ADDRESSED  TO:

Edwards - January 5, 1939 - George Linn's Death
Smiths - January 22, 1939
Smiths - February 5, 1939
Edwards - February 11, 1939
Edwards - April 13, 1939
Edwards - April 26, 1939
Edwards - August 16, 1939 - RE Professing through John McNeill

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Wm. Irvine's Letter to Edwards and Company.
January 5, 1939

Dear Edwards' and Co:

None today yet,--the mails have been slow from London, owing to the worst weather recorded for this country, delaying mails and all sorts of Transport. Today we have the strongest worded speech from Roosevelt they have ever heard in the House, showing clearly what they are prepared to fight for--their liberty or thot and speech Religion and international good faith; which is like a rallying note for the whole Democratic world against those in whose hearts is put the very opposite, for the general destruction and carrying out of vengeance on the shore of Rev. 28. The great Quake and Hail of Rev. 26 and 28 will be the answer to the Democratic peoples.

Meeting of Arab Nations and Jews in London is to be on Jan. 18th, bringing Dan. 8 and Rev. 9 into place. We still have sniping and ambush, but the bigger gang conflict is over for the present.  Much trouble in Syria, while Japan and Spain are coming into crisis period in the awakening of the Democratic world to their responsibility in facing the undeclared war spirit in the world  as a menace. So 1938 has been a big year for USA and the American continent,--and Jews have played a big part in bringing conflict on, both in Europe and America and here.  2,000 have been killed in conflict in Palestine in 1938, and about 3,000 injured.

1938 was a big year for the Virgin-Talent people. It was in Jan. 1938, George first revealed by letter what was in his mind and heart, ending in Percy and George coming here on Aug. 27--after a triumphal march through unregenerate territory and people, all the way and here making their claims known to people who knew not and cared less for the facts;  Percy witnessing to George, and George witnessing to Percy--using my name only as a cover for their wickedness. In Kilsyth they were under St. Clair's roof--brother-in-law, where George Walker met them, which was a historical meeting of three forms of hypocrisy, and three forms of my enemies.

They went to visit my older sister's family, in my name, as they were on way to Jerusalem. They (sisters' family) said to George they thot I was dead as I had not written them since New Year.  They gave George my sisters' photo, which George in attempting to give it to me, said they thot I was dead.  My sister died on Dec. 7, 1938 from the same heart trouble as George died from in Dec. 30, 1938 at 1:30 P.M. after attack at 8 A.M.  He died in Hospital so there was no need for inquest; was buried on Mt. Zion at 2:30 on Dec. 31st; Police guard of eight in a truck, four standing up on either side of coffin draped in the British flag. Government took charge of his effects and money in Bank-- $2,000 dollars, half of which was given to him by Percy on his going away to Eureka to return in Spring, bringing young George back with him to carry on their folly and iniquity.

George's roommate, who is from Belfast, came on boat with them and other Police coming to Palestine, had never heard my name till the 30th, when George asked them to phone me where I live; while he had been speaking about the place he was to fill in their lives in the next 3-1/2 years, and while Percy was filling the town and any he could reach with their cackle and claims as the Woman to bring forth the Man-child, and John. 

I did not answer phone as I was out, and only thot it was more of their attempts to get in touch with me.  They waylaid me at Post Office first time.  George came and put his arm around me and said, "You are Wull (sic) Irvine.  I am George Linn."  I said, "You have made an awful mistake and no hope for you, and to let me alone and not trouble me."  Then he wanted to give my sisters' photo and I refused it, so then he said they thot I was dead.  Then he sent photo and some letters, which I destroyed, and Percy sent by post some which I never looked at.

Next time George came slipping up behind me, and I talked for a minute or so to him.  He was cocky and quite sure of himself,--and asked after my health in a way that caused me to think I was not like him in that respect.  The next time he followed me out of P.O. to walk with me and I sent him to Hell and called him a damned fool, and turned off.  The last time I saw him in P.O. a week before his death, I advised him to go home.  Percy had gone and he was not looking so well.  Next and last time was when he was laid in the grave, and the Presbyterian Minister reading out of the Prayer Book and saying "Dust to dust," etc., etc., twelve Police looking on and the man who had been his roommate.

