Two things happened at this week's sabbath celebration worthy of note.  First of all, a delegation of American Indians from Eskimos to Seminoles approached Lord Peter with a complaint.  "You recognize us," They began, "as separate nations, as not part of The United States.  You support our right of individual sovereignty, yet our people who live in The United States are not permitted entry into The Kingdom Of God because of the war between you and The United States.  We ask that the ban against them be lifted.  That they be allowed to join Their Loved Ones here in The Kingdom Of God.  Though many of our people return to the old ways and do not wish to abide here, Those that do should be allowed to.  Though we belong to denominations that betrayed Jesus, none of us did so."
Peter thought for a moment, and said "Let me council with the Apostles on this.  I need Their opinion."  Peter and The Apostles counciled for several minutes, then Peter returned.  "All you say is true," he announced.  "We DO recognize the individual sovereignty of each Indian nation, and do not count you as subjects of The United States.  And it is also true that all of you that dwell with us were loyal to Jesus.  So, your request is granted!  Your Loved Ones held in The Edict are released, and any of them that die from this day on, will not be held under its conditions." The Indian Peoples quickly hurried off to gather Their Loved Ones.
Barely had Peter taken a step than Pope Cletus and a Catholic delegation approached him.  "Lord Peter!" The Pope began, "We approach you on the matter of your Edict forbidding the use of our titles and, our vestments.  We know when you pronounced this Edict you said the conditions were forever.  But Our Lord And Savior has sometimes made that utterance and after people had proved themselves, softened His heart and gave them pardon.  We ask of you an opportunity to win back the right to use our titles and wear our vestments.  If we can encourage our people to send Petitions for Our Dear John's Apostleship, if we can get a good percentage of them to take part in the campaign, is there not some possibility that you could soften your heart, forgive us , and let us again use those titles dear to us, and wear those vestments that have become the symbols of our offices?"
Again, Peter thought for a moment and said "Let me council with The Apostles."  They again discussed for several minutes, and Peter returned.  "You make good arguments," he announced.  "It is true, The Lord forgives when great effort is shown.  I will say this.  If you are able to raise ten per cent of the Petitions for Our Dear John, I will let you again use your titles.  If you raise twenty per cent of the Petitions, I will again let you wear your vestments."
Pope Cletus thanked Peter for his kindness, and withdrew with the other Catholics to plan on who They would try to reach to help with John Lennon's Petition Campaign.  This should help, considerably to squash the Catholic resistance to John's Apostleship.  I think old Cletus is being quite resourceful here!  The effort should keep the Catholic community in The Afterlife occupied and too busy to have ideas of fielding Their own candidates for the Apostleship.  But again, this raises the stakes on The Petition Drive even more.  We desperately need to get it rolling!
Another interesting note at this week's sabbath.  John Lennon made a rather interesting pronouncement in his weekly address.  We won't repeat the entire address, but just this interesting part.
"Many have asked," John remarked, "whether or not I now consider myself a Christian.  I have given this much thought, and talked to Lord Peter about whether or not one has to declare himself a Christian to be a resident of The Kingdom Of God.  Lord Peter informed me that in my particular case it was not necessary, that I could either declare myself a Christian, OR, call upon my descendancy from my father, Abraham, to be eligible to dwell in The Kingdom Of God.  I do, today, announce that that is the circumstance that I will call upon to be a resident of God's Kingdom.  I am a descendant of Abraham, one of The Chosen People, and by that right do I claim my residency in The Kingdom Of God.  I, in no way, look down upon Those who declare Their residency by calling upon the blood shed for Them by Jesus Christ.  But I prefer, myself, to reside under the circumstances of the older  Covenant, which is my right.  I hope, henceforth, my feelings on this matter are made clear to all."
That is the only part of John's comments this week we believe would be of any note to the general public.
John continues to have us reach out for Australia.  He seems obsessed with the belief that the Australians will respond to the Petition Campaign for his Apostleship more than anyone else.  But each time we email Australia we get more and more requests to have their addresses removed from our mailing list.  Some are polite, and we remove them without question.  Others are obnoxious and earn Lord Peter's rebuke before they are removed.  One letter really made me wonder.  It said "Stop emailing us this crap!  People in Australia don't believe in religious nonsense.  Most of us don't even believe in God.  The stuff you're sending is ridiculous!  It couldn't possibly be, and no one in Australia would take it seriously.  We're rational people here and don't believe in miracles."  I found this a very strange response, and very hard to believe.
We have begun a web page on the Petition site listing those Australian organizations that ask to be removed from our mailing list, and will probably be starting pages for other countries, soon.  Lord Peter wants the world to know who those are that rejects The Word Of God.

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