O, my beloved brethren, remember the awfulness in transgressing against that Holy God

Zion, June 5, 2012

O, my beloved brethren, remember the awfulness in transgressing against that Holy God, and also the awfulness of yielding to the enticings of that cunning one.  Remember, to be carnally–minded is death, and to be spiritually–minded is life eternal.

(Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 9:39)

Behold, the day has come, when the cup of the wrath of mine indignation is full.

http://thevoiceofthewise.blogspot.com/2012/06/behold-day-has-come-when-cup-of-wrath.html

June 4, 2012 12:56 PM

jimjetearl WROTE:

“So what will you do to show Christ like love for those who are Homosexual? What is your suggestion to reach out to them in Love while not condoning their behavior? After all they are children of God are they not? You are quick to condemn but offer no solution of how you will help. 

What sin do you struggle with that you should be lambasted for Mr. False Prophet. Your words drip of hate not compassion for the sinner as our savior so much exemplified. What help do you offer once you have counseled repentance? I very much doubt your claim that you have been call by a living prophet to be a prophet.

Homosexuality is something many struggle with all their lives. Just as I a straight man struggle with not looking at other women besides my wife. I keep it in check because I have disciplined myself to do so. but think how hard it is for a person that doesn't feel any natural affection for someone of the opposite sex. Many Gay LDS force themselves to be either single their whole lives or try as hard as they can at marriage with someone of the opposite sex. Some are as repulsed at the idea of sexual relations with the opposite sex as you and I are repulsed at the idea of sexual relations with the same sex. How do you repent of how you naturally feel? 

I have heard testimony of those who struggle with this that say they never overcome this attraction. So Mr. Prophet what is your answer for them? What joy can they find in life if the only joy is found in a relationship they cannot truly be happy in? 

As for marching with them I think it was wonderful that there are LDS who can reach out in love for those who are shunned by so much of society and many of this Church. When ever I have read warnings from God in the scripture it is always accompanied by a promise and a way to help those who need redirection. I see none of that in your warnings just some hateful person quoting scripture and some of it out of context to try and say their point of view is correct. I will listen to Modern Prophets and Apostles who have been called of God and ordained as Such. This same who have counseled us to Reject homosexuality but not the homosexual. Same principle of Hate the sin not the sinner. Those who marched with the LGBT community I believe were showing their love for them as fellow children of God and nothing more.”

MIGUEL ANGEL TINOCO RODRIGUEZ Replied:

And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

(New Testament | Luke 4:24)

June 4, 2012 5:23 PM

Have you enquired of the LORD whether I am a false prophet or not?  I have reached you did not I? So my mission was somewhat successful.

I have prayed before answering you. Are you really listening to the living prophets as you claim? Did not the Apostle Christiansen said in one of the latest or most recent conferences that those who preach repentance or administer the gospel as the LORD would, with real salt in the finger to the wounds of a wicked and perverse generation are offering unto them an utmost expression of unfeigned love. Perhaps you missed that part, that repentance is a gift of love while it is given.  However, even before I heard that goodly and inspired message I had already performed it as I am now doing it with all of you. So, they, those who you claim are true prophets and apostles have confirmed my faith and works. With the gift and power of God which is in me, I am only following with greater courage, even as Samuel the Lamanite, their precise instructions. NOW NOTICE that Your aberrant reaction to what I have written testifies that the administered word is good. That it hurt something wicked inside you. That it penetrated you, and now you are offended barking at him who desires to heal you as any dog would when a thorn is taken out of its paws.

Unlike most that do not answer, at least you had the courage to answer back with your reply. You are or may be closer to repentance than many others. Only if you would follow through and finish the process, perhaps once you are healed, you who understand the feelings and drawback of homosexuality would heal your neighbors. In fact, I know a way to help them, but only if they would be attentive and listen to what the LORD has already said on the matter. And the promises of the LORD unto confused, disadvantaged, challenged or deviated people like homosexuals or lesbian and else, would make any wise listener to want to leave the awful and abominable practice of abomination and cleave unto the promises of the LORD.  Homosexuality is no different to me than adultery and fornication. So, I am not giving you or your friends a special or a particularly discriminatory treatment.

