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has beheld HIS wife filled with SPIRITUAL putridness--SPIRITUAL
sickness, that is UNTO DEATH, unless it is PURGED OUT OF US!
Jesus GAVE HIMSELF for His CHURCH--that He might present it
to Himself--at His coming--a GLORIOUS CHURCH, not having spiritual
spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it should be HOLY,
and WITHOUT BLEMISH! (Ephesians 5:25-27.)
Yes, He paid the SUPREME PRICE that we might be HOLY, and
WITHOUT spiritual blemish! And Jesus has looked down upon HIS
beloved wife, whom HE loves, as I so deeply love my wife. And as
I have seen my wife about to die unless purged of this physical
poison, so JESUS sees HIS wife--OUR CHURCH--about to die for
eternity, unless WE are purged of our SPIRITUAL poison!
Brethren, Jesus has been giving me a little bit of
understanding of HOW HE FEELS! We have been GRIEVING Him! Yes, He
has been GRIEVED because of us! I wonder if He is not shedding
spiritual tears! He LOVES us. We are His WIFE! We are so
PRECIOUS to Him!
WHY has Almighty God DELAYED the miracle that will heal my
wife? She would have died about two weeks ago, had not God already
performed MIRACLES. After ten days or more of complete stoppage
both at top and bottom--unable to hold nourishment or even water on
her stomach--every few minutes sipping a little water, and also
dissolving chopped ice in her mouth--then throwing it up again--
after so many DAYS of that, and cramps and pains of agony over her
abdomen--suddenly she was able to hold liquids in her stomach. She
has since been able to take small amounts of homemade grape juice,
carrot juice, even some straight beef juice, gelatin, etc. This
has tended to keep up her strength and energy to some extent
--though it is very weak, for she has had no food for almost a
month.
The last two days God has given us a few very small
evidences of ENCOURAGEMENT.
God KNOWS how seriously she is needed, now, in this final
GREAT PUSH of His great Work. We KNOW it is His will to save her.
He started His Work with and through her--STARTED the Work that has
resulted in bringing YOU into His Church--God says He WILL NOT STOP
THE WORK HE HAS BEGUN! "The Eternal intervenes on my behalf.
...Thou wilt not drop the Work thou hast begun." (Psalm
138:8--Moffatt Translation.)
God used Zerubbabel as His human instrument in charge of
the building of the temple at Jerusalem, in the days of Ezra and
Nehemiah. That temple was a TYPE of the BUILDING that is HIS
CHURCH today.
God said to Zerubbabel, as He makes very plain to ME,
whom--with MY Wife--He has used to build THIS BUILDING which is His
CHURCH of this era--"Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit,
saith the ETERNAL of hosts." (Zech. 4:6.) Today this Work is well
organized. It has reached a status of some financial and material
POWER. But all this physical power is as NOTHING! The Work can go