Excerpts From The Book Of Life (Chapters 10 thru 19)

                                                   Excerpts From The Book Of Life  
                                                                                                                        © 2012 by Dana Leonardi. All Rights Reserved.
                                                                                               (Chapters 10 through 19)                     
                                                                                                          (see Contents for chapters 1 thru 9)

                                                                  Chapter 10

As time continued to make its mark across creation, sin also made its mark. Generations of man came and went, with each succeeding generation growing worse in their depravity. Death had entered my creation, through sin, and was now the shepherd of all mankind in place of its creator. As sin enveloped creation, death and decay also ran rampant with its effect causing entropy, as mans life span grew shorter and shorter. I soon regretted creating man because every intent and thought in his heart was continually evil. To watch man who was destined for glory, fall to such a depraved state, broke my heart. In mercy, I decided the best thing I could do for man was to destroy them.

In spite of all the evil that surrounded him, Noah still walked with me. He was blameless and righteous and found favor with me. I decided to use Noah to start over. I told him to build a big boat and gave him precise dimensions on how to build it. I also told him that I was going to destroy mankind and the earth with a flood. I loved Noah so I allowed him to bring his wife and his 3 sons and their 3 wives along with him so that they could replenish the earth after the flood. I also told him to bring a male and female of every animal for the same reason. I gave him 120 years to build this ark.

As the 120 years passed, Noah became a mockery to people as they watched him building a boat where there was no water. Noah would never retaliate but always used it as an opportunity to tell the people about me and what was about to come upon them. This only made them revile Noah all the more. At times, even Noah’s own family thought him to be insane. He couldn’t blame them for he sometimes wondered the same. This will always be the fate of men who choose to follow me instead of following other men. The time had come, the ark was finished and not even one other person had turned to me. I was so saddened by this that I manifested my tears in the rain.

You must understand that before this moment, it had never rained on the earth. I told Noah to take his family and enter the ark. I closed the door behind them and opened the floodgates of the sky and opened the fountains of the deep. It rained for 40 days and 40 nights until the entire earth was flooded and all creation that I gave life, was no longer. The fountains of the deep gushed forth with such intensity that the land broke apart to form separate continents. As land crashed into other land, mountains formed where there were no mountains before. Water gathered in new places to form oceans and lakes and the earth lamented its fallen state. After the waters had receded and it was safe to walk the earth, I told Noah to take his family and the animals and to once again populate the earth. I also made a covenant with Noah and the earth that I would never destroy it again by flood. I put my bow in the sky as a reminder.

                                                Chapter 11


Generations passed as mankind once again rapidly grew. Unfortunately, not much had changed. Man would soon go his own way and found no need for his creator. The fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was in his DNA and his sin would pass down to each successive generation. From the angels’ point of view, it seemed as if man was destined to live a life of futility. From the demons point of view, man was enslaved with no hope of redemption. But my point of view encompassed all of eternity past, present and future and I have an eternal plan.

You see, it does not worry me as I watch Satan foil with man in his feeble attempt to hinder me. I do not get anxious nor do I need to hurry. I am not slow in enacting my plan. I do not count slowness as men do. I am outside of time. A thousand years may pass in time as I write it in my book, but it is like a day to me. Even as I write these lines, I look and see that men have now gathered together as one to build a city and a tower that reaches to heaven. This is not how to reach me. Man will never be reconciled to me when they devise their own ways to reach me, no matter how good their motives. There is only One Way to reach me and I have provided that Way. If they would just call out to me, I would be with them. I am not impressed with the things that they can do or achieve. Their true motive is to make a name for themselves. If they finish this tower, they will say, “Look at what we have done.” If they can accomplish this much in such little time, there is no telling what they will do. I think it’s time to confuse their language so they cannot understand each other. I will also scatter them all over the face of the earth.

As their languages changed so did their customs and men separated each to his own. Finding no need for me, they created their own gods from their vain imaginations. Drifting further and further from me, they drifted further from each other. From this point, man now kept within his own tribe. Tribes grew into nations and nation fought against nation always seeking after their own. Demons danced with delight as they led men, like animals, with invisible chains. High- ranking demons were chosen as principalities over the tribes and nations built by men. In the same manner, men ruled over other men. As Satan built his world system, he formed smaller systems within it to be managed by his highest-ranking demons. There was a political system, a religious system an economic system. Systems were added as needed. Soon after, men started building the same systems. All were corrupt. All were a perverted imitation of what I had created for angels and man.

