"It Is a Privilege to Be the Fulfillers of All of the Predictions Made by the Prophets,
the Sages and the Seers.

"The Wrath of Man with All His Prejudicial Ideas and Opinions . . . I Use As Praises For ME."
--- FATHER DIVINE

Our FATHER'S Message given at the Banquet Table 152-160 W. 126th Street, New York City, N.Y.
Sunday Evening & Monday Morning, July 9-10, 1939 A.D.F.D., Time -- 1:50 A.M.



FATHER and MOTHER DIVINE

MOTHER DIVINE

Many things were prophesied in the Psalms of David, although in those days and even in this dispensation, men thought that these prophecies were only to be fulfilled and were fulfilled by certain individuals in that time, and now they are merely to be read and studied. But this is not so. These prophecies which were fulfilled and demonstrated in that day by certain ones, were not merely prophecies of that dispensation alone but were the individual enactments of things and events which were to be fulfilled and to have their rebirth in this FATHERHOOD Dispensation, the Majestic and Triumphant Rule and Reign of GOD Almighty HIMSELF, FATHER DIVINE.

In this glorious Message, FATHER explains the mystery of the re-fulfillment of these psalmic predictions by all those who will come into subjection to this CHRIST Consciousness and allow the Redeeming Grace of GOD to purge their souls, minds and bodies of the Adamic state of consciousness.

Truly has our Savior said:

'I will preach CHRIST in Words but more so in Deeds and in Actions, and I will put My Spirit in them and cause them to walk in My Statutes.'


Thus does HE explain in this dynamic Lecture, the mysteries of how as David was the individual fulfiller of his predictions, so can we also be in this dispensation, fulfillers of the Scripture, and receive the wonderful Blessings which were predicted that GOD would shower down upon His True and Faithful Children.

Gentle Master, we humbly thank THEE!

(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, after which is recorded the song sung by the assembly just prior to the Words of our LORD.)

(SONG)
'Oh, my beautiful FATHER, how we love YOU!
Oh, my beautiful FATHER, how we love YOU!
YOU are so kind and so true, YOU are so beautiful too,
Oh, my beautiful FATHER, how we love YOU!'


(FATHER speaks as follows:) >

PEACE EVERYONE! Good Health, Good Will and a Good Appetite for everyone! Good Manners and Good Behavior, All Success and all Prosperity these and all other Blessings to you I bring, with all Wisdom, Knowledge and with All Understanding!

While listening to that song just a moment ago, I thought as I listened to the mystery and observed My Spirit and those of you as Co-workers together with ME as the fulfillers of the Scripture, it is a privilege to be the fulfillers of all of the predictions made by the prophets, the sages and the seers. When you are the fulfillers of the Scripture and know it definitely, you can feel supernatural even though you may be natural personally. Aren't you glad?

I was just thinking of the prediction, yea, the many predictions made by David in his psalmic predictions. The psalmic predictions of David declared concerning the mystery of this which we are now enjoying, although he was speaking in his psalmic predictions on one occasion as though he was speaking concerning the mystery of GOD supernaturally -- in other words, supernatural; as though GOD being in the invisible realm, he spake concerning the mystery of this of which we are now fulfilling. He said,

'The wrath of man shall praise THEE!'


Remember, he was speaking in his psalmic predictions concerning you and ME. When he said,

'The wrath of man shall praise THEE",


he was speaking concerning ME. The wrath of man with all of his prejudicial ideas and opinions; with all of their oppositions and conflicts and conflictions they create and establish among the people, I use those things as praises for ME! Aren't you glad?

'The wrath of man shall praise THEE!'


He was speaking directly concerning ME in this dispensation, when the wrath of man would rise in opposition to this of which I AM stressing and expressing in the Name of the ALMIGHTY, how the wrath of man would be My Message-bearer in bearing My Message of Thanksgiving and Praise to all creation, what I AM doing for the nation.

Oh, it is a privilege to live in the Actual Presence of GOD where you can see even the psalmic prediction from the first Psalm to the last Psalm being fulfilled as a book of the prophecies the same as though David was a prophet. Even though he may not have been called a prophet, he prophesied concerning the mystery and in his predictions he declared things that would be fulfilled in this dispensation.

