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REPRESENTING THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF 2X2 HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS ON THE INTERNET
Kerrs - January 30, 1925
Love, Harold & Ruby - March 11, 1925
Lauchlin, Bob - July 29, 1925
Edwards - April 17, 1925
Lees - August 5, 1925
Edwards - September 25, 1925
Wm. Irvine's Letter to: Kerrs
January 30, 1925
P.O. Box 553
Jerusalem, Palestine
My dear Joe, Sarah and George:
Thanks for yrs. (2) and bill and greetings & George's vote for my presidency and 3 kisses. I'm sure it was good to have Hulda & Sister. It gives you an idea of where you are and where they are. That idea of making me start as a young worker is one of the most comical of all & reveals their heart desire. Why don't they try walking on their head for a change and see how it works. The fact remains that all - all of them know & enjoy even in letter came thro my lips & life & they wld. All have been meandering along in the religious world today but for me, and the older workers all had a chance of doing what I did if they cld. But one thing is clear that they have revealed their old profession left them without the nature and seal of God and so they are where they are today in spite of all their privileges. But the best way to deal with them is to give them all the truth for these days from the Book, tho I know its difficult, its the only way to have the Spirit help you in doing it. Whereas, the personal wrangle suits their wickedness the best. They are interested only in Alpha when they shd. have been about Omega so far as the truth as it is in Jesus goes. This is where they err like the whole world.
One thing the Religious world generally is agreed upon is that we are in the end of the age. But what a mess they make of it all with their rapture, which is for the end of the 1000 yrs & the general resurrection. Whereas, we look for the 1st Resurrection and the rising to reign for 1000 yrs. with Him & those on the earth are to prepare the people and kingdom for His coming to reign. II Thess, II is good, also - Rev. 20, which gives you the 1st Resurrection & ends by giving the White Throne Judgment. This is the end of the world, while today we are in the end of the day of Jesus Christ, or the end of the Gentile Age when the nations are to be judged when He comes to set on the Throne of His Glory.
I can understand what you say re the reading of the Book, for it's full of truth for these days which was completely hid from our eyes till the time came, and all their past attempts to read Dan. & Rev. & the 2nd coming was only presumptious guessing and speculation, and I'm glad that I could always see that those who did it had no light, as it only left the mind and heart befogged and was like binding burdens on men’s shoulders, grievous to be borne, and very cruel, for they made it appear the Lord might come at any moment & used this for all kinds of purposes, specially in getting power over people & extorting money for missions and the Gospel.
You need not wonder at being only 1 out of 8. I'm in the same fix now, and Noah was so placed he did not have a single Bro. or sister in the Ark with him and you find this mark all thro the Book. If there were some in the calling days we know there will be few in the choosing days. Looking back you can see how many people go after the truth of God rather than the God of Truth, and so are left to wander on in darkness, for its not truth people need but God to regenerate them and dwell in them by His Spirit, and people may know very little truth, but with God all things are possible. Whereas to have the truth and no God - means to become the more serpent and viper. You can see how Adam's 1st experience was in knowing the truth or eating of the tree of knowledge of good and Evil, while his 2nd experience began by hearing the Voice of the Lord God walking in the Garden in the cool of the day, and you can see the 2 samples at the end of days in Cain and Abel when they were both ripe. The one Devil possessed by the knowledge of the truth without God, and the other God-sealed, as proof of his regeneration. This explains why people can know so much truth and yet be devil possessed, which can only be revealed as we see in Cain and Abel by their attitude to their brother.
It was according to the Scriptures of truth they put the Son of God, the anointed, to death, just as Cain killed his brother, and it's this blood which He will require at the hands of those who dwell on the face of the earth today, and makes the death of the 2 witnesses the more necessary. Jesus told Peter he was to be crucified at the end of his life, but John was to tarry, or not be killed, as a witness till He comes. So the Book begins with the 2 seeds being killer and killed. You see it ends the same way as witness against them who dwell on the earth and its meet that the killing should be done by the Jews and vengeance taken on them by the killing of 7000 which will prepare not only the 144,000 but the whole world to receive them. For people will want to see & hear witnesses of these things which happened at Jer. So it is a wise master stroke to give all a true chance and those who have not been impressed will blaspheme & so perish by Judgment.
