The sealed Book is to: “complement the essence of the truth which hath been hidden in the midst of the scriptures of prophets of God which formerly lived on this earth, and to this Moses [our prophet Maurício A. Berger], who shall read the words of this book, he shall be given understanding of all things concerning knowledge hidden in these words which were left unto me [Moses of the Old Testament] by God.” (Sealed Book of Moses 5:24).
We must read and study the sealed Book until, with the help of our Prophet, “this Moses;” we will begin to understand what is really written in the sealed Book and thus understand what is written in the other scriptures. “… he [our Prophet] shall be given understanding of all things concerning knowledge hidden in these words which were left unto me by God.” (Sealed Book of Moses 5:24).
Moses says: “the men of this generation will not be fully ready to understand the truths here exposed, except to those who seek the mysteries of God in their hearts.” (Sealed Book of Moses 5:23).
… some generations, after the knowledge of this book is revealed to those who believe, whose children will be taught rightly about its precepts. (Sealed Book of Moses 5:22).
Why, I ask, to the “children”?
Could it be that the “children” have not yet yielded to that adult wisdom which puts limits on their faith, and which makes an adult believe, in their hearts, that the Lord will not do this thing for me. But the children readily grant full and unyielding power, with no limits, to their heavenly Father, which allows him to open the windows of heaven and rain down upon his children his full and unlimited power of his love.
… Their children and the children of their children will be full of holiness, and the gifts derived from the Holy Spirit will be natural in their way of feeling; inhibiting the power and influence of the enemy… (Sealed Book of Moses 5:40).
These gifts are needed to allow the children to grow up and keep from latching onto the artificial adult limit on faith. The parents must fully desire to institute among them that unlimited power of love by living the United Order. For without the United Order living among us we don’t have the tools of charity and love to the degree that is necessary to bring up the children to adulthood in the way of love that will not cause them limit their faith. In other words, we won’t be one unless we learn to truly love each other in word and deed. Yes, our children must be taught to grow up in love and have faith to fully blossom in their hearts as they become adults and then, hopefully, during the process, unlimited faith will be restored in the hearts of the parents so that they may also become greatest in the kingdom of God.
At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?
And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said, Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Whosoever, therefore, shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:1-3).
Here are three examples of faith that come from my own childhood experience.
- The Tornado.
When I was about 13 years old, I was given charge of my younger brothers and sisters, as my parents and my older sisters were away in the nearest town of Bemidji, Minnesota which was almost 13 miles from our home.
It was summertime and I was playing in a small field south of the house and I could see the younger children playing around the house yard.
After a bit of time I noticed that the wind had increased quite a lot, and it began blowing things around. I looked to the northeast sky and saw that dark black clouds were blowing in and covering the sky.
I then noticed a mass of dark clouds were separating from the other clouds and that a funnel like area of the clouds seemed to be moving around and downward. I had never seen a tornado before, but I had seen pictures of tornados in a book at school and this look quite a lot like the pictures I had seen. I quickly ran to the house and gathered up my younger brothers and sisters into the house and explained to them that a tornado was coming, and we needed to pray to God for help and protection.
By this time, I could hear the wind begin to scream around the corners of the house and I could feel the buffeting of the wind upon the house. We knelt and I began praying and each of the children prayed a short prayer to the Lord for his protection. When the last and youngest child was praying, the screaming and buffeting of the wind was still increasing, but when that youngest child said “Amen” the wind just stopped and there was a great silence.
I got back to my feet and went out the door and looked up at the sky and saw that the great black cloud had unrolled across the whole sky like a huge scroll and in my head, I heard a quite voice say, “It is written.” Even, young as I was, I understood that the words were from the Lord, and he was telling me that the power and protection that I had just witnessed was promised in the scriptures.
A handful of children had, through their faith in the Lord, transformed a great and fearful storm into a wonderful testimony of the love and faithfulness of our Heavenly Father. The normal order was to be our destruction but that was transposed to instead show the safety of a Father’s love by using faith to do what we, as children, had no power to do ourselves.
(The next experience that I would talk about happened when I was just a little older).
- The Forest Fire.
My Father was blind, and he and my mother were going for a walk on a bright spring morning. They walked down a trail from our house to Turtle River which had a small walk bridge across it. Our nearest neighbor owned a resort on the other side of the river, and he also had a house on our side of the river. He was raking leaves in big piles and burning them with fire. As my mother and father approached the small walk bridge my mother saw that the fire had gotten out of the control of our neighbor and had set a large tree on fire which began spreading fire to the other trees that were near it. Knowing that there was no way for our neighbor to stop the fire which the wind was spreading on a path headed for our house, … (which house was still a quite a way away from the fire) … they decided to rush towards the nearest home that had a telephone and call the forestry department to get fire fighters to help us.
