BRENT'S IV'TH DIARY

10/11-
THURSDAY



I am 29 years old. I am still young. I have to develop my mind more. I still have lots to learn.

Right now my spirit is still growing, though my body, though still very youthful in appearance, is no longer in its prime. I have nothing to boast of.

Yet God, the Infinite and Eternal One, in his unsearchable wisdom, chooses to use me. Lord, I cannot thank you, praise you and bless you enough for this!

Today I fasted, prayed, studied, went to a church which although it is not the true church, must needs suffice for the time being, and discovered fantastic truth and read the Book of Abraham and studied the facsimiles and their explanations (at home) for the first time.



"The Other Bible" has much good and much bad. It is not for the new Believer. I enjoyed, in it, what I read of the excerpted Haggadah (The Original, not really part of the Kabbalah).

10/22-

MONDAY



Blessed Father, how I long for thee! Thank you praise you and bless you for all you have done for me! Live thru me O Christ that I may stay humble and meek. Soften my heart that I may believe all thy words! Lead me by thy Spirit into all truth. Give me wisdom knowledge and strength. Strengthen my discernment. Thank you for my friends and their salvation in recent weeks, for God you used me and I praise you for it! Praise your holy name forever and ever in Jesus' mighty name I pray, Amen.

                                            2013





04/16-
TUESDAY





Excerpts from first log (04/16/2013-05/04/2013)







Tuesday, 4/16/2013……..



10:13p.m. Continued watching TV. EWTN[.]



writings concerning religious



expression in the arts.



Architecture, music, poetry, painting, etc.



Michaelangelo [Michelangelo] made a statue of



Moses.



This man claims that they the Catholics



don’t worship statues. I know that



they kiss them. And they have statues



of every saint (or most many of



them.)



Now he’s claiming that the Catholic



church never tried to keep the Bible



out of the hands of the lay people.



I know that’s a lie.



Mike Muzzerol used to be a Catholic……….



Mike was told by a priest when he



brought a Bible to him to be



blessed, a Bible with the Vatican



seal, he was told, “What are



you doing with this?... /\/\/\/



I’ll tell you what you need to



know.” or something to that



effect. And his is not an



isolated case. Never stopped



watching TV.



Like the Mormons, the Catholic



church spins their history.



The RLDS holds nothing back. We



are honest about the mistakes made



in the past and we are not afraid



of the truth.



……..

06/14-
FRIDAY



Today is the first day of writing in my second computer journal. Really it’s my third but the one I wrote on the netbook I had for a few days doesn’t really count.

I went out with my Dad to lunch and then did a lot of walking today. I also drank a lot of lemonade today. Today was a nice day.



Back from church. Every sin has its origin in our heart.

UNDATED, PUT UNDER JUNE


The worship (a lot different from STUDY) of knowledge, science, or technology is satanism in its purest form.-William Cooper, "Behold A Pale Horse", p. 70.



Worry is perverted imagination. Worry is pride.-Larry Hutton.



The Book of Mormon predicted the condition of men's churches to a tee. False, vain and foolish doctrines, men saying of their churches, I, I am the Lord's....but praise God for Isaiah 29, which says, They who murmured shall learn doctrine.



When all those Protestant groups who are not far from the Kingdom (not the church of Satan or churches built up to get gain or the praise of men) accept the Gospel in its fulness, they shall see eye to eye, as Joseph Smith, Jr. prophesied, "When the Lord brings again Zion."



In 2006, I went to a Reunion in Iowa. From there I traveled to a town in Iowa, driven by a Teacher (priesthood office) in the Church. In that town, I received my first Patriarchal Blessing.



The way to keep from being thrown off balance as we "search for truths now hidden" is to "live by those we hold" (Deam Ferris, The Hymnal, No. 290)



The spirit of inquiry must be kept alive in the church, but investigators should keep in touch with their sure foundation-Unknown source to me, p. 6 (114).



