Last Great Day

Afternoon Message

Ron Weinland

October 5, 2015

Hello once again to everyone, this now being the Last Great Day of the Feast. It's amazing how fast, I know, it seems for all of you, probably, how things passing sometimes go. But anyway, I'm excited to be able to bring you this closing sermon today. It likely won't be long, like I mentioned earlier on the first opening day there. It'll be more like a mini-sermon. So, anyway, maybe a little more challenging than the opening day welcome because I get so many interruptions in the hallways and so forth and Jeremy has several segments now he has to put together because I only have about 15-minutes maximum (actually a little less than that with all the interruptions), on the system here, but about that much time for a particular recording. So I don't know how much this is going to end up being, but again, it will be more of a mini-sermon.

But before getting into this, however, I want to remind everyone about what I stated on the first day about this message. And perhaps someone missed it since it was the very start of the first sermon there. But if you were at a site like Australia or Europe, obviously the Australian group get to hear this first, and next followed by Europe. And anyway, if any of you hear this first before the U.S. and Canada, obviously, please do not spoil the Feast for others who have not yet heard it. And don't contact them ahead and let them know anything that's been said in it by texting, email, phone, phone calls, Skype, and so forth. Let them receive it in the sermon that they actually hear. And if you're starting to listen to this even now a little ahead of time, before hearing it with a group or on the appropriate time, on the Last Great Day, I just say, "Hey! Stop! Listen to it at its proper time and place."

Anyway, for me right now as I'm speaking, we are in the midst of the second week of August, but as all the speakers we needed to get these done ahead of time (as I mentioned on the first day there). And a lot of transcribing, translating has to take place, editing, some editing has to be done with some of the messages, but not a whole lot in that respect. And anyway, all these had to be done ahead of time because there’s so much more work for these people to do for the Feast that's coming up, and obviously, some of the Holy Days even before the Feast. So it adds to their work load that they'd normally be doing just Sabbath by Sabbath.

But, anyway, everyone doing the things that they do behind the scenes – really want to thank everyone, a lot is involved there, and I want to thank everyone for the extra work that they had to put into it in these Feast messages. Some of this information might be an eye-opener to some of you so I thought I'd mention some of this, what goes on behind the scenes. Some people don't really realize it. But first these messages are listened to and transcribed from audio into written form so that these can be placed on the website so that people can take them off there and be able to read the sermons. And Kalee, up in Canada, does that work. Jeremy works on any editing that is necessary that has to be done on the audio. And, of course, the written documents are given to the translators then, and the Dutch is then translated by Mieke in Belgium, the Spanish is translated by Izabel up in The Netherlands, and the French is translated by Alain over in the United Kingdom there. So, anyway, I just wanted to mention all that to let people know that there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes so that you can hear or read a particular message that's given during the Feast, or any time throughout the year.

So anyway, brethren, I know this has been an absolutely great Feast for all of you because it's God's Feast – so I know it's been great. You know, God and Jesus Christ have worked through those speaking, delivering the messages you heard this year during the Feast. And the first thing that strikes me concerning this last message at the Feast here, on this Last Great Day, is that it is the last message at the completion of another season of annual Holy Days. Everyone is now going to return to a lot of unknowns. We have a lot of things we just don't know.

So we're just about at the end of the special "Year of Dedication" that we've all been observing. November the 8th we'll be thrust into another period for the end-time. It's the beginning of the seventh – and I truly hope and pray – final period of 1260-days. I believe that it is, but I also believe that the 5th period of 1260-days with that addition of the 70 additional days in that period of time, that that was going to lead up to the coming of Christ on Pentecost of 2012. But I truly believe that this is the time that we're being shown here and that's what we're focused on. Above all things, brethren, we follow God wherever He leads. And God led us to 2012. There's much more concerning this that I want to be mentioning here a little bit later. But anyway, to me that's exciting! So for me awfully awesomely exciting, and I know it will be for you as well when you understand it all, when you see it as perspective and the complete picture that we've been given.

But anyway, hopefully, all of you have drawn much closer together and drawn closer to God over this "Year of Dedication" especially, but even closer together here at this Feast. But as I was saying here, hopefully, we've drawn closer to God in this "Year of Dedication." And I believe, I know that everyone who has applied themselves in fasting and prayer have drawn close to God and Jesus Christ and have become much stronger and more alert spiritually because of that. And I hope also that all of you come to grasp the power and the importance of fasting more often and that you will use that tool much more as we proceed forward into that seventh-period, and again, what I believe to be the last 1260-day period before the return of Christ.

