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January 5th, 1915.
Received by:James Padgett
Washington D.C.
I am here, Jesus.
You are my own true brother and disciple. I come
because you need me and my love, and I want to tell you that you
are very near the Kingdom. Your prayers have been heard, and our
Father has given you His Love to a great degree. So you must soon
be prepared to take my (formal)
messages, for the time is getting ripe for the world to receive
my gospel of love and peace. Men are now thinking deeply of spiritual
things and want a gospel that will teach them the way to the truth
and to God's love and their eternal happiness. So do not let the
things of earth keep you from getting more of your Father's Love
and Grace in your soul. Be steadfast in your faith and you will
not want for anything that will enable you to become His true son
and my own loving disciple in spreading the glorious tidings of
joy and peace to mankind. Your love is now so great that you will
soon be at-one with your Father and receive from Him the outpouring
of His love and the Pentecost of His Holy Spirit. Be a man that
will not let anything of earth or heaven keep you from doing the
work which I have set before you to do. I am your true helper and
protector, and you will not suffer for want of anything that will
make you free and happy. Be more earnest in your efforts to obtain
the great boon which your Father has promised to give you, and you
will not be disappointed.
You are doing a good work among the spirits and God, our Father,
will bless you in your endeavors. You must not let doubt or want
of faith keep you from doing the great work that you have undertaken.
The spirits whom you have so much helped will progress towards the
truth and will remember you when they get the happiness which awaits
them. Your wife is a beautiful and powerful spirit, who has learned
to love God very much, and who loves you to an extent that is unusual
among spirits, who love with a love far exceeding the love of mortals
(the redeemed spirits are the ones I mean). She is the sweetest
and brightest wife that God has given to man. She is now progressing
very rapidly and soon will be very near her father's home of love
and joy. So you are very much blessed in having such a wife and
soulmate; and when you come
over you will find a spirit waiting for you that will appear
so beautiful to you, that you will wonder how such a thing could
be. But you may become just as beautiful and as much possessed of
God's Love, if you will only pray and do His will while on earth.
It is not necessary for you to wait until you come over in order
to get this Love and become free from sin and error.
I am your true teacher and brother, and I want you to do my will
as regards the teaching to mankind of the truths of the Father.
I do not desire to tell you now of these things. I will in a
short time and then you will know just what the truth is.
Yes, I know the future, and I tell you now and you must believe,
that you will soon be relieved of all your business cares, and be
in a condition to give all your time and energies to my work. Do
not doubt this any more. I think that this is the best place, though
the place will not determine the best means of doing the work. I
mean the place will not be material, except that the place you mention
is a good one, as it is near the Capitol of a great nation and will
enable you to make more impression on the world by what you may
publish. I do not intend to restrict you to any place; only take
the messages and publish them. You will also teach the truths by
your daily conversations and example. Yes, I remember the saying
and it is true, but in your case the same conditions do not exist
as existed when I gave utterance to the saying. Nevertheless I will
guide you when the time comes and you will follow my guidance. It
will make little difference to you where you are, for the spread
of my truths is the important thing. Yes, a church will be established,
and there will be many leaders of my new movement, and it will succeed
and supplant all other beliefs in this hemisphere. I mean in the
United States and other protestant countries.
The war will last until the Germans are subdued. I don't think
it will be very long before they will see the utter hopelessness
of fighting longer; then they will submit and a new nation will
arise, which will be a nation of the people governed by the people.
Emperors' sons will not have any influence with the people. The
nobility will cease to have any power and will become a part of
the people. God will eventually rule men's lives through His love,
for men will then seek His love, and peace will be established in
the earth. When my Kingdom comes on the earth I will reign in the
hearts of men, not as a ruler or as a sovereign lord, but as a Prince
of Peace, the only son of the Father who was born without sin, and
all mankind will worship God in spirit and in truth. War shall be
no more and swords shall be turned into pruning hooks and plowshares,
and men shall know what peace and love for one another are.
My second coming will be as the still small voice that speaks
to every man and tells him that Love is the only thing that is necessary
for him to have, and when he gets that in his soul all the sins
and hatred and desires for evil will pass away.
I will not desert you in your work, and it will prosper. I know
that certain churches - I mean the clergy and high officials - will
fight my truths and the teaching of them to men, but they will not
succeed. I will prevail and mankind will be redeemed. All will bow
down in earnest prayer and thanksgiving to their God, and His Love
will enter into their hearts and they will be at peace. Brothers
will be brothers indeed, and the Fatherhood of God and brotherhood
of man will be established, and all men will serve their God.
The Catholic Church will eventually, as an organization of political
power, and as a monster of error and a teacher of doctrines contrary
to God's truths, be utterly destroyed, and its followers will embrace
the true teachings of my gospel. Many will not embrace these new
teachings, though, until the last vestige of the power of this great
vampire has utterly disappeared. The priests will be shaken from
their seats of power and will become men of no influence among the
people, for my truths will destroy all the errors which they have
preached and through fear caused their deluded followers to embrace
and believe.
You must not write more tonight, as you are tired.
So with my love and blessings, I am
Your brother and teacher,
Jesus
This message is a composite of two, being published
in Volume IV on page 172 and again in Volume IV on page 190. For
more details see this page.
This message, appears to be identical - except for the parts shown
in italics - to the message on page 190. It is assumed that some
pages may have been mixed up in the publishing of this copy.
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