Who Are We Then?

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From: Samuel Kingston
To: Shulemna Mailing List
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998

We are as salt that has lost it's savor and is good for nothing but to be tossed out and trodden under foot...

That's who we are...

Prophets came, we wouldn't listen...
Torches lit up the darkened sky...
Years gone by...
Where is the city with streets of Gold?
Our fathers cry from the dust and tell us we've wandered... tell us we've wandered...

Joseph was sent to us to build Zion... to be a messiah like Enoch and Melkesidek to prepare us to walk into the millenium....

He gave us consecration and polygamy, laws of love and sacrifice
He taught us of things we could bairly comprehend about the nature of God, that we could all be gods, and populate our own worlds....

But we couldn't love our fellow man... couldn't live consecration...
Our cities were burned our fathers killed and our wives raped...
Joseph was murdered by people who he had tried to save...
Never forget that attempts were made on his life from within the church before the mob did it...

Then BY lead us to the mountains that JS was heading to before he died. We were supposed to build a nation that was under no law lower than the Celestial but we wanted to trade with the US... we wanted the economic benefits of statehood... we wanted to put up bars for the 49'ers... we wanted fine hats and cloths... we wanted money... and BY's biggest fear came true... we became RICH... we stopped gathering and made deals with the government and adulterated our beliefs until 1904 we raped the last vestiges of the truth and spit them out for the government so that we could keep our tax exempt status.

We never returned to build up the waste places of Zion after the civil war cleansed the area...

we never came back.... we forgot about it because of our FEAR of the government...

There were other chances along the way but piece by piece we let go of one truth after another till even the leaders bairly remember that it used to be different...

The destroyer has destroyed most of the church and only a remnant might be left but even they are out of order.....

Then we removed the last vestiges from the temple, changing the very ordinance of resurrection and making it impossible to turn the hearts of fathers to the children and children to the fathers to complete our temple work for the dead... our sealings are null and void and now according to ISAIAH "therefor hath the curse devoured the earth and the earth is burned and few men left"... or according to JS the earth will be utterly wasted at his coming...

That's who we are....

It's true... if you are not one you are not his... Unity... Love and UNITY... unity cannot be achieved with dissention Unity cannot be achieved with error and argument

And he gave some apostles and prophets, teachers and priests TILL WE ALL COME TO THE UNITY OF THE FAITH...

Leaders were there only till we could all see as we are seen, and believe one thing together with one mind and one heart... Debate brings learning sometimes but usually only argument... we must learn to learn... to communicate in purity, to try to understand each other and eventually to speak the same language.... UNITY... unity... unity...

You want to find Zion? look for these four things....

1. Unconditional serving love.
2. Unity, complete unity.
3. Stability and unwavering unchanging consistency.
4. Freedom and order without compulsion

The phrase, "some things never change with time" is very significant. When you find things that endure over the ages without falling apart and without changing you find a piece of eternity... a piece of truth... a piece of god... for god is not a changeable person... sure he grows but he is consistent or he ceases to be god.

Samuel

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