Chapter 4
The words of Ouranothen: By the grace and power of the Creator, God of all peoples, faith be yours and within you, for your own redemption.
First come signs and presentiments, then belief, and after that faith, which is followed by works.
And this law is for all the living, whether man, bird, beast, or creeping thing; there being signs and presentiments to all the living, according to what concerns them.
Behold, the times of heaven and earth are made of summers and winters (cycles, seasons) for all things: a time when the harvest of one revelation or one doctrine comes to its ripening, and a time afterward when it is gathered in by the Father, and is known no more (except, perhaps, as a myth).
To one age, God bestows revelation on man, according to what is good for man, but when it has fulfilled its work, God gathers it in, and bestows another revelation.
Such are the works of Jehovih, neither can man nor angels stop His hand.
To Greece, to Egypt and to India, He gave many self-Gods. According to the necessities of the times and the light of man, so that man could be raised up through belief and faith, so did He give them self-Gods and doctrines suited to them.
And man became tenacious of his self- Gods, truly making idols of them, and depending on the self-Gods and angels to accomplish, by intercession and otherwise, man’s ultimate exaltation in heaven.
So man ceased to work out his own salvation, depending on his self-Gods to save him, even in his crimes and blasphemy.
And Jehovih caused disbelievers and signs and miracles to overrun these peoples, and He raised new prophets to them, rebuking them for their unrighteous behavior.
The adherents of the past revelations rose up in might and slew the prophets of God, declaring them breakers of the laws of man.
Nevertheless it came to pass with all these peoples, their many self-Gods went away from them, and the new revelations took root in the persecution and death of God’s prophets.
Such are the cycles upon the earth; they are as the harvests of the Almighty, which He gives to the different periods of His creations.
Here is wisdom, O man, to heed the signs of Jehovih’s seasons, and the march of His dominion on the earth.
Not allowing yourself to become bound by things of the past while the signs of the Almighty rise up before you.
Neither judge the ways of God by the little that is done in a corner, nor by prejudices deep- rooted in your own understanding, because of your birth and surroundings.
But survey broadly over all the earth, considering what is good for all people, as to whether the doctrines and revelations are powerful enough to abolish poverty and war and all manner of crimes among men.
This is the guide your Creator gave to you, so that you could learn to prophesy concerning the administration of your God; remembering that Jehovih is the only master of life and death (because whomever He has quickened into life is His, and death is His decree in His own time and way).
And whoever comes between man and his Creator, visiting death upon his brother, wages war against his Creator.
Life and death are Mine, says Jehovih.
Whoever then presumes to engage in death no longer fulfills the righteousness of God.
By which sign you shall judge all people who engage in war, and know in truth whether their doctrines and their self-Gods are appropriate to establishing the Father’s kingdom on earth.
Not allowing yourself to be blinded by their pretensions and professions of peace, but by their practice, observing if they have more faith in weapons of war and standing armies than in Jehovih.
This is one of the signs also, in addition to the infidelity and necromancy, from which you shall surely prophesy that the old doctrines and revelations have fulfilled their time with mortals.