Preface: The following are letters that God inspired me to write and assign to seven men of God representing the whole of Christendom. Along with them I sent seven paintings that the Lord commissioned me to paint (not included here). All of the letters and paintings pertain respectively to the letters written to the seven churches by Saint John in the Book of Revelation:

Ephesus: Dear man of God, I write you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit inspired by the one true God. God’s touch be upon you. May you be open to it.

I come to you fearful of my call having been entrusted by God to the task at hand. It is the Holy Trinity who empowers me. Glory be to the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

To you and to the whole of Christendom is given a specific painting along with the appropriate words.

“Root out our self-will, oh Lord God, so that we might live according to Your will more completely.”

True is that we have received God’s favor leading us to faith only because of His infinite mercy. Not true is that God calls only those who have done good and not those who have done evil. Rejoice that God’s merciful salvation is offered to all every moment of our lives.

Right now, in our times, great numbers of Christians have done evil and are doing evil in the sight of the Lord. They are in great need of His infinite mercy.

God’s mercy is seen in the fact that we do not need to be superheroes who strive up into heaven to bring Christ down (Rom. 10:6 ) or down into the abyss to bring Christ up from the dead. ( Rom. 10:7 ) God Himself comes to us in Christ. Now justification and salvation are as near to us as is faith in the risen Lord Jesus. ( Rom. 10: 9-10 )

These words are true: “ Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” ( Rom. 10:13 ) However, many twist these words and all of Romans to suit their own hearts rather than see their true meaning which is that mercy is for the Repentant in Christ!

God commands that we heed His voice with all our heart and all our soul. (Deut.30:1-3)Those among us who are praising the Lord and calling upon His name but who are not walking in His ways, who are not keeping His commandments and His statues and decrees, are far from saved. Every Christian who sins gravely, no matter the great praise and worship they may have for Jesus, is in a state of grave danger of being lost for eternity. What good does it do to praise Jesus if you have turned your heart away from God? One must repent and listen and no longer be led astray. Otherwise one will certainly perish.(Deut.30:17-19)( Deut.30:1-20 )

Do not go along with the terrible thinking and acting of this time concerning salvation. Only God can save and only God can judge. Do not say who shall go up to heaven. For that is to bring Christ down lowering Him to your level. And do not say who shall go down to hell. For that is to bring yourself up to His level and even raise yourself above God.

Only God is the Judge. And we shall all be judged by Him, Christian and non-Christian alike. We are to look for God’s mercy and not to becoming God. Judgment does not take place here. Mercy does! As does Justice! Never lower God to yourself. Never raise yourself to God or above God.

Led by God St. John wrote seven letters to seven churches representing the whole Church. That God now visits His people in a like manner in this day as He has written seven of His ministers addressed in the same way speaks of the seriousness of the times. It is a message to the whole of Christendom. But it is also a message to the entire world. It is God who is in control. It is God who is speaking to all who will listen. He is not silent. Nor can He be silenced.

This is a time for listening and responding to God. It is not a time for debating. There will be no guesswork as to the desires of His Sacred Heart. That God has asked these seven men ministering in His name be assigned one of the seven letters of St. John is to reveal that which is in His Heart. And it is to reveal that which is in His Heart to all who have ears to hear and eyes to see and hearts open to God.

Discern, always discern, it is a must. Discern whether or not it is Christ who moves this poor vessel to its destination. But do so with pure prayer. Do so with calling upon the Holy Spirit. Do so based on sound doctrine and not unsound.

To you is given the letter to Ephesus. See Rev. 2:1-7 . Hear the Word of the Lord. May the Hand behind the letter to Ephesus pierce your heart.

St. Paul lived in Ephesus around 55-56 AD. Then he made a final pastoral visit to the presbyters of its church around 58 AD. During that visit he warned that “ fierce wolves” would invade the Ephesian church. “ From your own number, men will present themselves distorting the truth and leading astray any who follow them. Be on guard therefore.” ( Acts 20: 29-30 ) This very thing has happened to us in our day. And it has happened on a grander scale. For it has happened to the whole of Christendom. Yet who wants to see it as it is? Who will believe it? For if you believe it then you must react to it.

St. Paul reinforced his concern for preserving the true faith at Ephesus by later sending St. Timothy there to insist that certain people stop teaching strange doctrines. ( 1 Tim. 1:3-4 )

The Ephesians apparently took St. Paul’s and St. Timothy’s words to heart, for when St. John conveys God’s message to them some decades later he is able to commend them for not tolerating wicked men and for preserving the truth. But after being commended for their tenacity and orthodoxy the Ephesians are taken to the task for losing the love they once had.

Had the Ephesians’ zeal for preserving the true faith resulted in the kind of doctrinal strictness that Jesus criticized the Pharisees for? Did they now have an over attention to the letter that killed the spirit? Did they have a vigilance for deviations from the truth that overshadowed love?

Vigilance in preserving the truth is necessary. And the Ephesians are praised for theirs. But orthodoxy is not enough in itself. It must not become the preoccupation of a community at the expense of love. Hence the Ephesians are exhorted to rekindle the love they once had for God and for each other.

Today the problem of Ephesus is throughout Christendom. But it is far more diabolical. It is present in many different extremes. It is present even to the point of men of God watching to preserve error as the truth.

All heresy is to be dealt with. And all truth is to be embraced. But if we just come together in truth and not in love then we have failed God. This being said, none of us however are to love God with a tainted love.

We have overreacted to much over the centuries and it has taken its toll. We must come together in truth and in love. It is not an option. Love of Christ and one another must be first.

Much of Christendom today has not only abandon Christ with the kind of love they express for God and for one another as did the Ephesian Christians, but they have abandoned also the love of Jesus Christ in the form of the Holy Eucharist in Holy Communion. Many of you may find this hard to understand as of yet, but you must come to do so at some point.

With many in Christendom the Holy Sacrifice of Jesus upon the altar has been taken out of their worship of God. This pains our Lord. Our Lord weeps over this. He longs for their restoration in this love of Him.

With many other Christians it is even worse. They have Christ on the altar of sacrifice, and they offer to God the gift of God to God, and they receive in communion the Body and Blood of the Lamb who is Christ, but they do so committing sacrileges. Oh the terrible sacrilegious sins against our Lord! How it hurts His heart! Yet, He longs for their restoration in this love of Him and not their condemnation.

The painting you are given, as the first man of God written in this way, is the first one I painted. And this letter written to you is the last which was written. To you is given the first and the last. To only you is given the other six letters. It is as God wills. But what will you do with that given to you at the hand of God?

The painting given to you is entitled “A Night of Agony” . It is a picture of Truth. The will of God be done.

Reflect on this: “After saying these things, Jesus went forth with His disciples beyond the torrent of Adron, according to custom, to the Mount of Olives.” ( John 18:1) Jesus had the power to avoid His death but would not use it. Do we resist evil when we should? Are we always brave to do the right thing?

“On reaching the place he said to them, ‘Pray that you may not be put to the test.’ He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw, then went down on his knees and prayed in these words: Father, if it is your will, take this cup from me; yet not my will but yours be done.’ An angel then appeared to him from heaven to strengthen him. In his anguish he prayed with all the greater intensity; and his sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground. Then he rose from prayer and came to his disciples, only to find them asleep. Exhausted with grief He said to them, ‘ why are you sleeping? Wake up, and pray that you may not be subjected to the trial.” ( Luke 22:40-46)

Jesus was subjected to the trial. Our Lord saw all the sins of the world and their interior hideousness and took them upon Himself and in His prayer offered Himself to the justice of His Heavenly Father in satisfaction for all this guilt. He did this as Satan put Him to the test, moving in horrible forms amid all these abominations, he grew ever more violently bitter against Jesus and brought before His Soul ever more these terrible visions of sin, and cried again and again to His Humanity: “ What! This too Thou takest upon Thyself! For this too Thou wilt suffer punishment! How canst Thou satisfy for this?” Our Lord writhed like a worm under His burden of sadness and pain.

