Zion and Jerusalem,
October 20, 2013
Settle it
therefore in your hearts, not to meditate before what ye shall answer: For I
will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able
to gainsay nor resist.
(New Testament | Luke 21:14 - 15)
Today
is a day of rest for me, a day of praise towards the Most High GOD. I praise him and honor him greatly for his greatness,
for his kindness and for his long suffering love towards the children of men. It has been a troublesome week for me, in
which as some you have seen, I have had heated encounters with the adversaries of
truth and virtue. The devil snared very
closely and sough much opportunity to entrap me to then devour me with intent
to make me miserable and vanish away the hope that is in me. It has been as if I have been surrounded by
ravenous wolves and the persecution thereof raged day and night; and it has
been fierce and relentless. Temptations
from all sources have surrounded me, and abated me, but with the Help of the
LORD I gave no heed. But today, I feel
as calm as a summers morning on the vast savannah prairie, even as the peace of still waters.
The LORD is faithful and his scriptures
speak no vain thing. Submit to GOD and resist the devil the Good word says and
he will flee from you, for the LORD resist the proud and gives grace to the
humble. Behold the law and the testimony:
Wherefore
he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit
yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
(New Testament | James
4:6 - 7)
Ok Miguel this conversation is over. Unfortunately you have descended into madness. I was looking forward to an intelligent debate but I see now that we will never have one.
Goodbye.
This
was no small enterprise. I now have to wait about a thousand years for the same
opportunity. The above man, whose name
is Sidney whom I surnamed Sidney Australia was once a member of our church for
some twenty years, according to his word, but he let doubt of apostates and
calumnies grow in his heart and it stripped him away of his testimony, truth
and light among other things. Now, he is
a bitter antagonist of Christ. He does not believe in the any o the Holy Scriptures
for they are all lies to him. The very day I charged him, girded with the whole
amour of GOD and with the sword at hand, I asked to him if he believed in GOD
or if he denied the existence of GOD as Alma and Jacob did with the antichrists
of their day. He immediately capitulated from the mortal combat contest that as
in the days of David and Goliath, we had agreed to fight to the death. As all warriors of Jesus Christ, our King, I
was hoping for a worthy adversary, one that could offer me a beautiful death. I
even smiled at the prospect to return with honor to my GOD. And then, I was
disappointed even before we had started. I merely recited to him the protocols
of war or rules of engagement when the said to me what you have read
above.
My
name is Miguel Angel; I am a messenger of Jesus Christ, the son of the Living
GOD. I am the least among my brethren and the chief sinner among my fellows. I
am here to fight battles, not because I like war, bloodshed or destruction, neither
do I take pleasure in the destruction of the wicked, but because I have been
washed and anointed at the door of the tabernacle in the temple of our GOD to
wheel the sword of Justice in defense of truth and virtue. And I had covenanted that as Jesus gave his
life for us, the least I could do is to die for him in sustaining and defending
the kingdom of GOD.
Nonetheless I am grieved, because I was willing to laid my soul like a
mat to be trampled over, if the chance was give me to help rescue somebody back
to Christ. This man had previously
written both about him and about me:
Behind the Mormon Curtain also said;
Leaving the LDS cult left me 'homeless' and lost for many years until I learnt through my own research and questioning that I could never go back and that I was at home within myself.
I looked into plenty of other religions and practices seeking to replace what I had left and never found it.
But of course I wouldn't. And I'm glad I didn't because what I have now is better than that ever was; I was going to try and describe it but I can't.
It's pretty exciting giving up the Christ mythology, it feels so naughty and bad at first, and then it's just a relief and a coming back to ones self.
....just some thoughts I felt like sharing
SB
Behind the Mormon Curtain said publicly
I almost had an interesting debate with a Mormon.
When I say almost, I mean it had the potential for it and I was almost convinced that he was genuinely interested in a healthy conversation/debate. And then it all went horribly insane as he showed his true colours as a fanatic preacher hell bent on saving my soul and accusing me of trying to bring down the church ( if only that were true! ).
His comments are unfortunately too long and boring and full of scriptural passages to quote to you as an interesting example of madness, otherwise I would have shared them. But he was convinced of his divinely appointed role as an emissary of christ.
Kind of scary, and very disappointing.
But in all truth, the
disappointed was all me and I lie not. I almost fell into a snare of eternal
proportions. My only resource was Faith
and trust in Christ. I had not researched well who this man was. But I learned
tree important lesson. First, when you are at war, do not hesitate, Shoot to
kill; which I did. Second, that the devil is always a liar, that there is no
truth in him, and third, that you should not for a moment call anyone under
heaven good, no, not even the prophet of the living GOD unless you are certain that the spirit of GOD is in him, because all sooner or
later will disappoint us regardless or despite their good intentions. And how would we knot if he speaks for GOD unless we keep his commandments and the are faithful to our covenants? That is how I know that we truly have living prophets both in the general and the local church. I do not even trust myself or put my trust in the arm of flesh. I mean no
offense to anyone much less any disrespect, nor am I sorry to dethrone anyone’s
idols. It is the truth, for there is no one that does good, no, not one but our Father who is in heaven who
works thru us by the power of the Holy Ghost. The scriptures are undeniable clear and
accursed is the man that contends against the word of GOD. Behold the Law and
the Testimony:
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and
whose heart departeth from the LORD.
