“‘And let’s add this as well. Throughout the whole Christian world
there is a saying that those who are part of the church form the body of
Christ and are in his body. How then can people who belong to the
church go to God the Father without going through the One whose
body they are in? Otherwise they would have to go completely outside
that body to go to the Father.’
“Finally, we informed them, ‘Today the Lord is establishing the new
church meant by the New Jerusalem in the Book of Revelation [Revela-
tion 3 : 12 ; 21 : 2 , 10 ]. In it there will be worship of the Lord alone, as there
is in heaven. This is fulfilling everything contained in the Lord’s prayer from
beginning to end.’
“To support all these points we used the Word in the Gospels and in
the Prophets, and we quoted so much from the Book of Revelation,
which from beginning to end is about this church, that they became
tired of hearing it.
[ 9 ] “Annoyed at all this, those Armageddonites wanted to interrupt
our diatribe now and then. Finally they broke in and shouted, ‘You have
spoken against the doctrine of our church, which teaches us to go
directly to God the Father and believe in him. You have made yourselves
guilty of violating our faith. Therefore go away from here. If you don’t,
you will be thrown out.’
“Their minds became inflamed with their own threats and soon
turned toward action, but then by a power given to us we struck them
with a blindness. Because they couldn’t see us, as they went on the attack
they ran off in the wrong direction. Some fell down into the great pit
mentioned in Revelation 9 : 2 , which is now on the eastern side of the
southern region. The spirits there support a belief in justification by faith
alone. The people there who are using the Word to support that belief are
now being sent into a desert in which they are taken all the way to the
farthest edge of the Christian world. There they are being integrated
among pagans.”Redemption
114 It is known in the church that the Lord has two roles, a priestlyone and
a royalone. Few know, however, what each role consists of; therefore
they will be described. In his priestly role the Lord is called Jesus; in his