I am attacking with all the might of the LORD your sins to displace them from you so that we can differentiate between the sin and the sinner. And it is because you are of the belief as any other anti Christ that we can all be saved in our sins and not from our sins. If you take the counsel of the LORD and begin the process by accepting the rebuke and/or reprehension of God, for he only corrects those whom he loves, only then we can begin to apply Gilead’s balm to heal ALL your wounds.  You want solutions, I will give you solutions. But before that, I must give you another dose of fiery salt. Because Zion must be redeemed with judgments and her convert with righteousness. For the LORD has said:

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

How is the faithful city become an harlot!  it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers. Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water: Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies: And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin: And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city. Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness. And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.

(Old Testament | Isaiah 1:18 - 31)

cords of vanity, and sin
as it were with a cart rope

Wo unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope; That say: Let him make speed, hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it. Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness for light, and light for darkness, that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Wo unto the wise in their own eyes and prudent in their own sight! Wo unto the mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink; Who justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him! Therefore, as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, their root shall be rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up as dust; because they have cast away the law of the Lord of Hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. Therefore, is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the hills did tremble, and their carcasses were torn in the midst of the streets.  For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

(Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 15:18 - 25)

Have you heard my voice? I have not uttered one word of hate, what you read is the reprehension of a just God upon the wicked souls. You were the one that gave a tone of hate to my words or the words of God because you are not converted and still have a rebellious spirit in you that is blinding you to the truth.  Have you forgotten what the LORD did say to the surviving Nephites after they fathers, wives, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters were destroyed in the destructions that came to them during and after the crucifixion? Were not they crying renting the very winds with lamentation for the lost of their loved ones and kindred? Did not the voice of God first declare unto them their sins, iniquities and abominations?  And after their hearts melted as with fiery salt for the rebuke of thy God and my God, did not they begun to cry again?  However, soon after the Lord spoke again and they were healed and felt unspeakable Joy that they forgot their mourning and lamentations? Well the very same thing the LORD has in store for you and your boy lover friends if they would but repent and come unto Christ with full purpose of heart.  Now, the people that lived in the times of Enoch, were as wicked as those of this generation, and many of they repented and obtained heaven.

Those who call themselves homosexuals or gays, or lesbians, or transgender bodies and minds have a disability as any other than can be resolved if not in life in death through faithfulness.  For the gospel of Jesus Christ is the power of God unto salvation. Now, I am disabled misled, I am half deaf, and I have other mental and physical infirmities.  I have enhanced passion and other weaknesses, yet I chose not to indulge in the enticing of the Body. But in reparation, the LORD has exalted in me other heavenly gifts and virtues to compensate for my suffering and loss. Likewise all homosexuals and what not, they have this grave disability, yet the Lord endowed them with special and excelling abilities that if used for to advance virtue, truth, faith and righteousness, would do good to a lot of people.

I have the testimony of Jesus Christ, which is the spirit of prophecy. And that testimony does not come to anyone without revelation. So that in itself as long as I remain faithful and fall not that makes me, not the prophet but nonetheless a true prophet whether you like it or not. And I was or once felt I was the weakest of the weak and yet, I have raised my standard of righteousness to that of apostles and prophets, when everybody who knew me in my sins, gave me for a lost soul. And believe it or not, I am still laboring and am not one centimeter behind the chieffest of them in words and in deeds.

Apparently, you have denied the faith and have you forgotten the time when the righteousness of the Lamanites  exceeded the righteousness of the Nephites in the days of Nephi the son of Helaman? Have you forgotten that they went to the land northward to convince the Nephites of their wicked ways so they return unto their God? Perhaps their best example was Samuel the Lamanite. Now, in open rebellion to God worst than the ancients who murdered the prophets, you are fulfilling prophecy as in the days of that dark and shadowy prophet, for you are garnishing the living or dead servants of God as the wicked anciently garnished the sepulchers of the prophets. And the words apply to this day and age and to this wicked and perverse generation. For of this it is plainly written:

For this cause hath the Lord God caused that a curse should come upon the land, and also upon your riches, and this because of your iniquities. Yea, wo unto this people, because of this time which has arrived, that ye do cast out the prophets, and do mock them, and cast stones at them, and do slay them, and do all manner of iniquity unto them, even as they did of old time.

