GOD'S TRUE PLAN OF SALVATION

God's True Plan of Salvation and Human Redemption is the inflowing of Divine Love.

September 24th, 1915

I am here, John the Baptist.

    I desire to write to you tonight about a certain Truth, which you must know, in order to be able to teach others the importance of studying the Plan of God for the Salvation of human.  I mean, that in order for humans to be saved from their sins, they must believe in The Way that the Master shall teach you in his messages.  I do not intend to dwell at large upon the New Birth, for that has already been told you of a number of times.  I want now to deal with the Truth that this is the one thing that perfects humankind, and spirits as well, and enables them to obtain the soul qualities which are absolutely necessary before a human can become At-One with The Father.

    The other things, which the churches teach as necessary sacraments, such as baptism, the laying on of hands, and the Lord's Supper, or communion, are things, which are not necessary.  They were never intended as being anything more than merely symbolical.  Even as symbols, the last-mentioned does no good, but rather, harm.  For besides being used to remind the followers of Jesus of his communion with them before his sacrifice, they look upon it as something, which saves a soul from sin and fits it for Heaven.  I want you to understand that all these things, are not important to a soul's becoming At-One with God, and that mortals must learn the Truth of what I say.

    Many preachers, as well as laymen, believe that only the blood of Jesus can save from sin, and that his death was necessary for human's salvation.  I want to tell you, that if he had died a natural death beloved by all who knew him, and honored by the whole Jewish nation, his blood would have been just as efficacious, and his death just as important, as they were because he was killed as a result of hatred and envy on the part of the Jewish authorities.  In neither case would the blood or the death in one particular have anything to do with the Salvation of Humans.

    His living and teaching, the making known to humans the Great Gift of the Father, and The Way to find the Gift and possess it, were the things that brought to human, salvation.  Jesus lived, taught and Loved us.  He did not die, suffer and make an atonement for us.

    The Living Christ is of more importance to our happiness and Salvation than the dead Jesus.  So Jesus, himself, teaches.  He is not pleased with those who teach the dying Jesus, instead of the living Christ.  I, John, was, and not only, a precursor of the Master, but a follower, also.  It was not his blood or death that saved me, but his living and teaching me The Way to obtain the Divine Love of The Father.

    I am much interested in the Salvation of all humans.  I want to do everything in my power to help humans to learn The Way to Truth, Light, and Love.  I am trying, as well as are many others of our band, who are with you now, in carrying forward this work of showing humans the Truths which will lead them to the Father's Divine Love.

    I have only to say further, that you must pray more to the Father, and keep up your courage and belief in the Master, and all these things will be properly worked out, to a final and happy conclusion.

    I will not write more tonight.  So with my Love and blessings, I will say good night.  Your brother in Christ, John the Baptist.

October 16th, 1915

I am here, John.

    You are now so filled with the Divine Love of the Father, and the influence of the Master, that you are very near the Kingdom. The Master is with you in all the fullness of his Love and blessings.  No wonder that you should receive him in so palpable and conscious a manner.  He certainly Loves you.  If you could only see his glory as he writes to you and the great streams of Love that flows from him to you, you would never again doubt that he is with you, and that you are the object of his care.  It is wonderful, and we are all amazed at the great display of his Love for you.  We rejoice that it is so, for we know that to him you are the most important of mortals.

    You will soon commence again to do his work.  Your soul will be so filled with the Divine Love that you will receive his messages, in such soul understanding that there will be no possibility of any mistake being made.  Such Messages of Truth as they will be!  Why the whole world will stand in wonder and amazement, that such Truths should come to you.  As a consequence, many a mortal will be brought to see the Great Plan of Human's Redemption, and will turn to the Divine Love of The Father, and receive that great inflowing of Divine Love that will show them beyond all doubt that they have become At-One with The Father, and are inheritors of His Immortality.