Faith comes by hearing, seeing and feeling. It can't be had for the asking. But it can be built up by teaching and proper feeding. -Ibid, p. 5 (113)



No one can make you feel inferior without your consent-John Hagee.



Our sure foundation is Jesus Christ! The Bible, Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants contain a portion of God's Word.



To give credit where credit is due, Glenn Beck kind of woke me up, but I've always known that something wasn't right, ever since I saw Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. (The only good movie he's ever made) Alex Jones and Bill Cooper also deserve credit.

07/06-

SABBATH



Oh, Lord, new ideas and thoughts and words are racing at me at an incredible rate and I need your Divine help to sort them out! To know what is true and what is false. Please, Father, Lord Jesus, give me discernment. Had I not watched Ancient Secrets of the Bible concerning the Flood and also Kent Hovind’s series on Creation, Evolution and dinosaurs, I would be so deceived right now, thinking that there was a possibility that Elohim did not create every universe in existence, when Your Word says you are the Creator of all things that are created and made. There are intelligent beings on planets, for I know not of the Intelligent life in stars or suns. The Urantia book is false because it supports the Doctrine of Evolution and says things about the life of Jesus Christ which are false and never happened.

I do believe and I think always will believe in the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus. They make perfect sense to me. However, the so-called “revelations” of James Strang and the “Book of the Law of the Lord” were denounced by Ian Cackler, a man whose opinions I value. He, after examining those writings, decried Strang as a false prophet. So Urantia Book No, Kybalion Yes and Strang writings No.



The Protestants, Pentecostals and Catholics have been given many insights but they also have many errors.



Revised 11/16/2013, 07/27/2021

07/24-
WEDNESDAY





For the past two days I have cleaned upstairs. I have started going on the Hope of Zion message boards again. My Uncle Mark is on the message boards. I didn’t know that until after I got back on. The last time I spoke to Mark it was at my Aunt's, on the phone. He tried contacting me on Facebook after that but Dad wanted me to block him. He was informed on Facebook, temporarily unblocked by Dad, of his mother’s death in 2011. Last time I spoke to Mark, in 2011, I mentioned God’s work, the JCRB and the positive results of it. I also mentioned the JCRB on Hope of Zion yesterday. I always try to defend and promote the JCRB because I know that it is good. Mark is very passionate and is not much of a conversationalist, but rather a writer and speaker, and pretty good at both, but he is poor at letting others respond to him and responding back. He always thinks he knows better than his employers and writes letters to try to reform his various workplaces, which often gets him fired. I hope and pray that he doesn’t do that anymore. I hope that he is still working at the same job that he had a couple of years ago. I do hope that he has truly repented but know that this is unlikely.



In order to know he has truly repented I would have to see that he apologizes for the wrongs he has committed and pays his fine with the money he makes at his job. So far I have not heard these things. I could be mistaken but he may have tried to say them to me when he messaged me on Facebook before I blocked him. He said something about repentance. But once when I visited here from Missouri I was with Mark and he pretended to repent only to reveal that he had not. And Joy said to me once that Mark is not above murder. But I have great hopes for Mark that he may change so utterly that he’ll be literally a different person. I have prayed for Mark many times.

(I never did get my house clean. Poor Rene' my mom had to clean my house after my departure to Missouri. Dad wouldn't go in to help.)

8/08-
THURSDAY-



I just came back from RLDS Reunion (Church camp) and it was so wonderful! God poured out His Spirit and blessings upon us and the Lord spoke to us twice by the mouth of two men, Seventy Royl Roden and Elder Jay Havener, truly humble men of God. I felt more at home there than I ever did here in Flint at my house. There was church services every day, classes, 4 baptisms, 4 confirmations, two administrations plus I got administered to also, and we all took communion (with grape juice, which we call wine--it is not fermented). There were lots of activities and I played with many of the kids various games, and played the piano in a talent show. My life has changed for the better because of going to that Reunion. I got there Tuesday afternoon and came home this afternoon. I slept in a tent most nights and slept in a cabin one night because my tent was leaking in the rain and it was wet.