So all the marks point to him being outside in darkness, by all his associations and activities in Palestine,--buying presents and seeing the sites, as all others do.  They were at the Bethlehem Church of Nativity on Xmas Eve, and had a seat close to the High Commissioner at the service, his roommate told me.  I have never been there, and 3 years ago told an Arab friend, I had no pleasure in what had deceived billions of people now on the other side and tormented by their folly.  He came home sick and went to Hospital and was buried on same day in 1935, as George was buried in 1938.  He had been a troubler to me also.

Percy was in touch with the Arab R.C. waiter where I live, and made a bold attempt to get in here, came to my bedroom one morning to see me, and I ordered him off, but he gave them cackle and left a note for me.  I told him he was crazy, and told the Hotel people also, so I was not troubled with him anymore.  First time I met him and did not know him and he came forcing his attentions on, so I told him I would call the Police if he tried that game on.  He went away loaded with presents from Jerusalem bought by George and him, a very full outline of what we can expect from unregenerate people who have heard the Message, but not the Voice.

My Love in Him,

Wm. Irvine

P.S.  It has been a very wonderful year and a very clear ending in warning to all who will trifle with Man and Message,--which is God's Message from the Throne tho in very humble form, which makes it easy to trifle with by human nature; but "as the apple of His eye" God will protect His own.  But any honest heart for the Man and Message need have no fear, for all the promises of God are for them, who are blessed of the Father in having the nature of Jesus.  Psa. 32 shows what is our heritage—trespasses forgiven, sins covered, and no iniquity imputed to them and in whose Spirit there is no guile--nothing to hide.  This is our heritage and the opposite is for all the unregenerate world.  So don't look for too much outward righteousness if they have the righteousness which is by faith, or hearing and obeying God.

My Love to all,

Wm Irvine.

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Wm Irvine's Letter To:  Smiths
January 22, 1939

My dear Smiths:

Thanks for your hearty letter, M.O., and Mrs. Cecil’s slippers.  I don’t know how far you enjoy caring for me, but I wish you joy in all you are and have been to me, for He says, inasmuch as ye have done it unto My Servant whom the world despises, ye have done it unto Me, the Carpenter of Nazareth, now on the Throne judging the World, while the Saints in Heaven cry –  “How long, O Lord, till thou arise and Judge and Avenge our  blood on those that dwell on the earth” (today) Rev. 4:10?11.  And white robes are given unto every one of them, same as are the Virgins Wise to the Marriage of the Heaven and Earth Witnesses, when He brings forth the Manchild representative of His Son, to rule the Nations and answer the prayers of the Saints there, while the whole hypocrite world are crying for Peace and safety or to escape His Judgments and Vengeance.  The 100 million Tribulation Saints, the fruit of the 2 Witnesses and Woman Body, are to be clothed in White Raiment – made white in the blood of the Lamb.

Psalm 32 shows us that all who are Blessed of the Father and begotten of God, or who have heard His Knock and Voice in these days, and opened the door to let Him come in and make them part of His Family and heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ.  Their Trespasses are forgiven, their sins covered, and unto them He imputeth not iniquity, and in whose Spirit there is no guile or any attempt at Hypocrisy or pretending.  In the Family there may be discipline.  But in Christ there is no condemnation as they seek to walk in only what the Spirit reveals in contrast to the Hypocrite Imitators whose outward righteousness often robs of much joy and peace because of our trespasses and sins and iniquity.  The difference between us and them is, that we have His Nature in spite of all our infirmities, etc.  They measure us by our trespasses, sins, and iniquities, and themselves by their outward righteousness, and so feed their dog, hog, goat, and wolf natures on our shortcomings, while our perfect heart desire towards Him is what He values, and can work on and in us to be conformed to the Image of His Son, or the White Robes.

