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When I was in my teen years and old enough to understand the error of denominations and allegiances to men in the church, I chose at once to identify myself only with Christ. When asked what denomination I belonged to I would not confess to be a Baptist. I recognized at a young age that some of the Baptist doctrines of the churches I was raised in were wrong. I considered it to be unfaithfulness of Christ to align with the denomination when the word of God taught something else. I would not even confess to being a Protestant. Nor did I claim to be a Calvinist, or espouse agreement with any doctrinal faction created by man. My authority was the Bible and the Spirit of Christ, and it continues to be so. As I wrote to another man in prison recently, “I am not sectarian.”

I Corinthians 1:10-13
Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Yahshua Christ, that you all agree, and there be no divisions among you, but you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment. For I have been informed concerning you, my brethren, by Chloe's people, that there are factions among you. Now I mean this, that each one of you is saying, "I am of Paul," and "I of Apollos," and "I of Cephas," and "I of Christ." Has Christ been divided? Paul was not crucified for you, was he? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

I Corinthians 3:3-4
For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men? For when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are you not mere men?

Ephesians 4:4-6
There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all.
When Paul asks, “are you not walking like mere men?” he is differentiating between spiritual men and fleshly men. To be a “mere man” is to not have been born again of the Spirit of Christ. Those who have been born of the Spirit recognize Christ as their Head, and no other. They may honor those who serve well as ministers, but only to the extent of recognizing that these ministers are also servants of God and should be honored to the extent that they are fulfilling the mind and will of Yahshua.

Due to the instruction of Scripture, I do not define myself as “Protestant,” or of having branched off from Roman Catholicism at some time in the past. I was never part of Roman Catholicism, and view the Roman Church no different than any other interloper such as the Moonies, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Mormons, or the Seventh Day Adventists. They are all creations of man that Yahweh has never recognized as the one true church, and neither do I.

All that I have said which pertains to the Roman Catholic Church pertains to the Eastern Orthodox Church. They too are usurpers. Yahweh does not recognize their claim as the original mother church, nor does He recognize the right of her patriarchs and council to rule over the lives of other believers. In doctrine, the Orthodox Church is nearly as apostate as Rome, for they sprang from the same root of apostasy and usurpation. They are equally filled with idolatrous practices, symbols, and doctrines.

Alex, if you would find the one true church of Christ that you might join yourself to it, you need go nowhere. Consider the words of Christ to the Samaritan woman. The Samaritans represented a schism from the Israelites. They were the descendants of Israelites and Canaanites. The Jews saw them as half-breeds, a polluted lineage. The Jews worshiped at the Temple in Jerusalem, while the Samaritans worshiped elsewhere. There was therefore conflict among them over the proper place and means to worship Yahweh. It was with this backdrop that Yahshua spoke the following words.

John 4:21-24
Yahshua said to her, "Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall you worship the Father. You worship that which you do not know; we worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

True worship is not according to Rome, neither it is according to Constantinople (the seat of the Eastern Orthodox religion). True worship is not in a cathedral, or a tabernacle, or a church building. True worship does not need a bishop or priest to lead it, nor does it need liturgy and ritual. The true worship of Jesus Christ/Yahshua the Messiah is a matter of the Spirit, and those who worship must worship in spirit and in truth.

Alex, you can worship God alone in your cell. You can worship with other true brothers in Christ there in the prison. You need no church, no denomination, no creed. The Spirit of Christ and the Scriptures are sufficient to establish you in truth.

Let me now move on to other issues that will not require such a lengthy response. You are correct that Luther posted his 95 Theses on the door of the church in Wittenburg, not 99. Regarding Adam and Eve being allegory rather than parable, it depends on your definition of the words allegory and parable. I fully acknowledge that Adam and Eve were historical persons and the accounts we have in Genesis of their life and actions are true and not myth or fiction. My use of the word parable encompasses both fictional stories devised to illustrate a point, as well as non-fiction events. I base this definition upon the Bible itself.

Psalms 78:2-3
I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings of old,
Which we have heard and known,
And our fathers have told us.

What are the dark (enigmatic) sayings the psalmist refers to? They certainly include true events of the mighty works of Yahweh from of old. For example, the seven days of creation are mighty works of Yahweh. They are true and historical, yet they are also filled with symbolic meaning. They have both a literal, historical understanding as well as a parabolic interpretation. I have set the parabolic meaning forth in the book The Mark of the Beast in the chapter titled Let Us Make Man in Our Image. I will print out that chapter and include it in this packet.

Yahweh both reveals and conceals knowledge in the Bible. From the first chapter of the opening book of the Bible there are profound parables, for Yahweh could choose to create whatever He desired, in any way He desired to do so. In His great wisdom and power He chose to create all things according to a profound design. Every act of creation, every event of history, is imbued with meaning which awaits the seeker of truth and understanding to search it out. This is true of our forebears, Adam and Eve. Their lives are much more than simple historical events. Their history is pregnant with spiritual meaning to be discovered by those who have eyes to see and ears to hear.

In your letter you asked who the Rothschilds are that I refer to in some of my writings. They are a Jewish family of bankers whose name was Bauer. They took the name Rothschild, meaning “Red Shield.” Mayer Amschel Bauer was born in 1743. His father was a money lender. As an adult Mayer Amschel Rothschild took over the business of his father upon his father’s death. He expanded the business by focusing on loaning money to governments rather than to individuals. He was immensely successful. Mayer Rothshchild had five sons who all entered into his banking business. He set each one up in a major political center in Europe: London, Paris, Frankfurt, Naples and Vienna. They thereby gained control over entire nations through the loaning of money. Mayer Amschel Rothschild is famous for having stated:

"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws."

