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Hello [Name Withheld],

I truly appreciated you heartfelt comments and experiences in your latest letter. Yes, you have been in my prayers as well as all the prayers of the Saints here when they daily pray in the True Order of Prayer in their homes for the "Elect to be awakened and gathered." These are portions of I think every prayer that is uttered by individuals as well as groups praying together in quorums and otherwise. We earnestly pray that the Lord will permit the Holy Order to awaken those with whom He has covenants with and give them the strength to come to the gathering and help shoulder the burden of establishing Zion. We get feeling pretty lonely here as we see so many LDS friends and investigators shrink and head for safe cover when they size up what the sacrifices are. What ever happened to the memory of their great-grandparents who sacrificed everything for this work? Let me rehearse a couple of important verses:

7. Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation; for, from the first existence of man, the faith necessary unto the enjoyment of life and salvation never could be obtained without the sacrifice of all earthly things. It was through this sacrifice, and this only, that God has ordained that men should enjoy eternal life; and it is through the medium of the sacrifice of all earthly things that men do actually know that they are doing the things that are well pleasing in the sight of God. When a man has offered in sacrifice all that he has for the truth's sake, not even withholding his life, and believing before God that he has been called to make this sacrifice because he seeks to do his will, he does know, most assuredly, that God does and will accept his sacrifice and offering, and that he has not, nor will not seek his face in vain. Under these circumstances, then, he can obtain the faith necessary for him to lay hold on eternal life.

8. It is in vain for persons to fancy to themselves that they are heirs with those, or can be heirs with them, who have offered their all in sacrifice, and by this means obtain faith in God and favor with him so as to obtain eternal life, unless they, in like manner, offer unto him the same sacrifice, and through that offering obtain the knowledge that they are accepted of him." (Sixth Lecture on Faith:7-8)

This scripture is so true that my spirit soars in happy tears as I know this is the very course that must be trod to merit a place with those who have done the same. It simply can't be any other way. This is true religion spoken here in these verses. The LDS complacency and mirroring of Babylonian society has no comprehension of these requirements. In fact, the requirements of the Saints today by the LDS Church do not even come close to qualifying them for exaltation. And that is a defining reality of the apostate slide from the sacred principles and truths that were once taught, lived, and held dear. The LDS population today do not have the qualifications or even the right ordinances to stand in the presence of Jesus Christ or look Him in the face and live. The whole purpose of the ordinances and religion is to prepare God's covenant people to stand in His presence and advance into Godhood. Any change or rhetoric or administrations that lead away from that process is clearly defined as apostasy.

What happened to the royal priesthood, a peculiar people? I will give you a hint. Let us remove the following items and measure whether we would still be acceptable and well-tested to merit the presence of Deity:

-Gathering

-Celestial Plural Marriage

-Consecration

-Knowledge of the true character of God--Adam, our Father.

-Law of Adoption by revelation, thus ordering properly the Eternal Family.

-Remove the penalties and five points of fellowship at the veil.

-Remove the law that commands Eve to obey the law of her husband.

-Remove the preacher which clearly shows how men interpose themselves between men and God.

-Create pollution of the Temple further by inviting the seed of Cain, thus blaspheming God and the Priesthood.

-Remove Second Anointings, or Calling and Election ordinances, and tell the people that they are no longer necessary for exaltation.

-Stop warning the generation to repent or be destroyed. Stop warning anybody of anything.

-Remove women's knowledge of their having the keys of the priesthood through an Endowment to help administer to and bless their children along with their husband. This is within her matriarchal stewardship. My GG grandmother administered oil and blessings to the sick along with her husband all the time and there was power in it. This was a prevalent knowledge and practice in the LDS Church till near the turn of the century.

- Remove revelation from God through rebellion to the above and languish in darkness, resting on the laurels and achievements of your pioneer forbears who did do these things.

-Send women on missions who have no accountability for the blood and sins of this generation. Hint: In the sisters' washing and anointing they are washed clean 'every whit' from the blood and sins of this generation. The men are washed that they 'may become clean from the blood and sins if the generation through their faithfulness'.

- In other words, confuse the woman's role so that Satan can decoy and disintegrate the family.

-Change one of the signs of the Priesthood to a Satanic sign.

-Remove the true mission of the Church from gathering the Elect and establishing Zion to some other more 'reasonable goals' ice. Threefold mission of the Church. (Even if the threefold mission was correct, they do not perfect the saints, they do not preach the true Gospel, and they do not know anything about the true order of how to redeem the dead and now do indiscriminate genealogical work foreign to the order of Heaven.)

