#10 Odds and Ends

#10

TO: Janice Gould
Subject: Odds and Ends

I can’t stress it enough that you have to read the Old Testament to know God. We have a free choice and all our ways in which we are to live, are in the Word. All religions claim He is all love and good. Of course, He is. But they don’t tell you He gets angry, jealous, is strict, at times turns His back on us, divorces us and many other things. He is our disciplinary Father and many can’t accept that. I had been angry at the churches for a long time but came to realize if they started telling those things, no one would go to church. Too bad but we are such a stubborn people. God only wants us to turn to Him and live eternally with Him.

There are three people who God took up to Heaven, Enoch, Elijah and of course Jesus. Since I have read until the end of the bible - God says there is no one in Heaven. Only Jesus. I believe God took Enoch and Elijah to another place on earth.

One thing I told you was wrong, is that you will pass me in the line to get through the pearly gates where Peter is because you are much better than me. Wrong. Maybe you are better but there is no St. Peter sitting at the pearly gates. Man’s story again.

We all go up together at the same time, in the resurrection. There is a second resurrection after Jesus has been here, after the thousand years, (the millennium) trying to clean up the mess on earth. All others who never knew Jesus, mostly from the Old Testament times or never believed in Him will be raised after the thousand years and then judgement comes. Can you imagine? All persons who were ever born. God says in that time all knees will bend. If all kneel down to God, to me, it says all must have repented and will be saved. Just wonderful guessing.

Another is when Jesus said, don’t let Me come back and find you naked. I said I would have to wear a nightgown at night, and put up with the night sweats. I am sure what he means is, don’t let Me come back and find us in sins. He doesn’t care about these bodies of ours. They are not the real ones. Also, He says don’t let me come back and find you drunk. If we are in sin or drunk we will not be raised up at that time. The time of the Resurrection.

I could never figure out why Satan tried to tempt Jesus with giving Him the earth, if He only would bow down to Satan. I thought who would ever want to come back to this earth, when there is a Heaven He can go to. Now I know why, as God is giving the earth to Jesus to rule and reign forever. Then it will be Heaven on earth.

In the Word, in the Old Testament, God refers to the Law. It means the Ten Commandments. But did you know there are 613 laws that God gave us? Again that is what man says, he has counted and I do believe that, as there are a lot of them. God gave them to us to make things better for us in the world.

They complain because they are taking down the Ten Commandments in government and law buildings. They should be in our churches. No one ever says that. The Jews have them posted up in their synagogues.

In China and many other nations if they are caught with the Word of God they are shot or put in jail. They have underground churches where they can go. China is supposed to have the fastest growing Christians, more than any other place in the world, as of now. Here, we have the freedom to read it and very few do. Only fifteen minutes a day will take you through it in a year. It will change you so much but it took me a long time and a lot of reading. It is so worth it. God can change you and it is so amazing how it changes you inside. No man can do that.

As I told you before I could not find any Purgatory and don’t know what they are talking about.

I didn’t think I would get to a second page. Who am I kidding? There is so much to tell you. But I am trying to make this brief. It is just that they don’t tell you anything in the churches.

There is a secular society and it is growing too fast. They are people who are neither an atheist nor a Christian. I just can’t understand how they can exist without any kind of religion. They have no faith or hope and mostly do not know the love of Jesus that He gives us. Just like that young guy said to you, do you want the cross or the one with the man on it. Innocent people who don’t know the difference.

God said there is no one who is not a sinner. Not one person and that is why we have to confess to Him through Jesus in order to get to Heaven.

God says in heaven He will wipe away every tear and we will jump for joy, never be tired again or feel pain and many other things. In one place it says we will be young and never grow old or die again. Scientists have checked many dead bodies and no matter how young or old they are, none have a DNA over 35 years of age.

I am not saying much about Jesus and the wonderful things he did, as you know so much about Him, from church mostly.

As Jesus says in the end times, we will be like the people in Noah’s time – all evil going on in the world. It is coming to that. The people are getting worse and worse, not only in our country but also all over the world, just like in Noah’s day.
If everyone read the Torah (Jewish), Qaran or sometimes-spelled Koran (Muslim) and the Bible it would be such a better world to live in. All believe in the same God and love.

Us Christians, or anyone, all we have to do is believe in God, who sent his son to earth to save us and repent. It is so simple.

What I am telling you does not even touch on the many things in the Scriptures. Just the basics. There is so much to learn and if I can do it, anyone can. No man could ever write the Word, as there is so much in it. Only God could give us so much information in one book. I went through it for three years, as I told you before, with Quick Study. They are a non-religious group and they even went through the Catholic Bible one year. The Bibles are all the same – different words – but the same meaning. I don’t think Quick Study is on in this area anymore. They were good but even they could only touch on little parts each day. I had to read it in full myself.

I just realized I never really said any thing about the Temple. I will have to start a new page because the Temple is very important.