The glory of God is intelligence, or, in other words, light and truth

"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you."

(New Testament John 16:13 - 15)

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

BE NOT TROUBLED



By
Miguel Angel Tinoco Rodriguez

Idumea, March the 16th of 2010

And when the times of the Gentiles is come in, a light shall break forth among them that sit in darkness, and it shall be the fulness of my gospel; But they receive it not; for they perceive not the light, and they turn their hearts from me because of the precepts of men. And in that generation shall the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. And there shall be men standing in that generation, that shall not pass until they shall see an overflowing scourge; for a desolating sickness shall cover the land.
(Doctrine and Covenants Section 45:28 - 31)

Hearken, and lo, this is the voice as of one sent down from high, who is mighty and powerful whose going forth is unto the ends of the earth; yea, whose voice is unto men, prepare ye the way of the Lord and make his path straight. Repent ye, repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand and enter the way of salvation through baptism by immersion for the remission of sins and receive the Holy Ghost by the imposition of hands by those in authority.

The stone not cut with hand that was rejected on which the builders could have built has become the corner stone. Therefore, whosoever falls upon this stone will be crushed into pieces and onto whomsoever this stone falls shall be grinded into powder.

I came into the world with very important missions to fulfill and which the Lord Jesus Christ is expecting me to fulfill. One of the things the Lord told me expressly that I must do was to exercise my ability to write in any language that I desired. I am not the Lord’s mouth piece in the world, but He endowed me with the scepter of power in my hand. And what is it that the Lord put in my hand? It is a sword as sharp as a scalpel. He also put a broom and a mop. The question remains what is it that I must cutoff? And consecutively what is dirty that I must clean up. And a still small voice that whispers and pierces my soul to the very center inasmuch that it makes my bones quake and tremble compels me to write that I have been sent to clean up and put the house of God in order. And then I asked the Lord: Is thy house that I must set in order thy church or the house of Israel? I received no reply to this question. Then the scripture came to me that say and thus it is written:

IT is the duty of the Lord's clerk, whom he has appointed, to keep a history, and a general church record of all things that transpire in Zion, and of all those who consecrate properties, and receive inheritances legally from the bishop; And also their manner of life, their faith, and works; and also of the apostates who apostatize after receiving their inheritances.

It is contrary to the will and commandment of God that those who receive not their inheritance by consecration, agreeable to his law, which he has given, that he may tithe his people, to prepare them against the day of vengeance and burning, should have their names enrolled with the people of God. Neither is their genealogy to be kept, or to be had where it may be found on any of the records or history of the church. Their names shall not be found, neither the names of the fathers, nor the names of the children written in the book of the law of God, saith the Lord of Hosts.

Yea, thus saith the still small voice, which whispereth through and pierceth all things, and often times it maketh my bones to quake while it maketh manifest, saying:

And it shall come to pass that I, the Lord God, will send one mighty and strong, holding the scepter of power in his hand, clothed with light for a covering, whose mouth shall utter words, eternal words; while his bowels shall be a fountain of truth, to set in order the house of God, and to arrange by lot the inheritances of the saints whose names are found, and the names of their fathers, and of their children, enrolled in the book of the law of God; While that man, who was called of God and appointed, that putteth forth his hand to steady the ark of God, shall fall by the shaft of death, like as a tree that is smitten by the vivid shaft of lightning.

And all they who are not found written in the book of remembrance shall find none inheritance in that day, but they shall be cut asunder, and their portion shall be appointed them among unbelievers, where are wailing and gnashing of teeth.

These things I say not of myself; therefore, as the Lord speaketh, he will also fulfil. And they who are of the High Priesthood, whose names are not found written in the book of the law, or that are found to have apostatized, or to have been cut off from the church, as well as the lesser priesthood, or the members, in that day shall not find an inheritance among the saints of the Most High; Therefore, it shall be done unto them as unto the children of the priest, as will be found recorded in the second chapter and sixty–first and second verses of Ezra.
(Doctrine and Covenants Section 85:1 - 12)

God’s course is a eternal round and his path are always straight, for he does not turn neither to the left nor to the right. And when peradventure he turns back to face his persecutors is just to destroy his enemies and put them to flight in all directions. He is also an unchangeable deity. He does not vary from the things that he has said, nor can anyone stop his mouth from uttering eternal words. I am just a servant in his hand, a clerk, scribe that in absence of purer hearts he has chosen me for to write the scripture of truth. But what about your mouthpiece, I asked the Lord who appointed me, is not him your anointed? And this is his reply. He may be my mouthpiece but you are the word of God. Is the mouth greater than the word? My reply was negative. Then I was filled with the fury of the Lord and it’s hotness vexed me inasmuch that I had to vent some of it.

