THE DIVISION!    DO 716   6/78
--A Revelation about "The Coming Division," No.117A.

         1. I was tracing back trying to figure out what went wrong, what caused the conditions which persisted before the RNR, this tremendous difference between MY ways & CHAIN policies, the way the Chain was operating.
         2. Instead of operating in LOVE, with tender loving care for the sheep, which the administration of the Chain was supposed to be doing, it had become a BONDAGE & a SLAVERY with slave drivers & tyrants extorting more than was due from the poor people & laying on them burdens, prohibitions & restrictions too heavy to bear.--Pr.11:24; Mat.23:4.
         3. I was wondering how this kind of a difference could have ever possibly developed between me & the other officers. It came to me clearly that this was like the difference between the house of DAVID & the house of SAUL, the House of the SPIRIT & the house of the FLESH, the house of LOVE & the house of LAW.
         4. The officers of the Chain had become too legalistic & too hard, unloving & merely extorting quotas & funds, & had missed the meaning of existence: To convey LOVE to the people & to show LOVE to the World.
         5. THIS was the "COMING DIVISION!" (Read "Coming Division!", Vol.1, No.117A.)--This was the other thing the Lord spoke to my heart just as clearly as anything!
         6. This was the division that had grown between us & the Chain, because some of the Chain had become so unlike us & unlike our policies & our spirit.
         7. It all had begun a long time ago with the differences between MY policies of even running the camp at TSC & Jeth & Deborah's harder policies.
         8. As they & those chosen & trained by them continued in leadership even in Europe, they had continued to grow in that direction. While I was busy with the Letters & they were busy with the governmental administration & the finances, they seemed to lean more & more on the arm of FLESH, like Saul, & were less & less led of the SPIRIT.
         9. THE SAD PART ABOUT IT WAS THAT THEY PASSED THIS SAME ATTITUDE ON TO THE OFFICERS THEY CHOSE & the leaders they trained, their attitudes & their examples, the way they lived, so materialistic, so fleshly, so hard on others, so legalistic, so letter-of-the law, so unloving.
         10. THIS ALL BEGAN LONG, LONG AGO with THEIR side of the house, the house of SAUL, & it was a real genuine division between me, my way of doing things, my attitude, my policies of love & being led of the Lord in contrast to their hard, cold, tyrannical, materialistic legalistic enforcement of the law, extortion, etc.
         11. THE OLD CHURCH HAD FORSAKEN THE LORD, HIS LOVE, AND HIS LOVING POLICIES & had gotten to where she hardly even knew Him anymore, didn't fellowship with Him, didn't go to bed with Him, didn't have sweet love & thrilling spiritual ecstasies with Him, & was out of fellowship with the Lord & out of tune & out of practice regarding His loving policies.
         12. SO IT ALL FOLLOWED ALONG THE SAME LINE, not only Jeth & Deb & the leaders they chose, but the leaders which followed them, including the TOP leadership that they trained, TOP VIPs & the leaders THEY chose.
         13. ALL FELL INTO THIS SAME SPIRIT OF HARDNESS, DICTATORIALNESS, a lofty, exalted feeling of being a certain clique of top echelon leadership who were superior to the peasants below, & that trained their leaders along this same line & imparted to them the same spirit, the same policies, the same attitudes.
         14. BUT WE HAD PLACED THE GOVERNMENT & THE MATERIAL WELFARE & FINANCES OF THE KINGDOM INTO THE HANDS OF THESE OTHERS & they carried it out then in their OWN way, in that HARD way instead of OUR way, with so little love for the sheep, & so little concern for their welfare by some.
         15. SO AS MARIA & I BEGAN TO READ THIS "DIVISION" PROPHECY, WE SAW HOW AMAZINGLY THIS PROPHECY & PREDICTION FITS THE RECENT SITUATION OF THE CHAIN, & how completely & almost totally divorced it had become from US & OUR policies & the way of LOVE & the LORD!
         16. THE FAMILY IS NOT TO BE THAT WAY IN ANY WAY! Even Mother Eve & Stephen had gotten into that separatist, divisive spirit of the house of Saul & its hard, legalistic, materialistic policies, led of the law, not OUR law but what THEY thought was right, regardless of our declared FAMILY policies in the LETTERS!
         17. THEY INTERPRETED THE LETTERS TO SUIT THEMSELVES, wresting the Scriptures, until Mother Eve & Stephen themselves seem to be almost totally deceived & led astray by the Enemy into false doctrines, false prophecies & extreme disobedience!
         18. THEY HAVE DRIVEN MANY PEOPLE AWAY & LOST THEM AS FRIENDS by their foolish antics, some of them sexual indiscretions to say the least, particularly some of Stephen's wild sexual forays on other people's wives without the consent of the people's mates, without agreement & unity, & insisting that they share, or even take away wives of others or their mates!
         19. SO EVE & STEVE & SOME HAVE GONE FAR, FAR ASTRAY. They've created much confusion & division & caused many of our own disciples & our own Family to wonder what in the World is going on & who's right & who's wrong & what in the World is the matter?
         20. "WHY ARE THINGS IN SUCH A STATE OF CONFUSION & DISAGREEMENT? What DAD'S spirit seems to be in the Letters is so DIFFERENT from what the LEADERS say & THEIR spirit!"--The leaders both WITHIN the Chain & followers of Jethro & Deborah & others they have trained, as well as those WITHOUT the Chain, like Mother & Stephen & their particular little division.
