"This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought unto the priest: and the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper; then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and hyssop: and the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water: as for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water: and he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field. And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean: and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days." Leviticus 14:2-8

"…According to your faith be it unto you." Matthew 9:29

Greetings, friends! Rejoice and rejoice exceedingly, because again I bring you happy news of marvelously good things! May, therefore, this day be one you will long remember, and happily so.

If you have your Bible convenient you may look up the Gospel of St. Matthew, chapter 10, from which I intend to quote to you shortly. Do you not know that it is written "...the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy" (Rev. 19:10)? Therein have our churches failed the generations of Christendom, in that they have treated the words of the Nazarene as if they may have been the words of some ordinary man. His words have been accepted at face value more or less, and there they have ended. But because they were the words of very God, His Spirit filled those words and wrought a prophetic portrayal of future events (that is, of events as at that time still future). Now, if your Bible is open to the 10th chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel, let us commence reading at verse 27:
"What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell ("Gehenna").
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows."

First, let us look at the outstanding thought for our personal application. That which here appears so astounding is the minuteness of detail in the plan of God, and in the course of events which the all-seeing eye of God watches over, and which the power of His hand protects to the end of the trail. Not a sparrow falls to the ground without the Father – to which I believe we are justified to add the word "Will," that is, without the Father's permissive Will.

In Palestine at that time, the birds denoted by the word which has been rendered "sparrow" were very numerous, and because of that their value so very small. So, when our Lord said that there could be nothing accidental about the death of one of those sparrows, He was trying to put across to the consciousness of the disciples the painstaking detail and watchfulness of God's eye over matters which to us might appear of no importance. To this the Lord added that a person was of far greater value than that of many sparrows. And on this He again enlarged by saying, "...the very hairs of your head are all numbered." If we accept the literalness of that statement (and I personally do), it analyzes to a minuteness of detail so fantastic that it is difficult for the human mind to grasp. Yet such detail and supervision are part and parcel of the infinite wisdom of God and the power of His directing hand.

"Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows." This is that which I am perpetually striving to put across to you: that if, as, and when we have become citizens of the spiritual Kingdom of Jesus Christ for our here and now, then we have nothing more to fear, nothing more over which to worry, neither are we to fret in the slightest; no, there is nothing more over which to be concerned in the least. We should, however, bear in mind that those words were not spoken concerning the general multitude, but directly to His disciples, who were His close followers. Concerning them, He said that they should rejoice because their names were written in heaven. That is what I refer to when I speak of the citizens of the spiritual Kingdom of Jesus Christ for our here and now. You cannot be a citizen of any kingdom or realm without having your name registered at its central office. That applies whether you are born within the land or become a citizen through immigration. He was speaking to His disciples; that word means one who is being taught or disciplined by a master. The substance of that analogy applies also to the citizen of any country: such a citizen must abide by the laws of the country, or he gets into trouble – and fast.

Take a bird's eye view of your many friends and acquaintances; yes, and even of yourself, to see what the prevailing thoughts and emotions actually are. Even within our lands of Christendom I believe you will find an immense amount of tension; such tension is produced by fear and worry, painful concern and apprehensions. Yet such people are found to be members of our churches, many of whom are very devout Christians and citizens of the highest caliber. Look at the attempted suicides and the immensely high number of nervous breakdowns: although there may at times be bodily disease behind these, yet it is far more common to find that such developments have been brought about by prolonged worry, or even fear, by apprehensions and sometimes frustrations.

How is it that people who profess Christ will not receive His Word? You see for yourself His pinpointed statement, "Fear ye not therefore." How is it that such good Christians will acknowledge Christ as their personal Savior, and still live under a cloud of fear, worry and mounting concern? In numerous ways and different times have I tried to show that it is because the teachings common to our churches are almost completely in error. Many of them still preach Jesus Christ as the Saviour of man, and this is fully correct. But outside of that one basic truth, we have a multitude of dogma and teachings which are the inventions of man. And, at the basic root of this vast error we find the colossal fallacy that the atonement wrought by Christ on Calvary was confined to the human soul in a future world after one is dead! Emphatically do I state with all that within me is, that such a teaching about Christ's atonement for the human soul is overwhelmingly harmful and completely spurious.

