Zion
and Jerusalem, February
2, 2014
Wo unto them;
because they have offended my little ones they shall be severed from the
ordinances of mine house.”
(Doctrine and
Covenants | Section 121:19)
Is
Mormonism Christian? Among a great many more things he Said to me:
“Living a lie is actually a slow, painful spiritual death. It is much better to face the truth and live. “
Miguel Angel TInoco Replied:
Apostates beware, for the arm of the LORD shall be revealed.
I have been expecting you. I knew
you were coming, for it was shown to me in the visions of the night dream and
the end thereof was not good, for I perceive that you are in the gall of
bitterness. Expect your worst fear to be vindicated in the near future.
Nevertheless, I appreciate your
confession. I sum up that from beginning to end, you disclosed to me that you
fell away from the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints because of three
things: Doubt, Unbelief and Fear. Know
this also, that where doubt is the spirit of GOD is not, where there is unbelief
there is not faith, and where there is
fear the love of God is absent. The scriptures make it manifest saying:
Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not.(Doctrine and Covenants | Section 6:36)
Behold, I say unto
you that whoso believeth in Christ, doubting nothing, whatsoever he shall ask
the Father in the name of Christ it shall be granted him; and this promise is
unto all, even unto the ends of the earth.
(Book of Mormon | Mormon 9:21)
Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.(New Testament | 1 John 4:17 - 18)
And I will now try to explain
what really happened with you.
With regards to your falling away
from the church, and the wrestling you had with the LORD and controversies that
you had then with doctrine or historical accounts, the affairs of the church
whether they were in order or not, did not concerned you at the time. That was
beyond your calling at the time. And when you were given the endowment, you
only saw the ugly, your worst fears were brought upon you and the rest, or the
beauty thereof was covered or severed from your eyes. The LORD knew how treacherous
you were and still are. You were in the path to a great conversion during your
mission, but you fell short of it and infected others with your doubt. I wish you had endured a little longer.
In your mission, your
instructions were simple. Teach or bear witness only of the things you know to
be true whatever that was. Anything more or less, came of evil. You said it
yourself, you once had and grew up with a true and strong testimony like
everybody else; and that you were an active participant or a happy camper until
you went beyond the mark. I do not know what you did find out and what
planted doubt in your heart or what those 27 things in the list were. I am personally
not looking to things to destroy my faith but to build it up. Those things or
meat that you ate is for grown ups. And you were not a grown up then, you were
not even converted to the LORD yet, you were walking mostly with borrowed
light. But regardless as the children of Israel, you demanded meat or proof
and it was given to you until your head exploded and nasty truth came out of your
nostrils like rotten bacon and it made you hate the church.
wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.(New Testament | Matthew 16:4)
Believe me, I have read lots of
stuff also both for and against the church. And I also have received direct
revelation from heaven; and days after I have done terrible things, unbecoming
of a true Latter-Days Saint. I was
pained when I learned and it cost me bitter repentance. Each and every time I
have learned that the principles the church teaches are right. But when I was
down, I never gave up. I fell often, but I always did rise up because I hanged
by the iron rod and my eyesight was fixed in Christ nor in men or knowledge of
or from them. My bread and butter were the scriptures. I learned of the truth
of them by observing or practicing their principles in my life or I live an applied religion nor a rhetoric
one. I pay tithing to see the blessings
thereafter, but not the other way around like those that want to see without
the trial of their faith. And in my case
the miracles follow me, not the other way around
But, most of the time, when in
doubt, I prefer to doubt my doubts than to doubt my faith and submit to the law
of GOD even if I did not like the counsels given. And even if everybody were to be out of the
way, including me, I knew that the church always remained true to its principles.
With regards to the things that you consider falsehoods, regardless of what is
written, I was not there, I was not an actual eye witness, and I had to rely on
what the spirit of GOD will confirm with regard to my needs. I have too many personal sins to repent and
to amend and to worry about than to meddle my nose where it does not belong. It is a hard thing to kick against the pricks.
I know the first vision of Joseph Smith took place and how it happened is not
my business to doubt. I know the book of Mormon is true to its principles and
claims because I come from that people and I have met many of the descendants
of the prophets that talk like the book of Mormon. Many prophets in the Bible
had similar visions of deity and heaven as Joseph Smith and I do not questions if
it was true or false or how it came to be, whether they were sober or drunk,
good or evil, or if it fits history or not because the calling and appointment
of GOD or his gift is not by repentance. He can call the devil to build up hell and he
will obey. A prophet is only a prophet when acting as such.