At first Jesus knelt and prayed quietly. But after a time His Soul began to shrink from the numberless sins and hideous ingratitude of men towards God. And there fell upon Him such a grinding, crushing sadness and anguish of Soul that He cried out “ Abba, Father, if it be possible, let this chalice pass from Me! Oh My Father! All things are possible to Thee! Take this chalice from Me!” But immediately He calmed Himself again and said “ Nevertheless, not as I will but as thou wilt!” (God bless St. Margaret Mary.)

When confronted with an opportunity to live out our commitment to our Heavenly Father’s will how do we respond?

Often, we reflect upon the blindness of certain Jews at the time of Christ. For 33 years their God was in their midst, and still they esteemed His presence so little, and they derived so little benefit from His goodness. But what must be said of us? We have the same God in our immediate presence, yet most of us occupy ourselves with Him so little, think of Him so seldom, find but slight delight in His company.

How cruelly Jesus our Lord and Savior is denied and despised or brutalized in the Blessed Sacrament. Men close their eyes that they may not see this Son of Love. They doubt His presence clamoring as did many when Jesus promised to give His Flesh and Blood as Food, “How can he give us His Flesh to eat?” This is what they said back then and there are many who are full of doubt today. ( John 6:52)

Don’t be found among the many Christians today who will doubt His presence and forever deny the Christ they say they know and love and serve, as God says: “Tell my people, all of them, My Flesh is real Food and My Blood is real Drink!” And don’t be found among the many other Christians who do not doubt His real presence in the Holy Eucharist, but who are conducting themselves in ways which desecrate the most Sacred Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, who in unworthy communion give Jesus the traitor’s kiss!

Behold Jesus on the altar. And do not offend God with sacrileges. Do not apostatize over God’s will in this hour that all be restored to all. Learn from John 6:66 and do not join with the devil who comes against Christ in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

It will not go well for those men of God who fail to see why God would have Himself in The Holy Eucharist addressed first. Nor will it go well for any in this world who oppose Him about this Miracle Gift of His.

A lowly servant of God,

Eddie Soblotne

Smyrna: Dear man of God, I write you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit inspired by the one true God. God’s touch be upon you.

I come to you having this charge from the Lord our God and no other. Glory be to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

To you and to the whole of Christendom is given a specific painting along with the appropriate words. “May we use your grace oh Holy Spirit, that we may be always devoted to You!”

It is God’s desire to heal His people that they be right with Him and one with Him and in Him.

Only in Christ and not in something else can we find our oneness. The Healer is here and He points to Christ in the Holy Eucharist. Hear the voice of the Healer speaking to Christ’s Body.

In a time of great crisis, God wish is to give hope , endurance, and courage to a beleaguered people. We need His guidance to survive the turmoil of this hour, just as the early Christians needed His guidance in the midst of their trials.

In the Book of Revelation God directs St. John to write seven letters to seven churches representing the whole Church. That God now chooses to visit seven of His ministers in a similar way is to put the focus back on that which has been forsaken. I must assign you one of St. John’s letters in the Book of Revelation. You do what you must do.

To you is given the letter to Smyrna. See Rev. 2:8-11. Hear the Word of the Lord. May the Hand behind the letter to Smyrna pierce your heart.

The Christian community at Smyrna may have had poverty but despite it they were rich. They found the one thing necessary in life. They owned the pearl of great price. Even if they owned nothing else this made them most blessed. Blest are those in this day who suffer for their faith!

In the sacrament of Confirmation God promises to give us all the strength, courage and love we need to overcome any test even unto death. In Christ we have victory over the second death-condemnation.

The Christians at Smyrna were told to remain steadfast in their faith despite what they may have to suffer for it. They were told that their ordeal would last “ten days”, the meaning for a somewhat short period of time. Their persecution did continue on and off for some decades.

St. Polycarp, one of the great martyrs of the early Church was bishop of Smyrna and was put to death in 155 AD for refusing to say, “ Caesar is Lord”, and offer incense to him. In his day in Smyrna, he and many others remained rich ( in the Spirit) even unto death. How many of us in our day will also remain rich( in the Spirit) in these trials of the end time even unto death? How many of us are willing to refuse the mark of the beast? Take the mark and you choose another over God. God is the only one with the right of omnipotence.

God has not called me to the task to lead His people astray. Those who will heed the Lord will heed the Lord.

The Lord is coming again. But many of us who are Christians are seeking, not God, but to escape what is our destiny, our privilege!

What shall become of you people of God in the tribulation? For you will be here as upon you is that which can no longer be held back because of the wickedness of men. Furthermore, many Christians are the worst of sinners. Think about all this. Think about the false preaching of an escape.

Those of you seeking an escape rather than God’s will for you to be His witnesses in this last hour of the last days are setting a dangerous trap for yourselves and others by not preparing for the Lord as you should.

Moreover, great is the number of you who are flaunting Christian morality while looking to escape chastisement , who are in fact scoffing our Lord’s second coming.

Our Lord is coming in Judgment. See with God’s eyes what you must see. See before it is too late!

All of you who have ears to hear what is from God, listen! Christians must stop misleading and stop being misled. All of you doing what is against God must turn from the false preaching which will have you  as scoffers, mocking Christians, and as sneering Christians. Grow in the Holy Spirit. Do not refuse Him.

Heed the warning given in 2 Peter 3:1-13, lest you ridicule what is good and from God while following the doctrines thought to be good and of God but taught by demons. One example is that of the false doctrine of eternal security which many preach and live by. It has so many trapped in sin and going to hell. Do not live in sin and say,“ Where is that promised coming of His?”, instead of repenting and receiving and using God’s grace to give a true witness to the end. You need to be with and not against the Holy Spirit in the restoration of God.

God’s love letter to His people, the Book of Revelation is being misread by many of you, especially men of God. As is much more of God’s Holy Word being misread as well.

But it goes further than that. A great many of you refuse to see your errant ways and your sin and you go on doing hateful things to the Almighty. And you do these evil things in in the name of Christ!

Instead of heeding the Spirit of God which calls for repentance and restoration, many of you men of God go on boasting of God’s mercy. Not that His mercy is not there for you, and for the people of God, but you need to leave the false doctrine of salvation which is substantially different from the one of Christ. You need to wake up and make Christ your boast and the boast of God’s people!

See Gal. 6:11-18.The Christian Judaizers wished the Gentile Christians to observe the laws of Judaism only in order that they themselves may escape persecution by the Jews. See right. Do not seek to escape your privilege as God’s witnesses to the very end.

May you see this in the right light as well: 1 Thess. 4:17 is clearly referring to the second and final coming of our Lord in glory. It is not some intermediate snatching away of believers before that time of our Lord’s coming in glory. As St. Peter said in Acts 3:21: “ Jesus must remain in heaven until the time of universal restoration which God spoke of long ago through his holy prophets.” As for Matt. 24:41, the reference to the ones taken up and those left behind, this only emphasizes that God will not judge by external appearances; it is not a promise to remove the Church from the world.

One need not look any further than His prayer for unity to see the real truth: “…they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world. I do not ask you to take them out of the world , but to guard them from the evil one.” ( John 17:14-15) Jesus prayed for us and He sent us into the world. And He consecrated Himself for our sakes, that we might be consecrated in truth. Be with Truth in this hour. Do not be against Him!