The link between parents and children – the natural – is but typical of the Love, Care, and forgiveness – all else would weaken that love.  If we let Him come in to live in us then we can share or Sup with Him in all He is and has done and promised to do for us.  This is the meaning of Him Supping with us and we with Him.  A child in a family does not think that he ceases from being a son or daughter to the Parents, or that his trespasses will cause him to cease from being a Son or heir.  Humans may fail and cease to love, but never can or will God ever treat a true born child in His Family as a hypocrite son of Adam.  The word Blessed always implies that we have been born into His Family, and all we say and do, and His deliverances and forgiveness and covering of our sins, and casting them behind His back to be remembered no more forever, is but our birthright in Christ.  All the tender mercies parents show  to their own children in Adam, is but type of the tender mercies of the Father in Heaven and the Heavenly Mother the Spirit, towards those who are Babes and Sucklings.

The human babe needs many tender mercies in feeding, cleansing, clothing, guiding, protecting, disciplining, and perfecting,  but samples of what we are, need, and get, that we may some day be like Him.  So all who truly purpose to let Christ be born  and perfected in them, can never doubt His tender mercies to every honest purposed heart.

So don’t measure yourself by all the human prattles, innocent mistakes and willfulness of our own flesh and blood, and our surroundings, etc.  Babe’s and suckling’s troubles are very often healed and cured by the Mother’s Arms and Breasts and the toddler put on his feet again to have another try and tumble perhaps in spite of all his intentions to avoid the puddle and pool he fell into before.  But notice that tender mercies begin in being born into the Family.  David in one of his Psalms says, Can a Mother forget her suckling child?  She may forget, Yet will I not forget thee when thy Father and thy Mother will cast thee out.  Then the Lord (whom ye fear) will take thee up.  Human affection is but typical of the lasting care, Mercy, and Love of God to all who are born into His Family.

The whole Religious Scribe and Pharisee Hypocrites have made their living and had their power to deceive unregenerate people in offering them forgiveness, covering for their sins and excusing their Iniquity and pretence and guile.  And you can see how mighty it is to deserve dishonest towards God, unregenerate human nature.  But these things can only become ours through being Born of the Spirit and being made partakers of His Nature.  The first blood shed on the earth was that of Abel.  The last blood to be shed on the earth is the seed of Cain.  How can we offer God the Lamb Offering if we don't have the Lamb nature, and all our perfection of life and service and sacrifice can never be acceptable to God, if there is not the letting His Spirit come to dwell in us.  And all our outward imperfections can never sever us from the Love of God which is in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8 is very full and wonderful revealing of all our privileges and possibilities in Christ, or Christ in you.  If we are born of the Spirit, we will want to follow the Spirit’s leadings in contrast to the human thoughts and ways we see men live by, and which seems right to them, but the end thereof is death.

My love in Him to all,

Wm. Irvine

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Wm Irvine's Letter To:   Smiths
February 5, 1939

My dear Smiths and Co.

Only such as are the Blessed of God in having what Abram and Isaac had can ever understand what Psalm 103 speaks.  We can bless the Lord for what He is to us.  "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that (is within me) bless His Holy name" – which means that He wholly means all He says to, of, and by of the Spirit of Christ is not in us, how can a corpse have any feeling like a living person?  So to be dead in Christ and only controlled by our own thoughts and ways can never have any feelings and response to all He has made us as Sons of God and heirs and joint heirs with Jesus Christ.

The pearl diver does not think much of the danger or put much value on the Oyster when he sees the pearl when he opens the shell.  So when God finds in us the Pearl, all else is lost sight of in God's eyes.  So don't measure the Pearl by the Shell Case, for pearl shells are often not so attractive as those without pearls for the Pearl inside often acts like disease to the Oyster.

