Jan 27
(The Wrath Of The Lamb)
Adapted from John 8:42-45 and Matthew 23:
If God were your Father, you would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; I didn’t come of myself, but He sent me. Why do you not understand my speech? Because you cannot hear my words. You do not want to hear my words, so you lied in your “End Of The World Cult” story about me. Because of this, you revealed that you are of your father the devil, and the desire of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of lies. And because I tell you the truth, you don’t believe me. You think like Satan thinks, and you desire to make of things what he desires to make of things.
The media and the lawyers, politicians and preachers sit in the seat of authority. Everyone seems to believe them because of this. The good that they profess, go ahead and do; but do not do as they do: for they say, and do not. For they bind heavy burdens for people through their lying wonders, taxes, interest rates and laws, grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. They profess to tell the truth in their movies and cult “documentaries” and that they* “do things differently, different mentality” and are not “unscrupulous people” like others are, but they lie, and the people love to have it that way. But all their works they do to be seen of men: they expand upon their noble deeds, and enlarge the borders of their personal possessions, and love the uppermost rooms at banquets, and the chief seats in the churches, and greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Journalist, Reverend, or Mr. President. But be not called Leader: for one is your Leader, even Christ; and all you are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be you called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ Who speaks in you. But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
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Jan 23
In the documentary that Ben Anthony made about our “cult,” Ben came against Michael with an accusatory spirit, arguing that the young people here have not had an opportunity to experience the world “properly.”
Michael: Excuse them, Ben; they’re laughing at you - because they know very well that they made a choice. These children have found Life. They’ve found the More to Life, that your world does not possess.
Ben: They wouldn’t know that, though, would they? because they’ve never really had an opportunity to experience it properly. [END]
I was one of the young women featured in “The end of the world cult” documentary by the name of Danielle. But since then, Father has given me the new name, Bernice, which means, “Victory Bringer.” He has given me this name as an assurance that Michael in me, is bringing my victory. I am twenty-one years old. I am one of these young people here in Strong City who have not had the chance to “experience the world properly,” according to Ben. Have I only been brainwashed here, and made to think that the world is such a horrible place, when there is really so much more to life that is SOOO much better than what I have known here? People talk about us and say that the young people here are only poor little deluded followers. There must really be a good place somewhere out there, where I can really live and experience the “real” world “properly.” The way everyone makes it sound, I must really be missing out on a lot of things that are truly wonderful.
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Jan 18
There are many who have felt so sorry for those who live in this Strong City “cult.” They wring their hands in feigned regret, that the followers of Wayne Bent could be so easily deceived and deluded by his “obvious trickery, hypnotism and force.” They think that Wayne Bent should be put in prison to keep him from touching anyone, especially the virgins. They warn the cult members to get out before it is too late. They congratulate themselves that they were not foolish enough to be “taken in” by this “false Messiah.” Some congratulate themselves that they escaped from my mystical powers. It does not seem to dawn on these souls that they are reacting just as the Jews reacted when “Jesus” was among them. They said that “Jesus” had a devil, and that he was a deceiver of the people.
It might be good to look at what actually happened with “Jesus,” whom his followers called the “Christ,” or “Messiah.” No one else called him Messiah but his cult. Jesus was actually called “Joshua” (Yeh-ho-shoo’-ah) by his people, and his name was later transliterated into the Greek ee-ay-sooce, which many years later was anglicized to read, “Jesus.” The Jewish Savior’s name in Hebrew is sounded Yeh-ho-shoo’-ah. The English name “Jesus,” which later employed the letter “J,” is a derivation from Greek “Iesous” and the Latin version “Iesus.” This name “Jesus,” commonly used in Christianity today, simply did not exist, and was not spelled with the letter “J” until about 500 years ago. In other words, the name “Jesus” was unknown to the disciples of the Jewish Messiah. If you would have used that name then, everyone would have thought you were somewhat strange. Yeh-ho-shoo’-ah was a very common name, but “Jesus” was unheard of.
