Strong City

I have given a good bit of thought to why people fear me. They even complain because I have such a mysterious reach and a control over people even from my prison cell. Why have true Christians caused such an upset in people who are not true Christians? Why is it that no matter how clear and simply I explain things, no one believes me, but attributes something spooky to me?

I am not in prison for the reason stated in my conviction. I did not commit a crime. My trial was mostly about me, Messiah, and “mind control”, and the way in which I heal the soul. I terrorize people. This has all come clear to me. I know the real reason, and it has nothing to do with alleged crimes committed; it only has to do with one’s own reaction to me personally.

I was sentenced to ten years in prison because I once allowed a sixteen-year-old girl to be in my presence without her coverings and her hiding. I once put my hand on her sternum and prayed for her while she poured out her self concerns. She wanted to be open and free. These things were at her request and insistence. Other souls who have actually committed sex crimes have received far less sentence. The court strongly showed itself as full of religious prejudice. The court hated me, and that seemed to justify its crucifixion over a false charge.

When God came to me in 1967 and invited me to follow Him, I knew immediately, in my unconverted state, that it was going to cost me my life. I knew from that time on that I must always obey God and never deviate. I knew that I would lose my identity in God. This was and is the key of conversion. God does not save good people; He saves God people, who have received the life of Christ as their own life. “For me, to live is Christ.” “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” “Not I, but Christ.” This meant that I would never purpose sin again, I would never do anything I knew to be wrong. I would be fully yielded to God and completely vulnerable to His purposes. I would always and only do those things which please Him. I would let the life that Jesus had, and the relationship with the Father that he had, be my own. I would give up myself. I would be married to God, and “know” Him.

In the Scripture, the word “know” and “knew” was used to describe an intimate sexual contact between a man and his wife. It is the same word used to “know” God. We have an intimate spiritual penetration from God into us. This is the Christian experience. Making a mere profession is of no value. Believing all of the right doctrines and keeping all of the laws and doing all of the ordinances are of no value if one does not have God IN himself. The knowledge of this fact is what terrifies the sinner and the natural man. That natural man wants only to imprison and kill anyone with this message and life. It has been this way since Cain killed Abel.

When I stated that God had anointed me, “messiah-ed” me, the fear of many was evident. Professing an anointing infers an authority. This authority is a terror to the natural man, because he likes to run on his own will and way. This is why messiahs, the anointed in Christ, have been persecuted and killed from the beginning of time. The world hates these people because their holy lives destroy the power and authority of self-righteousness. Self-righteousness is what the world has. They think themselves righteous, and any true Christian exposes their hypocrisy. This makes them angry, and this is why the true Christian is often killed or imprisoned.

My Love

The love of the Christian is also different than the love of earth. My love is not husband-wife-kids-at-the-dinner-table, or playing-a-game-with-a-friend kind of love. My love is deeply intrusive, and not simply a sexual experience or an experience of familiarity, like you get to see somebody you’re familiar with, and so you love them. The earth calls the sexual experience love, but it isn’t that kind of love that I refer to. For love is eternal and unconditional, and is not simply a circumstance of heat. True love is at all times and deeply personal. It connects the lovers in a oneness that is not circumstantial but spiritual. It is as though the two become one flesh.

Sexuality is if two feel like it. Love always feels like it. It is as though they were both in one body, inseparable. Sexuality is incidental, but My love is not. My love is not sentimental, but monumental. Love is eternal, encompassing everything. My love is not prejudiced, nor does it have favorites, but it does have different expressions. A person who is shallow and personally disoriented will not be able to connect with My love as it is. Nor will I be able to love that individual in a deep way, for there is no depth in there to love in. My love enjoys the deep water, not the mud flats. I am always available, but few souls make themselves available to Me.

I knew the fallacy of the jury trying to judge me, since their public demeanor was one of shallow prejudice, which is completely void of the love of God. The love of God cannot connect with a vain pose of souls who can only judge from their opinion or out of their imagination. The world is always trying to get one to act nice, you know — and that’s the earthly love. It is as though My love has no opinion. It only refers to the truth. The truth is the opinion. It has no end and it has no beginning, for everything, good or evil, is related to it. It is solicitous, but also easily driven away by raucous insensitivity. My love has a very gentle touch, and it looks for a way in. It is intensely loyal. It looks for a tiny passageway to get into, but it will not force its way in. Those who search with all their heart will find Me.

This love is only discovered through naked vulnerability. It is discovered only by a close intimacy with the truth as it is in God. It is not flesh. Flesh cannot be faithful, for flesh must be pleased, and flesh has self-interest.

