ISRAEL  O  ISRAEL

       Chapter 60     Jan 2010      LINK TO OTHER PAGES

  1. Jews above all other people should love Jesus, He also being a Jew. All Jews then that say; how Jews and Jesus do not mix, are criminals violating their Torah that states to love your neighbor. 

  2. How stupid of these so called Jews to scorn their own salvation.  Every Jew that does not love Jesus is laboring to destroy Israel, they are traitors to their own people.

  3. What am I to do O Israel,  O what am I to do with you?  The Lord send me to you as a messenger of good tidings.  Yes of good tidings mind you, but when I look upon you - what good is there in you that my tidings may be accordingly?

  4. I am ashamed of you, and appalled at your lack of faith, and at your reverence for the Lord your God.   Or is He even your God, the One that send me to you, Nay, you hold idols for gods unto you, and you hold His name for a god unto you, while you refuse to know him whose name you pronounce.

  5. You troop to your synagogues, and you make all sorts of prayers, but who told you to do so? Who told you to pray in vain? Thus said the Lord: "Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to Me. New moon and sabbath and the calling of assemblies -- I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly."

  6. I hate them, so said the Lord, when you spread forth your hands, I the Lord will hide My eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.  Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before My eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow."

  7. AND SO:  Listen you scoffers, who rule in Jerusalem .

  8. "Because you have said; "We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter."

  9. Therefore thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I am laying in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation, Christ Jesus,: `He who believes will not be in haste.'

  10. And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and hail will sweep away the refuge of lies, and waters will overwhelm the shelter." Then your covenant with death will be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand; when the overwhelming scourge passes through you will be beaten down by it.

  11. As often as it passes through it will take you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be sheer terror to understand the message."

  12. So did the Lord speak by Isaiah, and so it is with you O Israel, and so it will be to you

  13. Moreover He said: "Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor Me with their lips, while their hearts are far from Me, and their fear of Me is a commandment of men learned by rote;  

  14. Therefore, behold, I will again do marvelous things with this people, wonderful and marvelous; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hid."

  15. But no you will not agree with me, nor with the Lord; Well-on you that call yourselves Israelites show me just one of you in whom there is wisdom and understanding, or if it is not with you just as the Lord has said; That, the discernment of their discerning men shall be hid."

  16. Why O Israel are you so intend on oppressing the people of Iran, with sanctions, and with bombs, why O Israel are you so ill natured?  Are you afraid that these will make an atomic bomb?  And what if they did, do they not have a right like every other nation to construct them?

  17. Indeed they have, while it is not in your right to deprive them of it.   But you fear that they will use that weapon against you.  And so if they did who is to condemn them for it, since you O Israel have been asking for it by your oppressions against them.  Do not these of Iran have a right to defend themselves even as you do?

  18. You are in the wrong O Israel, more than those of Iran, since these of Iran are ignorant and do not know better, but you are supposed to be educated, you ought to know very well that if you placed your trust in the God of Jacob, that then (as the Lord has said) no weapon fashioned by man would have any effect upon you.

  19. So why then are you so dull to invite trouble upon yourselves? Trouble and destruction is what you are asking for by not putting your trust upon the Lord your God.  O you blind and foolish Israelites, have you forgotten how the Lord said: 

  20. "I will stretch My hand against Judah, and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and I will cut off from this place the remnant of ba'al and the name of the idolatrous priests, those who bow down on the roofs to the host of the heavens; those who bow down and swear to the Lord and yet swear by milcom; those who have turned back from following the Lord, who do not seek the Lord or inquire of Him."

  21. Your eyes are fixed on Iran, and on the Palestinians, rather than on the Lord from where the real trouble upon you will come.  Are you so dull O Israel not to know that these Palestinians which are sending missiles into your backyard, will be eradicated from the earth, and I do mean eradicated?  And that you will settle on that land?

  22. These foolish Palestinians are looking for a form of recognition among the nations, as if in any wise these might have a homeland to themselves, to drive Israel from its rightful inheritance; so they envision it. 

  23. The Lord however spoke of them on this wise; "Gaza shall be deserted, and Ash'kelon shall become a desolation; Ashdod's people shall be driven out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted.  Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cher'ethites!  The word of the Lord is against you O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you till no inhabitant is left."