The painting you are given is of the greatest gift given to us. But what will  you do with this gift at the hand of God pointing to this truth?

The painting sent to you is entitled “ Holy Eucharist Promised”. It is a picture of Truth! See with the Father’s eyes.

“ Let me firmly assure you, he who believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven for a man to eat and never die. I myself am the living bread come down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread he shall live forever; the bread I will give is my flesh, for the life of the world.” ( John 6: 47-51) “ At this the Jews quarreled among themselves saying ‘ How can he give us his flesh to eat? Thereupon Jesus said to them: ‘ Let me solemnly assure you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. He who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has life eternal and I will raise him up on the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood real drink. The man who feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.” ( John 6:52-56)

There is no debating this in this hour which is the last hour of the last days and the hour of God’s restoration and not mans. Just as the first great apostasy was over the Holy Eucharist ( John 6:66) in this hour many will apostatize over the very same thing. They will do so as God wills His prayer be answered for oneness and for all His people be restored to Christ in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Anyone who says differently says so against the anointing of Elijah and also the Spirit of Elijah.

God gives all of us the same choice he gave the twelve in John 6:67 “ Do you want to leave me too?” Those who will go on with God will accept Jesus as the bread of life come down from heaven. To whom do those really go to who refuse to believe in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in this hour as they do what they do in the name of Christ?

Only in the Holy Eucharist and not in something else can Christ’s Body find that oneness for which He prayed.

“Oh Lord Jesus, the Mass proclaims Your death to the world. The world has forgotten Your Sacrifice. But so have many of your people. And all of your people in some way from time to time. I too, in my lukewarmness, have taken Your Sacrifice for granted. Forgive me! Forgive all of us!”

Who will join with me and cry out to God with these words? “The world, and your Christendom, often looks upon sin as some minor offense-some involuntary weakness that is completely personal. How can I look upon You in your Passion and even think for a moment that my sins are nothing?” “It took the Sacrifice of God’s only Son to atone for my sins. My sins deprive society of goodness and rob me of Your grace. Oh God, forgive me for those times I have been so lukewarm, so negligent and so hardened to Your love!” “It is my fault, oh God , my grievous faults that nailed you to the Cross. Prepare my heart always to walk with You in Your Sacrifice and permit me to unite the sacrifices of my daily life with Yours. I unite my entire life with the life You lived on earth. I love You.”

Many of God’s people are looking for miracles while all the while the greatest miracle of all is within their midst. And it is within their grasp. Truly we are at Calvary at every Mass, For Christ is born, He dies, He lives and He becomes our Food.

May it be, that every Christian follows the lead of the Holy Spirit who is here and working to give us all a deep realization of the Real Presence of Jesus in the Holy Eucharist.

Your brother in Christ and lowly servant of God, Eddie

Pergamum: Dear Man of God, I write you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit inspired by the one true God. God’s favor be upon you.

I come to you under the authority of the Lord our God and no other. Glory be to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

To you and to the whole of Christendom is given a specific painting along with the appropriate words. Be they few or many let us make the most of our talents in order to bring honor, praise and glory to God.

” May all of us, your people, turn from the darkness in our lives to your light. May we use your grace to see and be as we should in these troubled and confusing times, oh Lord God.”

It is God’s will to bring all His people into His restoration and into Himself. We are to be one even as the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are one.

The unity our Lord prayed for was not a purely spiritual bond between believers and God. It is a unity visible to the world. Our unity is to reflect that between the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. We need unity in beliefs and structures. Do not shy away from this. Don’t be fooled into a restoration of man’s. Keep in mind , however, that the unity Jesus offers is fundamentally the unity of love. Even as we pray and work for doctrinal and structural unity, we can live the unity of loving one another.

Sad to say, not only are we not praying and working for this unity as we should, but much of Christendom has left the Lord. The compromises with demons and the world are many. God calls for a return to Him. And this return to God by many Christians can admit of no delay.

Many are the warnings of Jesus and the Apostles. “ The Son of Man is coming at the hour you least expect.” ( Matt. 24:44) This is true of our death and the Lord’s second coming. “ You know very well that the day of the Lord is coming like a thief in the night. Just when people are saying, Peace and security, ruin will fall on them with the suddenness of pains overtaking a woman in labor, and there will be no escape.” ( 1 Thess. 5:2-3) Can you not see it? Will you not see it? The cry of most of God’s people on earth is but just that: “peace and security” in Christ, while sin and compromise with sin is often their example to the world. Heed what you are hearing. Heed the Lord!

St. John, directed by the Lord our God, wrote seven letters to seven churches representing the whole Church. That God now visits seven of His ministers in a like manner is a testimony of His great wisdom and love. Who will dare lower God’s wisdom to their level?

The Lord has me assign you one of these letter’s of St. John’s in the Book of Revelation. Know that God is serious. Spurn not His love. To you is given the letter to Pergamum. See Rev. 2:12-17 . May the Hand behind the letter to Pergamum pierce your heart.

Pergamum was a regional administrative center of the Roman Empire and the site of a huge marble altar dedicated to Zeus. This altar was likely the “throne of Satan” referred to in Rev. 2:13 , and it was most likely before this altar that every citizen was yearly required to proclaim “ Caesar is Lord,” and offer incense.

Most probably there were those Christians who thought that such a ritual was merely a pledge of political loyalty; a formality that they thought they could perform in good conscience. But that is to lie to yourself. It is a sinful thing that they did and most likely never repented of.

Today, it is not probability I speak of, but a fact of the matter, that way too many Christians have the same kind of thinking and are performing abominations saying to themselves and to others that they are cleansed by the Blood of Jesus. They are lying to themselves.

Much of Christendom shall not escape their true reward should they remain un-repented in the matters of the acceptance of the abominations to God such as that of greed and fornication, adultery and abortion and gay sex(sodomy)on to great abominations to God like that of same sex marriages.

There were those who held fast to the Name of the Lord back then in Pergamum, not giving a detestable praise to Him. They refused to deny the faith they had in Christ. Antipas most apparently was one of them. He and the other remnant of God knew that give the title “Lord” to anyone other that God was blasphemy and apostasy and they gladly endured martyrdom instead.

How many of us in the faith today are willing to do the same when put to the test? I tell you true to God that many of God’s people are dying and going to hell, having bought into the false teachings and the Great Apostasy. It is not as most preachers are saying. And it goes on, the terrible, terrible thinking and doing of so many professing Christ as Lord.

There were those compromisers and cowards and traitors to the faith among the faithful back then in Pergamum, who urged easy coexistence and compromise with the pagan world. These Christians would have allowed eating meat sacrificed to idols and participation in Caesar worship. They would have relaxed Christian moral standards to bring them more in line with those of the surrounding culture.

The Book of Revelation is uncompromising in condemning their participation in Caesar worship and their compromises with the pagan world. Yet our society, the one you and I live in, which is Christian for the most part, has gone to even far greater lengths in our sinning against God. It is of the greatest stupidity to think that we are right with God when silent and all too accepting are so many of us about such sinful acts as greed, fornication, adultery, abortion, gay sex and same sex marriages. How greatly we offend the Most High! And how so many among us do so loving to praise His name as things get worse and worse in our society.

I am not without God when I say the people of God are in great trouble. I am not false to God but true when I speak of the false gospel and what it is doing. Common sense alone at what has happened to us and at what is happening to us should have you sons of Levi seeing it right and calling for repentance without hearing a messenger of the Lord’s rebuke. Yet the insanity goes on even as the Lord has sent a messenger of His choosing to you.