         21. SO IT ALL BEGAN TO TAKE SHAPE, & the picture began to become clearer as I obeyed the Lord & began to read this seven-year-old prophecy & to see how this terrific division between me & the leadership had already come to pass, that this WAS the "Coming Division" spoken of in this prophecy.
         22. THERE HAD ALREADY COME A GREAT DIVISION BETWEEN ME & THE LEADERSHIP, me & the Chain, me & its policies & conduct, spirit & attitude, sometimes totally contradictory to the Letters & even to my orders!
         23. THEY DECLARED POLICIES THAT I NEVER APPROVED OF & PASSED THEM ON AS THOUGH THEY CAME FROM ME--literally deceiving the people into thinking they were getting these things from ME & that this was the way I was!
         24. THIS WAS THAT OF WHICH THE LORD HAD SPOKEN--THIS TERRIFIC DIVISION between me & the Chain, between me & the leadership & its policies & its spirit.
         25. IT WAS NOT SOMETHING YET TO COME & to fear for the FUTURE, but something that had ALREADY HAPPENED & HAD BEEN in process for YEARS! But it particularly had full sway after I left London in 1974 and left the direct supervision of the governmental and financial administration in the hands of Jethro & Deborah & others.
         26. WE WENT TO TENERIFE & WERE GONE EXACTLY 3-1/2 YEARS, the 3-1/2 years predicted by one of our prophets 7 years ago, that the division would last 3-1/2 years! This is EXACTLY the length of time from the very day that I left London to the day that I returned to move into the same house with top leadership near Madrid & began to re-take the reins of government & administration--almost exactly 3-1/2 years to the day!
         27. SO THAT'S THE STORY, the "Division" prophecy, & you can read it for yourself!--It's all right there! There's no need for me to take time in this Letter to go over it in detail. But it begins in Paragraph number 11, which is actually the first paragraph of this particular division prophecy.
         28. THE FOLLOWING ARE COMMENTS TO GO ALONG WITH THIS LETTER, "COMING DIVISION," Number 117A, as you read it: (11:) "Even as Saul..." This is so true of some of those leaders, particularly those who began in the beginning.
         29. THEY LEANED MORE TO THEIR OWN UNDERSTANDING & forgot to acknowledge the Lord in all their ways, so they went astray.
         30. EVEN THOUGH THEY DID HAVE TALENT & administrational ability & knack for raising money, I loved HIM more & didn't follow my own understanding but HIS.
         31. AND WITH ALL THIS WAYWARD LEADERSHIP, it was bad enough WITH them, but at least there was SOME organisation then. But WITHOUT them, since they had NOT trained their under-leaders nor followers to take responsibility when they were gone, things were left leaderless & in confusion!
         32. BUT THE LORD HAS PULLED US THROUGH, PTL! "And many shall say, 'This was the Lord's doing, is it not marvellous in our eyes!'"--Mat.21:42. It certainly is, particularly my recent healing when I nearly died over it all! Thanks for praying!
         33. "AND OTHERS SHALL GO BACK FROM FOLLOWING AFTER THEE ANY MORE BECAUSE THEY ARE OFFENDED."--And that has happened with quite a few. (16:) "...For I have made thee according to MY Will, & this one by thy side according to MY pleasure."--MARIA specifically, & YOU in general.
         34. WELL, WE SURELY HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT FROM THE NATURAL EXPECTATIONS OF MAN! That's one thing that many of our people & leaders could not understand. They have just not even been able to understand our new & radical doctrines & methods, FFing & all, & some were offended.
         35. GOD THROUGH HIS NEW, RADICAL & SHOCKING DOCTRINES & POLICIES through me has offended many of this Old Guard, the Old Bottle leadership & disciples, & many have departed from us because of it, but most survived.
         36. BUT NEVERTHELESS, IT WAS GOD'S WAY OF SIFTING out those who wouldn't take it & those who were rebellious & disobedient. He sifted out the ones who would not agree & who would not follow & would not obey & who rebelled against me & these.
         37. "I...RAISE UP ANOTHER WHO WILL OBEY ME..." The NEW Bride, the NEW Church!--And that's YOU!--YOU who have BELIEVED & OBEYED & remained FAITHFUL & LOYAL through it all! PTL! GBY! ILY!--And you've picked up the pieces & carried on, despite the losses, trials & tribulations & even some defeats & discouragements! Praise God!
         38. THIS HAS "ALL WORKED TOGETHER FOR GOOD" (Rom.8:28) & drawn us closer together & to Him more than ever before!--As so many of your letters have told us! PTL! Thanks again & again! We love you! Keep keeping on for Him! We're WINNING! PG! Hallelujah! He NEVER fails! LOVE never fails!--And YOU won't fail if you trust Him!--Amen?--Amen!
         39. "NOW I BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all SPEAK THE SAME THING, & that there be NO DIVISIONS among you; but that ye be perfectly JOINED TOGETHER in the SAME MIND & in the SAME JUDGEMENT."--1Co.1:10.--According to His WORD & the LETTERS!--Amen? PTL! GBY! ILY!



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