4/16/06 Hidden Pavilions, a mystical work
Copyright © 1989-2006 Mel West. All rights reserved.

Hidden Pavilions
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Letter A

Pastor
Highway Church of God & Christ
527 Lincoln road west
Vallejo, California

Dear Pastor,

I have been trying to communicate with the church concerning a matter of considerable importance to me. Perhaps you, who seem to be among the least of all churches I have seen, though I have seen you from the road, can help me.

The matter involves the issue of the Two Anointed Ones, as seen by Zechariah, who first saw them as Two Olive Trees, then Two Olive Branches, and finally God's Two Staves, Beauty and Bands. The issue, because it is clearly put, either requires us to throw out Zechariah's testimony altogether, or learn to read it in the truth that it proclaims.

The epithets of the Messiah which reflect a Double Messiah are far too numerous for me to list here. But I have listed a few of them on the attached piece of paper. Nevertheless, the epithets clearly suggest that the Latter Day appearance of the Messiah is probably as a foreigner. For He speaks to His nation in a foreign tongue and, like Moses, with Stammering Lips. Moses was one of the most timid of men, and the Latter Day Messiah is described as a being like Moses Further, His presence is mostly described as a being whose tongue is a sword and who does not go into the streets. He writes letters. Wherefore, we also see in the Odes of Solomon, writings which were discarded from the Bible, that the Latter Day Messiah is of another race:

Ode 41.8 All those will be astonished that see me. For from another race am I: For the Father of Truth remembereth me: He who possessed me from the beginning.

We further see that in the Will of Israel, the Latter Day Messiah, who is the Gatherer, is named Shiloh; and Shiloh, by the Will, cannot be a Jew:

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Genesis 49.10: And the scepter shall remain in Judah, nor shall the Lawgiver pass from between His feet, Until Shiloh come and to Him shall the Gathering of the people be.

Further, we see in Isaiah 61.7 mention of the Double, who appears among the Gentile; and Isaiah also mentions Three Witnesses of God: He who is God, He who is of Judah (Jacob), and He who subscribes with the surname of Israel. The Gatherer, who we know as Shiloh, the Bands, the Double, takes the surname of Israel. Thus, we can see how He can address a nation (the Christian who had yet to come into existence) which are not known by His Name. He would not call in the name of Christ; though He would Witness for Him, who is the Lamb of God. This is what Revelation talks about, once the Word appears in the First Resurrection. The Word is the King of Kings, in the Likeness of Jesus the Christ, and He sets the stage for the final witnessing and glorification of Christ. Heis a Man, and all of the epithets concerning the Latter Day Messiah, or Anointed One, describe Him as a man.

In the Testament of Joseph, another work tossed out of the Bible, we see a clear exposition of this:

Testament of Joseph 1.38 For I know that ye shall sin, and be delivered into the hands of your enemies; and your land shall be made desolate, and your holy places destroyed, and ye shall be scattered unto the four corners of the earth.
And ye shall be set at naught in the dispersion vanishing away as water.
Until the Most High shall visit the earth, coming Himself as Man, with men eating and drinking, and breaking the head of the dragon in the water.
He shall save Israel and all the Gentiles, God speaking in the person of man.

This was the prevailing belief before Christ came upon the seen. Somehow, the Jews had overlooked the epithets of the Plumbline and Suffering Messiah, the Lamb of God1; and came to focus on the Deliverance epithets. In so doing, they were blinded to the reality of the Lamb when He came. But this also was prophesied against the Gentile. For in the Second Coming, or Second Hand of God, it is anticipated that He also will be denied by those in the midst of whom He is born: for in the Testament of Benjamin, another book tossed out of the Bible, we see a clear exposition of this happening:

2.6 For all these things they gave us for an inheritance, saying: Keep the commandments of God, until the Lord shall reveal His Salvation to all Gentiles.
And then shall ye see Enoch, Noah, and Shem, and Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, rising on the right hand in gladness.
Then shall we also rise, each one over our tribe, worshipping the King of Heaven, who appeared upon earth in the form of a man in humility.
And as many as believe on Him on the earth shall rejoice with Him.
Then also all men shall rise, some unto glory and some unto shame.
And the Lord shall judge Israel first, for their unrighteousness; for when he appeared as God in the flesh to deliver them they believed Him not.

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And then shall He judge all the Gentiles, as Many as believed Him not when he appeared upon earth.
And He shall convict Israel through the Chosen Ones of the Gentiles.

Even though we speak of Two, be not confused, because they are but One in the Holy Spirit. God has but One Holy Spirit. Even so, if you do not watch for the Two, you can never see the One. It is the same as looking upon the Mercy Seat: You see God where He resides there, in the Tabernacle, which is a Tent, Between the Two Cherubim. Between Two Cherubim you see God. In the reality of the Tabernacle and its Ark and Mercy Seat this is True; it is no less true in the epithets concerning the Two Anointed Ones. Through them you will see the Mercy of God. And just as the Mercy of God was portioned out to Israel who birthed the Messiah, so too is it portioned out to the Gentile who Delivered Him. ForHe rises midst the Gentile to Gather the Kingdom of God together. And that place where He rises is also glorified along with Jerusalem.

I am chagrined over the Christians who call out, The Lord is coming, the Lord is coming, whilst their eyes are caught upon the sky as if watching for a dead spirit to return to the earth. What are they watching for?

If a man came to them and said, Come, let us go and build the Tabernacle, even the Temple, of the Lord, they would not hearken unto Him. Even if He were to say to them that they would see their God residing in it, He and His Tabernacle would be denied. For they have already done it.

Revelation concludes the First Resurrection, who is The Word of God and carries a name known only to Himself, with the statement that the Tabernacle in Heaven was opened but no man entered. And then the Seven Candles poured the final Seven Vials out upon the earth.

I have proven this past two years that no man would enter the Tabernacle. For I showed it to Many and no man would come unto it. And I have now written you to prove it. That I asked them to enter and no man entered.

I wrote a small book and left it in Paris with Reverend Jahnes; long before that I left another book with Dr. Herbert W. Armstrong (Plain Truth  Magazine), Pasadena, California. I also left a copy of that book in Jerusalem; and upon the front of that copy I placed a curse, that it never be altered or removed from its place. If you write them you will find that I delivered the Tabernacle unto them, and they did not receive it. Therefore, they have brought a curse upon themselves and their Nation.

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You who watch for the Messiah should study Him, with open eyes, and lift off your blinders. For the Lord has put you into a deep sleep and you cannot see even the obvious for fear that you cannot deal with it. So you watch to the heavens and I am a man, no more holier than thou, here asking you what are you looking for?

I wrote many of the ministry and recently said, It is a good thing that I am not Christ, for I have knocked on all your doors and no one has let men in.

Even so, I said, Because you have denied me and my Tabernacle, so too will you deny Christ. You have already done it. Further, this has been prophesied, as above, even in Revelation concerning The Word, and in the glorification of Bands.

If you were God, and were to look down upon the earth, to whom would you give your inheritance? Surely there would be no one, for each man has his own God and His own mountain;2 and for God to climb them there would be no end to His Labour. Therefore, He would bring them to Him and build them His House. That House would be no less than the thing He originally conceived: The Tabernacle. For if it were true unto Moses and His People, it has to be just as True today. For nothing from the Lord can be true one day and false the next. Christ, being true in the Beginning, has to be True in the End. Otherwise, He has no basis in eternal existence.

The question we have to consider revolves around how the Gathering is to be done. In the Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians the issue comes to a head:

Epistle of Ignatius III.11 It is absurd to name Jesus Christ, and to Judaize. For the Christian religion did not embrace the Jewish, but the Jewish the Christian; so that every tongue that believed might be gathered together unto God.

The issue does not really involve who gathers whom. The issue involves the fact that all are gathered into One Holy Place, even One Barn as described by Job's unicorn; and in the gathering both Gentile and Jew are put to shame. That is part of the glorification. The Jew is specifically named in this regard, because they are prophesied to spit upon, abuse, and kill the Messiah when He comes. And as Isaiah and others describe this, the denial of the King of the Jews, it becomes a fact to consider that the prophesy also requires that one day the Jews will be brought to account for the Shame brought on by the murder of the innocent man. The epithets claim that the Messiah is an innocent man. It is this realization of Shame which proves Christ is who He said He is. And the essential Witness to this Proof is the fact that Israel is once again restored its land and even its Tabernacle. Because both the Tabernacle and Temple are mentioned in the Restoration, both will be built. In fact, you have to build, or know how to build, the Tabernacle in order to know what to do with the Temple. For the Tabernacle was, with modification, put inside stone walls and called the Temple of David.

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Implicit in the Tabernacle is the Promise that God resides atop its Mercy Seat between the Two Cherubim. So in the Restoration God is going to take up permanent residence and appear before you. This also means He is not going to need priests to intercede for Him. Because the Mercy Seat is also a place of Judgment (by name), the Tabernacle becomes a Place for your Judgment. And you who dare not enter are those who stand at the front of the line to be judged. You will literally be pushed into the way of your judgment. And this is what I have already set up against all of you. And you are my witness to that effect

I call the Two Cherubim atop the Mercy Seat my Two Olive Branches. For to hammer them out in gold you need a form against which to hammer. And I have used Two Olive Branches to make the form of the Two Cherubim.

For those of you who have not contemplated the Two Olive Trees, which thing I find to be the most remarkable instance of blindness ever demonstrated by the Bible, I urge you to read about the Temple. For Two Olive Trees were placed before the Temple Sanctuary; they stood about 15 feet high, and were carved in the form of Two Cherubim. So the Temple had Four Cherubim: Two atop the Mercy Seat and Two before the Sanctuary. And those two giants you had to walk under for about 600 years, or near so, to approach the veil. Yet, no one, except Zechariah, asked who they were!!!! It is as if you were to watch people walk through the Lincoln Memorial for 600 years and see that no one even bothered to ask the name of that statue (assuming no name were upon it)! Thus, you can see how shortened my arm has become that I would deign touch any of you. For you are all blind; and if I touch you it is as an invisible man touching you.

I am an invisible man. I am guaranteed it by your blindness! And I fear the day when one of you awakes and opens his eyes. May the Lord hasten me away before that day....

Go back and read the epithets of the Bible concerning the Two Anointed Ones and split them according to the characteristics of Beauty and the Bands. Beauty is the Lamb and Bands is the Tabernacle and Redemption. His is a day of Marriage.

Let me tell you a poem from the lost Odes of Solomon:

Ode 23. Joy is of the saints! And who shall put it on, but they alone? Grace is of the elect! And who shall receive it except those who trust in it from the beginning?
Love is of the elect? And who shall put it on except those who have possessed it from the beginning?
Walk ye in the knowledge of the Most High without grudging: to His exultation and to the perfection of His Knowledge.

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And His thought was like a letter; his will descended from on high and it was sent like an arrow which is violently shot from the bow:
And many hands rushed to the letter to seize it and take and read it:
And it escaped their fingers and they were affrighted at it and at the seal that was upon it.
Because it was not permitted to them to loose its seal; for the power that was over the seal was greater than they;
But those who saw it went after the letter that they might know where it would alight, and who should read it and who should hear it.
And there was with it a Sign of the Kingdom and of the Government.
And everything which tried to move the wheel it mowed and cut down.
And it gathered the multitude of adversaries, and bridged the rivers and crossed over and rooted up many forests and made a broad path.
The head went down to the feet, for down to the feet ran the wheel, and that which was a Sign upon it.
The letter was one of command, for there were included in it all districts.
And there was seen at its head, the head which was revealed even the Son of Truth from the Most High Father;
And He inherited and took possession of everything. And the thought of many was brought to naught.
And all the apostates hasted and fled away. And those who persecuted and were enraged became extinct.
And theLetter was a Great Volume, which was wholly written by the finger of God:
And the name of the Father was on it, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, to rule for ever and ever. Hallelujah.

