I slept with a Whore

 

I slept with a Whore

 

They say, insert tongue in cheek here, after a night on the town, the only thing worse than waking up next to Willie Nelson is realizing it’s not Willie Nelson. 

 

I suppose similarly, after a life in the church, the only thing worse than waking up from your perfectly correlated sleep, is waking up, realizing you’re spiritually naked and have been intimate with a whore. 

 

Metaphorically speaking, in the parable of the ten virgins, all ten had the recipe and ingredients to bake the cookies needed at the wedding feast but only five of them ever bothered to make them.  Consequently, those five were prepared with the requisite dessert as part of the celebration.  The other five had always rested comfortably knowing they had the proper ingredients and recipe and could whip them up at any time.  They didn’t ever bother to actually do it so were unable to provide the needed contribution when called upon. 

 

Sadly, they could have shown the Lord evidence that they had both the recipe and ingredients at hand but that was not an acceptable substitute. 

 

Several years ago, if the Lord had come and invited me to the wedding feast, despite the fact I had no cookies, I’d have pulled a temple recommend from my wallet as evidence that I had both the recipe and ingredients though I had used neither to actually bake.  I’d been waiting for the correlated leadership to signal when and how to mix and bake what I had.

 

One day upon awakening I noticed others who had already baked and were taking their goods to the feast.  They were not yet at the feast but were on their way.  “Ah Shit” I thought – “What the hell?  I’ve not yet been told to bake.” Leadership had said – “no, not yet, we’ll tell you when!”  As one passed by, he stopped and offered a small sample of his goods.  Upon tasting, echoes from another time stirred within which I recognized as a taste from another feast I had once attended.  It was immediately clear the recipe and ingredients I had were incomplete and would be incapable of producing something so exquisite for the banquet.  He gladly shared additional ingredients and a complete recipe and I began the process of baking the goods. 

 

Hopefully when invited, my goods will be out of the oven.

  

And that great whore who hath perverted the recipe of the Lord — yea, that great and abominable church — shall tumble to the dust, and great shall be the fall of it. 

 

The abominable church, the great whore, is always ready to preach false, vain, and foolish doctrines to man. It will offer anything to distract people and keep them from seeing the Lord “bring again Zion.” It will even use the words of Zion to preach a false faith (ingredients). It is abominable because its false teachings (recipe) are clothed in the vocabulary of truth - 

  

There are only two “recipes” -- the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church of the Devil. Wherefore, whoso does not have the “recipe” for the church of the Lamb of God belongeth to that great church which is the mother of abominations, and she is the whore of all the earth (1 Nephi 3:27).  

 

Therefore, based on what Nephi says, unless one is part of that body of believers whose Father is Christ and who possess a covenant from Him that they will be His, he belongs to the whore of all the earth, a church of abominations.

 

Those who are believers are they whom He has declared to His Father as having been true and faithful in all things. The other, all-inclusive, great church is comprised of all philosophies, all belief systems, all unbelief systems, all rationalizations, all theories, and all vanities that distract people from repenting and following Christ. These vary from very good things that are uplifting (and possess even great portions of truth) to the degrading and perverse.

 

 

“…And I would, my brethren, that ye should know that all the kindreds of the earth cannot be blessed unless he shall make bare his arm (recipe) in the eyes of the nations.…”  1 Nephi 7:3  He has and is!

  

If you haven’t noticed, there are many with trays of cookies on their way to the feast.  You may try one.  Then, get the damned recipe and ingredients and get to baking.

 

Jus sayin!

 

Signed

 

John The-Not-So-Beloved

 

See glossary – Great and Abominable Church