tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54437075103120923362024-03-19T08:47:02.077+00:00Against HirelingsThis blog is designed to reflect on the betrayal of God's faithful flock by the hireling ministers of The Worldwide Church of God. These evil men masqueraded as faithful ministers of Christ, but were ministers of Satan. I will expose their devious behaviour, and comment on their destruction!
This blog is primarily aimed at true Christians, who are seeking to understand the mysteries of the kingdom heaven.
NB: I shall be at Mizpeh until desolation overspreads the land!Tom Mahonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087223683733643082noreply@blogger.comBlogger175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443707510312092336.post-41556991472210169732024-03-12T13:00:00.014+00:002024-03-16T14:07:18.623+00:00The Second Temple<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: justify;">We know from scripture that God wanted Israel to build a second temple. The order to do so was given by Cyrus, the Persian.</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;">The details are set out in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah. The children of Israel were persecuted by various people, and God removed them to allow the building of the temple to continue. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Later, Israel was distracted by their own interest, and the building of the temple had been neglected. So God sent Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, and to Josedech, the high priest, saying: "</span><i style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red;">Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, saying, this people say, the time is not come, the time that the Lord's house should be built." </span>(Hag.1-2).</b></i><i style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red;">"</span></b></i></span></p><p><span style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="color: red; font-style: italic;">"Then came the word of Lord by Haggai the prophet saying. is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?</b>(Hag.1:3-4).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">The people were about to be confronted with God's judgment for neglecting to first build God's house.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><b><i>The Judgment</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">God told the people thus: "<span style="color: red;"><b><i>Consider your ways</i></b></span>." In our modern world of dishonesty, decadence and depravity, people plunge themselves into all kinds of immorality without thought, and later, they suffer the frightful consequences. They don't consider their ways.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">However, God said: "<b><i><span style="color: red;">You have sown much, and brought in little; you eat, but you have not enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink: you clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earns wages earns wages to put it into a bag with holes." </span>(Hag.1:6)</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">That meant that God had withdrawn his blessings from the people, because they had placed their interest before the interest of God, When Jesus was on earth, he emphasised the need to first seek the kingdom of God, and then God will bless you. (Matt.6:33).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><b><i>In summary</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">The people responded to God's admonition, and went to mountain and brought the materials to finish the house of God. So God, the ever faithful and loving God, told the people: "<span style="color: red;"><i><b>I will bless you</b></i></span>"(Hag.2:18-19).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><b><i> Finally</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">It should be evident that if God wanted a third temple, it would have been built years ago, and anyone resisting its building would have been put to death. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">Sadly, the people that returned to Israel in 1948, are a remnant of the bond woman.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></i></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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Rebecca had twins in her womb, and before they were born, she was told "<span style="color: red;"><i><b>the elder shall serve the younger</b></i></span>, that is, the first born will serve the second born.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then Paul wrapped the mystery in parentheses, and elucidated its meaning thus: (<span style="color: red;"><i><b>For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that purpose of God according to election might stand</b></i></span>, or be established, <span style="color: red;"><i><b>not of works, but of him that calls</b></i></span>:). (Rom.9:10-11).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Note the phrase, "<span style="color: red;"><i><b>not of works.</b></i></span>" I remember Carl McNair giving a sermon, and in it he said, "<i style="font-weight: bold;">God choose Jacob over Esau, because he saw that Jacob would be a better person than Esau." </i>I wrote to him telling him that he was preaching salvation by works. He replied saying, "<b><i>I stand by what I said</i></b>." He didn't live much longer after that heretical nonsense. However, it is clear that God chooses his elect by grace, and not by works. For God said, "<span style="color: red;"><i><b>Jacob have I love, but Esau have I hated</b></i></span>." That emphatic sentence led Paul to anticipate humanities' reaction to God's decision, by asking the question: "<span style="color: red;"><b><i>Is there unrighteousness with God</i></b></span>" (Rom.9:14)? </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Paul's immediate reply is, "<span style="color: red;"><i><b>God forbid</b></i></span>." But to fully answer the question, Paul turns to the analogy of the potter. God is the master potter, and he has one lump of clay on the potter's wheel. From that lump of clay, he makes different vessels thus: "<span style="color: red;"><i><b>Have not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour</b></i></span> (Rom,9:21)? For example, Jacob and Esau were of same lump. For they both came out of the loins of their father Isaac, They were both innocent of sin. Yet, God loved Jacob and hated Esau.