(Old Testament | Jeremiah 17:5)
And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good
Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said
unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter
into life, keep the commandments.
(New Testament | Matthew 19:16 - 17)
O Lord, I have trusted in thee, and I will trust in
thee forever. I will not put my trust in
the arm of flesh; for I know that cursed is he that putteth his trust in the
arm of flesh. Yea, cursed is he that
putteth his trust in man or maketh flesh his arm.
(Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 4:34)
Cursed is he that putteth his trust in man, or
maketh flesh his arm, or shall hearken unto the precepts of men, save their
precepts shall be given by the power of the Holy Ghost.
(Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 28:31)
They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not
one.
(Old Testament | Psalms 14:3)
Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether
become filthy; there is none that
doeth good, no, not one. Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
(Old Testament | Psalms 53:3 - 4)
As it is written, There is
none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is
none that seeketh after God.
(New Testament | Romans 3:10 - 11)
And now I speak unto all the ends of the earth—that
if the day cometh that the power and gifts of God shall be done away among you,
it shall be because of unbelief. And wo be unto the children of men if this be
the case; for there shall be none that doeth good among
you, no not one. For if there be
one among you that doeth good, he shall work by the power and gifts of God.
(Book of Mormon | Moroni 10:24 - 25)
NOW. This
experience I had with this apostate antichrist reminded me of the prophet Lorenzo Snow, when as a missionary he had
a minimum interaction with the president of the quorum of the twelve apostles
at that time. It was a time of turmoil and great speculation in the world and
in the church. There was no quorum of the church that was not infected with
this devilish spirit of speculation and apostasy. Elder Lorenzo snow in a brief interaction overheard or noticed the then President of the
Quorum of the twelve apostles, Thomas B Marsh, was siding with the apostates
and in contradiction to the prophet Joseph Smith, for he was him speaking
favorably against some of the populace, even the enemies of the church. I do
not remember the reference but the principle. Thomas B. Marsh was saying for
instance, that those that criticized the church did not know better; that they
were good people; that what evil can they do to us?
And Elder Lorenzo Snow, though young in the affairs of the church,
observed, that the president of the quorum of the twelve apostles was himself
indulging in a spirit of apostasy; and which ultimately resulted in the
excommunication from the church. In my sharp interaction with them, for I have preached to more apostates on one on one conversations than any other servant of GOD in this church, no one of apostates, from this church, then or now from generation to generation from the beginning, starting with Cain and then with Nimrod, the mighty hunter, had
intention to leave us and let us be in peace or alone. The devil uses them as
devices to attach the church and they should be regarded as RED, that is
RETIRED or CAST OFF, and EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. That is why they are called devils, because no good can come from them. They
are very audacious in the schemes of the Devil, their father, who has tried, is trying and
continue to try to makes us miserable, destroy the world and the perfect order of the church.
As
I have read thru the pages of the scriptures, with very rare exceptions, such
as those of Alma and his fellows, and Amulek and Cesrom, those who apostatized and returned,
most others, were enemies to the death of the church of GOD. And they caused the destruction
of their people even to the last man standing. Likewise, it is in our
day, we are commanded to go to the rescue of our brethren who are inactive, less active and even those who have apostatized,
and we should, but not for a moment laid down your guard before any, because they are infected with doubt and they will
shoot to kill your faith and your testimony, for they, the apostates and willful dissenters, are worst than in the day they
knew first about the gospel. They will not openly attack us, but with
respectful tones and phrases they will try to deceive us. They are not
interested in our testimony, nor in our reasons for hoping n Christ, and they hate the truth as
spoken in the Holy Scriptures as if the words thereof were poisonous reptiles.
They are as dangerous as those anti mormons who cherry pick the scriptures no to reinforce
good doctrine, but to destroy our church if they only could. And as the en-samples above, there are
a great many within and without the gates of the kingdom of GOD
on earth who want us to consider their sin with allowance.
You know what they say about sin, first, we hate it, then pity them, then
we embrace it. And first and foremost,
the devil is more devilish when respectable, when he occupies a good post in
society and has authority in the secular or even religious affairs of the
world. As the King’s Lear play, act 3 in which the fool says:
Mad
is the man that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, in the love of youth and in
the oath of a whore.
It is not possible in our days, to serve GOD without offending the devil. As president Faust and others before him have said, the devil gets offended, not because we revile against him, but when we do what we are supposed to do such as going to church, testifying of Joseph Smith, of the Book of Mormon and of the church, of attending the temple and using oft our temple recommends among other things. If you want to serve the LORD, but are afraid of offending the devil, you are not yet fit for the kingdom and glory of GOD to shine upon you.
It is not possible in our days, to serve GOD without offending the devil. As president Faust and others before him have said, the devil gets offended, not because we revile against him, but when we do what we are supposed to do such as going to church, testifying of Joseph Smith, of the Book of Mormon and of the church, of attending the temple and using oft our temple recommends among other things. If you want to serve the LORD, but are afraid of offending the devil, you are not yet fit for the kingdom and glory of GOD to shine upon you.
Trying to Serve the Lord Without
Offending the Devil
James E. Faust
Offending the Devil
James E. Faust