I'm sure you have often felt the need of some fresh manifestation which wld produce ear for the Message. I suppose you know that that Wk. in Dan. 9 is one of the most mysterious and difficult parts in Daniel and has defied all the Bible Students of prophecy and yet it is so simple when we get a little light on it. Another thing that bluff's them all is trying to read the promises as for the natural Jews or flesh seed of Abram in place of for the Spiritual Seed of Abram, the 144,000, to be gathered from Bad and Good in the whole earth.
Rev. 21: shows us the New Jerusalem let down from God out of Heaven in the New Heaven and New Earth and there shall be no more sea or wicked religious world. The building of the walls and street in troublous times in Dan. 9 is the City of Rev. 21, and you notice the walls are Jasper or clear like a diamond, the gates of pearl and the foundations of precious stones with the streets of pure gold. All this shows the value attached to those who have ears to hear and who speak often one to another. They shall be mine in the day that I make up my Jewels. The Woman & Manchild are to be like the seed diamonds or Jewels which will be used to make precious stones or pearls out of the 144,000, and you can see the need and work of these days in getting us purified, made white and tried so that we may understand, but also to be able to make others of the same material.
MATT. 5, 6 and 7 is a description of the sort of material that will
be in the New. Jer. building. The idea is to make us perfect transmitters
of the Love, Life & Light of God which has been the great lack all
thro the ages because of iniquity and hypocrisy and self righteousness
- all of which only binds burdens on men's shoulders grievous to be borne
and hardens the hearts of men against God, and you can see the need for
us being made to feel that we are sinners and that all our hope and all
our trust must be in the Love, Grace and Mercy of God, the Trinity, and
the mixing of bad and good in the 144,000 who will come to Jer. has this
same influence, and you can see how that will cut out any possibility of
any wicked being mixed with them.
Read Isa. 11:6-9 and see the wolf and the Lamb lying down together,
the wild beast as the bad in fellowship with the domestic animals - the
good - will have a wonderful purifying influence on both, and a little
child shall lead them, the Manchild. So you see there will be bootleggers
and burglars & harlots enter the Kingdom, but the children of
the Kingdom, so-called, will be cast out. The goodness of God can never
be shown by His blessing to the so-called good people but rather to those
who are the sinners in chief, and it's this quality which He seeks to perfect
in us. Jesus made Himself the Chief of Sinners in revealing the Love of
God to sinners, and all flesh or selfish interpretation of these things
can only hinder the Salvation of men. This is the righteousness which God
seeks to work in us and by which we are chosen. Just as the self righteous
are rejected and so perish by their own flesh interpretation of being made
like Jesus. You can see these past 10 yrs. Experience has made us the enemy
of the righteous before men, but it has developed knowledge of what God
wants to work in our hearts of His own righteousness, so that we may express
it clearly like Jasper, Pearl and Precious Stones. So there will be no
earth shadows.
Best Love to Sarah, Self and Geo.
Wm. Irvine
Wm Irvine’s Letter To: Harold & Ruby Love
March 11, 1925
Jerusalem, Palestine
My dear Friends:
Was pleased to hear from you and of your friendship with the Lee Family. I could write you plenty about my being here and the purpose of it all, and it’s possibilities for all who will hear, or not hear, what God has to say to them. But I’m sure you will get much more benefit by getting in touch with some of the friends there, who have known me for many years, and to whom I have been writing for past 5 ½ years, since coming here.
If you patiently and honestly listen and learn all you can from others who know, you may find God give you understanding of all the signs that are filling the whole world today, and their meaning; and, also, find the Bible open up, too, and give you much wisdom, comfort, and encouragement to put your trust in Him, who sits on the Throne, and by whose will and Word, Judgment is coming on all who dwell on the face of the whole Earth.
