Message 72<br />

 May 22, 1949 | 2:30 a.m. | 1417 S. Pope | Independence,

Missouri<br />

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 The Messenger of the Lord appeared to me and gave the following

message, at my home 1417 South Pope Street, Independence, Missouri,

U.S.A., at 2:30 a.m., May 22, 1949. The Spirit of the Lord was

present and the light accompanying him filled the room.<br />

 I hope and pray that every reader will seek God in deep humility

and faith believing that they may receive the testimony of the

coming of the Elias, with the Elijah message, as spoken of in

Malachi and other prophecies.  W.A.DRAVES<br />

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 1 Behold, I come again with a message. Arise and write the words I

shall give you. I am your fellow servant, a co-laborer for Christ

and His church.<br />

 2 My mission is one of love. I come from the Lord's presence. I am

he to deal prudently; to bring the warning of Christ's soon coming;

to prepare a people to be the Bride, The Church of Christ; to

refine and cause mankind to become pure; to instruct the way of the

Lord and I bring the Elijah message many look for. Lo, the prophets

have foretold of my coming.<br />

 3 I come to fulfill the will of the Lord. I am the Elias, the

fore-runner of the Christ. He has designed the way and stretched

out the earth from one end to the other.<br />

 4 I bring glad tidings to the faithful and those that love truth.

I speak the truth. I bring light to the blind in the light of

time.<br />

 5 The Lord has sent me with salvation and life in the words I

bring from Him to those that hear and obey. Fear not, the reward is

at the end. The gospel of Christ will bring you to life, and away

from the valley of the shadow of death, for He is the good

shepherd. His pure unbounded love shall rule when there is unity

among the faithful. The greater your love the greater your joy

shall be.<br />

 6 Hearken, all ye that desire to know the truth; this is the way

that leadeth to eternity and to Godward. There is no turning

back.<br />

 7 Heed the instructions I bring and establish justice in the

gates. Let no one treat lightly the way of the Lord. They that stir

contention and maketh confusion are of the evil and shall have no

part in this work. Keep peace and comity in gentleness, and

meekness shall make you blessed-a delightsome people.<br />

 8 Behold! The Lord knoweth all those who stir against this work

and those whose hearts are full of revenge and subtlety, in evil's

suavity, planning evil in the far reaching, to accomplish their

envious gain. Lo, they cannot destroy the Lord's work. Their end

will be sad. Their faces shall turn about with darkness. Doubt and

mistrust shall overtake them.<br />

 9 Turn away from those of adulterous and evil minds. They shall

not have part in this work. Authority and trust they deny, and it

shall not be with them.<br />

 10 Choose the clean, upright and the faithful, that the sacred

work will not be defiled.<br />

 11 Fear not when evil arises; act in your place and calling, and

put it from your midst. For unto those who qualify is given power

over unclean and unholy spirits-those whom the Lord calls and are

touched with His Spirit. The hand of power and trust are His. He

giveth as mankind prepares.<br />

 12 My mission is to cause righteousness to look down from above

and to speak the will of the Lord.<br />

 13 Behold! the Lord knoweth His servants, and there are those that

know His will and seek to establish the word. Let His servant

Fuehrer continue, that the word may be translated, for many of the

Lord's are among Israel.<br />

 14 Let Otto Arthur Leers come into this work, keep holy the way of

the Lord. Let him be set apart as an elder, an evangelist, to

represent Christ and His church in that of his homeland and far and

near, whithersoever the Lord shall lead and guide. The Lord has

preserved him for this special work and to publish peace in his

homeland. Let him fully establish the work of truth in that land.

Many of the favored of the Lord shall hear this way and come to the

knowledge of truth. Take to them the way of life.<br />

 15 Teach baptisms, faith, and repentance towards God. Let the

hands be laid on their heads for the gift, and gifts of God on

men.<br />

 16 Deliverance shall come and the faithful shall stand.<br />

 17 Let those be removed that hinder or cause contention, that are

not clean, and that obey not their calling, but in doubt and sin

spread disbelief in the words I bring.<br />

 18 Blest are all those that see this way and the God of the

living, the God of heaven and earth that stretched forth His wise

design.<br />

 19 Thus saith the Lord, "I plead with mankind that he may know I

have spoken. I have sent my Messenger. I have not spoken in secret,

I have spoken in power and given the plan. Will my Israel be

delivered and come unto me, your Lord and God, moreover, the

Christ, for I am He who speaketh. Lo, as the light shineth from the

east unto the west, so, shall my coming be, and at an instant,

suddenly shall a nation be born at once. Every heart shall cry and

every tongue confess I am their Christ. So shall the joy of the

faithful be even in my glory. But woe, woe, woe unto the wicked and

those that count my commandments as naught. My words shall judge


all men; both those that live and those that do not; both the

righteous and the wicked; those in peace and those that are not.

Yea, I have spoken and my words shall have their place. My

Messenger has<br />

 come as I have sent Him. He is my choice, and the faithful are

mine election," saith your Lord.<br />

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 20 Let the message I bring be published in every land. Let it go

in every language and tongue, to the ends of the earth. Peace will

flow in rivers of joy unto many and tongues shall yet cry out in

testimony to my coming, by the words I bring, and the ends of

time.<br />

 21 The millennium is to be the Lord's reign and all men obey the

Lord's will from sea to sea, from shore to shore, from north to

south, from far and wide of the earth and the isles of the

seas.<br />

 22 The Church of Christ shall continue on that a church and people

be fully prepared, and my duty is to bring instructions from the

Lord your God to the church and the children of men. Learn the

better way at this, the closing time, the time the vineyard shall

be cleansed and pruned, this, the last time, and the reign of peace

breaks forth.<br />

 23 Keep sacred the trust, and holy the work, and the way of peace

in your hearts and homes. I speak to all, the church, and all who

will hear.<br />

 24 I leave peace with you and on the church. Fear not, I am John

the Baptist, and I shall come again, until the work is finished.

There are many yet the Lord will call and has reserved against the

day that the work may continue on. Amen.<br />

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