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Therefore, the potter may make a beautiful vase, or a beautiful set of teacup and saucers. The vase to display beautiful flowers, and the teacups and saucers to entertain special guests.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">But the potter also has a dog, that must be fed; and from the same lump of clay, he makes a bowl to feed the dog. It is obvious that the dog's bowl doesn't have the same honour as the vase, the teacups or the saucers. But the question is this: "<span style="color: red;"><i><b>shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, why have you made me thus</b></i></span>"(Rom.9:20)? Can the dog's bowl, with justification, ask the potter that question? The answer is no, but why is the answer no?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">That recondite, sublime mystery is wrapped in three fundamental concepts. One, the foreknowledge of God. Two, the doctrine of election and three, predestination. These fundamental concepts, which God purposed in himself, were given to him by the good pleasure of his counsel, which is immutable (Heb.6:18). Also, Isiah was inspired to write: "<span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else like me., declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done. saying </span><b style="font-style: italic;">my counsel </b><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure..."</span>(Is. 46:9-10).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>NB: I have asked the question before, who is God's counsellor?</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">To be continued</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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We have had speculations, conjectures, surmises and assumptions from a host of deceived charlatans</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>However, the Apostle Peter was inspired to write: "<b><i><span style="color: red;">We have also a more sure word of prophecy</span></i></b>;" He described it, "<span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">As a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawn...</span>(1 Pet.2:19)<span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">. </span>That day is the day of the Lord. </span><span>Then he added: "</span><span><b style="color: red; font-style: italic;">Knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation..." </b>Then he gave the reasons why. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet, we have a sick cabal of men, without the Holy Spirit, calling themselves ministers of Christ, setting out to privately interpret the conflict in the Middle East, with Israel at the core of many attacks.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>The Allegory</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">To understand the cause of the conflict and how it will end, one has to first understand the allegory of (Gal.4:22-31). Sadly, this allegory was not understood in WCG. In fact, in my 22 years attending services with WCG, it was never even mentioned as a curiosity. The men that were ordained as ministers did not have the holy spirit, and without the holy spirit one cannot understand the mysteries of the bible. For Jesus told his disciples, "<span style="color: red;"><i><b>I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now. Howbeit, when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth</b></i></span>:(John 16:12-13). The phrase, "<span style="color: red;"><i><b>you cannot bear</b></i></span> <span style="color: red;"><i><b>them</b></i></span>" means, you cannot understand the things I have to say to you until you have received the gift of the Holy Spirit. On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came on the disciples in a blaze of glory, and they were able to understand what the spirit revealed to them. If the same had happened to the ministers in WCG, they would have also been able to understand, and explain the mysteries of the bible, including the allegory of Galatians four. Their ignorance of the bible is clear evidence that they don't have the spirit of God. And that is terrifying!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Israel</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Israel of today is a remnant of the people that returned from the Babylonian captivity, to rebuild the temple. The population that returned, mainly consisted of Levites, the priestly tribe, the children of Benjamin and some Jews, who were not descendants of King David.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The last king of Israel, Zedekiah, was taken to Babylon and put to death. But before he was put to death, his sons were murdered before his eyes. The only members of his family that survived, were his daughters, princes. They were taken into Egypt by Jerimiah.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">So when the people returned from Babylon, there was no one to revive the kingdom of Judah. The country was managed by the Levites and governors. Later the Romans appointed kings and governors. we note that when Jesus was born, Herod was king, and when he was crucified Pontius Pilate was governor.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The other ten tribes, that were separated from the Kingdom Judah, after the death of Solomon, were taken captive in 721BC by the Assyrian King, Shalmaneser. These, to this day, are called the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Although, some of them have been identified. Britain is Ephraim and America is Manassas.