Each tribe and nation had their own gods of their making. Impotent gods feigning life as their demon princes saw the greater deception in letting man worship false gods than in revealing themselves as their god. As long as man had false gods, he would never see the true God. The religious system flourished as superstition and fanaticism had free reign over mans deluded mind. All of their superstition morphed into tradition and this further separated man from me, and each other. At different times throughout history, the religious system would dominate the political system or conversely the political system would dominate the religious system. They were both fueled by the economic system that they both wished to control. All systems were fueled by the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. All of these systems will be allowed to grow and to enslave man until that day when I come to free man and restore him to myself.

                                                Chapter 12


I have allowed Satan to set up his world system and I have allowed men to divide into nations because it fits into my plan, my eternal plan. Nothing I do is in response to something Satan or man does. My eternal plan cannot be stopped or changed by any fallen angel or man. I have a special man that I will form a nation from. They will grow in the midst of this world system and I will be their God and they will be my people. It is to this people that I will reveal myself and it is through this people that I will come to earth to enact my plan. I will raise up certain men from my people that will speak to my people for me and through them I will tell my people how and where I will come and what will happen to me when I come. This I will do so that they will recognize me when I come to them. Here comes that special man now...I called to him.

“Abram.”

Abram stopped for a moment as if his thought were being interrupted. Abram was a man not content. Although he was wealthy and had family and friends, he always felt as if something was missing. He remembered the stories that were passed down through the generations that spoke of Me and he longed for something more than the false idols and gods of his countrymen. He went through the motions but always felt that he belonged somewhere else. He kept these thoughts and feeling to himself but occasionally he shared them with his wife Sarai. The missing part of Abram was about to be found.

“Abram.”

This time he stopped long enough for me to get his attention.

“Abram, I want you to leave this land and your family and I want you to go to a land that I will show you. I will make a great nation from you. I will bless you and I will be good to those that are good to you and be against those that are against you.”

Abram looked around to see if anyone was there. He knew he wasn’t dreaming and he knew he wasn’t thinking to himself. He knew he was alone. What he didn’t know was who it was that was speaking to him. He pondered this through the day and later that night he told it to Sarai. They both agreed that maybe he was in the sun to long and the heat got to him. Abram found that to be a better reason than thinking he was losing his mind. As he lay in bed he could not stop thinking about this. He remembered the stories he heard of Noah and how God had spoken to him.

“Well at least God is not telling me to build a boat.” He thought out loud.

Sarai woke for a minute and said, “What did you say?”

“Nothing my love, go back to sleep.”

Abram did not sleep well that night. He came to the conclusion that if I could speak to Noah then I could surely speak to him. Once again he thought out loud.
“Since I am not content in this place and feel like an outsider and I do not worship the false gods in this land then quite possibly the Lord is leading me away from here.”

Finally, he fell asleep.


                                            Chapter 13

Abram woke early the next morning and excitedly told Sarai what had happened and how I spoke to him and that they were going to pack up everything and leave. She listened intently until he came to the part about leaving.

“What,” she said. “What do you mean we are leaving? Where are we going and for how long and why do we have to pack up everything? You are going to have to come up with a better reason than God spoke to you.”

She kept questioning Abram, becoming more agitated with each question. Abram understandingly interrupted her questions and calmly said.

“Sarai, Sarai, my love. Haven't I always taken care of you? You know that I have and I always will. Please calm yourself and understand that I have questioned this much more than you. You know how I have always longed for something more even though I have not known where to find it. I believe that our God is going to lead us to that place. He told me that He would raise a nation from me and bless me. How could I not do as He said?”

“Abram, how is God going to raise a nation from you when we have no children? Have you thought about that? Have you questioned your God about that? This alone should make you question who or what you heard.”