The seven stars are part of the intimate God, for the anointing thrust them into their experience. They have no other lovers; they never deviated and always told the truth. Stars are explosive and continually in a nuclear reaction. The people who are anointed, continually ask and seek for a deeper experience. They always move to an ever more intimate place. They are not religious, or spiritual, necessarily; it is more like they have a deep commitment, a personal, driven consciousness to find themselves in God. This is just their natural life rather than a religious experience. They ever reach out for more intimacy. They find it, because it is with their whole heart.

Human love is like two human beings who find someone with similar interests and agreement. God’s love is like becoming the same as the other. Going into the other, becoming one like God is one, is what they have. It is one mind. God’s love is vulnerable and yielding; the soul is given over to it. It is not a momentary feeling of liking someone; it bears all things. The love of man continually judges and manipulates through disapproval or control. The love of God, on the other hand, assimilates. The love of man has a pecking order; the love of God has no worship of man or respect of persons. “Respect of persons” means treating people in different ways according to their human authority or self-professed hierarchal standing.

The seven stars in the hand of God are the seven spirits that are in the seven witnesses who bore witness to the marriage. They represent the Church Triumphant. Each of these stars, and myself, all followed God’s instructions to us. We heard the Voice and followed it. We bore witness that all our actions were commanded by God and we obeyed.

This was also the testimony of the young women over whom I was convicted. I did not touch them sexually, but their visible vulnerability absolutely terrified the carnal people, who became offended and imprisoned me. Although I broke no laws, the people all thought that laws should have been passed to prohibit what the girls asked of me. They immediately made up a law in their own mind, and convicted me over their own evil imagination.

But the greatest offense was, and always is, that a person completely yields to God in that way. It is highly offensive, and millions of people have been martyred only because they had God in them, and only obeyed His voice. I must honestly say that no man or woman will ever enter into heaven and live in the future life who is not married to God in perfect, vulnerable obedience. If one saves his life, he will lose it, but if one gives up his life for the sake of Christ and the kingdom, he saves his life. There is no way into heaven except a man empties himself and lets God come into that space. Nothing else is enough. God considers any other way into heaven a treasonous act.

Our events in Strong City have given evidence to the fact that God is now the only Father and Husband — He is all in all. I have always clearly stated these things, and so have the seven women who are the symbolic measure of all who enter into the realms of love, light and peace. This all is the great offense to the natural man, who trusts in his own righteousness. It is a terror to the sinner. This is the reason that I am in prison. It is only because I have always followed God with all of my heart. I only do what I see my Father do, and I always please Him. Those who believe me, will enter into heaven with me. Those who are offended in me will lose their inheritance. This is the truth, and there never has been any other truth that saves the soul.

So this is the relationship I have with my people. We are one, vulnerable, nakedly unashamed. We have a deep love that is immovable and eternal, bearing all things which the Father requires of us. We have borne the hatred of the world against us. Our love terrorizes them. They hate our yielded spirit to the Father’s voice to us. They don’t believe in God, so they believe we made it all up.

We have no life of our own; we have only God’s life, Christ’s life, which is eternal life. We have no love for the world; we have no future here. Our life condemns the world, and the world hates us for it. Those who love God will love us; those who hate God will hate us. This is the truth, and I swear it by the One Who lives forever and ever.

So it is not that I have power over my people, even from my prison; any power I have is the same power all of God’s sons have. What I have, and what my family has, is love. Our love encompasses all. Our love transcends space, time and circumstance. It is agape. It is the love of God, and this love is unknown to the natural man. It is only known to God and all of His sons and daughters. The earth hates it, for it is honest, true and intensely loyal to truth. It is not self-interested, but married to all who have it.

1 Corinthians 13 speaks of the vanity of religion without this love. This love is kind, gentle, patient, and unoffended. It is unselfish and believes all things in the promise. It is not vain or proud. The world’s love is “nice,” but in its niceness, no sacrifice. God’s love is not “nice,” but true. Nice is the devil’s counterfeit for love. No wonder the world is terrified. Nice cannot see; it cannot understand the sons of God. The world fears what it cannot understand; it hates what it cannot see. “Born again” is the term Jesus used to show how it works. Jesus meant born again, and not “spiritually speaking” born again.

Religion without this love is described in the Scriptures as a bunch of noise, a vain activity. This love is what connects us. The world is greatly threatened by this love, and has for centuries persecuted those with this love. This love condemns their hypocritical niceness — their hypocrisy. The modern rulers have a lot of manners, but no heart. They have no depth of understanding, no godly spirit. All such religion is a waste of time and universally demonic. It was predictable that the beast would come against this love; it always has, and it will until the fire turns it to ashes.

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