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1If you think that I am saying the Great Spirit has turned away from his own people in the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel) , you are mistaken. I am proof that he did not. I myself am a Tribal Member, a descendant of Father of Many Nations (Abraham) , from the tribe of Son of My Right Hand (Benjamin) .
2Creator has not turned away from ones he knew ahead of time would be his people. Do you remember the story of Great Spirit Is Creator (Elijah) as it is told in the Sacred Teachings, when he was complaining to the Great Spirit about the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel) ?
3He said, “O Great Spirit, your people have put to death your prophets and have torn down your sacred altars. I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me!”[#11:3 1 Kings 19:10, 14]
4How does Creator answer him? “I have seven thousand men who have not bowed down to serve Dark Ruler (Baal) .”[#11:4 1 Kings 19:18]
5It is the same for the time we live in. There are some from among our Tribal People who have been chosen not by working to keep our tribal law, but through the gift of his great kindness.
6Now if they are chosen by the gift of Creator’s great kindness, then this choosing cannot come from working hard to keep the law, but only by his great kindness. Otherwise it would not truly be a gift.
7This means that only a chosen few have found what all the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel) were looking for. The rest have hearts that have become as hard as stone.
8It is written in the Sacred Scrolls, “Creator has given them over to a spirit that makes them slow to understand. To this very day, they have eyes but fail to see and ears but fail to hear.”[#11:8 Deuteronomy 29:4; Isaiah 29:10]
9Chief Much Loved One (David) , speaking of our tribes , also says, “Let their traditional food laws become a trap to catch them by surprise, so they will stumble and have their own ways fall back on their heads.[#11:9 Lit. table]
10Let the darkness blind their eyes, and let their backs be always bent under the weight of their broken ways .”[#11:10 Psalm 69:22-23]
11Have our Tribal People then stumbled with no way to get back up again? I tell you they have not! Creator knew ahead of time that they would fail, and he knew their failure would open the way for the people of all Nations to be set free and made whole. One reason the Great Spirit did this was to make the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel) jealous by giving the people from the Outside Nations equal standing in his eyes.
12But if the failure and loss of our Tribal Members brings such great blessings to the nations of this world, how much greater these blessings will be when they fully become the people he created them to be!
13I am now speaking to you who are the people from the Outside Nations. I consider it an honor that I have been sent to you as a message bearer.
14I make sure that my flesh-and-blood Tribal Members know how much I honor you, in the hope that it will make some of them jealous, so that they can also trust in Creator Sets Free (Jesus) to be set free and made whole.
15So think about it this way. If the turning away of our Tribal Members from the Great Spirit means that he then turned toward the rest of the world, to bring them back to himself, then what will it mean when our Tribal Members turn back to welcome him? It can only mean that they have come back to life from the dead!
16If the piece of ceremonial bread that is offered first to the Great Spirit is sacred, then the whole loaf is also sacred. If the root of a tree is holy, then its branches are also holy.
17Some of the branches of this olive tree were broken off, and you Outside Nations have been grafted in from a wild olive tree. This means you now share in the health-giving sap that comes from the roots.
18So do not think that you are better than those broken-off branches. For you are also a branch supported by what the root supplies.
19But someone might say, “Those branches were broken off so I could be grafted in.”
20What you say is true. But they were broken off because they did not believe, and you stand only by your faith. So do not get big-headed, but show deep respect.
21For if Creator did not have pity on the original branches, why should he have pity on you?
22So you can see how kind and how strict the Great Spirit can be. He was strict toward the ones who walked away but is kind toward you, as long as you keep walking in his kindness. If not, you also will be cut off.
23And if the ones who walked away turn around and begin trusting again, then Creator has the power to graft them back in because of his great kindness.
24It is not a natural thing for wild branches to be grafted into an olive tree that is grown in a garden. It is much easier for the natural branches to be grafted back into the same olive tree they were cut from.
25My sacred family members, to keep you from being wise in your own eyes, I want you to know about a great mystery Creator has shown to me. A hardening of hearts has come upon a part of the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel) until the Outside Nations have fully entered in.
26And this is the way all of the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel) will be set free and made whole.
As the Sacred Teachings tell us, “The one who Sets Us Free will come from Strong Mountain (Zion) . He is the one who will turn Heel Grabber (Jacob) from his worthless ways, back to the ways of the Great Spirit.
27This is the peace treaty I will make with them when I take away their bad hearts and broken ways.”[#11:27 Covenant; #11:27 Isaiah 59:20-21]
28Looking through the eyes of the good story, the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel) have become its enemy. But looking through the eyes of the ancestors, they are greatly loved because Creator chose them for his good purposes.
29For the Great Spirit will never take back his calling and gifts once he has given them.
30Here is another way to see what I am saying: In the past you Outside Nations said no to these ways of the Great Spirit. But now, because the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel) have said no to Creator’s good story, you have said yes to it, and received the mercy they turned away from.
31Since they have also failed the Great Spirit, they can now receive mercy from him in the same way you have.
32Creator has rounded up into one corral all who have failed to do what he wants, so that he can show his great kindness and mercy to everyone.
33O how deep are the treasures of both the wisdom and knowledge held by the Great Mystery! His decisions go far beyond our weak ways of thinking![#11:33 Job 11:7]
34“For who has understood the thoughts of the Great Spirit? Who has given him counsel?”[#11:34 Isaiah 40:13]
35“Who could give him a gift that would require a gift in return?”[#11:35 Job 41:11]
36For from him all things come, by him all things exist, and in him all things find their true meaning and purpose. All honor belongs to him, both now and in the world to come, to the time beyond the end of all days. Aho! May it be so!