Just professing Jesus in this year of excess, which far EXCEEDS the state of the Ninivites, means nothing...it's actually dangerous because IT is what will convict you on judgment day...the state of Jesus & His apostles,as compared to you. If you hear His voice (either by conscience, Holy Spirit, or that of a messenger/prophet that leaves you no ambiguities....all 3 of these 'voices' should be the same to get you to REPENTANCE and to 'put on' Jesus and become holy), act TODAY and get into the state of sack cloth and ashes and start your fasting and VERY simple living (dress, food, actions, lifestyle) that is as close to saintly as you can be. God has not changed this 'state' of sack cloth He's been asking for through time. He MEANS it....humble yourselves beneath the Holy One, the Creator, and follow His Son. This is the ONLY way to Paradise, and God's 'looking down' on the ugliest world ever, no matter Who/What you claim to worship. The Koran should lead to the Gospels (Injeel....my anagram for that is "Je line". I often use "Je" or "J" for "Jesus" in some of the ways-with-words God has revealed to me over time...simple explanations), because they are FAR from the moderation that Muhammad spoke of 1400 years ago, and conversely, the Koran warns that the majority of followers of Jesus will be hypocrites...not even CLOSE to trying to follow Him in "the Way", sacrificial each day and holy. Helaman 11 7 And it came to pass that the people saw that they were about to perish by famine, and they began to remember the Lord their God; and they began to remember the words of Nephi. 8 And the people began to plead with their chief judges and their leaders, that they would say unto Nephi: Behold, we know that thou art a man of God, and therefore cry unto the Lord our God that he turn away from us this famine, lest all the words which thou hast spoken concerning our destruction be fulfilled. 9 And it came to pass that the judges did say unto Nephi, according to the words which had been desired. And it came to pass that when Nephi saw that the people had repented and did humble themselves in sackcloth, he cried again unto the Lord, saying: 10 O Lord, behold this people repenteth; Helaman 12 1 And thus we can behold how false, and also the unsteadiness of the hearts of the children of men; yea, we can see that the Lord in his great infinite goodness doth bless and prosper those who put their trust in him. 2 Yea, and we may see at the very time when he doth prosper his people, yea, in the increase of their fields, their flocks and their herds, and in gold, and in silver, and in all manner of precious things of every kind and art; sparing their lives, and delivering them out of the hands of their enemies; softening the hearts of their enemies that they should not declare wars against them; yea, and in fine, doing all things for the welfare and happiness of his people; yea, then is the time that they do harden their hearts, and do forget the Lord their God, and do trample under their feet the Holy One—yea, and this because of their ease, and their exceedingly great prosperity. 3 And thus we see that except the Lord doth chasten his people with many afflictions, yea, except he doth visit them with death and with terror, and with famine and with all manner of pestilence, they will not remember him. 4 O how foolish, and how vain, and how evil, and devilish, and how quick to do iniquity, and how slow to do good, are the children of men; yea, how quick to hearken unto the words of the evil one, and to set their hearts upon the vain things of the world! 5 Yea, how quick to be lifted up in pride; yea, how quick to boast, and do all manner of that which is iniquity; and how slow are they to remember the Lord their God, and to give ear unto his counsels, yea, how slow to walk in wisdom's paths! 6 Behold, they do not desire that the Lord their God, who hath created them, should rule and reign over them; notwithstanding his great goodness and his mercy towards them, they do set at naught his counsels, and they will not that he should be their guide. 7 O how great is the nothingness of the children of men; yea, even they are less than the dust of the earth. Helaman 14 17 But behold, the resurrection of Christ redeemeth mankind, yea, even all mankind, and bringeth them back into the presence of the Lord. 18 Yea, and it bringeth to pass the condition of repentance, that whosoever repenteth the same is not hewn down and cast into the fire; but whosoever repenteth not is hewn down and cast into the fire; and there cometh upon them again a spiritual death, yea, a second death, for they are cut off again as to things pertaining to righteousness. 19 Therefore repent ye, repent ye, lest by knowing these things and not doing them ye shall suffer yourselves to come under condemnation, and ye are brought down unto this second death.

• published: 19 Dec 2013
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