So I can say to you, The Dove fluttered over the Messiah, because He was her head; and she sang over Him and her voice was heard.

Critical to the Second Coming, or Second Anointed One is the fact that all men are going to be glorified and come to know God beneath the covering of the Vine and the Fig Tree. Christ said He was the Vine and told you to watch for the Fig Tree. In terms of God's concept of His Holy Seed, He described it again as Two Trees: The Teil and the Oak. I don't know what the Teil Tree is, but have always assumed it is like unto the Willow. The willow easily regenerates or buds from its branches.

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Also critical to the Second Anointing is the fact that he appears after the First has been murdered and Israel scattered. For He appears in a time when there is a great darkness over the land and must point out the Shame that God anticipated. It is a time, according to Revelation, when no one would really believe in God: thus we have the reason for the final outpouring of evil upon man in the Seven Sacrificial Viles. Seven is the number of Sacrifice. So He appears at a time when a Great Sacrifice is in the offing. Thus, you would fear Him who comes in the name of the Lord. And His Name is I AM. You have been told you will fear the name of the Lord from the West and His Glory from the East; you will be gathered from the West; seeded from the East.

If you should read Nostradamus, you will find even greater clarification of the times of His appearance. The tomb of St. Peter is discovered; Libya rises itself to terrify the world (of Hadrian); the world is polarized between two great princes; and a third prince enters. Nostradamus speaks of La Verbe appearing in France, which is called God's Temple, because it forms the heart of the conflict leading to the Apocalypse; and out of it a Divine Monarch is born. And I would name Him Michael. If you read about their times, you will be reading current headlines out of the newspaper.

In one of my early letters, to Pat Robertson, I complained that I thought something was being hidden from me: that not everything important which has been said by God has been included in the Bible. I complained that I believed something had been left out, even purposely hidden, from my eyes.

In the appearance, God says He will show you that He is wiser than man. He will open a Sealed Book before your eyes and those of you will say that you didn't read it because you thought it sealed. This is the gist of Ode 23 and other words which reflect the fact that you are going to finally see the Glory of God through His Word (letters) alone. It is not a time marked my miracles. It is a time when the Messiah finds His Church in such dire straits He, seeing them few in number, writes them. Also because He writes, He does not go into the streets. This, of course, prevents Him from really taking a place on a high throne and ruling in the name of God. His rule is like Moses's. And Moses was too timid to confront the people. Thus we have a description of the Messiah as being the weakest man in Jerusalem. And, being somewhat of a common denominator of the description of the Messiah, His Beauty and Comeliness is such that no one would desire Him.

Am I the only one who would lay a path for Him? Would I give Him a place for His Head alone? Would He not be helped by any other?

Believe me. All the prophesies are fulfilled this day and you would be wise to be in the forefront of them who would restore the Tabernacle. For this is my Witness and My Seal, and His Name is God.

Therefore, I would say to you, Why would you fear the Son of man who is become the grass of the earth and a man who dies?

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The Book of Inheritance

I approached the Ministry because they should answer to the things of which I bring, namely the Two Anointed Ones and the Tabernacle which Housed them. It is meaningless to argue over whether they are Two or One: for all of your thoughts concerning this are brought to naught. For if you cannot understand how the Holy Spirit can be reborn there is no way that I can describe to you these things.3

How can this my lord speak to this my lord? How many Lords are there anyway? What is their number? If you were to add up their names:Bands, Beauty, Shiloh, the Double, Moses, Noah, the Son of Man, He who rides upon an ass, He who is born in Bethlehem, He who is born of a Virgin, He who does not go into the streets, He who rebuilds the Tabernacle, He who rebuilds the Temple, He who appears after Israel has been scattered, the Plumbline, He who speaks in a foreign tongue and with stammering lips, He who fights the dragon ( as Michael), The Word, The Thief, the Cloud, even the Seventh Candle, and even more than these, such as the Reaper in Revelation who is One Like Unto the Son of Man, we see that we have an army of Messiahs. We even ask about Him who comes from Edom with his sandals and robes stained from the Winepress; even Egypt is given its Saviors.

The Bible is built precept upon precept. And the precepts begin with Adam and Noah. Because it is a book of Inheritance, it has to be read as a book of Inheritance. Noah set the first inheritance, after Adam, and Israel defined it in terms of His Twelve Sons. Moses further confirmed it, then known as the Will of Abraham, and added a new covenant to it. You should go back and read that covenant, for it provides both a blessing and a curse. The covenant formed the basis of subsequent prophesies. Many of the prophets lifted the very curses of Moses from His Covenant and put them into a more clarified frame. For instance, when the Lord is seen to come across the tops of the mountains, or even to have one foot on land and the other in the sea, what is conveyed is a precept; and eventually that precept shows The Word of the Lord coming from afar, like an Eagle, to descend upon the wicked, to punish the wicked, and bless the faithful to the Word of God. And in this precept we see a further clarification from Christ when he answered where He would be next seen: And He said, Wheresoever the Eagles gather.

The eagles gather over their prey. Some eagles feed on carrion, even the dead left on the battlefield; others fish. Wheresoever the prey are in abundance so will the eagle appear. Moreover, we have the precept that the Lord will visit the middle part of His Kingdom, or the earth. And apart from Jerusalem, near the middle of the earth is found France and Spain. So, using the precepts given, and there are more in this regard, it takes no genius to suspect that the Second Anointing will appear in connection with France or Spain, or both.4

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Nostradamus saw this and in fact connected the two nations together. In the Anointing the two nations will be welded together. He also suspected an underground tunnel or cave with a great treasure (as the Cave of Treasures in the story of Adam and Eve) linking the two nations together under the Pyrenes.5 And at the time of the Anointing apart from the other things I have mentioned, He also saw the northern Prince (Russia) united in an alliance with the Moslem nations; He also predicted the overthrow of a Persian King at this time and even the character of the Ayatollah Khumeni. Through the alliance, an unholy one, they are shown kicking off the Third World War (The Apocalypse) through an invasion through Turkey and into Southern France.

The world has shuddered whenever Russian troops invaded a new country: Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and recently Afghanistan. But no one answered. And I suspect there will be no answer until the troops arrive in Southern France.

Southern France is a logical invasion route because there is a wall blocking the invasion route through the north. And Nostradamus sees, at the time of the invasion through the south, the wall (of the north?) coming down. In effect he sees as a sign of the times the Berlin Wall coming down, so it could be interpreted.6

Clearly, based upon the two previous world wars, France becomes a sign which causes World War. For the wars in the past did not become World Wars until France was invaded. In this sense she becomes a temple which has to be defended. For she has been known to the world as a Temple of Liberty.

The period of time which he predicted these things to occur, with the visitation of La Verbe (The Word) and His Divine Monarch, is just before 2,000 A.D. He shows the Apocalypse occurring by that date. It takes no great genius to figure out this date, for it represents the six thousand year time table previously mentioned in the Bible from the time of the beginning to the end. And in that time table Adam was put somewhere around 4,000 B.C.7

The timetable of Adam is a Biblical Timetable. Its relationship to actual scientific knowledge has no real bearing, for the Bible is prophesy and its prophesy is self- supporting through its own timetable. And that Timetable is formulated through the generations of men and their ages. Whether that timetable is historically correct or not, we need not bother ourselves; what is relevant is whether it is correct in terms of prophesy, i.e., we Assume Adam existed; we Assume all the generations between Adam and Christ, for instance, are correctly stated. This assumption gives us 4,000 years. Since Christ it has been another 2,000 years = 6,000 years at 2,000 A.D.

The Jews have come to know the timetable well. For they know that it provides for two dispersions, as in the Two Fig baskets. They know after the Second dispersion they will be gathered, together with all the Gentiles, as per Noah's Will, and Glorified in the full knowledge of God. And that, they know, will be done through a King sent them by God to set His Throne in Jerusalem and bring Peace to the World.

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Because of this Timetable, the Jews were not watching for the Messiah when Christ came.8 He simply was too early for them. Certainly, part of the Gathering involved the Restoration of the Temple and it had not yet fallen. It was no wonder, then, that they questioned Christ.

What they failed to see is that the Timetable also included a Supreme Sacrifice akin to the Sacrifice of Isaac. In fact it would occur on that place which Isaac was put. At the time of Christ, were Jews walking to and fro saying, Beware, for we have been told we will kill the Messiah when He comes and be dispersed across the earth because of it?

The prophesies certainly said this. Clearly the story of Jezreel and Loammi warns them. Certainly the fact that God said He would turn His face from Judah and to another, the Gentile, explains this. And the Virgin Birth glorifies this!

What therefore is God saying in all this? Why wouldn't He just send a great King to rule in His place and be done with it without having to suffer the pains and tribulations, the Travail, of murdering God's Son?

This question has to be answered. Why would God conceive of a plan of bringing the Knowledge of His Being to you through shedding the Son's blood? How can He be a King and rule in His Place when God says that He will be denied, spit upon, bruised, and killed? And His death an offering of sin atonement?

In truth, the precept in this Plan of bringing the knowledge of God to the earth and man by shedding His own Blood is a strange way of any god to look upon a way of showing himself to man. Other gods threw thunder bolts at most but this God, Our Father in Heaven, said He would throw a man, Himself, in the being of a man, at us. And because we have no idea of His Being or Wisdom, He claims that we would even deny that man. And then, to prove how powerful He is, He said He would punish them that denied Him. And it becomes the Witness of this punishment that is the first testament of the full Glory and Wisdom of His Being.9

To make the Witness a good witness, He contrived a plan which required that the Children of Israel separate themselves from all other men and stay separate so that all men can witness them in the end. For if Israel had intermarried, there would be no proof of God's Curse upon them. And it is the Curse which proves them, as in refining gold. Even so, the Psalms show us that in the knowledge of their Travail, Israel asks How long God will keep His Face turned from them.

Wormwood is the thing which desecrates the Temple of God. It causes the children of God to stray away from Him. For it tells them what they want to hear, those things which glorify them and not God. In Revelation Wormwood grows out of a precept, into a full being who sets himself in opposition against God's Anointed, who is called Christ. And he, Wormwood, is called by the name of AntiChrist. The coming of the Apocalypse is described as the great struggle between Christ, the King of Kings, and the Antichrist.

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The difference between Christ and the Antichrist is the fact that the Antichrist will attempt to mislead you into believing he is Christ. He does this to concentrate the power of the world in his hands and then betrays you and leads you into battle. The precept here is that the prophets have shown that man draws to words which tell him no wrong nor chastise him. All the ministry are waiting for a man to come to tell them what a wonderful job they have been doing, who will prophesy as they do and perform miracles as they do. And in this they attend Wormwood. For this is the description in Revelation of Wormwood: a prophet and a miracle worker like Christ! And though they wait for reward, the facts of the matter are that they deserve no reward.

The Anointed One who comes from God has been scheduled in the timetable during the times of Tribulation. Christ came at the time Israel was scattered by Rome. And that time was the greatest tribulation of Israel, for Israel was wiped permanently off the map for nearly two thousand years, longer than any other tribulation before. Further, its nation was nearly burned to the last man in the ovens of Hitler. In no other instance of history is there any incident laid in such a diabolical and world wide scale. It was not sufficient to destroy a part of them; in Hitler's mind all of them had to be destroyed. And in this sense, because of what he did and the bloodbath that consumed the world, Hitler is the greatest abomination ever to walk the face of the earth.

Is Hitler the end of Abominations? We see in the timetable he is the evil agent of the timetable. For through his agency great mercy was poured out upon the Jews, among the Gentile, and they were carried in Gentile arms and upon Gentile shoulders back to the Holy Land. They were carried because the Gentile-carrying them- had to wade from the boats standing off the shore, not being permitted to make a legal landing. Had Hitler not created his abomination, we probably would not see Israel upon the map today. This is a fact.