    So, as I say, we all rejoice, and are anxious that the work begin.  We are all preparing to help in conveying these Great Truths of the Father.  So, you must believe and accept what is written to you as True.  Let not what may be contained in the bible, or what the preachers, or commentators, may say influence you in anyway to believe or write anything other than what the Master may write you.

    The book (The Atonement by Pastor Russell) that you have been reading tonight contains many Truths in regards to Jesus' relationship to the Father, and that there is only One God, and that the Father.  No other God is there.  Jesus is his Best Beloved Son.

    The Plan of Salvation, as contained in that book is not correct.  For, as we have told you before, the blood of Jesus has nothing to do with the Plan of Salvation.  Only the bestowal of the Gift of Divine Love, and the teachings of the Master, as to how it may be obtained, saves human from sin and error and brings about that At-Onement which the author writes about.

    My dear brother, if you only knew how much we all Love you, and are interested in your welfare and the work which is before you, you would be very thankful to the Father for having had the Master select you, and would also never cease to Love and honor the great Master for his Love and friendship.

    I, John, tell you all this, because I know whereof I speak.  I was the beloved disciple of the Master when on Earth.  I know what it means to have the great Love of such a Master and friend.

    I see that you are opening up your soul to the Divine Influences, and that very soon you will find that through your soul perceptions, you will be enabled to see and understand many, many things, which are now hidden from you.  What an opening of the soul perceptions that will prove to be!  Even the spirits who are in portions of the Celestial Heavens will not have the Great Truths presented to them, as will you.  And, they are seeking these Truths in great earnestness.  But you are in a position that they are not, to make known to the World these Great Truths.  While all this will not be done primarily for your benefits, yet you will receive such Knowledge of these Truths, and such inflowing of the Divine Love as you write, that you will find yourself in a condition of soul development that rarely have mortals experienced.

    So pray and believe!  When I say believe, try to get that great Faith of which the Master wrote you.  The Faith that makes all the longings and aspirations of the soul, Realities.  I could write much more but think it best not to do so tonight.

So, with all my Love and blessings, I am, your brother in Christ, John, the beloved disciple of the Master in my time, and which you are now.

April 23rd, 1916

I am here, Jesus.

    I come tonight to tell you that you are in a much better condition of soul than you have been for several days.  The inflowing of the Divine Love has been working today in greater abundance in your soul.

    I do not intend to finish my message tonight, as it is rather late.  You are not exactly in the condition to receive it.  Turn your thoughts more to God and pray in more earnestness.  Very soon will come to you the power and soul perception, which will enable you to receive my messages, as I desire to deliver them to you.

    Today has been one when mortals, I mean those who profess to be followers of me, have offered their worship and songs of praise to me, and to God.  I am sorry to say, that He has been worshiped in a secondary sense, and I, brought into prominence as the saviour of humankind, and as the important one of the three that constitutes the godhead.  How wrong and sinful this all is.  How I deplore these erroneous beliefs and understandings of humans.  If they would only know that, I am not God, and no part of the Godhead.  Only a son, and spirit, filled with His Divine Love.  One having Knowledge of Him, and His Plans for the Salvation of Humankind, they would get nearer to God in their worship, and receive more of His Divine Love in their souls, and partake more of His Divine Nature.

    I realize that this belief in me as God, and that my death and sacrifice on the cross were necessary to their salvation, will be hard to eradicate.  That many who now live will pass into the Spirit World before the Divine Truths, which I come to teach and declare, will be published to the World.  We must make more speed in our work of writing and receiving these messages.  The importance of the World knowing the Divine Truths, as regards me, and the True and Only Plan of Salvation is now pressing.  Must be shown to human in order for them to turn to the Father's Divine Love, and gain an entrance into the Celestial Kingdom.  I want you to give more time to our writings, instead of reading those books of philosophy, and the speculations of what are supposed to be, wise theologians, philosophers, and scientists.  Let your hours from your business cares be devoted to my communications, and those of the other writers of the Celestial Spheres.