  24. Why then O Israel are you so fearful that these will be accepted by the nation to receive a homeland to themselves when before long there will not be any left of them to inherit anything but the fires of hell?  Why then O my foolish ones are you so fearful, and makes such fuss over it?

  25. Why are you looking for peace with some of these neighbors around you?  Do you not know how the Lord spoke to you concerning the Ammonites, and the Moabites; "That you shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever." ? 

  26. Do you not know how these are a people born of adultery, born of incest?

  27. As for the Egyptians however, and for the Edomites, these you shall not abhor, for thus it was spoken of the Lord to your forefathers to endure unto the end.   Your priests and your leaders are leading you astray because they do not consider the word of the Lord.

  28. You O Israel should have all of Jerusalem to yourselves, the whole of the city, not just the half of it.  I now may ask of the Lord that He grant you the whole city. 

  29. But it will be for my sake that I will do so, rather than for you O you people of Israel.  You want the eastern half because it is your capital, but I want you to have that eastern half if for no better reason than to spite the nations.

  30. I want you to have the full city just for spite, to place a hand upon the nations, and upon their rulers, a mighty strong hand so as to make them angry at me, to rouse them from their beds in a hand against me.

  31. This is so that I may answer them in a righteous manner to curtail them for their atrocities which they did to you, to me, and to the God of Jacob.

  32. O my dear Israel, O my dear Israel, allow me to speak to you, and allow yourselves to hear.  It was for your conduct that the Lord scattered you among the nations, and you were among them for many centuries, and still many of you are among them.  And while you were among these nations, as still many are - you think to be following the Torah, to be honoring the God of Jacob.

  33. But you are very wrong, for thus spoke the Lord of you:  "When they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned My holy name, in that men said of them, "These are the people of the Lord, and yet they had to go out of His land."  What then were these Gentiles thinking of in looking at you, and saying these words?  

  34. It was for your traditions, such as you invented for yourselves - as if in some wise you were religious and following the precepts of the Lord. But these Gentiles knew better - that in fact you were doing just as the Lord prophesied of you, that you would be profaning His name, instead of honoring Him, as these of you are still doing this very day.

  35. Therefore these nations looking at you said; "These are supposed to be the people of God, and yet God cast them out of their land, how very wicked these people were to be cast out.   

  36. And yes we can understand why these were cast out for their offspring are still performing these abominable things, angering the Lord and their God with the works of their hands, and with their speech in hypocrisy.

  37. Will you not therefore be ashamed of yourselves - to show to these nations - how in every way you are so capable of corrupting His statutes, to live according to your own will and desires, to practice a tradition that you gathered from serpents, and not according to the precepts God gave unto you by His servant Moses? 

  38. Since then in your ill knowledge you think to be so religious, and so righteous in all your doings I will repeat to you that which the Lord God said of you, namely: "But I had concern for My holy name, which the house of Israel caused to be profaned among the nations to which they came.  

  39. Therefore, thus says the Lord God: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of "My Holy Name", which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.  

  40. And I will vindicate the holiness of My great name, which has been profaned among the nations, and which you have profaned among them; and the nations will know that I am the Lord, says the Lord God, when through you I vindicate My holiness before their eyes."

  41. Will this word get through to you my beloved? Will you indeed impute this upon yourselves, how indeed even this very day, you are not at all religious but rather irreligious?  

  42. That to this day you are profaning His name in the sight of all the nations?  And now what is it that you expect of me - that I shall be - as it is called of me - to be a messenger of good tidings?

  43. Read again what the Lord said; "When through you I vindicate My holiness before their eyes." And emphasize  upon the words; "Through you."  Think about it how painful that will be upon you.

  44. Yet I will also repeat how the Lord said "I will take you from the nations, and gather you from all the countries, and bring you into your own land.  I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleanness, and from all your idols I will cleanse you."  

  45. My word, yes even "my" word to you O Israel is clean water - if so you will accept it.  Will you therefore be baptized by me, in the words that flow from my lips? 

