Strong City

Dear little family,

I write again from Los Lunas prison. Prison will never be home, but even here my Father visits with my heart. I was smiling today over the fact that in 2007 I felt my writing was over and I would retire. I would spend the rest of my life in quiet repose and introspection. Then the State attacked us, goaded by the media frenzy, and it was as if the Father were saying, “Not so fast; I want you to kill a dragon for Me.” So here I am, killing a dragon. But after all, the dragon did start it.

I quote from the Scriptures: “And the dragon was very angry with the woman” – that’s the church in the wilderness, “and went to make war with those that were left of her, who follow God’s instructions and have the testimony that Jesus had.” That’s Revelation 12:17. By that attack, the wrath of the Lamb was kindled. I quote: “For the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?” Revelation 6:17.

I have felt like a lonely soul on planet earth, until I read some of the writings of Henry David Thoreau that I found in the prison library. I was blessed that he could see the state of man and describe it very clearly, much as I have. His writings revived many thoughts in me, that I have had through the years as I have observed the machinations of mankind. As with Thoreau, I’ve always chafed at unjust controls that were arbitrary and against the Spirit that is in me. I have been a free spirit, which is to say, I allowed the Spirit within me to be free. I quote from Thoreau:

The state never intentionally confronts a man’s sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but only with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. …If a plant cannot live according to it’s nature, it dies. And so, a man.

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Edited and updated: 3/4/10

Dear family in the faith of God,

I am continually blessed to have the Father open up our present issues to me. The way of God hurts sometimes, as we are bearing the cross to the end of time. Yesterday, I felt as if I were dying. All my strength left me, right after I finished writing out the following vision that God gave me concerning the beast and antichrist. Then this morning Father drew me to consider how Daniel felt when the antichrist was revealed to him:

“And I Daniel fainted, and was sick certain days; afterward I rose up, and did the king’s business; and I was astonished at the vision, but none understood it.” Dan. 8:27.

Daniel was shown, as I have been shown, the 2300-day prophecy and the power that would come against God’s people during the 2300 days that spans from April 19th 2004 till August 2010. The vision made him sick in the beginning, and the vision has made me sick now at the “end of days.” Daniel did not have antichrist to contend with, but when he saw him it took his strength away, even as mine was taken away.

The reason that confronting the spirit of antichrist is so debilitating is that communication can only function when those communicating are coming at what is real with the same rules and spirit. For humans to communicate, there is a sanity required in order to exchange and understand information. We need predictable forms, and to have the same foundation for our communication. But antichrist has for his very foundation pure hatred, jealousy, unreasonableness, prejudice and deception; and one cannot get his balance when he is dealing with a spirit that is thereby unbalanced and does not even attempt to be balanced. In generations past, the saints were persecuted only because of their faith. It buoyed them up to be persecuted for righteousness’ sake. But antichrist has developed a shrewd way of making God’s people out to be criminals because of their faith, as with Jesus. He creates them to appear not only as enemies of society, but degraded, immoral, and blasphemous. This draws down the spirit, and causes debilitation, and only the strong presence of God in the soul keeps a person from being taken down by this. (Read more…)

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Then, only a week before our visit, one of the girls Bent reportedly assaulted, returned to Strong City following her 18th birthday.

Healed is the name she took after her experience with Bent. She says, “God put it upon my heart, and he showed me it was his will for me to be here.”

Healed and her older sister both testified in court that Bent did not touch them sexually.

They say instead, guided by the spirit of God’s son, healed them of turmoil inside.

Healed says, “He gave me true life. It’s like he gave me what God intended for life to be.”

Note: Jesus Christ was a self-proclaimed messiah.

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Dearest companions in what is true,

Day by day my peace grows like a flower garden, as the Father opens to me His purposes and understanding. There have been many souls in history who have spent time in prison for their just cause. Gandhi spent almost 6½ years in prison; Watchman Nee spent 20 years there and then died there. With Gandhi, his end came because a man was offended that he was kind to Muslims, and shot him. Strong prejudices still exist in India. Those things are deep in man’s nature, and we have seen them in those who have attacked me.

I want to share with you something that is substantially true, and I do not jest about this. The natural man is insane, even by his own judgments. When I came to prison at Los Lunas, I was continually asked a certain question by the psychiatrists. It was asked to determine if I was sane or not. The question was: “Do you see things that other people don’t see”? Well, I truly see things that some other people don’t see, but what the psychiatrist meant was: “Do you see things that are not there?” If I had answered “Yes,” then I would have been considered insane, or at least not running on all eight.