In 2006 I went to a reunion also. I think I also went in 2007. This reunion was in Iowa.



There was a cross-shaped baptismal font, big enough to swim in. Our church doesn't believe in infant baptism but we feel immersion is required and you have to be at least 8-the age where you are responsible for your sins- and capable of repentance before you are baptized. My friend, who was much younger than me, named Heather, and a man got baptized one year. At the 2006 reunion Royl Roden was there too and also a man who was at this years reunion in Michigan named Francis Harper, an Elder. When he God spoke through him a little girl I know remarked that she saw God in that man. Also in 2006 Teacher (a priesthood office) drove me to a town in Iowa where a Patriarch-Evangelist laid his hands on me and gave me my Patriarchal Blessing. This blessing was recorded on a tape recorder and typed neatly and sent to me in the mail. In this blessing God told me that my life began at conception. But he didn't say it like that. He said, "God's Spirit has been with you ever since the day you were born." In a separate statement, it said that "by the choice of all the spirits that would dwell on this earth, my body was chosen to unite with my spirit at the moment I was conceived in the womb to live in this free country American to live out of the bondage of other people", to paraphrase. In last weeks' Great Lakes Reunion which I went, Royl Roden, Francis Harper and the Teacher who drove me to the town in Iowa all stayed in the same cabin and they prayed for me.



There is no gift greater than the gift of salvation. The second greatest gift of God to man, in my opinion, is free agency.

08/21-
WEDNESDAY



The pastor of the local church I attend now knows I’m RLDS. I told him privately. He says he doesn’t think less of me because of it. I cleaned the bathroom today in preparation for the pastor coming over.



, Calvinists! Some of them think that God only loves the world system and not everyone in the world! This is because the Geek word Cosmos is used in John 3:16 for World. That is so twisted! They wrest the Scriptures! They think He loves some more than He loves others. No! God’s love is unconditional! His ‘prevenient’ grace is to all men. God calls all men to repentance! All have the potential to repent.



Brent Lee Sohlden Koivopolo

Love is sacrifice.

08/26

MONDAY



Today I learned more about the Hittite and Egyptian Empires, especially the Hittites. They had hundreds of local and national gods. Their chief god seemed to be the storm god. This was the worship of demon spirits. The Hittites were a vast Near East Empire that was cotemporary with the Assyrians, the Babylonians and Egyptians.



"Islam takes wherever it goes. It gives nothing back --it takes.’’ –John Rosenstern, today on TV program Insights.

09/26 AND OTHER DATES



My dad thinks that I am weak minded because many times he has observed me changing what I believe. I admit that if I see that I was wrong about something, I will change my belief to match reality. I have always been on a search for truth. I believe that I have found it in the Restoration/RLDS/Remnant/JCRB, whatever you call it, it is all the same church. I don’t just believe it. I know it. How do I know it? By the Spirit of God these things carry, and by the Spirit of God I can know the truth of all things.

10/13-
SUNDAY



I had so much fun and fellowship with many of the Michigan Saints at the

Sanilac Restoration Branch today. Seventy Ron and his family picked me up shortly after 8 am this morning. There was a good sermon, musical ministry by the Seventy Ron's family, we sang Restoration hymns and ate pizza, ice cream and had a long and incredibly fun hayride on a Saints' farm and the surrounding area and cider and cookies afterward. The sermon was wonderful, talking of how God used himself to create the things in the universe and how God's Spirit is in and through all things. I had such a wonderful time all day today. Praise God!