And now when ye talk, ye say: If our days had been in the days of our fathers of old, we would not have slain the prophets; we would not have stoned them, and cast them out. Behold ye are worse than they; for as the Lord liveth, if a prophet come among you and declareth unto you the word of the Lord, which testifieth of your sins and iniquities, ye are angry with him, and cast him out and seek all manner of ways to destroy him; yea, you will say that he is a false prophet, and that he is a sinner, and of the devil, because he testifieth that your deeds are evil.

But behold, if a man shall come among you and shall say: Do this, and there is no iniquity; do that and ye shall not suffer; yea, he will say: Walk after the pride of your own hearts; yea, walk after the pride of your eyes, and do whatsoever your heart desireth—and if a man shall come among you and say this, ye will receive him, and say that he is a prophet. Yea, ye will lift him up, and ye will give unto him of your substance; ye will give unto him of your gold, and of your silver, and ye will clothe him with costly apparel; and because he speaketh flattering words unto you, and he saith that all is well, then ye will not find fault with him.

O ye wicked and ye perverse generation; ye hardened and ye stiffnecked people, how long will ye suppose that the Lord will suffer you?  Yea, how long will ye suffer yourselves to be led by foolish and blind guides?  

Yea, how long will ye choose darkness rather than light? Yea, behold, the anger of the Lord is already kindled against you; behold, he hath cursed the land because of your iniquity. And behold, the time cometh that he curseth your riches, that they become slippery, that ye cannot hold them; and in the days of your poverty ye cannot retain them. And in the days of your poverty ye shall cry unto the Lord; and in vain shall ye cry, for your desolation is already come upon you, and your destruction is made sure; and then shall ye weep and howl in that day, saith the Lord of Hosts. 

And then shall ye lament, and say: O that I had repented, and had not killed the prophets, and stoned them, and cast them out.  Yea, in that day ye shall say: O that we had remembered the Lord our God in the day that he gave us our riches, and then they would not have become slippery that we should lose them; for behold, our riches are gone from us. Behold, we lay a tool here and on the morrow it is gone; and behold, our swords are taken from us in the day we have sought them for battle. Yea, we have hid up our treasures and they have slipped away from us, because of the curse of the land. O that we had repented in the day that the word of the Lord came unto us; for behold the land is cursed, and all things are become slippery, and we cannot hold them.

Behold, we are surrounded by demons, yea, we are encircled about by the angels of him who hath sought to destroy our souls.  Behold, our iniquities are great.  O Lord, canst thou not turn away thine anger from us?  And this shall be your language in those days. But behold, your days of probation are past; ye have procrastinated the day of your salvation until it is everlastingly too late, and your destruction is made sure; yea, for ye have sought all the days of your lives for that which ye could not obtain; and ye have sought for happiness in doing iniquity, which thing is contrary to the nature of that righteousness which is in our great and Eternal Head.

 O ye people of the land, that ye would hear my words!  And I pray that the anger of the Lord be turned away from you, and that ye would repent and be saved.

(Book of Mormon | Helaman 13:23 - 39)

Now if what I am preaching is hate in your tingling ears, then you do not understand the scriptures and if you do you are perverting them and laying the foundation for your destruction and the destruction of a lot of people. For you are calling that which is good evil and that which is evil good. You are in open rebellion against God and his words are forever binding upon your soul unless you speedily repent and amend your ways for perverting the right way of the LORD. And if you are or have been ordained a priest after the order of Aaron and that of Melchizedeck as I AM, then, and have, like the sons of Eli, Ophni and Phineas, your reward as them is also assured. For of this it is also written that they shall be damned and not receive forgiveness of sins in this world nor in the world to come :

For whoso is faithful unto the obtaining these two priesthoods of which I have spoken, and the magnifying their calling, are sanctified by the Spirit unto the renewing of their bodies. They become the sons of Moses and of Aaron and the seed of Abraham, and the church and kingdom, and the elect of God. And also all they who receive this priesthood receive me, saith the Lord;  For he that receiveth my servants receiveth me; And he that receiveth me receiveth my Father; And he that receiveth my Father receiveth my Father's kingdom; therefore all that my Father hath shall be given unto him. And this is according to the oath and covenant which belongeth to the priesthood.