Diamonds are found in Black hardened mud, crushed and destroyed and thrown away in seeking the diamond.  So don't measure your value by all the known unworthiness of the shell and mud where He finds the Diamond or Pearl.  Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits - who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases or that which  afflicts our Christian Experience from our human shell - who redeemeth the Life from the consequences of our being incased in a human body which can only end in the grave.   But the Pearl is perfected in Christ being formed in us, who Crowneth thee with Loving Kindness and tender mercies like as a Father and Mother shows in the human desire to see their own flesh and blood likeness in their children; who satisfieth thy mouth with good things in opening our mouth to speak what the Spirit prompts in us in Witness to others and in speaking out the very thoughts of His Heart and mind as we have fellowship together and in our intercourse with others, and talking one to another and thinking on His Name or what He declared to us by His own Well Beloved Son, Jesus Christ.

So that thy youth is renewed the Eagle's, which as it grows old finds it's bill impossible to eat with.  So it dashes it's bill on the rock and breaks off the hold horn  which hinders, so that it can use it's bill to eat by as when it was young again.  So it renews it's youth.  Familiarity with the things of God and our privileges often produces the same effect on us and we find a closed mouth hinders us from enjoying what we are in Christ; while to open it afresh gives us fuller enjoyment of all our privileges and renews our appetite and ability to use what He gives.

The mark of the Blessed in Matt. 5:1-12 are the marks of the healthy child of God.   Psalm 103:6, the Lord Executeth Righteousness and Judgment for all who are oppressed in a world of ungodly people.  Verse 7, as He was to Moses and the Children of Israel He is for all who are as Moses and the Israelites.  He fights our Battles and deals with all who are our enemies because we are His Children.  With the marks of Matt. 5:1-12, The Lord is Merciful and gracious, Slow to anger and Plenteous in Mercy.  He will not always chide, neither will He keep His anger forever.  Just like a Wise Father and Mother towards their own children.  He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.  You can read on down the Psalm, and see what great things are for all who are His in contrast to the unregenerate Hypocrites around on every hand.  So cheer up and enjoy seeing how much He values and cares for us who fear and care for Him.

Wm. Irvine

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Wm Irvine's Letter To:   Edwards
February 11, 1939
PO Box 696
Jerusalem,  Palestine.

My Dear Edwards and Company:

Thanks for yours and enclosures, I expect God’s  decision in the controversy will have satisfied both sides, and added much comfort to all who were the sufferers, and emphasized all who tried to give as the cause of the trouble,-- very merciful to all, and Percy's report of the success of his fools journey. So everybody had clear, full warning of the danger, so that any man or person who can hear the knock, and voice can open the door & let Him in to dwell in them, need  not fear the consequences of their past folly, or trifling.

The only solution for trespass and sins, and iniquity, and guile is to let God’s will be done in them.  I saw a man reading the Scripture, Old Testament, last night.  I said to him, “that was what the Jews were busy at when they decided to put Him to death, for it was done according to the Scriptures, which shows the danger of unregenerate people reading the Book without His nature and Spirit to guide them.  They can only find what justifies Cain in killing Abel, and the Jews in killing the Prophets, Jesus and the Apostles by the Jewish Christians.

The contrast of the Beatitudes gives us a full outline of the unregenerate of any and all ages. Poor in Spirit is the very foundation of any part of the Kingdom in us, or by us:  Mourning, because of the human nature in and around us, warring against the Spirit working in us.  If we were as perfect as we want to be, there would be no mourning.  Meek, those who can see and feel the vanity of all that men finds exalts them over and above their fellows, Matt.5:6, hunger and thirst after righteousness is the very condition of growth. Ver.7 the merciful are to find mercy, just as surely as the opposites can only find it not;  the Jews are a clear outline of what it means to be unmerciful and find no mercy, which is the key to reading their history and condition.  So any attempts to reverse this only reveals the condition of all who fail to see.  Its as natural as the law of gravity and applies to the whole world today as the shadows of coming wrath hang over every one and place. Ver.8, Blessed are the pure in heart, -- those whose purpose is to let Him live in and by them amongst men.  A pure human love may be very faulty in many ways, so in Christ, the heart may be pure, yet very far from perfect in its manifestations, but always willing to see and recognize rather than goaded on to better things than remain as they are, -- its the law of growth.