Yesterday was not a very good day to me, all things became very grievous to my soul and I had no friend, no teacher, no angel and no spirit to comfort me and I wanted to be comforted. I did seek an adversary to contend with but I found not anyone among the living worthy of the blows of my sword. Then I retired to bed and soon after I departed my body and opened the gates of hell. Then I raised fro their grave some of the more wicked amongst the dead and putt them to flight so I can hunt them and kill them again. I, even I could hear their shrieking screams as I put their neck with the sword in hand under the sole of my foot. Only then, my wrath could be appeased. Today it is a good day for me. My sword is sharp, my broom is at hand and the mope is soaking in cleaning solution. It is the turn to contend with the living. And I will shout long and fearfully and the roar of the Lord shall be heard unto the ends of the earth.

Thus say the Lord: I have controversy with the children of Israel and with the nations of the world, and also with the pastors and prophets of my people for they have scattered my sheep and have not fed them. They have strayed away from my law and broken my everlasting covenant. And these are his express words as spoken of by his mouthpiece even, Jeremiah.

Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you. And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thine hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ye shall certainly drink. For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the LORD of hosts.

Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.

Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and swallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel. And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape. A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, SHALL be heard: for the LORD hath spoiled their pasture. And the peaceable habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD. He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

(Old Testament Jeremiah 25:27 - 38)

Verily, verily, I say unto you, darkness covereth the earth, and gross darkness the minds of the people, and all flesh has become corrupt before my face. Behold, vengeance cometh speedily upon the inhabitants of the earth, a day of wrath, a day of burning, a day of desolation, of weeping, of mourning, and of lamentation; and as a whirlwind it shall come upon all the face of the earth, saith the Lord. And upon my house shall it begin, and from my house shall it go forth, saith the Lord; First among those among you, saith the Lord, who have professed to know my name and have not known me, and have blasphemed against me in the midst of my house, saith the Lord.
(Doctrine and Covenants Section 112:23 - 26)

And why is the Lord angry still with us? Because we have done this:

And verily I say unto you, that they who go forth, bearing these tidings unto the inhabitants of the earth, to them is power given to seal both on earth and in heaven, the unbelieving and rebellious; Yea, verily, to seal them up unto the day when the wrath of God shall be poured out upon the wicked without measure— Unto the day when the Lord shall come to recompense unto every man according to his work, and measure to every man according to the measure which he has measured to his fellow man. Wherefore the voice of the Lord is unto the ends of the earth, that all that will hear may hear:

Prepare ye, prepare ye for that which is to come, for the Lord is nigh; And the anger of the Lord is kindled, and his sword is bathed in heaven, and it shall fall upon the inhabitants of the earth.

And the arm of the Lord shall be revealed; and the day cometh that they who will not hear the voice of the Lord, neither the voice of his servants, neither give heed to the words of the prophets and apostles, shall be cut off from among the people; For they have strayed from mine ordinances, and have broken mine everlasting covenant; They seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, but every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own god, whose image is in the likeness of the world, and whose substance is that of an idol, which waxeth old and shall perish in Babylon, even Babylon the great, which shall fall.
(Doctrine and Covenants Section 1:8 - 16)

Did not the prophet Joseph Smith said these things and that that it is contrary to the order or economy of heaven for a seventy to be ordained a High Priest? And I told him, but thy mouth pieces before I was born told the people of thy church that it was needed to extend the usefulness of the seventies when no other of higher office or authority was present. And also another one in high standing who became a mouth piece of yours after him who changed the order of things pertaining to the priesthood also declared in his favor; and it is written, and I bear witness that he said that when they were questioned about it, He said that what was contrary to the order of heaven during the times of Joseph Smith may not be contrary during our days.

The Lord then told me that that was a lousy excuse for his appointed ministers to delegate some of their own responsibilities, creating wasteness and to yield to the pressures of the world. Then, I ceased to try to counsel the Lord and was taken inside the vault of mind of and I saw his great and infinite wisdom and then I understood. And his wisdom remains with him and this is a portion of what he made me to understand.