“Yes Sarai, I have thought about that quite a bit and it is just as concerning to me as with you. But when I think of Noah building a boat in the middle of nowhere for 120 years and then see the outcome of it, it makes me desire to have this kind of faith in God. And He is not just my God Sarai. He is our God. If Noah didn't obey God then maybe none of us would even be here. If I don’t obey God then maybe there will never be this nation that God said He would raise. He will give us children if a nation will come from me. We need to trust Him just as Noah did. Noah didn't see the flood that was going to come, he just did as God said and trusted God. We need to do as He says also and trust Him. It requires faith to leave this place where we are prosperous and go to a place where God will lead us. I do believe Him and trust what He says and you must also. The least you can do is to trust me and we will see together.”

Sarai had calmed down and could see and hear the passion in her husband as he talked of God. Her questioning was now more in the way of agreeing with her husband than before. She even started thinking of what it would be like to have a child and she did want to please her husband. She was slowly starting to ease into the idea and when the thought of having a child overcame her fears of leaving, they left.

Abram was 75 years old when he left his country and I led him to a land called Canaan, where he settled. I made a covenant with him there and promised him an heir and told him to name his son Isaac. It would be through Isaac that my covenant would continue through time and many generations until I come to my creation. Abram was 100 years old when Isaac was born. This man had waited 25 years, as men count time, to see my faithfulness in my promise. Because Abram believed my words, I counted him as righteous. I also gave him a new name of Abraham because he would be the father of many nations. Sarai was now called Sarah.

                                             Chapter 14

Many years had passed and Isaac was now a young man and I called to Abraham and told him to take Isaac his son, his only son who he loved, to a mountain that I would show him, and to sacrifice Isaac as an offering to me. I did this as a sign for future generations to recognize me when I come and also to show the spirit realm the faith that Abraham had in me.  Abraham told Sarah what I had told him, this led to a very long night for them both.

“Sarah, please stop. Why do you add to my distress by fighting with me? Yes, I am sure it was the Lord speaking to me. It was just as the other times before.”

“Abraham, I do not, I cannot, I will not believe you this time. You are losing your mind in your old age. You must listen to me and not the voices in your head. Surely God did not say this to you.”

My angels and I watched with great interest as Satan whispered into the thoughts of Sarah the very words that loudly came from her mouth. It was the same lie he used on Eve. This is why a husband and wife should always be as one. Satan will always divide and conquer and try to thwart my will by splitting a husband and a wife, by tearing apart what I have joined together.

“Sarah, we have been down this road before. We both know the faithfulness of our God. When He asks the impossible, then He will make a way. He is the only way even when there is no way. Our part is to trust Him knowing that all will be good, no matter how it looks to us. I have thought to myself the very things you say to me. I want to run away from this but don’t you think the same thing will be required from us at another time and place but will be even harder then? We can’t go our own way this time. Look at the mess we made before when we tried to help God out by having Ishmael. That was our way, not His way."

“Abraham, you promised me that you wouldn't bring that up again.”

“You’re right, I’m sorry but you must understand that this is the only way. Hasn’t everything that God has promised us come to pass? He also has promised that a great nation would come from me and His covenant would be carried through Isaac and his descendants. Do you understand what this means? I’m not sure I fully understand it but I do believe that if God requires Isaac as a sacrifice, then He will raise Isaac from the dead in order to fulfill His promise. You must believe this Sarah. He has breathed life into man so He is able to put life back into a man if he dies. It may require the death of one for this new nation to be born. I’m not quite sure how or why but I believe this to be true even though I struggle within myself to complete it, yet I am compelled to do so.”

“My husband, the passion you speak with makes me want to believe you even though I cannot. I speak with the same passion in order to stop you from this madness but my words cannot move you the way our Lord moves you. I once laughed because I was to old to conceive when God told you that we would have a son, now it is His turn to laugh. It is a cruel God that would require our only son and require his father to do it for Him.”

“I know that my words cannot comfort you Sarah but I hope that they will give you hope. Ours is not a cruel God. He would not require from us anything that He does not require of Himself. Let my words and His promise sink deep within you. If you believe, you will see the glory of our God.”

I knew that all through time men would question and condemn Me as a cruel god just as Sarah had for this requirement. It was the custom in that era for the ungodly to sacrifice their children to their false gods. But what Sarah and many others didn't understand was that My ways are not their ways. It was never my intent to have Abraham sacrifice Isaac but just the opposite. This will now be a testimony through all of time that it is I who will provide the sacrifice, once and for all.

This turned out to be the longest night in the life of Abraham and Sarah but for Sarah, the next 4 days and nights would be even longer.