Blessed are the Peace MAKERS for this is but the proof of having the marks and contrast with the trouble makers of the unregenerate kingdom.  You can see that only such people as have found out vanity of all human life to satisfy can have the hunger and thirst which evidences poverty in Spirit; so you can see the difference in the Prodigal in contrast to those who need no repentance,--99.  This explains why Mary the prodigal in Jerusalem, became the brightest star in His Crown.  Wheresoever this Gospel He preached and the Gospel of the Kingdom to come and why the streets and lanes of the city and the highways and hedges are the most hopeful soil for the Gospel today, and the hopelessness of those who are satisfied with the many Gospel- Hypocrisy in the world, and the method of sealing people in their foreheads all over the world by giving them to taste of the vanity of all their religions of any sort,-- North, South, East and West.  Ver, 10 is the seal on all who have the rightness which lets God work in and by them.  Ver.11 to be reviled, persecuted & lied against for His sake brings gladness, Joy and assurance of reward, for so did all the Prophets.  Ye are salt, ye are the light of the world, to hinder the corruption of the R. P. & E. world, and the light to outshine the darkness of it, -- & in so doing so we glorify our Father in Heaven, or show the world the difference between The God of this world, the devil, and the God & Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Matt.11:28 shows all Religion but a burden, -- My yoke is easy, & My burden light, & brings rest to our souls, as we are meek and lowly in HEART.  How differently we felt about Mr Spauldings burial and that of George Linn, -- buried by the Police and Presbyterian Clergy, -- near where Judas hanged himself.

The lod(sic) man had sent me proof of his love and affection for me, whom he had never seen, -- the other had been a rebel and heartbreak for 12 months, who had known me all his life.  The one had only ears to hear and heart to obey what God gave through my lips and life, the other had only his human understanding of the Man and Message, leading on to the sad ending of his power to hinder, hurt and destroy others, covering his own unregeneracy (sic) and wickedness with my name.

With their eyes opened by death, how vast the difference in their experience and wide the gulf fixed, -- and both more anxious that others may hear and obey lest they should find out their mistake when too late.   The wedding garment will be to bear the same witness whether in Heaven or on the earth that John and I bear, and one can see how hopeless George or Percy would be, either on Earth or beyond death where the gulf is fixed between those who are robed in White and those tormented with the memory of having misused all their privileges, turning them to their own advantage and all they touched.  It’s easy to see the blight marks of Percy on all he had any power over, and so of George.  Their condition made it impossible to see, but those who have life can both see and feel it.  The dead in Christ know not anything, so the responsibility is on the living to be salt and light in the worlds responsibility is on the living to be the salt and light in the worlds terrible condition today.

World conditions are everywhere slowly ripening for the great day when the wrath clouds will burst, and the Son of Righteousness will shine forth in all His healing power, revealing the contrast between the wicked and righteous reward from Him who can never err, and who Judgeth between those who let Him in to live out His life by them and who don’t , but are the proud and wicked doers of their own will and works.  He does not Judge according to outward appearances but by the heart condition towards Him.  Conditions here and in London are far from hopeful of what the Nations so strongly - Peace and Safety.

The Pope’s death at this time may be but a pointer when Spanish war seems to be won for the Fascist powers, while the Democratic Nations will find it heavy on them to face world conditions, and the Bear looking on at both parties with only vengeance because of the many and oft repeated insults and jeers.  So we have 3 Fascist, 3 Democracies and 1 Bolshivik all clearly revealed and the Jewish needs and claims more forceful in a variety of ways, as if it or they were the bait on the snare or trap set for all Nations on the Earth.  Psalms 103 is good, helping us to express what should be the experience of all who are Blessed and we should value it and commit part to memory for it was the expression  of David’s heart in proof that he was regenerate.

My Love to all,

Wm. Irvine

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Wm Irvine's Letter To:  Edwards
April 13, 1939

My dear Edwards and Co:

Thanks for yours and all the enclosures – quaint and queer, if not wicked and others fruity with savour of the Spirit. How would you express in few words the gist of the whole matter?