I visited a hospital for the insane once, where I saw a man who thought he was God. He was creating a world, and reaching for spider webs that were not there. He was in a hospital for people who see things that are not there. But then something very surprising happened, proving that some of those in mental hospitals are saner than some people outside of them. The nurse who escorted me went over to the man and told him, “Stop acting crazy!” Immediately he stopped and returned to normal behavior. The nurse told me that she sometimes would take a group of the insane to the park for a picnic, but to go, they would have to act normal. She said that the whole group that would go to the park could not be distinguished from anyone else. She said, “Insanity is a choice.” But my accusers don’t know that. (Read more…)

[We recently received these uplifting words by email from someone who has only observed us through the NatGeo television documentary about our church. -Jeff]

I saw two specials on the Discovery Channel. I have been a student of religious studies for over 20 years, studying them all in depth. What amazes me is the truthfulness of Michael’s statements. “All this world has to offer us is debt, work, and DVDs.” I’ll add we are given an impossible Hollywood dream we live vicariously through miserable, confused actors and an angry news which constantly tries to get us to hate some segment of society without addressing the root of our social ills. It seems like you all are happy all of the time because you are willing to make the occasional large sacrifice, while the constant deception to take the forced small sacrifices yields us with no real reward. Your community has given a positive example of inner peace and faithfulness.

I do not know what you teach and cannot say my beliefs are identical, but I do see the Spirit of Truth operating in you. You know, the biggest thing God demands us to surrender to him are his children (Abraham & Isaac) and the drive associated with creating children. The communities which could put God ahead of even family or the relationship with the spouse were always the strongest. When God is first, everything else falls in perfect order. This was demonstrated by the Essenes, the Abelites, the early Mormons and a handful of others. (Read more…)

[We have received this and other encouraging email in recent days. Some people have eyes to see with. -Jeff]

Dear Michael,

What started as a passing curiosity one day while watching the documentary about your family has turned into a great interest for me. I have read almost all of the information in your archive and the more I read the more outraged I become for the unfair treatment and sentence you have received. The fact that you were charged with a crime that was so obviously of a spiritual nature is ludicrous.

I am a sixty year old woman. This means that like you I am Baby Boomer. Can you remember the communes that were so common in the sixties, where free love and nudity were the norm? Children seemed to thrive in some of these communities. Some were bad but some eventually produced successful members of society and some great doctors, and humanitarians. No one attacked them, it was just accepted. I saw your community as very moral, as well as spiritual. There was a great love and caring for one another.

As for child abuse, if these children were being abused why did they time after time choose you over their own parents when they could have easily left? What kind of parents would leave their children behind if they felt that their children were in danger? These parents seem to retrieve and abandon their children at their whim.

I saw other signs of the innocence of your group by little things around your compound. I noticed an older model car parked outside your trailer, not an expensive car that someone interested in gleaning money from his followers would drive, no stockpile of weapons such as those of the cults they compared you to. I saw a simple, lovely little mobile home with a teapot on the stove, no trappings of great wealth.

You are vegetarians like myself so I know that you care for the welfare of animals. I am so sorry that you were judged so harshly and I hope that you will be soon vindicated. I don’t consider myself a Christian of follower of any faith but I respect all beliefs. I don’t know if you are a Messiah or not but it is not for me to judge. All I know is that there is a light in your eyes and in the eyes of the people that love you that is very beautiful. You have a glow about your countenance and you seem like a very gentle man. I wish you much peace.

Sincerely, E.G.

On December 20, 2008, right after Michael’s trial, and before he was sentenced, I started making a movie about him — what he had done for us, and what he was doing for us. I called it “My Living Sacrifice.”

When Michael wrote his January 2010 letter to us, My Sacrifice, sharing some of the details of what he has experienced, it struck a chord in me and the inspiration came to finish the movie and share with the world the heart of the entire Bride of Christ for Our Beloved, living Sacrifice. [Song lyrics and more below.]

Our Living Sacrifice

Surely He Has Borne Our Griefs
Larnelle Harris, Michael English, Steve Green

Surely, surely, He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows
Surely, surely, He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows
He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised, he was bruised for our iniquities…
Surely, surely He has borne our griefs

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The Lamb
Donald Lawrence

Who’d ever thought a Lamb would die for me.
Who’d ever thought a Lamb would change my life.
I never knew a Lamb would save me.
I never knew a Lamb would stake my claim.

Lamb that was slain, took all my pain,
Price He paid, sacrifice He made;
Who’d ever thought a Lamb.
Glory to the Lamb.
 