Even so, an abomination is an abomination. And what is greater than the greatest abomination? That is the issue I take with the ministry. They watch for abominations and claim that each one which is tossed at them is not a sufficient sign of the coming of the Lord. Rather than watching for Abominations, I have complained that they ought to be watching for The Word. For Christ said that you would recognize Him, as so did Mary, by His Word. The Jews did not recognize Him by His Word and you also will probably do likewise. For it has been prophesied that most of you will do likewise.

Thus, I have said that in the end I see two men arguing over the earth, as to who caused its end. And no credit was given to God, for they did not see the Abomination He promised He would throw at them. For every Abomination they had seen thrown at them was not evil enough for them.

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I remind you that God said He is capable of both good and evil. He proclaims over and over again, beginning with the curses of Moses, His ability to lay evil upon man. And He uses for His final proof Israel itself. And in Israel He says all men will come to see the final Armageddon and Apocalypse. He will gather all men to fight together in that valley. So it is we have the precept that Israel will be restored and found surrounded by its enemies and anyone who goes to help them will be consumed in the conflict. So it warns you to not go to them. At the same time it proclaims the burning of Lebanon, that even its animals are not sufficient for the sacrifice at hand; for there is a great Sacrifice to be made and in the offing.

The Promise of the Bible is the fact at this time all men will come to know God, beneath the covering of the Vine and the Fig Tree, and lay down together in Peace. They will turn their spears into fishhooks and swords into plowshares. So there is a Promise that something will be done to avoid the total annihilation, or flood (by fire) of the earth. That time is the Second Tribulation of the Timetable. It is the time when the Anointed One is set to come for the Second Time.

Behold, I am hidden in His hand. This is the precept of the Messiah.10 Something has been hidden from your eyes, and when the great day of the Lord comes He suddenly appears. That day is a day when a woman compasses a man. It is a day, in Revelation, which reflects the appearance of the Great Red Whore, who is called Babylon, Mystery of God. It is a day of reminder to you that what God said He would do to Babylon, He has also threatened upon all men. And on that day all men will Witness that nothing is left in the field which was once Babylon except wild beasts.11

So the Second Hand of God, or Second Rain, is not a time when God is going to pat each of you on the back for the good work that you've done. To the contrary, He is going to ask you what you have done to His Word, even what you have done to His Church and Temple. For He is going to accuse you of desecrating it. Implicit in the precept is the fact that He, from the Beginning, threatened to break His Other Stave named Bands. He describes this as feeding the flock of slaughter. And in the Latter Days He says:

Zechariah 11.16 For, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws into pieces. Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth his flock... 

The precept here is that this Messiah does not go into the streets. In fact, among the loudest parts of His Cry is the fact that He does not know you. And quickly He sets out to consume all of you with His word.

I complained to the Ministry, in several letters, that you all take pride in your gains, converting one to Christ here and another there, whilst behind your backs God is losing Nations from the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in Heaven. You gain one lost sheep at a time; and I complained that we are now out of time and you are losing nations because you do not know how to defend the Word of God. Much of Central America is gone; much of Europe, even, is gone. And among the faithful to God who are left I see, among nations, only the Moslems.

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Most of you have not considered the fact that the time of the Lord's Day, or Great Tribulation , involves the gathering of Nations. And no one has asked, "Who are God's Nations?"

You may recall that there were Two Nations, Twins, born in the womb of Rebekah. And God told her that the younger would be served by the elder. Thus it was justified that the younger, Jacob, would rob his elder brother of his inheritance; and because of the robbery his brother, Esau, or Edom, would be jealous of him and take up the sword against him, even to be forever a curse laid upon Israel. For God said that he hated Esau because of His sword that He had given him.

Out of the one nation, Jacob, who was renamed Israel, which nation was called to include all men, grew David and its offshoot called Christianity. And it, through the Gentile, as prophesied, came to cover the earth as grass. What, however, grew out of Esau? Was he not also promised that he would become a strong nation?

You should go back and read the Will of the near blind Isaac.

For just as Isaac had given Jacob Esau's Will, or Blessing, giving to Jacob the scepter to the Kingdom, he also gave to Esau a very similar Blessing. For he said to Esau, When the day comes that you hold the domain, the yoke of Jacob will be taken off your neck. And in the prophesies we find a reaffirmation of this fact, that the last day will include the glorification of Esau as well as Jacob. And Esau comes from across the Jordan.

Behold, therefore, that Esau holds the domain. For a man holds the domain, the Holy Mount of God, and He is not Jacob. And he comes from across the Jordan.

I wonder about all those questioning the Temple mount, whether at the time of the Restoration the Dome of the Rock must come down. Must they, as all others, decide for God? Hath God no answer in this?

You all put yourselves above God. My letters are evidence of this. For I inquire with you about the truth of the Two Anointed Ones and even the Tabernacle and its Mercy Seat and none of you answer! You all read some things which you call true and the others, which may controvert your belief, you pass over! Why didn't the Apostles describe Christ as One of the Two Anointed Ones? And then describe them, for the Peace is shared between them, as One Being, a Babe? Was their jealousy over their own understanding of the Bible, and Christ, so strong that they had to shield their eyes from things which controverted them? In truth, you are all that way: you shield your eyes from things upon which you are afraid to look. And since you live in fear and not hope and know no way to approach your Lord, or even confront Him, I suggest you hold up a mirror and look into it and walk backwards unto Him.

The Bible is your Mirror. Look upon it, all of it and you will be able to see the face of God. And walk back unto Him.

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I sent many Television Ministers, even T.V. 42, my Tabernacle and no one would gaze upon it. I complained that no one in the last two thousand years has thought to Witness for Christ, that he was who He said He was. And I said this time, of all times, is the best Witness, because Israel is on the map again. This means, in the logic and precepts of the Bible (come, we must reason together in the valley of decision) that if Israel is restored theSacrificed Lamb of God, implicitly the First Anointed One, must have already come! For it is certain that a man did come and was murdered like unto Jezreel and after His Murder the nation of Israel was scattered. And if He did not come, then I asked, "Then Israel awaits to be scattered and sifted among the nations and refined as a refiners fire melts gold, so that its Messiah can come. O woe unto Jerusalem! Still there is no answer.

What I asked the ministry to put to them is the fact that Israel cannot exist until prophesies concerning the Virgin and the murder of the Anointed One are fulfilled. And no one answered...

Notes to Letter A

1) Looking back after the release of this manuscript, I wonder about this; because the Essene's certainly remember the Sacrificed Messiah in their Psalms. For they reflect the broken spirit so well described in David's Psalms.
2) The question I asked in my manuscript was whether Christ would see Faithful men. For it is they who shall receive His Inheritance. It is times like these when I restrain myself from the obvious.,
3) In my manuscript I could have said what Christ said concerning this: That if you have not the faith in Moses and the prophets, how could you be expected to believe a man raised from the dead?
4) We recall the Ships of Tarshish waiting to haul the children of Israel back to the Holy Land, after the great dispersion. Tarshish was a city on the coast of Spain.
5) Curiously, The Adam and Eve story promises Adam that He (his children) will be restored to paradise and redeemed after 5,500 years. In this Promise God says He will come again for the second time and save Adam's children and bring Peace (and Paradise) to the world. Using the timeline in My Bible, which is the King James Bible, scholars have computed Adam's time to be around 4,000 B.C. Exactly 5,500 years later Columbus, through Spain, discovered America and founded a people who never before existed in the world. Prophesy addresses such a people in connection with the Deliverance: A people who were not known to the Jews nor existed in Biblical times but were to be created in the future. This makes America unique among the nations formed out of the Old World. For she was Newly Created, being called the New World, as a result of a discovery in 1492 A.D. and was the first of the New Nations to be formed. Until America was formed there was no such nation which existed which could fulfill the prophesy addressing a people who would be created!
6) I wrote this several years before I added my Apocalypse to this book. My apocalypse addresses another wall: that containing the Golden Gate. So Nostradamus's prophesy could apply to this wall as well.
7) These relationships are interesting. For Nostradamus prophesied things to come which would follow him after 500 years.
8) I had not read the data in the Dead Sea Scrolls when I wrote this. Certainly the Essenes were watching for Him and expected Him to come any moment. And though Christ may have passed them by on the road, even ate with them from time to time, they certainly, from the evidence of their manuscripts, had no idea it was He who had visited them.
9) The Psalm even says, Behold, my members, are they not written in the book? He points to the book and says, "See, it is I"; and you should be able to examine that book and look upon His Members, which had been created in continuity, existing before even He existed, and say, "Surely, this is Truth".
10) Prophesy refers to these times of the Latter Days and these peoples as Babylon and Egypt. These are addressed in Revelation. But no one asks why the Anointed One has also been given an epithet called Zerubbabel. And Wise Men these days all ask," What does this mean? Born in Babylon?"

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Letter B

Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon
Attn: Hal Lindsey

Dear Mr Lindsey,

I know that you receive a considerable amount of mail concerning your popular books. I recently read The Promise and saw something in it which I know you would want to correct.

On page 10 of your book you say, speaking of the Messiah, Moses called Him Shiloh, the rightful heir of God's throne (Genesis 49.10). Your reference is correct, being a statement of Genesis, but Moses-except recording the book of Genesis- had nothing to do with the naming of Shiloh.* The person who named Shiloh was, in fact, Jacob (Israel); which being done was in the course of the Blessing of Inheritance given by Israel to His 12 sons (and also Joseph's two sons).

The interpretation, as to who Shiloh is, is also incorrect. Genesis 49.10 says:

Genesis 49.10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come, and to Him shall the gathering of the people be.

Shiloh, by definition by Israel himself, who is our Greatest Authority on the Bible, is not a Jew! Shiloh is not necessarily a Jew. Further, the Scepter is another name for the Messianic King 1. He is also called the Branch, the Babe, another Moses, Noah, and, in Zechariah, The Two Olive Branches, God's Two Anointed Ones. Their names are Beauty and Bands, also called God's Two Staves. You may wish to refresh yourself by reading Zechariah, chapters 3, 4, and 11.

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There is a voice of howling of the Shepherds, for their glory is spoiled. 2) I remind you of this, of the many Biblical passages which reflect God's conclusion concerning his shepherds-who are the principal adversaries of God, His Kingdom, and His King, or Messiah (Anointed One).

So it is we see God giving us plenty of warning concerning Shepherds and prophets who would mislead us and not remain faithful to the Word of God. Jeremiah, principally devoted to this message as being a cause by which the people of Israel are eventually scattered, warns us repeatedly about the false prophets and false shepherds. In chapter 23 he opens, saying,

Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture...Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel against the pastors that feed my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them, behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the Lord...Wherefore their ways shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the Lord...Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets; behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall...Thus saith the Lord of hosts, hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord. (Jeremiah 23.1 thru 23.16

Please do not be offended by me that I would take such pain to remind you of the characteristics of a false shepherd. We know that to err is to be human, but to quote God we must take caution not to err. We have to try to think the way He thinks when we expound upon something which reflects a specific thought He had in mind. For instance, in the case of Shiloh we have a specific and very critical key to God's Plan of Inheritance set through Israel. That plan, to be true, has to be consistent with other observations He has made concerning the Inheritance. And ultimately we find that the Inheritance is divided between Two Anointed Ones, One of whom is described by Isaiah as the Double who is the Glory of the Gentile and the cause by which Israel is brought to shame (but not to feel shame); by which cause even Israel basks in the Glory of the Gentile. We see also here in these passages that the actual Deliverance of Israel is through the arms and upon the shoulders of the Gentile. This Double is the one who is the Gatherer whom Israel called Shiloh.