    Of course, I do not intend that you shall not permit the dark spirits to write on the nights that you have set apart for them (to help them).  Such prohibition would prevent much good from being accomplished.  These spirits are greatly benefitted by having the opportunity to write.  Many of them have been greatly helped thereby, and have been turned to The Light, and instructed to seek for the Divine Love of the Father.

The spirits here, who are engaged in the work of instructing and helping these spirits, have rescued many from their condition of darkness and sufferings, and have shown them The Way to Light and to their Salvation.  The work is a great and important one, and must not stop.  Here let me say that this work will be a part of your duty, also your pleasure, as long as you may live a Mortal Life.  You will undoubtedly be the means of helping mortals to see the Divine Truth.  Your work among these dark spirits will be even greater, and the harvest more abundant, when you come to the Spirit World.  You will be surprised and gratified at the great host that will meet you, giving you thanks for the great help and assistance that you rendered them.  Yours is a wonderful work.  Is now spoken of, and wondered at, in the Spirit World.

    Well, I will not write more tonight, but must come soon and finish my message, as I have many yet to write.
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In my Father's House are many mansions, as I said when on Earth.  For your consolation, and that of your two friends, I am preparing for each of you such a mansion.  Not, as you may suppose, by erecting in the Celestial Heavens actual houses for your reception.  But by helping to build in your souls that development of the Divine Love and the Divine Nature of the Father, that will, when you came over, make your souls in that condition that will necessarily, and absolutely, cause the formation of these mansions to receive you.  No one else can build these mansions for you, only your own Soul Development (in the Divine Love of the Father).  While this is True, yet these Celestial Heavens have a locality, surroundings, and atmosphere that will contain all those things that will give your mansions the proper settings.  The fields, trees, waters, sky, and all these things that you, in your Earth Life, find necessary to your happiness and peace, are in the Celestial Heavens.  Only quite different from those that you are acquainted with.

    So, believe what I say.  And, in believing, trust me and my Love, and you will never be forsaken.

    A human's Life on Earth is but a span.  In our homes, Eternity means Immortality, with always progress and increasing happiness.

    So with my Love and blessings, I will say goodnight, your friend and brother, Jesus.