Did Christ say, "Have no fear for your `soul'"? No, indeed! He was speaking to human beings who fully understood His language and, so that we should not fail to understand Him, He made it doubly sure by including the very hairs of our head. Surely we cannot link up the hairs of our head with the future life of the human soul in a world which man knows nothing about. But true to the words of the Christ, "According to your faith be it done unto you" (Matt. 9:29), so has Christendom experienced. We have been indoctrinated to believe that the redemptive work wrought by the Son of God was only for the soul of man, and becoming effective after one is dead. But as to our earthly bodies and fortunes here in this world, we have been taught to believe that we must expect a great deal of sickness and suffering, misfortune, sorrow and tragedy, ultimately to be swallowed up in the blackness of death. Hear The Voice of Tomorrow: the entirety of such a teaching is completely false.

The sin of our primitive parents was committed by human beings in the flesh, and upon their bodies of flesh descended the judgment of God, and upon their labors the sentence of the Almighty. All of sin's consequences reacted upon the physical man and his objective consciousness. Wherefore, any work of redemption would of necessity commence precisely where the judgment set in: namely, upon the physical man, his earthly life and objective consciousness. Although the Lord Jesus made the truth abundantly clear, His beloved disciple John stated the same in slightly different words. We read in I John 3:8, wherein he said:

"For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the Devil."

Doubtful is it that any Christian would dispute that man's sickness, sorrow and suffering are the result of the Devil's work. Why make a thousand excuses for ourselves? Why twist and warp the Word of God to save face, and drum up arguments to bolster the brainwashings which we have received in this night of spiritual darkness which engulfed the world shortly after Calvary?

Why be so contrary as to profess faith in the integrity and honesty of our Lord, and still in substance dispute His Word, and claim that He didn't mean what He said? When we do that to the words of the Christ, I suppose it becomes natural and easy to do the same to the words of his beloved disciple, John.

When the works of the Devil had been destroyed (which they were by the time that the Son of God cried out upon the Cross, "It is finished" [Jn. 19:30]), then we must realize that there is no longer the faintest excuse for His close followers to ever be sick and suffer; neither to ever experience reverses, failure, frustrations and ultimate ruin.

When we are born anew into the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, we become a new creation, which is no longer subject to the sentence upon the primitive pair; for, upon the Cross Christ our Lord established peace between man and God. All of this ties back to, and becomes in perfect harmony with, the pinpointed words of our Lord wherein He said, "Fear ye not therefore...." We are to know no fear; we are to have no worry, nor even to fret; we are not to be concerned over the slightest trouble; for we are supposed to ever remember that we are sons and daughters of Jesus Christ, Who superimposed a spiritual Kingdom upon this world, and that as the very King thereof He makes it His business to see to that His sons and daughters who live in His kingdom as obedient citizens, receive the overwhelming good of His domain! And over His domain Lucifer has not the slightest power. Therefore, I repeat: rejoice and rejoice without ceasing, because Christ our Lord wrought a work of redemption for humankind here and now, and that work of atonement was and is absolutely complete!

Now let us briefly look upon the prophecy which the Son of God uttered in those few simple words, "Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing?" (Matt. 10:29). That was the prophecy! To understand this, we must go back to the Book of Leviticus 14:4-8. (The suggestion is that you look it up at your convenience.) There we read that according to the Mosaic Law, the rite to be observed for the cleansing and restoration of one who had been a leper, consisted of taking two living sparrows to a stream of running water. There, the priest would command that one of the birds was to be killed in an earthen vessel over the running water. Then the living bird was to be dipped in the blood of the bird killed, and the bird set free to fly into the open field. There was also a sprinkling of the blood upon the one previously leprous. After that he was required to wash, and would then be clean, and, in course of time, permitted to again enter the camp of the congregation.

Bear in mind that leprosy was a type of sin. The Son of God came to His Chosen People to set them free from sin. Here in this rite we are shown how the blood of one bird would constitute the cleansing of the one previously leprous. This bird to be killed represented the Son of man, Who was slain for our sins and Whose blood was shed for our cleansing. The living bird which was dipped in that blood symbolized our resurrected Lord, Who was later seen "in the field."

God is going to complete the cleansing of His people, which will include that portion of Christendom who have truly received Him. With His people cleansed, THEN will the true earth-kingdom inaugurate. Remember how He said after Israel had crossed Jordan and had been circumcised, "This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you" (Josh. 5:9)?

THEN were they prepared to take Jericho.

THEN were they ready to receive the goodness of the Kingdom!

God will repeat the type He wrought!