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And it did seem that they began to trouble my father also. He, refusing to leave the land of his father, had stayed in the lands eastward. And there was one whom the people of the north called a prophet, and he claimed a lineage from that prophet Isaiah. And he did teach from the book of Isaiah which work was deemed abominable by the body of the council.
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Nevertheless, he did teach. And he did teach that the priests and the teachers of the city had all gone astray, and that their practices were hollow.
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Yet despite the fact that his own son was one of these priests, my father began somewhat to listen to this wild prophet from the north, and especially upon the words which he taught about a One who should come.
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And this seemed an atrocity to my mother who, being so caught up in the words of the priests and coming from so great a lineage as she, refused to believe them. Alas, it came to pass that my father continued to experiment upon the words.
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And I, being thus troubled in my heart, began to take my leave unto the land which my father did stay. And I did stay in my residence there.
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And after my journey, I did take some time to rest. And having not been but a few weeks from the time that I left Jerusalem, I did begin to search for my father.
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And I did find him by the shores of the Red Sea where I did hear him come up in a great swelling of words. Many in the area round about did hear him, and these were the words which he did speak:
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Oh you waste places of Jerusalem, come out from your hiding place and seek YHVH. For whosoever findeth himself on the day of Judgement apart from YHVH, he shall be accursed.
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Oh, you sheep who lead yourselves to and fro, seek YHVH your Elohim.
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Know you not that you are led by blind and foolish guides?
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Know you not that they do support themselves off of your lucre? Yet, you follow them.
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Know you not that they do cause you to err for their unrighteousness? Behold my brethren, awake! Give them no room to have any power over you. For they see not, and Elohim has shut their eyes. Fall not for their foolish and vain doctrines. Seek no more their councils.
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But instead, my brethren, seek the kingdom of Elohim! Begin again to study the words of the prophets, for they do not lie.
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Begin now to bring all before your Elohim. For behold, your Elohim is neither foolish nor blind and His doctrines are just and true. Trust no more in the arm of flesh, for man cannot save you but Elohim alone.
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For He stands at the gate and beckons, and He employs no servant there. For He alone is the Beginning and the End, the Aleph and the Tav and has all things before Him. Therefore, harken not to the whims of men, but to the just commands of a righteous Elohim.
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For, in the day that you do turn away from your sins and begin again to seek the face of your Creator, He shall surely come.
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Know you not that in the day that you begin to seek Him, you will enter in at the gate to be saved? Know you not that in the day that you shall seek His face that He shall come unto you?
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Harken now, oh you people and hear my words, for thus says YHVH: Enter in at the straight gate. Become purified and knock.
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For is this not the way of which our fathers have spoken? Yea, I say unto you that it is!
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And many more things did my father say by the shores of the Red Sea. Yea, and as many as did hear the words of his voice did mock him and did scorn him and did cast him out.
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Yea, so great was my astonishment at the words which my father spake that I durst not write the mockery that I gave him in my heart. For the words he had spoken were the ramblings of a mad man and a lunatic. Alas, I used my authority to disperse the crowd. And they, thinking that I would deal justly with the man left us and allowed me to take my father away.
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So great was my fear then to be seen to not be dealing justly with the man that I did take us and hid us in the cavity of a rock. And I did speak plainly unto my father and with great vigor, telling him that to preach such things would be counted as treachery and could bring about the downfall of the station with which I and his fathers had labored so diligently to attain.
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Nevertheless, my father did withstand my blows and did endure with much patience my many contentions. Also, he being so filled with the spirit as he was, began again to rehearse unto me the words which he had spoken unto the crowd. And many more things did he say unto me.
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He did exhort me with great earnestness to seek the face of that Yehoshua of whom he had spoken. I then, being filled with righteous indignation, did straightway tell my father to cease preaching such things.
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And as I began to remove myself from the cave, my father did cry out unto me and did say unto me a warning of a certain destruction which would befall the city of Jerusalem if the inhabitants there did not repent.
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And I did mock him to scorn, telling him that the great city of Jerusalem could not fall.
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I did then leave my father, praying unto my Elohim that he would cease his mad ramblings and return again to reason.