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.(New Testament | Romans 11:29)
And when I searched stuff that I
wanted to know, my intention was to grow in knowledge not in finding fault. I wrestled with GOD but not much, because I
have had other testimonies that would defy my own reasoning and I never trusted
my own reasoning, much less anybody else’s. My profitable time begins with Joseph Smith,
before him, the whole world was in darkness. And no science, history or
philosophy can change my testimony. My main concern has been most of my life my
own sins that I have not had time to find error in the church or in their
leaders. This is learned from my fathers.
And now, my son, I desire that ye should let these things trouble you no more, and only let your sins trouble you, with that trouble which shall bring you down unto repentance.O my son, I desire that ye should deny the justice of God no more. Do not endeavor to excuse yourself in the least point because of your sins, by denying the justice of God; but do you let the justice of God, and his mercy, and his long-suffering have full sway in your heart; and let it bring you down to the dust in humility.And now, O my son, ye are called of God to preach the word unto this people. And now, my son, go thy way, declare the word with truth and soberness, that thou mayest bring souls unto repentance, that the great plan of mercy may have claim upon them. And may God grant unto you even according to my words. Amen.(Book of Mormon | Alma 42:29 - 31)
And there have been things that I
have not liked in the church, mostly sinful people. Other than that, I did not like many of the prophets modern or ancient because they taught the truth and all truth is hard against all uncleanness and I was a filthy sinner for the longest time, so I was pierced
much by them. But that is a testimony that the word they preached was good for it did
the intended purpose and it was necessary for my salvation. And as a result, my house has been torn down many times,
but the pillars and foundations have held up strong up to this day and are
immovable, because I love the truth even when it hurts. And thanks to their
example, I also learned to talk to GOD even before I had testimony of many
things written ABOUT the history of the church. And I cannot deny the testimony even if there
is no proof on earth to support it. Concerning the book of Abraham, I know it is
inspired and nearly perfect book. How it
came about is not important to me at this time. The world has no power to make
me doubt of its truthfulness. And even
if the prophet who translated would recall his words, or science would prove it
a fallacy with their insufferable unbelief and ignorance of the dealings of GOD
with man, I would still believe in it because my testimony is not o man, but of
GOD. I know it is true because I have lived what Abraham lived myself in the
flesh; and it testifies of the suffering of Christ in his won time every wit.
What we do not know about Christ, is there, elsewhere and everywhere.
But it is obvious that in your
case, you went beyond the mark and allowed Satan to plant excessive doubt in
your heart to pluck out the little testimony you had. You were like a cake not turned, only cooked
or converted in one side. In other
words, the little light you had, was taken away from you. And now all you have
is one single talent which you have kept hid all this time. You became like the
rest of the gentiles, but in your case worst because you once knew. You fell from grace. Now, you claim as servants
of GOD the dumbest and the more wicked of people. Things that will only
stimulate your thoughts. You prefer
those comedy teachers or charismatic preachers that talk sophistries and
soothing adulations. That is the only things that fills you now. That is your
only mad hope. But deep inside you know
that you are a traitor. That you sold your birthright for a plate of pottages.
Or that you changed the strait and narrow path for the wide road to perdition.
NOW, in your inexperience youth, when
you were doing your colloquial research at BYU, you were looking for proof or
signs of what you already knew to be true. When you only have one point of
divergence, you can find diverse explanations or you speculate in many
different scenarios. But when you have two or more points of divergence, there
can only be one line or one truth. You obviously missed that part in your
study, even that when all things collided, and the truth is not obvious to discern,
the simple explanation tends to be the right one. You thought you were a
scientist, when you were barely a but naked freshman. That colloquial
experiment worked, but only against you, it was a snare of the adversary that
destroyed your faith. The good grade you
had then by your teacher was not because you guys discovered the truth, but
because you succeeded in casting out faith and replaced it with doubt, fear and
knowledge of good and evil. In other words, it was then when you partook abundantly
of the forbidden fruit or of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. By the time you went to the temple and on
your mission, you were already corrupted and double minded. And of whom the
prophet said:
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.(New Testament | James 1:6 - 10)
“Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.”
(Old Testament | Isaiah 48:8)
“Against whom do ye
sport yourselves? against whom make ye a
wide mouth, and draw out the
tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in
the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou
poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?”