In Genesis we find Cain killing Abel, the Lamb.  In Revelation we find a Lamb killing from off the earth the whole Cain seed as completely as it was done in Noah’s day, and as world wide as the Cain seed occupy the earth; while the Ark of Mercy by the Lamb seed will extend to the ends of the earth and offer protection and provision when all else has failed, to all who  prove to have ears and heart for the true God in proof of their having His Nature.  For it’s a family affair both on the wicked side and on the righteous side.  Gen. 3, 4, 6 and 7th chapters become very simple and easy to understand.  The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, the Tree of Eternal death to God, and the Tree of Life or Everlasting Life.  The Serpent leading to the one in contrast to the true anointed sent Servant, leading to the Tree of Life – Eternal Life.  The one with the subtlety of the Serpent, the most subtile of all that God has created, the other the feet of the Servant, or love slave, as in Jesus, and the Voice of the Lord God.  The Serpent permanent in the Garden – the Servant only passing through, a stranger and pilgrim.

Chapter 4 gives us the flesh and blood marks of those who have either of these experiences.  Cain tilling the ground, or human; Abel keeper of Sheep and offering Lamb sacrifice, at the end of days, or in process of time, they both offering sacrifice to God – the one to be rejected, and revealed in Abel being accepted.  Then the conflict begins, ending in one being the killer seed, the Lamb the victim.  Abel entering into the presence of the Lord, with Cain going out cursed from the presence of the Lord, with fear in his heart, the other’s blood crying for vengeance – as we see in Rev. 6, the Saints crying; “How long, O Lord, till thou arise to avenge our blood on them that dwell on the face of the earth.”  Told to rest for a little season till the servants and brethren or 2 witnesses are killed.  A Lamb on Mt. Zion refers to those around whom the 144,000 have gathered while all who are Saints on the earth will say – Even so, Come, Lord Jesus.  Last verse of Gen. 4 explains Gen. 6:2, “Men began to call themselves by the name of the Lord, as Sons of God.”  No Lamb nature, only offering the fruit of the ground and their own works and labor rather than God working in them to will and do of His good pleasure.

The earth corrupt before God and filled with violence, imagination and desire of the hearts of men was only evil, and that continually and so the end of all flesh had come.  As in Noah’s day, so in the days of the Son of Man, or in Revelation days we have been in since 1914, when the Son of Man was chosen to rule His household and give them meat in due season, and as ruler over all that He hath, even as Noah was ruler in his own home and family and preparing an Ark for their and his safety.  Vs. 13 of Gen. 4 is very clear and simple, “The end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is filled with violence (THROUGH) them, and Behold, I will destroy them from the earth.” (MARGIN).  All this is prophetic for Revelation days to which we who understand say, “Even so, Come, Lord Jesus, Quickly,” in a short time do the work that you may come to reign over thine on the earth.  You can see the preparations for quick destroying of them going on everywhere which should be comforting for all who are truly His Sheep, while the Cain seed will with fallen countenance and angry looks and words see their doom coming and hate to hear of it, and hate those who told them of its approach, and express it in killing of the 2 witnesses because they have tormented the earth.

Exodus Passover story is prophetic of the deliverance of His true Israel and the destruction of their enemies, and so is good meat in due season, for all who care to hear and obey the same Lord that spoke through Moses and Aaron. Moses was the man of God and Aaron his mouthpiece who had been brought up in the brick fields under tyranny and oppression – typical of John and his Co?witness.  “Enter thou, and all that is thine into the Ark.”  Seven days before the storm breaks, probably points to John’s coming when the door is to be closed.  “The Lord shut the door of the Ark.”   Gen. 7:1, “Come thou and all thy house into the Ark, (FOR) thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation,” and in the Ark there was provision as well as protection from the flood of waters – now war, famine, pestilence, and plagues for the ending of all flesh from the earth, who say, Lord, Lord, but have not His Lamb Sacrifice acceptable to God.