  46.   "Be a messenger of good tidings unto Jerusalem," so the Lord spoke to me. And what is it I shall say to you my Israel?  Shall I say that your warfare has ended, that you have received of Him double for all your sins?   O yes my dear Israel that is the message, that you will indeed be established, for He has not forgotten you.

  47. A whoring wife as you are, He has not forgotten you.  A brazen adulteress as you are, yet you are on His mind, you will indeed become the crown of nations, and all the earth shall flow to you, and your enemies will be put under.

  48. But ask now again as to "why" the Lord will raise your horn, and you become as a diadem in the midst of the earth.  Ask yourself O you Israel for what possible cause the Lord will deliver you - that you may be called by His name.   

  49. It is not O lovely adulteress one for any righteousness in you, nor for any faith that you claim to have, but for His own name sake He will deliver you. For His promise to your fathers, and for that cause alone.

  50. And so I will indeed be to you for a messenger of good tidings, I will bring you the good news, to say to you my lovely adulteress lady so dear to my heart, that before long you will be delivered, and your enemies shall fall before you. 

  51. You will behold the goodness of the Lord, His Messiah will come unto you, as in fact He has already come to you, for He is with you this very day, for He is with me, and my words are His words to you O Israel dear to my heart.

  52. Good news yes, and I am contemplating what words I shall bring before you. When I say that deliverance is near, it readily enters into you, but when I say, repent of your iniquities, you no longer wish to hear me.  

  53. When by the hand of the Lord I curtail your enemies you rejoice in me, but when I call upon you to turn from your backsliding, you no longer consider me a friend.  

  54. You are glad when I reprove them that oppress you, but when I tell you to remove the covers upon your head in reverence to Me, you are offended.   Shall I therefore not be offended at you as well O Israel?

  55. Have you no respect for the blood that I shed for you upon that cross upon which, the wicked in Israel nailed Me?  I gave Myself for you, yet you will not show Me any gratitude in when you lift your voice to me - to uncover your head, as it is proper in all the earth.  You brazenly continue to wear the disgrace of the heathens upon your heads.

  56. In everything you act like the pagan worshippers, you copy the muslims, and these so called Christians all of which are covered with their sins and their disrespect of both God and man. When will you learn to respect the Lord your God O Israel?

  57. You were in turmoil and fear grew into your heart for these many around you, to take away your land, and to remove you from the face of the earth, because O Israel, you placed no trust in Me. And your enemies taunted you, and I curtailed them for you.

  58. For your unfaithfulness to Me I however was not unfaithful to you.  For your lack of faith I did not depart from you, but I reproved them that abhorred you, and rained fire on them for your sake O Israel.

  59. I placed My words upon the lips of My servant, a prince of My making - that your enemies should be curtailed.  But where now is your gratitude O Israel, for I put into him My love for you as well - to call you to return, to return to Me O Israel, to acknowledge your sins, and to repent of them.

  60. Therefore O Israel, because you refuse to hear to him that I sent to you with My words, I placed into his hand a refiners rod, with which to refine you.  

  61. He indeed was send a messenger of good tidings, and the words spoken by him that I placed upon his lips were to your welfare that you might return unto Me, to the end that you might live and not perish.

  62. Therefore O Israel are his words like fire, and with reprove for you as well, and My judgment is with him not only for your enemies, but upon you as well O Judah and Israel.  

  63. His lips are with indignation while his heart is full of compassion, indignation for all that refuse to hear Me, and compassion for each one that humbles himself to obey My word.

  64. Let us reason O Israel, love of my heart, this is I speaking to you, a foreigner, a tender one of the Lord your God, the twig which the Almighty God took of His Messiah for you. "From the very top," so He said, as in the very ending of the times that he might be for shade unto the Gentiles and for a light unto Israel.

  65. His love came into my heart, and He filled me with wisdom and with understanding that I might know how to speak and sustain one with a word. When the Lord speaks to you, you refuse to listen, and when I speak to you, you refuse me because I am speaking His word to you.

  66. It now my dear Israel is not possible for me to speak my own word, for I did not come forth of myself, nor was I taught of any man, but from the very bosom of the Messiah I came forth, and He alone taught me.  I know no other words to speak, I am not my own, but of His making am I.

