INTERPRETATION!                   DFO 282A                  12/73

         1. I'll not back down on anything that has been a direct prophecy from the Lord!--That I KNOW is the Word of God! But with a lot of the assumptions or guesses or whatever you want to call them, of my natural reasoning, when I say, "I think so-&-so is going to happen", I could be mistaken. I could be wrong. But I haven't been very often!
         2. I'd rather have the warning & not need it, than need the warning & not have it! But I don't like it when somebody says I predicted the exact day of the fall of America!
         3. What the Lord says is going to happen, when He gives a direct prophecy or direct revelation, I believe with all my heart it's going to happen!--Not always the way we think it's going to happen, but it's going to happen.
         4. But for God's sake, don't go 'round telling people we know the day America's going to fall! That is a very BAD thing to do & a very dangerous thing to go around saying, because I NEVER SAID IT! So when it doesn't happen they're going to say I'm a false prophet!
         5. I'm really leery about time prophecies! So, how could so many people have the gall to write me such a letter? Now, if they were just stupid little children & it was just plain childish ignorance, I'd forgive them. You don't blame poor little kids for making stupid little mistakes, they're just children. But those people who are supposed to be LEADERS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO READ MO LETTERS & KNOW WHAT THEY SAY! But, I got a TERRIBLE spirit off the letter!
         6. It was like the voice of Satan taunting me: "Ha! You're predicting the fall of America on a certain date! Now watch & see what happens! I'm going to prove you're a false prophet!" Those poor little ignorant kids.--They may not have meant anything by it, but if that's what they thought I said, they were deluded by the Devil & they had better get in better tune & they'd better read those Letters more carefully. They'd better be more in the Spirit than that!
         7. Sometimes I bend over backwards to try to keep from being too specific. I CAN'T be specific because GOD NEVER TOLD ME that America was going to fall on any particular date. God has told us time & time & time again that AMERICA IS GOING TO FALL. All signs point in that direction, but it's like CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE UNTIL GOD SPECIFICALLY STATES IT! If GOD says it's going to fall on a certain date, that's a different story. But if He doesn't say a specific date, neither can we! Sometimes God likes to keep you in the dark about the exact times, exact hours or days because some people will always wait till the last minute.
         8. You guys mustn't take my guesses & my suggestions as the law! God is His Own Boss & He is going to do things the way HE sees fit. I believe SOMETHING'S going to happen. When I say, "I believe", you guys, GBY, you're so trusting, well then it's going to happen. Just because I BELIEVE it's going to happen, doesn't necessarily MEAN it's going to happen!
         9. Noah didn't know HOW it was going to happen either, I suppose he thought it was going to happen right away, very soon, especially as soon as he got the Ark built. But he waited days & days & days after he got the Ark built before it even started raining.
         10. Also, any outstanding new revelations which come to YOU first & not to ME I'd be leery of! I'm inclined to believe that the Lord would reveal things to ME before He'd reveal them to YOU! Now if they are an enlargement or confirmation or a little more detail about something that God has already given you through me, that's fine--it's like the Bible. It's like what GOD has given me is filling in some of the details of Biblical Truth. -
         11. But I'd be leery of anything that is totally new & not in the Bible or not in the MO Letters! You've got to watch out about misinterpreting what people say, twisting words.
         12. Prophets are only men & women & they are fallible & they can misunderstand & they can misinterpret & I can be wrong, dead wrong with an interpretation. I have misinterpreted certain things because I rejected the first answer I got. BUT ALMOST ALWAYS THE FIRST ANSWER I GET IS THE RIGHT ONE! Sometimes I have rejected that answer because I just couldn't believe it.--It was hard to believe. I gave you a sample of how God leads us in interpretation in "The Frog". (See No.275) Maybe the Lord just wanted you to see how it's a battle & how you learn.--How God showed me the first answer was the right one, but I just couldn't believe it. So, if I reject some of the things I get because they're hard to believe & I try to search around for another meaning, I could misinterpret something.
         13. When you reject the Truth, God lets you have delusion. I'm human & the only thing I really know is what God says.--But my interpretation of it could be mistaken. So far I don't think I have been, believe it or not! If you read those old Letters you'll find that it's pretty close to the truth, all down the line.--It's all happened just the way the Lord showed me. A lot of that was not direct prophecy, but the Lord showed me those things nevertheless, so I certainly have to give Him the credit for it. If there's anything wrong, then they can blame ME for it, it wasn't the LORD'S fault!
         14. Many things I say in the Letters I am saying as my INTERPRETATION or even my GUESS, that this is what I THINK is going to happen, but that doesn't necessarily make it so. So far it has happened, praise God!
         15. What God has said I KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt! But exactly what's going to happen, how it's going to happen, to what it's going to happen & when it's going to happen, that I DON'T know.--And WHETHER WE WILL KNOW IT HAS HAPPENED OR NOT, I DON'T KNOW! (See also No.2210)

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