                                            Chapter 15

Abraham left very early the next morning. He loaded his donkey with supplies for the journey and took 2 of his servants along with Isaac. Sarah stood at the entrance of their dwelling weeping as they faded in the distance. She was inconsolable and Abraham knew that if he had tried to reason with her that she would prevail in preventing him from leaving. He loved her deeply. He also asked me all that morning to reach her and console her during the time of his journey.

Abraham walked very slowly the entire journey as if the slowness of his pace would somehow prevent the task at hand. Isaac also noticed the somberness of his father the entire time. Isaac had never seen his father like this and although he was excited about the journey and had many questions about it, he was quite reluctant to say anything. After a few days of walking and not arriving at any destination, Isaac finally asked his father where they were going and why he was so somber and why was his mother crying when they left. He was starting to think that he would not see his mother again.

Abraham knew that his son would eventually ask him all these questions and was prepared with answers because for the past few days his thoughts wavered between turning back and how he would answer Isaac. He tried to focus on his answers and my promise so that he wouldn’t turn back. With every step of faith that Abraham took, I increased his faith until he started to see beyond what was right in front of him. He answered Isaac.

“Isaac my son, I am sorry that I have not been myself on this journey. Although it has only been a few days, it has been the longest and hardest journey in my life. I do not know where we are going but the Lord will show us when we get there just as He did when your mother and I left our homeland to where we live now. I have told you all these stories many times and I have raised you in the knowledge of our God. It is now time for you to know Him for yourself by experience and not just by stories. He has told me to take you to a place where He will lead us to and to sacrifice to Him there. Your mother was crying because she didn’t know how long we would be gone and didn't want us to go.”

“But father, why has this journey been so hard for you? I see how slow you are walking. Are you not well?”

“The difficulty is not in the physical journey my son but in the anguish of my soul. The Lord has required of me something that I am unable to do in my own strength.”

“Father, I am strong now, I am not a little boy any longer. I can help you with anything you need to do.”
“Yes my son, you will help but it is not your physical strength that is needed.”

“I don’t understand. How will I be able to help and am I going to meet God?”

“Yes Isaac, it is with certainty that I say that you will meet God and you will begin your own journey with Him. You will be able to help me by trusting me as you always have and by being obedient in what I ask of you, as you almost always have. It is very pleasing to me as your father when you trust me and obey me even when you don’t understand what I ask of you. It is the same with God our Father. Yes my son, soon you will meet God.”

It was now the third day of their journey and Abraham saw the mountains in Moriah from a distance. It is here that their journey ends and another will begin. Abraham told his servants to wait for them with the donkey while he and Isaac would go further and worship and return to them. My angels stood in awe of this man as he considered his sufferings to be worship to me and his faith proclaimed their return. One of my angels fell prostrate to worship also so I gave him the honor to go and walk with Abraham and Isaac and to await my instructions.

Abraham took the wood that he brought and gave it to Isaac to carry. Abraham carried the knife for the sacrifice and the tools to make the fire. One of my angels asked me why Abraham had Isaac carry the very wood that he would be sacrificed on. I told them all that Isaac is a clue for the nation that would come from him, so they would recognize me when I come to them. As they walked I could see Abraham trembling; it was then that Isaac spoke.

“Father, I have the wood and you have the fire but where is the lamb that we will sacrifice?”

This question struck the heart of Abraham deeper than the knife would strike the heart of his son, his son that he loved so deeply. Abraham replied.

“My son, God will provide the lamb for the sacrifice.”

They continued walking until they came to the place where I had led them. Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood. He then bound Isaac and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. Isaac looked at his father in shock and disbelief. What was happening was slowly sinking in on Isaac. He started to kick and tried to get up and off the makeshift altar. He was now crying as he said...

“Father, what are you doing? I don’t understand.”

Abraham could not contain his grief and sorrow any longer as he desperately wanted to pick Isaac up and hold him and never let him go. I have not seen such sadness in angel’s eyes since Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and were sent out of the garden. I gave Abraham the grace that he needed to calm himself so that he could also calm Isaac. Abraham gently caressed his son as his tears dropped to Isaacs face and mingled together as if to signify the uniting of their hearts and will as one. As Isaac looked into his father’s eyes he could see the love and faithfulness that he had learned to trust with his life. In that moment Isaac knew that whatever his father would do would be the best thing for him. He stopped struggling. No words were necessary.