People of God, What is our excuse? For we are not a pagan culture! I tell you true to God that there is a harlot Church made up of many Christians which is now dwarfing the remnant of God. Most of the very elect are not willing to believe it. So much worse for them. Know that every Christian compromising with serious sin of any kind is in the harlot Church. The list of abominations which God’s Christians are at compromise with is great. As is the harlot Church great.

Homosexual acts are evil acts! Abortion is murder! Murder is an evil act! Compromise of any kind with evil acts such as these is an evil act!. Claiming the Lord Jesus and that you are saved by Him does not change your true state if you embrace what is evil. You may have truly accepted Christ as the Lord and Savior in some moment and truly received the Holy Spirit at that time, but what is the condition of your soul now?

God will not come into, nor will He remain in a temple defiled. Believe what you will, But you believe wrong if you believe otherwise.

The harlot Church is growing. It is of a far greater number than many men of God care to see. In truth, many of them are in it. But they are not without God who loves them. Nor are all of you others without God who loves you because of your embrace of that which is evil. God is here. He is here for all of us. Those among us who are in the harlot Church need only repent and live from then on in the faith of Antipas and the other faithful back in Pergamum.

The time of repentance is now. Many in the House of God, including many of you men of God, need to repent before death overtakes your darkened souls. These words are not too strong. They are weak in comparison to the terrible, terrible things taking place in this Christian land and throughout the world. Our culture is truly the evilest of all time. These words do not even come close to our Lord’s anger. He delays (that certain souls be saved and not lost, for every soul He loves) His just punishment which will come.

There are many of you in the House of God who think nothing of playing the games of the world. You compromise the faith. You lie, cheat, steal and hurt others to get ahead. You worship success, power and the almighty dollar, not to mention giving yourselves over to all kinds of overindulgence and sins of impurity. And you are content to die in your sins. For the fables of Christendom being so widely preached, so often seen on TV, and so loved by you, and the lack of a true leadership and witness to right the wrong, have you thinking this way.

Who is willing to help God bring His wayward people them back to Him? Who is willing to tell them the truth? How many of you men of God telling the fables are willing to give up the fables? How many of you are willing to see them for what they really are? No wonder so many in Christendom are saying they are saved and thinking nothing of disobeying the commandments of God.

As for the man of God who says of those who are baptized and living in serious sin, “ well they are not really Christians”, you know not God. And you set yourself above God. How can you hope to receive God’s mercy?

Those of you who will hear the Holy Spirit’s words to the people of God will hear. And you will not only be of a repenting mind and heart and soul but you will take a stand against compromise with sin and with the world. You will also hear the cries of God to come into all Truth.

To all who will hear God will be given the Food of life. Come to God as He wills Receive and offer the Holy Sacrifice.

The Devil hates the Holy Sacrifice with all his being. He defiles it in his Black Masses. He works to replace it in any way he can with his own sacrifice. He loves that he has fooled so many.

“They said therefore to him, ‘ Lord, give us always this bread.’ But Jesus said to them, ‘ I am the bread of life. He who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst. But as I told you- though you have seen me, you still do not believe.” ( John 6:35) The crowd failed to see Jesus as the life-giving bread because they clung to their own interpretation of God’s revelation. Our own preconceptions can blind us to His message if we are not careful to watch for them. Most true is that many of you who are God’s people today are blind to Christ.

Jesus Christ, the King of heaven and earth, has taken up His abode in the Blessed Sacrament. There He dwells as on a throne of mercy dispensing numberless graces to the children of men. The holy angels constantly keep watch before the Tabernacle. But mankind, too, should render unceasingly honor, love and reparation to this Divine Lord. Because the Holy Eucharist has been instituted, not for angels, but for men. Mankind alone derives from this wonderful Mystery the exceedingly great benefits therein contained.

Jesus gives us an example of obedience. For He comes down in the form of bread and wine at the command of His priests. He stays in the Tabernacle day after day, month after month, year after year, just so we may come to Him with our joys and our sorrows. He humbled Himself and became our Food so His own Body and Blood may course through our veins and we may be able to grow into His Image and please the Father.

Your brother in Christ and lowly servant of God, Eddie

Thyatira: Dear man of God, I write you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit inspired by the one true God. May His favor be with you.

It is not by chance that this brother of yours in Christ comes to you as I do. I come to you sent by the Almighty and no other. I come obedient to His voice. Glory be to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

To you and to the whole Body of Christ is given one of seven specific paintings along with the appropriate words. This poor painter comes to you and the others sent by God, not to change, add to, or take away from Truth, but with God’s grace pointing to Truth.

God’s wish is to bring His people back to their senses. He moves to bring all of us out of the deception back to Him. We should be down on our faces crying out to the Lord. Yet, He, the Most High, cries out to us: “My grace upon you. I love you!, says the Lord.”

In the Book of Revelation St. John directed by the Holy Spirit wrote to seven churches representing the whole Church of God. Praise be the will of God. Praise to Him and yes to His way for us in this hour. That our lord calls me to a similar task in a certain fashion is only to bring into focus that which has already been given. God people must not fail to hear the Lord. The times are serious. God is serious.

The appointed time is upon us. Our Lord is coming again soon. Make way His return! See with the Father’s eyes. Be with the Holy Spirit.

Our Lord asks that each of you He now sends me to be assigned one of the seven letters in the Book of Revelation. I do not query His wisdom.

To you is given the letter to Thyatira. See Rev. 2:18-29. Hear the Word of the Lord. May the Hand behind the letter to Thyatira pierce your heart!

We must never give ourselves over to perverse teachings and undertakings. We must take a stand against such things and not ever compromise no matter what the hardship that may result.

It has been Satan’s plan to father a harlot Church. One of the reasons is to help him replace God’s food ( the seven sacraments and the Word of God) with his own hateful repugnance. The devil is having success. He seeks even to completely replace the Holy Sacrifice of Jesus with his own abomination. He is very clever and goes about doing this in many different ways. Terrible things are taking place.

Those of us who go on with God and who give ourselves over to His ways till the end will share in Jesus’s messianic authority and victory over death which is symbolized by the Morning Star.

The painting given to you is at the heart of Satan’s most vigorous attack on society as a whole which will lead to the acceptance of the anti-Christ. Yet what will you do with his gift at the hand of God?

The painting you have been given is entitled “ Marriage Indissoluble”. It is a picture of Truth. Christ elevated marriage to the sacrament of New Law. Christian spouses signify and partake of the mystery of that unity and fruitful love which exists between Christ and His Bride which is the Church, helping each other attain to holiness in our married lives and in the rearing and education of our children.

Men of God, you must not forbid marriage. You must cherish and foster love. God is Love. Let none hold back the Hands of God stretched out to His people in His sacraments and in His Word. One who belongs to God in this hour will heed the warning given in 1 Timothy 4: 1-5. You will heed the One who speaks through this lowly servant of His. Let no one abstain from God’s Food but receive Truth.

‘ For this reason a man shall leave His father and mother and cling to his wife, and the two shall become as one.’ Thus they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, let no man separate what God has joined.’ They said to him, ‘Then why did Moses command divorce and promulgation of a divorce decree?’ ‘ Because of your stubbornness Moses let you divorce your wives,’ he replied, ‘ but at the beginning it was not that way. I now say to you, whoever divorces his wife ( lewd conduct is a separate case) and marries another commits adultery and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.” ( Matt. 19: 5-9 )

“ Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will do away with them both in the end’ but the body is not for immorality: it is for the Lord and the Lord is for the body.” ( 1 Cor. 6:13 )

Yes, there are exceptions. Some marriages ending in divorce were not real marriages from the beginning. Each situation is different. There can be an annulment of a marriage and a remarriage which is true to God. There are unhealthy situations concerning certain marriages.