Therefore, all those who receive the priesthood, receive this oath and covenant of my Father, which he cannot break, neither can it be moved. But whoso breaketh this covenant after he hath received it, and altogether turneth therefrom, shall not have forgiveness of sins in this world nor in the world to come.

(Doctrine and Covenants | Section 84:33 - 41)

All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.

Homosexuality and what not can be severed thru conversion. NOW you and/or your fellows do not understand your sinful illness or nature, which initially was a great blessing of great respect, integrity and honor more than that of sons and daughters. I have prayed to save many of them and I am here to help them find joy in life and in the life to come as an angel of mercy but only if they will. You should complain against the devil who corrupted them as he corrupted Samson and other Nazarenes and virgins, not to me or to the LORD who sent me to do these things which are recorded in the annals of the church whether you know it, believe it or not.

Now homosexuals, gay and/or lesbians were born and/or made innocent as any other soul under heave but them with the express purpose to remain NEUTRAL until their mission for which they were sent to earth to try their faith as was over, whether in this life or in the life to come.

The LORD himself did not want to touch this particular issue too much during his moral ministry because it was very controversial then too.  And if he did talk about it, it was lost from the scriptures.  Here is an excerpt:

All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given. For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake.  He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

(New Testament | Matthew 19:11 - 12)

But the ancient prophets mentioned something about their internal nature which is truly the nature and devotion of a NAZARENE or of A VIRGIN or an EUNUCH or any other consecrated person. And it is not my fault nor your fault that some of the shepherds or watchmen of this people are blind and ignorant of these facts inasmuch that they appear to the LORD like dogs that cannot bark. For I prayed to know and this is what the LORD told me that what applies to Nazarenes, virgins and eunuchs as far as duties to God and men it is concerned, also apply to gays, lesbians and homosexuals. For of this it is written:

THUS saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.

For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant; Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.

The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him. All ye beasts of the field, come to devour, yea, all ye beasts in the forest.

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

(Old Testament | Isaiah 56:1 - 12)

Now I would like to give you some knowledge about the story of the Ethiopian eunuch who suffered as much humiliation, discrimination as gays and/or homosexuals and other disabled people, me included, do suffer today. And it is found in the testimony of the apostle Philip in the book of acts. And there you have the long suffering answer of compassion and mercy of the LORD that you requested of me for all who are meek and humble to listen to his counsel. And I have much more to convey about it but this may not be the place and the time to discuss is. IN fact I believe that the healing, salvation, power, atonement and redemption of Christ can cover most of not all sins. But he will never save us while we are in our sins or without an honest effort in our part to repent and amend our ways.

And they, when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans. And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert. And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship, Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet. Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot. And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me?  And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him. The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth: In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation?  for his life is taken from the earth.

(New Testament | Acts 8:25 - 33)

And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this?  of himself, or of some other man? Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus. And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest.  And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him. And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing. But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Cæsarea.

(New Testament | Acts 8:34 - 40)

Wo unto them who commit whoredoms, for they shall be thrust down to hell.

(Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 9:36)

Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

(Old Testament | Malachi 3:1 - 18)

Now what does all this language mean?

It means that if we truly believe in Jesus Christ, he will save us and make a change of heart in us in a way that regardless of knowledge and ability we will be able to keep ALL his commandments and statutes.

I have had weaknesses of all Kinds all my life; yea, the kind of Saul and the Kind of King David; The kind of Alma Jr. and the kind of one of his sons, even Corianton’s weaknesses. And also, I have had the weaknesses of Peter and Paul. These have been the thorns of my hands pretty much ever since I have use of reason, even for most of my life.