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>The bond woman</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to the allegory, the Israel that existed at the time of Jesus, consisted of the children of the bond woman, who were born <span style="color: red;"><i><b>according to the flesh</b></i></span>, and to whom the first covenant, from mount Saini, was given by Moses. That covenant established the Levitical Priesthood, that ministered in the sanctuary, for the forgiveness of physical sins. Under the first covenant, there were no sacrifices for spiritual sins. The lost sheep of the house of Israel are also children of the bond woman. For they were born <span style="color: red;"><i><b>according to the flesh.</b></i></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Sarah told Abraham, "</span><span style="color: red;"><b style="font-style: italic;">Cast out the bond woman and her son, for the son of bond woman shall be </b><b><i>heir</i></b><b style="font-style: italic;"> with the son of the freewoman.</b>" </span><span>Ask yourself, what does that mean for the Israel of today? It means the children of the bond woman will perish. That means, Britain, America and Israel will be destroyed, before Jesus returns. He is due to return by 2054, but all the signs are, he will be here by 2050.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Paul's sorrow</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Paul was aware that Israel, </span><span style="color: red;"><i><b>according to the flesh</b></i></span><span> will perish. So he wrote the following lament: "</span><span style="color: red;"><i><b>I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit</b></i></span><span>. </span><b style="color: red; font-style: italic;">That I have great heaviness, and continual sorrow in my heart. for I could wish </b><span><b><i>(Had it been possible)</i></b></span><b style="color: red; font-style: italic;"> that myself were accursed from Christ for my </b><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"><b>brethren</b></span><b style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: red;">, my kinsmen according to the flesh. Who are Israelites; to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises"</span>(Rom.9:1-4)</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">In verse six Paul says, "<span style="color: red;">For they are not all Israel: Neither because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children; but in Isaac shall thy seed be called"</span>(Rom.9:6-7).</span></b></i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">This mystery is sublime, recondite and extremely deep.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Jesus's betrayal </i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>And second, the consequences of the betrayal of Jesus by Caiaphas, the high priest. Plus, the frightful curse all the people called down upon themselves, by saying, "</span><b><i><span style="color: red;">His blood be on us, and on our children</span></i></b><span>"(Matt.27:25).;</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">To be continued</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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When Paul was on his way to Jerusalem, from Miletus he sent and called the elder from the church at Ephesus, and he delivered to them one of the greatest speeches ever recorded. Also, Ephesus was the first church to which John was told to send book of Revelation.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> However, years later, Paul is imprisoned in Rome, and from his prison cell, he is writing to God's elect in Ephesus. He introduced himself thus: "<span style="color: red;"><b><i>Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to the saints that are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus</i></b></span>" (Eph.1:1).</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Firstly, what is meant by the phrase, "<span style="color: red;"><i><b>By the will of God</b></i></span>?" And who are <b><i><span style="color: red;">"the faithful in Christ Jesus</span></i></b>? </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Apostle</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>The w</i></b>ord Apostle, is unique to Christianity, and was divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit. Its derivation from Greek means to send. <b><i>Apo</i></b>, means away from, and <b><i>stela</i></b>, means to send. Therefore, Paul was sent to preach the gospel, represent the kingdom of God, educate and protect God's children of God from the deceptions of the devil. The twelve Apostle were alsp sent to fulfill the same duties as Paul.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>All Spiritual Blessings</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">After reminding the saints of the blessings of grace and peace, that God and Jesus Christ had conferred upon them, and all his children, he says: "<span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: </span><b style="font-style: italic;">(Eph.1:3).</b><span><b style="color: red; font-style: italic;"> </b>All, means all, nothing lacking. Paul goes on to say, that these blessings were conferred upon the church members, "<span style="color: red;"><b><i>According as he had chosen us in him before the foundation of the world</i></b></span>...then he gives the reason why we were chosen in Christ, before the foundation of the world thus: "<span style="color: red;"><i><b>that we should be holy and without blame before in love.</b></i></span>"</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><b><i>Holy and without blame</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The question that demands an answer is this, if we were chosen after the foundation of the would, could we still be holy and without blame before him in love?</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Then Paul added: "<b><i><span style="color: red;">Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ unto himself</span> ."</i></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>In this sublime and recondite epistle, I have reached verse five, and in those five verses some of the most recondite, doctrinal mysteries have been revealed.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>1. the phrase, by the will of God; what does it mean?</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>2. God's foreknowledge.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>3. the doctrine of predestination.