I have seen the ministry quote Zechariah to great length, justifying the cause of Jesus Christ, as you have even done in your book; whilst I have seen no one make mention of the key point Zechariah had focused his book upon: Two Anointed Ones.3 I have yet to hear any ministry address the Messiah in terms of Two Olive Branches, or Olive Trees, or even Beauty and the Bands. And this seems to me to be false dealings, even slippery dealings, when a pastor claims many epithets from a book to proclaim or advance his argument whilst ignoring other epithets which might create questions to his argument. For instance, in your argument you acknowledged that there seems to be conflicting epithets concerning the messianic vehicle and you answered those conflicting testimonies by saying that they are caused because we are dealing with a messiah who is born and raised again from the dead. But you must see, stopping there and not explaining the nature of these two mountain peaks of which you described leaves the whole issue unresolved, ambiguous, and steeped in controversy. And you allow yourself, by being afraid to pursue the question, to be misled, which, in turn, because you write on the subject, misleads others.

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The failure to see Two Anointed Ones in the Messiah is a critical issue. It cannot lay unredressed. For it relates to a principal sign or signature used by God: He has always gathered things two by two, except things devoted to sacrifice are gathered in groups of seven. He went down to Sodom to see for himself the goings on in that place as Two Men; in Revelation He sends out Seven Candles to pour their Seven Vials upon the earth to bring to a close the First Resurrection, which is of The Word, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, who is followed by Michael.

When God gave Moses the Ten Commandments, He also gave the Congregation of Israel a small chest, in which the commandments would be kept, and a shelter for them and their congregation. Atop that chest, called the Ark of the Covenant, which also contains the Testimony of God, is a thin sheet of gold. Atop that sheet of gold was placed Two Olive Branches and they were carved in the form of Two Cherubim.4 And it was between these Two Cherubim where God said He resides and was evidenced to be seen and commune with the Children of Israel. This small place inside the Tabernacle, which was a Tent, was called the Mercy Seat. You see God where He resides between the Two Cherubim atop His Mercy Seat.

The Mercy Seat is a place of judgement. It was carried by means of Two Staves carved out of Shittim wood, which were inserted through two gold rings fastened on either end of the Ark.

Thus, we have on the Ark an image of God which is formed between Two Cherubim and coupled with that image, introduced by Zechariah, the concept that the Two Anointed Ones who are seated upon the Mercy Seat (they can be no other) are also the Staves by which God carries His Mercy to man. For there are no other staves in the Bible, except they be called Rods, which term applies to God's rights of Inheritance.

Among all of you, for the last 3500 years, thereabout, from the days of the Tabernacle to the destruction of Herod's temple-'till now- there has been but One Man who has asked who those Two Olive Branches are!!! And His name was Zechariah. Even so, no one has thought to ask where those Two Anointed Ones resided.

No one asked about the Two Olive Trees in all those years, except Zechariah. And even so, no one asked where those Two Olive Trees resided!

On the other hand, all of the Children of Israel witnessed the Two Olive Branches atop the Mercy Seat from about 1450 B.C. until the time David abandoned the Tabernacle, which was situated in a place called Shiloh and later moved to the Temple Mount and abandoned when the temple was built, about 1,000 B.C..5 So for about five hundred years (since 1492 B.C.) the Children of Israel gazed upon the Two Cherubim and never thought to ask who they were. Then, in 1,000 B.C., David was given plans for the Temple, which plans were given by God under protest, as He stated that He preferred to live in His Tent. In those plans of the Temple God added Two More Cherubim, placing them before the Temple Sanctuary. They stood 10 cubits high, had 10 cubit wingspans, and were 15 feet high in our measure. They were carved out of Olive Trees.

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For nearly six hundred years, at least until the taking of the children into captivity in Babylon, which was about 600 B.C., the Children of Israel gazed upon these Two Olive Trees before the Temple Sanctuary. For eleven hundred years no one thought to ask who those two Olive Trees and the Two Olive Branches were in the Temple Sanctuary. Only Zechariah asked, about 500 B.C., and even then no one asked Him as to where they resided!

By comparison, it is like Americans walking through the Lincoln Memorial for 1100 years and never thinking to ask who the statue in the memorial is.

This is particularly relevant, for we are told that the God of Abraham despises false images and false names and forbids any name or image being given unto Him. Yet, He cast His image Between Two Cherubim in the Tabernacle atop His Mercy Seat. Someone before Zechariah should have asked who those Olive Branches are!

Zechariah 3.8 Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the Branch.

One of the repeated epithets of the Messiah is the fact that He is wondered at. God knows that the priesthood will not accept them. Thus we have the Psalms speaking a good deal about how the Messiah actually feels in His Times concerning the things He sees; and many of these things coincide with the observations His People also see in their times.

When we examine this Messiah we find, in the Psalms alone, but augmented in the Prophesies, that He is really two different beings. One is a Sacrificial Lamb and a King who is killed; the other seems to become transformed, like Joshua the Priest in Zechariah, from the unclean to the clean. When this latter rain speaks He seems to carry more the heart of David, who knows He has sinned against God, than the Perfection we know in Jesus the Christ.

The thing in common which the Two Anointed Ones have is the fact that the Priesthood will not be willing to accept them. No one will accept them. For all are so consumed with the preservation of their own vanity and the truths they would wish to protect, which justify their own causes, that no one would recognize the Messiah when He comes. For He does not chase after them who chase after the objects of their vanity. The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against His Anointed, saying,

Psalm 2.2 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

The Messiah is one who is constantly grieving for His Lord. And He says things like this so often: Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping (Psalm 6.8)

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A premise in the Bible, concerning Justice, is that The wicked are snared in the work of their own hands (Psalm 9.16) Ultimately this is voiced where God speaks of His Sealed Book, stating that one day He is going to prove that He is wiser than all of us and on that day we will find ourselves stumbling and falling back into His Snare. The Snare, of course, is the snare of the Bible: its precepts. For precept is built upon precept, line upon line, and you cannot go through them and deviate from them without one day finding yourself falling backward ensnared. So it is that you and many others, even as many as thirty some odd other ministry whom I have written, can make deviations to the Word of God, so to reinforce your understanding of God; but I tell you all now that your deviations are going to ensnare you.

Psalm 9.15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. 

One of the precepts of the Bible, in the spreading of the knowledge of God, is that it will be done through the Gentile and Heathen of the earth. For all men are destined to come to know the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: The Lord looked down from heaven, upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no not one. (Psalm 14.2, 3)

One of the Anointed Ones is hidden in the hand of God: Behold, He hath hidden me in His Hand. One reason why He is hidden is the fact that He is the weakest man in Jerusalem: but I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people (Psalm 22.6)

When He is seen correlates with the precept of which Jeremiah speaks, when He speaks about the Two Fig Baskets (referring to the Children of Israel). The one basket is pure and clean; the other is wicked and corrupt. The pure and clean basket God decides to send into captivity, into Babylon, and then return them in great Mercy to always live and abide in Him. The other basket He leaves in Jerusalem and claims that one day He will cause it, because it is so wicked, to be scattered and sifted midst the nations of the earth: but even then He would restore it to Jerusalem in His Great Mercy. Just as in the restoration after the captivity in Babylon, where Zerrubabel is Anointed to restore the walls and temple of Jerusalem, so too do the Deliverance epithets, concerning the Deliverer or Gatherer and his Generation refer to Him as another Zerrubabel: i.e., Born in Babylon. In any event, concerning the Deliverance, this latter basket, God makes a reproach to all men; and of these people the speaker for them says:

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But thou has cast off, and put us to shame and goest not forth with our armies.
Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves;
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
Thou sellest thy people for nought, and doest not increase thy wealth by their price;
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me...all this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant...
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off for ever. (Psalm 44.9 thru 44.23)

This is the epithet of both the Nation and its Anointed. For the sake of their God, they are both put to travail and even shamed among men. The nation is put to Travail, as we see in the prophets, so it will give birth to a Son. The Son is put to Travail also because He is born of a Whorish Womb. God calls His Wife Mt. Zion (and also the Gentile) a Whore. He tells the prophet to go out and marry Two Whores. The first Whore gives birth to Two Sons and a daughter. The first son, Jezreel, is murdered and God takes revenge upon his death. The second son, Loammi, is then called by God to go before His People and declare unto them, You are not my people, and then, on the day He declares, You are not my people, He then says, You are my people and redeems them to God. This is another name for the Deliverer. He is not going to want to know you or call you His People.

You have to look at the situation from the perspective of Christ. He was put upon a cross, being perfectly innocent of any crime (the prophesies preceding him speak of His Innocence, that's why He is hated); and in the course of that trial there is absolutely no one who stands with Him. He has no witnesses, except the witness of His Executioner, Pontius Pilate, who claimed He was innocent. Among thousands of people who claimed to know and love Christ, and benefited from His Miracles and Healings, there was virtually no one willing to Witness on His Behalf; and the closest man to Him, who carried His purse and sopped with Him, betrayed Him; He who Christ appointed as His Rock (like another Mt. Zion), who is Peter, even denied Him three times! You know the story well. But have you ever thought what the Messiah, returned, may have to say about it? He knows what all of you really are underneath your bright scarves, great hats, and well purchased booths. You are all capable of denying Him. Thus, any Messiah returned will expect no more that what He already knows that is in you. And even then He will tell thee that He would take thee for his wife. For the Precept all along is that God knowingly decided to court and take to wife a whore; and it is the second whore whom He finally succeeds in redeeming.

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In spite of this flood which is forced upon Him, like a bitter cup, He has yet Hope: Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? Hope thou in God..(Psalm 42.5)

He hopes He will not be sacrificed. Christ, even unto the end, hoped He would not be sacrificed and cried out, voicing the Psalm, Father, why hath thou forsaken me? That psalm also covers epithets of an individual after the cross: O that I had wings like a dove! For then I would fly away and be at rest. (Psalm 55.6) This expresses how the Anointed is raised early every morning to record the Word of God and, knowing it will put Him in strife with those about Him, bringing a flood of angry waters upon Him, wishes He could avoid the responsibilities daily laid upon his shoulders. For the more the flood comes upon Him the more He realizes for Him there is no escape. I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and tempest (Psalm 55.8) That storm and tempest is called in another place a Pavilion of the Lord; and in another place the Anointed declared that He hath been hidden in the secret of the Lord's Pavilion and Tabernacle. The two thoughts are connected by significant purpose, because this particular Anointed comes at the time of the Deliverance, a period of Great Darkness overspreading the earth; a time when all men watch for Noah and know that they need to be delivered. It is a time of great glory also, for all men will come to know their God underneath the covering of the Vine and the Fig Tree. Christ, incidentally, said He was the Vine and told you to watch for the Fig Tree to cast His leaves and then you would know that summer (the sign of His return, which He had been talking about) is nigh come or at hand.

We say the Messiahis hidden in the secret of the Tabernacle because the Sign of the restoration or Deliverance of Israel is accompanied with the restoration or Deliverance of the Tabernacle; and the Tabernacle has always been considered a special secret of God. The Messiah delivers the Tabernacle and reveals the secret. The revelation, of course, involves the revelation of Himself, how He also had been a secret.

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Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me...I will not fear what flesh can do unto me. Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil...Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle. Are they not in thy book?

When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back. (Psalm 56.1 thru 56.9)

How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? Ye shall be slain, all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence. (Psalm 62.3)

Save me, O God, for the waters are come in unto my soul...reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none: and for comforters, but I found none. (Psalm 69.20)

The Anointed One is the loneliest man in the world. For on any appearance among men He is something which will not be believed. That is the first Precept in the word of God. He will not be believed. But in the time of the Deliverance there is the Promise that He is finally believed. And that is because of the evil laid upon man (or planned) by God which follows at His heals. He is One whom all men are warned they will Fear. For He appears upon the Lord's great and frightful day, the Last Day.

