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Lord, we have waited for him," if they are not warned before? How can you say, "the Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him," if you are not warned of my coming? How can you say," Satan, the great accuser of the brethren, is cast down, "if you know it not? How can the days be shortened, if they run until the whole six thousand years are up? For I said, My SPIRIT shall not always strive with man, but my delight shall be with the sons of men; and what delight could I have with men, before I have tried their love? It is no Love to ME, that a man aspireth to be a bishop, a chancellor, an archdeacon, or a shepherd of the flock: it is their love to themselves; for they all preach for hire. But it is in LovE to ME, that men are striving to convince the world of my COMING; for here they have no present reward; but when I come my reward is with ME; and they shall find I will not tarry: but I must gather my wheat into my garner, before I burn the chaff with unquenchable fire; for now all my Bible shall be fulfilled."

All the chapters I have mentioned the Lord hath promised to explain their meaning to me. And now I come to the second Psalm : "Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee: ask of ME, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy pos session."

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Here ends the ANSWER of the LORD to the Powers of Darkness--

Directing Men to search the Scriptures; for in them ye have eternal Life.

October 12, 1802.

Further COMMUNICATIONS given to me, in Answer to Man's Controversies.

I was ordered to open the Bible and write: NEHEMIAH, vii. 36. "The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five."

PSALM, xcix. 6. "Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name they called upon the Lord, and he answered."

MATTHEW, Xxvi. 55. "In that same hour, said Jesus to the multitude, are ye come out as against a thief, with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in, the temple, and ye laid no hold on me."

THE ANSWER OF THE SPIRIT.

"Here is the Law and the GOSPEL together. What was then done concerning Jerusalem shall be now done again. The city shall be wondrously and gloriously built; the people shall be numbered by the Seals, that go to possess it; as they then were numbered by Names, so shall they now be numbered by Seals; for there is the number of the Tribes mentioned in the Revelation; and so shall the Tribes now be sealed, like that chapter. For as Moses and Aaron were amongst the priests, and Samuel also was with them; and they called upon the Lord, and he answered them; so shall men call upon ME, and I will answer; I will be a LIGHT to lighten the Gentiles, and the GLORY of my People Israel; those that I call my People Israel are they that inquire after ME, to know my ways, and to seek out the truth of my words: they are my People, and I will be their GOD; and my Glory shall rise upon them. They shall take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my People, and make plain my paths before all nations; for thy WRITINGs must go into all countries. night is far spent; the day is at hand, that I shall redeem my people, according to my promise, from the fall of Adam; and the world shall be like the garden of Eden; and man shall enjoy that perfect happiness I created him for; or how can man

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HABAKKUK, i. 12. "Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall not die O Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment,; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.'

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ii. 14. "For the earth shall be filled with the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea."

ZEPHANIAH, ii. 11. "The Lord will be terrible unto them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shail worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathens." iii. 9. For then I will turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent."

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MALACHI, iii. 16. "They that feared the Lord spake often one to another; and the Lord hearkened and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared the Lord and thought upon his Name; and they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in the day that I will make up my jewels, and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him."

iv. 2. "Unto you that fear my Name, shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be as ashes under the soles of your feet, in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts."

"Now these prophecies of my Bible were never yet one of them fulfilled; but when I bring in this glorious rest for my People that seek ME, and think upon my Name; that the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in his wings, to heal the fall of MAN and he shall be one with ME, and I with him; then must my fury be poured out upon all nations that believe not in me. Hitherto I have given them milk; that meaneth I have mildly given the sincere milk of my word, that ye may grow thereby, as new-born babes

I have spoken as a Father, a Brother, or a Friend: but this love and condescension is despised, and not judged as coming from a merciful Father, and a compassionate God and Redeemer; but soon they judged it a foolish invention from some spirit, they knew not where or from whom. Now as my love is despised, my condescension abused, and not believed; I shall come with a voice of thunder to my enemies: for with the meek man I will deal meekly, and with the humble man I have dealt humbly; but now with the froward man I shall deal frowardly ; and with the proud man I shall deal proudly: for I will bring down the proud hearts of men, and level with the dust the haughty spirits. My fire shall burn like an oven, and the pride of men shall be burnt up as stubble; for if they will not hear, and will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, I will send a curse upon them: for if I spared not the natural branches, but cut them off through unbelief; let the wild olive, that was grafted in, not be high minded, but fear; for as I cut off the Jews, from Jerusalem, for their unbelief; so will I now cut off from the face of the earth that mock the coming of the Lord. Now have I shewed you the promises made to my prophets; and now I have shewed you by prophecies they shall be fulfilled; for as sure as I told thee, nineteen years ago, thy life should go in print, and now it is done; so sure will I do upon the earth all I have spoken by thee; and it shall be a savour of life to them that believe; but of death to them that disbelieve: for know by faith are ye saved, and ye perish through unbelief. The time I told thee thy life must go in print was the year after the American war was ended; and then thou wentest through great persecution from man, and had false witnesses raised up against thee. I warned thee the second time to write it again; it was one year before the war broke out with France; and as sure as the war broke out the following year, so sure shall all break out, that I have said unto thee: for I will

now break out on the right haud, and on the left; on the right hand, to fulfil all the promises I have made to believers; on the left, to destroy all the mockers. Therefore the day of the Lord will be terrible; and mine anger and indignation burn with fury; because I come in meekness and love to draw men with cords of love; but they judge there is no condescension in their God; then I will not condescend longer to bear with their iniquities. If they judge ME as an austere master; like an austere master let them fear ME: for now to the merciful man I will show MERCY; and to the pitiful man I will show PITY; but to the cruel man I will show cruelty and as men judge ME, let them fear ME. If

I am a Father, where is my honour? If a Master, where is my fear? They that judge ME as a Father, let them know I have spoken as a Father, to she w my loving kindness to the works of my hands; that I made man and promised to redeem him that my delight may be with him. So have Í drawn near to men, that they may draw near to MF; but ye have snuffed at it, saith the Lord of hosts; and ye have brought that which was tornthe blind and the sick for an offering; shall I receive this at your hands, saith the Lord of hosts? Ye call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up, and they that tempt God are even delivered! But they that think upon my name are despised and shall I not visit for this, saith the Lord of hosts? The torn are those that break off from my Bible, and make it a broken book; one part fulfilled, and the other part never to be fulfilled; then it must be broke asunder; and how will ye join it together? The blind are those, that in seeing, they cannot see; nor in hearing, they cannot understand; yet ye set up such men's judgment to be right. So the evil day will come upon you unaware: for when I bring my blessings on the one hand, to those that are waiting for my coming; I shall bring the curse on the other; on all those that say, "where is the

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