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Jan 16
In our next Sabbath meeting, Michael shared with the land the sign Father had just given Him, and what it meant—that the land, which had been through the purifying process of the “midst of the week,” was beginning to come to Father open and “naked,” and was accepted by Him. Michael said, “I saw in this ‘nakedness,’ the land being open and ‘naked’ with God; it wasn’t hiding anything from Him.”
These are a few of the thoughts from that meeting that were a personal comfort and strength to my heart:
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Jan 16
My name is Liberty. I am 24 years old, and I am one of the seven virgins who was anointed by Father to carry out His purposes in pouring out the seven last plagues upon the earth.
I would like to share with you the story of my own personal experience here in the land, and then how my heavenly Father chose me to be one of the seven messengers, how He led me to lie naked with Michael, and the healing I received from it. This was a gift that I could never have received in the world. What a privilege I have been given to walk with the Son of God, to talk with Him, to love Him and be loved by Him, and then for Him to appear within me. I will share with you my story—the story of my heart.
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Jan 13
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The “End of the World Cult” movie made much of the date October 31, 2007, and asserted that we at Strong City had predicted the end of the world for that date. There were many reports that we were going to commit suicide. Satan tried everything in his power to distort and pervert the issues at hand. He entered into his children by causing them to fear that we were going to do something dangerous, or to mock our expectations. This is because he didn’t want the actual events prophesied to actually take place. He wanted to interrupt God’s plan in us. We are grateful that Satan failed, just as the Scriptures said that he would fail.
But what did happen on that date? What occurred, that Satan cannot now change? He cannot now change the Consummation of the Marriage, and make the Lamb and His Bride un-married, any more than he can change the crucifixion of Jesus and make him un-crucified. October 31, 2007 marked the end of the 70 weeks prophecy of Daniel 9, and the beginning of the “seventh trumpet,” the “last trump” of Revelation 11 and 1 Corinthians 15:52. This also marks the time of the seventh plague of Revelation 16. It is the plague where everything of the old order falls, and the hail sweeps away the refuge of lies. A little overview of the prophecy of Daniel will help explain this:
Seventy weeks (of years) are determined upon “your people” and upon your “holy city,” to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem [the beginning of the Reformation on October 31, 1517] unto the Messiah the Prince [Michael] shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks [483 years, or the year 2000]: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the Prince [Michael] that shall come [in 2000] shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week [seven years, from 2000 to 2007]: and in the midst of the week [2004] he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation (intercession) to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate. Daniel 9:24-27.
One might well notice here that this prophecy relates to the true people of God and not to the world at large. It is not a prophecy to the professed people of God but to the actual people of God. It is not written to the fallen churches. The prophecy speaks of my people in my holy city. The prophecy is actually written to Messiah, for it directly relates to the first and second coming of Messiah. This is the Messianic prophecy of the Scriptures. It is the ONLY prophecy that has the timing of Messiah’s appearance. The first coming of Messiah marked these events in Jesus, and now in the second coming of Christ these events are marked within God’s people again. This prophecy is speaking directly to the situation at Strong City, and the Lord Our Righteousness congregation. Both names are specifically referred to in the Scriptures. It is a city which God has set apart for a particular purpose, and a people for a particular purpose. It is written again: “In that day this song will be sung in the land of Judah: ‘We have a Strong City; he sets up salvation as walls and bulwarks.” Isa. 26:1. “In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name wherewith she shall be called, The Lord our righteousness.” Jer. 33:16. The prophecy of Daniel 9 was exactly fulfilled in the land. In the prophecy, the sins of the “holy” people are forgiven and rebellion is ended. The prophecy and vision are sealed up and Messiah is anointed. This all happened in the time frame of the prophecy which ended on October 31, 2007.
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Jan 9
As I described in an earlier post, the main “plot” of the End of the World Cult movie was woven around the 490 Year Prophecy of Daniel 9, which ended on October 31, 2007. We were falsely depicted in the film as expecting the “apocalypse” at midnight of that date, and being possibly in danger of committing mass-suicide if our expectations weren’t met.