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>4.the doctrine of redemption.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>5. the doctrine of adoption.</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sadly, not a single one of these doctrines was understood in WCG, not even by Mr. Armstrong, and he had the spirit of God. and was called by God to preach the gospel.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">In WCG, the doctrine of adoption was never mentioned. Redemption was referred to, but not understood, and predestination was labelled a Calvinist doctrine. Yet, from his prison cell in Rome, the Chosen Vessel, as he was lovingly called by his Lord and master, Jesus Christ, revealed the doctrine of predestination.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tragically, the epistles of Paul were sealed documents among those, in WCG, whose minds were poisoned by systematic theology, ambition and greed. Can any of these men write a letter to their respective, deceived, docile congregations, and begin the letter: James Henderson, David Hulme, Dave Pack, Jerry Flurry, Victor Kubic. Dave Havir, a minister of Jesus Christ, <b><i><span style="color: red;">by the will of God.</span></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: red;">If they dare to do it, it will be an immediate death sentence.</span></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;">*****</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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So Jesus had to expose Nicodemus's ignorance, by asking him, "</span><span style="color: red; text-align: justify;"><b><i>Are you a master in Israel, and don't know these things</i></b></span><span style="text-align: justify;">?"</span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Anon that asked the question, is likely to be a hireling minister of Satan, "<span style="color: red;"><b><i>transforming himself as a minister of righteousness</i></b></span>..."(2Cor.11:13-15). So as Jesus exposed Nicodemus' ignorance, I will also expose Anon's ignorance.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The narrative that begins in Luke 16:19, to save space, I will summarised the details. We have a rich man, clothed in purple and fine linen, (like the hirelings). He fared sumptuously every day, (like the hirelings, with other peoples' money).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">We also have Lazarus, a beggar, covered in sores from head to foot, desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table, and whose sores were licked by dogs, (unlike the hirelings, who have health insurance, so they can be poisoned to death by legal drugs).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>Lazarus's Death</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">From here, the narrative that was told by Jesus, takes on a deeper dimension. "The beggar, Lazarus, died, and was taken by the angels into Abraham's bosom. Abraham, or course, represents God, the father, into whose bosom the elect spirits are carried at death, instead of being cast into hell. That is a mystery the hirelings are too ignorant to understand.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>The Rich Man's Death</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The rich man also died, and was buried. As is the case with all carnal people. But note the difference in location from Lazarus and the rich man. Lazarus is in the bosom of the father, but the rich man lifted up his eyes in hell. What? When the rich man died, were his eyes not buried with his body? If the answer is yes, and it certainly is. What eyes were those, that were lifted up in hell? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Man's Eternal Spirit</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">God clearly revealed through Christ, that man has a spirit, which raises him above the animals. By that spirit he is able to speak, and in the right environment, learn to read and write. The spirit also makes him conscious of himself. For Paul was inspired to pose the question: "<span style="color: red;"><i><b>For what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him</b></i></span>(1 Cor.2:11)? The sublime teaching here is, man is inscrutable to his fellow man. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">That truth is illustrated by Interrogators beating suspects to death, trying to discover what they know; and as long as the suspects keep silent, the interrogators remain frustrated. The analogy Paul is making, is that the same applies to God. Only God's spirit knows what is in the mind of God, and we can only know what is in God's mind, if he reveals it to us. And God reveals what is in his mind, by the gift of the holy spirit to his elect.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">This sublime teaching will not be understood by those who studied systematic theology, and have now thrown the fourth commandment and Passover out of the window, and have replaced them with Sunday service and holy communion, two heresies of Catholicism. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, when sinners die, including the rich man, "<span style="color: red;"><i><b>Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return to God who gave it</b></i></span> (Ecc.12:7). It was that spirit of the rich man, that lifted up its eyes in hell.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">To be continued</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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"<b><i><span style="color: red;">He has shown you, Oh man, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God</span></i></b>?"</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">So to come before God, and be accepted of Him, we need to bring with us three sublime virtues. Justice, mercy and humility. If we cannot define, and explain each one of these virtues, how do we know that we possess them? These virtues were never understood in WCG, so to believe that they are now understood among the divided churches of God, would be to teach that Christ is divided, and God is the author of confusion. So what is:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>justice?