  67. When you look at my words - what publisher would possibly come to publish these things?  These do not like the way that I express myself, nor how my word is with so much authority, with a king's authority, a monarch whose word is law.  

  68. These do not consider it right that I should so upbraid and reprove the sons of men, to speak to them putting down their wisdom as being no more than folly and ignorance.

  69. In reading my words these consider me to be a fool, that no one in his right mind would consider to take up on - since his speech is not as one of us, as one of the sons of man.  He is altogether strange, and his speech is unlike that of any other man, with such riddles as never heard before.

  70. I know it my beloved, yes I know it, it is in His making that I am, nor can I be any different.  For the expression of my lips no man will take me seriously, if even these understood the word.  It is by the arm of the Lord alone that my speech will be heard. With a rod upon their backs He will cause them to hear.

  71. What therefore shall I do for you my dear Israel?  Shall I like your rabbi's preach only of peace to you, that it shall be well with you?  Shall I consistently proclaim how in the end deliverance will come to you, and ignore that which, will be to you before that day of deliverance?  Shall I proclaim peace where there is no peace, or war for where there is no war?

  72. He the Lord your God has blinded the eyes of your teachers, because they rebelled against Him and still they rebel against Him, and refuse to keep His commandments. 

  73. But the words of the Lord which, I proclaim to you are faithful and true, they are for healing unto all that turn from transgression, but for judgment to all that refuse to circumcise themselves of the foreskin of their heart.

  74. What then will be the words I shall pronounce to you my lovely adulteress lady Israel?  I will recount to you your inequities, how you have not learned from your fathers before you, nor from that Holocaust of late which the Lord your God brought upon you by the hands of the Germans. 

  75.   How much good did not the Lord do for you when He brought you forth out of Egypt?  For your sake He destroyed many kings, and drowned Pharaoh with his whole host in the sea for you.  

  76. But surely now I say - these many Egyptians died for no good reason, did they not - since their death did not teach you much for life unto yourselves.

  77. The quails which He gave your forebears were a token,  even for a token to you O Israel of this twenty first century.  While then your forebears murmured instead of to glory in His name, you are yet worse than your forebears to additionally provoke Him to anger with the foul design of the heathens upon you.

  78. When your forebears were hungry and thirsty in the wilderness, they complained saying;  "Why has Thou brought us into this wilderness, to kill us?  It had been better for us to have served the Egyptians than to die in this wilderness. "  And what did the Lord God do for your blasphemies of His holy name?   Yes what did He do O Israel, you the offspring of Jacob?

  79. He did not cast fire upon you, as you deserved, but He pitied you, and gave you angels bread, namely manna to eat, and He cut the rock for you so you might drink and not be thirsty.  He gave you a good land, and drove them out that lived in it.  And for whose sake was that my dear adulteress lady?

  80. And how much more did He not do for you, to give to you by Moses the good precepts to live by. And by your forefathers you swore to abide by His statutes, but they failed to do so, even as you this day are failing to live up to your word of a solemn promise.  Therefore my lovely adulteress lady even I am appalled at you, and sore grieved on your account.

  81.   O that you would hear to me, that your love would be as my love, we would be wed O my love, as a man loves his woman, and the woman adores her husband.    

  82. I now, a foreigner, am not your husband, but for your backsliding I may very well become your husband.  But you should rather become for a wife unto the Lord your God, lest you become the property of a foreigner, to become my property.

  83. But no I shall not continue in this manner, in words that cannot be understood by the sons of man, a wisdom of which they have no apprehension. Yet for your backsliding that you do to this very day, O my lovely adulteress lady, I will give you an alternative to think about, and see how you like those apples.

  84. Quote: "Thus said the Lord unto Esdras: Tell my people (those of the Gentiles) that I will give them the kingdom of Jerusalem, which I would have given to Israel.  Their glory also I will take to Me, and give to these (to Gentiles) the everlasting tabernacles which I had prepared for them." (for Israel)

  85. Did you hear this - my adulteress one that is giving her breasts which, should be mine to them that are idols lovers which I hate?  And so you are defiled O my adulteress lady.   How should I now long for your lovely breasts to be joyful at, with you rejoicing at my caresses?