Gods True Plan of Salvation

June 1st, 1916
I am here, your grandmother.  (Ann Rollins)
    I thought that I might write you a message tonight, if you feel like receiving it.
    The Only Way in which the Salvation that can be obtained by human and make them of a Nature Divine is through the medium of the Holy Ghost, and The Way pointed out by Jesus (in these messages).
    I will not here attempt to go into details as to the methods, for they have been fully explained to you.  I must say that no other methods can be pursued that will bring the soul of human in Unison with God, and make them of a Nature Divine.
    No sacraments of baptism, or mere ceremony of the church, will enable a human to accomplish this end.  In fact, such things frequently retard the soul of human from becoming in the condition of soul development that places them in the position of a Redeemed Child of God.
    I will not write much, in detail, as to what human themselves should do in order to bring into operation the workings of the Holy Spirit, but merely say, that they must pray with the sincere longings of their soul for the inflowing of the Father's Divine Love, and have Faith that such Divine Love is a Real Thing.  That It comes to them in response to their prayers.
    Now to continue, as to the Divine Truth, that this Divine Love is waiting for all humankind, no matter where the individuals of the race may be.  That they can receive this Divine Love even though they have never heard of the Plan of Salvation; as declared by Jesus.
    God intended, when He Re-Bestowed this Divine Love, that every human being, as well as spirit, should have the opportunity to obtain It, and that the manner in which it might be obtained should be made known to all humankind.  In carrying out this intention He specially selected Jesus for this work.  Who, through his own teachings to humankind, should learn of It.  Of course, during the short ministry of Jesus on Earth, it was impossible that all humans should learn of him through the teachings of himself, or of his disciples.  Hence, the spirits of the Spirit World were permitted to hear these teachings, and come into the Knowledge, and then, when they should obtain this Divine Love, to teach it to mortals and spirits, which they did, and have been doing ever since.
    While they (the Celestial Spirits) have been working all these centuries to bring about this Great Consummation, yet they have not succeeded, for the reason, that they could not force the Divine Truth of the Plan of Salvation upon either mortal, or spirit.  Consequently, humans, in the exercise of their free will, and spirits also, in the exercise of their free wills, unless they would open up their understandings of the soul qualities, supplemented by the exercise of their mental qualities, could not obtain this Divine Love.  Just as on Earth humans have refused to listen to those in Mortal Life, who have attempted to teach them of things religious (or spiritual), so in the Spirit World, many spirits have, and are, refusing to listen to the teachings of other spirits who have the Knowledge and Possession of this Great Love.  Mortals also have failed to respond to the impressions, which spirits have been trying to make upon them, as to this Divine Truth.  As a consequence, were unable to open up their soul perceptions.  Many mortals, as well as spirits, have never received the benefit of the Great Gift of Rebestowal.  Yet, as I have said, many have responded to these impressions, and even while on Earth have had the inflowing of this Divine Love, to a more, or less, extent, although they may not have been conscious of the fact, in such a definite manner as to Know, that what they had received was a portion of the Divine Love.  Among the great obstacles to humans putting themselves in this condition of receptivity, are the creeds, mental beliefs, and ceremonies, obtaining in many of the churches of christendom.  And, in many of the faiths and teachings of the races which live outside of christendom and which have never heard of this Great Plan of Salvation.
    In the Spirit World, the followers of many of the faiths and creeds, distinct and different from one another, live together in communities as separate races, still, believing in their various creeds and teachings of their leaders.  They have never heard of this Divine Love, or of the necessity of receiving it.  But, worship God according to their beliefs on Earth, satisfied that the doctrines which they profess are the true and only ones, and absolutely refuse to listen to the spirits, who often try to teach the Divine Truths, as to Eternal Life in the Celestial Spheres.
    Of course, these spirits have the right and the power to refuse to listen to these Divine Truths, and are never compelled to.  Then again, some of them will listen, and decline to believe that there are any other Truths than the ones that they have embraced.  Thus, you see that while this Great Gift, the Divine Love, and the Privilege of obtaining it, was Bestowed upon all humans.  The Divine Love is ever ready to enter into their souls.  Yet a very large majority of spirits and mortals will never receive it and become inhabitants of the many mansions.  All humans and spirits will have the opportunity, before the great day of final separation, but many will not be willing to accept The Gift, and will be satisfied in the happiness of their Natural Love, contented to live in their merely Spiritual homes.
    Here, let me say, because of the fact of the great variety of beliefs and teachings on Earth, as to the meaning of the “Second Death”, many humans, and spirits, will neglect to exercise their Privilege of obtaining the Great Gift of the Divine Love, and suffer the Second Death.  The Second Death will take place when that great separation occurs.  The Gift of this Privilege of receiving the Divine Love of the Father will again be withdrawn from human, and spirit.  No other death is meant.  Humans and spirits will continue to live their mortal, and spirit, Lives, without any other death than that which is now constantly taking place.  There will be no death in the sense of condemning the spirit of human to Eternal punishment, or the annihilation of any spirit, as is taught by some of your religious teachers.  No, the only death will be the (spiritual) death that the First Parents died at the time of their disobedience, which was the deprivation of the Great Privilege of receiving the Divine Love, and thereby partaking of the Divine Nature of the Father, and Immortality.
    Well my dear boy, I have written enough for tonight and will stop.  You have my Love and my influence to help you in every way, also my prayers to the Father for your Spiritual Development.  So with my blessings, I will say goodnight, your Loving Grandmother (Ann Rollins).