Isaac was a young man and could have easily overpowered his father and gotten up from the altar but he chose to trust his father. Abraham knew that if he hesitated any longer that he would not be able to finish. As he raised the knife one of his tears landed on Isaacs heart as if to mark the target. Isaac closed his eyes, as did many angels. Abraham was about to thrust the knife when I had my angel call out to Abraham.

“Abraham, do no harm to the boy. Your reverence for God is evident in not withholding your son, your only son.”

Abraham dropped the knife and fell to his knees. His weeping increased but they were now tears of thanksgiving. He then pulled Isaac to him and embraced him and kissed him over and over, their tears once again mingling. Abraham untied Isaac and they sat holding each other for quite some time. Their tears spoke more than words were able. My angels and I sat in silence also, watching the beauty of the love between a father and son. I thought of how much better it was for Abraham, to obey than to sacrifice. I was also thinking of a time when I will enter my book, in time, through the line of Abraham and Isaac. Unlike Isaac though, my Fathers hand would not be stayed. The silence was broken when Isaac said...

“Father, I heard a voice speaking but when I opened my eyes, there was no one there but you. Who was speaking to you?”

“ My son, remember I told you earlier that you would soon meet God? Well, you have had your first experience with Him. Now you must seek Him and find Him and know Him for yourself. He has spared you this day so that you will follow Him as I do. I will explain this further as we make our journey home but we must leave this place quickly and return to your mother with the good news.”

“I desire this very thing father and I want to hear all that you will tell me. Let’s go quickly.”

As they got up to leave, Abraham noticed that a ram was caught by its horns in the thicket. Although they both wanted to leave, they took the time to take the ram and offer it as a sacrifice to Me and to worship Me. I provided the ram. I provide the sacrifice for all. As they returned to the two servants waiting, Abraham sent one of them ahead to tell Sarah that all would return soon. Traveling alone the servant would be able to return a day sooner. The next day Sarah stood at the edge of the camp and watched all day. It was late in the day when she saw on the horizon three figures approaching. She fell to her knees sobbing and worshipping.

                                                Chapter 16


Time continued unabated and Abraham died and Isaac married Rebekah and they had a son named Jacob and I continued my covenant through him. When Jacob had submitted to my will I changed his name to Israel. Jacob had twelve sons. I would use Jacob’s 11th son, Joseph, to continue with my plan and I gave him special dreams in his young age. Whenever it is obvious to Satan that I am using someone for my plan, he always tries to thwart it by using others against my chosen vessel. Joseph became a target. What Satan doesn’t understand is that whatever he is allowed to do to my chosen ones, I will use it to strengthen my chosen ones to accomplish my purpose. I use the pain and adversity in their life to draw them deeper and closer to me. Sometimes this takes a long time but I am in no hurry.

Joseph became the favorite of Jacob and his brothers hated him and became jealous and wanted to kill him. They devised a scheme to sell Joseph in to slavery. They told Jacob that Joseph had been killed and the loss of his favored son had broken Jacobs heart. He was taken to Egypt and purchased by a high- ranking official close to the Pharaoh. I was with Joseph and was preparing him, through his many trials, to represent my character. After a while Joseph was unjustly accused and put in prison so that I could continue to transform him and prepare him to fulfill My purpose. I gave him the ability to interpret dreams and through a series of events over a long period of time, I orchestrated an opportunity for Joseph to interpret some very disturbing dreams that I allowed the Pharaoh to have. None of the magicians or wise men in Egypt could tell Pharaoh what his dreams meant but Joseph could.

Joseph was finally called upon and taken from prison to Pharaoh and Pharaoh said to Joseph that he had heard that Joseph could interpret dreams. Joseph quickly told him that he could not but that I could. So Pharaoh told Joseph his dreams. Joseph knew that the dreams were describing a great famine that would devastate the land of Egypt and he suggested what needed to be done to prevent it. Pharaoh was impressed with Joseph and the God he served and made Joseph ruler over all of Egypt, second to only Pharaoh himself. Joseph was now a young man.

