Michael said that He was glorying in His new spiritual body that is seven feet tall and weighs 300 pounds. He imagined how He could run up to the cattle guard in a or down to the church in a flash. These are the glory days, all the hard things are behind us. He said, "If an anorexic can imagine themselves to be fat, (An anorexic is a person who starves themself because devils have convinced them that they are fat when they are not), and if people can imagine themselves as rejected by God, why can’t we use our imaginations for something enjoyable, like thinking about our new body, instead of something crazy."

Early in the day Anaiah went for a walk out to the well. As she was walking she was considering the pain and illness she has had in her body through the years. Michael has always told her that “she is well - she is healed”, but she still feels her weaknesses and pain from time to time. She then heard Father say, "Come up hither." And she began to see herself from His point of view. There she saw her spiritual reality, who she truly was, and in a way that was not just head knowledge, but rather, a revelation of sensing her new glorious body.

Michael said that we are a spirit living in a human body. We are not our thoughts or emotions. Neither are we our body, for we can separate ourselves from the thoughts which once had power over us, and soon, we will not have this body. By believing who we are as spiritual beings we can transcend all of that. We are not humans having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a human experience. It's necessary for us to shift our thinking from a human perspective to a spiritual one.

Beth was telling me that when she went to an introductory meeting about EST Seminars (Erhard Seminar Training You can find this on the internet if you want to know more about what it is. Michael went to this and it was the turning point in his life). The man began speaking spiritual truths on a heart level, and she immediately felt a spiritual connection. Her spirit had been craving for truth and for connecting with people on a real, heart level for a long time and she was just soaking it up. It was like his spirit was touching her spirit. After talking for awhile, the man looked at her and remarked that they "had connected." He sensed it right away, just as she had, and it thrilled her that he acknowledged this, because you just don't find that kind of real communication in the world. As she was sharing this with a brother and a sister, she suddenly realized what the EST training was all about. It was to break through to the real person, which is spirit, and be able to live and communicate from that place. To touch and connect with the real person in another, going through the outer shell that people usually live and communicate from, through the veil of flesh, to touch and connect spirit to spirit -- "in spirit and in truth."

In the Garden we had to have animal skins put on us because after the fall we could not bear the glory of that spiritual body, which was clothed in light. Every cell in our physical body has developed a memory that is programmed from the past, and all of that has to go. The reason that spirits are able to talk to you proves that you are a spirit.

A flaming sword was placed at the entrance to the Garden to prevent access to the Tree of Life. Michael said He was looking forward to the day when we could walk right past those swords knowing they are friends. The swords are everything that limits you and prevents you from identifying with spiritual realities and your spiritual body. Michael said that he has seen his natural limitations as opposed to Father's reality, but he has always been able to go beyond those limitations and do whatever Father has asked him to perform.

I found this from Ellen White "Obedience through Jesus Christ gives to man perfection of character and a right to that tree of life. The conditions of again partaking of the fruit of the tree are plainly stated in the testimony of Jesus Christ to John: "Blessed are they that do His commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and many enter in through the gates into the city" (MS 72, 1901).
"No Sword Before Our Tree of Life.--The Scriptures, "It is written," is the gospel we are to preach. No flaming sword is placed before this tree of life. All who will may partake of it. There is no power that can prohibit any soul from taking of the fruit of this tree of life. All may eat and live forever (Letter 20, 1900). 1BC 1086.5

Recently Danielle and Tema have had small experiences of what might be called "out of body" experiences, and Michael said this is the beginning of the change.

Michael talked about we have always used our imaginations to bring things into being so why not bring God's reality into being instead.

The thought that comes to me is something that Israela shared with me about a dream she had last night. She was walking along and feeling as though she was part of a universal body. And what I saw in that was that we are all one - all part of Father's body. It certainly makes sense how there would be a oneness and a unity that we have never understood before. I can see why Satan has worked so hard to convince us that we are “separate” from God and everyone else. “A house divided against itself cannot stand”. Satan has so often convinced us that some person didn’t like us or that they were against us.

It becomes more and more real to me, that in Him we live, and move, and have our being and in us He lives and moves and has His being.

Hanifa related something to me that happened during one of his visits. She was looking at Michael and, “I said to myself, "You're in there.", and afterwards, I knew I was "seeing" into the skin of Wayne Bent in a way that I had not previously. As he was talking about not belonging to our shell, he was so animated in the spirit it would have been hard to NOT see Him in there. The experience was more like, he was beaming out so strongly that one could hardly miss it.

