THE CITY OF BURIED TREASURE!              GP 324          12/74

         1. I had a dream: It was about the Buried City & the holes in the rocks! It's about the prospector & the city that was built in Moses' day, & about all the golden money inside.
         2. You look through the rocks & these holes in the rocks make a picture of a Prospector chopping in the rocks. And if you look at the point of his pick where he's chopping, you can see through THIS cliff & you look across this big wide Valley at the face of another cliff miles away, & if you look at it just right, at the point of his pick, it points to this City buried in the OTHER cliff!
         3. They were built in Moses' day. And when you go over there, clear across the Valley--it's a long way--you find these big buildings imbedded into the cliff like they were carved out of the cliff, like Petra.
         4. And you go inside & you look through this little hole & there's a big cavern--a big cave--& there's lots of golden money scattered around, gold pieces & stuff like that. But if you've gone through the little hole to get in, you can't get out again 'cause the hole's too small.
         5. (Maria: So then what?) That's the end! All you can do is pass the gold out through the hole, but you can't get out. (Maria: Did you go through the hole?) Yes. (Maria: What happened?) I was stuck inside & all I could do was pass the gold outside to the people.--If there was any more, I don't remember. I found the gold for THEM, but I couldn't get out. YOU had to stay out there & help the people. I think it was sort of like death. I had to give my life for the people to get them the gold, & you had to stay outside & hand it to them.
         6. Death is the Devil's due. He's like the death angel. Because according to God's laws, because of the disobedience of Adam & on down, we all have to die because of disobedience & sin. Death is the penalty of physical sin & we all have to suffer the penalty PHYSICALLY of death.
         7. But the minute we die, although the Devil gets to fulfil the law to execute & take our lives physically, we're instantly freed spiritually, liberated from the flesh into the World of the Spirit! So this is why Paul said & flaunted in the face of death, "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"--1Cor.15:55. In other words, we have to die to pay the penalty, but Jesus took the sting out of it!
         8. It's an empty victory for the Devil because he didn't GET us, & actually it's like an escape hatch for us because he can't HAVE us & really TAKE us. Although he's allowed to fulfil the debt, it really escapes his hand.
         9. I guess the gold is the Words! God showed me where to find it & I dug it out of the Moses City like the Bible, the Law, the Truth, God's Words. I guess in a way I had to go inside & find it so I could get it for the people, 'cause they didn't understand it. I had to pick it out piece by piece & feed it through that little hole to the people. There was a lot of it & it was hard work, & when it was all done I couldn't get out.
         10. It was such a pretty valley! The valley was like life, & I had to go into the deep dark cave & die to myself to get the gold out for the people, & in the end I couldn't leave except to die.
         11. I think maybe the prospector must symbolise the Holy Spirit, because She was nothing but holes in rocks that pointed the way, & you can only get at it all through the Spirit.
         12. So you see, I'm just a messenger boy & a guide. I just led the people down the trail to the cliff where they could see through those holes in the Spirit across the beautiful Golden Valley. I guess that's like the New Life, 'cause you could climb through the holes in the cliff to the beautiful Valley & see the City on the other side.
         13. Guides are nobody: All they do is show the way. People pay them to show them how to get there, & it's a matter of life & death, & without the guide they'll never make it. Guides really don't get as much credit as they deserve. They really save people's lives!
         14. The valley of the sun!--The sun!--Jesus is the Son that brightens up our lives when we leave our old gloomy life behind. I remember hearing those words as clear as anything, "It was built in Moses' day"--that must mean the BIBLE embedded in the cliff, in the Rock.
         15. I guess the big cliff & the rock wall is like God. I think the City was even shaped like the Ten Commandments that represent God's Word, but we had to climb up on it, into it, which is hard work. It's hard work studying the Bible, but we really found a gold mine & I passed it out to the people piece by piece. I handed it out to you through that little hole & you passed it on to the people.
         16. AFTER IT'S PASSED OUT TO YOU, YOU & OTHERS HAVE TO ASK THE LORD TO HELP YOU REFINE THE GOLD. It has to be chopped out of the rocks. I found the mine & the pieces of gold but you guys are going to have to break up the rocks & dig it out & refine it.
         17. I'M STUCK HERE ALL BY MYSELF, BUT THE LORD IS WITH ME, & He'll see me through. You can get your hand in & I can hold your hand. That's what keeps me going--your little hand of encouragement. You keep rolling the gold out, encouraging me to go on, to pull it out for the people.
         18. THERE'S NO END TO GOD'S GOOD GOLD!--THE MINE IS FULL OF IT! We'll never get it all, there's always more. We'll never get done--at least not in this life, I guess. But when I get tired & I can't keep going any more, I can lay down & go to sleep. I only keep going for your sake because I know you don't want me to leave, but some day I have to.
         19. We can kiss goodbye through the little hole & I can still love you through the little hole. We'll have a little contact. I can still live on in you. (Prays:) Help her to be faithful, Lord. Give her the strength & courage to go on & help the people mine & refine it & give it to the people in the Valley. We make'm rich with the Gold God's given. But we just pass it on. We can't keep it to ourselves. We have to keep giving it out or it would pile up.
         20. The cave is like the Spirit World & I'm always going in & coming back, but the time will come when I won't be able to make it back.
         21. Are you faithfully mining & refining God's Good Gold of His Words & passing them on to the people? God bless & help you to be good miners, refiners & distributors of His golden Words!--Amen?--I love you!

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