In the meantime, the children and I had discovered the fire which the wind was blowing toward our house in huge billows of black smoke and flames. We didn’t know where our parents were, and we decided that we would have to fight that huge forest fire by ourselves so we rounded up all the pails and large empty grain sacks that we could find and ran down the trail to get to the river.
As we ran, I suddenly remembered that we had not prayed to God about the action we were taking so I quickly stopped our run to the river and shouted that we had not prayed to God for help. I felt it would be improper for us to just fall down and pray in the middle of the trail … that we needed to show the Lord that we were sorry we hadn’t first prayed and so I led the other children a few steps to the side of the road before we bowed down to the Lord, to show him that we understood that we should have taken time to pray for his help first. We then quickly bowed down and I prayed verbally out loud for his help. We then jumped up and ran for the river.
But I get a bit ahead of the story. By that time our parents had contacted the forestry department and were on their way back to the river on the far side of the river. My mother says that she felt the wind “suddenly reverse its direction and begin blowing toward the river”.
The kids and I made it to the river and began fighting the fire but mainly we were just keeping it away from the riverbank and the bushes and trees along the river. I did not understand this, at the time, but we never made it into the forest to put out that fire. We did lose a couple balsam trees along the river that lit up with a great roar like huge torches and blew burning branches around to keep us busy putting out the seemingly numberless small fires caused by the burning pieces of limbs and branches.
Since we were always near the bank of the river, other than a few burns on arms, legs, and feet (we were all bare footed at the time), we were still all OK and our parents joined us fighting the fire on the bank of the river (without any scolding that I’m sure we deserved).
I could see that the fire wasn’t spreading toward our house anymore. It was like the Lord had drawn a line in the forest and that the fire could not pass over it. The forestry fire fighters finally showed up and they were equipped to go into the forest and put out the fires still burning in there and we continued to put out small fires which seemed to keep popping up well on into the end of daylight.
Again, a handful of children had, through their faith in the Lord, transformed a great and fearful fire into a wonderful testimony of the love and faithfulness of our heavenly father who heard the prayer of the children he loved and turned the forest fire back onto itself.
- Controlling the rain.
When I was an older teenager, we had a camp called Wake-Up Camp. A camp for all ages that members of our local church and others put together, mainly for the children, but later for the older folks also, where we could all increase faith and have a lot of fun doing it. The camp was hosted by a nearby resort named Reed’s Retreat.
One year I remember being in a discussion with a group of kids, sitting on the ground between Big Turtle Lake and a long building with a storage garage for storing boats and such things for the resort.
Rain clouds covered the sky, and the smell of rain was in the air. A few drops landed on us and some campers were worried that we would be rained on if we didn’t break up the discussion and go elsewhere. One teenager of our group mentioned that we could just pray that it not rain on us. That sounded like a great idea, and we knelt and bowed our heads, each one praying that the Lord would keep us from getting rained on, since the things we were discussing were important things and we didn’t want to break up the discussion at that point. We then continued with our discussion, and I will give you my own witness of what came of our prayers.
I could hear the rain falling on the other side of the roof of the long building that housed the boats. Then I saw and heard the rain on our side of the building. I saw and heard the rain come up to our group and then saw and heard the rain pass on both sides of our group and then I saw the rain on the lake shore and on the lake. It was raining all around us and yet it didn’t rain on us.
By the time we ended our discussion all the rain was on the lake and moving away from us. But we were still dry. This was a mighty testimony to me of the power and loving care that the Lord had for us and also a testimony of the power of united prayer.
Again, a handful of children had, through their faith in the Lord “transformed” a great and drenching rainstorm into a wonderful testimony of the love and the faithfulness of our heavenly father who had heard the prayer of the children of his love. The rain that should have soaked us and driven us away to seek shelter, destroying the discussion that we felt so strongly about, became an encouragement to us and also a testimony of the power of faith. Well, the rain did cool us down a bit, on that hot summer day, and it kept the mosquitoes away from us, and if anything, it aided our discussion and gave us greater peace; though it soaked everything around us it allowed us stay dry and refreshed so we could finish our discussion.
I could tell many such testimonies that make me hearken back to my childhood, when children were still wise enough to not limit what faith and trusting the Lord could do, but my life is also full of testimonies as a grown up at the times when I was able to discard my adult limits on faith and trust that the Lord, who was still willing to do all things that that are expedient for us.
I hope that what I have written will be helpful as we face this New Year with so much to do and so little time to do it. May the Spirit of the Lord Jesus be with you in this New Year.
