God's Truth: in the midst of their congregation...

Dearly beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, how that one day is with the Lord, as a thousand year, and a thousand year as one day. The Lord is not slack to fulfil his promise, as some men count slackness: but is patient to us ward, and would have no man lost, but would receive all men to repentance.

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Behold in a nightmare of the dark season ...of the times and time ..of the season of man ...see son of man ...

and i was taken and shown a man ...

and the man was a visitor of a family ...

and the wife and the husband had in...invited the man into their house ...

and they had spoke much of God and the word of God ...

and the wife and the husband had declared themselves christians ...

and wanted the visitor to go with them to their church ...

evenso the visitor was wary ...

and wanted not to go into any church ...

nevertheless the wife and the husband con...vinced him ...to go ...

and said the more of how relaxed the church was ...

and how non religious it was ...

and it was just a bunch of people who like to get together in the name of God ...

and to talk about what God has done for them in their life ...

evenso the visitor was wary ...yet went ...

Now in the midst of the gathering the people began ...to say the Lord did this ...

and the Lord did that ...

and sang a song or two ...

and the visitor looked outside were the children were playing ...

and the children were having races ...

and secretly betting money ...on who was faster ...

and they ran here and there and ran many diverse races ...

and bet on them all ...secretly ...

Nevertheless back ...within ...within the church ...building ...there was a pretence ...of being relaxed ..

evenso there was men who sat ...along a wall ...

and the men looked over the whole gathering ...facing it ...

and it was a sure thing that they had power over the proceedings ...

and they looked steadfast on the visitor ...

and that with stern discernment ...

Now within the visitor ...came a moaning ...

and an horrible lament ...

and so much so that it was like a man who had lost his child ...

and the visitor rose up and began to speak over the whole of the place ...

and to say that before God there is no church ...only hearts ...and souls ...and minds ...

and only in spirit and truth ...

and that they were reading lies of the bibles of man ...

and there came a mocking against the visitor ...

and they jested ...saying so now we have a prophet among us ...ha ha ha ...

and the woman who had invited the visitor ...rose up ...

and tried to explain away ...the speaking of the visitor ...

evenso the visitor spoke on ...

even in spirit and truth ...in such a rebuke...that the whole place be set aside ...

nevertheless in the midst of the visitors speaking ...there came a disturbing ...

and a waking up ...

and scripture came back to remembrance ...

THE GOSPELL OF ST. MARK Chpt 14

And Jesus answered and said unto them: ye be come out as unto a thief with swords and with staves, for to take me. I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but that the scriptures should be fulfilled. And they all forsook him and ran away. And there followed him a certain young man, clothed in linen upon the bare, and the young men caught him, and he left his linen and fled from them naked. And they led Jesus away to the highest Priest of all: and to him came all the high Priests, and the elders, and the Scribes. And Peter followed him a great way off even into the palace of the high priest, and sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.
      And the high Priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesu, to put him to death and found none. Yet many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together. And there arose certain and brought false witness against him, saying. We heard him say: I will destroy this temple made with hands, and within three days I will build another, made without hands. But their witness agreed not together.
      And the highest Priest stood up amongst them, and asked Jesus saying: answerest thou nothing? How is it that these bear witness against thee? And he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again the highest Priest asked him, and said unto him: Art thou Christ the son of the blessed? And Jesus said: I am. And ye shall see the son of man sit on the right hand of power, and come in the clouds of heaven. Then the highest priest rent his clothes and said: what need we any further of witness? Ye have heard the blasphemy, what think ye? And they all gave sentence that he was worthy of death. And some began to spit at him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to say unto him, *arede unto us. And the servants buffeted him on the face.
      And as Peter was beneath in the palace, there came one of the wenches of the highest priest: and when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked on him, and said: was not thou also with Jesus of Nazareth? And he denied it saying: I know him not, neither *wot I what thou sayest. And he went out into the porch, and the cock crew. And a damsel saw him: and again began to say to them that stood by, this is one of them. And he denied it again. And *anon after, they that stood by, said again to Peter: surely thou art one of them, for thou art of Galile, and thy speech agreeth thereto. And he began to curse and to swear saying: I know not this man of whom ye speak. And again the cock crew, and Peter remembered the word that Jesus said unto him: before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice, and began to weep

The Truth of the "time" we are in ...

in the midst of their congregation...