The work of this ministry is similar to the work of Ezekiel: it is to take a message to spiritual Israel that as a nation of holy priests, it needs to begin obeying God, for judgment is upon it. The teachers of spiritual Israel regularly speak of five judgments without realizing what they say. Yes, they hear themselves, but the linguistic icons they use have no tangible objects. They do not understand that if they are drawn by the Father, they were placed in a covenant relationship that has definite terms and obligations. If they have been baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, they have asked for judgment to be upon them. They are presently being judged by terms of a covenant they do not acknowledge. So the work of this ministry is to reach those who think themselves "saved" before they are spiritually liberated, if possible, at a future Passover, when firstborns will again be killed. These firstborns won't, though, be of men and beasts, but of spiritual children and of men. The new covenant elevates the battlefield on which war is fought against spiritual forces. Mental and physical landscapes are linked. So the firstborns to be slain are in this linked landscape.

In addition, the work of this ministry is to recover as many genuine disciples presently lost—as if they were scattered sheep—in spiritual Babylon as possible. Jesus says He is the Good Shepherd, that those who came before were hirelings. He came once as a man. He will come again as the Messiah. As the second Adam, He named the hirelings who had been placed over circumcised Israel: Hypocrites, Vipers, etc. He has named the hirelings who were placed over spiritual Israel in His command, Get away from Me, you evildoers. Yet within the fellowships of these Evildoers are genuine disciples, trapped by the teaching of an accursed gospel of lawlessness. It is the intention of this ministry to confront these hirelings, and wrestle the trapped sheep away from them, using every resource available. And for recovering these disciples and returning them to the covenant relationship in which they were placed when drawn, there will be great spiritual reward, including the covering of a multiple of personal shortcomings. Nothing more is added to the Church in Philadelphia not because its saints are more righteous than the saints in the other six churches, but because this fellowship of little strength engaged the synagogue of Satan to recover lost sheep—and was surprisingly successful.

It is far easier for me to engage those teachers of spiritual Israel who play loose with Scripture than it is to discuss the business aspects of doing this ministry. But Jesus said you have not because you ask not. Disciples were to ask the Father to supply their needs, and the promise was the Father would be faithful in supplying those needs. Within the context of how this ministry is supported, it is supported through faith in the Father supplying the needs through the freewill offerings of those who have great enough love for spiritual Israelites that they, too, want to engage the synagogue of Satan in the greatest mismatch the world has ever seen. But I have read the Book. I know how the fight will end. We win. We win such a great victory that we'll be called pillars in the temple of God. Now, that's enough reward for many co-workers in which to share.

I have been drafted to do this work. I wasn't seeking God when I was initially drafted into the Body of Christ. I wasn't seeking to do evangelism (probably to my shame) when I was commissioned from on high to begin rereading prophecy. And I hadn't been seeking either disciples or co-workers because the work I have to do is similar to that of Ezekiel. The prophet didn't build for himself a spiritual following. There is nothing in my psyche that desires or wants a following. My temperament is that of the solitary writer. I have lived much of my adult life in rural Alaska. I fished commercially out of Kodiak and Dutch Harbor. I was in the woods alone falling timber days and weeks before it was skidded or yarded. I built muzzleloading rifles as a lone gunmaker. I carved totemic sculpture as an artist working alone. So unlike so many who are in Christian ministry, the trial for me wasn't rereading Scripture, or confronting those who misteach Scripture, but allowing others to participate in this fight against Satan, the demonic king of the North, and their ministers of righteousness. My character has always been to go it alone. Not for personal gain. But because I haven't felt the need for help. When I have felt need, Christ has always been there, supplying what I could not supply on my own, even to calming seas.

But when I acquired a house in a small Southeastern Idaho town, all of my L.D.S. neighbors were eager to help me in whatever I needed. They didn't, though, want me to help them. They instinctively knew that an automatic blessing comes with giving of time and resources. They seemed reluctant for me, as someone they regarded as a spiritual gentile, to receive blessings; hence, they declined my offers of assistance. I then realized, perhaps for the first time, that I actually denied a person a spiritual blessing when I declined assistance. Therefore, out of love for all those who want to be involved in a righteous fight, I will gladly accept freewill offerings, and will account to you in a reasonable and true manner how your offerings are used to take the gospel of Christ to spiritual Israel, both the spiritual house of Israel (i.e., Arian denominations), and the spiritual house of Judah (i.e., Trinitarian denominations). Both houses will be liberated at a future Passover, which isn't decades in the future. Both houses will experience their firstborns being killed for unknown reasons if they are not warned before hand.

