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Addendum

pon sending out chapter eight of this book to my mailing list, a lively
Uinteraction ensued. It was evident that Yahweh wanted His children to not
pass quickly over what was written, as He provided numerous supporting
witnesses. These affirmations were in the form of parables, dreams and Scriptural
insight, and I have included them here that the reader might be further exhorted.
The subject of chapter 8 is embracing a new diet immediately upon being
called out of Egypt. Even as Yahweh provided a new source of food for the
Israelites to feed upon, as seen in the manna and the unleavened bread of
Passover, we are to cease feeding on the leavened and fleshly offerings of the
world when we are called out by God.
Following are some comments of a Christian brother who grew up in
England, but now resides in Nevada. Those things he received bear witness as
having their origin in the Spirit of Christ. He writes:

Dear brother,

I am being edified by your current book, and the latest chapter especially
resonated, as Yahweh has been showing me these same truths in greater clarity
than ever before recently. I had a few thoughts I wanted to share.
I have never been an avid watcher of TV (growing up my family got rid of
ours and I watched none for a good decade or so). However, since moving to
America with its hyper-TV culture, it is easy to spend time watching, even if it is
a small enough amount to (erroneously) convince myself it is “harmless.” I have
always known deep down that TV is garbage spiritually, but this was reinforced
a few years ago when I had watched a couple of hours, despite knowing full well
I was neglecting the things of Yahweh in doing so. Anyhow, that night I had
sudden and severe sickness, that I believed to be food poisoning, and I was
literally throwing up all through the night. In the midst of the physical misery I
cried out to the Lord “is there a spiritual lesson to this?” I very clearly felt the
Spirit say “In the same manner, this is how TV affects you spiritually.”
Despite that lesson, I have flirted with TV and movies in the years since,
never truly realizing that I needed to completely cut them from my life. However,
I recently received this revelation with such force that I completely stopped
watching them. The spiritual growth and renewed focus that has come from this
has been amazing...

One analogy concerning this situation that came very clearly to me is as
follows: if we are ‘radios’ so to speak, there are only two basic wavelengths we
can be tuned to: the flesh, or the Spirit. Almost everything in this temporal realm,
and especially this corrupt, decadent culture, is powerful to tune us to the
wavelength of the flesh if we allow it. TV, movies and such things will rarely (if
ever) tune us into the Spirit. The times I am the weakest in spirit is when I have
devoted time to the wrong ‘radio channel.’