Paul--I appreciate your sincerity and willingness to share. But--how could you possibly be in mourning "that we did not break-through to greater restoration??" You speak as if you still believe everything we were told in the 70s, that Stevens actually prophesied actual words of God to us, that we were God's chosen people, the remnant, that we were to bring forth God's kingdom on earth and rule and reign with Christ, defeat Satan, walk with God as Enoch, erect into the kingdom without dying first. Well, preaching something doesn't make it so. Aren't we all done thinking we failed in that regard? We did not fail! We were duped! Of course you did not break through, not because you failed, but because you were lied to. We do not speak God's kingdom into existence, we just live our lives the best we can, and that is not failure. It is just fine. We thought we were more special than any religion that ever existed, and we were not. We were not God's favorites, he never had special plans for us. We did not have a unique "in" with God. The leaders made us believe it was so. They lied to us, and that started with Stevens. There is nothing to break through to. Here we all are 30-odd years later on a website that has boiled our cherished belief system down to one word--cult. An unattractive, humbling word. If we were in a cult, we should absolutely stop believing what the cult leaders taught us, and then there is nothing to mourn, is there?
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