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1From my heart I speak truth in the Chosen One. I am not speaking with a forked tongue. My spirit is in harmony with the Holy Spirit when
2I tell you of the great sorrow that burns like a never-ending fire in my heart.
3If it would help my Tribal Family members to find the truth that would set them free and make them whole , I would be willing to be cursed, cut off from the Chosen One!
4They are members of the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel) and my flesh-and-blood relatives. They were chosen by the Great Spirit and taken into his family. They were given honor, sacred treaties and promises, laws to live by, and a sacred lodge in which to perform ceremonies.
5They are related to our honored ancestors Father of Many Nations (Abraham) , He Made Us Laugh (Isaac) , and Heel Grabber (Jacob) , who are the human ancestors of Creator Sets Free (Jesus) —the Chosen One. He is the Great Spirit who is above all, over all, and blessed to the time beyond the end of all days. Aho! May it be so!
6Even if my human relatives have turned away, this does not mean the promise of the Great Spirit has fallen to the ground. For not all who are from the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel) are the true Tribal Members.[#9:6 Lit. word]
7Just because they are descendants of Father of Many Nations (Abraham) does not make them the children of promise. For the Sacred Teachings say, “It is the descendants of He Made Us Laugh (Isaac) who will carry on your name.”[#9:7 Genesis 21:12]
8This means it is not the children physically descended from Father of Many Nations (Abraham) who are counted as children of the Great Spirit, but only the ones who are born because of Creator’s promise.
He Made Us Laugh (Isaac) was born because of a promise the Great Spirit made to Father of Many Nations (Abraham) .
9For the promise said, “Next year at this time I will return and your wife Noble Woman (Sarah) will have a son.”[#9:9 Genesis 18:10]
10-11-12There is more to this story. She Holds Together (Rebecca) , the wife of our ancestor He Made Us Laugh (Isaac) , gave birth to twins. But before they were born, the Great Spirit said to her, “The elder son will serve the younger.” The reason Creator chose one son over the other had nothing to do with what they had done, good or bad, but only to show that the Knower of Hearts chooses according to his own purpose.[#9:10-12 Genesis 25:23]
13That is why the Sacred Teachings say, “My love caused me to choose Heel Grabber (Jacob) over Hairy Man (Esau) .”
14Do not get the wrong idea. We are not saying that the Great Spirit chooses unfairly.
15We are saying the same thing that Creator said to Drawn from the Water (Moses) , “If I want to show kindness to someone, that is what I will do. I will have pity on anyone I choose.”[#9:15 Exodus 33:19]
16The choice does not depend on the desire of one’s heart or the strength of ones legs, but on the pity and kindness of the Great Spirit.
17The Sacred Teachings make this clear when the Great Spirit said to Great House (Pharaoh) , “I raised you up, so that when I defeated you, my power and reputation would be known to all the earth.”[#9:17 Exodus 9:16]
18So the Great Spirit does whatever he desires. He gives hard hearts to some and takes pity on others.
19But, some might ask, “If Creator is the one who decides these things, then what choice do we have, for who can stand against what he wants?”
20How can anyone talk back to the Great Spirit? We are weak human beings with small minds who do not understand his ways. Does a clay pot say to its maker, “Why did you give me this shape?”
21Does not the one who forms the clay give it its purpose? From one lump of clay he can make one pot for ceremonial use and the other for everyday use.
22So then, what if Creator, who has the right to show his great anger and power against pots of clay he is angry with, which are ready to be broken into pieces, has instead shown them great patience?
23Does not the Great Spirit also have the right, from the treasures of his beauty, to pour out his kindness and mercy on pots of clay he has already chosen from the Outside Nations?
24He did this so everyone can see how honorable he is. He still chose us, whether we are Tribal Members or from the Outside Nations.
25For the prophet He Helps Us (Hosea) has said, “To Nations who are not mine I will give the name ‘You Are My People.’ To Nations who have not known my love I will give the name ‘You Are Loved!’”[#9:25 Hosea 2:23]
26He Helps Us (Hosea) also said, “In the same place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ they will be called ‘The family of the living Creator.’”[#9:26 Lit. sons; #9:26 Hosea 1:10]
27But the prophet Creator Will Help Us (Isaiah) cries out to the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel) , “Even though the number of the children of the tribes of Wrestles with Creator (Israel) are as many as the grains of sand on the seashore, only a small number will return to be made whole and set free.
28For very soon the word of Creator will be fully carried out on the land.”[#9:28 Isaiah 10:22-23]
29And just as Creator Will Help Us (Isaiah) has foretold, “If the Chief of Spirit Warriors had not left some of our descendants alive, we would have become like the people of Village of Bad Spirits (Sodom) and Village of Deep Fear (Gomorrah) .”
30What can we say about this? We are saying that the Outside Nations found good standing in the eyes of the Great Spirit even though they did not follow our tribal law. Instead, they trusted in what Creator has done.
31We are also saying that our own Tribal People, who worked so hard to earn this good standing by following the law, have failed.
32Why did they fail? It was because they were depending on what they could do, by keeping the law, instead of trusting in what the Great Spirit would do for them. They tripped over the great stumbling stone,[#9:32 Isaiah 8:14]
33just as it is written in our Sacred Teachings, “Be aware! For in Strong Mountain (Zion) I have set a lodgepole that many will trip over, a large chief pole that will make them stumble—and the hearts of all who trust in him will never fall to the ground.”[#9:33 Isaiah 8:14 and 28:16]