Strong City

December 19, 2009

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To my Family,

Today in Los Lunas prison I read from Ecclesiastes. This book written by Solomon, the one considered to be the wisest man on earth, begins with his conclusion about life. “Vanity of vanities,” says the preacher, “Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.” King Solomon mourned the living and praised the dead. He praised the dead because they were considered fortunate not having to live in this vanity anymore. Everyone ends up dead, and they go out with nothing. They are then forgotten by those left behind.

Recently I walked to a family visit with an officer of the prison. While walking, he began speaking of how we should try to live as long as we possibly can. I believe the officer was trying to encourage me to give up my fast from the food tray of New Mexico. Some of the staff I have visited with seem very afraid of life ending on this planet. People fear death who are not atoned with God. They are still unresolved.

I have noticed through the years a strange duality. Some of our past church members who have separated from us have reported on how much pain they have felt emotionally while trying to love God when they did not love Him and did not want to love Him. On the other hand, I have felt great pain in having to be on this earth with its injustice, vanity and slavery. My pain also consisted of having to witness those who were hurting while trying so hard to love God when they didn’t want to.

I truly understand the pain. But for me, the pain comes from the context of the natural world. I agree with King Solomon; the life we live in this world, or for it, is just a vain and sorrowful nothing. I too have built new houses and bought new cars and lands. I have had a profession, owned a small business, and experimented with many facets of the world. I have received a Master’s degree in religion from a respected university, but it is all vanity of vanities.

I’ve spent my life seeking the truth, and finding it, only to end up in prison because of it. Jesus ended up dead because of it. Most of his disciples were killed, also, only because they found something that was not vain, and their discovery was a threat to those in the world around them.

Why was it a threat? It is because when one finds something that is not vain – when one finds God – he stops being afraid of the vanity sellers who use people and fear to make war and to profit from them.

King Solomon was sorrowful over the fact that when one dies, some other vain soul will get what one worked so hard for. But I don’t care what people get. They can have my stuff. This is why I gave everything of mine away years ago. What gives me pain is the deceptive nature of life on this earth itself. The earth projects a lie. The people cannot tell the truth. After I was falsely convicted and grossly sentenced for nothing, something happened within me. Some might call it “the last straw.” I lost my will to bear the world any longer. The only way a soul can live in the world freely is to partake of the illusion. I get waves of emotional nausea just looking at what motivates those who love the world. It is all a pretend, self-interested, “Look at me” carnival. And it matters not who they kill if someone is in their way.

Through the years as a pastor, my great sorrow came from those who were clearly faking it; and I knew this because they would tell me so. But what carried the most pain for me was when I saw a person faking it who professed to be doing God’s work. The most shocking revelation of this was when the District Attorney, who is a staunch Roman Catholic, lied, saying that I made all the young girls have sex with me or I would kick them out of the church. That was the most disgusting display of villainy I have ever seen on a personal level, and something no true Christian, or even an honest man, would ever do. This is the “good world” the District Attorney defended. And these things are all over the world where people take advantage of others for their own profit. Is this “experiencing the world properly,” as Ben Anthony was trying to get our young people to do when he was here filming his “documentary” of us?”

Those who love the world have no love of God. Yes, they might go to church for their heavenly insurance policy, but it is all for nothing. God doesn’t go to church that way, and there is no heavenly credit for going to church either. God only looks for His own righteousness within the true believer, and it is Himself He counts as righteousness in the true believer. If God looks into the soul of man and does not see Himself in there doing the living, their so-called righteousness is only filthy rags. They are only a bag of religious hot air. And no, they are not going to heaven when they die, or any other time either.

I understand the pain of those who have no love for God, yet try to project the image that they do love Him. But my pain is the other way. I have to try and live in this world of vanity, lying pretense, and vileness as if I belong here. The truth is I don’t belong here. I am not of them. My Spirit is not from here.

The present world and its religions would hate Jesus if he were here. Oh yes, some people give Jesus lip service now and then, and talk about his blood and such, but they are only fooling themselves. Jesus was very offensive to many of his listeners. A mere few stood with him at his crucifixion. He said things like, “If a man come to me and hate not his father, and mother, and wife and children, and brethren and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14:26. He said, “I say to you, Except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you.” That’s John 6:53. He said that he came to divide families. He came to start a fire and offend everyone. Can you just imagine what the news would do with him over these statements? His statement that says, “Everybody who’s going to follow Me has to hate everyone else?”