Even the very first Psalm, if you please, if you retrace your thoughts back to the first Psalm, you will find that My Followers are fulfilling the first Psalm, the very first verse and the second verse and the third verse, My Followers and I are fulfilling the first Psalm. Aren't you glad? We are fulfilling the first Psalm as well as the last Psalm.

'Blessed is that man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of the sinner nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful, but his delight is in the Law of GOD and in the Law does he meditate day and night. He shall be as a tree that is planted by a river of water, that bringeth forth its fruits in its seasons and its leaves also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth, it shall prosper!'


Is not this the outward expression of the fulfillment of the psalmic prediction concerning the prosperity of the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly? Can you not see My Followers who are true and faithful, they are prosperous? Can you not see they ride through the land prosperously in fulfillment of the psalmic prediction? Can you not see they are not walking in the counsel of the ungodly? They will not take counsel of the ungodly politicians and other ungodly representatives? They are headlong -- they are headstrong because they have Someone as a Counselor for them, therefore they will not walk in the counsel of the ungodly neither will they stand in the way of sinners! They will not sit in the seat of the scoffers! Aren't you glad? You can see it is being fulfilled this day in your hearing. Just think of it!

Then again we may take up another Psalm. You read in another Psalm,

'The LORD is my Shepherd and I shall not want!'


David was speaking as though he was speaking concerning himself as an individual, but the Scripture of this dispensation to him was transmitted and he was in his psalmic prediction, predicting the mystery of what would be fulfilled in this dispensation.

Those who recognize GOD as the Shepherd, they will be as David was -- they shall not want. These, My real Followers, are not living in lacks, wants nor limitations, for GOD is their Shepherd! He leadeth them beside the still waters! He restoreth their souls, something else much better when you think of it. He said,

'Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall abide in the House of the LORD forever.'


Can you not see I have fulfilled it for you?

I thought of coming from our public meeting, returning here this morning, as being termed this evening, and I thought of how we are still in the House of the LORD. Every day and every hour, the composition as a song, yet a prayer that was prayed and fulfilled in your hearing; every day and every hour you really feel My Cleansing Power! I heard you say,

'May THY tender Love to me bind me closer and closer LORD to THEE!'


Aren't you glad? Then I see you are abiding in the House of the LORD, are you not? Every day and every hour you are in the House of the LORD; for the House of the LORD is not as man supposes, but the House of the LORD is the state of consciousness of yours in which you all live once and forever; hence you will abide in the House of the LORD forever!

But even when it is fulfilled effectively mentally and spiritually in the state of consciousness in which you are now living, you will find the reaction of such a state of consciousness is brought into materialization and you become to be the actual materialization of your religious conviction and you fulfill it materially as well as mentally and spiritually, therefore you will eventually serve GOD under your own vine and fig tree. You will be in the House of the LORD forever!

After a while we are going to have all of the houses, the House of the LORD. How will they become to be the House of the LORD? They become to be the House of the LORD when GOD alone shall have been Selected and Elected and Enthroned on the throne of the minds of those who are in charge of all of the homes, and when GOD Reigns thereon alone, there and then your home will be the House of the LORD! Aren't you glad?

CHRIST is being Selected and Elected in the hearts and minds of humanity daily. They are making their Selection sure; they are making their Election sure. It is not a supposition but it is their realization. They have actually made their selection and election, for they have selected and elected CHRIST as LORD of Lords and as KING of Kings. Hence, when you enthrone CHRIST on the throne of your mind, there and then all of your powers are brought under His Control, and when CHRIST Rules and Reigns and Controls a thing, there is where His Domain is, and wheresoever His Domain is, where HE has Dominion, there is His Kingdom, and other powers that be have no longer an existence nor an expression.

For this cause I have heard thousands and millions of My Followers say,

'GOD alone shall Reign!'


We are dethroning the "other fellow" and all of his representatives! We are enthroning your Savior, your GOD and your KING! You have enthroned HIM on the throne of your mind and you are allowing HIM to have full control mentally, spiritually and physically, therefore, GOD is causing the visibilization of His Kingdom to be a Living Reality, for the visible things of outer expression are the manifestation of the invisible realm. Aren't you glad? Hence the invisible realm of the invisible kingdom has become to be tangibilated; it has become to be outwardly manifested, the outward expression of your mental and your spiritual conception; therefore you are spiritually and visibly manifesting your mental and your spiritual conception. That which was invisible, the invisible has been made visible. That which was mental and spiritual, GOD, through your conscious mentality, has actually materialized it! That is what it is all about!