The following transcript was from an interview between Michael and filmmaker Ben Anthony at the meeting barn on May 11, 2007. It sheds even more light on the attempts we made to enlighten Ben about how we look at prophecy, and our expectations for the future. In that interview, Michael makes it very clear to Ben that we didn’t know the details of what the end of the prophecy would mean. Ben acknowledges, saying, “You’ve established that ... I think that’s clear that it’s unknown, unknown territory.” This is quite a contrast to the definitive statements Ben made in his movie about the “apocalypse” we were expecting on that date.
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Jan 8
The End of the World Cult movie and other blogs and Web sites, have made a lot of sex out of the virgins, and skin to skin, and the consummation images witnessed to in the movie. There are some who have accepted our testimony, and they live. Others mock and make fun, threaten, or become offended, and they die to the Spirit. This has all happened before. History repeats itself over and over, but few men are able to comprehend this fact.
The children of Israel, just exactly seven 490-year epochs ago, were in a very similar situation as are men today. They were demoralized by complaining, and bad spirits, and poisonous serpents began coming out of the sand of the desert and biting them. God instructed Moses to put a brazen serpent, made after the form of those serpents biting them, on a pole, and if the people would look at the serpent, they would be healed from their bites. Some looked and lived, while others refused to look and they died. They simply refused to believe that this instruction could be from the mouth of God and that this was His ordained remedy of healing.
And the Lord said to Moses, “Make a fiery (burning, poisonous) serpent, and set it on a pole; and every one who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” So Moses made a bronze serpent, and set it on a pole; and if a serpent bit any man, he would look at the bronze serpent and live." Numbers 21:8.
Today, men are demoralized again. The people are surrounded by bad temper, complaints and offenses of every kind. They are surrounded by sex, and perversion on every level. The flesh has them captive, and there are even “ministers of the gospel” who put their families to bed and then go to the pornographic Web sites at night. They are bound to their phallus images. For hours they go deep into their dark lusts that never find satisfaction.
To cure them, God had a serpent [sex] put on a pole, and it was similar in looks to the sex which was biting them. Michael was made to look like a sex offender and adulterer to heal them from the pornography and adultery of this age. I am writing mainly of the adultery that is ever in the heart and mind of the natural man, separating him from God. Men’s thoughts are only evil continually.
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Jan 6
The Final Day—Interviews with Ben Anthony
On the final day before the Consummation of Judgment commenced, it came upon Anaiah’s heart to ask if I wanted to go for a walk with her. This was very unusual, so it made me wonder if there was something Father wanted to share with me through her. As we walked we didn’t say much, but I kept asking silently, “Father, if you want to tell me something, I am listening.”
Near the end of our walk I asked her if she had ever experienced feeling “blocked” when she was being drawn out to receive something that Father had promised. She said that she had experienced that in the beginning of her walk with Father. I shared with her how my heart would be aching to do something, but my reasoning mind would “block” me and I didn’t think that I could follow my heart. Anaiah made the point very clearly to me, to just be true to what Father put on my heart, and that my mind didn’t have to have the whole picture or know all the reasons before I acted. All I needed to do was act on what Father was putting on my heart, and if I needed to do or say something after I did that, Father would give it to me then.
As we discussed this, I felt it giving me permission to just be true to my heart drawings, without checking in with my mental reasonings and fears before I followed what was being pressed upon me.
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Jan 6
In the land of Travesser, we have had many times together of tears and heart searching. In this particular movie made about 3½ years ago, one of our former members, Prudence Welch, was inspired by God to anoint Michael's feet. Ami made this little movie a little later which showed the expression of Prudence's love for Michael, and he, as well as the rest of the people at Strong City, are still very touched by it. It was reminiscent of the biblical account of Mary Magdalene, anointing the feet of Jesus, which was also unannounced.
This event was not a planned part of our service. Prudence spontaneously arose from her seat and carried out the anointing, and Michael knew nothing about it beforehand. She had only told her husband and a few others in the congregation about her desires, and her husband, in turn, told her to do what was on her heart.
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