a stony heart or you are not nor ever will be of the LORD’s
flock. I prefer a Stony heart, for I had
one myself until the LORD took me by the hand and changed it to a heart of
flesh. And in that day I was born spiritual of him and he became my God and I
became his son.
TEN
BIBLICAL PROOFS OF THE TRUTHFULNESS OF THE BOOK OF MORMON
THE
GREAT PROLOGUE
By
Mark E Petersen
Now
Suzanne, since this is may be last time I may post blogs or private messages in
your site, I wanted to make it count. This is why I have undertaken this work
because you will not forget that I was sent and say these things of which in
due time the lord our GOD will show you and bear witness of me and I exhort you
to remember these things. And I do these things for the fulfilling of the
prophecies, for he, the LORD Jesus
Christ, the only one, with these very
words in BOLD
RED will say unto you, even in the great day of Judgment:
And I exhort you to remember these things; for the
time speedily cometh that ye shall know that I lie not, for ye shall see me at
the bar of God; and the Lord God will say unto you:
“Did I not declare my words unto you,
which were written by this man, like as one crying from the dead, yea, even as
one speaking out of the dust?
I declare
these things unto the fulfilling of the prophecies. And behold, they shall proceed forth out of
the mouth of the everlasting God; and his word shall hiss forth from generation
to generation.
And God shall show unto you, that that which I have
written is true. And again I would exhort you that ye would come unto Christ,
and lay hold upon every good gift, and touch not the evil gift, nor the unclean
thing.
And awake, and arise from the dust, O Jerusalem;
yea, and put on thy beautiful garments, O daughter of Zion; and strengthen thy
stakes and enlarge thy borders forever, that thou mayest no more be confounded,
that the covenants of the Eternal Father which he hath made unto thee, O house of
Israel, may be fulfilled.
Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and
deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all
ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his
grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if
by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power
of God.
And again, if ye by the grace of God are perfect in
Christ, and deny not his power, then are ye sanctified in Christ by the grace
of God, through the shedding of the blood of Christ, which is in the covenant
of the Father unto the remission of your sins, that ye become holy, without
spot.
And now I
bid unto all, farewell. I soon go to
rest in the paradise of God, until my spirit and body shall again reunite, and
I am brought forth triumphant through the air, to meet you before the pleasing
bar of the great Jehovah, the Eternal Judge of both quick and dead. Amen.
(Book of Mormon | Moroni
10:27 - 34)
And
now I bide you farewell with my binding testimony
Pleas
note that what I say in abundance to one single person, only shows that my
interest for the welfare of your soul is real and that it goes beyond merely
good intentions.
I
bear witness and testify that I know that the Bible is the word of GOD, I also know
and bear witness that the Book of Mormon is the word of God with the same
assurance and intensity. And I also know and bear witness that Joseph Smith was
and is a true prophet of GOD, an instrument of a great work which is the work
of restoration. He, Joseph Smith did not
make our church, Jesus Christ did, Joseph Smith was the only worthy instrument
under heaven that could have done it. He just brought it out of obscurity with
the same prejudices that the Church
of Jesus Christ had when
it went into the wilderness or into obscurity after the apostles of Christ were
martyred.
To
the early saints and the Mormon Pioneers, to lift this church up was a rude
awakening, and I am grateful for them all.
But since then we have improved much and like it or not, it is the only
church acceptable to God, speaking of the Collective church and not initially
for God does not look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, yet he that
repents will be forgiven. And I say this because all flesh has become corrupted
before GOD. Please considered these
things at heart and ask God if I speak truth or falsehood. That this church is coming out of obscurity
fair as the moon, bright is the sun in its strength and potent as an army with
banners.
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| THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS |
As
you, I am very grateful for the Bible. I
do not know what I would do without it because I love it so much. And I love
those who sacrificed themselves so we can have it in our homes. Likwise I feel
for the Book of Mormon and the other scriptures that we have in the restored church of Jesus Christ. I love William Tyndale, he is one of my
heroes. Thanks to him we have a Bible that we all can read at home. Did you know Suzzane, that William Tyndale was
a kind of prophet? Not many people, even amongst us Mormons know that. But I
and the world know that before and nearing his death, he uttered two prophetic
prayers. and those prayers came to pass.