(Old Testament | Isaiah 57:4 - 6)
“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.”(Book of Mormon | 2 Nephi 9:44 - 46)
After that, you had some
knowledge, but had no faith. And as a result confusion settled in strong like a
delusion, because the things of GOD no man knows but the spirit of GOD because
they are discerned spiritually. And where doubt is the spirit of the LORD is
not. Because it was hard for you to accept or believe the truth, the LORD gave
you stupor and strong delusion so that you would instead believe a lie.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.(New Testament | 2 Thessalonians 2:11 - 12)
Whether you accept it or not, you
indulged in adultery and/or idolatry. You adulterated the testimony that was in
your hearth with the limited words your mind understood creating chaos. And you
had to make a choice to which voice to hear, which was the voice of your
testimony or the voice of your mind.
Unfortunately you wanted freedom and that is what you obtained. But what
kind of freedom? freedom from faith? Like Cain, you gloried in your iniquity
and you said, I am free from having to chose between two opposites. You chose the path of least resistance.
“But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”(New Testament | 1 Corinthians 2:14)
What you were told would happen,
by the president or general authority of the church, has not happened yet, but
it will. Sooner or later it will; I know it will, and is not going be good. I know what it is, I have seen it, but I will
not to tell you either, but I may for your own peril.
“You yourself said that you had a
testimony once, but that you lost it as you kept wandering in forbidden
paths. You should have stayed a little
longer as counseled. That time where you
received no revelation or response to your reasoning concerns or prayers was
the time when you were left completely alone to chose good or evil, on your own
merits right or wrong by faith; and unfortunately when you were left alone, you
sided with doubt and therefore made the wrong choice and lost your place.
And this is the manner after which they were ordained—being called and prepared from the foundation of the world according to the foreknowledge of God, on account of their exceeding faith and good works; in the first place being left to choose good or evil; therefore they having chosen good, and exercising exceedingly great faith, are called with a holy calling, yea, with that holy calling which was prepared with, and according to, a preparatory redemption for such.”(Book of Mormon | Alma 13:3)
“For whosoever
hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever
hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.”
(New Testament | Matthew 13:12)
IN the church, we cannot all be
deluded, you know, we are as intelligent beings as other as other people, and
we know mistakes may have been made to cover sins or mischief, but regardless,
your should have kept your post. Instead, you truly deserted the LORD and his
church. And you still glory in your wickedness for you confess that you said, I
am free. There cannot be more than on church, for the house of GOD is a house
of order and not of confusion. And now
his word is not found in you. Take the
example of Sydney Rigdon and Oliver Cowdery. Both of them deserted the LORD,
even when they could not understand what the prophet was doing, they were
bitter to him and thought that he was out of the way, the very same way Aaron
and Miriam, almost deserted Moses when they complained to him for taking other
wives.
Moses as well as Joseph Smith
were living a higher law than ours that may or may not make sense to us. But as the prophet foretold, your head
exploded like a glass when principles that you did not understand took
place. You have forgotten that the
church when restored came out of obscurity with all the ugliness, pains and
aches of the primitive church right before going into apostasy. All that was restored and we had to get rid of
much of the filthiness thereof. And in the early history of the church, barely
16 years after its restoration, it had more opposition that it could endure or receive
and it was barely coming out of darkness, yet it endured for it is the work of
GOD. The full restoration of may other
things was still futuristic. And we are out of obscurity but there is still
some refining and wrinkles to make straight. And it may not even happen in full
until after the appearance of the LORD.
A perfect church is incompatible with an imperfect people. We both have
to grow at the same pace. And only now we are in the perfecting face as a
church. And the best standard we have in front of us at any given time is the
LORD and the prophet of turn. And it has been like that since the beginning.
Now, what to us is sin, to them
it was not. And even if it was, the paid the sacrifice the LORD required from
them for their transgressions as he does with ours. We are in a constant
discipleship correcting and disciplining.
The final work is barely seen on a few saints here and there. Remember
that the appointment and calling of GOD is not by repentance. Nevertheless, both Oliver Cowdery and Sidney
Rigdom, came back to the church, but lost their bishopric even like Judas and
Cain. And they bore witness that they regretted it more than anything else. And so will you, when the truth settles in if
it is not too late for you to return.
Your return if possible will require of you a serious transformation,
even as that of Alama, jr, Cesrom or even the apostle Paul. And it will require
of you to be willing to submit and to suffer much for the LORD’s sake. It is not probable but it is possible.