And almost all my life or since I was a babe, I have belonged to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I was blessed and named there; I was baptized at age nine, so technically that makes me a convert. Ever since I have had use of reason regardless of blessings and priesthood ordinations I have been a very wicked man, sometimes faithful and sometimes unfaithful, but I have never been lukewarm.

As a result of these vicissitudes, I accumulated among other things and sins, a great knowledge from the apostles and prophets, yet all that knowledge could not help me get rid of my sinful ways, my sinful heart or my sinful nature.  I have had angel’s visitations, I have heard the voice of God and all that helped much,  but did not convert me to change my heart from wickedness to obedience until I gave up on myself and relinquished my dirty soul to God to do something for I could not deal with me anymore.  As Adam I fell or was thrust into the bottomless pit; and it was then that I lifted every rock and opened every door trying to find a way out. But every time I did I deepened lower and lower in the depths of the living hell.

One time I opened up a door or a window and I saw my friends at church high above. I saw their beautiful lives and countenances. I saw their beautiful children and also my wife and my children. Then I lifted my eyes and saw that they were encircled by countless enemies of all sort pointing weapons to destroy them at the first sudden move. And I was so unworthy and lacking virtuous credibility and moral authority that I could not warn them in the least of their mortal dangers. They knew of my weaknesses and sins, yet they forsook to trim me when needed, for they did not love me enough to cut me off. SO, in love, to clear them of all danger was my life’s primordial goal, for I though I was already lost.

To me the church with all my friends and loved ones was like a train in motion and I was outside with my leg caught with a rope from the last cart while the train was moving. And it went on for years, while I was bumping or marring my soul in every which way imaginable and unimaginable. In the way I lost all my treasures as the prodigal son. As a matter of fact, unless somebody else makes a rightful claim, I am the prodigal son. That is a crown I am willing to give up at any time.

SO, having spent all my resources, I went to God for help. I did not even begin to repent. I just wanted to talk to God and he would not talk to me, for his spirit does not dwell in unholy temples. So, I began to read the scriptures to learn how to offer righteous sacrifices unto God. I begun to pray and to fast earnestly, for I was determined to live or die in the attempt. I fasted for about forty days, twenty one of which I forsook to eat or drink completely. My body decayed, I saw corruption, my face gathered blackness. Whether I was dead alive, I cannot tell, but I truly felt the sensation of vermin crawling my body in and out. I also saw cockroaches and vultures beginning to encircle me. Some claim that I begun to stink as rotten oil.

But before my prayers could reach heaven, the devil came to gamble with me like a wolf savoring the meal to come. He offered me a great job to lead his armies and all sorts of wild and enticing perks along with it that only a true son of God or a mad man would refuse. I so busy trying to talk to God that I refused to listen to him, so I won anyway all that the devil came to offer me, even his scepter, power an principalities in the world. He had convinced me that I was lost, so I was not looking to being saved again. Then came the Christ with sword in hand and confronted me. He said, there are more of us than there are of you. You have more power on your shoulder than any other man under heaven; and I come to challenge you to fight me or to surrender that power.

I was astonished at his words, for I though he had come in peace to rescue me out of his own initiative. I had no clue that I had already opened the bottomless pit. I had no clue that I had all the power of the devil in me and that I had control over all his armies, hosts and captives; even death was following me and keeping me alive or refusing to take away my life. IN fact the devil was in my body and it had pretty much overcome my own spirit. The earth literally trembled for fourteen consecutive days in Honduras, my home country and the seat of my throne. It was because the entire host of hell was under my command and they were ready to submerge and posses the bodies of all the living that were unjust to gather them, to divide them and to destroy them as he did with the Jaredites and the Nephites of old.

Now, being ambitionless yet, in this great predicament, I surrendered to Christ all that power and some of the rightful captives, who were my friends. The rest, including the devil I did backslide or put it back in hell where it belongs.  For all I wanted was a change of heart. All I wanted was to be for once obedient to God’s will and divine commandments. I had nothing good in me to offer to him, so I offered him all I had in exchange for communion with him.