Just look what the news did with me over nothing. No, if Jesus appeared here, “Sweet Jesus” would not seem so sweet anymore. I know very well what the DA would do with him. National Geographic would cover the story and the DA would have him in court for a variety of invented crimes, and for making people feel bad about their own self-righteousness. The world naturally hates the Spirit of Christ. His own generation did not consider him “sweet” at all. They were bloody angry at the man for failing to tell them that they were good. He did not respect their evil ways and call them “good.”

The world cannot hide its hatred of me, either. The world sentenced me to 10 years in prison for praying with my hand on the sternum of a 16-year-old girl. There was no sex, no molestation, no sexual touching, no sexual intent, and I was fully clothed. The 16-year-old asked to be naked and I consented to her request. This event happened only one time for about 20 minutes of this young lady’s life. This put me in the penitentiary for 10 years and more. Murderers have gotten less time. Sex offenders who repeatedly penetrated minors sexually have gotten much less time. But hatred cannot hide itself. Jesus was crucified over nothing, just as I was.

But this reveals how much pain the world feels when they come up against the anointing of the Spirit. I already knew of this animosity between worlds, but when I was falsely convicted for something that did not happen, it was the final act of earthly indecency for me personally. The last of the world’s façade of credibility was shattered. It was exposed: “The king [emperor] has no clothes.”

Solomon saw how useless everything earthly was; but I have also seen its utter trickery. I have not only seen its vanity, but its fraudulent and utterly loveless nature as well. The apostle Paul speaks of the coming Anointing and His effects: “And then shall the wicked be exposed, who the Lord shall destroy with the brightness of his appearing: even him whose coming is after the working of Satan, with all power and signs and trickery, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish, because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved. And for this reason God shall send them strong delusion that will make them believe what is false, so that they will be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” 2 Thess. 2:8-12.

Yes, little family, God has opened our eyes, as the eyes of Solomon were opened. The Day of Atonement has caused us to be AT-ONE with the Father instead of the world.

But those who love sin are given a strong mix of deception. God gives them what they are craving, and sends them a lying spirit to deceive them. This will cause them to run headlong into the deception, so that it will damn them. It is a solemn day in which we live. We have watched how the man of sin worked in regard to my condemnation. It has exposed him. They put my body in prison, but they could not put my spirit in prison. The truth can still be clearly seen. The brightness of the truth revealed what the world is actually made of. Their lie has shut heaven’s doors to themselves.

Truly children, we do not come from here. The natural world has with it too much pain. It is given over to a fantastic delusion. But there is more. It has willingly received, accepted and embraced the spirit of Satan with eyes wide open. They openly don’t care if they go to the Father or to heaven someday. They don’t care if they are lost, because they know that if heaven is about the love of God and His righteousness, they want no part of it. They have thought heaven was a petting zoo, and that was okay with them. God has given us eyes to see, and this shocking specter startles us as we see the true nature of the delusion.

But the lovers of the world are shocked also at just what salvation is. No way do they actually want purity of heart. They love sin, and don’t want to be delivered from it just now. Maybe when they die or go to heaven someday, it might work to have some sin removed, but they don’t want that to be done now. Intuitively, their gut feeling is that the best way to deal with this problem, and this knowledge that we cannot live together in the world is to put some of us in prison. In Jesus’ day they used crucifixion to eliminate the uncooperative. They believe that by imprisoning me I will go away. But truly, the only solution is the solution of God, when He comes in fire to consume and to destroy it all. It has to end, or it will just keep getting more vile.

The love of God will have mercy on the lovers of evil, and permit them to destroy themselves. The world will no longer have to suffer pain while looking at God’s people. And God’s people will no longer be forced to look upon the great “self project” of the world.

In heaven, the Anointing can touch the soul without being accused or put in prison for it. We have seen the light, little children, and we have seen the darkness. We shared with the world all the glories of our land. We told the National Geographic movie makers everything. They saw what we had, but their hatred was so great against the Spirit of God that they came against us with all of their deceiving force, hiding the truth that we had shared so freely with them.

Soon now, the God of heaven will unleash His vengeance. The earth, by attacking God’s people, only took away its own right to exist. If the earth drives God out, then God must give the earth to the devil. The devil delights in the prospect of obliterating humanity off the face of this earth, who were made after the image of the One he hates. God will turn His face away for a little time, since man’s destruction is not pleasurable to Him. But those who have loved His Life will be caught up by the One they have loved with all their heart, and taken to be with Him forever.

