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When one is sent by Jesus to right what is wrong, he is rejected. They claim
the one sent is a lost sheep, and pay little attention while attempting to
reform him. However, Jesus addresses this issue, expressing what a true
shepherd would do: “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses
one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go
after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it
on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors
together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you
that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner
who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to
repent.”
(Luke 15: 4-7)
One is considered lost, but because he repented, he
turned precisely around, hearing the word and following Jesus
−
as Jesus
has instructed.
The spiritual light of faith within this world has diminished greatly to no
more than a mere flicker. The Father no longer honors the foolishness of
humanity shrouded in darkness. The holy places, structures, are no longer
holy because of what occurs within; metaphorically, the head is cut off. The
order of Melchizedek is reestablished; one sent by the Father will rebuild a
new city, within which a spiritual body of many constitutes a spiritual
church [not necessarily a structure]. The builders rejected the stone that was
once part of the rock; this mere stone will become the capstone; the
finishing work of rebuilding the church as Jesus prophesied.
Jesus is the man clothed in linen
(Daniel 13:7)
who was above the waters. On
the opposite bank, a mere man was in Jesus’ presence, and Jesus anointed
the mere man which was essential to be in Jesus’ presence, as revealed in
Daniel’s vision. This man was once spiritually dead, but is now raised to
life, spiritually reborn of the Virgin; he is symbolically Jesus’ brother—a
son of the Father. The woman clothed in the sun is his Mother, as the
book of Revelations describes: “A great and wondrous sign appeared in
heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a
crown of twelve starts on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain
as she was about to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven: an
enormous red dragon with seven heads and then horns and seven crowns
on his heads. His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung
them to the earth. The dragon [Satan] stood in front of the woman who
was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it
was born.
She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an