The answer of the Lord

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The kingdom was then torn from him. In the same way, he was cast from ME in heaven because he despised a humble DAVID. Weigh your Bibles deeply now and grow wiser, because you shall now see from kings and queens exactly how the end of all things will be.

Now I will begin here with Pharaoh; and Satan’s host shall end just like Pharaoh. They are all being tested like Pharaoh’s host, and here is a mystery that must be applied: he appears like Pharaoh’s task-masters, burdening men with sins they cannot bear. One person now lays the load upon another, and every footstep is trodden by Satan’s arts. Yet, like Pharaoh, Satan complains and daily accuses the sons of men, saying my command is not obeyed by man. Satan’s witchcrafts are laid just like Pharaoh’s words. He works his arts in men to take the perfect truth entirely from them.

I know well through their shepherds ministers or religious leaders now that they give them stubble and deny them straw. * The preachers announce God's punishment upon their flock but omit his promised blessings. These blessings are near and must arrive with the destruction of Satan's power. They have applied the day of vengeance to man, but they have denied that Satan is the author of all their guilt. Everyone has felt the burden of his load through every art he uses to tempt mankind to sin. He has been close upon them daily, and I said this should fall upon his head.

But, O, my shepherds! how will you plead now? You take these promises away from man and lay every burden on man, which I have applied here to Satan’s arts. If you now deny the truth, I will call you to a strict account. I will tell you your sins and how they add up: you appear as idle shepherds because you do not seek to clarify my Gospel. Instead, you say your sheep are all going astray and judge that they are wandering in a crooked way. Yet you say you will not call them back. I ask you: how will you answer for your flock? I have tested many shepherds through her Joanna Southcott, and yet I am denied by every one!

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Because I have only Three Shepherds, and not one of them was warned by her. No; they began as shepherds themselves to hear their Master's voice and imitate him: "To know the truth, we will go down and see whether it is proven as it has come to us."

Then you may see these Three Men in ME, to know they are Three, and yet they are One again. Here you will find the True Shepherd’s voice, whom all mankind shall know I have chosen to be the Rock to build my Church upon. I mean to come to my shepherds first. Then I shall proceed with Satan, for now you shall all find a Moses here. He comes now to clear my children’s burden. I say daily that their task-masters increase their load, but now I will free them from it. They shall now possess the promised land.

When I made Adam stand in my LIKENESS, I made him lord of this earth here below. You all know I promised him this earth. But then a hasty Pharaoh arose who despised all my chosen people. He daily tried to take away their grace, and yet his sore complaint against them was that they were all sinners by common consent. He bent his whole mind to tempting them all, and so he increased their load through sin. Yet all the blame was surely thrown on them. As you see plainly in my Bible, HE was the great accuser of mankind.

So now, you shepherds, wake up and see it clearly. Satan first appeared like Pharaoh, using every art of sin to burden men and rob them of the grace given to them. Yet he still complains against them, saying they are sinners. Judge, you sons of men, how many ways he appeared with Job, and he condemned him there in every way. He always does the same in every way, and I will name all his ways as being much like Pharaoh’s. Now he shall still complain like Pharaoh. And will you shepherds be like Pharaoh’s host? Will you boast proudly of your own goodness? Will you say all the fault lies surely in your sheep? You do not keep yourselves from his temptations. Then I will answer you, you sons of men: I have looked for shepherds, but I have not found one.