What of those people who feel free in conscience of any obligations toward a first marriage and who do intend to remarry and maintain a Christian commitment but have no annulment? There is the “internal forum solution”. It addresses itself to this situation. It is the forum of conscience; it is private, personal and not public. However, one can see right away that excess use of this solution would and does damage the good order of the Church and the integrity of the Church’s witness. Yet, on the other hand, it is understandable that certain people actually have convictions of this nature and intend to act on them. Some Christians judge their marriage before God as ” obviously invalid”, and they indeed act on this evaluation. How should one perceive these people? As worthy of our love, that’s how we are to perceive them. Always!

Perhaps they are in great need of your help in a prayerful and truth seeking way. Always they are in need of being honest with God and with themselves. Lying to God and to yourself will always end badly. Reminding them of this is a good thing. Sometimes there are no clear cut guidelines or norms. Be honest. Do not play God. Love them. But as you do what you do in love do so not without praying and asking God for right guidance.

Still, the beliefs and actions are often not right with many professing Christ concerning the matter of divorce and remarriage. And the abuses are great. God must become primary in every Christians home and there must be an end to all the confusion and to all the real sins of adultery.

Though there are exceptions, the marriage founded on a lie for example, and it is for God alone to judge the honesty of every act of conscience, but for the most part divorce and remarriage in many cases today is immoral. We are to “Shun lewd conduct.” (1 Cor. 6:18) When one commits adultery, or fornication , one makes himself or herself as joined to a prostitute. Our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. We are not our own. We were purchased at a price. Do not go along with the program of the day which calls the sin of divorce and remarriage good and the indissolubility of marriage which is true to God evil.

“ To those now married, however, I give this command ( though it is not mine: it is the Lords): A wife must not separate from her husband. If she does separate, she must either remain single or become reconciled to him again. Similarly a husband must not divorce his wife.” ( 1 Co. 7: 10-11)
There is no excuse for much of the divorce and remarriage going on between Christians today for the most part. Just as there is no excuse for other lewd conduct. We know better. And we have the Holy Spirit!

One should understand that in Matt. 19:5-9 our Lord is addressing the Pharisees, thus, He includes the privilege of Moses which was meant only for Jews. The exception clause in St. Matthews text is referring most likely to Christians who, prior to their conversion had blood relationship as stated in Lev. 18:6-18. One can see this same matter addressed also in Acts 15:20; and one can see clearly that in the parallel texts of Mark 10:2-12 and Luke 16:16-18, the clause does not appear. It would , indeed, not have` been omitted by Holy Spirit inspired writers if it were meant to regulate the relationship between man and wife. Christ condemned divorce and remarriage most decisively. St. Paul likewise makes it very clear in 1 Cor. 7:10-11 and states it as the Lord’s teaching.

This sin of divorce and remarriage is to be dealt with. It is a duty of the Holy Spirit filled man of God. Never, on the other hand, must a man of God or anyone judge a soul as being unworthy of receiving God’s mercy. Regarding this matter there has been God’s mercy. But for those of you in Christendom who have had His mercy, who upon hearing His rebuke and the truth, who then turn your backs on the Lord concerning His rebuke and the truth, there will be no mercy. Those of you who hold up the sin of divorce and remarriage ( I am not speaking of the exceptions ), having heard the rebuke of the Lord , having heard the truth, you turn away from God.

But the devil’s attack on marriage does not stop there. He seeks to destroy what God has ordained with that which he has ordained: Gay marriage!

Sodomy is an abomination to God. Anyone who is with God knows this to be true. You know it from His Holy Word and from the Spirit living within You. All who go along with the marriage union Satan has ordained forbid the marriage which God has ordained. What God has created is good and is not to be rejected. Heed what is said in 1 Timothy 4:1-5. Heed what is said in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10. And heed what is said in Romans 1:18-32.

Know that the irreligious and perverse among us are hindering the truth. Do not be found in death as among them. “ I give you a new commandment: Love one another. Such as my love has been for you, so must your love be for each other. This is how all will know you for my disciples: your love for one another.” ( John 13: 34-35) But love founded on a lie is not a love from God. It is a warped love wrapped in the warmth of Satan who tries to pass himself off as God very chance he gets. We are a divided people. And the harlot Church is where most reside.

What kind of witness are we giving the world? We are to live like Christ. We are to be in Christ. We are not to be divided in our love. It is time to return to the Lord as a whole people.

Your brother and God’s lowly servant, Eddie Soblotne

Sardis: Dear Man of God, I write you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit inspired by the one true God. May God’s favor rest upon you.

I come to you as I do being set to the task by Almighty God and no other. Glory be to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

To you and to the whole of Christendom is given a specific painting along with the appropriate words. The Lord God be with you and fill you with the living waters of the Holy Spirit.

This is the hour of preparation of the return of our Lord Jesus in glory. It is also the hour the hour of God’s restoration for all His people divided and diverse as we are. The Holy Spirit is heralding our Lord Jesus Christ. We are to answer our Lord’s prayer for unity and give hope to a sinful world. ” Heal us, oh Lord!”

God will have His witnesses in this hour which is a time of a great unleashing of Satan. This is the final conflict. What is coming is Judgment Day. What is coming is the passing of this world as we know it . What is coming is the time when all things will be brought to fruition and completion.

It is not some prelude to some vain, unthinkable thousand year reign of Christ on earth. Just who do so many misled Christians think is reigning now? The millennium is in progress. The thousand year reign of Christ in the Book of Revelation is the symbol of that time between the chaining of Satan ( Christ’s resurrection victory over death and the forces of evil) and the unchaining of Satan, and the end of the world. During this time the people of God share in the glorious reign of God which is present to them in virtue of their baptism-victory over death and sin. See Rom. 6:1-8, John 5:24, John 16:33, Eph. 2:1-7 and 1 John 3:14. We reign with God now. Our place is in heaven now. We have eternal life now. That is, so long as we remain in Christ and Christ remains in us.

There is that time when the devil is unleashed to do things he was not allowed to do for a thousand years at the end of which he gains more freedom to deceive and to wage war against us and vent for the last time his great hate for God. The Church was first infiltrated around 1025. And the time of his final campaign is now! And though he cannot win a victory( Christ has already won) he can win many souls to hell. And he is winning many souls into hell. He is winning many Christian souls into the deepest parts of hell. Wisdom from God be yours.

The Day of the Lord approaches. Satan works to have as many of us fooled as he can into not readying ourselves. The Book of Revelation clearly emphasizes that we shall be held accountable for our deeds, for how we have lived, for what we have done and for what we have failed to do. ( Rev.20:12-13) But for the most part the teachings of demons are defended rather than seen for what they are. Many Christians are living by the damnable doctrine of once saved always saved.

The devil is being unleashed. And he leads many astray with his very believable perversions of the Word of God. You who are the people of God must see and act right. Help them men of God! Help yourselves! For all who men of God will be held to the stricter account at judgment.

While our names need to be written in the Lamb’s Book of Life ( signifying God’s invitation to us to receive eternal life), the record of our life will also be examined. Don’t be fooled by the false interpretations of the Word of God so believed by so many. Don’t hand yourself over to the doctrines of demons. A terrible fate awaits those who fail this examination, the fate of the devil himself. ( Rev. 20:10) (Rev.20:15)

In the Book of Revelation the Lord our God commissions St. John to write seven letters to seven churches representing the whole Church. The Lord our God now sends this poor messenger to seven ministers of His in a similar fashion asking that each of you be assigned one of St. John’s letters. It is not me but God you need to respond to. He is the one who commands this be done. To you is given the letter to Sardis. See Rev. 3:1-6. Hear the Word of the Lord. May the Hand behind the letter to Sardis pierce your heart.