Then, I questioned or reasoned with the Lord as saying that I did not understand why all that knowledge and power that I had concerning righteousness could not make me obedient or Good before his sight.  Why his powerful words did not have the desired effect upon me. I was commanded to search and do or to follow the scriptures that the answers were all there. So I devoured like bread and meat the book of Mormon and the Old Testament. I felt unworthy to partake of the words of Christ as recorded in the New Testament. So that I left that water as a desert peradventure I succeeded in crossing the desert of my affliction.

And there, in the scriptures, I found that there was a promise, that in the latter days, a messenger of the covenant would come.  And I knew that God could not lie. And that there was to come the messenger of the covenant. And I had not clue what covenant he was talking about, so I was told again to search the scriptures and to do them or follow them. I discovered that God promised to change our hearts in the latter days. That he would make a new and everlasting covenant with his children; or that he would take their stony heart and give to them a heart of flesh. Then that he would purify and sanctify that heart. And that if I was willing to be deepened in the furnace of affliction, forged with fire water and hammer like an iron tool, and then willing to be washed vigorously and beaten like a rag on the stone by the river, that only then I would be able to follow God and be obedient in all things as I desired.  So, I forsook the whole world and sold everything I had in it to venture in this one pursuit. I had so much vested in the world for many days that when I came out of it, the world markets fell.

And that was precisely what I have always wanted, a new heart that would be obedient in all things and in all perils unto God. And then Jesus Christ became my father, and I became his son. It was then when I became his people and he became my God. He then wrote his commandments and his laws in my inward parts and this is how I have total access to the whole cannon of scripture, for they are all open unto me. I am a walking ROD.  When I need something I just call upon God in righteousness and he always delivers succor and sends support.

Now I learned and obtained these blessings the hard way.  I was thirty six years old. And ever since, I have endured in obedience to God’s commandments in all things and at all peril as never before regardless my whole life of sinful appetites and wickedness. And the lord told me, for I applied all the scriptures unto my soul wheter they were passive or nasty to the wicked soul:

O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments—then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea. Thy seed also had been as the sand; the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.

(Book of Mormon | 1 Nephi 20:18 - 19)

Therefore, ever since, Like a dog, I have put my body under the tight and close leash of the spirit off God. I am still laboring my own salvation with fear and trembling, but if I sin or not, I know not unless the Spirit point to it.  My body is always in pain and suffering, but I AM always in a spiritual feast twice as better for the soul than the feasts of wickedness. So, my body is suffering double than before and in Christ, I am having a grand time watching it. Because Jesus once said woe to the body that is subject to the spirit of God and woe to the spirit that is subject to the body; for as Paul also said, to be spiritually minded is life and to be carnally minded is death. I chose the former. I want to live even if I have to carry this body with a leash.

And there is nothing that I cannot do in Christ, for in and with him all things are possible. As a result, I have suffered stronger than ever temptations, material loses, persecution, mocking, false incarcerations, poisoning with deadly substances, rejection of friends, family and church, scorn and the shame and humiliation of the whole world. And I am still ok. I have put away all my detestable things and I am improving my life every day growing grace by grace until the perfect day. For it is written that if we have hope in Christ only in this life, we are counted the most miserable of men.  For the natural man is in enmity with God and will always be. The archers shot at me and grieved me, yet my bow id not break and my arm remained strong. And it is because I have put my trust in God and his everlasting promises and not in men. For of this it is written:

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

(New Testament | 1 Corinthians 15:19)

For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

(New Testament | Romans 8:6 - 8)

And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh; That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord GOD.

(Old Testament | Ezekiel 11:18 - 21)

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

(Old Testament | Jeremiah 31:31 - 33)

But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:  Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old.  Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

(New Testament | Hebrews 8:6 - 13)

And if I, after being the weakest of the weak, received this covenant and now all my people are eligible, for my wickedness cover their wickedness. And I remember my wickedness no more, therefore if anyone, to whom I do preach, repents; they take advantage of this blessing, for I am the prince or messenger of this new covenant in these latter days. For if God takes away my sins and remembers them no more, thru repentance, the mercy of God would also have a right to a claim on all those who sinned less than me if they would repent or receive even greater condemnation if they do no, for the way is now paved ahead of them.