We the people of the church of God are required by mandate to give heed to the words and the counsel of our prophets as if it were the voice of the Lord himself or be liable to be cut of from among the people. For whosoever accepts the first presidency accepts the Lord Jesus Christ. And the same goes for the apostles and prophets. We are to give heed to all their words.

Nonetheless, something did happen along the way and the order of things was changed and turned some things upside down altering the affairs of the church. Nowadays when the seventies are ordained to high priests as extensions of the quorum of the twelve it endows them with supreme authority when before it was forbidden.

The seventies because of the numbers of members in their quorum cease to be equal to the quorum of the twelve apostles and therefore the power and authority decreases making the quorum of the seventies still equal in authority but superior in power than the quorum of the twelve. This makes the decisions of the quorum of the twelve lesser in power than the decisions of the quorum of the seventies automatically voiding their standing. The seventies also, by being high priest can preside in their own standing and because it is a greater body, if they would they could control or hinder the decisions of the twelve apostles. This is counterproductive. It would have been wiser to create a second quorum of twelve apostles subservient to the first as the Lord did when he set another twelve in America when he visited the house of Joseph than to liberally give authority not warranted to the seventies.

This is how the Sanhedrin of the Jews begun to take over the kingdom of God. Soon after they usurped authority, they established priestcraft and become lifted up in pride like the Sanhedrin of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Neither the seventies on their own standing can they form an equal quorum to satisfy the demand of justice in any given case presented on to them. It is like a house of representatives in a republican government having more power than the senate or perhaps more power than the president himself. This fact turns things upside down, for it takes too much effort or power to resolve even a little matter. The same way it takes to resolve an issue in a representative government. But our church is not a democracy but a Kingdom and it is God who chooses on whom may his holy sprit descend and dwell.

But that is not all. By heavenly law except in special circumstances, the seventies must reach unanimous consensus in order to validate any given decision that reaches them instead of delegating it properly and speedily to the council of the twelve. One single dissident in the seventies as stated in the scriptures in section 107 of the doctrine and covenants make it impossible to reach consensus unlike the quorum of twelve high priests that are formed in any stake or even the council of the twelve. Think about this: if it is hard enough to reconcile the mind of a perfect and just quorum which is composed of twelve, how much more difficult it would be to reconcile the quorum of the seventy? I will let the readers answer that question.

Not only that. It creates a boundary that hinders the progress of the elders of the church who are well capable and perhaps more able to fill the office of a Seventy because and elder is in more direct contact with the affairs of the church. For in order for an elder to fully fulfill his duty to the highest possible degree, by this aberrant reciprocity in the order of the priesthood recently created, an elder must first be ordained a High Priest. And elder nowadays would not dare to do as I am doing now unless he were a High Priest. But in absence of another of higher standing as it is written and elder can take active parts in the affairs of the church.

And I am not usurping any prerogatives, for lo and behold the Lord told me that I, even I would become a leader at a young age in the affair of the church. And I am working way below within the limits of my authority, which is even within the bounds of the Aaronic priesthood which is in charge of the letter of the gospel. For thus it is written:

The power and authority of the lesser, or Aaronic Priesthood, is to hold the keys of the ministering of angels, and to administer in outward ordinances, the letter of the gospel, the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, agreeable to the covenants and commandments.
(Doctrine and Covenants Section 107:20)

Now, if I an elder can very well administer the letter of the gospel, the upward ordinances with the lesser priesthood, why do I need the High priesthood being an elder to become a seventy if all I all am going to be doing is to follow direct instructions and be forerun and represent those of higher order who sent me? Then, imaging now making all the missionaries of the church high priests! Are not they also under the direction of the twelve. The harmony is that the missionaries are in the duty to preach the gospel and the seventies duty is to perfect the saints. Why then, there must be a difference in priesthood authority. In the long run it makes a waste of high priests who end up sitting in idleness since they cannot be degraded back from high priest to an elder. Is not this wasteness?