Who’d ever thought a Lamb would cover me,
Take all my sins and wash them white as snow.
Lamb of God, pure and holy, 
Passion so strong, He took the cross for me.

Lamb that was slain, took all my pain,
Price He paid, sacrifice He made;
Who’d ever thought a Lamb.
Glory to the Lamb.

Hallelujah to the Lamb,
I’ll sing glory, precious Lamb.

Lamb that was slain, took all my pain,
Price He paid, sacrifice He made;
Who’d ever thought a Lamb….

Who’d ever thought — a Lamb.

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As we were preparing Michael’s letter, “My Sacrifice,” and this movie for posting, Father strongly brought to my mind the following scriptures that foretold the details of the coming of the Lamb of God the second time, and how those details have been fulfilled by the current sacrifice of Michael in prison, and in the healing, saving work he has done in our hearts and minds during the last ten years.

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Dearest and most precious family,

Today marks the 146th day of my fast from the State food tray. I’m still voluntarily taking the liquid diet that was used to force-feed me in the hospital. I do not tolerate solid food very well anymore. I found that out when my visiting family would get some things for me. So my diet is only the liquid diet full time now. This will never change until New Mexico comes to an honest resolution with me.

For years I have published stories concerning injustice and deception practiced by the government and much of the media. Some of those years were with four other journalists, when we produced The WINDS web site. We reported on the lie that was a precursor for the attack on Serbia. That was after the Branch Davidian massacre that they conducted “for the children.” Then I and others reported on the corruption in regard to the invasion of Iraq, and such things as U.S.-sponsored assassinations around the world. Iran has charged the USA with assassinating one of its top nuclear scientists. This is not proven yet, but the evidence is abundant that America has turned into a state of criminals, for whoever supports these things is guilty of them.

But now the attacks have come against us. We always knew that they would one day come. CYFD has salivated over kidnapping our children for most of our years here. They want our young people to assimilate into their “Borg.” The “Borg” is a conglomerate of entities, human and otherwise, all wired into one corrupt mind — the mind of the beast, the machine. (Read more…)

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Dearest companions in the time of trial,

In a vision of the night last night, I had an unusual dream. It blessed my heart so deeply that I wanted to share it with you. In the vision, I was in the midst of my present ordeal, alone; no one was with me. I was having to take care of court business and other things relating to my present case, and I was always alone. But I noticed that wherever I went, two men would be in the room with me or nearby. In the last scene, I went over to sit by them to find out who they were. They were beautiful men, in that their countenance was serene and utterly calm, without any dreaminess, and they always had a gentle, bright look to them. They always had a disarming smile, but they never grinned. Their skin tone had a touch of gold or bronze. I tried to find out their names, because they seemed like someone I had seen before, but they did not tell me them. I told them that they looked familiar to me, and they acknowledged my inquiry, but did not offer to explain anything. I just knew that they were with me as observers, but also with a knowing look that everything was in perfect control.

Do you remember the time that I said I saw a vision of someone who I thought was the archangel Michael? One of the men in my dream reminded me of that vision. Also one had his hair in a ponytail, although I never saw it. The length of his hair was like mine, for I have not cut my hair since I have been in prison. The hair of these two men, though, was somewhat a golden color, but not strikingly so.

When I awakened, I realized that these two men were my angels, sent to be with me through my final instructions. They are not with me to give all the answers, but only to insure I am not alone, and that everything will turn out perfectly in the purposes of God. I was greatly comforted just sitting with them. The final acts of the time of judgment are perfectly in God’s control. This reminded me of the two angels who were sent to Sodom before the day of vengeance, when the fire fell and destroyed the city. Dearest friends, it is a wonder how God works His plans out so that those who do not love Him get entrapped in their own judgment. (Read more…)

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Dearest companions in the faith,

Every day I think of you. I also contemplate how God has led. Today I was thinking about our current issues; I was considering the root of those attacks against us. Jesus said, “And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.” Matthew 11:6. But why are they blessed if they are not offended? It is because offense keeps one from the miracle of his spirit. An offended soul gets nothing.

I have also said, “Blessed are those who are not offended in me.” That’s because my spirit is the Spirit of heaven, and if a soul is offended in me, he will be offended in heaven. He would not enjoy an eternity in fire. Is this not what God promises us? I read from the scriptures here, “The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness has surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with…devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?” And then the answer is, “He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that shakes his hands from holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil [that means he would have to give up television].” Isaiah 33:14-15. (Read more…)