Now I am here and most of you would not receive me. And the spirit will not always contend with the children of men. So, I have taken the gospel away from you as John the Baptist took it away from the Jews to dethrone their empire. And I am committing it again unto the house of Israel so that they can produce the fruits thereof and to overthrow the empire of the gentiles. For the LORD has said that he will yet chose Israel.

FOR the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

(Old Testament | Isaiah 14:1)

BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts. But who may abide the day of his coming?  and who shall stand when he appeareth?  for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: And he shall sit as a refiner and purifer of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness. Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the LORD, as in the days of old, and as in former years.

And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them.  Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.  But ye said, Wherein shall we return? Will a man rob God?  Yet ye have robbed me.  But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee?  In tithes and offerings.

Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.

Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD.  Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

(Old Testament | Malachi 3:1 - 18)

O the greatness of the mercy of our God, the Holy One of Israel!  For he delivereth his saints from that awful monster the devil, and death, and hell, and that lake of fire and brimstone, which is endless torment. O how great the holiness of our God!  For he knoweth all things, and there is not anything save he knows it. And he cometh into the world that he may save all men if they will hearken unto his voice; for behold, he suffereth the pains of all men, yea, the pains of every living creature, both men, women, and children, who belong to the family of Adam. And he suffereth this that the resurrection might pass upon all men, that all might stand before him at the great and judgment day.  And he commandeth all men that they must repent, and be baptized in his name, having perfect faith in the Holy One of Israel, or they cannot be saved in the kingdom of God. And if they will not repent and believe in his name, and be baptized in his name, and endure to the end, they must be damned; for the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has spoken it.

Wherefore, he has given a law; and where there is no law given there is no punishment; and where there is no punishment there is no condemnation; and where there is no condemnation the mercies of the Holy One of Israel have claim upon them, because of the atonement; for they are delivered by the power of him. For the atonement satisfieth the demands of his justice upon all those who have not the law given to them, that they are delivered from that awful monster, death and hell, and the devil, and the lake of fire and brimstone, which is endless torment; and they are restored to that God who gave them breath, which is the Holy One of Israel.

But wo unto him that has the law given, yea, that has all the commandments of God, like unto us, and that transgresseth them, and that wasteth the days of his probation, for awful is his state! O that cunning plan of the evil one!  O the vainness, and the frailties, and the foolishness of men!  When they are learned they think they are wise, and they hearken not unto the counsel of God, for they set it aside, supposing they know of themselves, wherefore, their wisdom is foolishness and it profiteth them not.  And they shall perish. But to be learned is good if they hearken unto the counsels of God.

But wo unto the rich, who are rich as to the things of the world.  For because they are rich they despise the poor, and they persecute the meek, and their hearts are upon their treasures; wherefore, their treasure is their god.  And behold, their treasure shall perish with them also.

And wo unto the deaf that will not hear; for they shall perish.

Wo unto the blind that will not see; for they shall perish also.

Wo unto the uncircumcised of heart, for a knowledge of their iniquities shall smite them at the last day.

Wo unto the liar, for he shall be thrust down to hell.

Wo unto the murderer who deliberately killeth, for he shall die.

Wo unto them who commit whoredoms, for they shall be thrust down to hell.

Yea, wo unto those that worship idols, for the devil of all devils delighteth in them.

And, in fine, wo unto all those who die in their sins; for they shall return to God, and behold his face, and remain in their sins.

O, my beloved brethren, remember the awfulness in transgressing against that Holy God, and also the awfulness of yielding to the enticings of that cunning one.  Remember, to be carnally–minded is death, and to be spiritually–minded is life eternal.