Seeing that his plan to destroy Joseph was foiled, a now enraged Satan and his hordes went about the earth causing the famine to spread everywhere. People came from everywhere to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph. When Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent his sons to buy grain. When they came to Joseph they didn't recognize him, as he was just a boy when they sold him in to slavery and now he was a man. Joseph recognized them and after some time he revealed himself to them and they were in shock and fear and disbelief. Joseph comforted them and told them that what they had meant for evil, I had meant for good because I sent Joseph before them in order to preserve life. He told them to go back and get their father and bring everything to Egypt to live and that he would care for them. Jacob came and once again his 12 sons were all together.

                                             Chapter 17

Many generations had now passed and Jacob and Joseph died and the people of Jacob grew to a multitude and became very strong. The new king of Egypt did not know about Joseph and all he saw was a people, who he called Hebrews, that could turn against them at any time so he needed to get them under control for fear of them. As the spirit of fear whispered in the ear of the king, Satan devised his plan to enslave my people.

The king put taskmasters over them and sentenced them to hard labor but they multiplied all the more. The king then instructed the Hebrew midwives to put to death any son born of my people. The hard labor and slavery continued for hundreds of years until I raised a deliverer from my people. A baby boy was born and his mother hid him for a while but when she could not hide him any longer she put him in a basket and put it in the reeds along the Nile River.

The king’s daughter went to bathe in the river and she saw the basket. She found the baby crying and had pity on him and took him as her own. She named him Moses. I had favor on Moses so that he was shown favor in the household of the king. As Moses grew, he saw the treatment inflicted on my people by the Egyptians. He knew that his heritage was with my people and he grew in resentment of the Egyptian people and was in constant conflict within himself over this. On the one hand he was raised in privilege and had everything he wanted but on the other, he couldn't just stand idly by as such injustice was inflicted on the people that he came from. This went on for some time as I continued to show favor to him.

Again, as Satan saw my favor towards Moses, he attempted to kill him. One day as Moses witnessed an Egyptian mistreating one of my people, he became enraged and killed the Egyptian and buried him in the sand. This news eventually reached the king and the king now wanted to kill Moses. I protected Moses as he fled to the desert far away from the king and from Egypt. Once again, Satan had played into my hand as this is what I wanted for Moses so that I could now resolve the conflict within him and prepare him for My purpose. There were no longer any distractions from Egypt, only the solitude of the desert.

                                            Chapter 18

“I think it’s been over 40 years now that I have spent in this desert. I have a hard time even remembering my life of privilege in Egypt. All I know now is my family and you”. Moses was talking out loud to himself and the flock that he was pasturing. Life was pretty much the same day in and day out for Moses. He wasn’t much for talking but he did enjoy leading the flock and talking to them. I had a different, much larger flock in mind that I wanted Moses to lead so it was time that I got his attention.

I set a large fire on a nearby bush but did not allow the fire to consume the bush. Sure enough, Moses did a double take on the bush and then came over to it to inspect it. I called to him from the bush and told him not to come any closer and to remove the sandals from his feet because he was now standing on holy ground.

Wherever I AM, becomes holy. I told Moses who I AM and told him that I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt and I have heard their cries and that I am sending him to Pharaoh to deliver My people out of Egypt. I also let him know that Pharaoh would not listen to him and would resist him.

Moses took his family and left for Egypt and went to Pharaoh and told him what I had said and sure enough, Pharaoh would not let My people leave Egypt and oppressed them even more. I then allowed 10 plagues to be inflicted upon Egypt and its people and instructed Moses to announce each one to Pharaoh before they happen. Satan and his demons had a wonderful time as they reveled in the free reign given to them to inflict such destruction and misery. After each plague, Pharaoh hardened his heart more and more towards My people and I.

It was after the 10th plague that Pharaoh finally relented. It was also in this plague that I would reveal myself to My people and to future generations. On this very night I would release the angel of death in the land of Egypt to take the first born of all the people of Egypt. Death will not be able to touch My people if they are protected by the blood of the lamb. I told Moses to tell all of My people to take a spotless lamb and to slay it and put the blood on the top and 2 sides of the doorpost. As the angel of death goes through the land of Egypt to take all the firstborn children, he will be prevented from entering any house that has the blood of the lamb on the doorpost. He must pass over that house because I will be there to prevent him from entering. This will become the feast of Passover for My people and for future generations.