Now you shall abide in the House of the LORD forever! David was talking about us. When he spake concerning himself he was speaking concerning us. As a committee of one he was representing all who would come under such a Teaching, such a Light and such an Understanding, that he was giving. Can you not see the Mystery?

Then I say, it is a privilege to live in such a recognition and to know within yourself once and forever, you will abide in the House of the LORD forever! Then in this House, as the wrath of man comes in opposition to this Fundamental, it will praise you and praise ME! Aren't you glad?

You may read through the whole book of Psalms; you will find they are psalmic predictions of the Spirit by inspiration as it was given through David, even down to this generation. Those predictions were transmitted by David as a committee of one, as a delegate representing all who would come under such a conviction of GOD'S Presence. They too would realize GOD is their Shepherd; they would realize they shall not nor should not want; they too will realize HE is with them! His Rod and His Staff. they comfort him and comfort them. Can you not see the mystery?

Therefore, the psalmic prediction of David as though it was speaking of himself as a person, that prediction concerning GOD being with him, was applicable to you and to each and every individual; therefore apply it to your lives and to your affairs and GOD will be with you in reality! When GOD is with you in Reality then you can say as I have declared it,

'The Spirit of the Consciousness of the Presence of GOD is the Source of all Supply. It can and it will Satisfy every Good Desire!'


Can you not see the Mystery?

Then your desires are being satisfied mentally, spiritually and physically, from every angle expressible. When this is accomplished in your conscious mentality, you will see the outward expression of it manifested, no longer as a supposition. Your conscious recognition will bring into outer expression your fondest imagination, for GOD will carry it into expression in and through the material plane and will materially manifest your fondest desires! Then you will be able to say, as well as I,

'The Abundance of the Fullness of the Consciousness of Good, no space is vacant of the Fullness thereof!'


Can you not see there is no space vacant of the Fullness of the Abundance of Good where I AM? Good will fill your every seeming vacant space in your consideration and the Abundance of the Fullness will be your portion until you will not have room to receive the Blessings!

The minor prophet predicted this also. He declared concerning the mystery:

'If you try ME",


said he,

'see if I will not open you the Windows of Heaven and pour out such a blessing you will not have room to receive it!'


Now just look at these blessings standing around here! Each and every person under the sound of My Voice, they all are Blessings to ME. I do not have room to receive the blessings, for they are infinite; they are limitless and evidently known to be overflowing in all of My diverse assemblies wheresoever I AM Personally!

Then the material blessings for the comfort and for the convenience, for your sustenance, for the sustenance of the bodies whichever, for the sustenance of your souls, as it may be termed; if after the manner of men from a theological point of view, you can get a little information theoretically from a religious point of view, psychologically you can also get the same. Mentally and spiritually otherwise your soul is bountifully supplied.

Then coming to the material comfort and convenience: wheresoever I AM economically you find the Abundance of the Fullness of the Consciousness of Good!

I thought to say a little while ago, I have not done anything yet to what I will do for you! All of the under-privileged and non-privileged among you will be lifted, if you will allow ME to! Aren't you glad? For I heard you say by composition,

'From sinking sands HE lifted me; with tender Hands HE lifted me; from shades of night to planes of Light; oh praise His Name, HE lifted me.'


This was a composition of Christendom, but we are the fulfillers of the composition, for the composition was a prediction of what had been done as a parable of what would be done in reality. Aren't you glad? When it was done by one and for one in the parable, it was merely a prediction of the fulfillment of the mystery -- when it would be fulfilled that it would be fulfilled in reality universally as it was an individual parable of the mystery, the same as other expressions, even Jesus. Aren't you glad? That which was done in the parable in an individual expression, it was but predicting the parable of the mystery of the universal expression and the fulfillment of the mystery. Can you not see the mystery?

When Jesus as a Person came as the Redeemer and the Savior of men, Jesus as a Person came as a Parable in His individual coming, as an individual prediction of the mystery of a Universal Savior coming to Redeem all humanity, as an impersonal Principle; as an impersonal Standard that would be lifted that would redeem all humanity and would be applicable to each and every person as well as it was individually in Jesus as an individual! Can you not see the mystery?