  86. This is what the quotation is about, He is leaving you for another my dear Israel, for one that is not defiled, for the Gentiles He is leaving you, to them that do not reject Him, to these He would give the kingdom of Jerusalem.  

  87. How indeed therefore my lovely adulteress lady, do you like those apples? You no doubt despise them, but even so I despise your wicked inventions.  

  88. But this you have in your favor, that I am calling you "my adulteress lady," that your breasts are for me and not for anyone beside me.  This is to your favor that I cannot get you out of my heart, that my love for you refuses to be abated.

  89. And now I know O my lovely adulteress one, how these Gentiles also have defiled themselves, and scorn Me. And I will do to them as I did to you, and more so.  

  90. I know O my lovely one that these Gentiles are set to take away the eastern half of Jerusalem, to make it the capital of infidels.  And I know how you are of no mind to give it up. 

  91. But how my lovely one will you stay the arm of the Lord when He attributes all of Jerusalem to the Gentiles as He spoke of old by His prophet Esdras?  How will you have all the land of Judah and of Israel, with Jerusalem not yours?  It is unthinkable is it not?

  92. And I have heard of those Roman pagans that falsely call themselves by the name of Christ, how they think to muster enmity against you, and violence, but these will themselves receive a wound that is incurable.  And before long when you look for them, these will be no more.

  93.   O my love, my Israel, I love you with an eternal love, and how then shall I forget you? This my love, my fair adulteress lady, is the goodness in the message I am relating to you, since for your sake I was called to be for a messenger of good tidings.  

  94. And O how my heart is torn and painful within me to behold you my dear lovely one in the sad shape that you are in, and yet my word must be of good news.    Have compassion upon me, because for your sake I am deeply in pain.

  95. I am indeed jealous for you, so much so to destroy your enemies from before you.  I long for your lips O my adulteress lady, but you refuse to kiss me, and how then is my love for you to be satisfied? How am I to embrace you when the stench of your unholy lovers is still upon you?

  96. Where is your compassion O Israel when the Lord your God in His faithfulness brought you back to the land of your inheritance you showed no gratitude to keep His statutes unwavering before you.  

  97. You are quick to run to the nations for help and protection. Have you not therefore forgotten the Lord your God, who brought you back to the land of your forefathers?

  98. O how deceived you are, you still imagine to have a righteousness of yourself within you, as if the Lord the Messiah will come after you have established yourself as a faithful nation both physically and spiritually, for thus are your words. 

  99. But why O you foolish Israel are you in need of a Messiah, when it is in your mind to establish yourself?  You have no need of a Messiah, and His death is surely in vain by your standards.  

  100. What gross hypocrisy is this of you that call yourselves Messianic Jews, when it is in your mind to establish yourself without the Messiah, when in your heart you acclaim a righteousness of yourselves?

  101. O how foolish of you my dear ones, and how hypocritical the very notion is.  For you likewise with the rest of Israel are fearful of the nations and put no trust in the Messiah.   And why should you - since you have your own righteousness by which you will establish Israel as a nation ready for the kingdom to come.

  102.   Very well my dear ones, Jew and Messianic Jew, listen to this if you are able to hear; it is I speaking, suppose I would refuse to reprove and upbraid the nations, nor render judgment upon them for your sake.   

  103. Yes indeed, suppose I did so, to leave you on your own without the word of the Lord for you, where would you be?  Can you with five million souls overcome the 250 million around you, and the three billion others of still other nations?

  104. You said, you are going to do it yourself did you not? Those acclaiming the Messiah in lip service are consistently propounding it, what use therefore do you have of me and of the Messiah that has sent me?  Let me withdraw myself and see what will become of you without the help of the Lord for you.

  105. You will not last long my dear ones, for the enemies of God and man are raising themselves up to blame you for everything, even for their own wickedness. 

  106. They mean to eradicate you from the face of the earth, because they heard that you were to inherit the entire earth, with everything and everyone in it.  You are the blame for everything, that which you have done and have not done.

  107. They have their mark set on you my dear adulteress lady, you must be the scapegoat for everything whether it be of you or not is completely irrelevant to them.  

  108. You are hated for My sake, because I loved you, and I still love you.  Shall I therefore give up on you even though you play the whore against Me, to establish yourself by your own righteousness?