I really, really do not want to
be in your shoes, man, because the solemn covenants and the oath of the
priesthood that you have broken and abandoned and of the damage that you have
caused the church. Blood oaths or not, I
was not afraid to make covenants with GOD. In fact, I suffered severely when I
was disobedient because of my ignorance, but that did not kept me from going
forwards. We have never bee told to disclose the ceremony with anybody outside
the church, much less the faithless, just never do divulge the tokens and signs
altogether and to keep them sacred. It has taken me several painful years to be
able to abide faithfully with the promises I made to the LORD. As a matter of fact, I became a sure target
of the devil the first time I went to the temple. I was delighted at all the
things I learned and praise GOD to this day still.
But figuratively speaking, when I
came out of the temple, the very firs time, it was like if a train at full
speed went and passed over me and dragged me by one foot thereafter. But thanks
to the anointing and endowment I survived.
And I was far, far away from the LORD, lost and hopeless. But I walked
back to the LORD and traveled seas and deserts until I returned to the temple
again. Later on, when I came out of the
temple the second time, the train came with full speed against me and I was
like a pillar of Iron and it crushed in me.
It was painful, but it did not damage me as before. And I remained very
close by, even in the vicinity of the temple. I was astonished that I was
harder than the train. Then the third time, when I came out of the temple, the train
came as before; I was prepared in all things, and I grabbed the train and threw
it away like a toy. I wad mad. And the
fourth time, I came back to the LORD asked told him that it was though out
there and wanted to know if the LORD if he knew why these things were happening
to me and if it was part of the preparation to come back to his presence. I
told him that a train is ready to crush any and all who come out of the temple
as soon as they get out. He told me that I had barely started the straight and
narrow corridor, that I will suffer much, but much more for his sake. And that
it was mistake, that it was not a train but a serpent that had thirst for my
blood. And I was delighted and
exceedingly joyful to be counted worthy to suffer for his cause and to be in
the eyesight of the devil or the serpent for righteousness sake. I learned much
obedience by the things that I suffered.
Ever since, I have lost houses,
cars, credit, reputation, character, been betrayed, taken to psychiatric units
and to jail, I have been cast out, in controversies in the midst of false
brethren, poisoned, rejected and spat out, abused and despitefully used by
apostates like you. And even IF
everybody else was wrong and I was right, which has never been the case, and if
all things would combine against me, I still know that the church of Jesus
Christ from inception to now, is true only true and living church accepted of
GOD. And that every single prophet since the restoration, even the ones I did
not like very much or even hated, are true prophets of GOD. I am unworthy to be in their assemblies
because of my rebellions, but now I honor them and fight for my god with manly
valor and exceptional skills. And as often as it is needed, I destroy my own
house and built it up again until I am in harmony with the house of GOD and its
leadership. There are more chances that
I err against all, that all err against me. I know what my duty to GOD is. It is to serve
him or to do his will, to say what he wants me to say and to be who he wants me
to be.
As a matter of fact, I know that in this church we have never had any false prophets, if any at all, only fallen ones. And you may be one of them. For you once had a testimony and fell from grace to fall backwards and to rise no more.For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people, To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
(Old Testament | Isaiah 28:10 - 13)
I saw you in my dreams a few days
ago. I knew you were coming to destroy my faith but he who got beheaded and
utterly destroyed was you. I cut you into pieces, for GOD will not be
mocked. Even then, you were quaking and
trembling and put a big stone upon you. For the LORD made my horn iron and my
hoofs brass.
“Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.”(Old Testament | Micah 4:13)
And then, when you laid down in
sorrow, I lifted a very heavy stone and crushed you, even with the stone of the
head of the corner of which it is written:
“What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner? Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them. And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.”(New Testament | Luke 20:17 - 20)
Now, I do not know with what
intentions you told me all those things, but the LORD does. And you will
receive a just reward for your words, thought and actions. All I know is that
you were coming and that it id not end good for you. I have love for all, but
no hope for the gentiles unless they repent and continue in goodness and enter
the narrow path by the way.
If your intentions were not kind, then, it would
have been better for you not to have known the LORD in the first place for you
state is terrible. And if you have offended the spirit of GOD and the little
ones of the LORD, know that it would have been better for you not to be born or
that a stone is hanged by your neck and you are cast into a river, for your
eternal reward is terrible. I hope that at the very least, you repent like
Cezrom, and receive healing from the LORD and work from that time forth your
salvation with fear and trembling. Take it or leave it, I have spoken the truth
or things as they are, as they have been and as they are to come. And this I say humbly and solemnly in the
name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Miguel TInoco