</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The prophet was inspired to write: "<span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">None calls for justice..</span><span>(Isaiah 59:4</span>). Of course, the moment those words are uttered, the hirelings start to think of politicians, and especially those in foreign countries. For how could the hirelings conclude that Britain and America are not nations of justice. But what about the hirelings themselves? Are they just men, who are welcome before the Lord?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The principle of justice was first revealed to Moses thus: "</span><i style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">You shall not respect persons in judgment..</i><span>(Deut.1:17). What is the fundamental principle upon which justice rest, that was revealed by the God of justice? That fundamental principle is impartiality. Just as God is no respecter persons, we must be the same to be just. Without impartiality, justice ceases to exist.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Hence, Solomon was inspired to write: "<b><i><span style="color: red;">These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment</span></i></b>"(Pro.24:23). Also, it is often said, the final words of great men are worth noting. King David was one off the greatest men to walk on earth, and his final words are these: "<span style="color: red;"><b><i>He that rules over men must be just, ruling in the fear of the God</i></b></span>"(2Sam.23:1-3). In the Chosen Vessel's penultimate charge to Timothy, he admonished him thus: "<span style="color: red;"><i><b>Doing nothing by partiality</b></i></span>"((1Tim.5:21)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>In my 22 years attending services with WCG, those that ruled over the church were patently unjust. Yet, they believed that they were coming before the Lord on the Sabbath days, holy days, and especially at the Feast of Tabernacles, where they behaved like the Pharisees. They booked the best caravans, the best hotels; and those whose job was to pray and pay, were left to scrambled for what were left.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>These men have got some frightful surprises coming. They do not understand the God of justice.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>If the hirelings don't understand justice, how on earth will they be able to understand mercy and humility? Will they be able to understand how "<span style="color: red;"><i><b>mercy rejoices against judgment,</b></i></span>" or what Jesus means when he says: "<span style="color: red;"><i><b>I will have mercy, and not sacrifice</b></i></span>?"</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>mercy?</i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: x-large;"><i>and humility?</i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">To be continued</span></i></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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But God has revealed them unto us by his spirit</span>"(1Cor.2:9-10):</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>So if you are a temple of God, in whom the spirit of God dwells, you will be able to understand what I have </span><span>briefly written on the allegory of Galatians four. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the last few weeks, my readership has increased by hundreds, but I wonder how many readers understand what I have written?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>One's road to Damascus</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">To have received the gift of the holy spirit, one has to have been met, by God Almighty, on one's road to Damascus. And today, you should be able to call to remembrance that experience. For the inspired words of the Chosen Vessel are these: "<span style="color: red;">But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions;" </span>(Heb.10:32). The third chapter of Lamentations begins with these words: "<span style="color: red;">I am the man (</span>put your name there)<span style="color: red;"> that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath</span>."</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">After explaining the wrath of afflictions God heaped upon him to bring him to repentance, he said: "<span style="color: red;">My soul have them still in remembrance, and is humble in me</span>" (Lam.3:20).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you can't put your name there, you are not converted and you don't have the Holy Spirit: and you can't understand the bible - however much you may read it. "<span style="color: red;">For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives</span>. <span style="color: red;">If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons</span>..."(Heb.12:7).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Please, carefully note the inspired text that follows, for it tells us why so many that were in WCG were bastards, and not sons. They came to the church without chastening and repentance. They couldn't put their names there. Therefore, they were bastards(Heb.12:8). </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The tenth Generation</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Also, God inspired Moses to write: "<span style="color: red;">A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord</span>" (Deut.23:2).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The tenth generation is the final generation for entry, for the eleventh generation indicates sin, as it oversteps the law. That is why there were eleven veils in the temple, separating the sanctuary from the Holy of Holies. That meant sinners, that is, the children of the flesh, Hagar the bond woman, were separated from the children of the spirit, represented by Sarah, the free woman, and her son.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet, people who were born out of wedlock, that is, bastards, were allowed to attend WCG's services, and some were even baptised. That is an indication of the level of biblical ignorance that existed in WCG.