The Rothschilds represent a hidden hand that controls governments and corporations throughout the world. They are tied in with other global banking and corporate powers such as the Rockefeller family in the United States. They are in effect Satan’s instruments to manipulate the course of world events. The Rothschilds and their associates have been responsible for fomenting wars between and within nations. One of the first wars they precipitated was the French Revolution. They were also responsible for the British attacking the United States during the War of 1812, and for starting both World Wars while financing both sides of the conflict. They are as wicked and deceitful as their master Satan.

The Rothschilds and their associates control the government of the United States for they are the unpublished owners of the Federal Reserve System which controls the money of America. I will print you out an article I wrote some years ago that speaks of some of these things. The article is titled With Malice and Forethought.

In your letter you asked if I am familiar with TOR (The Onion Router). I am familiar with what it is, but I have not used it. I personally believe that those who believe TOR to be a secure alternative to the internet have been deceived. Consider that TOR was developed by the United States Navy Research Laboratory in the mid 1990s. It was further developed by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) in 1997. Seeing that this was a U.S. government, and military funded project, one must ask why the Navy Research Laboratory released the code to the public domain in 2004. I would suggest that the government has developed means to track activity on TOR, but has not disclosed that ability. By releasing the code and having it picked up and promoted by the Electronic Freedom Foundation, an organization that ostensibly supports internet freedom and anonymity, people with illegal or anti-government agendas are duped into believing TOR is a secure way to communicate without discovery by the government. In actuality, the government monitors all the activity on TOR. By aggregating so much illegal and anti-government activity through this one channel the government is thereby able to discover information from people and groups they deem to be threats.

Alex, in the same way that you have been played by the media (all of which is controlled by Rothschild interests and is under the control of 6 mega media corporations) to believe an image of the Pope that is false, the government and media have for years been feeding disinformation to the public regarding their capabilities to monitor communications. Most of the information the government releases is of their capabilities 20 years ago, or the information is patently false. I will include several articles I wrote on the subject of government surveillance and computer (in)security. They are titled:

A Word to the Wise - Big Brother is Watching You
A Little Birdie Told Me
New NSA Products Coming to a Home Near You

Ultimately, there is no way to use the Internet anonymously because the government taps into the data at the hardware level as they access the major routers that control all traffic on the Internet. Having access at this basic level, and the decryption ability to read the most heavily encrypted communications, they essentially see everything. The All-Seeing-Eye is an apt symbol for the government under the rule of Satan. The media is using a disinformation campaign to make the public believe the government’s abilities to monitor Internet communications is far more rudimentary than it actually is. This includes misleading people to believe there are secure ways to use the Internet without discovery. I believe there is good reason to conclude otherwise. If a person wants to be hidden from the prying eyes and ears of Big Brother, they need to get rid of their cell phones, computers, tablets, and all devices with wi-fi, Bluetooth, or other forms of network connectivity (televisions, security systems, GPS units, etc.). This also includes most cars built in the past ten years, especially those with GMC’s OnStar, Ford’s 911 Assist, etc..

I am familiar with permaculture. I have had an interest in similar subjects for some years now. I have some friends right now who are planning a greenhouse that uses aquaponics, combining a form of hydroponic gardening with raising fish in containers. I have probably watched a hundred or more videos on tiny houses, as well as many more on an array of associated subjects.

Thank you for your kind words of appreciation regarding the writings I send out. Regarding your question of whether I have ever considered starting a community of like-minded individuals, my answer would be that I have never given I any serious thought. I have thought about the idea of living in a community such as you described, but I have never sensed any leading from the Father to initiate such a place. One of the foundational principles of the kingdom of God that my life is based upon is that of Sabbath rest. I am not referring to the day of the week that people refer to as Sabbath. Rather, I am speaking of the spiritual truth to which the Sabbath day points (remember God’s design and spiritual parables?).

The principle of Sabbath rest that Yahweh desires all creation to enter into, beginning with a remnant of His people in the church, is to do nothing of one’s own initiative, but to be led of the Spirit of Christ in all that we do. This requires that we come to an end of pursuing “good ideas” that pop into our heads. Yahweh wants us to come to a place of rest in our lives where we move only at His command. If He has not told us to engage in a particular work, then to do so is human striving and it will not profit. Your idea to start a yoga class is an example of this. Even if you did not know the idolatrous origins of yoga, you could avoid error in this matter by committing yourself to only do those things the Spirit of Christ directs you to do.

We are only guaranteed to receive lasting benefit from a work when it is God who has initiated it and it is He who is guiding and empowering the work to go forward. Understanding these things, I would not desire to engage in any work of building a community apart from a clear directive from God’s Spirit, and I have not to date received any such directive.

You actually acknowledged the need to practice Sabbath rest in the next paragraph of your letter as you spoke of “aligning” your will with that of God - “something much easier said than done.”

Regarding the people in the land of Nod, they were also the descendants of Adam and Eve. I have written of this in the book titled Foundations. For now I will be content to supply you with the following verses of Scripture.

Genesis 5:4
Then the days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 3:20
Now the man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

Acts 17:26
And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...

The last subject you raised was rising autism rates. I have read much on the subject and there are various causes that are being linked to the increase. The most convincing arguments and evidence I have seen link autism rates to childhood vaccinations. I will print out two articles from the Internet on the subject.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/01/02/link-between-autism-and-vaccinations.aspx

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/09/22-medical-studies-that-show-vaccines.html

May you be blessed with peace and understanding in these days,

Joseph Herrin

P.S. Thanks for the stamps. There is an excellent book on the history of paganism and how it infiltrated Rome (and by extension the Orthodox Church). The book is called The Two Babylons. I will send you a copy if you are able to receive books in the hole.

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