O, my beloved brethren, give ear to my words.  Remember the greatness of the Holy One of Israel.  Do not say that I have spoken hard things against you; for if ye do, ye will revile against the truth; for I have spoken the words of your Maker.  I know that the words of truth are hard against all uncleanness; but the righteous fear them not, for they love the truth and are not shaken.

O then, my beloved brethren, come unto the Lord, the Holy One.  Remember that his paths are righteous.  Behold, the way for man is narrow, but it lieth in a straight course before him, and the keeper of the gate is the Holy One of Israel; and he employeth no servant there; and there is none other way save it be by the gate; for he cannot be deceived, for the Lord God is his name.

And whoso knocketh, to him will he open; and the wise, and the learned, and they that are rich, who are puffed up because of their learning, and their wisdom, and their riches—yea, they are they whom he despiseth; and save they shall cast these things away, and consider themselves fools before God, and come down in the depths of humility, he will not open unto them.But the things of the wise and the prudent shall be hid from them forever—yea, that happiness which is prepared for the saints.

O, my beloved brethren, remember my words.  Behold, I take off my garments, and I shake them before you; I pray the God of my salvation that he view me with his all–searching eye; wherefore, ye shall know at the last day, when all men shall be judged of their works, that the God of Israel did witness that I shook your iniquities from my soul, and that I stand with brightness before him, and am rid of your blood. O, my beloved brethren, turn away from your sins; shake off the chains of him that would bind you fast; come unto that God who is the rock of your salvation.

Prepare your souls for that glorious day when justice shall be administered unto the righteous, even the day of judgment, that ye may not shrink with awful fear; that ye may not remember your awful guilt in perfectness, and be constrained to exclaim: Holy, holy are thy judgments, O Lord God Almighty—but I know my guilt; I transgressed thy law, and my transgressions are mine; and the devil hath obtained me, that I am a prey to his awful misery.  But behold, my brethren, is it expedient that I should awake you to an awful reality of these things?  Would I harrow up your souls if your minds were pure?  Would I be plain unto you according to the plainness of the truth if ye were freed from sin?

Behold, if ye were holy I would speak unto you of holiness; but as ye are not holy, and ye look upon me as a teacher, it must needs be expedient that I teach you the consequences of sin. Behold, my soul abhorreth sin, and my heart delighteth in righteousness; and I will praise the holy name of my God.

Come, my brethren, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters; and he that hath no money, come buy and eat; yea, come buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore, do not spend money for that which is of no worth, nor your labor for that which cannot satisfy.  Hearken diligently unto me, and remember the words which I have spoken; and come unto the Holy One of Israel, and feast upon that which perisheth not, neither can be corrupted, and let your soul delight in fatness.

Behold, my beloved brethren, remember the words of your God; pray unto him continually by day, and give thanks unto his holy name by night.  Let your hearts rejoice And behold how great the covenants of the Lord, and how great his condescensions unto the children of men; and because of his greatness, and his grace and mercy, he has promised unto us that our seed shall not utterly be destroyed, according to the flesh, but that he would preserve them; and in future generations they shall become a righteous branch unto the house of Israel.

And now, my brethren, I would speak unto you more; but on the morrow I will declare unto you the remainder of my words.  Amen.

(Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 9:19 - 54)

I have now answered most if not all your questions and concerns with utmost diligence, citing the law and the prophets or some of the pertaining scriptures. And as such, to get rid my garments of the blood and sins of this generation in obedience to my calling and vocation. I have therefore bound the law and the sealed the testimony with the words of Christ.  

I have also given you or administered unto you the everlasting gospel and the new and everlasting covenant of Jesus Christ which is the pure doctrine of the father and of the son and of the holy Ghost. Or I have given unto you the way and the balm that would heal you if you would but receive it. And if you do not receive it, we are commanded to forsake you and shake the dust of our garments; and to repay you double for all your sins and abominations.

And all this I do, testifying that it is true. If there are errors, they are the errors of men or of the flesh. And I do it as one having authority and yet, humbly; and with a single eye for the honor and glory of God, in the Sacred name of the LORD JESUS CHRIST, Amen.

Attentively Yours

Miguel Angel Tinoco Rodriguez