To the Church of the Apostles,

May the mercy and grace of God be complete in you and also your congregation that we may rejoice in the works that the Lord has done.

Greetings! Blessings and grace be with you in the name of God the Almighty and Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior. , daughter of the sovereign Lord and , my sister, are writing this letter to Apostolic Church, alongside all the children of God in our region: The highest blessings to you all from God our Father in Heaven, Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, and the congregation of the Holy Ghost. Peace and love to each and everyone of you!

Let us rejoice in the light of Our Father in Heaven and sing praises for His glorious nature and power. Glory to God for His compassion and comfort and His glorious grace and mercy. For it is He who pulled us out from the darkness of ignorance that we have been brought into the light of true knowledge. For we did not ask for these things, though He has freely provided what our hearts have asked for unbeknownst to us. Knowing now that these fruits of the spirit come not by works, by preaching, by healing, by study, by suffering, or by zeal, but through what is unseen by the eyes of man made seen in the spirit of Christ. For it is in Christ, that God has revealed to us the spirit of His servant, that has made us tremble in fear, and quake eagerly for His coming. So just as you know this reverent fear, so too do we and so we strive to cover sins, just as Christ has covered us. Our hopes are set that the covenant of the Apostles be reconciled by the grace and the mercy of God. We seek a reconciliation in you, that is to say, that the love of God be complete in you and that your Apostolic Church may shine as a testament to the power of Christ, amen.

We say these things to you for the overwhelming joy we have in you. When we first came to you, we did not come bearing to you any falsehood or any behavior done without earnest, and it is my firm hope that remains clear. For just as you have come seeking to serve the Lord your God and you were received in joy and thanksgiving, so too were we received, that our laboring shall not be in vain.

I cannot hide this from you: we who have been sent, have suffered immensely for the sake of the gospel, right here in this very city. These very sufferings we have endured were in the face of death threats, just as promised by the Word of God. However, God has spared us from the despair of death, as it is written:

(1 Corinthians 10:13) “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”

So too has God provided a way that we should endure it. I am convinced this was allowed by God so that the promises of scripture may be shown true:

(2 Corinthians 1 9-10) “But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us; Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf."

However, we ask not for more of your prayers as you have prayed for us before (diligently, I might add). Instead, we ask that you pray for yourselves, those you love, your congregation and those we send to you. For while God has revealed His comfort and gifts to you, He has revealed also His mercy and grace to those you have not asked for that all may be shocked and aghast. For our God has said:

(Deuteronomy 32:21) “...I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.”

and it is written:

(Romans 11:11) “Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious.”

also the Lord spoke through prophet Isaiah:

(Isaiah 53:2-3) “For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.”

Therefore, it is our endearing hope, that God’s mercy and grace shall cover you, that you may rejoice in the power and the works of the Lord, who has come through whom you did not ask for, as your hearts have cried out for Him day and night. I make this point: though we have seen the spirit of the Lord and it is He who gave to us the Holy Ghost before our meeting, we possess the weaker faith. I say these things things not to exalt us but to remind you of the promises of our Lord Jesus Christ who spoke to Thomas:

(John 20:29) “...because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.”

So too are we sent to you bearing the weaker faith, that yours, the stronger faith, be complete in its purpose. This purpose is reconciliation that the scriptures be made complete in you, and the promises of God be fulfilled—so help us all. For it is written:

(Malachi 4:5-6) “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.”

So may the blessings of our God find you—God of mercy and grace. That is to say, that the God who gives mighty rewards to those who seek Him with His compassion and comfort, to also He gives to those who have not sought Him by His mercy and grace, as it is written:

(Isaiah 65:1) “I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.”

So now we know that it is Christ who is the work of the Lord that none have asked for, yet brought to the protesting of those who are rebellious. For as echoed in the walls of your church, “Yes and Amen,”, so too as Mary said to the Angel, “Let these things happen to me.” so too we say, “Let these things happen to us.” I said “Yes” to the Lord, before I came to you the first time, and now that I have come before you again, I will say the same that I said when the Lord first came to us, “Let these things happen to me.” For the Lord has sent me as a mother that labors for her unborn children, that I should labor for the grace and mercy of God be revealed in you. And I endure these things, this hardship with the expectation of the joy of the Lord and the ceasing of the pains of childbirth. For just as Christ Jesus said,

(John 16:21) “A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world.”