  109. Your atomic weapons are of no avail O my dear lady.  When the enemy comes to cross upon your borders there will be no defense for you.  If you desire to be your own deliverer the Iranians with their atomic weapons could wipe you clean off the face of the earth, nor would yours be in working order - because you elected to save yourselves, and not call upon the Lord as you ought.

  110. But if instead you put your trust in the Mighty One of Israel, in the true living God, your atomic weapons are senseless, and the Iranians which you feared so greatly, theirs may not be in working order.  Not that the Lord your Deliverer has any need of these crude toys, since all of creation is at his disposal to deliver in whatever way He chooses.

  111. My heart is full of you my love, you are never out of my mind, I care for you, nor will I therefore allow these who are themselves guilty, and have yet to receive their punishment, to any longer make slaves of you, nor to remove you from the land of your forefathers.  

  112. Therefore because I have loved you, you will be protected, and for My name sake make you the crown of all nations.

  113.   Let me speak of my love, let me convey to all that can hear how delicious it is to love God and one's neighbor. Never mind the commandment, but let me pursue what is most desirable.  It is extremely pleasant to love one's neighbor even more than one's self.  O what joy and peace it is to love one another as I cannot express in words.

  114. Let a man love a woman, and let a woman love a man, yet this love of one for another given of God is greater than all.  More delicious with an exultation that cannot be put into words, and my love for the God of all creation is inexpressible. Desire her O my children, seek her and you will find what is most desirable.

  115. For the empty ones there are empty things, and for the full there are full things. Whosoever hears me will not be empty, and that are diligent to keep the word will receive an overflowing measure, and they will be satisfied.

  116.   I am jealous for you my beloved Israel, nor therefore will your enemies overcome you. Was it not said of the Lord from long ago how these that shoot rockets at you will be as spoken: "Gaza shall be deserted, and Ash'kelon shall become a desolation, Ashdod's people shall be driven out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted."

  117. And of Canaan, the land of the Philistines He said: "I will destroy you till no inhabitant is left." On that day the Lord will save you, and you shall shine on the land as the jewels of a crown."

  118. In that day you my love will not be ashamed of the deeds by which you rebelled against the Lord, for He will remove from you all the proud and exultant ones, to leave in you a humble people to take refuge in the name of the Lord, nor therefore shall they do any wrong.

  119. The day of the Lord is coming when the remnant of Israel shall be blessed, but remember my beloved in Israel, how the Lord also said; 

  120. "All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, who say; "Evil shall not overtake nor meet us." How for the glory that will be yours there will as yet be a refining, to root out them that rebel.

  121. The solution therefore is not in this day to harden your heart, but call upon Him who is able to save, and put on His righteousness, let His offering be for a full redemption to you, that you may be saved, to escape the wrath that is coming upon all that refuse to hear, and that hearing do not repent.

  122. Keep His commandments that you may live, and do not mistrust Him.

THAT TERRIBLE LOVE.

  1. There is a movie, "Sarah Plain and Tall," the second part where Sarah went home by the sea where she grew up. And as she was there with the two children of her husband, she missed her husband. And thinking in herself, he will not come, for he was a farmer and could not leave, even though there was a drought because he felt so - that the land owned him.

  2. Sarah then in her love for him looked for him, she even went to the train once thinking he might be on it.  But when at last he did come, she was overjoyed, and she at one point said; "That terrible love."  

  3. You now have to see the movie, the whole movie, to get the feel of this, to help you understand what it is that I mean to say.

  4. For that which I am meaning to bring forth in all reality is beyond words, to speak of a love that frankly cannot be expressed in words.  When a man loves a women, or a woman a man so much that they cannot bear to be apart, it becomes as where the one owns the other, and it hurts, it really hurts to be apart even for a short while.

  5. So also my love has become for the Lord my God, my Savior, I cannot bear to be apart from Him, even for a day, my whole inside cries out for Him to be embraced in love by His Spirit.  And this becomes strong in me when I have done something, or thought something for which I hate myself, and I feel myself worthless and unfit. 

  6. For all the while there is that love within me, that strong and overpowering love for Him. And I cry out saying; but I love Thee O Lord, O how I love Thee, I cannot bear to be apart, a love greater than all love, deeper than the deep.  