Gen. 7:23, “Noah only remained alive and they that were with him, in the Ark.”  Chap. 8 shows the coming out and building an altar to the Lord, wrought, unhewn stones, and there he worshipped.  We can read these words historically but they are prophetical and comforting for all who can say, “Even so, Come Lord Jesus, Quickly,” as you have said, and every day seems to point to and emphasize these words as the world becomes more tense at the various happenings on the earth, causing them to take precautions to protect and defend their various human claims and interests – not realizing what they are before Him in their various feelings, thoughts, words, and actions towards one another.

So I hope it will only add to our fear, love, joy, and peace, as their fears are brought upon them.

My love to all,

Wm. Irvine

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Wm Irvine's Letter To:  Edwards
April 26, 1939

My dear Edwards and Co:

Thanks for yours and others.  Death only reveals the fullness of what will take place on the earth in Jesus coming; the closing of the door of opportunity on the foolish, and the entering in of the wise to share in the anointing of God with the 2 witnesses on earth; while in Heaven it will mean enjoying the wait there will His coming to reign with all who are there waiting; while death (for the foolish) means the beginning to realize the fruit of their folly.  Matt 24:21-22 "Except these days were shortened there would no flesh be saved."  See how God is preparing the whole armaments of the world so as to shorten the work of destroying all flesh unregenerate from the earth.  Dan. 12 mentions the end in Vs. 4, 6, 8, 13, and Noah's story is the sample used, for it's perfect work in ending what men call the highest possible civilization, our R.P.&E. world, of all that's possible in human lives.  Dan 11 shows you the raging wars now being threatened, and At That Time, when this is going on, Michael the great prince stands up for the deliverance of every one whose name is in the Book of Life, or those who can truly say - Our Father, which art in Heaven - where record is kept and we have the earnest of the Spirit which gives us understanding and power to shine as the brightness of the firmament and turn many to the righteousness of Matt. 5, 6, and 7 - the marks of having everlasting life in contrast to perishing or everlasting death - all that's possible to humanity at it's best.

Dan. 12:2 - Many of them who were asleep in the many forms of dry as dust Serpent influence shall awake - some to everlasting life and some to everlasting shame, such as we have and will see.  The wise to shine and some to be very useful in turning many to share with them everlasting life - while the foolish who have failed to get life can only offer people what they have - everlasting shame, to perish as if they had never heard; and you can see it depends not on others, but on the foolish use they have made of the privileges God has given them.  The foundation of Noah's message was the fact that God was going to destroy all flesh from off the earth by flood, and this is the foundation for our message today.  If this fails to awaken people and create hunger and thirst for the living waters as in Isa. 55 there can be no hope for them, for we are nearing the END of the human race on the earth, no matter whether it be good, bad, indifferent, holy, or righteous.

So we have plenty of evidence in the world preparation and understanding from the Scriptures to convince any who have desire to escape everlasting doom.  To be wise in the light of what's written in Mal. 4:1, is to make sure that your name is written in the Book of Life - so shall you be under His Wing and Michael's protection and deliverance when the 1900 million are being made dung for the earth, and food for the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth.  For our name registered  in Heaven and sealed in our own heart and life and in being able to turn many to righteousness by life and light to you in using it wisely.  Vs. 10 of Dan 12 - Many shall be purified, made white and tried but unregenerate self-seekers even after being awakened shall do wickedly but none of them shall understand.  Wise can turn man to righteousness and others shine out clearly; but the foolish I have known have not one seed other than fools like themselves to perish and remember forever their folly and shame.  If fellowship does not find our name in the Book written before Him as in Mal. 3, what value can it be to anyone?  If  ( we are regenerate) our witness must end in turning some to righteousness and a place under Michael's protection and deliverance as our names are written in the Book of Life.