I saw that he was speaking of our true spirit body. THAT is our reality. This flesh, this bag of human stuff is NOT our identity. Our reality is the image of God within us. Our Real Self, our true body, is IN us, not something that will come down out of heaven. We have to go through the necessary metamorphosis required to release that True Self. Suicide will not accomplish that.

Stepping into reality is to ignore/disregard the clamorings of this flesh...regardless of it's "real" feelings. Michael said that one can just look in the mirror and have sympathy for that thing but not have it be the reality of ones being.

Ami was awakened from a nap earlier in the day by a dream. In it Milton said to her, "Would you like me to tell you what's going to happen on the 9th of Av?" And then she woke up. When she told Michael, he said that the 9th of Av (July 24th) is 45 days from June 10, when He began His fast. (About 2500 years ago Solomoon’s temple was destroied on the 9th day of the Jewish month of “Av”. About 2000 years ago the temple in Jerusalen was again destroied on the same date, the 9th of Av. ) He went outside and walked over to Azaniah. Squatting down in front of him with his hands on Azaniah’s knees he said, “I was just given the day and the hour.” Azaniah said, “When is it” Michael repied, “The 9th of Av.” They visited for a bit and then Michael went and told Benjamin and Benjamin said that this would destroy all the worldly churches. The Adventists say those who translate must be living without sin but they also say that no one can do that. Plus there has to be "Sunday laws" set up and, “Jesus is coming soon but not now.” The Sunday churches say there has to be a new temple built in Jerusalem first. So all their theories would crumble to dust in their hands.
The 9th of Av commemorates the destruction of the earthly temple. That's the token or symbol of the destruction of our earthly bodies and the reception of our new spiritual bodies.

As I was editing this I received these emails from Amanah and Shecanaiah:

Good Morning,

I came across this quote from a meeting on 11-4-200 that really fits today. Also, there was one from "Come Away My Beloved" that really was sweet to me this morning also.

"He is bringing you to become fully enfolded and enveloped in Him, to the measure of the fullness of Messiah, whatever Messiah has, you have; that's where Father wants you to go now. The Spirit alone takes you across the abyss. Your reason is overthrown, and there is only the green cord hanging down out of heaven for you to hold onto. Lay hold on Him, swing across, and see on the other side a very safe road. Our Father always probes each of His children and brings them to enter there. It will only be those who hear Him and and take hold of Him who will traverse the abyss, because reason will not do it.

"If your heart is pure, you will say, 'Father is responsible and keeps me safe from all dangers. He doesn't fail. He's perfect. Nothing ever goes wrong with Him; there's never trouble with Him.' The result is, that life just flows; His life opens up to you, and He delivers you into new beautiful places every day."

"Don't let doubts and reasonings and questions, all this unbelief you pick out of the sky, find a place in your feelings and thoughts. Heaven is the place where doubts, reasoning and questions are no more.

"This wife is loved more than any of His other wives. In fact, it is as though He was never married before. When her heavenly Husband comes to take her into her final resting place, she will not hesitate, since she is accustomed to following Him. She will rise from the earth as naturally as she has always done.

"Gods creatures are always led by a Voice; their proof is the faith that is born in them; they believe the heavenly messenger...." Michael 11-4-2000

Come Away My Beloved: "You shall live in a realm where the things of earth shall not be able to impede and obstruct and limit your movement; but you shall be freed in Me to a place where your spirit may soar as the eagle, and you may make your nest in a place of safety and solitude, unmolested and undefiled by the sordidness of the world.

"You shall have companionship; but it shall be the companionship of those like-minded with you, yes, of those who like yourself have been done with the beggarly elements, and whose sense of value has been readjusted so that they deem the unseen as of greater value than the seen, and the spiritual riches more precious than the wealth of the world.

"For My Church shall be an overcoming Church, and My Bride shall be a heavenly being. I will not choose Me a wife out of Egypt. I will take to Me one who has chosen to make My home her home and My people her people, even as did Ruth."
Amanah
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Good Morning Dear Ones,

Those are both very timely. Thank you for sharing them with us, Amanah. I remember reading the one from Come Away My Beloved, and writing it in my journal.

I went for a walk out to the well this morning and found Dinah there ahead of me. We sat and talked for awhile about the things Michael shared with us last night. Just as we were starting to head back we met up with Seth and Joy, so we all walked back together.

Just as I was crawling into bed last night the thought came to me that the 9th of Av on the 24th of July is exactly seven months to the very day that Purity was laid to rest on the 24th of December. I don't know that it means anything but I thought it was interesting.

Shecanaiah