I know of nothing which will so strengthen you to overcome all the various forms of trial and difficulty, which assail us on every hand, like being able to hear what God has to say, and the light, which He gives, on what He is doing amongst nations and men for their judgment, and the bringing of a new Heaven and New Earth out of the destruction of the old. From experience, I know how much there is to disgust and harden men’s hearts in both political and religious life today; for they all put the name of God on what is the work of the Devil, till it embitters us against the God of Heaven, who is our truest, and best friend. And though they seem to have all power today on the Earth, it will all be overturned, and His Kingdom set up in Jerusalem, and spread over the whole Earth in the next 7 years, when we will have the peace we all long for, for 1,000 years under the reign of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, with all whom He counts worthy to reign with Him on the Earth. The Meek Shall inherit the Earth is very hard to believe, as things are now, but they will, as surely as are the opposite reigning today.
You will find it good to get a read of some of my former letters to others, and your heart and thots will get full of it. And God’s Spirit will give you understanding in all things.
My best love to all who bear your name.
Yours Very truly in Him
William Irvine
P. S. Will be pleased to hear from you any time
Wm. Irvine's Letter to: Bob Lauchlin, Jr.
July 29, 1925
Box 553. P. O.
Jerusalem, Palestine.
My Dear Bob:
Was glad to have yours to day. And all your dad’s advice to you is good. It has been quite painful to see how workers have been so slow to see that they have no more chance of knowing than others. And the little self confidence they have only blinds & deceives. I have not seen one of them but have suffered from this.
Your interpretation in your last of the reason for people cleaving to you was very dangerous. For the Spirit of the wicked one is that Spirit which makes the Clergy the center of very much of the worlds activities, & this is generally looked upon as the Holy Spirit, while the whole book bears witness to the very opposite. You will find a good corrective in bearing witness to the prophet spoken of in Acts III. A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your Brethren. Him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. This is the method of gathering the woman & her testy to him will be that of Mary at Cana of Gallilee whatsoever He saith unto you do it. Which will save from all iniquity. For as truly as he is the overcomer so surely will all others be more or less overcome by their own iniquity & C. And so safety will be in the prophet & all things whatsoever is a big mouthful. But such as meets the needs of all who have ears to hear him who is to inherit all things & be His son,, & He his God. You can see to day how much the words I put in peoples mouths in past years has puffed them up, & the same danger exists to day to those who receive my reading & fail to grasp the fact that it is only meant to make them trust me & cease from their own self reading where the danger lies.
If those who have been hearers read what I gave them they will be kept busy on safe lines & not tempted to rely on their own ability to read the Book for themselves. This is what will make a woman compass a man realising that her hopes are in him & not in themselves.
I have seen many go to the wall, & always are the same marks of thinking they cld stand on their own feet & do their own reading which was soon manifested in their darkness and over throw. And the more my Greatness looms up the more danger there is for much as have some expectation apart from me. It shall come to pass that every soul that will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from amongst the people. So its hear & live, or refuse & perish for all the earth.
And your value to others now & in the future will turn on that fact,
for now we know & & have no more shadow on this matter. All the
prophets from the beginning witnessed to Jesus and the prophet of Restitution
and all from Samuel on are full of it. Tho much of what was for the prophet
was read as for Jesus, & its always a source of danger to mix up what
is said of Jesus, with what is said of the prophet who is to be the shepherd
and the who is His fellow in these days. Zech. 13 tells of the witness
of the 2 prophets & the shutting up of all the false prophets. And
9-11 is the killing of the shepherd & scattering of the 144000.
Walter & Neoma's marriage may prove to have been our Cana of Gallilee
marriage which changes the water which have been purifying making white
& tried that we might see & understand into new wine of better
quality than we had before. Zech. viii. 10 speaks of Joy & gladness
& cheerful feasts, during the fasts of the Jews in 4th, 5th, 7th, &
10th months & certainly the 4th month July was that to those who are
the true seed & can understand what has been happening on the earth.
It’s quite striking how they all met at Kilsyth and no doubt was of God
for their Joy and comfort & Neoma & Walter who were looked upon
as the least had the Seal thro their simple sincere Obedience to what I
have said to them. And I have noticed the same marks on all who have been
most loyal to my words. Just as I have seen trouble for all others of various
sorts in proportion to their own thots & ways guiding them.
Best Love in Him.
Wm. Irvine
Wm. Irvine’s Letter to: Edwards
April 17, 1925
Box 553 P.O.
