The Oahspe Project

Book of Judgment

Chapter 29

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God said: In past times, I commanded you, saying: Go forth into all the world, preaching my doctrines, chief of which was: There is only ONE, even the I AM; Him you shall love with all your heart, mind and soul, and love your neighbor as yourself, having faith in Jehovih through righteousness and good works.

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Moreover I declared to you, that whoever fulfilled my commandments, believing in Jehovih, certain signs would be given to them, by which they would be known to men.

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And you went forth; and, behold, my signs went with you, and you did accomplish service to Jehovih.

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But it came to pass, in the course of time, you did forsake your Creator, setting up Lords and Saviors of your own, worshipping them instead of Jehovih.

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And I looked down upon you from my holy place in heaven, and I saw that you had become obsessed with evil spirits, thousands and millions of them, who professed to be the Lords and Saviors whom you worshipped.

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And I said to my Lords: Behold, man has erected an idol in heaven, go to those who preach in my name, and take from them the signs and miracles which I gave.

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And my Lords came to you, finding you had gone abroad over the whole world. And my Lords cut you short of signs and miracles.

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For this was the judgment of your God against you, because you had turned against the I AM, teaching another God other than Jehovih.

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And I made this, my edict, manifest on the earth; for I withdrew my holy angels from you, and from that time forward, wherever you have gone, behold, I have given you none of the signs, with which I had been liberal before.

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And I measured the work of your hand in the places of your mission, and I found that you were impotent to establish good works.

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And wherever you had gone, thousands and millions of drujas followed you in your path; and your people went with weapons of destruction, slaughtering those Jehovih had created alive, in order to establish your idol-God.

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And my Lords numbered all the places of your missionaries around the earth, and behold, there was not one place that you had established, which was not given up to sin and blasphemy against Jehovih.

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Neither had you raised up any member, or members, in all them, who practiced even the first commandments.

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And I said to you: Behold, you do not have the signs and miracles; give up your preaching, and go among the barbarians, teaching them how to plant, sow, reap, clothe themselves and to live in houses.

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But this was distasteful to you in your hypocrisy; and you turned your occupation into a scheme to live in worthlessness on the contributions of your neighbors.

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And behold, your doctrines have not prospered to work righteousness for the glory of the Almighty, in any place in the whole world.

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Do not flatter yourself that you have done a good work, because you have taught the ignorant to say: Brahma, Brahma! or, Buddha, Buddha! or, Lord, Lord! or, to sing anthems in praise of your idol-God.

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Your God measures you and your converts according to such purification as adds to the glory of everlasting life, in heaven as well as on earth. And such purification manifests not only in words, but in good works for the glory of the Father.

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And when it has come to pass that your mission brought about a war afterward, behold, that war is also upon your head.

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I do not measure a little good that happens for a moment, and there an end. I comprehend the lapse of scores of years and hundreds of years; and I weigh the whole matter, and render judgment in the aggregate.

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Neither do I judge by man’s inventions or mechanical contrivances. My judgments are in reference to man’s comfort and joy in life, and to his resurrection in my heavens.

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According to a man’s, or a people’s, ascending grade in approximating Jehovih, so shall a man and a people be judged.