Furthermore, the duty of a high priest besides seating in council is more particularly more than anything else to offer gifts or alms and make atonement of the sins of his people. And who are the people of the seventies so they can atone for them? It also creates a conflict of interest with the dedicated high priest officials in the respective takes. It is like a tribe having too many chiefs and too little Indians. Or, like having one high priest sustained for one purpose and another ones standing by appointed as his supervisor. How can things get done in this way? Socialists and Communists do likewise nowadays. People elect officials by the voice of the people and then the communist president unjustly appoints taskmaster, czars or supervisors upon them to hinder their duties and cut their funding if it is not in harmony with the mind of the president and his close magistrates. And who amongst all of our high priest in the church today knows how to properly make atonement for the sins of the people like Moses and Aaron and his sons did? For thus it is written:

And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin. (Old Testament Exodus 32:30)

And this shall be an everlasting statute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as the LORD commanded Moses.
(Old Testament Leviticus 16:34)

Be it known that a few years ago, I legally and lawfully claimed my anointing from the church as a first born of Aaron but you would not listen. And if my words never reached your eyes or ears it may have been because of iniquity, unbelief and also the impermeability that you have created having a chain of command hindering our progress instead of exalting and honoring the priesthood of God. I had to ask God to take away the chief high priest of the entire church before his time so that we were not overtaken by complete corruption. And this is because before the church may fall the lord will take away the stumbling blocks, for no flesh shall glory before God.

Moreover one faithful apostle of Jesus Christ said this concerning the real duty of the high priest which differs greatly form the office of High priest in our day who merely opt to preside:

FOR every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity. And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.

(New Testament Hebrews 5:1 - 4)

But that is not all. Making High priest of the Seventies is also a great burdens for the people of the entire church greatly, for the now a general authorities they have to listen to the words of all the seventies as if they were prophets seers and revelators when in effect all of them do not have the testimony of Jesus Christ. And if any of us by ignorance or self willed choice fails to listen to all or any of them instantly falls into transgression and is liable to be cut of by the spit of justice and truth. Because it is written that whosoever breaks one small aspect of the law breaks the whole law. Just like the word of wisdom was made not originally made law in the church as if it were a commandment. The Lord was very explicit when he gave us the word of wisdom. Now because of your obtuse thinking, now not even the lord Jesus Christ could be exempt from breaking it either by will or compulsion. Because by breaking the word of wisdom, one automatically breaks all the commandments and makes each and all of us including the angels of heaven transgressors before the law. For even though the Lord never drank adulterated wine or anything unclean in accordance with the law of Moses, he was forced to sip vinegar mixed with gal which is an unclean thing. This was a blessing to him. This is why the spirit of God left him speedily and he was left alone during the last hour of his physical suffering. Inasmuch that he exclaimed just before yielding up the ghost:

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
(New Testament Matthew 27:46)

Therefore, In essence, perhaps, not voluntary, but technically Jesus the Nazarene partook of the forbidden fruit which is not a sin, but a transgression even under the law of Moses for those that were Nazarenes. And had not they given him vinegar mixed with Gal which is an unclean thing, he would have remained suffering anchored to the tree in Calvary even until this day. So the word of wisdom then was the only exception to the law. Only when he was forced to sip that substance he became physically unclean and therefore liable to be claimed momentarily by the temporal death. Of thus it is written:

AND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall separate themselves to vow a vow of a Nazarite, to separate themselves unto the LORD: He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried. All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk. All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, And shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow. All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body. He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head. All the days of his separation he is holy unto the LORD.
(Old Testament Numbers 6:1 - 8)

As I was saying earlier, not all of the seventies have the spirit of prophecy, seer or revelation. They pretend to know the master but they know him not. They are not always inspired. One day when I was bowed under sin and absent from my family a Seventy from great Britain came to the ward I attended in the US; and he notoriously tried to court my own wife because of her beauty saying that he would take her and also my beautiful children to great Britain knowing that she was married.

Likewise, I recently heard the senior president of the Seventy speak empty words to the Youth of the church concerning the virtues and dangers of friendships, but mainly he strived away from his topic and begun to teach the philosophies of men to our youth mingled with the scriptures. His words sounded like cymbals of uncertainty giving mixed signals in my ear which had no effect on my perfecting. Yet my mind was troubled because I was expecting to understand what he was teaching as it is required for us all to listen to their counsel. I had to pray enquire my controversy with the Lord to complain against him why he would make us listen to leader that pray empty words. I also wanted to know what he was actually teaching about. It was hindering.

But the Lord told me to search the scriptures and I was given to understand the same thing that he told his disciples: And I know that I may be lynched, cast out or taken away for saying these words concerning our modern Pharisees and Sadducees, but I’d rather fear God than men. And if I am brave it is only because I have moral courage. This I recently learned from a true prophet seer and revelator whose mane is Henry B. Eyering. And greater gift no man can have unless he has the power of God, and no one can have the power of god in great glory unless he is clean every whit from the blood and sins of this generation. But concerning our modern Pharisees and Sadducees I always learn best form the Lord our MASTER, who said and thus it is written:

The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.

Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein. And he that shall swear by heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

(New Testament Matthew 23:2 - 39)

The president of the seventies in his phylactery went around teaching how his friend helped him succeed in business by buying him a new suit and they even showed on national television his shining shoes. What bearing does his personal and superfluous experiences have on our spiritual growth? From little to none. And you have chosen these worldly men to be our guides? What did the Lord said specifically concerning friendships? Should not he ought to teach these things as portrayed plainly in the Holy Scriptures? Why is it that I, an obscure and unlearned elder like me has to show you the way and set the example?

The Lord was plain, direct and firm is his teachings concerning our friendships and associations. He spoke in parable, but his teachings are incomparable and it is sad when they are highly diluted instead of expanding on them as the prophet Joseph Smith did when he made a translation of some portions of the bible.

He said concerning our hindering acquaintances:

Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh! Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire. And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire. Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven. For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

(New Testament Matthew 18:7 - 11)

You my brethren in the church standing in high places know more than I know the exact meaning of these words. And I am sure you have a more perfect translation of these verses that I quoted. Why is that you do not do them? I am setting the example before you I showing you what is wrong it is your duty to fix it. Put your house in order or I will. Know that I am armed to the teeth with the spirit of God and full of his rebuke. And I alive or dead I can shout all day long until my voice is heard to the ends of the earth and even up to heaven and the Lord sends his angels to enquire about the source of the noise as he did with the clamor of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. Prove me in this, tempt me, provoke me and you will see how I can make your dust shake and tremble as Nephi did to his brethren. The Lord has spoken and he told me.

There will be many who are opposed to the principles of righteousness which you espouse. You will be given by the Lord words and thought that will confound those who are opposed to you. You will cause them to quake and tremble, for they will see that you speak with the authority of our father in heaven.

Judge ye between my authority and your authority and know whether I have power to speak to you in the name of the most high God or not.

But I am only admonishing you, not commanding you. You cannot deny that technically, the kingdom of God, instead of being a subservient kingdom where he who serves the most is the greatest is gradually becoming a tyrannical kingdom where the illustrious get all the glory while we the soldiers do all the work. I am with you always and I do not intend to offend anyone, but it is the rigidity of the word of God that compels me to say these words. And in any and all cases for the people it is better to be ruled by one or sixteen tyrants than to be rued to seventy or five hundred tyrants. Don’t you think? And when a kingdom has become corrupted even one dissident, if he knew how to do it, can make the whole system crumble.

Now brethren in all love and humility I ask you fix this serious problem. Not every moth that complains is an apostate, but you make it look as if you are always right and we are always wrong. We are no longer alone, for we have the spirit to be our guide and we can detect the wheat form the tares. I am your new task master; I do not care how you do it as long as you do it. I may not have authority as you do, but I have been given much power and a great horn to shout. The soil where you stand is al mine. For the righteous shall inherit the earth, the lords said in his beatitudes. Since I cannot receive my last anointing and be a king like yourselves the Lord made Lord over the whole earth. And I will give and divide a portion to whom I will. Where there is no law there is no punishment. And no one wants to be close to the edge of my sword. I will not pardon your transgression if it is too grievous to bear.

My father in heaven gave me a strict charge to put all the enemies of Christ under his foot. And the Lord, even Jesus Christ cannot contradict me. I am the destroyer; the enemy of all unrighteousness and the Lord our Righteousness is my name. And in my standing I can only be rebuked by the Lord Jesus Christ personally as he did it to me when I was beginning to destroy Jerusalem the first time, but only when you repent of the evil which you have done. If you do not repent than your temporal salvation is in my hands and I must do my rites to bring about chaos and desolation into the world as I did when the Lord sent me as a spirit to crash the world and baptize his creations I the days of Noah.

And until the Lord reestablished the ancient sacrifices if he would, we ourselves in our own flesh have to carry in our backs the sins and filthiness of all the people. And they are like heavy stones in our back. Perhaps you have noticed in the moments of you own grief for this people. The Lord has not made me sweat blood of every pore as he did, but my face is constantly grinded of the bitterness by the oppression all about me and because of all the sins of this people and my visage becomes marred so much of exquisite contrition. I have become so acquainted with sorrow that is becoming a bad habit. In other words, I know how to take away your sins and deposit them where they belong, but I am getting too sick and tired of doing it. My time is at hand unless the Lord prolongs my days and my mind can only hold so much controversy.