In Revelation, with the appearance of the King of Kings, whose name no one knows (is known only to Himself) and who is called The Word and appears in a time called The First Resurrection, the Tabernacle in Heaven is opened up. And Revelation declares, and no man entered. Then it says the Seven Candles released their Seven Vials upon the earth.

You all claim that you await your lord. But you all watch for a Cloud, thinking Him but a spirit, something all men will recognize, and neglect to think that there is yet another who appears before that Cloud; and He is described by Christ as a Thief who, in my estimation, and I may be in error, is The Word, the First Resurrection. The Cloud is the Second Resurrection. And you who have been watching for the Cloud, I have said, have denied The Word.5

To understand the Two Olive Branches, as to what they are and what is purposed in them, even how they feel about themselves, you have to read the prophets, even Christ Himself. They all agree. When you see the Two Olive Branches, you will see that they all agree.7

In Isaiah we are told that the Messiah's person is of such comeliness and beauty that no one will desire Him. So this is a good place for you to start in your inquiry concerning the Tabernacle of God. No one will desire Him. He knows that He is so different from you that He can walk to and fro upon the earth as an invisible man.

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But His works are laid out before Him. And those works are to show you the nature of your God, even His Glory and His Blessing.8 In the showing the Bible (Isaiah most specifically) says that to prove that you do not know your God, you will kill your Messiah when He is sent unto you. And that is called a Sin Offering by God. In the prophesies He states over and over His Chagrin for your false offerings and fasts; for whenever you make your sin offerings or other you quickly go back to your old ways. Consider your ways, so saith the Lord, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth month and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me?

Zechariah 7.13 And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?....Therefore, it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear: so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the Lord of Hosts:

But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not.. 

The point here is that with the occurrence of Two Anointed Ones so goes the problem of communication; in which case, the Anointed is considered to be probably not heard. In Revelation, concerning The Word, there is a possibility that He might not be heard. But that possibility is clarified by the statement that The Tabernacle in Heaven was opened up and no man entered. Had man entered, one might guess that the Seven Vials may have been avoided.

When you discuss the Messiah you should look at things from His point of View. He is a stranger in the land. Even His neighbors and brothers do not know Him.

When you analyze the Messiah, group His epithets according to the purpose which is in Him: for instance, I group them according to Beauty and Bands. Beauty sets the Model; Bands sets the Marriage and Redemption/Deliverance. And remember, concerning the Branch:

Zechariah 6.13 Even He shall build the Temple of the Lord; and He shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and He shall be a priest upon his throne: and the Counsel of peace shall be between them both.

When the Anointed One is not heard, then God turns His Face away from those to whom He was sent. In the threats against man, first and foremost is the threat against Jerusalem/Judah, who fails to profit from its son. For God anticipates beforehand that it is like a woman in Travail which can do no more than produce wind. God asks this womb, is there no King in you?

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Then He says, because they did not listen to Him, He turned His Face from them to another who is the Gentile of the earth, who would glorify Him. Because He turned His Face toward them, one should anticipate that the Gentile will be caused to produce something: that is the other half of the Messiah. The other Anointed One is put inside their womb. Now it is for the task of the Gentile to produce their son. And the prophesies all anticipate that they will do so. And in the doing Jerusalem will be glorified once again.

The Glorification of Jerusalem and Judah is based upon Shame. Because God prophesied that they would kill the Anointed King, it produces a cause for eventual Shame: In the day of Deliverance they will see that they killed their Messiah. How is this done?

First, Israel will have been discovered on the map again. The prophesies clearly state that God will disperse its Nation twice (like the Two Fig Baskets). First to Babylon, and then God asks, Where is Babylon? He has done unto Babylon what He said He would do. Then He points to Israel and asks the same question, and in the Psalms the nation of Israel (actually Israel Himself; another name for the Messiah or Deliverer) laments that He has been abandoned by God. And He asks His God, How Long? And the answer to that, in several prophets, but distinctly in Daniel, is until the Abomination which maketh desolate overfloweth the earth.9

So the key to the restoration of Israel becomes basically the evidence that Israel has been restored, even surrounded on all sides; and even the evidence that Lebanon (God's Fruitful Field) is burning. At the same time the Abomination of Desolation is scheduled to appear; and when he appears so is tuned Michael, the Prince, to appear.

Whilst Daniel shows Michael as the Anointed One who comes to fight the Dragon, Revelation shows Him being preceded by the King of Kings, known as The Word. So Revelation clarifies the scene of the Deliverance into Two Missions: One which is the Mouth of God, whose Tongue is His Sword, and the other which is He who has previously fought His Battle in Heaven and casts the Devil down into the pit for a thousand years.

The thing which brings all this together is the correlation of The Word with the appearance of Israel on the map again.

When you think of this character you have to think about His Mission. It concerns the Salvation of all men. For the World is in dire straights. It no longer is prophesied to be limited to Judah: it involves the Gentile and the Heathen as well for this is the day of the Latter rain. This is the day of the Latter House; and it is prophesied that the Latter House shall be greater than the former.

Critical to the Anointing is the Mystery of the Tabernacle. For it is opened at that time.

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Psalm 102.16 When the Lord shall build up Zion He shall appear in His Glory.
Psalm 40.7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me.
Psalm 71.7 I am a wonder unto many; and thou art my strong refuge.

Psalm 73 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked...Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment...concerning oppression they speak softly...And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High? Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches...If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children. When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; untilI went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.

Psalm 88.10-12 Wilt thou show wonders to the dead? Shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in destruction?

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Psalm 89.35-49 Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His Seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me..Lord where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?

Psalm 94.16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

Psalm 98 The Lord hath made known His Salvation: His Righteousness hath He openly shewed in the sight of the Heathen. He hath remembered His Mercy and His Truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the Salvation of our God...Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together before the Lord; for He cometh to Judge the earth: with righteousness shall He judge the world, and the people with equity.

Psalm 110.1 Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

In the context of the King who is killed, the Messiah is taken back to the right hand of God until God has finished His Works:

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Psalm 111.6 He hath shewed his people the power of His Works, that He may give them the heritage of the Heathen.
Psalm 118. 22 The stone which the builders refused is become the Head Stone of the corner.

Implicit in the precepts of the Anointed One is the fact that He will not die (though pierced) and will be restored the Kingdom. And to clarify the appearance, through the Two Anointed Ones, we have statements, such as Psalm 118, which assure us that even he who lays the Headstone in the field is the same as the Headstone. And all of his characteristics are thoroughly defined, as we see in Psalm 139.16:

Psalm 139.16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Psalm 144.11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

The substance of the diaspora and regathering of Israel involves the possibility that the scattered children will be swayed over to the thinking of the heathen and Gentile, as even in the days of the Babylonian Captivity. The Psalmist only knows this by means of the prophesies which had been made before him. He knows by the prophesy that the children will be brought up even in a nation which had not yet existed; and he anticipates that there will be one day a conflict, or controversy, concerning the redemption of Israel and the restoration of David, the King, and His Seed. David knows that God would not lie to Him, that one day His Seed will be restored to the throne and them after them. And that is a time when a man is compassed by a woman.

A key to the Anointing of the Babe is the fact that the Woman plays such a great part in it. In the Anointing the Babe is born, for instance, of a Virgin, who also must be of the lineage of David. This Anointing through a Woman (Rebekah anointed Jacob), is forseen even into the Deliverance; and there it is connected with the precept of a man being compassed by a woman. Revelation picks up on this theme, describing, about the time of the appearance of The Word, the Great Red Whore. And in the course of Revelation, as well as other prophesies, even the Psalms, it is anticipated that somehow the knowledge of God comes into terrible decline-such that His Anointed can write His Ministry, they being so few in number.10

In the days of the Apostles, we have the letters written to the Seven Churches of Christianity.

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In the prophesies we have Seven Women asking the Anointed One to be able to live according to their ways but still be called by His Name. The concern here is that the church will change from that which is set when God follows through on His Vow to put His Faith and Tabernacle in our hearts. That is to say, Christ fulfilled this prophesy, of putting God's Tabernacle in our hearts; even so, because the Tabernacle and Temple are both prophesied to be restored at the time Zion is restored, by the Deliverer, it is apparent that the Church set in our hearts will eventually come to be reinforced by God Himself seated atop His Mercy Seat between the Two Cherubim.11 Note, however, that this prophesy of changing our hearts from stone to flesh clearly pertains to the Deliverance period and not to the period of the Virgin Birth.

Revelation calls the descent of Wormwood that of the AntiChrist and His False Prophet.12 In Revelation, as in the other prophesies, God reinforces His threat to allow you to believe the vanities in man.

Psalm 49.11 Their inward thought is that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

But all this is in vain, for they store up their treasures not knowing who will come to gather them.

Psalm 27.4-5 One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his Temple.

For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His Pavilion: in the secret of His Tabernacle shall He hide me; He shall set me up upon a rock.

The conflict in the Deliverance comes between the Messiah and the thing which is called Wormwood.13 His adversary, who is the Anointed One, waits, hidden in the hand of God, even in the mystery of His Tabernacle. Then, when He becomes as a bud from the horn of David, emerging, all that which lies before Him crumbles into the dust. For all He need point out is the work of Wormwood.

Most Christian Ministers seem to spend more time watching for the Antichrist than they would spend for their Promised King restored. And the stage, through Wormwood, is such that they would even expect their King to come to answer for the lies that they know have deceived them. Rather than watching for Him who would address the Tabernacle and its Mercy Seat, as Promised, they watch for something else; and that thing is the thing which they hope will tell them the lies they already believe.

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It is easy for a man to come and claim that He is Christ Resurrected; and perhaps easy for many to believe it. But if they believe it, it is a lie. For we await the First Resurrection, for those who believe in Revelation, and the man who comes has no name. He is known only as The Word.14 And if He were to take a name, because of the task before Him, of gathering all of the seed of God into His Tabernacle, as Job describes the Unicorn; He would have to take the name originally given for Him for the time of the Deliverance: That name is Israel (Israel calls Him Shiloh). For Isaiah tells us there are Three Witnesses of God. The first is of God; the second goes by the name of David (Jacob); and the third subscribes unto the Lord with the surname of Israel. Israel is the end of all things prophesied in the Bible.

As to His nature, He carries one that is somewhat different from Christ: First, as Shiloh, even because He addresses His People in a foreign tongue and with stammering lips (like Moses), He is not or cannot be a Jew. So He must adopt His name at best, and that name would be Israel. He would call His Nation by the Name of Israel. He would call them by Name. And if Christians know this name they would be wise to go to it.

I like to think of Him as Bands, however. For the redemption of Israel, which is a time when all men are brought into the Tabernacle of God, is like a marriage. The Tabernacle is held together by gold bands; the ceremony involving its restoration is with bands of love. And as He restores the Tabernacle, its bands and cords, it is anticipated that there will be those who will seek to cut them and break them. And they will be the workers of Wormwood.

This is not to deny Christ His right at the throne. For we must recall that that which was the cornerstone is also the headstone. There is but One Holy Spirit, or Holy One of Israel. And you who would think that He is affected by one name or another ought to go back and read Him. For He really needs no name to do His Works. The most I could call Him, I suppose, would be the Branch. That's basically the perspective, anyway: you see God through the Branch and you come to commune with Him where He resides between Them atop the Mercy Seat.

For those of you who take this lightly, there is a Warning. For God said that He would break both of His Staves, Beauty and Bands. If I were you I would pray that He would not break Bands, as the other, for what will be done unto Him has been prophesied unto you [the womb] who contain Him.

Psalm 80.12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?

For those of you who do not believe in God, becauseHe makes mistakes, give thought to the hedges of Israel, for they have been restored. Therefore, we are no longer in the time of Psalm 80.12. Yet, whilst in Jerusalem I heard many crying that their Lord must have made a mistake. Even so much as many would deny the name of Israel itself, because they saw their land but no Lord within them. God had forgotten to include the Messiah in their restoration, so it seems.

