LIFE & JOURNAL - Christian Israelite Church

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Meeting-house, Bradford, November 29 th , 1822.
1819-1822
The first Parable, and seventh made known - There was a
tree in the midst of the earth, and it grew nine hundred and
ninety-nine years. And there sprung from this tree two
branches, and then the tree went back, and so ends the parable.
Explanation - I will now unfold the riddle: I want to know
who is the tree that lived to nine hundred and ninety-nine years,
one year short of the promise, this was Methuselah, and there
were in his loins the one branch, the promise to Esau, whereby
his father blessed him, which was Christ and the other branch,
the promise to Jacob, which his father promised him, which will
break the brotherhood between them both, and bring them into
one staff; and those of both staffs that eat the butter, the milk,
and the honey, shall be partakers of it. So ends the explanation
of the first and seventh parable of the two swords. Taken from
the mouth of John Wroe by William Muff.
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About September, 1822, John Wroe went to the believers in
the visitation of the Spirit of God at Idle, and spoke to them
about his visitation, but they opposed greatly; but a short time
after he was commanded to send a person unto them, to direct
the committee to meet together in a room, and consult, and
agree either to receive his visitation or reject it. John also gave
him a letter, sealed, which said they would agree to receive it,
but this he was not to tell them, but when they were gone into
the room, to call a man into a separate apartment, and give him
the letter, and tell him they would receive it, and the man was to
give it to them when they came out of the room. He sent
Samuel Walker, one of the Committee of the believers at
Bradford, and he executed the commands, and the committee
entered into a room; and when they came out, the man to whom
he delivered the letter presented it to them, which was read, and
they said they had acted accordingly, and seemed highly
satisfied.