Of course, that is with that 50-days attached to the very end, which is an awesome time—it truly is—what's being shown. So we all have a lot of unknowns for us in this year ahead of us. For me, I don't know what some things will be, as with you, but I do know that it's going to be my final Feast, my final Holy Day in as a matter of man's direct captivity. So the next Holy Day I'll be able to be at home, in the spring time there. And I know that for several months I'll be at home confinement in order to serve out the remaining 42-month sentence. And I don't know fully what all that's going to entail yet, but that's not what I'm speaking of when I'm talking about, "We don't know some of the things that are ahead of us." We don't know when things are going to begin. We don't know when things are going to become difficult. We don't know when certain things are going to strike in certain regions— that we realize that they are coming.

Though I've been fully blessed to keep on top of everything anyway because of the extra work that my loving wife has been doing – so that's been a tremendous help and I'm very, very thankful for that – I realize I'm going to be able to have more of a direct part now once I am able to return back home.

But anyway, before we go much farther, I do want to share with all of you a concern that I do have, that so many may be letting down as time has marched on. And I just want to remind everyone, because it's an easy thing to do because of what we've gone through before, and that's about storage of food and water. Some day we're going to get hit hard, and perhaps at staggered times, but nevertheless, everyone as a whole is going to experience some point in time when they're going to get hit hard in their areas. Things with electricity, things with water that we take for granted, things with food that we take for granted. Trucks aren't going to be moving. Sometimes electricity isn't going to be there. So again, we have to be thinking of what's coming and not let down in that particular area, because, yes, we're going to be taken care of, but there are things we need to strive to do somewhat at least (in a balanced way) on our own, by ourselves with our own planning, just to use the wisdom that we have because we know where we are and we know what's coming.

So, as I'm preparing this I'm struck by how the children of Israel – as I'm going forward now into the message here today – I'm struck by how the children of Israel were about to be prepared to enter into the promised land. You know, Joshua worked with them to make preparations before they ever thought of crossing the river. And I think about how God's been preparing us, brethren. It's even in our name. You know, "The Church of God—PKG." How awesome is that? You know, "Preparing for the Kingdom of God." And that means a lot more to us now than it ever has.

Anyway, some of us have been prepared for the literal, or are being prepared (I should say) for the literal spirit Kingdom of God as part of the 144,000, and though a very small number. Most have just been going through a matter of being prepared to enter into a greater physical "type" of the promised land, the Millennium, a new era for mankind to be ruled over by the Kingdom of God.

So, you really don't need to turn there as you're very familiar with what I'm about to quote, and it's from Joshua 1:9 where God told Joshua, He says, Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, neither be dismayed, which means, "Don't be discouraged." Well, I think of this past year especially there have been some really intense trials for a lot of you. Satan and the demons have been striking out as never before, but you need to see the bigger picture in all of this. They have been eating dirt! I've been deeply moved and awesomely encouraged to see the response of brethren as a result of things I've heard, stories I've been told, also letters I received, and of course, minister's reports, how positive everyone has been as they have had to go through some very hard trials. They have been seen in a positive light by people, and just as part of an opportunity to grow and become more refined, stronger in resolve, and simply responding over all with a genuine spirit and motivation to keep pressing forward. So, someone who is trying to get you to fall, become discouraged, made weary or weaker, well, that hasn't turned out so well, and they've truly been eating dirt because of it. And that's an awesome thing to understand.

So this reminds me of a little ribbing I've been giving one person over something that she wrote to me because of how it might sound if you didn't know the whole story, if you didn't know what she was really saying. But I did, obviously, and as soon as I say it I know that all of you will understand it as well. You'll see it too, but it does have its humor. Now, she's not the only one that's written almost the exact same thing but maybe just a few different words, but there've been a few and I have gotten quite a charge out of each one. I should say that once I shook off the depression that it caused. Ah, just kidding. Anyway, this is what she said and she was speaking about the Cincinnati congregation. I'm paraphrasing, perhaps, some of the words here, but basically as it was and adding to it the context of me reading it from where I am here in prison when I receive these. But she said, "Since you've been away," meaning here in prison, "the Church here has really drawn so much closer together." Anyway, people have been growing closer together and at a time when Satan and the demons have been relentless. But, again, their diet has not been a good one, truly.