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sadly, that was primarily true among the ministry. For in my 22 years attending services with WCG, I never met a single minister that was converted. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Arthur Suckling</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The only exception is probably Arthur Suckling. In 1975, when he first invited me to church, he gave a sermon detailing the sufferings he endured in the army or navy, because he wanted to keep the Sabbath. He can put his name there.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was also baptised by him, (around 2.30 in the afternoon, on 2nd June 1975, in Woking) and in 1980, when I was being stripped naked of garments of pride, and being <span style="color: red;">clothed with humility </span>( 1Pet.5:5), he was there, by God's mercy, to comfort me. May he find mercy of the Lord in that day.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Also, in 1995, every single minister I met, </span><span>I asked him, "Did you speak out against the Tkach's heresy?" They all said, no. That is a complete failure to earnestly contend for the faith.</span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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A pattern of what (Ex.25:40; Acts 7:44; Heb.8:4-5)?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Years later, King David had a burning desire to build a temple for the Lord. But because he was a man of war, that honour was given to his son, Solomon. But did Solomon, with all the knowledge and wisdom he had, know what was the pattern that Moses saw in the mountain?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Sanctuary</b> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The sanctuary, represented in the allegory, by the bond woman, Hagar: it was from there that the first covenant was administered by the Levitical priests. The administration of the 24 courses, introduced by King David, was from the lighting of candles to the offering of sacrifices, for the sanctification of the flesh. Not the conscience (Heb.9:1-2).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Levitical priests were not allowed into the Holy of Holies. That honour was reserved for the High Priest, on the day of Atonement (Lev16:1-20). Here again, the details are recondite and sublime; and the admonition is, "<span style="color: red;">He that has ears to hear, let him hear what the spirit says unto the churches</span>"(Rev.2:17).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, a brief summary is, the sanctuary has been destroyed; the Levitical priesthood abolished and the bond woman and her children have been cast out. I appreciate that I haven't explain what was the pattern that Moses saw in the mountain, but I will come to that. Although, it is sad that, as we approach the end of the world, the men who claim to represent God don't understand the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Holy of Holies</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Holy of Holies was located behind the second veil, and it was this veil that was "<span style="color: red;">rent in the midst</span>" just before the death of Jesus (Luke 23:45). The rending of the veil revealed that access to the Holy of Holies was now being made manifest by the death and resurrection of Jesus. Access was not possible while the first tabernacle, that is, the sanctuary was still standing (Heb.9:7-8).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course, after Jesus's resurrection, he entered into the Holy of Holies, to offer himself a sacrifice, without spot, for the redemption of God's elect (Heb.9:11-12).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The pattern that Moses saw</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The pattern that Moses saw was from inside the Holy of Holies. But what was it? At the Passover, after Jesus cast out those that were selling oxen, sheep and doves, he made a comment that appeared to his audience to be ridiculous. He said: "<span style="color: red;">Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up</span>(John.2:19). His audience didn't understand what he was saying, but John was inspired to record, "<span style="color: red;">He spoke of the temple of his body.</span>"</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">For the first time in the history of the world, Jesus revealed that the temple was a pattern of God reflected in the duality of the human body, which is the fulfillment of the plan he purposed in himself before the foundation of the world. The plan was, "</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: large;">Come let us make man in our own image, and in our likeness</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: large;">."</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">At a later date, Paul asked the Corinthians: "<span style="color: red;">Know you not that you are the temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwells in you</span>"(1 Cor.3:16)? With all the confusion that was in Corinth, some could have honestly said, "We didn't know that." Also, what about the thousands that attended WCG, and are now in GCI, UCG, LCG, COG/Hulme, RCG, PCG, COG/Dave Havir, are they temples of God?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">In another passage, Paul shocked by the defilement that was in the church, responded with, "<span style="color: red;">What? Know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own</span>"(1 Cor.6:19)? And again, (2Cor.6: 16).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet, despite all the rebukes and admonitions, people are still carnal. In WCG, we had adultery, fornication, </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">drunkenness and other sins too awful to mention.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The duality of man</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The duality of man takes us back to the allegory of Galatians four, where it is written, "<span style="color: red;">Abraham had two sons</span>." God also has two sons, Adam and Jesus, and both of them are portrayed in the temple. Adam in the sanctuary, and Jesus in the Holy of Holies. Adam is an image of God, as all human beings are, who are born according to the flesh.