At the end of my book I put a very big clue to let my people know something I did before I created anything or even started my book. No created being has ever known of this event, which was outside of time and in the eternals. Only my Father and I know of this event. This event was when I first dealt with sin and death and took them upon Myself in order to defeat them and to redeem My creation from them. I AM the lamb that was slain before the foundations of the world. It was truly finished before I ever created. Death was the prodigy of sin and Satan is the master of sin. Neither Satan nor death are aware that they were defeated before they ever came into being. There will come a day when I enter my creation and make this event known to all. Until that time, I will give clues to some of My people to share with all My people about when I will come and the manifestation of this unknown event so that My people will recognize Me when I come.

The lambs that are now slain by My people will be symbolic of Me, the only lamb of God that has taken away the sin of this fallen world. When My people put the blood of the lamb on the doorposts of their houses, it will be symbolic of a time when anyone who accepts My sacrifice for sin, on their behalf, symbolically applies My blood to their life, then death can not touch them. Death must pass over them just as death must pass over My people on this night.

My angels watched in horror as death walked unhindered across the land of Egypt. Pride and Arrogance walked a safe distance ahead of death proclaiming his rule upon all creation. Nothing created would dare challenge death, as it grew stronger with every life it took. Satan himself could not control this one. There are no words in any language of man that can describe this one. It is the embodiment of all that is evil and is the antithesis of all that I AM. It only comes to pay that which has been earned by sin, its mother. It is only satisfied when one is sucked into its being and enslaved by it forevermore. Its satisfaction is always waning as its ever-increasing hunger to claim another fuels its lust to conquer all. It knows no enemies, yet all are its enemies, though nothing created can stand against it.

As insatiable death came to the area in Egypt where My people live, there seemed to be an insidious delight that came over it. Raiment in the darkness of its own being and absorbing anything in its path; death, the shepherd of all mankind, boldly approached the first house in blind ecstasy knowing that nothing created in heaven or on earth could stop it this night. Unaware that I, uncreated Life, stood at the doorway with my head at the top of the doorway and my arms outstretched to each side where the blood of the lamb was applied, death attempted to enter the house. It encountered unapproachable Light and the embodiment of darkness could not comprehend or overpower My Light. It was thrown backwards and fell down as a for-telling to my angels of its fate. It is a simple truth that my people must learn that pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. The cacophony of praises from pride and arrogance was silenced by the pitiful, tantrum like cry from death as its sense of entitlement was threatened for the first time ever.

                                            Chapter 19

As death slowly recovered from its fall, bewildered by what it was that it encountered and expecting to see a legion of my angels that it would take pleasure in destroying for having the audacity to even presume that they could stop it; I allowed it to approach Me once again as pride and arrogance resumed their delusional praises. With a look of disgust and perplexity and now filled with hubris, death defiantly and mockingly yells out for all the spirit realm to hear...

“You, the only Son of the Living God, dare to come into my domain and then compound such foolishness by trying to stop me? I am death. I am lord over all. All bow to me. None can resist me or stop me. Your feeble creation has chosen me over you and they delight in sin almost as much as I delight in their fear and futile resistance of me. They are rightfully mine and when I am finished here with this physical realm, I will come after you and your companions in the spiritual realm. I am certain that you have hidden yourself from me for this very reason. You are no threat to me and if you remain in my domain, I will take you now. Get out of my way before I destroy you now.”

“Death, you speak with the pride of Satan who ushered sin into my creation and with the arrogance of sin who ushered you into my creation. Such an unholy trinity you are. How does one who knows so little become so boastful?”

“What do you mean? I am death. I know all things and all things belong to me.”

“You do not know all things. Why is it that you cannot enter into this house? Why is it that you will not enter any of My peoples houses that have the blood of the lamb on it?”

Instantly death was at another house but I was there before it. As it tried to enter, it was thrown back once again. It tried several more houses with the same outcome and then I approached death and said...

“I command you death to pass over every house that has the blood of the lamb on it. There will be no victory for you here tonight for I have removed your sting from the midst of my people. You are unaware of our fist meeting but there will be a time when I enter my creation as a man and I will call you to Myself and we shall meet again when time intersects with eternity. Until then, you will have your way. No, death, you do not know all things.”

                                         (see Contents for chapters 20 thru 29)

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