This is what the Lord told Moses concerning me when he gave me charge of all the house of Israel because the Lord was furious and they could not endure his presence nor him their disobedience and rebelliousness under penalty of death.

Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
(Old Testament Exodus 23:20 - 22)

Give heed oh House of Israel, I am here to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which the Lord has prepared for your gathering, even Zion and it shall be done with a stretched out arm and the presence of the Lord shall be our guard as in the days of old. I am only the angel of his presence in my preparatory state. Not only that is written about me but this also, even whole chapters in the book of Isaiah and also confirmed in the new testament by Peter and even though it may also refer to the Lord’s ministry itself, but not entirely. Know that you have scorned me, and have rejected me, sent me to psychiatric hospitals against my will; and even to jail with false reports. You also send the dogs after me. And despite how much I love you and have forgiven you, I try to forget but I cannot forget. Why do you try to kill me and look upon me with derision as if I had some king of mental disease. I am afflicted yea, and acquainted with much grief of mind, body and soul, not because of my iniquities alone but because I have taken your iniquities upon me also offering my souls as the Christ did as a ransom for the sins of many.

Even the prophet Daniel talked about the uniqueness of Christ battles and suffering when he said:

But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.

(Old Testament Daniel 10:21)

I can hold the peace and your iniquity but I cannot hold the wrath of God. This is why I have put my face as flint and made my covering as light, so you come not near to me and be sorry for me. I do not want anyone to know me like this. I prefer you all to remember me as I was when I was with you in the beginning, even in the presence of God.

I know you despise me and desire not my company. After many things that I have written to you, you still hide your face from me and deny knowing me. Yet it is I, It is I that speak. I am the first and the last. And henceforth you will not know that I am until I you see me crowned in the right hand of the son of man or until you welcome all that come in the name of the Lord. I have exceeded your righteousness. And now the house of Israel is in charge once again. You gentiles perhaps think that you are the only apostles and prophets of this people. I may not belong to your quorums but as Peter and Paul I know well what I am. And who can deny it. Where is my adversary? Who can contend against me? Show yourselves and let us reason together.

I am so filled with the Holy Ghost that if it would be pertinent I would utter the same words’ that Peter spoke Saying:

Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at naught of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.

(New Testament Acts 4:8 - 13)

WOE to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand. The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:

And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people, And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate. But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment. For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report. For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

For the LORD shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth. Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen. This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

(Old Testament Isaiah 28:1 - 29)

And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people. Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.

There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up. These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God. Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine: Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again: But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

(Old Testament Isaiah 51:16 - 23)

For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause. Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day is blasphemed. Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion. Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD. For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.

Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high. As many were astonished at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

(Old Testament Isaiah 52:3 - 15)

WHO hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

(Old Testament Isaiah 53:1 - 12)

THUS saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer?

Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst. I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.

The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.

He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.

Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God. Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

(Old Testament Isaiah 50:1 - 11)


WHEREFORE laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings. As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men: As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward. For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

(New Testament 1 Peter 2:1 - 25)

Wherefore, be not weary in well–doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great. Behold, the Lord requireth the heart and a willing mind; and the willing and obedient shall eat the good of the land of Zion in these last days. And the rebellious shall be cut off out of the land of Zion, and shall be sent away, and shall not inherit the land. For, verily I say that the rebellious are not of the blood of Ephraim, wherefore they shall be plucked out.

Behold, I, the Lord, have made my church in these last days like unto a judge sitting on a hill, or in a high place, to judge the nations. For it shall come to pass that the inhabitants of Zion shall judge all things pertaining to Zion. And liars and hypocrites shall be proved by them, and they who are not apostles and prophets shall be known. And even the bishop, who is a judge, and his counselors, if they are not faithful in their stewardships shall be condemned, and others shall be planted in their stead. For, behold, I say unto you that Zion shall flourish, and the glory of the Lord shall be upon her; And she shall be an ensign unto the people, and there shall come unto her out of every nation under heaven. And the day shall come when the nations of the earth shall tremble because of her, and shall fear because of her terrible ones. The Lord hath spoken it. Amen.
(Doctrine and Covenants Section 64:33 - 43)

He who has eyes to se let him understand. These things I say, in a language that is foreign to me, with lisps that cannot pronounce well the syllables that I write ; nonetheless, I speak the truth with no guile I have been prepared to do these things with proper authority in the Holy name of Jesus Christ Amen.

Miguel Angel Tinoco Rodriguez

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