Why is it that the pen speaks but no one can hear? Hast thou heard the secret of God? And doest thou restrain wisdom to thyself? What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? Shall it declare thy truth?

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Man's wisdom this day is so great I feel sorry for the Messiah when He comes. For He faces many mountains and no single man can climb them. For every man worships his own god, and every man requires his own of his own god. Therefore, there can be no god for these.

When I was in Jerusalem I was told about the Golden Gate, even prevented from walking up to it. Yet, I walked up to the iron fence about it, in the graveyard, and wondered why they had taken all the trouble to block it up. For I was told that they believe that the Jewish Messiah will come through the Golden Gate, from the East, the Mount of Olives. And they believed that no Messiah would dare walk through their cemetery. Somehow, those who hold the dominion of the Temple mount have arrived at the conclusion that the living should fear the dead.

I had a friend tell me about her neighborhood's complaints about a funeral home relocating from a downtown location to their place. The entire neighborhood was up in arms about it, resisting the relocation of the funeral home to their neighborhood. I thought it odd and told my friend that her neighbors had greater cause to fear the living than the dead.

You all fear the dead and if something were dead and raised again you would fear Him. And you should fear Him for He knows your inner secrets. For those of you who have read of the Deliverance, tell them who guard the gate that the Deliverer comes not from the east but from the West. For you have been told that you will be seeded from the east and gathered from the west: furthermore, you will fear the name of the Lord from the west and His glory from the east. And you have also been told that His Name comes even from the far isles and the far coasts. For He comes from the place where the sun sleeps in the imaginations of men.

So to fill the expectations of men whose lips utter the words of their own vanity and not the Holy Word of God, let that gate come down. You who wait for the Wisdom of God by the wayside, watching for mountains and valleys to be cleaved in two and their walls broken down, then I say to my Lord and God, let it be! Those of you who watch for death, give them death; for I see no life within you. But I remind you that your God is a God of the living, not the dead, for his anger endureth for a moment; in his favour is life: Weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning. So I write to the Living.

What right have I to chastise anyone? I have none, for I am the least of all of you. Even less, for I am not like you and have not laid any claim upon the inheritance. And I leave those claims to you who would be gods over God.

Let me tell you what I have done, so you can better appreciate the problems of the Messiah when you finally see Him.

I took up the Bible and read it through the eyes of Christ, as best I could. I listened through the ears of Christ as best I could. Then I spoke with my pen through the mouth of Christ as best I could. For I learned that the Body of Christ is between me and any other man who might call in His Name in agreement with me. So I called for another in Christ's Name and no one heard me. I called out louder, asking for comfort and even refuge, and still no one comforted me. I even told some of them that I was a lost sheep and felt hurt that no one bothered to gather me or come after me.

I looked into the Tabernacle in my early days and wrote others about it, how to build it and why to build it. I told them what the Tabernacle really is, in my view, and how it can change the world. For God resides in the Tabernacle atop the Mercy Seat between the Two Cherubim. And if the Cloud of God is there by day, and His Fire there by night, then I know He can lead us into the New Kingdom which Christ had told us to pray for. And I knew if the Cloud of God were there, where all could see Him, then so would the man known as Jesus Christ be there.

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I wrote many of the ministry, great and small, and no one even let out so much as a peep. I described the Tent as a Shoebox, so that all those who had heard of it will never forget it.

In my early letters I suggested to one minister, a television ministry, that a good thing to do to get this new world coming set off right would be to gather the Peacemakers. For I suggested to him that they are the Children of God and the first to be gathered. I suggested that the next Easter several congregations, or demonstrations, in large fields could be organized. Those that come need only be Peacemakers, and I cared little for any differentiation they may wish to make regarding religion. For to me it is the Peacemakers who keep the faith above all others. For God is a man of peace. My letters were ignored altogether, even those which dealt with the Tabernacle were ignored.

I wrote others of these things, including the Two Olive Branches, hoping to generate some interest in the building of the Tabernacle. I even offered to pay for its basic construction. I had $10,000 saved and felt it could cover the initial cost of the boards and curtains, making the metal parts out of brass and steel. Then, when it is seen, I believed all will come to if offering their gold and silver so that the brass rings could be changed to gold and the steel tenons and their sockets to gold and silver. Even though I offered to pay for it, no one showed an interest in the project. They seemed more interested in talking about rumors of those building the Temple in Jerusalem and how the Dome of the Rock must come down to allow for it. Yet, none of them considered that you cannot appreciate what the Temple is without knowing what the Tabernacle is. For the Tabernacle was essentially moved into the Temple, with modification. And when they speak of the Temple, I ask, Which Temple?

So I ask those who are trying to build the Temple, or would do so, What are you building?

Let's build the Tabernacle; then the Temple can be built.

I thought it strange that no one in the ministry has arrived at the conclusion that the Tabernacle must be some kind of image of God, being not only important to the Children of Israel and man, but also God Himself. Why would He design it or give it if there were no reason for it? Does He design things so that they can become corrupted like man and return to the dust? Are God's Designs susceptible even to the moths? Or does He design things which can live and whose truth will be as great today as it is forever?

Needless to say, no one seemed interested.

I wrote many letters and several books about the subject. I sent one book to Clyde Schuller, another to Dr. Herbert W. Armstrong, who seemed most enthusiastic about interpreting Revelation, and another I left in France. So as to assure all these that I really have no claim to any of it, I left my name off my correspondence wherever possible. For what I have discovered and offered, being important to me, is something I could not claim for myself. For anything I developed came right out of the Word of God: His Bible. And if I have done anything it is that I have opened the Bible and read parts of it to you, asking you why you haven't considered these things.

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In my letters I asked those of you to pretend that you have the eyes and ears, even the mouth, of Christ, and think like him; even act like him. For to me this is the Substance of the Body of Christ and the end result of the thing planned by God in the Bible. God wants to live on earth in our Body. And to do that He concluded the Body had to be purged of its vanities and brought down to His level so that He could live in it. And all the while that God has spoken to you, saying, I am below you; all of you create high towers and high flying stairs to celebrate Him. None of you realize that Hecan see up under your robes as you climb up your high stairs.

What would Christ do if He were here standing as a man before you today? You know the answer:He would first fulfill prophesy; and the key element of the prophesies involving the Deliverance is the Tabernacle and Temple. In them are the mysteries of the Bible, and they include the Two Olive Branches atop the Mercy Seat and the Two Olive Trees in the Temple Sanctuary. So He would address these things.

You who watch for miracle workers and live day by day claiming your own miracles in Christ's name must also know that Christis going to have a difficult time competing with you on that scale. But you should also know that He would know that miracles prove nothing anyway. The miracles were certainly no asset when it came to His Trial, for there was no one among them at the Trial who witnessed for Him. Moses is no less disenchanted with Miracles. Whilst miracles fed the Children of Israel they did not sustain them. Within forty days after Moses went up on the mount the children backslided and fashioned themselves a Golden Calf and worshipped it. in spite of the miracles, even Aaron, God's Prophet, participated in it! And who among you can say you are as faithful as Aaron?

Seeing these things in the Tabernacle, I said in my letters that I would be to them as a trial run. And if you deny me, certainly you will deny Christ when He comes. And that seems to be where we are at the moment. I have proved that you will all deny Christ when He comes...

You have already denied Him.

Something you have failed to consider is that the Anointed One has to address certain issues and certain peoples. For He has to gather all men into one barn. How would you propose that He do it?

I proposed that He would do it through the Tabernacle; for everything you know about your God has come through, and been preserved in, the Tabernacle. Yet I proved that no one would enter the Tabernacle.

In my letters I complained, writing from one minister to another, that you are all making me a witness against you.

I had hoped that you would have taken the Tabernacle and built it as I asked: With no name upon it. Building in the Body of Christ. I told you that you have a legitimate right to do it, for Christ said He would fulfill all things prophesied16 and, further, it was His intent to live between any two or three men gathered in His Name. Between any two or three of you, you could build the Tabernacle, a thing already approved in prophesy. And I thought that it was odd that no of you could see yourselves in such a Body that you could do it.

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Christ said He would be seen three ways: In the Body, as a Thief, and as a Cloud, in a Cloud or Clouds. Yet, all of you who mutter mutterings about being of the body all look to the sky for a Cloud. The Cloud comes in the Second Resurrection or the Second Death, as you prefer, of Revelation. There are things yet to be done before that Cloud comes. First the Tabernacle is opened up...

You all claim to have a personal relationship with Christ, even those who work in their death factories make such claims.

I heard one minister who would run for office claim that so and so, referring to the Libyan Leader, ought to be killed. I hope that I misunderstood Him, for I cannot imagine the Body of Christ saying such a thing, or even thinking it.

What is going to come of all this?

I hope nothing comes of it. For what is to come is something I would not touch. And I would rather, at this stage, be someone who goes to his dust having nothing following at His Heels than the things which lie behind my heals. For I know what follows behind my heels.

In my early letters I wrote to a minister saying, I prefer to leave the church standing.

My letters to the Ministry opened up the issue of the Tabernacle. And because that issue was ignored completely, even that it involved Two Anointed Ones, it exposed the ministry to a coming challenge. And that challenge will ask, Why didn't you go into it?

When the challenge of which I speak comes, and I tell you it is here already, you will all be caught standing naked exposing your rotten members. And when the challenge is heard, your house will come crumbling down upon your heads. For it is so eaten up with wormwood, it will not be able to stand in the face of the witness before you.

Thus, I have said you have made me a witness against you. Because you have not taken and eaten the obvious.

I love the Psalms and you are the first to whom I have used them. Not because you have done anything against me or offended me: for you have not. But you think like the others:

Let's build the Tabernacle; then the Temple can be built.

I thought it strange that no one in the ministry has arrived at the conclusion that the Tabernacle must be some kind of image of God, being not only important to the Children of Israel and man, but also God Himself. Why would He design it or give it if there were no reason for it? Does He design things so that they can become corrupted like man and return to the dust? Are God's Designs susceptible even to the moths? Or does He design things which can live and whose truth will be as great today as it is forever?

Needless to say, no one seemed interested.

I wrote many letters and several books about the subject. I sent one book to Clyde Schuller, another to Dr. Herbert W. Armstrong, who seemed most enthusiastic about interpreting Revelation, and another I left in France. So as to assure all these that I really have no claim to any of it, I left my name off my correspondence wherever possible. For what I have discovered and offered, being important to me, is something I could not claim for myself. For anything I developed came right out of the Word of God: His Bible. And if I have done anything it is that I have opened the Bible and read parts of it to you, asking you why you haven't considered these things.

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In my letters I asked those of you to pretend that you have the eyes and ears, even the mouth, of Christ, and think like him; even act like him. For to me this is the Substance of the Body of Christ and the end result of the thing planned by God in the Bible. God wants to live on earth in our Body. And to do that He concluded the Body had to be purged of its vanities and brought down to His level so that He could live in it. And all the while that God has spoken to you, saying, I am below you; all of you create high towers and high flying stairs to celebrate Him. None of you realize that He can see up under your robes as you climb up your high stairs.

What would Christ do if He were here standing as a man before you today? You know the answer:He would first fulfill prophesy; and the key element of the prophesies involving the Deliverance is the Tabernacle and Temple. In them are the mysteries of the Bible, and they include the Two Olive Branches atop the Mercy Seat and the Two Olive Trees in the Temple Sanctuary. So He would address these things.

You who watch for miracle workers and live day by day claiming your own miracles in Christ's name must also know that Christis going to have a difficult time competing with you on that scale. But you should also know that He would know that miracles prove nothing anyway. The miracles were certainly no asset when it came to His Trial, for there was no one among them at the Trial who witnessed for Him. Moses is no less disenchanted with Miracles. Whilst miracles fed the Children of Israel they did not sustain them. Within forty days after Moses went up on the mount the children backslided and fashioned themselves a Golden Calf and worshipped it. in spite of the miracles, even Aaron, God's Prophet, participated in it! And who among you can say you are as faithful as Aaron?