Jerusalem, Palestine
My Dear Wm. Rose & Co.
Was glad to have yrs. of 3/19/25 and can understand how you enjoy yr wk. ends, & also yr Dodge. Its good that Rose keeps on the mend, & can believe she wld enjoy her talk with the woman- which is about the only outlet for the spirit in us apart from the pen- which I always enjoy, more even than talking to stone walls- as we usually find people to be. Death reigns every where, so we don’t expect anything amongst the Tombs but the echo of our own voice- but even that is reassuring for we often find light dawn on dark spots as we try to voice what is rumbling in our hearts.
We have word of Adam Hutchison’s death in a copy of a letter from his companion which I have sent on to Dunbars. Very bad Small Pox attack, his last words "I hope" is all that remains after his many wicked words & actions for 10 yrs. now. And I have no doubt he will see in the way the rich man saw and have his eyes very wide and his spirit much stirred. If he cld only get back. But his 5 brothers are quite sure he's alright. Just as will be sure he is and they all wrong. It's good to see scriptures being fulfilled amongst our most intimate enemies. J. Sullivan on 1st Dec. Mrs. Calvert died on 31st. Dec. and Adam on 19th. Jany. 25. Were all in the same boat. When Calvert died 5 months before after having played pussy for George Walker on Geo. Roy and Bob Goodwin.
Next Sunday will be 5 months from the Sirdars death on 19th. Nov. &
we wld not be surprised to hear that there is some more in the Turk. I
notice they have ordered General mobilization of the army & the British
are very much afraid it means more than the Kurds…which wld involve Iraq,
Persia, Syria and Turkey. You wld notice the activity of every sort during
March, after the shakeup by earthquake on 28th. Feby. I was up seeing
the palace of the Kaiser- which is to be the home of the Antichrist as
in Dan. 11 last verse- also the Hebrew University about 1/4 miles from
it to the N. over the door of which they have carved the rising sun or
the light going out from the University, which they claim to be the law
going forth from Zion and the word of the Lord from Jer. as given in Is.
2:3. But the first 5 verses is for Manchild, John, and woman and 144000.
While the rest of the Chapter is for the natural Jews and the last verse
is good advice concerning the Big speeches which have filled the papers.
The temple, college and Palace are the 3 buildings spoken of in the Bk.
and we see them as antichrist equipment. So that we are pretty well ready
for the loosing of the 4 angels bound in the great River Euphrates and
all the marks point that way in that quarter. On the top of the palace
is the hub of a wheel- where the weather vane usually is, which shows that
it was expected to become the centre of the future activities. The Kaiser
opened it in 1910. So you see both God and Devil in the preparation- and
the Kaiser has had his fall which makes us sure the other will have theirs
in due time. For the one was world type- or earth type of the fall of the
old heavens- so that we will have the new in its place. Its very queer
to see how ready they are to claim Is. 2:1-5 and fail to see the rest of
the chapter, which gives much detail of their actual condition and their
sure judgment by what we read in Is. 3.
I enjoyed a letter from Bob Laughlin Sr. giving details of a visit
from some of the Scotch friends and the help he was able to give
them along with a visit at the door of a lady selling the "Harp of God"
concerning these days- and his conversation with her which drew attention
to Zech 5. The flying Roll, the empty meal barrel, the ephah and the woman
inside with a lead lid clamped down and then the 2 women with the wind
in their wings carrying it away to place it on their own foundation. Such
as we see the world full of, for people many places are making out the
Lord is to come to their quarter of the earth. Even The Testy think New
Zealand a likely place and the Manchild to be one of the head men. But
Zech. 3 makes it very clear that Joshua the High Priest is type of the
Manchild in Jerusalem and Zerrubbabel in Chap. 4 is John from Heaven who
laid the foundation and also will bring forth the headstone. The first
and last apostles are the 2 witnesses and you see the men who stood with
Joshua and sat before him are honoured as princes. The connection of 3
and 4 With Rev. 11 is too close to leave any doubt-and the whole Book is
too full of detail to fail to give us comfort regarding these days and
what is coming.
