(excerpt from 'My People' / WildernessVoice)
"My people perish for lack of knowledge.
The knowledge that I speak of is the knowledge of Me,...
My WORD,..... My PRINCIPLES,..... WHO I AM.
Do you understand?
My people perish, for the lack, of the knowledge, of ME," says the Lord!
"And who are the people that I speak of,...
the pagans who call upon other gods,
the goats who openly reject My name?
Wake up, O foolish children!
The people that I speak of are those who call themselves by My name!
They are those who call themselves 'Christians' and 'the Chuch'.
And I say to you that many of 'My people' do not know Me at all.
For just as My people 'Israel and Judah' claimed to know Me in the days of old,
yet sought other gods to fulfill their lusts and desires, so are many of you!
You draw near to Me with your lips, but your hearts are far from Me.
You listen with a look of acknowledgment, but inwardly reject My counsel.
You come before Me in the 'appointed assemblies' week after week,
and you think that because you come, I am bound to listen to you,... but I will not!
I am not in your assemblies where you lift your hands to heaven,
yet live your lives unto yourselves.
Your prayers rise like a stench to Me and I am offended.
I will not hear your songs, and your instruments are a noise to Me!
I tell you that your many prayers are heard by the evil one and answered by his cunning,
yet though I tell you this you will not believe Me," says the Lord.