Gods True Plan of Salvation

August 13th, 1916
I am here, Jesus.
    I was with you tonight and heard the address of the preacher, and the explanation of the cause of the great war (WWI) that is now raging in Europe.  It was a very intelligent and Truthful one, the real foundation of the war.
    I will not come as the Prince Michael, as the preacher said, to establish my Kingdom on Earth, and take into me those whose names are written in the book, and destroy those whose names are not therein written.
    I have already come.  I am now in The World working to turn human's hearts to God, and to teach them The Way by which they may become At-One with The Father and receive into their souls the Divine Love.  In no other way will I ever come to humans on Earth.  They will not need me as a visible king with the powers and armies of the Spirit World in visible form to subdue the evil that exists.  There will arise no satan to fight against me, or my followers, in the sense that the preacher teaches.  For besides the fact that I am already in the World fighting for the salvation of humans, there is no satan.  The only devils, or evil spirits, who are trying to influence humans to evil thoughts and actions, are the spirits of humans, which still retain all their sins and wickedness, and the evil that exists in the hearts of humans themselves.
    How pitiable it is, that the preacher and his followers believe that the spirits of humans, who have died the natural death, are also dead and resting in the grave, or in oblivion, waiting for the great day of my appearance on Earth, as they say, in order to come again into Life, and be called by me into my Kingdom.  How much they lose by such beliefs.  How great and surprising will be their Awakening when they pass through the change called death.
    There will be no Battle of Armageddon.  Only as each human, or the soul of each human, is now fighting the battle between sin and righteousness.  This is the only battle that will ever be fought between the Prince of Peace and satan. Each soul must fight its own battle.  In that fight, the Powers of God, by His Instruments, which never cease to work, and will be used to help that soul overcome the great enemy, sin, which is of human's creation.
    These teachings of the preacher do great harm to humankind, in that, they cause the individual human to believe that I, as the Prince of Peace, will come in mighty power, and in one fell swoop will destroy evil, and all who personify it, and thereby do the work which each individual human must do.
    I know that it will be very difficult to persuade the people of this sect that what they teach, and what they conclude the Bible teaches, is not True.  I hope that when my Divine Truths are brought to Light, and humans have the opportunity to learn the Divine Truth, that many of them will halt in the security of their beliefs, and attempt to understand these Divine Truths.  As they must understand them, either in the Mortal Life, or in the Spirit World, in order to enter the Kingdom of God.
    As to these prophecies of Daniel, they have no application to the present condition of the World.  So far as they were written by him, or by any other prophet, they related only to the times in which they were written.  No human, inspired, or not, and no spirit, had the Omniscience to foretell these wonderful things that are now taking place in the World.  Any attempts to apply these supposed prophecies to the happenings of the present day are without justification, and the results of the imaginations of humans, that the occurrences fit the prophecies.
    Peace will come.  Not as the result of any Battle of Armageddon, or any other battle, based upon the principles, which the preacher applies to these prophecies.  As I have said, this battle is going on all the time.  It is an individual fight between the sinful soul and the creatures of human's disobedience.  So do not waste your time in reading, or listening to, these unreal and foundationless teachings of humans, who think that they have discovered the intentions of God with reference to the destiny of nations.
    I will not write more tonight, but at sometime I may say more on this subject, though its only importance is that it attracts human's attention away from the Divine Truth, and creates beliefs, which do harm.
    I will soon come and write another Message of Divine Truth.
   I am with you, as I told you, trying to help you, and to show you The Way to that New Birth, which is yours, and all others, who will follow my instructions.  I Love you as a younger brother, and will continue to bless you with my influence and prayers.  So doubt not.  Pray to the Father.  You will find the Divine Truth, in greater fullness, and receive corresponding happiness.  I will now stop, your brother and friend, Jesus.