Perhaps
you may be aware of the fulfillment of one of those prayers. When Tyndale was
burned at the stake, before he was strangled he was allowed to speak. And he
prayed to GOD that King James would open his eyes and make the Bible a reality
for the availability to all. That prophesy was fulfilled some three years later
when the King James bible became a historical reality. But before this, he had
uttered another more profound prophecy in the heat of spiritual battle. When he
asked the Pope for Permission to translate and publish the Bible for public
use, his request was vehemently denied. The colossal Pontifice at the time sent
an emissary, or one of his priests to tell Tyndale that it was not good to
throw the pearls to the swine. For to the Catholic Church that is what the
ignorant filigrees were, even as inbred swine. But then that unkind message infuriated Tyndale and filled with the rebuke
of the LORD he said to the Messenger that IF GOD GAVE HIM LICENSE O RPERMISSION,
THAT HE WOULD MAKE “THE BOY FROM ENGLAND THAT PUSHED THE THRESSHING OR PLOWING CART”
TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE SCRIPURES THAN THE HIM, THAT IS, KNOW MORE
ABOUT THE SCRIPTURES THAN THE MESSENGER, AND EVEN THE POPE. You may or may not know it, but that prophecy came to pass some three
hundred years later. For the Boy from England that
pushed the Thressing cart was Joseph Smith Jr. Was not Joseph Smith Jr. of
Anglo Saxon descent or heritage? Who can deny it. And that hard working boy o
flow degree, reading the scriptures read the verse written in the first epistle
of James 1:5 which says that if any lack wisdom let him ask God who gives to
all liberally.
THE FIRST VISION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5UA78MT44Y
Indeed
there were many scholarly preachers before and after Joseph Smith jr. Some o f these
protestant preachers were of renown or well know celebrities. But none that I know pushed and threshing or plowing
cart or knew more about or of the scriptures than Joseph Smith before or after.
As far as I know, in these latter days he is the ONLY one that made the
experiment or followed word by word the admonition of James in his epistle. He really taught about what James wants us all
to do. And after while the Young Boy
called Joseph Smith, decided to go and
ask GOD which church he should join for he truly lacked knowledge and wisdom.
And
his prayed was answered whether you believe it or not, GOD the Father and the
LORD Jesus Christ appeared to him which God, the angles, the entire universe, we,
you and the world know as the first vision.
For it was an even of universal proportions. Never before both the Father and the Son had
appeared in the flesh to man. And more great revelations followed after
that. Many times I heard the first
vision account and many times I have seen the videos that our church has made concerning
Joseph Smith and the first vision. Most of the things I see and hear I forget,
but what I never forget is that I see a young Anglo Saxon Boy pushing the
threshing or plowing cart. And my heart burns inside me when I see that because
the whole world knows that he was a humble farm boy. And when I read in
wikipedia about Wiliam Tyndale and his heroic devotion and vocation and the
words that he uttered before his death, I just lift my eyes to heaven and
glorify God. Because the puzzle comes together and it makes me associate that
Boy that Tyndale mentioned, whether he knew him or not, was Jospeh Smith. Jr. And also because thank to the King James
version of the Bible that the Smith had, the Boy of low degree was able to read
one single verse that taught him more about the scriptures than any other man I
know and open the windows of heaven once again to the whole world.
Joseph
Smith may have never become a licensed scholar, but in as little as twenty
years he did a work that cannot be surpassed in greatness for the benefit of
the whole world with the exception of Jesus Christ. I know that despite all
evil reports about him, Joseph Smith was and is a true prophet of GOD. People may differ in opinion of how things
came to pass and the controversies of Zion
concerning his divine missions. But the
works that Joseph Smith left for us all,
including me and you, stands firmly and
boldly the proof of time, the law of witnesses and the law of contradiction. Now
as you, I fear GOD and have not neglected to give glory to him, for good
understanding have those that keep his commandments. And of this I solemnly
testify with Gladness and extended arms to heaven, in the sacred name of Jesus
Christ, amen.
Yours
truly from an unworthy servant in the hand of Christ and an eternal friend of
the Prophet Joe Smtih.
Miguel
Angel Tinoco Rodriguez
