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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><u><b>2009-03-28
- MRS. ROSALIND “MIRIAM” FRANKLIN - 38 - England</b></u></p>
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<b>aka the end times “prophetic diva” is allegedly bilking
authors</b></p>
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Yesterday I received four phone calls from friends. Some had read my
papers on “Meditation”; some my open letter to President Obama;
some had prayer requests. There is however, a common denominator from
all four. On Wednesday I was doing a Google Video Search, and came
across “The Coming Perfect Storm, Part 2” by John Paul Jackson. I
felt it had distinct value, and my wife Marie agreed with me.</p>
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On further searching, I discovered “Blogs” by Mrs. Rosalind
“Miriam” Franklin. I felt her spirit was extremely wrong,
critical, judgmental, and pandering to gossip - and altogether
fomenting division in the Body of Christ. The next day I did further
research, and came up with the following information: </p>
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Mtyokawonis was alerted to this by Stephen Manning who emailed it to
him recently. We don't know one another nor do we have any associates
- but he felt that people needed to know how this woman is pulling
the wool over Christian's eyes about her real life activities which
involve accepting money from authors as a publisher - then not
responding to them or being abusive to them, not printing their
books, delivering their books and not paying those authors for sold
materials.</p>
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<u>Basically she is being tried in court for stealing from them. She
is being sued in civil court by 17 UK authors for having defrauded
them - and has been chastised by the judge for her vicious
condemnations against these people. People she is accused of having
stolen from. They know of her status as a self described “prophetess”
and her end times prophetic blog here on wordpress.</u></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
<u>This woman who claims to be safeguarding the church from
everybody she says is a false prophet - is herself being accused of
being an abusive thief.</u></p>
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<b>“Capital Letters” knows of at least 15 disappointed authors,
many now using the legal process to demand refunds from 300 Pounds to
more than 5,000 Pounds.</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
<b> <<a href="http://www.newhistoricalfictionbooks.co.uk/diggory-press/">http://www.newhistoricalfictionbooks.co.uk/diggory-press/</a></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
<b> </b><span style="">Diggory is run by director
Rosalind Miriam Franklin, 38 and her husband Nigel, 44. She also runs
Kingdom Come Publishing whose “statement of faith” states it “has
received a mandate to go forth to the Nations, offering new authors a
chance to impact the world with the gifts God has entrusted to them”.</span></p>
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<span style=""> Capital Letters sent several
emails to Franklin. Other than an acknowledgment, there was no
response.</span></p>
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<span style=""> There is no phone. The site says:
“We are extremely busy. We do not deal with authors by telephone -
ever - without exception.”</span></p>
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<span style=""> There are many reasons for wishing
to use Publish on Demand - the obvious being that the large
publishers like Random House are swamped with would be 'best
sellers'. But there is no excuse for lack of old fashioned 'good
manners' - and that is something that Ms Franklin knows nothing
about. 'Diggory Press' = Diggory Pokery.</span></p>
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<u><b>PERSONAL NOTE:</b></u> I was disturbed in my spirit with the
spirit manifested by Rosalind “Miriam” Franklin. She is not the
only one today using the “Net,” “Blogs,” “Websites” and
“Emails” to show a spirit so contrary to the Spirit of Jesus and
the Scriptures.</p>
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It is right to confront error, for in some of the following
quotations we find both the apostle John and Paul doing so. But it is
in such a different spirit from Rosalind “Miriam” Franklin, that
this too must be noted. There is an old proverb - “They that live
in glass houses, shouldn't throw stones.” The business lifestyle of
Rosalind in bilking customers, and her abusive response to their
cries for justice, means that immediately all spiritual judgmentalism
from Rosalind is not only suspect, but must also be negated!</p>
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For her to make such judgmental accusations from merely on her part
“surfing the net,” and at the same time having a business
life-style subject to “felony accusations” and being sued in
court by some 17 aggrieved authors as her customers - well - search
the Scriptures for yourself to see God's mark on such a person and
business! Jeremiah quotes God in saying what <u>He</u> thinks of such
dreamers and visionaries! If lives of such do <u>not</u> match up
with the Word - Do <u>not</u> fear them; do not take account of them;
warn all others of them.</p>
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Many of you know from my mailings that I was associated with the 1948
Latter Rain Revival. This is perhaps the <u>chief</u> target of
Rosalind “Miriam” Franklin. I am surprised that she does not
mention me by name in her diatribes. I can as a personal witness
acknowledge that failures took place in that Visitation. What Revival
has not had aberrations? John Wesley tried to put out the wildfire of
his day, but found that the fire also went out. He complained to God.
God's reply - “If I can put up with some wild-fire, shouldn't you
be able also?”
