May 23, 1993
Dear Ben,
As you recall from earlier letters such as "The Heaven God Has for Joe", and "A Letter to Ben" in "GOOD NEWS", Volume I, we said that Heaven is to be a surprise and a gift for men. We said that children are endeared to parents who are perceived to love them and care for them. Ignorance of God and unbelief helps facilitate these things when men rise and finally understand what is really going on. God is successful in perpetuating joy flowing like an effervescent fountain among FAMILY members above through His technics. And yes, devils have their unwitting parts to play in this. Devils are "tools" God "uses" to supply contrast to His goodness and His nature (and ours). We express anger at demonic tools for causing oppression, pain, blindness in men, and for causing the destruction of our bodies and laughing about it. We cheer when we are freed from "spiritual Egypt" and demonic Egyptians or when men below overcome some form of demonic madness. God really does not want anyone to upset the balance He created ... not even me, Secrets 33:8. The crown of success is that those above cannot stop praising Him. He knows the children above love and adore Him, and it is a result of His evoking and provoking technics. This is what He wanted, a FAMILY knit together by mutual love for ALL. And this is what He continues to get by maintaining the "balance" between good and evil. You see the children "appreciate" being "delivered from evil" and "given immortality" as a "free gift" and a grand inheritance in heaven, when all they expected was the direct opposite ... "hell and damnation" or nothing at all! The story of the "prodigal son" and Jesus at Simon's dinner do apply. Those who feel forgiven the most do praise Him more. They do not stop and think, "should I be doing this"? They just DO IT!! If you think of yourself as a "sinner" and the Judge shows you compassion and grants you life and the best Heaven has to offer, something you did not anticipate, you might express your joy by singing, shouting, and dancing and by giving Him praise and thanks LIKE ALL THE OTHER CHILDREN DO. (Just between me and you it just occurred to me there is another reason God is not overly concerned about making the fine details of His PLAN known. There may be some other children prone to be cynical and testy about God's rationalization like a certain person we both know. Why deal with 100,000 Ben's in the flesh who have understood and yet feel a sense of anger at God, when He can get a better response by teaching them after they rise when their thoughts are free of demonic influence?) God is not dissatisfied with the outcome of His work. The fact of the matter is ... "He is pleased"!
Parables tend to keep the real truth as a hidden secret from those on stage. Only a "few" can get all the depths of the kaleidoscopic light imbedded in them. And only a God-selected priest (John) is to have the parables fitted together as puzzle pieces to tell God's story in THE END. God must fit every WORD in its proper place and explain the relationships, if we hope to see the greater picture. He will only do this for that priest He chooses. He has done that in the "GOOD NEWS". The beneficiaries of the light in ALL THE PARABLES are not earth men in their generations. Parables serve as sources of light and a challenge for those above who watch and anticipate how God works as He supplies light for His human priest and bread for others, and as He thwarts devils to their very faces. So a legacy of seed and seed light has accumulated as all the writings of the various men of God in all the previous generations. One of God's purposes in "casting His bread upon the waters" in parabolic form is to blast devils to their very faces in time release fashion and to denigrate their presumed wisdom. He makes fools of them and convinces them of their own folly. The upper audience likes this! It takes God to set the WORD in its proper order. No human being nor devil can do this! Of course devils are chagrined at letting the light pass when they tried so hard to prevent it and stop it, or hide it and destroy it. NOW... ALL OF IT is "set" in their midst to their horror. They could not prevent the re-announcing of the Court Verdicts castigating and condemning them only! THIS END-TIME is a time of great pain and torment for our enemies and God's "tools". God takes advantage of everything including devils' efforts to resist His will. "Nothing" really qualifies as an "adversary" to God. "Tools" cannot really stand up against the Creator. Therefore it is each new rising student body who reaps the greatest benefits from the light in the parables. They see that God never abandoned them nor this earth. He always kept truth for us in and with His human priests according to His priesthood system. Upper students also see that God has done everything as an educational ploy to promote and maintain ever-flowing LOVE in ONENESS. YOU do HAVE TO ADMIRE HIM! Personally I would consider it a great honor if I could be upstairs watching Him work and hearing His explanation of what He is doing upstairs as well as downstairs. I would like to see and hear what He is accomplishing with the Good News editor!
As for "killing", that is something that can only be done in this life to the fleshy bodies of men and animals. It is an outgrowth of hatred and jealousy, a byproduct of demonic thinking. The hater wants to destroy the object of his hatred, Ezekiel 35; Revelation 18:24. Devils had Cain hit Abel on the head with a stone which resulted in the first destruction of a human body and the secret removal of that spirit person. Hatred is not a part of our inborn nature. It is an earthly phenomenon, an "outside", negative quality foisted upon us by the presence and work of devils on us and in us who regulate our evil thoughts. They speak to our minds imputing mental pictures and words and they access us through our brain and central nervous system using them as "push-buttons" to force us to do their will. Upstairs it is impossible to hate one's brother. There we can "be ourselves"! But we all hate devils and "sin"-works upstairs. Since devils illustrate the direct opposite of God's nature and our nature, this "killing" (contrast) will make us have an enhanced appreciation of brotherly love and concern for ALL. No one likes knowing he was a "tool", a wimp in the hands of devils. God wants us to care for ALL our brethren, no matter how huge our numbers are and no matter how plain and simple that person may seem to be. By letting new arrivers see and hear how and why devils hated us and killed us, God gains love in us and from us to the max!