So God was telling Joshua, "Do not be dismayed. Don't be discouraged." So in this past year many of you have expressed a very positive understanding and even in an appreciation for many of the hard trials that you've been going through. And as some of you have stated, some of the most difficult in their life. So do you "see" what that's saying spiritually? The Church has greater strength and courage than ever before spiritually. As it has been stated in posts going well back in the past year, Satan does have less power over the Church. And that's what so much of this is all about. So, less trials and attacks? No. And perhaps some it's been less, but for some it's even been more. But because of where the Church is now spiritually as a result of the kind of spiritual growth God has blessed people with over the past four years, we're ready, as ready as we can be to this point in time for the next phase of a great countdown to what this Feast of Tabernacles has pictured, which is, obviously, the Millennium, the Kingdom of God that's established rule on this earth.

So come November the 8th we move into that final 1260-days of counting, then the next 50-days that follows that. Now, I'll just tell you right now that God's been revealing, just in the last few weeks here, a lot of things about that... that are truly incredible! But you still have to wait a little longer for that. It's well worth the wait. It is something that God has actually just been fully revealing as I sit here over the last couple of weeks. And it's profound. And it's really more than awesome! What can I say? It's exciting, awesomely exciting!

But, anyway, I just want to continue on here, Joshua 1:9, He says, Have not I commanded you? Be strong and of good courage. You know, where does that come from? Well, it comes from God. So we have been in a great "Year of Dedication," becoming much stronger and have far greater courage. And what lies ahead will have the appearance of everything that would normally stir fear – you know, the walls of Jericho, think about that, going up against what they saw that was so massive there, and they were just to march around it. And they knew it was a powerful fortified city. But for us, not even if death is smack in front of us, and at some point it will be. We go forward and God is with us, brethren, and we're to be strong and of good courage. So He says here, Have not I commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; be not or do not be afraid, neither be dismayed, which is "not be discouraged," for the Eternal your God, you know, Yahweh your Elohim, is with you wheresoever you go. And that's our strength, brethren, and that's what we've been growing in, a closer relationship with in this past year. And that is exciting. We're ready. We're at the point now we're being prepared, we've been prepared, and now we're getting ready to go into it.

So, brethren, let me say about my stay here in prison, that it... has proven to be something that God has used to strengthen the Church. You know, that's an awesome thing, just to think about that factor alone: To strengthen the Church. What is that worth? To strengthen your resolve. And you're more determined in spirit to fight on than ever before. You have an incredible amount of awesome truth and wisdom that God has given, you know, the Word of God that's been poured out in a way that is really awesome. And the posts since I've been here, there's been an incredible amount that's been given to us. I'll just say, there is so much material that God and Christ have poured out upon us, things God's Church has never known – never – but God has been blessing us with awesome incredible insight and understanding that cannot even be fully absorbed. You just can't absorb it all. It can't all be digested in just one, two, three, or even more settings and readings. There is so much that's there, there truly is. You'll come to see that more and more as time goes on. Some is just simply profound. It really is.

So, now having said that, let me speak of a couple of other things now. We just read in Joshua 1:9 where God said He was our Yahweh Elohim, which is, you know, God, Elohim, our Family. That's what it's all about. God continues to put forward family and women in the Church. It goes hand in hand because that has to be settled in order for family to be made right. The thing about women and the example that's being set there. So it is His great purpose to do so, so still there is so much more for both men and women to begin to see and learn in all this. You may think you have a really good handle on this but coming out of the kind of captivity this world's been in in the last 6,000-years, you do not. We have a long way to still go, but we've come a long way, too, and we've made a great start. We are the beginning stages of all this, and very much so an example that God is placing before us, for each of us, for all of us, for the beginning of the Millennium. It's for the purpose of example, and the example that's going to be there that'll be established already by the time that it's here. So within the Church all have been learning to live in a new Church environment. We, the Church, we are the example. We have the opportunity to begin living this first. That's what we've been learning. That's what we've been being prepared for. That's what God has been doing in us, to be able to have that example, become... it's just the way we live. So, both setting women into a rightful role and position in family, in the Church, and just for family being magnified as well. So again, we have the opportunity to be living this first, to begin by example, the foundation for a new way to see, appreciate, and share with one another the way God intends man and woman to share.