The world is ignorant of the trap Satan has set for it. The sinful heart, though, delighted in the trap, for on its trigger Satan had placed money, sensual delights, parties, games and jobs. For one exciting moment, Eve took the fruit of the forbidden tree, and this legacy was passed down to her children, one generation after another. Standing at the tree listening to Satan, she hated God, for she thought God was causing her to miss out on something. But when God asked her why she disobeyed, she blamed the serpent. Adam then blamed Eve.

There are some souls who blame me for their evils because I pointed them out. I could have flattered them, as most “ministers” would, but then I would have been held accountable for their corruption. Now they are accountable for themselves. The actual fact is that Adam and Eve blamed God for everything, instead of blaming their own choices. Every cause has an effect, and leaving God brings with it the spirit of irresponsibility, blame, accusation, hatred and deception. With God, the soul lives without this insanity.

But now we are nearing the “end of days.” The Day, or Era, of Vengeance is only months away now. The prophet Daniel made it plain upon the tables. It has been a long ordeal for us, but it will soon end. They say, “Oh, are you going to commit suicide?” Don’t they wish. They would love it if we did that. No, we are Witnesses, and we will witness until God catches us away. God has wanted us to be here to see the reward of evil so that throughout eternity, sin will never rise up a second time in anyone.

But our pain is not simply in witnessing the world’s bad deeds. Yes, their thoughts are only evil continually, but we can’t read their minds. What repulses our Spirit is the hot air, flatulence, and utter insanity that is pushed into the faces of all while they imprison people who are not like them. We are like eagles in a canary cage here. Yes, there is food, water and air, but we can’t fly and we don’t eat their stuff. A canary cage isn’t our place. Worldly hearts love their little existence of pretend and they love their façade, but to us it is hollow and empty. They put in prison all whom they don’t like. If they don’t have a law to imprison you with, they will make one up on the spot. This is what they did with me.

My farce of a trial and false conviction has shown us that heaven would be hell for those who love the world. The earth could not bear the heart of God. The heart of God soon will no longer bear the earth. The world cannot understand heaven, or even appreciate it. The Sons of God cannot understand the earth or appreciate it. We cannot speak to each other.

Little children, we are the offspring of the truth. We see the useless nature of the natural world. It does not draw us. We see many costumes but we know who is inside. We have been shown what is in man. The whole world is about buying things. It’s all about fixing what they broke. It’s about themselves. Our world is about Truth and Light. The force of God lives within us. We were born again into the Life of Christ. We married God and He is our Husband. We sing the songs of Zion. We cannot buy the wares of “Vanity Fair.” We cannot commune with the dead. The dead have shown us that we cannot live with them any longer. They cannot hear us or tolerate us. They cannot respond, for the Spirit of God no longer resides in them. They have nothing to hear us with, and we cannot hear them.

It is nearing the time now when the kingdom will be given to the saints of the Most High. The final Day of Atonement is nearly over. The actual Jubilee, the anti-typical one to which all the Jewish Jubilees pointed, is swiftly approaching.

Rejoice you people of God, and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment is come. “But go your way till the end comes: for you shall rest and stand in your inheritance at the end of the [2300] days.” Dan. 12:13. “For at the time appointed the end shall be.” Dan. 8:19. “And the vision of the evening and the morning [the 2300-day prophecy] which was told is true.” Dan. 8:26. And finally, “Hitherto, is the end of the matter.” Dan. 7:28

For over a century and a half, the world has been warned of this day. Most souls have tired of the warning. They say, “Where is the promise of His coming?” Well, it is in Daniel. It was always in Daniel. Centuries before the coming of Messiah in Jesus, Daniel foretold the first coming and gave the principles for Messiah’s second coming. Daniel counted out the days and measured the times. Everyone now is settling into their appointed place, the place they have chosen in their response to light and truth. Even now decisions are being made. The Day of God is here.

Some souls are incredulous. They say, “What if the end doesn’t come?” “What if the world goes on for another millennium just as before?” These questions are meaningless to me. I just report what the Bible says. I don’t have to make anything up. The book of Daniel clearly says, “Until two thousand three hundred evenings and mornings, then that which is holy will come to its rightful place.” Dan. 8:14. Daniel also says when to start counting. He says to count from when the “daily” is removed. Daniel also tells when the daily is removed. He said it would be removed 1290 days from the end of the 70 weeks of years prophecy.

So whatever that “rightful place” is, is what will soon occur. This “rightful place” is the cleansing of the sanctuary of the soul. It is the activity of the Day of Atonement. When the Day of Atonement concludes, we will see the end of days. After that, we will see the Day or Era of Vengeance. This is the prophetic picture.

