FATHER DIVINE
At last the day of reckoning has come, and every living creature must give an account of every idle word that has been uttered; for the LORD is in His Holy Temple, let all the earth keep silent before HIM!
In this glorious Message, our LORD GOD, FATHER DIVINE, has set before the daily press and all mankind, a Blessing or a cursing, and has given them a fair warning as to what to expect if they continue to speak and write criticizingly concerning Himself, His Work and His Mission.
If all living creatures will but take cognizance of every word in this Message, they too can become to be that very same one as described herein, that is full of Grace and of Truth. So read carefully these Precious Words.
GOD of all Creation, we thank YOU for YOUR Coming!
(The foregoing statements are those of the transcriber, and FATHER'S Message follows:)
PEACE EVERYONE! Here we all are again. In the Unity of the Spirit, of Mind, of Aim and of Purpose among you all I still remain. I AM bringing about that Universal Brotherhood of Man among the children of men and I AM causing them everywhere to realize the FATHERHOOD of GOD is actually among them.
It has been said quite often through the press, and it is still being said, "FATHER DIVINE, the self-styled' Messiah and the self-styled' GOD." Some spell it little g-o-d. But I wish to say in reference to same, how many are there that have called ME GOD and knew I AM GOD before they heard ME say I AM? Aren't you glad? ("So glad!" responded the huge audience in unison.) There were years and years expired in the recognition of millions, of My Deity, before I publicly declared it! I did not self-style Myself saving as the Word was made Flesh! I made Myself Flesh, it is True; but among the children of men I came as a Man among them. And I Condescendingly self-styled Myself as just "MR. DIVINE" or "REV. DIVINE". I AM better known as "FATHER DIVINE"!
I AM saying this for the benefit of the press and the general reading public, so that they might know I did not style' Myself to be, and I did not, after the manner of men, appoint' Myself to be. Can you not see the mystery? But of their own volunteer volition, as they were moved by their own highest intuitions, millions declared My Deity before I admitted it. Now aren't you glad? ("So glad!" exclaimed the huge assembly.)
These are facts and figures too stout to be denied, for they are the conscious recognition and the realizations of millions; for they know they declared it before they heard ME say it. Aren't you glad? It is written in your Scripture, yea, your Gospel epistle,
'No men knoweth the FATHER but the Son and no man knoweth the Son but the FATHER, saving him who the Son will reveal HIM,'
and
'Who can say that Jesus is LORD except by the Holy Ghost?'
The whole Christian world at large, as they are called, have declared by Christian
birth and by christening, that Jesus is LORD; but who can say it in reality
and know definitely saving by the Holy Ghost that reveals it?
For this cause My true followers are rejoicing to know that the Truth has been actually revealed and no man was obliged to tell them so, for them to know. Upon this Foundation they can stand, and GOD in the midst of the children of men, moving as no man can, HE will, as HE has been, give them victory over every difficulty, over all trials and over all tribulations and over all adverse and undesirable conditions, for GOD your FATHER has established your going in the Land of the Living. Aren't you glad?
If I would have been self-appointed, you would have been hearing of ME calling Myself GOD, calling Myself FATHER long before anyone else declared it. Aren't you glad? But since GOD did not have an occasion to appoint Himself after the manner of the versions of men, GOD has always been just what HE IS! But to clear that thought out of your minds and out of the minds of the reading public and those of whom have published such erroneous statements, even that shall be gotten after. The press dare not publicize a false, erroneous word in opposition to ME! Millions of Lives of Honesty, of Competence, of Truth, of Virtue, of Holiness, lie in ME, and in their Belief and their Conviction that I AM GOD!
By this and for this cause I tell the press, everyone that carries an erroneous statement even such as that, it shall be in the summation when I call the general press and all slanderers into consideration.
A self-styled GOD, self-appointed GOD, from the manner of wherein they speak, I mean to prove or cause them to prove everything they say, every periodical that has carried an erroneous statement concerning ME, I will see if they can prove it! My Followers are willing to spend at least ten million dollars. Aren't you glad? So then, I say the press had better mind how it writes hereafter, every last one of them that has carried that simple word of "self-styled".