"Least and Little Ones" seems to suggest what will mark the wise - the foolish probably too big or too much of the human for God to be able to do anything in them, or by them, so their work will all be in vain for themselves and others.  Pride and Wickedness, seeking our own in His name in place of the things which please God and Jesus on the Throne and honoring His Spirit on the earth, are the fool marks of the whole human race now in sight of the END, - E-N-D.  Surely it's better to err on the being the Least, or the littlest one of the little ones than to bear any semblance to the foolish human race we find on every hand.  It looks today as if we were like Noah and family would be when the Lord gave them 7 days to enter the Ark.  There is no evidence that there was any controversy or confusion in the household of God in Noah's family.  While we can conceive of limitless confusion and strife in the Son of God family outside as they all strove for place in their various forms of pride and wickedness, and even amongst Noah's many family and neighborly relations, their folly kept them out where they might have been in.

No flesh and blood ties can ever bridge the gulf  between the foolish and wise, or put our name in the record kept before Him, or in the Book of Life kept for all who can call God their Father in Heaven.

My love to all,

Wm. Irvine

P.S.  Babes and sucklings in the family of God are wise and prudent are shut out no matter where or when found.  W. I.

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Wm Irvine's Letter to:  Edwards & Co.
August 16, 1939

My Dear Edwards and Co.:

Thanks for yours and many others.  Hope you are both benefiting by your hill-home stay and others getting a little drink of the Living Waters and breath of God--who have ceased from men with their breath in their noses.  Conditions worldwide are like the lull before the storm, but storm is sure and not far off, and the nearer when you hear the unregenerate cackle in prayer and preaching and teaching as I do every meal and every day from three Presbyterian preachers--one my own age, and two younger, and their wives and satellites.  It's comical if it were not so serious to hear and see the inside of all they stand for, with, and by.  The other Missionary elements are also represented, all keen on Arabic, Hebrew, Greek and tradition and history of every sort, but weak in the spiritual grasp of the whole book; strong on education and hopes from the political world, etc., and one can only see them as bluffers pretty much, though they would put the shoe on the other foot, and it's laughable to find them all ready to join up to defeat the Overcomer in any shape.  

I had a Doctor as roommate for two nights, a New Zealander and very successful in hospital work in Nazareth.  I had called on him about 13 years ago, and he had been anxious to come in touch with me for his own purposes.  So I gave him something to think of in his spare time before he knew he had got it.  But one very clear mark in all is to find they don't even have the Alpha Gospel, but just the same old cackle about the fall of Adam and restoration by believing in the cross and the blood; but all very definite possibility of no other than life in the flesh (spirit, soul and body) and so hypocrites with all their audacity, but it takes the two witnesses' work the more necessary and sure to the two men who have most loyally followed Him in His way, truth and life; and the very prospect of 100 million and 1 million ministry is quite easy to see possible, for it's but giving to the whole world what He gave to the Jewish world in His day, and as the natural ending or Omega, last, and end of His work in two men who tried to follow in spite of the great, unregenerate hypocrite world, and sealed by their death and resurrection as was done in His own life.

It cheers one in looking back over the 22 years we spent in the Alpha days and make it the more real and sure.  It's been refreshing to have so many to talk with, even of our days pre-Omega, which they can't resist, as it is so strong and powerful in contrast to all their work, like dogs on the chain in contrast to dogs on the hunt, and when you have chance to counter their attacks—"Why don't I learn Arabic, Hebrew and Greek?"--with Him as King over all the earth, His name one, and one tongue, English with a Scotch accent, the tongue f the two witnesses—it gives them something to think of in spite of their audacity.

So I can see His hand still leading me as it looms out clearer in the whole of my past life.  The very disadvantage of professing through JOHN McNEILL, and then taking the way of believing in Jesus as my pattern and Master, and when we come to read or talk Matt. 23 to 25, it's powerful, for it was His last to the Disciples, which sealed His doom though it was secretly planned.

Paul's life also in a wonderful stone (?) to beat them with, for that's about all that ever happens to them.  So it's queer company to have three clergy and two doctors and an American Negro professor of Wilberforce College, Ohi0, USA, as your nearest table companion.

Hope you are all well,

Wm Irvine

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