If you do not presently have a local congregation of like-minded believers with which to fellowship, let's get together and see what can be done about starting one. Tithes properly belong to your local congregation, and tithing is, as I read the parable of the talents, a salvational issue. So, unless you have no local congregation to whom tithes are owed, I am only a spiritually lawful recipient of freewill offerings.

Jesus sent forth His twelve disciples '"to the lost sheep of the house of Israel"' to '"proclaim the good news, "The kingdom of heaven has come near"'" (Matt 10:6-7 NRSV). They were to cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. They were to give what they received without payment. They were to take no gold, silver, copper; no bag; no spare clothing, '"for laborers deserve their food"' (v. 10). And Jesus concludes His instructions to the Twelve with: '"Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. Whoever welcomes a prophet in the name of a prophet will receive a prophet's reward; and whoever welcomes a righteous person in the name of a righteous person will receive the reward of the righteous; and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward'" (vv. 40-42).

Jesus sending forth the Twelve to the lost sheep of Israel while He was still in the flesh constitutes the shadow of the glorified Christ sending forth endtime disciples to the spiritually lost sheep of spiritual Israel. These endtime disciples are to deliver a message, and to do a work, and to be supported by those who receive them. And those who receive them share their spiritual reward.

The Twelve were to enter a town, seek who was worthy, and greet that household, staying there until leaving the town, with the promise that they "'will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes'" (v. 23). When, after showing Jesus the temple, His disciples asked for a sign of His coming and of the end of the age, Jesus gave only one, the one that precedes not having gone through all of the towns of Israel: Jesus said, "'But the one who endures to the end will be saved. And this good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the world, as a testimony to all nations; and then the end will come'" (Matt 24:13-14 compare with Matt 10:22). So when the good news that those who endure to the end will be saved goes to all nations, but not yet to all of the spiritual cities of Israel, the end of the age will come (Matt 24:13-14).

Christ has been preached to the world. The mighty deeds of the Son of Man have been proclaimed. The good news of His soon-coming millennial reign has been delivered. And any number of accursed gospels have been proclaimed, including the one presently taught that would have the Church raptured into heaven prior to the beginning of the Tribulation.

The Tribulation is the spiritual birth pains of the second Eve, who will deliver many heirs of God upon Christ's return. Just as the first Eve believed the serpent's lie that she wouldn't die, the second Eve believed Satan's lie that she has an immortal soul. After He pronounced judgment against her, He drove the first Eve (and her husband) from His garden, thereby barring them from taking of the tree of life. Her desire would be for her husband, and she would experience pain in childbirth. And the same curse pertains to the second Eve: her desire is for her husband (to be), Christ, and she will experience great pain in childbirth.

This ministry, commissioned by Christ as manifest by the spiritual understanding it presents to spiritual Israel, is to take the unadorned gospel of the kingdom of heaven is near, and the person who endures to the end shall be saved to the world. Any and all who wish to assist in this ministry are sincerely welcomed, and will receive the spiritual reward of this ministry. Your financial contributions will quicken the delivery of this message to the world.

Of course, it is Christ who opens the doors by which this gospel goes forth. It is also Christ who would have every disciple store up treasure in heaven—and spreading the good news of the kingdom, making disciples, and nurturing these disciples are the ways by which spiritual treasure is stored. So the recovery of many misled sheep not only causes much treasure to be stored, but also covers many sins (James 5:20).

If you wish to contribute, your name will be added to the mailing list for the co-worker letter sent to members of The Philadelphia Church, unless you request otherwise. You are a Philadelphian if you have love for all of spiritual Israel, enough love to leave the lamb already in the fold and go after the ninety-nine who have been scattered by wolves and weather. If you are this person, welcome. Your help is sorely needed.

The harvest is enormous. The laborers are few. The rewards are great. But the work that has to be done is greater than any before accomplished, or even attempted. The assurance of prophecy is that it will be completed shortly.