Reflections of the Gospel and the Blessings

Reflections of the Gospel and the Blessings 3

Now I speak unto you of things as they were, as they are, and as they will be unto you!

When Enoch established the city of Enoch with a pure people before me, I brought them back into my presence because, then, there was not this New Jerusalem yet builded of a pure people. Therefore, I speak this truth unto you saying:

In a time acceptable, as it is written, shall the city of Enoch descend out of heaven to be among man again to that New City that shall be builded wherein all saintly and pure men of God shall dwell with the Father and the Son, yea, even my Mother shall be thy Mother that the children of the church of the Firstborn shall be established unto everlasting life.

And it shall be an everlasting life, for herein they shall be found living with their Heavenly Parents in a condition of life eternal, enjoying everlasting life of a fulness of joy and eternal felicity, for for this intent are men created and endowed with godhood.

For indeed, this is life eternal to know the only true God that has been sent of God, to know him is to know God the Father. Even so, Amen and Amen.

Before I proceed more with what I am writing, the spirit of the Lord is directing me to write somewhat concerning what I have just written that those who shall read what I am writing shall be edified by what is written that they might know that God reveals mysteries to them that are pure before him and to them who seek to establish the righteousness of God unto the fulfillment of promises and covenants.

Now therefore, the natural man cannot achieve this state of purity unless he yields himself unto God in all things, which action is not in opposition to God's holy will, but indeed, it is his will unto a newness of action and commitment that assures God of his commitment.

A rutted commitment is likened unto a sense of reliance on a falsehood that appears to be true but is still a lie, and an untruth is spurned and woven by ignorance that such reliance will be accepted of God or that the Lord will understand, or that being a mere good person of this world is the same as one who is righteous before God because he lives the laws as given of God with no false pretense,

In other words, perversion of the doctrines of God or any such acts of perverting the doctrine of Christ to benefit self is not accepted of God.

The spirit of the Lord directs me by command that I expound more concerning this thing as it pertained to Israel in the time of Jeremiah, for this cause are things written, more specifically that those who receive a fulness of truth might not do as they did; wherefore, from ancient times did the Lord command that we unfold the mysteries that we might have wherewith to know and understand, and if we do this thing, then we comprehend the Lord and his ways.

It must be understood that God does not give unto man commandments for the sake of commanding for naught, but all things are done in the name of God to fulfill commitments, whether those commitments are heavenly or earthly it is the same.

Then it means that few there be that find out his ways or few be that shall comprehend his mysteries unto great knowledge or unto great understanding, which means that all things written in holy writ is for the benefit of man to come to know God.

In the book of Lamentations the land of Zion is left desolate, and to the few who attempt to understand the scriptures, they are lost at the meaning conveyed in scripture, but to the many it matters not, for they see not the value for they see not or know not God.

It reads in Lamentation as follows: How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow is she, who was great among the nations! All her gates are desolate…. Her children have gone into captivity.

This reflection of the judgment that fell on Israel is a finality of warnings by God's prophets based on a condition of obedience to his laws that their days may be prolonged, and that the blessings of God should be upon them.

This eternal condition of which I am writing is life eternal; such life was to be received when Israel should live all the laws committed by God to Israel without falsehood or shortcomings.

It also means that conditions were placed on Israel to live upon the land of promise given to them of God, which land was conditioned based on celestial laws, even that of typifying God in the lives of Israel.

But the land of Zion is laid desolate. The year is 586 BC, the city is Jerusalem, and the kingdom is Judah, and the prophet calling repentance and obedience is Yirmayahu (Jeremiah); there in the aftermath of destruction, death, and bondage, he wept looking on the city, he wept for the land, and he wept for the people.

For so long he had called repentance to a people, warning them and telling them of what was to happen, and Israel did not listen.

The whole of Judah was desolate; the fields were abandoned, the men, women and children were taken captive and taken without regard into exile into the land of the Babylonians; and as the scriptures saith: By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying: sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?

[Thus in my understanding concerning my people, the Dine(the Navajos), they likewise were taken into bondage along the Rio Pecos, and there they sang their songs and said their prayers, not knowing if they would live or return to the land of the Navajos.

Such is a repeat of warnings and judgments of God upon a people; and in Fort Sumner, Bosque Redondo, the people (Dine) did cry to the Lord with songs, prayers and offerings that was passed down from the fathers.]

(Now therefore, be it known and understood that some years before the Babylonian exile of Israel, our father Lehi did speak with Jeremiah concerning this captivity and bondage of Israel for he heard the warnings and he was acquainted with Jeremiah.

Wherefore, understanding this bondage and exile spoken of for Israel not having kept the commandments of God on a land given to them and consecrated to bring forth a Zion, Lehi pleaded with God that his family not go into exile.

Wherefore, Jeremiah also petitioned God and God responded, and Lehi led his family out of Jerusalem, embarking on a journey to the Land of Promise in accord with what is written in holy writ, that the seed shall one day return to fulfill obligations and commitment to God.

Thus, the blessing of Joseph by his father Jacob should be fulfilled.

Nevertheless, because of the destruction of Jerusalem, the Lord kept his commitments and saved a remnant by the election of grace, looking distantly in time to another time for a work to be performed in his name by them.

Notwithstanding, the grace shed upon Lehi and his family, the Nephites did not escape destruction in the land of promise, and the Navajos did not escape the destruction and the smiting by the gentiles. But the prophesies were fulfilled.)

It reads in Jeremiah 25: 4-11: The Lord has sent to you all his servants the prophets … but you have not listened or inclined your ears to hear.

They said: Repent now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers forever and ever …. Therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts:

Because you have not heard my words … this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

Now as is written in holy writ, at the end of the appointed time of exile and captivity, in the year 539 BC the Babylonian Empire fell to another kingdom, the Empire of Persia, and the Persians were led by Cyrus the King who would issue a decree granting the Jewish nation to return and rebuild the land of Judah, even the rebuilding of the House of the Lord.

The words of the prophets are clear and precise, and the judgments of God a result of warnings and laws of obedience; these laws are celestial laws with consequences clearly expressed and conveyed to Israel.

The covenants pertaining to these laws were clearly identified and set in stone before all of Israel passed through the Jordan river, which is a typifying of the baptism required to enter in, and the walking through of the Red Sea is a typifying of the preparatory, the beginning of man's journey;

Then they who know and understand the pure gospel of Christ must understand that the entering in requires laws of a celestial nature, and Israel that day made a covenant with God, which covenant was everlasting because God is everlasting.

As I ponder this truth, I am moved to know of these things and unto what purpose are laws of God set, even this day with Israel written on stone their covenant, even like unto the commandments of God by Moses which eventually was hid and diminished in effectiveness, even those written on plates of Brass that the light coming forth might not be dimmed by time,

Or all records that shall speak forth out of the earth, the repository of God time and time again for man to see, understand, and to incline his ear to God.

I am given to ask: Why the seventy years of captivity and exile?

Such are questions of those who seek to know the mysteries as they pertain to God's working with man, but important are men who are righteous before him in all inward and outward actions of pureness and strictness of obedience.

This is not the only question that should be raised for an answer, but there are many more questions, but questions raised to God is only for those who seek the mysteries of God as is written in holy writ.

Wherefore, I raise this question to know of the celestial requirements pertaining to the land of the first inheritance and what God shall require.