Response to Essay: Davidic Servant as Pattern, Not Pedestal

Dear Sterling:

Beautifully put! Thanks for the clarity!

Love, Max [S.]

California; 7/12/99

"Good job on the writing you sent today. Keep trying, it will work out for
those who have an ear to listen."

Carl Waln; Native American; Denver, Colorado; 7/11/99

"AMEN brother."

Dave C.; Santaquin, Utah; 7/11/99

Sterling,

I love you. I appreciate our friendship. I will have to take a different position regarding your post. I hope I can find the time to type it out more fully. I hope to respond to this in the next week. In the meantime, hopefully, someone else will.

In summary, however, the Davidic King is substantiated by scripture and will be a real live single person who has been commissioned by the Lord to do his work. He will show up during the time of the tribulation of the Assyrian King and occupation of the USA, or before the closing of the Sixth Seal. He is an Elias, a harbinger, a heralder of the second coming of the Lord. He will have the keys of the kingdom. He has the right to preside over the Church, using all the keys now held by the president of the church. He will be rejected, jailed and marred beyond recognition, but being a translated being, his body will reheal itself He defeats the Assyrian King, and will be the only one able to do this, with a few of his followers, as did Gideon defeat the 120,000 Midianite army with his 300. He will have the authority to command the angels who are commissioned to wreak natural havoc on the earth. He has the fullness of the priesthood, or the power of Elijah. He has power over the elements. He is to come to gather the tribes of Israel and restore all things. He will call and seal the 144,000 translated beings. He is someone you would like to hang out with!!

Rich Kuchinsky

7/12/99

[Ed Note; I essentially agree.  My point is that the above description, for the most part, will fit many who do the work of the Lord, and is not meant to be accomplished solely by one, untouchable hot shot.]

"Hi Sterling,

Your words were right online (this is the Internet).

...My knowing is that we are sacred beings living in sacred times and as we communicate things that have been given by spirit it opens the understanding & lifts & awakens - (AND there is an awakening occurring- finally) The Day Dawn is breaking - the World is Awakening & the awakening is when we gain the communication w/ GOD.

Here [is an] experience[] to confirm your understanding - I've always asked for confirmation to make sure I stayed "online".

...I feel you're right that there will be many many prophets as we awaken to who we are - and no one is better than anyone else - some have awaken earlier is all.  ...The prophets will be normal people in the last days.

My friend . . . said, "Oh No - he will have to be like unto MOSES & will have to do yadayadayado. . ."

Soon after the spirit prompted me to go into the kitchen to teach my children a specific lesson (can't remember what) so I did & I saw my son (he was probably 9) looking out the window. The spirit (thought process) told me what was happening - So I said to my son - "Son what are you looking at?

He said "Mom - there's a man dressed in white standing under our apricot tree"

"Who is it?"

My son replied (& the spirit had already told me so his word were confirmation) "MOM IT'S MOSES!"

Sterling - this happened to confirm that the prophetsssss & prophetesses are NORMAL people who have gained the communication w/ God. They are awakening Now."

K.T., Salt Lake City, Utah

These are my feeling about the OMS.

We know that the Lord is going to "set in order the HOUSE of God" (not just the church).

I most certainly believe it will be a resurracted being since the Lord tells us he is to be "clothed with light for a covering" (D&C 85:7) Think about that folks..."clothed with light for a covering". Let's not make the Lord's words too complicated. He's simply telling us this is not going to be an ordinary mortal, it will be an immortal OMHO.

Next in D&C 90:16 the Lord told Joseph Smith "And this shall be your business and mission IN ALL YOUR LIVES, (plural) to preside in council, and SET IN ORDER ALL THE AFFAIRS OF THIS CHURCH AND KINGDOM". Now that's significant that He would use the same group of words...to set in order.

Then if you read D&C 101: 43-62 the Lord talks about the vineyard of the Lord. Though the vineyard got out of order, it was still the Lord's vineyard, and the Lord would yet set His vineyard in order through His servant JS. Read that...... then read D&C 103:21 "Verily, verily I say unto you, that my servant Joseph Smith, Jun. is the man to whom I likened the servant to whom the Lord of the vineyard spake in the parable which I have given unto you."

Does that make sense. I can't interpret it any other way. . . .

Linda Y

7/12/99

. . . The pattern in the scriptures is every time a group trusts in the arm of flesh it ends in disaster. Its seems today's groups are just excellarated microcosms of the scriptural pattern.

Seek to be your own prophet Take the Holy spirit for your guide that no man may lead you astray. As Moses and Joseph Smith said, "Would to God all men were Prophets!"

Love Blayne

Wow! That's so true! We tend to look at the prophets as all knowing "father figures" whom we listen to for direction...when all we really have to do is listen to ourselves. I've learned that if I don't go within, I usually go without. :)

Thanks for sharing!

Zena

7/12/99

My heart sings !!!

YES the Davidic servant, (to me, and those like me), like Christ --- IS A CONCIOUSNESS, OR AN AWAKENING to all men and women and they are the one mighty and strong, and they are the one that over came the world. ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL. and if all are of one heart and one mind, then whom is there to judge ? and with that whom is there to recieve mercy ?? for one cannot exist without the other. All that exists is a understanding of what love really is. ' ALL THINGS I HAVE DONE YOU CAN DO AND EVEN GREATER THINGS' (Jesus).

With this understanding welcome to the oneness that I (we) understand.

love (is light)

Keith

7/13/99

HERE !  HERE !

The same can be said of the coming of Christ.  Could it be that the second coming of Christ will be also an individual thing as each individual becomes "Christed" and finds that divinity within, and learns that he/she really can do what Christ did and more?  Christ was the way-shower.  I doubt that he is comfortabe with being pedestalized.  He would rather we see him as a peer, one from whom we can learn of our enormous potential as the "Gods" he said we are.

Lynn Call

7/14/99

        ["For if you keep my commandments you shall receive of his fulness, and be glorified in me as I am in the Father; therefore, I say unto you, you shall receive grace for grace." (D&C 93:20.)]