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
But - what God intended is <u>not</u> to throw out the baby with the
bath-water. We <u>must</u> learn to make a <u>distinction</u> and
judge righteous judgment. May I strongly recommend to those of you
who are interested - to order the 3 DVD's of my wife and myself
released on February 11, 2008 on the 60<sup>th</sup> Anniversary of
the “Latter Rain” outpouring. It is entitled <b>“The Fire
Continues Sixty Years Later”</b> and is available at
<<b><a href="http://www.reason-for-hope.com/">www.reason-for-hope.com</a>></b>
<b> - under “</b><u><b>biography”</b></u><b>. </b>The Rev. Dr.
John Roddam, Rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church of Seattle chaired
as a “Talk-Show Host” for this recording, and himself arranged
the ten thirty-minute segments. He felt that what God did 60 years
ago should be carefully documented, while I was yet alive - the last
of the 7 elders who convened the 1948 Summer Camp Meeting at North
Battleford, Saskatchewan, and the October Convention in Edmonton of
that same year. I also taught at the Sharon Bible College a number of
occasions at that time.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="left">
The key section John Roddam set forth - were the “pros and cons”
of that Visitation. There Marie and I deal with the 7 departures from
God's Word, some starting within the first year of the Visitation.
<u>However</u>, God would have us remember His Word to Jeremiah in
15:19-21. <u>All</u> is <u>not</u> bad! God used an unbelieving King
Cyrus of Persia to restore Judah and Israel to their land some 500
years before Christ. Again and again He used unbelievers for His
purposes in Bible History. Should He not <u>also</u> use believers
who have slipped somewhat away from their full moorings? It is not
that He condones slipping - but He is out to forgive and restore -
<u>not</u> completely write-off such - as people like Rosalind
“Miriam” Franklin seemingly delights to do.</p>
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If George Whitefield could continue to commend John Wesley even
though they differed widely in theological perspectives, should not
<u>we</u> find value in George Hawtin and the Latter Rain Visitation
- Dr. Peter Wagner, Pastor David Yonggi Cho, John Paul Jackson - and
the multitude more that Rosaline “Miriam” Franklin and others
viciously rake over the coals?</p>
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I confess that I do not agree altogether with the many I number among
my mentors - but I do, like Jeremiah take the “precious” from the
“vile,” and do not throw all the babies out with the bath-water,
as seemingly our “prophetic diva” and others like her try to do!</p>
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To help see <u>God's perspective</u>” on such self-appointed
critics - let us look at some portions of Scripture - as they relate
to the problem noted above.
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<b>Romans 16:17-18 (17-20, NNT) “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark
those causing the <u>divisions</u> and the <u>stumblings</u>,
contrary to the teaching which you learned: and <u>turn away</u> from
them. <font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1">18</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">
For the such are </font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><u>not</u></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">
bondmen of our :Lord Christ, but of their own :belly; and by the</font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>ir</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
smooth and fair speech they </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>deceive</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
the hearts of the innocent. For your :obedience is come unto all.”</span></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">Philippians
3:17-21 “Brethren, </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>become
imitators together of me</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
and </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>mark
them</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
that so walk even as you have us for an example. </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;">18</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
For </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>many</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>even
weeping </u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><u>they</u></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>
</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><u>are</u></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>
the enemies of the cross of Christ</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">:
</span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;">19</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
whose :end is destruction, whose :god </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>is</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
the belly and the</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>ir</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
shame, who mind the </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>earthly</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>things</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;">20</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
For our :citizenship is in </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>the</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
heavens, whence also we wait for a Savior, </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>the</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
Lord Jesus Christ: </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;">21</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
who shall fashion anew the body of our :humiliation, conformed to the
body of his :glory, according to the working whereby he is able even
to subject :all </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>things</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
to himself.”</span></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">1
Thessalonians 5:14 (12-24) “And we exhort you, brethren, </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>admonish
the disorderly</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward
all.”</span></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">2
Thessalonians 3:6-16 “Now we </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>command</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
you, brethren, </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>in
the Lord Jesus Christ's name</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
that you </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>withdraw
from every brother that walks disorderly</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
and not after the tradition which you received of us. </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;">7</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
For yourselves know how you ought to imitate us: for </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>we
were not disorderly among you</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">;
</span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;">8</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
neither did we eat bread for nought at any one's </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>hand</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
but in toil and travail, working night and day, that we might not
burden any of you: </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;">9
</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">not
because we have not authority, but to make ourselves </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>an
example to you, that you imitate us</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;">10</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you that, If any
will not work, neither let him eat. </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;">11</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
For we hear that</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>
some walk among you disorderly</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
that work not at all, but are busybodies. </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;">12</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
Now the such we command and exhort in </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>the</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>and</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
eat their own :bread. </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;">13</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
But you, brethren, be not weary in well-doing. </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;">14</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>And
if any obey not our</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>:word
by </u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><u>this</u></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>
:letter, note that one, that you have no company with him, so that he
be ashamed</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;">15</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
And count him not as an enemy, </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>but
admonish as a brother</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;">16