Sardis had once been a great city, but at the time St. John wrote it was in an era of quiet decay. Some of its former prosperity remained, but it had declined far from its former glory. So, too, had the Christian community at Sardis. Externally, things seemed to be alright. There was no heresy dividing the church. Nor did there seem to be active persecution of the church going on at this time. But if the church at Sardis was not suffering from the difficulties that plagued the other churches it seemed to have succumbed to an even more deadly peril. It had become lifeless!

The message to the church of Sardis is a message we all need to hear. God sends it at all of us in this day with a loud pitch. The message is this: Wake up! Repent! Return to the devotion that you once had! Judgment will come at a time when you do not expect, and you are in no condition to be judged favorably.

To a certain point the message to the church at Sardis is the most unsettling. It warns us that external piety is not enough and that external practices may mask internal lifelessness. That is exactly what is going on all throughout Christianity today. There is a lot of praising the Lord and lauding of salvation in Christ but little obedient love of God and repentance and renewal of our love of God. “I know your conduct; I know the reputation you have of being alive, when in fact you are dead! Wake up and strengthen what remains before it dies. I find that the sum of your deeds is less than complete in the sight of God.” ( Rev. 3:1-2) They were not keeping to the commandments of God. And they were not repenting. They had faith, but faith that was dying. The same goes for most today all throughout Christendom. The real truth is that our giving our lives to Christ must be an act of faith that is renewed every day. Regardless of who wants to believe it, it is the truth. The damnable doctrines so believed instead are just that, damnable. We have become complacent in our faith. And this must not be.

Heed a true word in Christ: We will one day stand before the Lord’s judgment. We need to live each day in preparation for that judgment. Lest we forget our destiny.

The painting you are given speaks of Jesus giving us the Holy Spirit without whom we cannot conquer the devil in this hour of the last days. It calls us to obedient love of God and to a focus on Christ with our actions and not just our words. But what will you do with this gift at the hand of God?

The painting you have been given is entitled “ Only God can satisfy man”. It is a picture of Truth. Let us turn to Jesus each and every day for the gift of life, the gift of His Spirit. Let us ask Jesus now and always to pour out His Holy Spirit on us in all the ways of His choosing. May it be that His Spirit becomes like a river of life within us.

“Now on the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, ‘ If anyone thirst, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as the Scripture says, ‘From within him there shall flow rivers of living water.’ He said this, however, of the Spirit whom they who believes in him were to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. Some of the crowd, therefore when they had heard these words, said, ‘This is truly the Prophet.’ Others said, ‘This is the Christ.” ( John 7;37-41) But then an objection was raised by someone and the crowd then became sharply divided over Jesus.

The feast of the tabernacles or booths, a harvest festival, included prayer for rain. Each day for seven days of the festival, the high priest carried water in procession from the pool of Siloam to the Temple, where he poured it out on the altar, both as a petition for rain and as a memorial of the water that sprang from the rock in the wilderness.( Ex. 17:5-6) On the last day, the procession was particularly solemn, circling the altar seven times.

It is in this setting that Jesus cries out His offer of living water given freely to all who turn to Him with faith. ( John 7:37-38) Jesus is the rock that gives water to all who thirst. He is the fulfillment of the Scriptures. He is the Messiah. But when the objection was made the crowd became sharply divided. An objection was made long ago about Christ in the Holy Eucharist which God means to have rectified. But will there will be yet another crowd who will sharply divide? And will they will divide over all the rest of God’s refining and purifying. Wisdom from God be yours.

One can see the irony at several points in John to underscore the blindness of those who refused to believe in Jesus. The scornful remarks about Jesus going off to teach the Greeks in John 7:35-36 will in fact be fulfilled when the Church takes the gospel to the Gentiles. The rejection of Jesus as a Galilean rather than a Bethlehemite ( John 7:41-42) shows how little His opponents knew. We know from the other gospels Jesus was in fact born in Bethlehem. And in John, Jesus’ real origin is heavenly and not tied to any place on earth. We can see the folly of judging by appearances. The truth is not always so obvious.

There is the smoke of Satan within Christendom and a great blindness from it. God calls you to be a great general in His army to fight against the lies and the deception and the resistance to His restoration. Like me, you have rough edges and have hurt our Lord many times. You are full of brass. There are those who would say to you that you must change. I say to you that your brassiness God wishes to use for His purposes. But you must submit to Him with a repenting obedient love. And this means also, that you must let Him bring you out from your blindness.

You are one who has brought the Book of Revelation to center stage. It is such an extremely important message for our critical times.

Understand this: Through Her reunion with Jesus, the Church has become the true “ Israel of God”. See Gal. 6:16, Phil. 3:3 and James 1:1.And Jesus made it very clear that He Himself is the new and eternal Temple. ( John 2:19-21) Furthermore, those who are joined to Jesus, who “ worship the Father in Spirit and in truth”, form the eternal Temple where God dwells and is worshiped. See Eph. 2: 20-22 and 1 Peter 2:5. No other Temple fulfills biblical prophecy. Do not rejoice in a rebuilding of a temple for the purpose of restoring animal sacrifice. This would be to replace the Lamb of God with an abomination.

So, is it being said that no such temple will be built? Not at all. What is being said is do not look to restore Satan to any group of people. God no longer demands animal sacrifice. Nor will He ever. Jesus is the one and only acceptable Sacrifice. Look to restore Jesus Christ to all. Do not be afraid of truth in this hour of truth.

Jesus is Truth. Do not focus elsewhere. Do not prefer the praise of men to the glory of God.

Your brother in Christ, Eddie Soblotne

Philadelphia: Dear Man of God, I write you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit inspired by the one true God.

I come to you under the command of God and no other. Glory be to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

To you and to the whole of Christendom is given a specific painting along with the appropriate words. “Lord, help us to follow the way that we may have truth and life.”

It is in God’s Heart to bring all His people into all Truth. The Holy Spirit readies the Bride of Christ.

This is a time for joy for those who truly believe but it is a time of sorrow for those who have hardened their hearts to His love.

The Book of Revelation , God’s great love letter to His Bride, assures Her that He will keep Her safe in the time of trial which is to come for the whole world. Let us rest in God’s personal care as that time is upon us.

In the Book of Revelation the Lord our God directs St. John to write seven letters to seven churches representing the whole Church. That God visits His Church now in a certain way is to invite His people to bear one another’s burdens and fulfill the law of Christ.

Do not seek to escape pain and persecution for the cross of Christ, especially not from those in the Church who would prevent you from reaffirming the true faith.

God does not send me to deceive you or anyone. My spirit cries out with the Holy Spirit, “ The appointed time nears. Make straight the way of the Lord!”

Know this: There are counterfeit voices in the House of God which seem very real to be of God. But these voices are putting forth their own dark spirits of appeasement and unholy compromise. It is God you must hear and heed. In this hour of Truth point with the finger of God. Be with the Holy Spirit.

To seven ministers of His, God commands they be assigned one of the seven letters in the Book of Revelation to the churches. Who will question His Majesty?

To you is given the letter to Philadelphia. See Rev. 3:7-13. Hear the Word of God. May the hand behind the letter to Philadelphia pierce your heart.

The message to the church at Philadelphia is one of encouragement. Although the Christians there are not powerful as the world judges power, they have remained faithful to God and have kept His commandments. For this they are warmly commended. They have done well with what they have received.