When you see a shadow you can follow it up to where it connects with the real object that is making the shadow. The “shadow” isn’t the reality, but it is an indicator that something real is present. When we announced “Liberty” on October 31, 2007 at midnight, it was the beginning of the last Jubilee year “in shadows.”

The Jewish Jubilee cycle with its one-day-a-year Day of Atonement was “a shadow of good things to come, and not the very things themselves.” Heb. 10:1. It was like a small scale model — “a form in miniature of something to be made on a larger scale.” The 2300-day Day of Atonement is the “larger scale” time of actual atonement which the miniature 24-hour Day of Atonement foreshadowed year after year. The Jewish year of release which came around every 50 years, called the year of Jubilee, was the miniature model for the actual antitypical Jubilee which was to come and would never end. The forty-nine-year Jubilee cycle prefigured the 490-year end of an era.

As the shadow of the leaf is to the leaf, so the Jewish types were to the antitypes to come. They were miniature pictures of the actual experience which we are now in, of final at-one-ment with God and release from everything earthly. It is this anti-typical 2300-day Day of Atonement we are coming to the close of, which is actually preparing God’s people for the real anti-typical Jubilee that will never end — “the Last Jubilee” foretold in the Dead Sea Scrolls, which we are soon to enter.

But little family, there is more that moves us than just word pictures and times from Daniel. We feel it in our hearts. God is moving our hearts. The disconnect from the earth is already being strongly felt. Something is changing, and we feel it deeply. Prison has helped me personally to focus on this change even more. We know by experience and by the Holy Spirit that we are actually entering another world — a new time and place.

But the book of Revelation also reveals these things. Revelation 14 describes 144,000 souls with the Father’s name written on their foreheads. They were redeemed from the earth; that is, they no longer love the earth because the love of the Father is now in them. Clearly this describes those who have come to atonement with God. They have God’s mind and they only love what God loves. They are not “defiled with women” as Adam was defiled when he loved his marriage partner above God. “They are virgins” in heart, as though they were not even married, because they are pure and wholly in love with God, their Husband. Many have lost their spiritual way because they have listened to the voice of a marriage partner. But not these. “They follow the Lamb wherever he goes.” They have been “redeemed from among men, and they are without fault before the throne” of judgment. This clearly refers to Daniel 7:22 where it says, “…the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High.” That is, God judged in their favor and no fault was found in them. This all is the language of the Day of Atonement in which we now live.

Following this description of atonement in Revelation 14, a warning is given to the earth of the coming of the wrath of God for those who are of the beast. Then appears one who looked like a man, being instructed to thrust in his sickle. That is the time of wrath, for the grapes are ripe. We are in the first phase of that judgment now. We are in the investigative phase, which ends in August. Even now the sheep and the goats are being divided.

After this we come to Revelation 15, where is written a description of those who had the victory over the beast. They were atoned. Next comes a great wonder in heaven: seven messengers come from the temple in heaven with seven last plagues. This is the omen for the Day of Vengeance.

As you remember, our people acted out these plagues in ceremonies during the time of shadows, and we saw the fulfillment of them even then. Now we will see a greater representation of these plagues, after the Day of Atonement is past.

Revelation 16 then describes the actual pouring out of the plagues. All of these things occur after the great antitypical Day of Atonement. These things are just the numbers; it is like saying, “Monday is certainly going to come after Sunday.” These things are simply the law and the prophets, but I have nothing more to say except that. I expect nothing but what the words of the Book say.

Some souls think I hate the people of the world, and that I have an attitude. What I have, actually, is incredulousness. It is something like going into a foreign land and watching the natives work real hard all day moving a pile of rocks over 100 feet, and then back again. Their reward is that they get a quart of blood to drink every night. Every day, it is the same rock moving for a quart of blood. I see that what the natural world does is like that. But why? Well, they do this because it’s what they like; but also their religious leaders tell them that the rocks are actually jewels, and every rock moved is recorded in heaven, and when they die they get them all back as jewels. Their blood drinking has something to do with their religion, also. But they all die eventually, and they don’t go to heaven.

Solomon said that the only meaningful thing is to love and enjoy your family, and if you find something worthwhile doing, do it with all your energy; everything else is nothing. But the state took me away from my family, and gave me nothing meaningful to do, so that I might assimilate into the beast’s cult and take its mark. Well, assimilation will never occur for me. I have taken the mark of God, and that mark will stay where it is.

Our vain world is now in judgment; so are we. Everyone is standing before the throne, and my heart is with my beloved there — the Bride of Christ. My love goes out to you in a great outpouring. They can separate us from each other physically, but they cannot separate our spirits, or our love, for we are One.

My great love to you,
Michael

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