So the scriptures are indeed true; for we await the day when the mercy and grace of Christ is born. Though we labor hard, and this anguish of ours certainly did not miss you at our last meeting, we seek that the love of God be complete in us all. Before it is said that these things shall fall upon one generation or another, let me be clear that it is our hope that the Word of God be reified completely in all generations, past and present. Just as with Mary, who gave birth to Jesus, while Elizabeth gave birth to John the Baptist that one may reveal the glory of the other, so too shall it be with the children of God and the church. I shall repeat what our Lord has said:

(Malachi 4:6) “And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers.”

Just as Mary labored to bring the savior into the world, as do we labor to bring about your exodus out of the world, that you may be brought into the spiritual Kingdom of God that was promised to you and that those you have baptized in the name of Christ shall be brought into the spiritual Kingdom of God that was promised to them. I ask that you permit my audaciousness here; seek out the truth in what I am saying in this statement: “Traditionally, Mary was but child herself when the angel told her she was pregnant.”

Though that was tradition, here I will appeal to you with scripture:

(Matthew 18:10) “Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.”

and also:

(1 Timothy 4:12) “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity”

So, if my audaciousness be aghast to you, may it be as the difference between the youth and the elder. For Abraham was called father, but Isaac was called laughter. So in this, I hope my boldness can bring about a holy laugh in you, for some hail from the tribe of Isaac as a child of the free woman, and some are like Abraham and called father of the nations. While we freely say that salvation has come to us all, Jew and Gentile, wise and foolish, male and female, young and old, rich and poor, this I would like to remind those who would seek to usurp my apostolic authority on the account of my age or because I am a woman, or my lack of qualifications, or any other lack conjured from man’s reasoning, what the Apostle Peter spoke:

(Acts 10:34) “...Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:”

I would like to remind them that God spoke to the prophet Balaam through the voice of a donkey that God put to Balaam to shame. The same God ordained that a donkey carry our savior, and ordained also that a young peasant girl, a virgin, would be the one to birth Him in a dwelling made for animals. Therefore, who are we to protest to God, that someone as small as us, considered only marginally better than donkeys, have been given such a revelation? Am I wrong to say it would be folly to protest? For it is written:

(Romans 9:20-21) “Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”

And also:

(1 Corinthians 1:27) “But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;”

In this, I am fully convinced that much in the way that God has revealed to us the purpose of your faith that the comfort and rest of God freely lifts us, that God will reveal to you the purpose of the gospel that we preach—that the mercy and grace of God are upon you. That we may edify each other, both revealing the glory of God in the light of Christ, yet being delivered by what was not asked for. Christ does not come as a mere destroyer or thief; though He is as gentle as a dove, He is also as shrewd as a serpent. Look here what is written:

(John 10:10) “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

But also:

(Revelation 16:15) “Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.”

So though the coming of Christ is swift, like a thief in the night, I implore you to see that His thievery is for your benefit. For Christ ransacks under the cover of night, so that no hidden thing shall remain hidden to Him—save for Christ Himself for those that do not yet believe, that we can be assure of. Just as Shem and Japheth covered the shame of Noah’s drunkenness and were blessed, so too does Christ rob under the cover of night that the children of God are not laid bare before the alter, thus covering their sins. For it is written:

(Psalm 32:1) “Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.”

and:

(Hebrews 7:25) “Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.”

but:

(Leviticus 20:2)“Any Israelite or any foreigner residing in Israel who sacrifices any of his children to Molek is to be put to death.”

and:

(Galatians 1:8-9) “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.”

but also:

(Exodus 12:7;13) “And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.”

“And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.”

and also:

(Revelation 9:4) “And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.”

to clarify:

(Hebrews 9:22;14) “And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.”

“How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?”