In the wilderness GOD carried Moses upon the mountain and showed him and said,
'Build after the fashion I have shown you on the mountain.'
Was there anything self-styled about the fashion that Moses told them to build
the tabernacle? Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration, when the Glory of GOD
overshadowed Him, when Moses and Elijah appeared there with Him, was there
any self-styledness there of Himself after the manner of the flesh? Then and
there GOD Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent, was present and actually
revealed by revelation; yea, in the transfiguration, the mystery of the Glory
of GOD to the children of men.
GOD spoke from heaven, saying,
'This is MY Beloved Son in Whom I AM well pleased. Hear ye Him.'
They were not supposed to build three tabernacles, one for Moses, and one for
Elijah and one for Jesus; but it was explicitly explained in the actuated words
of expression on the Mount of Transfiguration, in the demonstration of the
transfiguring of Jesus from mortality to immortality. It was demonstrated there
and then and the Apostle, yea, the Disciple heard a voice from heaven, saying,
'This is MY Beloved Son in Whom I AM well pleased. Hear ye Him.'
They were to hear what CHRIST had to say to the Church or others as representatives
of His Work and Mission and those of whom He did call to the Church in the
consideration when He did say,
'Simon, upon this rock I shall build MY Church and the very gates of -- shall not prevail against it.'
Now, aren't you glad?
For this cause you can rejoice. You should be glad that I did not cause you to believe by persuasion, I did not cause you to believe by coercion, I did not cause you to believe by My actions being aggressive but by My Spirit; My Spirit revealed it and that is the way by which you declared it. For this cause rejoice and be glad, for your salvation draweth near.
You heard one say by composition, "Come up higher and I will show you something," I said, "that will surely come to pass." Aren't you glad? I even told there and then, I have a New Name, one that has not defiled his garment. So, it is a privilege to observe the mystery of the Spirit as it is revealed and as in the revelation of it, it is fulfilled in the actuated words of expression; for we are in the dramatization of the fulfillment of the prediction of the prophets, the sages and the seers; but as we fulfil it in the positive, we can rejoice at it.
Not I would like to say, in reference to the reading of the "Sweets' Endeavors": the "Sweets' Endeavors" as you heard read from the page of The New Day and the "Sweets' Ten Commandments" -- the words are even as the spirit of them; the words are imbibable, for "The Words I speak to you, they are Spirit and they are Life." Many may read but may not take cognizance of what they read. Many have read the Bible, the Holy Bible; they have not taken cognizance of what they read, neither the slightest consideration of it; but if you read and imbibe the Spirit and the Meaning of both it and them, the very words I speak to you, they are Spirit and they are Life. Words will heal your physical body, and it is the little leaven that leaveneth the whole lump. For this cause rejoice and be glad, for your redemption draweth near! GOD HIMSELF, even if you don't like it, is in the midst of them. Right now, psychologically, mentally and spiritually HE is ruling and having His Way.
Upon this foundation and with this recognition if you will stand, naught will be able to hurt nor harm you in all of My Holy Mountain, Truly this is the Mountain of the House of the LORD that the prophet spoke of, that shall be lifted up and all nations shall flow into it. Aren't you glad? Can you not see them coming from far and near, of every so-called race, language, tongue and people? I in the midst of them, I AM receiving them as ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE, for they may come omnifariously and from all parts of the world, but when they are united together under this jurisdiction and adhere to My Teaching I will make them E PLURIBUS UNUM.
For this cause we are rejoicing and we are glad to present to the world a slight sketch and a reflection of what shall be universally; for truly this is the Mountain of the House of the LORD that is lifted up above the hills.
The "Sweets' Endeavors", this thought is very deep to be considered. Some mentioned a little while ago the sweetness and the purity and the virtue and the holiness of Mrs. DIVINE here at My Right, such as She has exemplified, reflected and materialized, reproduced and personified and has been recognized as the personification of these qualities and attributes of Her MAKER.