Seeing these things in the Tabernacle, I said in my letters that I would be to them as a trial run. And if you deny me, certainly you will deny Christ when He comes. And that seems to be where we are at the moment. I have proved that you will all deny Christ when He comes...

You have already denied Him.

Something you have failed to consider is that the Anointed One has to address certain issues and certain peoples. For He has to gather all men into one barn. How would you propose that He do it?

I proposed that He would do it through the Tabernacle; for everything you know about your God has come through, and been preserved in, the Tabernacle. Yet I proved that no one would enter the Tabernacle.

In my letters I complained, writing from one minister to another, that you are all making me a witness against you.

I had hoped that you would have taken the Tabernacle and built it as I asked: With no name upon it. Building in the Body of Christ. I told you that you have a legitimate right to do it, for Christ said He would fulfill all things prophesied16 and, further, it was His intent to live between any two or three men gathered in His Name. Between any two or three of you, you could build the Tabernacle, a thing already approved in prophesy. And I thought that it was odd that no of you could see yourselves in such a Body that you could do it.

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Christ said He would be seen three ways: In the Body, as a Thief, and as a Cloud, in a Cloud or Clouds. Yet, all of you who mutter mutterings about being of the body all look to the sky for a Cloud. The Cloud comes in the Second Resurrection or the Second Death, as you prefer, of Revelation. There are things yet to be done before that Cloud comes. First the Tabernacle is opened up...

You all claim to have a personal relationship with Christ, even those who work in their death factories make such claims.

I heard one minister who would run for office claim that so and so, referring to the Libyan Leader, ought to be killed. I hope that I misunderstood Him, for I cannot imagine the Body of Christ saying such a thing, or even thinking it.

What is going to come of all this?

I hope nothing comes of it. For what is to come is something I would not touch. And I would rather, at this stage, be someone who goes to his dust having nothing following at His Heels than the things which lie behind my heals. For I know what follows behind my heels.

In my early letters I wrote to a minister saying, I prefer to leave the church standing.

My letters to the Ministry opened up the issue of the Tabernacle. And because that issue was ignored completely, even that it involved Two Anointed Ones, it exposed the ministry to a coming challenge. And that challenge will ask, Why didn't you go into it?

When the challenge of which I speak comes, and I tell you it is here already, you will all be caught standing naked exposing your rotten members. And when the challenge is heard, your house will come crumbling down upon your heads. For it is so eaten up with wormwood, it will not be able to stand in the face of the witness before you.

Thus, I have said you have made me a witness against you. Because you have not taken and eaten the obvious.

I love the Psalms and you are the first to whom I have used them. Not because you have done anything against me or offended me: for you have not. But you think like the others:

He said: Love one another as I have loved you..

Look around you at all those who claim to be in the Body of Christ. They have created the darkest period in human history! For they have left no inheritance in the earth for their children, even my children. And what now remains of it, which can be lost in but an hour, is far less than the earth given to Abraham and the earth blessed in Him and His seed.

I suspect many of you will be standing, waiting to be hauled up in a cloud to Heaven, midst the dust and ashes, saying, "For the love of God, this was destroyed". I can tell you now, if it is destroyed, and it is near to it, by pollution alone, it will not have been done by the love of God but by the wrath of God and your negligence. And since you know where we all stand in this, kicking the ashes off our feet, you also know where it places us!

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I write for no purpose, for no reward. My blessing is that I am a slave of God. For there is no benefit for me in these things.

I am jealous of my Lord. But I thank my God that you cannot hear and your hearts are hardened like stone. For they keep me in obscurity and hidden under the shadow of God and I am safe from the hands of men. Even so, I know that as long as I write eventually I will be heard, for I have my 12 witnesses. And I fear that day. For it will be like the shaking of the Fig Tree and all the fruit will at once drop to the ground.

You should look for the Fig Tree. Christ said to watch for it. But do not take my word for it, for I am no prophet nor would choose to be one. For what is there left to prophesy? About what happens after the New Beginning?

Verily, I tell you, I fear that there is now not sufficient left of the offering from which to fashion a New Beginning. For you all await the Apocalypse, even justify it as the love of God; and I can't see a thing after it. But you who feed on the dust of the earth may continue feeding on dust.

Notes to Letter B

* The original passage in this letter said, "Moses had nothing to do with Genesis" and referred to the fact that Moses did not make the promises recorded in Genesis. This statement showed my own ignorance at the time, since I then did not realize that Moses wrote Genesis! Though my premise was correct, that Israel made the Promises – not Moses – leaving the comment noted above would only promote confusion; so I changed this part of my original letter. I should have been corrected on this.

1) It is interesting to note that in chapter 11 of Zechariah two staves are mentioned who are called Beauty and Bands. It is my understanding that the Hebrew word for stave is the same word for lawgiver. Thus, the Two Staves to which Zechariah refers in chapter 11 can also be read as Two lawgivers. This is an important correlation, since in chapter 4 Zechariah speaks of The Two Anointed Ones who stand beside the Lord of the whole earth; then, in chapter 11 he refers to Two Staves, which could also be read as lawgivers; And in the context of the Two Lawgivers or staves we have the names Beauty and Bands (according to the King James Bible). Jewish Bibles have translated Beauty and Bands to read Favor and Unity. In the context of the Biblical use of Scepter, among the prophets, the reading of Beauty and Bands and Favor and Unity are pretty much in agreement with each other, for a favor would be something considered precious, i.e. beautiful while bands, either in construction or for purposes of a wedding, create unity.

According to the Genesis Rabbah, XLVII:V2.D:, translated by Jacob Neusner, The word for tribe and for staff, or rod, in the cited verse (referring to Genesis 17:19-20) are synonyms, both meaning tribes, both meaning rods, and so these tribes would endure like rodes that are planted. In this context the Two Anointed Ones, or Staves/Lawgivers would be kings over the generation of their visitation; thus the nation and the King cannot be separated from one another.

2) Zechariah 11.3

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3) This was written before I discovered that the Essene Dead Sea Scrolls, buried for the last two thousand years and discovered in 1946, very clearly described the Messiah as Two Anointed Ones (or Messiahs). But my ignorance, in this regard, went even further than this, for the Oral Torah of the Rabbis, also passed down for the last three thousand years, reflecting common Jewish conceptions on this subject, also make mention of the Messiah as Two Anointed Ones. The Jews have always been watching for Two Messiahs. And reflecting upon this I wonder why the ministers whom I wrote never wrote me back pointing this common knowledge out.
4) The Biblical Testimony says that the Two Cherubim were of beaten gold, beaten out of the two ends of the sheet of gold called The Mercy seat. I thought, in writing this, that the Two Cherubim were beaten around molds carved out of olive branches, but I now find that I can find no reference to this. But the fact remains the Two Cherubim had to be formed by beating the gold around some kind of form. In all probability the form was carved out of olive wood. (I have since discovered that Jerome's Bible Commentary notes that the Two Cherubim were made out of olive branches, then had gold beaten around them).
5) Actually the contents of the Tabernacle were moved into the Temple when it was finished upon the Temple mount. According to II Maccabees, the Tabernacle continued to exist until the time of Jeremiah, who, it is reported, hid the Tabernacle in a cave on Mt. Sinai.
6) Revelation speaks of a time called the Second Death, which is the time when the Cloud of God descends upon Mt. Zion with the New Jerusalem. It is a time when the souls of the wicked are cast into the lake of fire; it is called the second death because their first death was of the flesh; the second death is of the spirit and soul.
Because Revelation speaks of a First Resurrection, it also presupposes an event following it called the Second Resurrection. Otherwise it ought to simply mention The Resurrection which presumes there would be no other resurrection following it.
7) In the Gospel of Thomas, which resembles and is linked to the synoptic Gospels and the "Q" text ("Q' for German "quelle", "Source"), Christ says, When you come to dwell in the light, what will you do? On the day when you were one you became two. But when you become two, what will you do?(11); and When you make the Two One, you will become the sons of man, and when you say, Mountain, move away, it will move away.
8) Once again, the Gospel of Thomas says:The images are manifest to man, but the light in them remains concealed in the image of the light of the Father. He will become manifest, but His image will remain concealed by his light...When you see your likenes, you rejoice. But when you see your images which came into being before you, and which neither die nor become manifest, how much you will have to bear! ((83,84)
9) One of the epithets of the Deliverer isHe who inherits the desolate heritages.
10) In the final analysis it will be seen that the entire issue of Jesus Christ, whether He was the True Messiah, rests upon the Sign of the Virgin mentioned by Isaiah. For that sign can only come before the diaspora; now for the truth of God's Word and prophesy to be known, it is imperative that the issue of the Virgin be resolved. If Israel still awaits that sign, it is a sign from them that they know that they will be once again scattered off their land and it turned into nothing but briars and thorns.
11) I'm afraid I was patronizing the Ministry when I wrote this. This prophesy of changing our hearts from stone to flesh clearly pertains to the Deliverance period and not to the period of the Virgin Birth. In patronizing the Ministry I was acknowledging that a prophesy can be fulfilled before its time, which I really don't believe is possible.
For every prophesy, being prophesy, is linked to a specific instant in time. If this were not so, there would be no way of measuring whether the prophesy were fulfilled correctly, as prophesied.

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12) The name, Antichrist, appears also in Jewish documents. I wonder whether John developed this term independently or from Jewish sources.
13) Wormwood is a bush whose leaves are bitter to the taste. In my original letter I compared this to the eating away, as with canquer worms, at the foundations of the Word of God. In Revelation it culminates with a man coming to set his foundations in such a manner that they are like Wormwood and will fall at the slightest blow of the wind. But in the true sense of the notion, his foundations would be so bitter to the taste that they would be spewed out of the mouth. According to a Soviet spokeman on T.V. the name Chernoble means Wormwood.
14) If one does not know His name, surely the Ministry cannot suggest that they would know Him as Jesus the Christ!
16) The Ministry and I have a slight problem. They seem to believe that Christ meant, I have come to nullify prophesy. Every prophesy has its own instant of time; those instants of time which would be in another day to Christ would have to be fulfilled then, according to Christ's Word. Christ cannot pick and choose the prophesies He would like to fulfill, nullifying those He does not agree with, as you Ministry seem to prefer to do.
17) We have a slight problem here. When I wrote this letter I thought that Christ had made a New Covenant (probably because I had heard it from the mouths of the Ministry and did not question them on it). But there is no evidence in the New Testament, coming out of the mouth of Christ, that He made a New Covenant. Speaking of the wine and the bread as being his blood and his body, He said This is my New Testament... In the English language there is a marked difference between the words Covenant, Testament, Testimony, etc. Otherwise, the King James translators would have always used but one word wherever those words appear and that word would be Covenant. So Christ, in His Testimony, said This is my New Testament. I am surprised the ministry did not correct me on this.

Letter C 

Michael Baigent
% Delacorte Press
1 Dag Hamarskjkold Plaza
New York, New York 10017

Messr's Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln,

I am enclosing a book which may interest you concerning your investigations of the Holy Grail. It should also interest Monsieur Chyren Legrand. I would like to offer some comments regarding your book and some of the conclusions you have drawn.