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>But Jesus is of the spirit, He is "</span><span style="color: red;">The likeness of his glory, and the express image of his person</span><span>...(Heb.1;3).</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">*****</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Today, we have an army of men who claim that God has appointed them to preach the gospel. So one would expect these men to know, and be able to explain to their congregations, what was the pattern that Moses saw in the mountain? Supposed that question was posed to the Chosen Vessel, by a member of the church at Ephesus? Do you think the Chosen Vessel would be blushing with the embarrassment of ignorance?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">To be continued</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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Those who failed to understand this mystery, the bible, for them, will remain a sealed document.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">As is usual with the Chosen Vessel, he often introduces mysteries that were concealed in the Old Testament, by saying, "<span style="color: red;">It is written.</span>" Here is a similar example thus: But as it is written, "<span style="color: red;">Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither have it entered into the heart of man, the things that God has prepared for them that love him. But God has revealed them to us by his spirit <span style="color: black;">(1 Cor.2:9-10):</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="color: black;">The question that screams at us for an answer is this: who are the people that love God?</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">For Jesus says,</span><span style="color: black;"> "</span><span><span style="color: red;">He that has my commandments, and keep them, he it is that love me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my father, and I will love him and manifest myself unto him </span>(John 14:21). </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span>That statement rules out an army of people, who pay lip service to keeping the commandments of God, and that was and is primarily true of the hireling ministry, who were and are nothing more than duplicitous politicians.</span></span></span><span>That behaviour makes them carnally minded, and therefore unable to understand the allegory of Galatians 4, why Paul was in continual sorrow or what God has prepared for those that love him.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, after using the analogy of the inscrutability of the human mind by others, to illustrate that God's mind is also inscrutable, and we can only know the things of God, if he reveals them to us by his spirit: Paul says, "<span style="color: red;">We have received, not the spirit of the world </span>(of course, the spirit of the world is the devil),<span style="color: red;"> but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are feely given to us of God </span>(1Cor.2:12). Thereby, the Christian moves from revelation to </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">enlightenment. That is, "<span style="color: red;">The eyes of their understanding being enlightened ;</span>(Eph.2:13-18).</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of course, those that have not received the spirit of God, the revelations of the spirit of God are foolishness unto them, because they are carnally minded (1 Cor.2:14).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Next, Paul moves to verbal inspiration thus: "<span style="color: red;">Which things we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches</span>:(1Cor.2:13). From the divine vocabulary, the Holy Spirit chooses the words to enable the writer or speaker to explain what God has revealed to him. Hence, "<span style="color: red;">All scripture is given by the inspiration of God" </span>That is wonderfully sublime.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">In contrast, note the phrase, "<span style="color: red;">Not in the words which man's wisdom teaches</span>." Man's wisdom is derived from empiricism, which is based on assumptions, conjectures, surmises and speculations, all leading to erroneous conclusions. The gods of science usually invent a vocabulary, designed to hide their ignorance and blind the public. For example, what the bible calls fear, the gods of science call "anxiety:" without understanding or defining what it means</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Today, when any of our leaders, and especially scientists, open their mouths to speak, they invariably begin with phrases, such as, "I think, I believe, in my opinion, the evidence indicates, the assessment is, etc., etc. Which means, we are ignorant. Plus, the Chosen Vessel was inspired to write: "<span style="color: red;">For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent</span>(1 cor.1:19).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet, people who claimed to believe in God, have more faith in medical science than in the healing power of Jesus Christ. Ye, it doesn't matter how many drugs are given to the sick, they never get better. In fact, the side effects of the drugs often hasten their death.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Today, we have millions of people in care homes, on every medication under heaven, yet not a single person ever leave a care home alive. Yet, every morning people march up to the temple of the gods of science to pay homage: often leaving awe struck at the latest promise of rejuvenated health, which never occurs.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">If this madness was scripted in Hollywood, people would fall about laughing.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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</script></div>Tom Mahonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02087223683733643082noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5443707510312092336.post-10027136198787658082022-12-28T16:41:00.026+00:002023-01-14T18:28:56.786+00:00All Israel Shall Be Saved.