The Word has been made Flesh once again and it dwells among us, and you can behold My Glory as though it was, or it is the Only Begotten of the FATHER, full of Grace and of Truth -- the Glory of GOD reproduced -- the Glory of GOD re materialized -- the Glory of GOD re-personified! Aren't you glad? Now, as you behold this Glory as exemplified and materialized and as Personified in My Bride, so can you reproduce the same by concentration and by harmonization and by participation, through self-denial and consecration; for it is universal, as the Lamb came down to John to be baptized of him. He was as he is, the Word that was with GOD and that was GOD, and the Word that was GOD was made Flesh. Aren't you glad? Himself, the Son of GOD; "And we beheld HIS Glory," one said, "as that of the Only Begotten of the FATHER, full of Grace and of Truth; and of all of HIS Fullness", said he, "have all we received Grace for Grace."
When the Bride was shaped and formed by the Word of GOD and came and was married to the LAMB, why, the two that were twain -- became One; yea, One Flesh; and in that you re-beheld that, because HE was full of Grace and of Truth. You behold My Grace and the fullness of GOD in Her, for the Two are ONE. Now you behold it as if though it is the Only Begotten of the FATHER -- as if though it is the Only One of the FATHER -- as if though it is the Only Bride of the LAMB (can you not see the mystery?) and as if though it is the Only One that is full of Grace and of Truth. But do not stop there criticizingly and antagonistically and maliciously by self, concerning the mystery. Vision it, harmonize with it, sympathize with it and, as he said, we beheld it as that of the Only Begotten of the FATHER -- full of Grace and of Truth -- and of all of HIS Fullness, have all we received Grace for Grace. And I do not merely mean a part of it, but all of it!
This day the repetition of history is fulfilled in your hearing, in the Bride and the LAMB as was the LAMB that was slain before the foundation of the world and as it was in Him when HE came down to John to be baptized of him. History is repeating itself. Aren't you glad? In the fulfillment of the prediction, it is the repetition of that which was predicted, and we, the people, are as though we are the fulfillers.
Now rejoice and be glad! GOD is in the midst of the children of men, and this time, HE came to stay! Aren't you glad?
I heard one declare -- David it was in his Psalmic prediction --
'The Lord reigneth.'
Where does HE reign?
'Righteousness and Judgment are his throne, the earth saw it and trembled.'
Can you not see them trembling now, at the reign of GOD? David did not call
it the Son there, because he saw it in the fullest measure.
'Righteousness and Judgment are the habitation of his throne.'
He said about the earth seeing it and trembling, and all of those things are
being fulfilled this day in your hearing. That is a part of the mystery; the
first Seal has been loosed. Aren't you glad?
Now, as I said this, as you have heard, the one that was as though a Bride, when she first heard of ME, the Words that were conveyed to her, she imbibed them spiritually and accepted of them from a literary point of view, and by so doing, the "Sweets' Endeavors" were not just words of philosophy for her; she endeavored to do what they said do, maybe in some measure more than those of the Sweets and the Rosebuds right here did do. And because she took these words in and lived them accurately, expertly and scientifically, she became the personification of the "Sweets' Endeavors".
By the words through which these "Sweets' Endeavors" came, the inspiration through whom it came and those through whom it came and the "Sweets' Commandants", all of those were wonderful and marvelous; but let us practice what we preach implicitly, conscientiously and sincerely and then we will be the word of what we have said made flesh, materialized and personified, and be the personification of our doctrine. Can you not see the mystery?
So it happened to be that this One that I have chosen, did accept of My Words to the effect and imbibed them so conscientiously and sincerely and definitely, though not being near My Personal Presence, more effectively than some of those right with ME Personally. This is the reward of her sacred endeavors. This is the reward of her conscientious and sincere deeds and actions, self-denial and consecration, at My Personal absence as well as in My Personal Presence, because she said, "I know YOU are GOD." Aren't you glad?
Upon this foundation if you, every last one of you, will stand, and imbibe the Spirit and the Mind of what I AM saying and live exactly according to same, you too can be partakers of the selfsame Blessings of being one with the One that is one with the One. And there is no division -- as brethren, to you as sisters, to you as being termed young men, and those of whom may be termed as old men and those of who may be termed women, young women and old women and children, all of this is applicable and operative for you even as it was for her, that you might reproduce the life of Virginity and the Holiness of GOD, Your FATHER; and suffer and want and live in lacks and adverse and undesirable conditions no more! I thank you. I thank you. I thank you.
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