So, continuing on, I just think here, you know, God has also started to put a stronger focus on teamwork, on the husband and wife teams within the ministry as well. And that's just for the sake of learning about the importance of teamwork just in family, just in marriage, husbands and wives. You know, God is giving more examples for this that are being received, seen, and accepted by the Church as a norm. It's just becoming a norm for the Church. It's the way we are. It's the way we think. It's just normal. And that's the example. And that's the exact example that we're to be setting that we're to be able to be setting here even as we approach a particular period of time, the Millennium. So it's an incredible part of an example, in this case, because everyone is part of that example. We're all part of it. We're all part of the Body. And we're a part of that being set. A part of the norm that we accept is the norm that others see. So I know it's just a normal thing for us – that's what others see. We don't, maybe, realize that sometimes, but that's what others see. They just see the norm of what's in our lives, and that is our example. So we don't resist or fight it, at least, hopefully, that's not happening. Some cases, on occasion maybe it happens here and there, but we embrace it and we're excited about it, that norm that's being given to us.

So some are more in focus, and the focus on all this, some are thrust, maybe, more to the forefront in some of this sometimes as a part of that example, but we all share in it. We're a single body, so we all share in that example of what is accepted. And it just becomes, again, an incredible thing. Anyway, it just becomes our norm. It becomes what is accepted.

Anyway, I think about how God has been using my wife and me as a team at the end of an age, the example that's set there, it's just the norm for the Church. It's what people see. It's just the norm. Yet there are people in the scattered groups and elsewhere that just don't get it, you know. We are a team, and that is highlighted mightily by the job God has given us to share in at this end-time. So how important is that example of teamwork of a husband and a wife? How important is that as far as a family, and the example of that to God as well? So the husband and wife, the team, the teamwork there and the family, that's awfully important because that's why God is thrusting those things forward to be seen more and for that to become more of our norm. So we're all sharing that as our norm. That's just the way it is. That's what we live.

So I think of a family. I think of our family. I think of how Audra has been made a prophet in the last year. You know, that thrusts that forward. People see that. That's what they see. And there's a purpose for that. Yet we've all shared in that. That's what has become our norm. You know, I think of when the first time we came out that there would be prophets. I think of how awkward that was because the Church hadn't been used to it for 2,000-years. I mean, we just didn't have such a thing. And I was uncomfortable with it, but in time, you know, it just became our norm. It's just the way we are now. That's how we're seen. And so those things are important for the establishment of the Millennium, for people just to see that as a norm in our lives.

Also I think of a new and a younger husband and wife team who have both just been made senior elders together in July. That's Joe and Sarah in our Cincinnati congregation. You know, examples like that, things that are happening where people are able to see those and that just becomes our norm. And we're excited about it. And now I'm excited to announce that God is strengthening the importance a little farther again, in this example of family, by the fact that Jeremy was ordained at the beginning of this Feast to an evangelist. You know, God revealed that it was time to do so. And I remember back. I don't know that I've ever even talked to him directly about this, but I remember back when he was 16 and doing editing, all the way back then, in my sermons, and working with me in some of those things. And there'd be times he'd come to me and ask questions that I knew that were something that he couldn't understand on his own; he had help. And I've seen that in both him and Audra at different times. You know, sometimes we see those things in our children, how that God gives them things that we realize are not normal that people just have, are able to see and grasp. You know, there are things that you could tell people over and over again in the world and they're never going to grasp it, nor see it, nor be able to put it together or show a sound understanding of it. And so there'd be times he'd come to me about certain things to be edited and I thought, I was just... I was in awe because, you know, it's something you see as a matter of what God is doing and it's not because of, specifically, of an individual. So, you know, God has a plan to work things out. He's going to work them out. And it's exciting to see these things come about.

So, again, we're all sharing in that norm as well, of what is being established in families, and husband and wife teams, and women within the ministry, and to me it's an awesome thing. It's a powerful thing. I think of the Church, it is going to be drawn back and they're going to see it as the norm. And it's going to be a little difficult for them for a while, but I can see them starting to embrace that rather quickly because God's going to give them the power, the ability to "see" it as they are awakened. So that's exciting.