  7. As then I assay that feeling within me, I muse saying; "that terrible love," that deep affection that will not leave me, that longs with uncompromising affection towards Thee.

  8. No I cannot put into words that which I feel within me, that overpowering love, that deep affection for One I have never seen, yet Who in Spirit is with my spirit, the God of all creation. Would O Lord that every man's love might be thus for Thee, what a blessed world this would be.

  9. Then as I come to think of His law how He said; To love the Lord God, with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your strength, I muse within myself how very correct these words are, and how true to my soul, and to my heart. For it is in thus way that we ought to love Him, and I do love Him, in a depth that words cannot express.

  10. Like that farmer for his land that owns him without compromise, so He the Lord owns me. And like a woman that is truly a very part of her husband, and cannot bear to be apart, so I cannot bear to be apart. 

  11. And so we ought all to be to Him that love the Lord, for His love is un-expressible, and with deep affection for the creature of His making.

  12. One can hear the law and attempt to keep it, but when the words thereof have become his very inwards then he is in the keeping thereof, which goes not only for the Lord God and His Almighty Son, but for our neighbor next to us as well.

  13. O how great is His love, and how terrible that love within me, how terrible indeed.

  14. I will come soon, and My reward is with Me, so says the Lord, the Messiah of God.

MY PRAYER   (June 2011)

  1. Israel O Israel, for what cause shall the Lord come to your help, to deliver you from your enemies? Are not all of you bowing down to the works of your hand, and to the imagination of your heart? 

  2. Who among all the sons in Israel knows the Lord so as not to worship Him in vain? Like unto your forefather that were dross you follow in their footsteps to anger the Lord in all your ways.

  3. What then should be my prayer to the Lord God who nurtured me upon the Mountain height of Israel, so that I might become a noble cedar before Him?  Shall I say to Him: 

  4. “It is in vain O Lord, these cannot hear, let it be upon the old and upon the young, upon the great and upon the small, for they are perpetually corrupt, and refuse to acknowledge that they have sinned.”

  5. Shall I indeed speak these words O Israel, my dear Israel, or is it for some compassion within me to lift a different prayer up to Him, a prayer out of compassion for you, since to me you are like children that do not know their right hand from their left, how therefore are these to find the way?  

  6. Or am I speaking in error that you do know, but you refuse to perform what is right before God and His anointed?  What shall I say, what words shall pass from my lips that may be for your welfare O Israel?  

  7. I should not be speaking these words, I should not be seeking your welfare since you are just as the Lord said, "a stiff-necked people that refuse to hear, a wicked generation who love is but to anger the Lord, and to revile His statutes.

  8. It therefore is not for your sake O house of Israel that I contemplate pronouncing a prayer regarding you before the Lord my God, but for the Name of the Lord, to recall the promise He made to your first fathers.  To glorify His name, that His name may be glorified in all the earth, for He is King of all the earth, and His Name is not to be polluted, not by the Gentiles, nor by you O Israel.

  9. Some time ago when Anah refused to hear me, and I sought for an opportunity to bring her around, it was to no avail. I was availing myself of a desperate last opportunity, of that fourth opportunity of which the Lord spoke as recorded in the book of Luke, where He said: 

  10. "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. And he said to the vinedresser, `Lo, these three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down; why should it use up the ground?"

  11. So the Lord also spoke to me, and I answered just as that vinedresser did saying:  "Let it alone O Lord this year, till I work with her. And if she bears fruit next year, well and good; but if not, Thou can cut her down."

  12. My prayer for you O Israel is the same, to beg of the Lord for an hour of mercy, to grant you as yet that last opportunity, if perhaps you will hear, and if not then let those cruel warriors from the far north come upon you.  

  13. For if as yet you refuse to hear I will speak just like that vinedresser spoke saying; "Let it be as Thou wilt O Lord to cut her down."

  14. Like unto the Lord so once again I say to them: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."

  15. A messenger of good tidings, so is my appointment, but at end when all the good that I have done is scorned upon, I will walk away, and declare myself guiltless of the blood of all of them. My blood may be upon them, but I will have none of their blood upon me.

Leonard

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