Reflections of the Gospel and the Blessings

Reflections of the Gospel and the Blessings 4

Man cannot enter into a land consecrated to God in a sinful and an impure state, having before him idols of the world to distract and to lure him away from God; truly the requirements of God to enter in to entreat God is an act of fully understanding the nature of God and his laws.

All scriptures written by them of old and kept and recorded for future posterity are written in repetitiveness that man might come to understand the importance of what is written, but oftimes, what is written is difficult to comprehend; therefore a journey like Nephi described in scripture to understand Isaiah is imperative and requisite,

Otherwise, by our own actions of blindness, we shall ultimately lack spiritual capacity to understand by the Holy Ghost's power of magnification unto great understanding.

What manner of man would do this thing, searching these mysteries to understand while the world's distractions consumes all our time?

And unto what end is our purpose to comprehend such things, if the world does not do the same? Who during the time of the gentiles spoke of this thing?

In the Second Book of Chronicles 36: 15-21, this repetitive recordation is exemplified and more detail is provided concerning the Jewish exile and desolation prophetically given to Israel: And the Lord God of their fathers sent warnings to them by his messengers ….

But they mocked the messengers of God, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy. Therefore he brought against them the king of Chaldeans ….

They burned the house of God, broke the walls of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire….

As what is written in holy writ bears witness, it speaks of all those who are carried into captivity and away far into exile, that they did not see or hear of Jerusalem again.

The writings continues and speaks saying: And those who escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, where they became servants to him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths.

As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years that Israel did not keep the Sabbaths.

Therefore, this act of judgment fell upon the Nephites many times by the Lord as he brought the Lamanites against them to bring them back to remembrance.

The Nephites also lived the law of Moses, and even into Fourth Nephi, it is recorded that the people lived in commonality, having neither rich or poor among them, keeping the commandments until because of sin and pride all was forgotten again, and destruction soon followed.

Now then understand!

The Lord of host looketh on the people, his holy house, and the land of inheritance or land of promise; and unto his people he giveth laws to be obeyed, from his house comes the law of perfection and sanctification to keep his name holy, and wherefore, it is written in holy writ, from the time of Moses even to the time of Malachi, they labored upon their lands keeping all holiness before them unto the God of Israel, and on the Sabbath day all things were given unto the Lord.

Israel was also commanded to do likewise every seven years in holiness to the Lord certain oblations, prayers, and outwardly actions were done that inward actions might be achieved, and this included the manner of stewarding the land of Israel.

In this the Lord's judgment and wrath, Israel was to keep the cycle every seven years, the Sabbath years.

Wherefore, as is written for seventy Sabbath years Israel did not keep the law and in punishment, God removed them off the land of promise that the land might have its Sabbath years; now, I am not going to explain or expound on the requirements; suffice it to say, the eternal commitments made with God by Israel to God was broken,

This commandment created the law of consecration and an order that unites the people, a common existence wherein God is the rightful owner and he calls stewards that account for what they have done with what they have been given.

This accounting and action was no different in the time of Joseph Smith as he sought diligently to bring about a Zion people among the gentiles, rather the gentiles fled from that requirement to what it is today, out of Jackson County to the Intermountain West (all is contained in the Doctrine and Covenants Section 124);

Without this vital connection to God, I testify that the land of the first inheritance cannot be redeemed or established, neither can the New Jerusalem be built up in the name of God.

But if one takes the opportunity to read and study the scriptures, this spiritual obedience of a people so righteous is not without what is written, for it is very clear that this is God's way of preparing a people to live his celestial law.

In the present day, the gentile church lives the laws of the land and renders to the land that which is not God's, for what is God's is man's.

In the Book of Leviticus 26: 31-35, a record kept by the Levites concerning the laws of God as it pertains to the perfecting and sanctification of the people, the land and the house of the Lord it states:

I will lay your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation ….

I will bring the land to desolation … your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.

Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

As long as it lies desolate it shall rest - for the time it did not rest on your Sabbaths when ye dwell in it.

This law was key to the Nephite and Jareditic judgments on the land of promise, and indeed, it is written by Nephi of old and his descendant, Third and Fourth Nephi concerning the pride of the Nephite nation and the eventual falling away from the truth through classes and man made nobility a prime factor in the creation of spurned fables and tales and endless genealogies.

In like manner this disobedience destroyed the works of the Twelve Apostles of the Lord among the Jewish people and among the gentile proselytes, and even among the latter-day gentiles it has been the same; in this truth of the falling away is the times of the gentiles fulfilled.

Wherefore, the gentile people, both in the restored church and those gentiles upon the land of promise, for the which many of the gentile founding fathers do claim in the name of God their establishment, but they have forgotten their declarations.

Yea, I speak of my people concerning the land of the first inheritance; this land has now laid desolate and resting for over seventy-five years.

All farming, grazing, and the development of lands have ceased in productivity.

Old homesteads have gone back to the earth and the children have all left for the cities of the gentiles; and the children have not connection to the earth, much less the land of the first inheritance because truth pertaining to such is all but diluted and tainted with gentile theology.

Then the Lord shall bring forth his program as is written in holy writ for he is the same, yesterday and forever.

It is important for the salvation of man to learn and come to understand these truths, for without knowledge; then how can man prepare himself properly, by advancing his own agenda or diluting God's laws, or by justifying his action based on misinterpretation of God's holy word?

Wherefore, the spirit of the Lord commands me now to speak not mistakenly the mystery pertaining to this thing I am writing.

God covenants with man by an everlasting covenant not as man may agree with another man, nonetheless, God makes a covenant with his children of the first covenant in this manner that celestial order might be found in the earth.

Accordingly, as is written in holy writ it speaks of this thing that everything that Israel is given, the land and all its blessings, was completely dependent upon the covenant of God which caused a relationship with God; even as it was ordered in the beginning before the world wast.

Therefore, from what is written in the scriptures, it is understood that the Sabbath was not only a day of the week but also a year, and within that time of a year certain things were done in preparing a people to build up Zion, and this law has been a standing law from since the beginning for a people of God.

In the Lord's order all things belongs to the Lord and man is made a steward; the gentiles believe they owned all things (property, lands, businesses, real estates, investments, and even the copy right to the holy scriptures), and there is definitely a division among the gentile people in all things, which has resulted in the lack of obtaining spiritual truths to a major degree pertaining to the celestial order.

As a consequence, heaven is shut and the Holy Ghost is not generous with the mysteries and truths; and the gentile church has strayed from the original restored church and the intent for the which it was restored for the times of the gentiles.