Now, let me continue with some more news, exciting news. And I have to tell you that it took a heart attack in order for me to bring this to you, so this is good news, but it's sure a tough way of getting it. Anyway, I've really been looking forward to sharing this with you. And you may think you have been anxious waiting to hear about some of this. This is one. I've been waiting for some of this to be announced, during this Last Great Day sermon here, but I've mentioned some of this in the past in a post. But I know some of you've been anxious to hear about it, but I think I've probably been a little more anxious. I have a greater desire to share it with you. So, anyway, it's pretty close.

Anyway, this has to do with the post that I tossed out a huge carrot a while back when I mentioned that they are going to be spread out a little bit more – the posts would be – and that they would have a little less content than normal. And I mentioned at that time that I felt that I was going to be able to begin sharing that with you at some point, and this is that point today, so I am really excited to do this. To me, it's awesomely exciting how it all transpired.

But I mentioned that there was more studying and sermon material that I was working on, and that's true, but that's not the primary thing. There will be sermon material that's going to definitely come out of this, but again, that's not the main thing. It wasn't the whole story and I was saving that until now. I wanted to mention that on Thursday, May 28 that I had a pretty strong heart attack, as everybody knows by now, but it was a much greater one than the one back in 2005. This one here was a biggie! And for me, the pain scale was way off the chart. So they oftentimes ask you between 1 and 10, well, I think mine passed that.

But anyway, thought I'd just recap a little bit of it. They opened the primary artery that's often referred to as "the widow maker," because, as I understand it, very few survive such an attack like this. I believe the percentage is around 5%. I believe that's correct. But anyway, on the Monday, finally by Monday there – that was on the 28th – by Monday, June the 1st I was released and able to come back here to the camp at that point. And I was glad that Laura had been down in Texas during that period of time because there was no way to contact her and for anyone to tell her what had happened. It's just a few days without telephone, which is not unusual as well, but anyway, I was glad that she didn't have to find out about it until afterwards.

But anyway, there's a track out behind the dorm here – I thought I'd mention that – behind the dorm living quarters that we're in here. It's right at one-third of a mile exactly. They've marked it off when they made it. It is a third of a mile around it. A little different; most tracks are a quarter of a mile. But this is a third of a mile. And I thought I'd mention, too, there are benches located about a fourth of the way around in segments, a fourth of the way around that track. So every forth of the way around that third of the mile there are some benches there. I'm mentioning that because on the first day when I was able to get out I was able to do one lap. And I did have to stop a few times and rest on some of the benches there, but over the next week I was able to move it up to one mile, and at the beginning I had to stop a couple of times at the benches there. But by the end, I was able to do that, by the end of the following week there after that. After those first few days I was able to walk a complete lap without any discomfort, without any pain, didn't have to stop for anything. So I know I've been given a great deal of help. Within two and a half weeks I was able to walk two miles, and in the beginning, again, just a few times I had to stop. But after a little while there, after those few days, after that I was able to do the whole two miles and felt fine. I had to do it a little slower, maybe, in the beginning there, but I'm still not doing it real fast, but still able to do a fairly good gait as far as walking is concerned. I can pretty much tell how I feel, obviously, doing that, but I haven't had to stop, as a whole, at any point in time here for a long time. But that's very good when you consider that I still have one artery that's 100% blocked and another one that's still 85% blocked. In this place here it's probably not going to happen that I get them opened up, so it'll probably be later on once I'm out of here, the way things move, they're so slow.

But anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I know that God has been blessing me with strength. He blessed me with strength before this, because considering all three of those were blocked like they were – that one they opened up was 100% blocked, that one they call the widow maker. So, anyway that one was 100% blocked, and that's being able to do the stuff I did for so long, it's really amazing to me. I know I've been given a lot of strength. So the timing of it, there was a timing factor here that was all for a purpose.

But, anyway, I thought I'd mention that on Monday, that Monday of June the 1st when I was released back to the camp, three weeks later on June the 22nd I began writing a third book. And that's what I've been holding off telling you. I had a couple people kind of guess on that one there, but anyway, just thought I'd mention that I began writing the third book.

