DIVINE COMMUNICATIONS,

1837.

Wakefield, 23rd of 7th month, 1837. "TWENTY-SIX inquiries of John Huskin of Sidmouth, with answers annexed.

Question 1.-Who was Jehovah speaking to when he said, "Let us make man in our own image"? Gen. i. 26.

Answer. To the two Spirits called the Godhead, which the two vines are placed figurative of. Question 2.-Who was the man?

Answer. The body of Adam; so that man is first to die and receive an incorruptible body to become as the angels. (Matt. xxii. 30.) But to appear in the image of mine own eternity, with a natural body to be made immortal, is to receive that which I promised by Jesus when he said, "Whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die." John xi. 26. And Jesus said, " And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever: even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not; neither knoweth him, but ye know him, for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." John xiv. 16, 17. Then the man and the woman will appear in my image, and after my likeness; and those who have repented, although their bodies are dead, will be in the image of the angels, and after their likeness. To fulfil his other words, "He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." John xi. 25. And this will appear at the first resurrection. So they who are alive, bearing the image of mine own eternity, will not prevent them that are dead and sleep in the dust

from awaking in the image of my angels in heaven, after their likeness: "But are as the angels of God in heaven;" (Matt. xxii. 30; 1 Thess. iv. 15;) their bodies being celestial, which signifies spiritual. But those whose bodies should not die, but be changed by the door of their tabernacles being opened, and the promised branch of the spiritual Shiloh proceeding from Jesus Christ, the root entering in with their spirits, makes their natural bodies immortal by their mortal life, which is the blood being swallowed up in immortality, these are terrestial. "This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in." Ps. xxiv. 6, 7.

Question 3.-Was Michael, the great prince, the Spirit of Jesus, before Jesus took a mortal body?

Answer. He was the Spirit of the body called Jesus, who shall fulfil that part of the Scriptures contained in Daniel, "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book." Dan. xii. 1. And shall fulfil his word, "Those that thou gavest me have I kept, and none of them is lost. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." John xvii. 12, 15, 16.

Question 4.-Is that spirit which overcame the angels, to be destroyed, or is it eternal?

Answer. It is eternal.

Question 5.-What is the serpent that went to the woman Eve?

Answer. Satan, the devil, who attracted her in the unclean state, as the magnet attracts the iron. "For the creature was made subject to vanity, not

willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope." Rom. viii. 20. "And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man. sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him." John ix. 1-3.

Question 6.-Who is the angel that has the key of the bottomless pit? (Rev. xx. 1—3.)

Answer.-Jesus Christ; who comes down as an angel to the unbelieving world, to chain Satan for a thousand years from the aliens, who shall be preserved out of the world. "And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth." Matt. xxviii. 18. "I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death." Rev. i. 18; (ix. 1; xx. 3.)

Question 7.-What is the bottomless pit? (Rev. ix. 11.)

Answer. It is the bowels of the earth.

Question 8.-Who are the dragon, serpent, devil, and Satan?

Answer. It is the devil bearing all these names, but yet the same. "And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years." Rev. xx. 2.

Question 9.-What is the lake of fire and brimstone? (Rev. xix. 20.)

Answer. It is the separation of the spirit from the body and soul, their souls being held in misery with the body, which is cast into the lake according to the deeds done in this mortal life; brimstone and fire being as a figure, the conscience of their souls being as in fire till they have suffered according to the deeds done in the flesh, or the time that Jesus' words be fulfilled, he being the creditor: "There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.

And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both." Luke vii. 41, 42. That he who had repented before he died, should be the less debtor, and have his sins forgiven at his death, and sleep in peace until the first resurrection; when his spirit should return to his soul, and raise it incorruptible as the angels. But he that repented not before he died, should be the greater debtor, and should remain in the state above mentioned until the final resurrection, which is after the thousand years, and then be made incorruptible; to fulfil the Scriptures; "And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them and they were judged every man according to their works." Rev. xx. 13. sendest forth thy Spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth."* Ps. civ. 30. And every man returneth to his former estate, which is that of Adam, a little lower than the angels. (Ps. viii. 5; Ezek. xvi. 55.) To fulfil the Scriptures; "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you." John xiv. 2.

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Question 10.-Who is the beast and false prophet that are to be cast into that lake? (Rev. xix. 20.)

Answer.-Man's body, which is the beast, he having an evil heart, and that false spirit which proceeds from Satan is that false prophet, he being stronger than the spirit of man, shewing himself that he is God, fulfilling the passage, "Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God." 2 Thess. ii. 4.

Question 11.--Who were the devils that entered into the swine? (Matt. viii. 28-33.)

Answer. The spirits of fallen angels, which attracted the swine, and they became mad and ran into the sea, after being cast out from attracting the

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*Corrupt earth, making it incorruptible.

Question 12.-What is it that killeth a man after the bite of a mad dog?

Answer. It is the permission that is given unto Satan to affect and attract the blood, so that the man that is bitten by it is mad during the remainder of his mortal life, unless he use the remedy which he is commanded, as Moses commanded the Israelites to look upon the likeness of the serpent, (Numb. xxi. 9,) so there are medicines against every evil, the benefit of which are for all who seek them.

Question 13.-How are we to understand the words in Amos, "Shall there be evil in a city, and the Lord hath not done it?" Amos iii. 6. The Lord hath created the good and the evil.

Answer.—There are six days for man to work, and he is to rest on the seventh; each day being typical of a thousand years, the six days being divided into three; are typical of the three dispensations, which fulfils the Scriptures, as Jesus uttered a parable, "I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected." Luke xiii. 32. "I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit." John xv. 5. See, I have set before thee this day, life and good, and death and evil;" Deut. xxx. 15; that is to say, good or evil, and commanded the man that he should not touch the evil, so he that chooseth the good worketh with me, and he that chooseth the evil worketh against me, which is of Satan, and which is permitted for a time, times, and a half-time.

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Question 14.-How was Abraham a Gentile?

Answer. Because he was hid among them and was called after their names, he dwelling among them, the same as the ten tribes are called Gentiles now, they dwelling among them. When they are taken from among them, they will be no more called Gentiles, but Israelites. Israel in all ages took the Gentile women for wives, which caused them to be scattered among the Gentiles, and be as thorns to their flesh. So the eldest son of the families of the