March 10 was a big day of Calamity in U.S.A., China, Japan with the death of Earl Curson & Lord Rawlison the following wk. both after operation. The latter was Com. in chief of the Indian Army and Curson had been one of India's most honoured viceroys. What happened to Earl Balfour leaves no room for doubt about the spirit of the Arabs in the Near East. So we are surer than ever that we have made no mistake about the whole matter and the details become clearer all the time, which is proof that we have benefited by all our purifying making white and trying.
Best Love in Christ Jesus to all 4.
Yrs. Very Truly in Him,
Wm. Irvine
Wm. Irvine’s Letter To: Lees
August 5, 1925
Box 553, P.O.
Jerusalem, Palestine
My dear Lees:
Thanks for yours of 4th July. I'm sure you will have had much to comfort and cheer your hearts the past month, which has made clearer the prophet of restitution of all things of Acts 3:19 -26 and Deut. 18, which is the sum of the truth revealed in Rev. - which is summed up in Rev. 21:7 - in contrast with the 8-fold enemies whom he has witnessed. They to be destroyed from the Earth, while the overcomer is to inherit all things and be the Son of Jesus and He his God. The Least has become the greatest of all the Prophets, while the false prophets and their seed have fallen in the ditch and been destroyed. You can see the 9-fold reason given in Deut. 18, for the destruction of the Ites of the land, which is type of the wicked on the face of the whole earth, which the meek are about to inherit.
Notice what is said of the false prophets in Deut. 18 and also in Zech. 13 - which chapter tells of the witness of the two witnesses. The false are to be destroyed from the Earth as truly as the prophet whom Lord God shall raise up unto you of your brethren like Moses - Him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you, which is the mark of the Woman who is to compass a man and whose testimony to him will be as that of Mary to Jesus at the Marriage of Cana of Galilee
- "Whatsoever He saith unto you do it." For they will have proved that to do what he says has proved to be of God and good for all who do it, and bad for all who don't hear and keep the words of the prophecy of this Book.
Paul says the Lord will not come until there come a falling away - the destruction of the false prophets and their seed by the Iron Rod ruling of the Nations.
If the true seed are to get manna from Heaven, then we know that the false will get drought and naught from Heaven – and so fall away - and the dragon be cast down to the Earth and lose all his professed heavenly power to deceive. Then the Antichrist, the man of sin - or him who professes to be the Messiah, but has no God - which is the mark of the 2nd 3-1/2 years - which will end in the Earth opening her mouth and swallowing them all up - as the heavens opened and received the 2 witnesses.
And now that the whole truth has been revealed about the Prophet, you can't do better than witness to him and prove it from the Book to all who have ears to hear. And I feel sure the Spirit will witness to you and by you to this fact, for the words of the Prophet will be as the mouth of God, either with life or death to all who hear, or death to those who refuse - For it shall come to pass that every soul that will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from amongst the people. So fire away and if it don't help others to know of the Prophet, it will sure have His seal in yourself. But the chances are that some will have ears and increase in interest as the days go by. For it says that people will lay hold on the skirts of him that is a Jew and say: we will go with you for we have heard that God is with you. So let them know your hope and the ground for it. For those who are being sealed in their foreheads by rejection from the whole religious world will also be drawn by manna and water being provided at Jerusalem, when war, famine, and pestilence are let loose on the whole earth.
The building is to be stopped in Jerusalem at end of Aug. There is only 60,000 gallons per day now. 30,000 are brought 60 miles on the railway and supply is getting less at both places owing to no rain - and we have no hope of rain in the natural course for at least 4 months yet.
Figs, grapes, and such fruits are all short this season as well as olives and crops generally 20% short from last year. So we are in good line for seeing things fulfilled. The signs and bring or raising up the Prophet and gathering of the Woman is all very fully revealed.
Best Love to all,
Yours V. Truly,
Wm. Irvine
Wm. Irvine's Letter to: Edwards
September 25, 1925
Box 553, P.O.
Jerusalem, Palestine.