I want to take you back a little bit because I had prayed about this several months before, a long time before this, if there be... because it was in my mind that I'm supposed to be writing another book, but it just wasn't possible with the kind of environment I had here, with the kind of a job I had. And everybody has to work. There are things you just have to do here. You have to be a part of a program here unless you have such a health condition that you can't. And so that was the only way that this could have happened to where I could begin doing some writing. Otherwise, the reality was I just wasn't going to be able to. So I've been asking if there was a way, because it was in my mind to do this, that some doors would open. Nothing was opening, so that's why at one point there I was convinced that I wasn't supposed to write one, that maybe (because I knew one was going to be), but I just figured, well, maybe it's going to be a matter of what will be taken out of the posts that have been written, so maybe it'd be a compilation of the posts and a book written from that. So that's kind of what I came to the conclusion of and that's why I sent out the post saying there wasn't going to be one. And voila – here it is, the third book!

So I had my heart attack. Again, it opened... and this is really amazing to me. It opened the only way that a book could be written here. I mean, that's awesome! I'm going to be using that word quite a bit here. I'm probably going to overwork it a little bit, but, it's just that I don't know what other word to use. If I had the kind of work schedule I had, it would never... it never would have gotten started. It just was impossible.

So again, I started writing that book on June the 22nd. And to take you back a little bit too, to the other two books. It took about 8-months each, if my memory serves me correct, to write the two books, and interspaced between everything else that was going on in the Church. But I focused on those quite a bit and it took about 8-months to write each one. So I was hoping that by the time I was released in February that I would be getting close to the completion of this. That's been the goal. That was my goal in the beginning, anyway. I also wanted to wait a little while before giving this particular pre-recorded sermon because I wanted to see if I might not be able to get at least two chapters done, so I could announce that for the Feast here and share that with you, because to me that would be exciting to be able to do something like that, to be able to start writing something at the end of June like this, June the 22nd and then come on up through into September and have at least a couple of chapters done and be able to share that with you. But I needed to make sure here before I started doing this in August so that I could know where I was.

But anyway, I just thought I'd mention, two weeks after I started, again, starting on June the 22nd, by July the 6th, chapter 1 was completed! You know, mind boggling! Two weeks! I just... I was floored by that. That's absolutely mindboggling. I was a little dumbfounded, to be honest with you, because of all the time it took before, and the rate posts have come together, to be able to complete a whole chapter like this with the content that's needed for one chapter, that would make anywhere from three to seven posts depending on how long each one was, but easily three to seven posts. You know, of course, a single post to be done in one week, about a maximum speed that I'd be able to do them, and that's just a small one single post here with not a lot contained in it, but anyway, that's about the fastest something like that could be done, and especially in this environment, obviously. But still, to be able to do something like this, this large, to have three to seven good size posts here depending on the size of them, but all the way up to seven posts, so it would take to do a chapter in that short of a time – wow! It was much faster even than what I had envisioned in any fashion or form that could possibly be done. So to me that was exciting and I was looking forward to being able to share that with you.

But it doesn't stop there. There's still a little bit more. So I thought I'd mention here that one week and four days later, on July the 17th, chapter 2 was finished! That was a wild moment! Awesome! There it goes: Awesome! Wow! Just one week and four days later after finishing one in two weeks, and this one here was done that quick, four days later. And then one week later, yes, chapter 3 was completed! Now, that's a double-wow moment, and two awesomes, two awesomes for sure. So, anyway, I was really excited because I'd know I'd be able to share all this with you. But anyway, I thought I'd mention that by July the 30th, six days later, chapter 4 was completed. Six days! Now, what can I say about that one? That's... I don't have the words to describe it. Incredible! So again, July the 30th and the book was already over half way finished now at this point, because it's going to be seven chapters like the other three are and about the same kind of content.

Anyway, pressing forward. And August the 3rd, four days later, chapter 5 was finished! I don't have any "wows" or "awesomes" big enough to describe that one. Four days, a complete chapter. There has to be a bigger word somewhere to describe this. But anyway, just awesome, truly incredible that something like this could happen that fast!