</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">Now
the Lord of :peace himself give you :peace at all </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>times</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
in every way. The Lord be with you all.”</span></font></b></p>
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<b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">2
Timothy 4:14-15 (9-18) “Alexander the coppersmith displayed toward
me </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>many
evil </u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><u>things</u></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">:
the Lord will render to him according to his :works: </span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;">15</span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
of whom </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>beware</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
YOU also for he </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>greatly</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
withstood our :words.”</span></font></b></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2">(I see Rosalind and others doing
this to many others of God's servants.)</font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">1
John 5:16-17 (13-17) “If any see his :brother sinning a sin not
unto death, he shall ask, and shall give him life, to them that sin
not unto death. </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i>There</i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;">
is a sin unto death: </span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>not</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
concerning this I say that he </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">make</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
request. </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">17</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
All unrighteousness is sin: and </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">there</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
is sin not unto death.” </span></span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">(Are
all those Rosalind “Miriam” Franklin is berating of this first
category? Is truth being </span></span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">rightly</span></u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
divided?)</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">3
John 9-10 “I wrote somewhat unto the church: but Diotreph</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>e</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">s,
</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>who
loves pre-eminence among them, receives us not</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">10</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Therefore, if I come, </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>I
will bring to remembrance his :works which he does, prating against
us with wicked words:</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
and not content therewith, neither himself receives the brethren, and
them that would </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>he
forbids and cast out of the church</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.”</span></span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
(Is this not what Rosalind is substantially doing to all those she
rakes over the coals?)</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">1
Corinthians 1:10-17 “Now I beseech you, brethren, through </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
that you all speak the same, and </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>no
divisions</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
be among you; but </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">that</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
you be </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>perfected
together in the same mind and in the same judgment</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">11</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
For it has been shown me concerning you, my brethren, by the</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">m</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
of Chloe's </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">house</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
that </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>contentions</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
are among you. </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">12</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Now this I say, that each of you says, I indeed am of Paul; and I</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">of
Apollos; and I of Cephas (Peter), and I of Christ. </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">13</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>Christ
is divided</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">:
was Paul crucified for you? or were you baptized into the name of
Paul? </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">14</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
I </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">give</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
thanks that I baptized none of you, save Crispus and Gaius; </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">15</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
lest any </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">one</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
say that you were baptized into my :name. </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">16</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
And I baptized also the house of Stephanas: for </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">the</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
rest, I know not whether I baptized any other. </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">17</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in
wisdom of words, lest the cross of </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">the
</span></i></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Christ
be made void.” </span></span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">(Note
the care Paul took to ensure that no divisions came into the church
through his ministry of the Gospel. Do you sense this spirit in
Rosalind “Miriam” Franklin? I am sorry, but </span></span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u><span style="">I
do not</span></u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">.)</span></span></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Jeremiah
15:19-21 “Therefore thus says Jehovah, If you return, then will I
bring you again, that you may stand before me; and </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>if
you take the precious from the vile</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
you shall be as my mouth; they shall return unto you, but you shall
not return unto them. </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">20</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
And I will make you unto this people a fortified brazen wall; and
they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you;
for I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says Jehovah. </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 8pt;" size="1"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">21</span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
And I will deliver you </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>out
of the hand of the wicked</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
and I will redeem you </span></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>out
of the hand of the terrible</u></span></font><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.”
</span></span></font></b><font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">(Can
you note that Rosalind gives no hope to all those she excoriates? But
God would draw back unto Him those who slip their moorings. If he can
use the unsaved for His Kingdom purposes, can't He still use those
who have not been perfected? Now we acknowledge that many professors
have not truly been born from above into God's Kingdom, and are
deceivers and imposters. Is it not possible that some of this
virulent critical class could be of that nature? Selah - Seriously
consider this in the light of the above references.)</span></span></span></font></p>
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<font style="font-size: 11pt;" size="2"> An added note: I was sent by
the Lord according to Psalm 107:23-24 to join the Canadian Navy while
yet an unbeliever. Nine months later at Passover in 1944, He
fulfilled His promise to me, and ushered me into His Kingdom with
great power and glory. Strangely enough, it was a backslidden
Baptist who faithfully witnessed to some 45 of us sailors concerning
the joy and wonder of serving Jesus in a personal way. Initially I
was greatly turned off that such a hypocrite would preach to us what
he was not living. But God used his words, and I couldn't get away
from them until I called on the Name of the Lord, and He faithfully
ushered me into the Kingdom Halls of extraordinary joy and peace. Now
just think - had I been like Rosalind, and completely rejected the
testimony of a backslider - I would have rejected God's provision for
His answer to prayer for me! </font>
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