The open door in front of them symbolizes the opportunities that they have for evangelizing. Philadelphia was well situated for spreading the gospel to the inland regions of Asia Minor.

Jews who do not accept Jesus as the Messiah are harshly called the synagogue of Satan. But there is promise of their conversion. And their conversion will result from their seeing God’s love manifest for the Church.

God speaks to His Church in this hour , my brother. And our other relatives who are not Christians are to be included in the hearing of what God is doing. As God brings us to answer His prayer of oneness their eyes too are to be opened. All that takes place is to take place without any of us thinking we are better or more loved by God than the other and without our thinking that we are better or more loved by God than our others relatives.

Christ’s promise to the church at Philadelphia is “ I am coming soon.” Therefore they are to “hold fast to what you have lest someone rob you of your crown.” This promise and this exhortation runs throughout the Book of Revelation . So too does Christ’s promise of victory and glory for His people when He does come. Those who have remained faithful shall live forever in His presence as pillars in His sanctuary. They shall be inscribed with the name of God. This means more than simply being labeled as one of God’s people. To bear God’s name is a sign of being transformed by God. Let Him who has ears heed the voice of God to His Church.

God does not permit me to stray from any truth when I write with His Spirit. Nor does He permit me to hold up any falsehood. No one is telling you not to discern. As God speaks remember always to discern. But discern properly based on sound doctrine and with open eyes and an open heart to Holy Spirit. For many are discerning based on false doctrine and because of it they cannot get it right.

Open yourself to God. Be of good will. Be with the Holy Spirit and not the counterfeit spirit passing himself off as the Holy Spirit. Be with the Holy Spirit and be careful not to refuse to go on with Him. The road is trying!

To you is given a picture of unity with Christ. It reminds us to have an obedient love of God. Only an obedient love of God bears good fruit. But what have you done with this gift at the hand of God?

The painting given to you is entitled “ Union with Jesus.” It is a picture of Truth. See as our Father in heaven sees.

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine dresser. Every branch in me that bears no fruit he will take away; and every branch that bears fruit he will cleanse, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in me.” ( John 15: 1-4 )

Make no mistake about it: Every Christian who commit a mortal sin is a dead branch on the Vine of Christ. He or she will be taken away and tossed into the eternal fire should that person fail to repent. Yet, most men of God do not even teach what is a sin and what is not a sin. They do not address the problems, the evils, in the House of God.

The vine is a common symbol for the people of God in the Old Testament. For example, Jer. 6: 9 compares the remnant to a vine being harvested. And in Isaiah 5:1-7, Hosea 10:1-10 and Ezekiel 17:1-10 Israel is spoken of as God’s vine or vineyard. As He so often does, Jesus gives this image new meaning by claiming it for Himself. In the New Covenant Jesus offers, He Himself is the Vine. To be part of God’s people alive in Him means to be united to Jesus, to be one with Him as branches with a vine.

The life that flows through this Vine and enables the branches to bear fruit is God’s grace. It is also true that the life that flows through this Vine and enables the branches to bear fruit is love, obedient love, which has us obeying God’s commandments and not disobeying them. ( John 15: 9-17) This is the very core of the good news. In the prologue of John’s gospel we see that Jesus came to us filled with the Father’s “enduring love”. ( John 1:14) See also John 1:16-17 . He invites His disciples and us into the depths of His love calling us His friends. We can remain in that love by obeying His commandment which sums up all the others , which is simply that we love one another.

The same love of Jesus that unites us with others who love Him will win us the enmity of hose who hate Jesus. ( John 15:18 and 16:3) To share Jesus’ love also means to share His suffering. But with the love of the fables being preached as true to God, how many of us will ever really understand this and be ready to pay that price? Yet we must if we are to live in the love of Jesus.

The pruning of the Vine speaks of judgment as it is in Jer.5:10 and 6:9 . In St. Johns time there were Christians who returned to Judaism rather than suffer persecution. What they returned to was sin and death. This is no reflection upon the Jews. It is a reflection upon their souls.

There are God’s people today who will not go on with the truth, who will not go on with God, who will give their allegiance to the false gospel and to the surrounding culture to sin rather than suffer the pain of God’s healing or the persecution of their denomination and the world.

All who do not give into sin of any kind are clean. They have heard Jesus’ word, They Have stayed with Him. And they need not fear the pruning.

Abiding with Jesus means staying within the Christian community. Let no one fool you. We cannot be alive in Christ, Christians “ in private” and refuse to participate in that community.

If we are Christians alive in Christ then we bear fruit. We are a good example as we obey the commandments of God and understand and carry on with that obedient love of God and one another. ( John 15: 9-17 )

Nothing could be further from the biblical concept of love than a subjective heartthrob view which would oppose love and commandment. Loving God or one another is keeping God’s commandments. See John 15;10 . If we are not keeping God’s commandments, then we are not abiding in Christ. If we are living in sin then we are like a withered, rejected branch, heading for eternal death, not life on high with Jesus. The emotional side of the picture is not love, but the joy associated with Jesus’ salvation. See John 15:11 , John 3:29, John 4:36, John8:56 and John 14:28 . Jesus’ own act of love makes those He has chosen His friends. ( John 15:13-16)

We often make the mistake of associating love and religiosity with feeling and sentiment. One expects to feel religious or loving. Jesus reminds us that the test of a person’s love is what he does, not how he feels.

Jesus could not escape hatred and persecution. And neither can we as His disciples. All Christians must be careful that in their attempts to make the Gospel heard in this hour they do not become of the world. That Gospel message divides men as much as it unites them in Christ.

Your brother in Christ and lowly servant of God, Eddie

Laodicea: Dear Man of God,

I write you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit inspired by the one true God. God’s favor be upon you.

It is a command of God that I come to you as I do, submitting my heart to that of our Lord Jesus Christ’s. Glory be to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

To you, and to the whole of Christendom is given a specific painting along with the appropriate words.

Let us always strive to keep our hearts pure and to do all that we do for the love and honor of God. ” I know of your grace being poured down upon us, oh Lord. I know of your great love. Help us to use your grace and love you back as we should! ”

God wishes to bring His wandering people safely home. Hear His voice crying out and answer the Good Shepherd of Israel who takes care of His people.

In the face of evil from within and from without, we can rest in God’s promise to be with the Church forever. In the Book of Revelation God directs St. John to write seven letters to seven churches representing the whole of Christendom. I pray that you do not fail to recognize the mark of God this letter bears. There are those who will mock it.

God’s revelation comes to us through Jesus Christ. Our Father in heaven sent Jesus to enlighten us, to tell His servant the truths of salvation. It is a great privilege to be able to hear God’s revelation through Jesus Christ. It is a great help to have His direction in a time of turmoil.

However, the great majority of God’s people are not hearing and acting on the message of the Book of Revelation. What is being taught by many men of God instead is a dangerous message. This may or may not be a reflection of their souls, yet my spirit shouts with the Holy Spirit “ Return to the lord! The reign of God is at hand!”

There are seven men God sends me to with a certain allotment, you being one. What you will do with your portion rests in your effort to the very real task at hand. Receive the power of the Holy Spirit!

To you is given the letter to Laodicea in the Book of Revelation See Rev. 3:14-22. Hear the Word of the Lord. May the hand behind the letter to Laodicea pierce your heart.

I am no false witness to the truth. What I bring you is from the very Heart of Jesus Christ. We must not have a halfhearted commitment to the faith. This is nauseating to Christ our Lord.

A great many of God’s people do not desire true spiritual richness and a truly closer relationship with God. They may talk about it, they may think it as being so and even brag of being secure in Christ, but they are fooling themselves. They are fooling themselves but not God. God is not fooled.