Well, anyway, it's just quite stupendous! Now, chapter 6 and chapter 7, they're not the same story. They are taking longer, although I think that by the time of the Feast... at this point here I am working on chapter 6; I'm about half-way through it right now. It's taking quite a bit longer. There's a lot more involved here. It's more difficult. Chapter 7 is going to be far more difficult as well. There are quite a few things that have to come together in that one there to work on that. But to me, it's incredibly exciting, to be able to have this much done, and to think that by the Feast these will likely all be finished. And of course, after that they're going to be needing editing, they're going to be needed to be translated, and I'm not sure when it's going to be released. It may be May or March, so you're going to have to hold on longer. It's just the way it's going to have to be. But it's still coming a whole lot faster. Because if I hadn't been able to finish this until February, it'd be a lot longer than that then, after the Spring Holy Days before you could probably read it.

So, anyway, this book will likely be translated into Italian, French, Spanish, and Dutch, as the other two, but we're also adding a new one this time around (that hasn't existed in the past), because of some of the things that God has been revealing about Russia in particularly, and I believe it's important that this be translated into that language as well since we have some that are able to do that. So they're going to be trying to do that as soon as this is all completed. So I'm excited about that as well.

But anyway, going back and discussing chapter 6 a little bit more. I was almost finished with it, almost completely finished writing it and wasn't happy with how some things had been written, because especially when you think of some of the events that can become so complicated in this end-time, some of the things that are happening. Because they're not simple. And the longer we've gone in this and some of the things I know that I've even written in the past, it's been difficult for some to grasp and comprehend a complete picture of things that are being stated and really, probably, should have had even more explanation, but I got to understand, I think it's important to grasp here that when you think about everything that's being coordinated, you're talking about 7-billion people on this earth, you're talking about countries of different religions, different backgrounds, all the different things that are involved here, and all the different scenario's of things happening on the earth and you think about how that God is working to coordinate various things and the planning. And it's not like the creation of the universe where a nebula was being created – maybe ought to say, where a solar system of and by itself – nothing argued with God. There was no change. There was nothing that would change anything that was planned there, that was being carried out. There was nothing that could affect the outcome. It just came into being exactly as it was planned. But that isn't so when you're talking about human beings. That isn't so when you're talking about mankind and the things that are being worked out – especially at this end-time.

You know, it was different before the flood. That was already pre-determined – that the mind of mankind had become so far wasted, so far gone, so corrupted that God set out there was only one man He was going to work with. There was only one left that He could work with in that respect, at that point in time. And so, anyway, there was nothing to do at that point in time except that was it. Build the ark and that's going to be it for the world. This time it's totally different because we're talking about large numbers of people that are going to be worked with, that are going to be brought through all this, but there are going to be very large numbers that aren't going to be because they have no mind to be worked with at this stage, at the beginning of the Millennium.

And, anyway, so it's not a simple issue. It's not a simple thing. And this chapter here is covering some things that are not simple and it would be difficult enough for all of us within the Church to get a good grasp of some of the things that I was writing about, so I just wasn't happy with it. I was happy and excited about everything being revealed, but again, there's so much going on, there's so much happening, and I knew that I would lose normal readers out here totally. So anyway, I went back and started working with different things here, and took a day off, in that respect, to begin thinking about some of this and rereading some of the things I had written and asking for help. And I think it all happened for a purpose because there are certain things that just had to be simplified a whole lot more, made a lot clearer. But they've got to be very clear in my mind too because I'm the one being worked with to be able to write these things in a clearer fashion and try to put them into simpler terms, to explain them in a more basic way. And it's like spiritual things, sometimes, there are spiritual things that we're given and God gives us physical analogies to try to grasp the things that are spiritual. And that's exactly what we're talking about here. There are some things that are just hard to find certain examples of things that will help to enlighten, to help give better understanding.

So, anyway, that's a lot of what's contained here in the 6th chapter. So I've had to go back, I've got a good start on it now. I'm at least a third of the way into it, maybe a little bit more, maybe closer to half-way mark at this point. But it is going to go a little bit slower. Chapter 7 I know is, because it involves spelling out some of the things about timing and things that have happened, and anyway, at least that's the plan right now. That may not be that way when I get there because sometimes I am shown things that aren't specifically what's in my mind in a moment, but what they're given later on. So we'll see.

But anyway, it is exciting. Everything that's coming together is exciting. It's just going to take more time. You've waited this long to hear the announcement and it's going to take longer to get everything translated and everything ready to be sent out. And again, I just don't know when all that's going to be, but it'll come in a specific time.

