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It is amazing that people love lies,
I came to learn just a couple of years ago, dear Zoe (mornin' and peace to you, dear lady!)... that it isn't just JWs. I can't speak for the non-western world but in the western world I am coming to understand that MOST people love lies. That's how the top billion dollar industries in our society (i.e., advertising, beauty/fashion, cosmetic surgery, pharmaceuticals, alcohol, drugs, legal/litigation... and especially religion in general) can even exist: because MOST folks don't WANT the truth, let alone can handle it.
Truth is considered anathema in the western society. It's better to "get along"... even if that means LIVING a lie, let alone accepting them. "We" want to exist in "the Matrix" where everything... and everybody... APPEARS "perfect." Sure, we applaud those folks who come forward and say, "Hey, I'm not perfect; my life wasn't/isn't perfect." We call them... brave. Think about that: for someone to tell the TRUTH about certain things... drug/alcohol addiction, child/domestic abuse... and other issues that are PREVALENT in our society... it's considered BRAVE. THAT's because MOST folks don't/can't/won't do that, tell the truth. Because SOCIETY won't LET them - it won't ACCEPT the truth. Because it loves the lie.
And so, in our society, we COVER the truth at every chance. Why? Because TRUTH... isn't PRETTY. It isn't necessarily ugly, but it's ugly more often than it isn't. And so we close our eyes... AND our ears. Which renders us blind... and deaf.
Imagine, though, if we all DID speak truth (to one another). Or, as my Lord said to me, "If you can't say what is TRUE, say nothing at all." There'd be a whole lot LESS of confusion and "misunderstanding"... and conflict/war... and a whole lot more silence. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Something to consider: in the spirit realm, there is almost never silence. The one time I know of... it was a pretty big deal. Big enough for John to be told to record it.
Revelation 8:1There is no silence THERE... because NOTHING is hidden. Nothing is hidden even in the world of the dead. Only HERE, in THIS realm, can things be hidden. And they are hidden, all the time. WE hide them... not just from others, but even from ourselves. Our vessels allow it; they can hide what is INSIDE (of us) and thus what comes OUT may not be TRUE.
The "white robe," however, which is the spirit body, doesn't do that. Can't do it. Which is why it is CRITICAL that those who are chosen to "wear" them will have worked OUT cleansing the INSIDE... BEFORE they are given such "garments." Because if the lie is still IN them, it WILL be revealed (unlike now/here, where the "soiled garment" that is OUR flesh... flesh with ITS blood... hides things). And if such is revealed "in" us... we would have to be cast OUT (of the spirit realm).
And that's why SO much time has been and is being ALLOWED: to give the "chosen" ones TIME... to learn TRUTH. To cleanse the INSIDE of their "cups" (bodies/vessels). Of course, we can't completely do that. And so a ransom has been given: Christ, whose BLOOD cleanses... what we ourselves CANNOT.
Since we are ALL in that same "boat"... with uncleanness on the INSIDE... we ALL need a kind of "water" that can CLEANSE us. The "water" that can do that is that same blood... given as a sacrifice... but now available in the form of SPIRIT blood... HOLY SPIRIT... the breath, seed, and BLOOD of the MOST HOLY One of Israel, JAH of Armies, which blood courses through the "veins" of His Son, Who is the Tree of Life, the HOLY One of Israel, JAHESHUA, the Chosen One of JAH (MischaJah).
By drinking from HIM, taking into ourselves the "sap" of the Tree (of Life)... his BLOOD... we are CLEANSED... on the INSIDE (and, for some, on the outside as well)... and our "errors"... "covered". Even blotted out. And that is the GOOD news [of the kingdom]. That by means of HIM, we CAN be clean... INSIDE... and so nothing INSIDE of us hidden from GOD... so that we CAN stand before Him and before His throne.
For me... that is the greatest blessing! Because if I CAN stand before God... then perhaps I can plead, or at least ask Christ to plead... NOT just for myself, but for my entire HOUSEHOLD. That they, too, can have a standing (before God). To me, this is SUCH a blessing that I MUST tell others about it! About HIM. And how much I love him, Christ, for making this possible for ME (and my household). In return, the only thing I can give HIM... IS my love. Which love FORCES me... to speak the truth. About him... about the Father... and about anything and everything else he tells me to. Even if others don't want to/can't receive it.
As a result I have learned that the Truth that is Christ... and the truth one comes to know because of the Christ... AND the truth one comes to SPEAK... BECAUSE of the Christ... truly DOES set one FREE. At least, to the extent one can BE free while still existing in a vessel of flesh with ITS blood. But the truth I have learned from him also has shown me, so that I am CERTAIN, that one day that vessel won't be able to contain "me" any longer. Rather, I will have a NEW vessel... "robe"... to "wear"... and by means of THAT, I will be TRULY free. Because I won't be confined to THIS world, but have access to ALL realms. Me, and ALL those who possess such robes.
And so, out of my gratitude for that, for knowing that, being told that... and looking FORWARD to that, for myself AND my household, I join him and his bride, the NEW Jerusalem in saying:
"Come!"To ALL those wishing and thirsting:
"COME! Take Life's (Christ's) water... the holy spirit of GOD, the MOST HOLY One of Israel, JAH of Armies, which water/spirit is HIS breath, blood, and seed... and is poured out ONLY from the innermost parts of His Son and Christ, my Lord, Master, Savior, and King, JAHESHUA, the Chosen One of JAH (MischaJah), who is the HOLY One of Israel and HOLY Spirit...
FREE!"Sorry for the... ummmmm... well, I'm gonna call it a "witness", dear lady, if you don't mind, in which case, I'm NOT sorry, but you know what I mean...
And peace to you, ALWAYS!
YOUR servant and a slave of Christ,
Shel