<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Chosen Vessel, as he was loving called by his Lord and master, Jesus Christ (Acts 9:15) is writing one his most recondite and sublime Epistle to the Romans. The Epistle is replete with doctrines; not a single word of exhortation is written, until chapter twelve.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sadly, this Epistle, like Ephesians and many other Epistles, were sealed documents in WCG. None of the hireling ministry ever understood the Epistles of Paul.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">In this post I want to examine and elucidate a concern the Chosen Vessel expressed about the children of Israel. He began by saying: "<span style="color: red;">I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit. That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish <span style="color: black;">(and we have to add, had it been possible. For only Jesus can die for redemption of God's elect)</span> that myself were accursed from Christ, for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to the flesh <span style="color: black;">(Rom.9:1-2):</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">The question that demands an answer is this: <span style="color: red;">If all Israel shall be saved </span>(Rom.11:26), why would the Chosen Vessel (had it been possible) be willing to sacrifice his salvation for the salvation of his kinsmen, according to the flesh?</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Understanding the phrase, "<span style="color: red;">according to the flesh</span>," is essential to understanding, why the Chosen Vessel was in "<span style="color: red;">great heaviness and continual sorrow</span>?" Of course, King Solomon was inspired to write: "<span style="color: red;">He that increases knowledge, increases sorrow<span style="color: black;">." The Chosen Vessel understood that there are two Israels, one according to the flesh, and the other according to the spirit. The Israel, according to the flesh, is destined for destruction. They are called, "<span style="color: red;">vessels of wrath, fitted to destruction</span> (Rom.9:22). and that made Paul very sad, especially knowing that they were his kinsmen.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">To begin to understand this deep, sublime mystery, one has to be able to understand the allegory of Galatians 4:22-31.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">The allegory begins, <span style="color: red;">"For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond-maid, the other by a free woman</span>." The free woman, Sarai, despairing of being able to have a child, pleaded with Abraham, her husband, to go in unto Hagar, and make her pregnant (Gen.16:1-4).</span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">The son conceived, and born from the relationship, was Ishmael, and is described in the allegory, as a child <span style="color: red;">according to the flesh. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span><span>In the allegory, Hagar, represents the old covenant, given from mount Saini, and administered from the earthly Jerusalem, who is in bondage with her children, that were born according to the flesh. <br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span><span>Sarai told Abraham. "<span style="color: red;">Cast out the bond woman and her son; for the son of bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free women." </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span><span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">That means, cast out the old Jerusalem, Hagar, and her children; the old covenant and its rituals, which were performed by the Levitical priests.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span><span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">The casting out occurred at resurrection of Jesus. The abolition of the Levitical priesthood occurred at the same time. On the day of Pentecost, the new covenant was implemented, and the heavenly Jerusalem began to give birth to her children. Hence, the quotation from Isiah thus: "<span style="color: red;">Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break <span style="color: black;">(in the allegory, Sarah represented as the barren that did not bear)</span> barren forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate <span style="color: black;">(Hagar)</span> has many more children than she that has a husband.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span><span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">The Chosen Vessel, a man endowed with exceedingly great wisdom, anticipated the question that most thinking people would ask: "<span style="color: red;">Is there unrighteousness with God</span> (Rom.9:14). For God choose Isaac instead of Ishmael, and Jacob instead of Esau, and that decision was made in eternity, and was revealed in the dispensation of the fullness of time. Paul's initial reply to the question is, <span style="color: red;">God forbid. <span style="color: black;">But then he proceeded to prove by pure, logical deduction, that God cannot be unrighteous. The basis for that process of reasoning is contained in the analogy of God being the master potter. where the question is asked: "<span style="color: red;">Can the thing formed say to him that formed it, why has thou made me thus" </span>(Rom.9:21?" Well, you can ask the question, but are you justified in asking it?<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span><span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">When pure reason led Paul to the proof that God cannot be unrighteous, his exclamation of wonder is recorded here (Rom.11:33-36).</span></span></span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span><span><span><span style="color: red;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> To be continued.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></span></span><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript">
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