I had better leave the list where it is or I'll have a 10 page list of all the changes because in all honesty there are many more than this. But notice that we are not not talking about administrative changes. We are illuminating changes in Principles and Ordinances. Listen to Isaiah:

5 The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

6 Therefore hash the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left." (Isaiah 24:5-6)

Now hear the Lord: "And Zion cannot be built up unless it is by the principles of the law of the celestial kingdom; otherwise I cannot receive her unto myself." (D&C 105:5)

This should begin to be evident as to what has taken place AGAIN to Israel. They have rejected the Lord and His ways and have sought for the world and an easier more 'acceptable' gospel to fit in better with their government and neighbors. How sweet. Actually, I am sickened when I see that this has been happening to me and my forefathers for over 120 years.

[Name Withheld], I have a job. I must awaken to this awful condition (as Moroni calls it), receive the true priesthood power again, and help awaken my brothers and sisters to this predicament. Part of that 'job' is to warn the LDS leaders and members that:

1. They have lapsed into apostasy.
2. That they will meet with great calamity and utter destruction if they
do not turn from their idolatry.
3. Teach and gather those who will heed the message.
4. Restore the ordinances and principles and live them, thus qualifying to become Zion.

All this has to do with keeping one's covenants. The LDS people are wholesale covenant breakers. Just take even the Law of Consecration and its covenant; that just disqualified everybody.

[Name Withheld], you must awaken, repent, gather, keep your covenants, live the Celestial Laws, receive all the ordinances of exaltation, rid your skirts of the blood and sins of this generation, and become a member of the Church of the Firstborn. There are steps to all of this. It is the same in time and in Eternity, I testify.

50 And again we bear record-for we saw and heard, and this is the testimony of the gospel of Christ concerning them who shall come forth in the resurrection of the just-
51 They are they who received the testimony of Jesus, and believed on his name and were baptized after the manner of his burial, being buried in the water in his name, and this according to the commandment which he has given-
52 That by keeping the commandments they might be washed and cleansed from all their sins, and receive the Holy Spirit by the laying on of the hands of him who is ordained and sealed unto this power;
53 And who overcome by faith, and are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, which the Father sheds forth upon all those who are just and true.
54 They are they who are the church of the Firstborn.
55 They are they into whose hands the Father has given all things-
56 They are they who are priests and kings, who have received of his foulness, and of his glory;
57 And are priests of the Most High, after the order of Melchizedek, which was after the order of Enoch, which was after the order of the Only Begotten Son.
58 Wherefore, as it is written, they are gods, even the sons of God-
59 Wherefore, all things are theirs, whether life or death, or things present, or things to come, all are theirs and they are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
60 And they shall overcome all things." (D&C 76:50-60)

This is where we are. God is gathering a remnant out of the Mother Church who is in apostasy. God has restored to this remnant all the keys, power, rights and authorities to render the ordinances, live the principles, gather the House of Israel, and eventually salt and reclaim this earth for Christ. This is the strange act spoken of: God is doing it with that remnant, who, by covenant were sent to the earth to awaken to their duty in the face of the apostasy of Israel. They are to work a great work, though their numbers are very few. Otherwise, if this remnant does not prepare a Zion people and keep their covenants then, as Malachi says, the earth would be utterly wasted at the coming of Christ. Why? Because there would not be any people on the face of the earth qualified to be claimed by Him and be called His friends.

I solemnly testify in the name of Jesus Christ that this work in Manti is true. My bones quake at this very moment as the Spirit of God is upon me in great measure, even to tears. I know this work is true and I invite you to partake in this great work for the sake of the Elect and many future generations on many worlds. The steps you take now will have a profound effect in the Eternal worlds to come. The salvation, Terrestrialization and Celestialization of this earth depend on the redemptive efforts of this little remnant at this very moment, just before Christ unveils His face. Please cast your lot with this remnant, the laborer in Zion is worthy of his hire. All will be well worth the sacrifice to stand in the presence of the Son of God and be told, "Well done thou good and faithful servant. Because thou hast been a good steward over a few things, I will make thee a ruler over many things in the mansions of my Father." May the Spirit of truth consume your soul, dear brother, to come and perform your great mission that you covenanted to awaken and do before your birth to this sphere.

In the sacred name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Jeffrey G. Hanks, Apostle.