I heard Job say, before the Body called Jesus came,

'I know that my Redeemer Liveth for HE Liveth in my soul.'


I heard Christendom say,

'I know HE has risen,'


(after Jesus was resurrected as an individual Person, they said,)

'I know HE has risen for HE has risen in my soul!'


They should have known HE had risen, for HE had risen in their souls. They should have known HE had ascended to the FATHER in their souls and in their consciousness! Can you not see the mystery? All of those actuated Words of expression as Jesus expressed the mystery or explained it in the actuated Words of His Own Expression, were predictions of what would be fulfilled universally even though it was an individual representing the Universal Crucifixion, the Universal Resurrection, the Universal Ascension, and the Universal Redemption of all humanity!

Then I say, the parable of the Scripture when it was an individual expression, it was bespeaking the reality of the universality of that of which had not been observed, saving as it was manifested in one as a prediction. But those who did not know, they may have thought it meant that the individual person was the actual fulfiller of all of GOD'S Predictions. Can you not see the mystery? He was the "parable-ated" fulfiller, but we are the international or great creational fulfillers! We are the fulfillers, as we may term it to be throughout all creation as the universal fulfillers, as the infinite fulfillers, but it was fulfilled individually by One at intervals, parable-ly speaking of how those things would be fulfilled universally and all would be able to say as David said and as others said, but especially as David said in his individual prediction:

'The LORD is my Shepherd and I shall not want!'


My Followers know GOD is their Shepherd! My Followers have brought into actuality the reality of the parable. It is no longer a parable concerning David but they are David re-fulfilling the expression, in other words actually reiterating in the actuated words of expression that which was predicted by David,

'The LORD is my Shepherd and I shall not want!'


All creation know now, they all know My Followers do not want! They are not in lacks, wants nor limitations economically; they are not in lacks, wants nor limitations socially; they are not in lacks, wants nor limitations financially; for the LORD is their Shepherd individually, severally, collectively, nationally and internationally and even "humanity-ly"! They shall not want universally nor infinitely so long as they recognize GOD as their SHEPHERD, their REDEEMER and their SAVIOR and realize HE Leadeth them beside the still waters, realizing HE Restoreth their souls! Even though they were under-privileged, even though they were non-privileged, HE Restoreth their souls! Even though they have labored and were heavy laden, as Jesus said,

'Come unto ME, all ye that labor and are heavy laden.'


And they who were weary, if they will but come collectively, they will find that HE Restoreth their souls and they will find truly in reality, no longer something suppositionally but a reality, Goodness and Mercy follow them, for they are in the House of GOD wheresoever they are! Aren't you glad?

That thought came so vividly when you were singing that song; I thought to explain it for others who do not know the mystery; that they might see and know definitely, why we feel as if though we are the fulfillers.

The prophets, the sages and the seers predicted many things as though they were speaking concerning themselves individually, but those things that were predicted must be fulfilled spiritually, and if you are in this great Spiritual Awakening you will be the fulfillers collectively, nationally and internationally, until all will realize the same results such as they observed as individuals in the parables, as fulfillers in their respective predictions.

There are many things I could say along this line but I have long since declared,

'I will preach CHRIST in Words . . .'


Words of the human language are inadequate, even though the vocabularies of the earth may be many, they are all inadequate to carry words in their divers vocabularies sufficient to answer their problem and to explain the mystery as I see it; therefore I must resort to an often rehearsed phrase used here in America,

'Actions speak louder then words!'


Hence,

'I will preach CHRIST in Words but more so in Deeds and in Actions",


and I will tell the people more distinctively by causing them to walk in My Statutes! I cannot preach as plainly in words as I can in actions and as I can in deeds by the people collectively and universally walking in My Statutes automatically; but this is exactly what they will do with or without a ballot, with or without legality, with or without a law, rule or regulation! I AM talking about we shall have a Righteous Government and GOD Himself shall have Free Access over this people! Even as I influence this many, GOD Himself, from this angle of expression, shall influence all creation with His Great Contagion and all shall be affected by it! I thank you, I thank you, I thank you!


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