My Dear Wm., Rose & Co:
Was glad to have your cheery hearty letter which is good for you & me also, and He will be as glad as we cld be. For not one thrill or throb escapes Him today any more than does the sighing and groaning of the oppressed. How hateful it must be to Him to see all the suffering which goes on in the world because the wicked rule on every hand & harden men's hearts, break them & blind them by their wicked misrepresentation of all that's of God by men & Devils, while enjoying share of the power & glory which they rob Him of & the poor perishing world. I'm sure the heathen's cry of despair as they perish is keenly felt by Him as they sit in darkness & the shadow of death & no wonder The King says, none of these shall taste of my supper who have had such privilege & profession & yet openly trifle with the greatest event about to be fulfilled when the Heavenly & Earthly family will intermarry & He come to dwell with His Bride in her country.
How simple real & near is the Kingdom coming on earth as it is in Heaven compared to all the foolish visionary nonsense people used to have & hold & give to others about going to Heaven &c. And how comical it is today to see all the Religious world being stirred over Genesis, when Rev., the Gen. of the New Heaven & New Earth, is all that shd interest men. And all the various Religious Animals or brute beasts made to be taken & destroyed reminds us of what might have taken place amongst the animals of Adam's day, had they been human, superiors of which wld be that from which the Adam race wld spring. It's not so far fetched to have called The Testy the Zoo, for such describes the whole religious world to a tee as they go about trumpeting & snarling presenting their claims. While the dust under their feet was that which eternal wisdom had planned for as the material for the 6th day man & seed.
The Phoolospher & the Fool Theologian are just the 2 ends of their
folly. The one claiming that man came from animal & the other claiming
that the seed of God are produced from the good men of the Earth, who have
eaten of the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. The truth of God. Both
deny the need for the Creative power of God in both cases, if there is
to be a higher Kingdom, and the missing link they all have sought
for in their Insulting of the Eternal power & Godhead, they have never
found. This may make clear why Bryan died & Darrow is alive, for the
one is more abominable than the other. A monkey is as likely to produce
man, as a Pharisee hypocrite is to produce the Sons of God. Man's pride
& Iniquity seen in Darrow is not as bad as the Devil possessed Religious
people who presume to be the seed of God on the Earth, whom He is coming
to take up into the air to be forever with Him. When the worldly wisdom
know not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them
that Believe. And it's along that line that He is working today. But the
foolishness of preaching is not that of any or every man doing the work.
But of those whom He choose and send as has always been the case. So by
the 2 witnesses He is only putting the seal on the Testy. which we have
borne to the world these many years and tho it's more foolish than ever
in men's eyes. It's the most glorious victory that ever has been His in
all history.
You will have been watching keenly this wk. what has gone on
in Geneva and Turkey. Which reveals their weakness in Geneva and
the strength of Turk and Bolshi in the world. And every thing seems to
point to Armistice day being a big day when their 7 years of peace and
safety making is to end in Sudden Destruction. What's going on in Morroco
and Syria is only preparing the Arabs and Moslems, as well as the whole
East to step in & end this destruction, which only is the second consequences
of the war. One can see men's hearts failing them for fear as they see
the power of Bolshi world wide & so perfectly organised and effective
for destroying all that they call civilization. But how calm we feel in
the face of it all & how glad our hearts are as we see men fear.
I have had several this week come & say that they see that all I have told them of (& they hated to hear it & showed their hatred) is now coming as I told them. But this will not save them from the consequences who will not get into the Secret place but still hope in their refuge of lies to cover them. Last night in the Restaurant a Jew Xtian who asked me to go to the Y.M.C.A. drew the heaviest fire I ever heard come from my lips, and I never saw it more effective in subduing adversaries in such short order. And so I expect you will find it as you let it fall free from yr lips. Isa. LV. is a gold mine for these days. When the Ho Man will speak to a thirsty world who have had no living waters for 11 yrs. & have been spending their money on what's not Bread, but stones & sawdust & their labour for that which satisfyeth not, which gives us hints as to the line of attack and declaration.
Best Love & Hopes of Rose's health improving,
Wm. Irvine
It might be good for you to give the Ritzman's a full free and last chance for they oft refreshed me, & I wld be glad to see them taste & see how gracious God has been to them & all who are likely to be the seed for the coming Kingdom. W.I.
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