But I was also going to mention here too, that there are things about the Seven Last Plagues that to me, what's being revealed, is exciting, because they're going to be administered in a different fashion than they would have been if Christ had come in 2012. I just want to state here this is going to be in this chapter, too. He was going to come in 2012! And to me that's an awesome thing to understand! Let the world mock! Let the world make fun, and so forth. But you know, God has a way He's working things out. And I think you'll be excited about that when you begin to read all this and begin to understand, candidly, what God's been doing. And there are some things He doesn't reveal to us immediately.

I think of the things that happened when He began to reveal what happened to the Church. That didn't happen right away after the Apostasy. It took two or three years to really get everything in order here to where we could really grasp and understand everything that God was revealing so it would all fully come together. We are physical human beings with physical minds, in that respect, and that which is spiritual just takes longer to have all of it come together at a pace that we can deal with, that we can handle. And though we've been learning how to do that faster and faster – I just think of all the posts that have been given, there's just so much in there that it just staggers the mind sometimes when I think about it.

So, again here, a lot that's coming. And it's exciting, it's inspiring, it puts things into a better perspective of everything that's happened. And more importantly, why they've happened the way they have. So, you know, there are things in prophecy that cannot be fully known about mankind, because of the choice. And that's what we're talking about here – choices, choices that people make. And, because we're given free choice, and that's just the way we're created, so there's some things, especially things that are being coordinated at the end-time here, that aren't that simple.

So, you know, God has a structure that is given regarding most all of prophecy, that does not and will not change (the basic structure), but God has shown that indeed, there are some things that can be changed with some of the details that fill in the structure. I think of the sermon that Jeremy gave about details. That's really helped me a lot to be able to come to see and understand some of this in a better way and to grasp that process. It doesn't matter what that process is, things about detail and the like that are exciting and inspiring, but a lot of that changes as you refine something, as you make something better, and as we come to understand something in a better way.

So it's kind of like the two-day fast that we had as a Church back in January, beginning of January of 2009. You know, I have mentioned in times past it was God's will and desire that we engage in such a thing, but we had to be of a receptive mind and a willingness to want to respond. And quite candidly, that was still up in the air, whether we would be to that point spiritually. So there were still unknowns back in 2006, 2007, and even maybe into 2008, early 2008. That hasn't been fully made clear yet, but it's very possibly even by that point in time that there were some things that weren't fully settled yet within the Church itself. It's difficult enough. I cannot even begin to grasp and comprehend, but God has shown that there's so much planning that goes into preparing this world for His Kingdom, but even in the Church, because of what we've gone through since the Apostasy, where we would be at specific points in time, because we're free moral agents. We have free choice. And there's a structure that God's been working with, but we as human beings, tend to get in the way of that. And so some of those things He's allowed for, given room for, ability for certain change to take place within the overall structure. It's still going to happen, the structure is still there. But that'll be explained a whole lot more in the book and I think you'll find it exciting.

So, anyway, this has been a great Feast of Tabernacles and Last Great Day, and I can say that now because even as I'm talking when I am now here in August, I can say this has been a great Feast of Tabernacles and Last Great Day because as I mentioned earlier, because it's God's Feast and He has prepared us for it in an incredible manner through the observance nearly a year long here now of this very special "Year of Dedication" in itself.

So, brethren, we move forward stronger, more resolved, more focused spiritually than ever before. We've been made far more fully ready, if you will, now for what lies ahead. And the next few years are going to be some of the most awesome in your entire life. Difficult? Yes. There are going to be some horrible things. But they're going to be incredible, what we experience and the time period we live in. What we've lived already has been...has been awesome. It's been incredible. It's hard to describe. We have lived an experience of something that for all times within the Church it's unprecedented. So these periods of time we're getting ready to go through are going to be some of the most awesome of your entire life – past, present, and into the future.

So again here, indeed God has told us these things in the past and now they are more a part of us than ever. We have been made ready as He has molded and fashioned us in what he told Joshua: "Have not I commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, neither be dismayed," or "discouraged," as the word means here. So we've been given great strength. It's been molded into us as never before. We are far more fearless than ever before. It's been molded into us – fearlessness. We're far from discouraged, but mightily encouraged for all that lies before us. And that's an awesome thing! It has been molded and fashioned into us. God and Christ have done so and we are God's Family.

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