Gods True Plan of Salvation

October 18th, 1919
I am here, Jesus.
    Let me write a few lines, for I must tell you of an important Divine Truth, that is necessary for humans to know, in order to reach the Celestial Kingdom, and a Knowledge of the Plan of Salvation.
    I know that the Bible contains many sayings attributed to me in reference to this Divine Plan, and many of my alleged sayings are believed in by those who claim to be christians, which are not True, for I never said them.  They are contrary to what I received from The Father, as to the True Plan of Human's Redemption from sin, and as to the Only Way, by which, they can obtain the True At-Onement with the Father, and a Knowledge of their own Immortality.
    Many of these sayings were written by humans, who knew not, the Only Way to Oneness with the Father.  Were the results of the teachings of the manuscripts that then existed, and were received by the Jews as the Revelations of Moses, and of many of the prophets who had no knowledge of the Divine Love, or of its Rebestowal upon humanity. These humans made me say those things (in their writings) that accorded with their ideas of what was necessary to a Salvation, or possibility of their becoming at-one with me and with the Father.  In writing their ideas confused the Truth, with what they supposed was the truth, as contained in the Old Testament.  Much harm has been done by attributing many of these sayings to me, because of the supposed authority that thereby attached to them.
    My disciples never taught, and never understood, that their Salvation, or that of any human, depended upon faith in me as the son of God.  Or, that I, the mere Jesus, had in me any virtue to forgive sin, or to insure an entrance into the True Kingdom of God.  Or that, I, as the human Jesus, was a son of God, in the sense that the Bible teaches.
    They knew that the Father had revealed to me the Divine Truth, and that I had in me that Divine Love, which, to a large extent, made me like unto and At-One with the Father.  That my teachings of the Rebestowal of the Divine Love were True, and that when they, or any human, should possess this Divine Love, to the extent of that possession, they would become At-One with the Father, and also with me, who possessed It to a greater degree than any human.  I say, they Knew this, and taught it to the people, as I had taught it to them.  But when the compilers of the present New Testament came to declare my sayings and teachings, they knew not of this Divine Love.  Hence, could not understand what many of my True Expressions meant, and gave them an interpretation, so far as my Real sayings were concerned, that would comply with their knowledge.
    No, I am not correctly quoted in many of these sayings.  I may say in the large majority of them, for when they were written, as now contained in the New Testament, humans had lost the Knowledge of their True Meaning.  Out of their own minds, recorded that which they thought was what I had really said.
    I do not see how these false sayings can be corrected.  Except, to take each saying, and show, by its incompatibility with what I now say, its falsity.  This would take too much time and expend much energy that could the better be employed in declaring what the Divine Truth actually is.  This I will say, that whenever these sayings impart that I claim to be God, or that I could, or did, forgive humans of their sins, or that whatsoever should be asked of the Father in my name would be received, are all untrue, and have greatly misled the True Seeker of Knowledge of Immortality.
    My disciples were close to me, and understood better my sayings, than all others.  Yet they did not understand all the Divine Truth, and left the Mortal Life with many expectations that were not fulfilled.  In the very nature of the same could not be fulfilled.  They were, in certain non-essentials, influenced in their beliefs and expectations by their training in the teachings of these Old Testament manuscripts.  Were very largely Jews in belief when they died.  They understood the vital things that determined their relationship to God, and to their existence in the Future World.  But as to many of the non-essentials they retained the faith of their fathers, and were not able to receive all the Divine Truth which I could have taught them.
    I must not linger to correct these alleged sayings of mine.  But must occupy my time, and yours, in declaring and revealing the Divine Truth as it exists now, and existed then.  You, and the World, may know that wherever, and whenever, these Bible sayings of mine, conflict with what I have written, and shall write you, they are untrue, and were never said by me.  Thus, in this general way, I will make plain to humans that the Bible must not, in all particulars, be relied on, or believed in, as containing the Divine Truth, or my declarations of the Divine Truth.
    I will soon come and write a message on a Vital Truth, and hope that you will be in condition to receive it.
    I will now say goodnight.  God Bless your efforts and keep you safely in His Care, your brother and friend, Jesus.

Gods True Plan of Salvation