Repentance is a must. Whoever is dear to Jesus He will convince of their wrong thinking, even unto great punishment in this world, that they not suffer in the next.

Seek God’s grace to repent if you be truly rich. Receive the sacrament of Penance which God works to have restored to all His people.

Do not say in this hour of God’s restoring His people unto all truth: “ It is vain to serve God, and what do we profit by keeping his command and going about in penitential dress in awe of the Lord of hosts?” (Malachi 3:14)

I have these words for you, but they are not for you alone: You must be pure, son of Levi! That you may offer due sacrifice to the Lord! Blest are all who when they hear these words know of the messenger, for they do not dishonor God who is the sender.

God’s people for the most part have fallen away from fervent faith and more are falling every day. Christ is taking the initiative to invite all back to Him. He is standing at the door eager to reclaim those who have fallen away. Despite their lukewarmness, He stands ready to enter into an intimate relationship with them once again.

Make no mistake about it , all who stay lukewarm in the House of God He will vomit out of His mouth. He will send them into the abyss with all the blatant sinners.

The truth will be witnessed.

Sad to say, many in the House of God will reject the pain that must be and they will oppose Truth. Even many who are for the moment devout Christians will take their leave of Christ.

Evils such as greed, adultery, abortion, gay sex, and same sex marriages must be opposed and never accepted in any way whatsoever. And do not fail to see the quiet reference to the Holy Eucharist in your portion. Christ invites His followers to a meal with Himself! “ If anyone hears me calling and opens the door, I will enter his house and have supper with him, and he with me.” ( Rev. 3:20 )

The Holy Eucharist is Christ. Be with the Father who sends the Holy Spirit, and with Jesus who with the Father and the Holy Spirit works for Himself to be restored to all who belong to God.

“ My Father is at work until now, and I am at work as well.” (John 5:17 ) God the Healer is hear. Be with God this hour and not against Him.

The painting given to you tells us that we are to follow the voice of the one Shepherd Jesus Christ, and that God is always trying to help even when we are far from Him. But what will you do with this gift at the hand of God?

The painting sent to you is entitled “ Joy Over Sinner’s Penance”. It is a picture of Truth. Never shed bad light on any truth- on any good.

“ Truly I assure you: whoever does not enter the sheepfold through the gate but climbs in some other way is a thief and a marauder. The one who enters through the gate is shepherd of the sheep; the keeper opens the gate for him. The sheep hear his voice as he calls his own by name and leads them out. When he has brought out (all) those that are his, he walks in front of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice. They will not follow a stranger; such a one they will flee; because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.” ( John 10:1-5 )

Jesus speaks about sheep following their shepherd. To follow Jesus is an image for discipleship. And what draws us to Jesus as His disciples? We have heard His voice and recognized it; we have heard Him calling us by name. What binds us to Jesus is not some system of assumptions and accepted principles , but a personal relationship with Him. But do we discriminate between the voices calling for our allegiance? And if we do, do we get it right? Or do we follow many conflicting calls, one at a time; another at another? There are false prophets and teachers. And there are those among us who are not as yet thieves and marauders as of yet but who are having trouble hearing only the Shepherd’s voice. Pray that Jesus, the Good Shepherd, help you to hear His voice and to recognize it and no other. Pray for His grace, that you reject all the voices that would lead you away from Him. Jesus wills to lead you, and me, and all in the ways that He wants us to go.

“ Now the publicans and sinners were drawing near to him to listen to him. And the Pharisees and the Scribes murmured, saying ‘ This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.’ But he spoke to them this parable, saying, ‘ What man of you having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the desert, and go after that which is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it upon his shoulders rejoicing.” ( Luke 15: 1-5 ) This parable speaks of our Father’s search for us in Jesus and His joy in finding us.

Know this: For greatly God’s people have been misled. They are not following only after Jesus. The false prophets and teachers are saying that it is easy to follow the Good Shepherd. But the Word of God makes it clear that it is not always easy to follow after Jesus. ( Luke Chapter 12 , 13 and 14.) For example, it is not enough to avoid greed and anxiety ( which by the way many of us are not doing in itself ) ; we should also use what is at our disposal to help those in need. ( Luke 12:33-34 ) Luke’s gospel proclaims a God who demands penance and reform. ( Luke 13: 1-5 ) We see that God is patient with us , giving us yet another chance to turn away from sin, just as the vineyard owner gave the fig tree another chance to bear fruit. But eventually our “ one more chance” will be the last chance we will have. ( Luke 13: 6-9 )

Yes, Luke’s gospel proclaims a God who is rich in mercy and forgiveness, but it also bluntly tells us that we must accept His mercy and forgiveness by allowing it to change our lives. But men of God are not preaching this. They do not take God’s words seriously and they do help the people of God realize the eternal consequences of what they do and what they fail to do.

What Jesus demands of us, we who are His disciples, is nothing short of giving Him our total allegiance. Not even the intimate family ties of life can be allowed to come between us and Jesus, as sacred as the ties of family life are. ( Luke 14:26 )

There is no real excuse for putting Jesus second. Those invited to the feast who did not come all had seemingly legitimate excuses. (Luke 14:18-20 )But they missed being at the banquet and that was the important thing. It is important for us to be at the banquet of eternal life with Jesus, not to have an excuse for missing it. Is Jesus really first in our life? Do we have a heart that truly loves Jesus and obeys Him in all things? Do we accept the actions of our gay children loving them over God or do we tell them the truth of their sinful life style, for example?

God must be first! No one said it was easy to follow after Jesus. It may be disconcerting for us to hear that the door to salvation is narrow. ( Luke 13: 22-30)We would prefer it to comfortably wide to give us more room for error as evidenced by the false preaching in our times and the way we are living as Christians as a whole. But Jesus’ words in Luke 13 : 24 and 30 should dispel any feelings of complacency that we might have , any thoughts that no matter what we do with our lives we will somehow nevertheless go to heaven when we die. Yet, will the fables still be believed over the rebuke of the Lord?

Blest are those who heed the Lord and repent. “ I say to you that, even so, there will be joy in heaven over one sinner who repents more than over ninety-nine just who have no need of repentance.” ( Luke 15:7 ) Jesus is searching out His lost sheep. But how many lost Christians even realize how they have strayed from Him?

People of God, you are to leave the false thinking. Furthermore, one day the sacrament of Penance is to be restored to all of you. Do not ask, how can God forgive us our sins? Rather ask, how has God truly and actually chosen to forgive us our sins?

The Holy Sacrifice of Jesus is to be restored to all God’s people. And without the restoration of the sacrament of Penance this cannot be. Choose whose side you are on. But I say what I say true to God. Blessed are those who come into the Lord!

Do not ask , Who is this man who writes so? Ask, What spirit is behind this man? If the spirit is evil then do not act upon his words. But if the Spirit is good then know that God has visited you this day and act upon His words.

“ I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” ( John 10:11) It is Jesus who laid His life down for us and who now restores true shepherds in His stead, that His flock of sheep not perish. ( Jer. 23: 1-6) ( Ezek. 34: 1-16 )

Blest are the sons of Levi who endure the refining and purifying of the Lord and who go on as true shepherds in His stead.

I leave you with this: You are not without the Lord, even so, you have been wandering looking for that destiny which God calls you to. Here, awaits that destiny, not that I am someone, for I have hurt our Lord many times.

You are not the only son of Levi wandering as such. It is God who calls to a whirlwind you and certain other men of God wandering . Wisdom from God be yours.

Your brother and lowly servant of God, Eddie Soblotne