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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

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