Franktalk wrote:Nightlion,
If indeed you are one that has obtained a knowledge of the path we must follow don't you think you should be a light on the hill? It seems to me that Christ was pretty blunt with the leaders of the Jews but pretty compassionate with everyone else. And His atonement speaks volumes about His love for our souls.
The message that scripture gives us is dependent on how much we have progressed down our own path. Most of scripture is but a starting point in my view. If indeed man has progressed to some extent over the last two thousand years then we are in need of teachers who can help the lost get better. Have you ever wondered why it is that you have been chosen to obtain what most do not have? And if you hide what was given under a rock are you doing what we are commanded to do?
Do you know what it is you are supposed to do in this life? For me I get bounced around but know not where I will end up. Are you equally confused on your path?
I have been on the precise same path for more than forty years now. Neither have I at any time ceased to teach and testify of the same gospel. However, just like the scriptures all plainly show so no man need error, generation after generation are misled, and that by their leaders to miss the mark completely and THINK they have it when they really never even began to get it. When I simply tell people the gospel and even mark the pitfalls of our peculiar day and time that PREVENT faith unto salvation it has been consistently shrugged off. They refuse to attend the wedding feast of the Bridegroom and excuse themselves by all manner of urgent necessities of living their own lives.
WHAT SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED
After I experienced the gospel at eighteen, my home ward and stake in East Millcreek should have believed me and been convicted in their rank hypocrisy and cried out in the anguish of their souls to receive the same power in the gospel as what I demonstrated by moving from the kid I was abused to accepting that I was to a mighty man of faith and works in word and in deed.
Then, when I became an apostle of Jesus Christ at the age of 27 the Church had nearly ten years to have built up a groundswell of faith and competence in obtaining the gift and power of the Holy Ghost. As a called and appointed member of the Quorum of the Twelve I would have the stage to preach repentance to all of Mormonism around the globe from an approved and accepted posture that could have increased the numbers prepared to bring forth and establish the Zion of our God and of his Christ. That would have put me ahead of Oaks in seniority.
WHAT DID HAPPEN
I preached the gospel tirelessly in all circumstances and in all places I found myself and still do. I obtained the word of the Lord by ceaseless scripture study for ten years. I became a called and sent apostle of Jesus Christ outside of the Church's purview. I corrected LDS doctrine to fall in line with all the standard works without adding anything to them.
All the while the most wicked and evil surmising was passed of against me by family, friends, ward membership and stake leadership and even Church Security watchers. Even though I managed to make a favorable impression upon President Ezra Taft Benson my old nemesis, Hinckster, grabbed power and the rest is history. I got cast out without an accuser. My appeal officially upheld against me by signature of HInckley and Monson because Benson was incapacitated.
The church has officially fulfilled 3 Nephi 16 and by me sinned against the gospel subject to having it taken from among them and given to the people bringing forth the fruit meet for the kingdom...............? Man! when is that going to happen?
Because of pride people will not consider the simple gospel and the rigors of its accomplishment. They think too highly of themselves and will not seek humility before the Lord. They are learned and warrant themselves competent regardless of no results equal to what they want to claim to own and pass off as acceptable to their children and their children's children.
I do not think a charge of hiding my light under a bushel sticks on me. I understand that only success sells and I cannot be believed without it. So here we are, me without success, and the world without salvation. Must be the last days when things are going to go from bad to worse to even more worse.
Give the world so much as a peep of Zion's existence and you shall see the world react and change dramatically, but not for the good. It shall wind up the scene to the dramatic end of the Revelation of John. And more than a mere peep they shall have when the Lord brings Zion upon the world from where he has taken it. The earth shall travail and bring forth her strength. A nation of Zion shall be born in a moment.
It is not possible to be part of the world's culture and accomplish the gospel of Jesus Christ. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness by forsaking the world in hunger and thirst for a saving covenant with Christ in God. That is what Jesus meant by taking NO THOUGHT for your lives while you step off and seek it. Just as the Jew continued with one accord in fasting and prayer until the power of the gospel came upon them at Pentecost. This after the resurrected Christ taught them forty days.
You can be taught of Christ's word for as long as you like before you finally step off and seek to take his name upon you with full purpose of heart and in all earnestness believing you shall receive.
It is not all said but I do not need to taunt people in their unbelief. If after a long desire, treasured up in your heart, knowing you are unworthy, yet yearning in faith for a healing from the Lord, he can lead you to it acceptably.
The world will stay on pride.