You are on the right track, but there are some routes you have taken which will lead to a dead end. Let me explain. Your theory that Christ was not crucified creates an enormous problem in Biblical prophesy. For it suggests that the Messiah has not yet arrived and, if so, Israel is about to be scattered again. That is to say, your theory is okay for two thousand years ago; it can no longer be valid in these times.1

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There are Two Anointed Ones specified in the Bible: Hence, the Duality. They are basically a resurrected being. One part of Him is born according to prophesy, denied, scourged, and killed. This I call the Suffering Messiah, or Lamb. He can also be called by the name of Beauty.2

The other is the Deliverer. He is a man named Shiloh, Michael, and, as I prefer, the Bands. Bands is He who stands at the time of the Deliverance and shows the marks on His hands, explaining that they were gotten in the house of his friends. He is also the cause of mourning, as one would mourn for her lost son. His Wife is a Widow, telling us that Her Husband had been previously killed. And of course, if you are to look upon Him whom you pierced, it should mean that you are looking upon a man who had been resurrected. For Old Testament Prophesy (Isaiah), as well as others, distinctly show that the Messiah is killed at least on his first occurrence.

His divinity is clearly defined. He is a man, yet carries the seed of God in Him, as in the Teil and the Oak, for instance. Isaiah, chapter 9.6, clearly tells us exactly who He is. He is God in the Flesh. To suggest that the Messiah is not made in the image of God is foolhardy.

Your work, however, has greater credibility than most Christian teaching.3 For it is headed in the direction by which the wheel of God is turning.

Men have always, like Esdras, tried to put an image on the Voice of God. Yet, none have considered the image that God provided: Two Cherubim atop His Mercy Seat, between whom He Resides: and these are things whose beauty and comliness are such that no one will desire them. In this context, the Bible tells us that they will basically be invisible, like God, to us. Yet, they are men wondered at.

A case in point involves the Two Olive Trees placed before the Temple Sanctuary. No one, except Zechariah, ever asked who they were. Even So, since His Time, no one else has asked.

As you know, what you have discovered is but a drop in a large pail of water. And when you read my book you will suddenly see an enormous undertaking which had completely escaped your eye.

The question of Christ's sacrifice is an important question. For the precept of the Bible is based upon the realization of shame and lack of wisdom in man in not knowing His God. For the Bible, God's Word, predicts, like no other, that He alone is God, exists, and will one day prove it. And what you have been digging into are innuendos leading to the proof. That proof is illuminated in human sacrifice (regrettably).

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The world, as everyone can taste, is on the brink of catastrophic failure: and if not by our nuclear weapons the inheritance is certainly shaken by our pollution alone. These are the darkest days ever for the children of men to set their feet on earth.

The Deliverer, unlike the Christian View of Him, is not so much concerned with the salvation of souls, but the Salvation of God's Nation, Israel, in whom all men are blessed. The fulfillment of this Promise involves a Restoration of sorts, like putting Adam and Eve back into the Garden of Eden, for instance.

We are, of course, inhabiting an island which is far removed from the Garden of Eden. Once it was a garden, but in these days of my generation such days have been removed. So, in these days, when we speak of Salvation, we are now speaking of saving what is left of the earth and restoring some kind of order that will perpetuate a healthy earth, not destroy it. So we must keep the Deliverer in this perspective. He is a King.

A king who is sent, according to prophesy, to be killed cannot be much of a King. The only right of Inheritance He can have (because He was denied) would be in His Resurrection. And of course that happens to gravitate to the key issue of God: That His Spirit, and yours, need not die. To prove this He wrote a story showing how He would set a Kingdom on earth and reign one day directly as its King. And that Kingdom would include all men, where all men would one day bow down unto Him. That King--even like Osiris--conceived of the idea of visiting the earth, allowing Himself to be killed and then in judgment resurrected. The time of the Resurrection is distinctly identified. It is a time of great darkness, greater than any other time before or even to come. For it is a time when all men know that the end is come. The ultimate description of the end, of course, makes one consider that after the holocaust there can be nothing remaining upon which to rebuild His Kingdom. In this sense we can see that by the hands of man alone, our children, in perhaps the next ten years, may be the last to know this garden, and all that may remain of it would be smoke and dust.

The protagonists in the end are also distinctly identified. You can call them the Children of Light against the Children of Darkness. In the context of our day, the Children of Darkness would be those who are perpetuating those things which are creating the dark clouds over our children's inheritance.

The Bible is a book of inheritance. That's really all it is about. Once again, He who inherits the Promise in the Book, on behalf of all men, is identified as a King, an Anointed One like David (and also like Moses).

Most people, when they read the Bible, read those things which can best fulfill their own vanity. The children of Benjamin, for instance, may dwell upon the vanity of being in possession of Jerusalem; but we must also calibrate their portion of the Inheritance with Jacob's Words: And He described them on the order of beasts and scoundrels, like wolves in the night. Surely, He who first set the inheritance in his 12 sons, would not put the king or scepter in Benjamin.

The fact is the scepter was put in Judah. Benjamin never had any claim to it. And the King, like David, was prophesied to come out of Bethlehem.

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With regard to Jacob's Will, there is a provision which lays the groundwork for transfer of the Scepter out of Judah. And His Name is Shiloh. So according to Israel's Will, the Scepter remains in Judah until Shiloh come, and to Him shall the Gathering of the people be. This tells us that there are a least Two Kings or Anointed Ones: One is he who sets the Scepter in Judah and the other is He who (as Shiloh) takes it out of Judah (or has the ability to do so). As one can see, the belief that Christ had a Twin is based upon good insight into the scriptures. The Twin, of course, is a Double yet to come, and He is more accurately described by Isaiah as appearing midst the Gentile, whom He glorifies. The Double is yet another name for the Deliverer.

The only hope that Benjamin could have in the Inheritance is the fact that He is the youngest son. As you may note, from the Inheritance of Noah on, the Inheritance (the Covenant of God) has always been passed on through the youngest son. Jacob, for instance, was the younger Twin of Esau.

Benjamin's hope stems from the Babylonian captivity. If you read about the Two Fig Baskets, you will find that only one of them becomes the fruit who is glorified in the end. The Good basket of fruit, which is Benjamin, is that which is sent to Babylon into captivity. The Messianic Deliverer, therefore, could have ties to this basket of fruit; and your discoveries suggesting that this fruit leads to France is not wishful thinking.

As for the Royal Blood line, somehow it is tied together from two different parts. One part Judah the other part coming out of Shiloh (who could be of Judah).

As for the incorporation of the Spirit of God, or Holy One of Israel, in this Bloodline, it is clear that its rod is from Judah and from it a branch is grown. However, to think that God cannot pick another man in whom to put His Spirit is absurd.5 For the whole premise of the Bible is the fact that God would one day inhabit the bodies of all men and they would all be unto Him as One Body, or Kingdom. In this context, though it sounds pernicious, He intends to take over our bodies: and is in modern parlance a body snatcher!

This leads us back to the question concerning the Messiah. He is clearly described as God, but still no one really knows who this or what this God is.

In my Father's House there are many mansions. Perhaps the most readily identifiable thing about this House is the fact that it is a House of Wisdom. The entire creed of the Bible is based upon the eventual birth of Wisdom in man which will rule over the earth in the name of its Maker.

We see in Isaiah an expression of Duality in this Wisdom. For He describes Him as The Holy One of Israel and His Maker, among other things. He calls Him also Saviour and Redeemer and His Maker. So the fact that some have suspected a duality, not only in the Messiah, but in the God, is well founded. For even Daniel asks, How can this my Lord speak to this my Lord?

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However you look at God, there is but One Voice. It has a distinct personality and stated objective. It never wavers from that point of view. Even Christ's Word incorporates and is faithful with that point of view. Further, Christ Himself used terms which are critical terms used in the expression of God's intentions and purpose. For instance, both Christ and His Maker spoke about the Vine and the Fig Tree. And they are things by which all men come to know their God. Christ said He was the Vine.

I don't know how much the others know about this issue, which is of the Grail, but there are things you must consider in exploring it further. First of all, the Bible is based upon prophesy. And the prophesies are precepts built one upon another. If you pull one precept out without holding it in the framework of the others, it will collapse like a bowing wall before your very eyes. This is the basic problem involved in the New Testament and its editors. They edited themselves into a snare which will eventually cause the foundation they are creating, like the Tower of Babel, being unintelligible, to collapse. The problem, as you have seen, is the fact that there is evidence that someone has conspired to defraud the reader. For there are major errors which, if followed, would lead one right to the edge of disaster. The disaster, in Christian Teaching, would, of course, be first seen in the fact that the Ministry would deny the Anointed One when He comes. That was also prophesied, incidentally. The other error involves the Tabernacle of God and how it is ultimately envisioned on earth. Once again, the conclusions you reached concerning a day when priestly intercessors would be scuttled, is well founded. The concept involves the fact that, as in the days of Moses, God would reign in His own presence between the Two Cherubim. All the congregation witnessed Him there, even standing before the door of the Tabernacle, many times. So like as to those days, the God yet to reign will not rely upon Faith but reign in the actual proof of His own Existence.

As for the Mary Magdalene, whether she carried the Holy Seed in her is really of no importance; for the Proof of God, carried in the Tabernacle, is the ultimate Proof. Being born of a Virgin, for instance, was a Sign of God, but it was not proof; for who can prove that Mary was a Virgin? Christ's mythical marriage to Mary Magdalene, though conceivable, causes us to ask why the Sinoptic Gospels didn't report it; and though such a marriage could produce holy children, the seed of God, such seed would likely be no different than any other, even David's. And as one can see, Only David's younger son, Solomon, seemed to have Wisdom attending to God's Seed in Him. The others don't exactly stand out in measure as godlike seed.

What they are really searching for is their King: He who will set the Kingdom to come. As for His Seed, they would be no less mortal than any other and endowed with the same vanities of other men. But it would be hoped that somehow a duality in the Father and Son, like David and Solomon, might come again to enlighten the world. And hopefully their seed would not stray too far from them.

I am not sure whether I understood you, but God certainly does not see Himself as the type of an Olympian god. The Olympians could sit atop their mountains and throw lightening bolts down upon men, visit them from time to time to influence them, and even create their own demi-gods on earth through union with women. The Old Testament God is not this kind of God, for He does not see Himself as interfering from time to time to put things right. Rather, He appears to be more like a playwright who has created a story line and cast of characters and proclaims to all men that the story He has already created will be seen in the end to have been created by Him. Even so far as putting villains into the story, this God says He created it. For He says He creates both good and evil and if a false prophet is found to prophesy wrongly it is because He made him do it. Clearly, from His point of view, we are all actors.

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As for the immortality of the Soul, the concept of the Day of the Lord, the judgment, is securely fastened with the concept of immortality. For one of the principle signs of that day, reflected both in Old Testament and New Testament thought, as well as the Koran, is the raising of the dead. Like Lazarus, they will all be restored to life (those who are dead are dead; those who are alive are alive).

God is a God of the living, not the dead. And to Him, even the living, whom we see as living, can be in reality dead. By the same token, the Bible predicts that you will see a day when a man will come before you, whom you thought to be dead, showing you, along with his saints, that He is really alive. How He proves this is, once again, demonstrated in the Tabernacle.

Of course, there are those who would look between his shoulders for a mark of God (Benjamin was promised by God that He would always be between his shoulders). In terms of marks between the shoulders, the first thing I would suggest you look for is the head. Birthmarks mean nothing.

It is as with the matter of the Golden Gate in Jerusalem, which was sealed by the Moslems against the intrusion of the Jewish Messiah. I asked a Jew, whose name was Jacob, whether a man, perhaps drunken, were standing next to the area of the gate at the time of an earthquake; and if the earthquake should bring down the stones sealing the gate and the man walk in, would He be their Messiah? The Jew replied, Probably not. So signs such as the material things men watch for are really no proof of God. For man puts his own limitations upon such miracles. Let's face it, if I were to tell you of simpler miracles, easier to verify, involving myself or someone I know, who would believe it? Or who would inquire of it?

The story also illustrates how opinions can be formed which, if followed, can lead one to ludicrousness. In our example, one should ask why the Moslems have taken to seal off the gate against a being whom they do not believe can exist.6 It is this kind of logic which contrasts the wisdom of men with that of God. If they were to look from their God