10/24-

THURSDAY



A woman at the library told me I can do anything I put my mind to. I am using my cell phone to access Twitter thru texting without having to go on the internet. It really is quite convenient. I had an interview for a grocery store on Tuesday. It went well. I believe I am getting closer to Jesus now than I ever was. I still want to read The True Vine, Absolute Surrender, finish the Endowment (I have read all three in the past) and read the several Protestant books I have on knowing and trusting God more, becoming mature in Christ and practicing the Spiritual disciplines. My uncle (not Mark, but the one who baptized me the first time, uncle Kenny Soper) gave me a lot to think about. I cleaned my house quite a bit the other day. I know I’m running all my sentences together without paragraphs, but I guess that’s just the way I’m choosing to write today.



Love is sacrifice.



(07/27/2021 3:45 pm CDT I did not end up finishing any of these books at this time.-BLSKV)

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APPROXIMATELY 10/28-



MONDAY



Revised 10/28/2013, 11/4/13, 11/5/13, 5/20/2014, 07/27/2021



Tonight (for it is three forty six a.m.) I studied and studied and studied, mainly focusing on Church History and Faith.



Wm. H. Kelley was of the opinion (as are many) that James the Lord’s half-brother was the first president. But as was recorded by Eusebius, James the Lord’s half-brother was the first Bishop of Jerusalem, and Simeon, son of Cleopas, our Savior’s cousin, was his successor. Which is true, but Peter was only the de-facto leader of the Church until 44 AD when James the Lesser became its First President of that Dispensation. I did not believe this in 2013 or '14, but now know it to be true in 2021 AD. [My understanding on this subject was severely insufficient and flawed at this time. James the Just was the first President of the High Priesthood in the Church of the 5th Dispensation, taking office in AD 44, after a period of de-facto leadership by the Apostle Peter.-B.L.S. 06.25.2019 AD @ 6:24 PM] Although Catholic historians will say Linus was Bishop of Rome (and maybe he was) and that he was a pope (which he definitely was not), what was he then? Eusebius records that he was the second to succeed in the episcopate. I take this (and this is mere opinion) to mean that he was the second President of the church and that he had two counselors and there were twelve more Apostles (possibly and likely some of the same ones under Peter’s tenure), a High Council, Dioceses (Districts), Parishes (Branches), Stakes (Sees) and quorums of seventy, High Priests (although I have found no record of the office of



High Priest in the 5th dispensation church, there were, I believe, strongly, that there were high priests in America during this time), Bishops, quorums of priests (presbyters), elders, deacons (with a president of the quorum of deacons possibly called an Archdeacon and the quorum of deacons called a diaconate) teachers, and a presiding Patriarch. (There are still Patriarchs in Eastern, Russian, Greek Orthodox traditions today



I’m pretty sure, but haven’t checked those facts so don’t quote me, I just know the



ancient office still continues somewhere, though not with the authority of the Restoration). Also the presiding Bishop may have been called an Archbishop. A Stake may have been an Archdiocese. Also governments and helps such as Stake and District Presidents (have no idea what it was called back then) and Presiding parish elders (pastors). In short, all the same organization as our church in Joseph III’s time.



If only the church fathers and Paul would have written more on church organization and the importance of the ordinances (for example, if Paul would have written an epistle stating that without the ordinances is not the power of God made manifest), the Protestant world wouldn’t be in such a tizzy decrying such things as the importance of sacraments and organization. I do not really understand why God allowed his prophets to so lightly pass over these subjects. Or maybe they didn’t. Maybe the Protestants are so afraid of writings from the fifth dispensation which explain these things because they automatically assume that it’s all tainted with Roman Catholicism and they should stay ten miles away from it. In other words, ordinances and church organization = Roman Catholic System = stay away. After all, they say, Jesus didn’t say anything about church organization, he was all about love. Nay, but he said, I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Building implies structure. Paul was not silent on the matter either, for he said that the members of the body of Christ were to be fitly joined together. Again, this implies structure. Every office of the priesthood is mentioned in the King James Bible, and most in the New Testament.



Incidentally, my studies tonight have been mostly relegated to modern church history, and I only read a few brief pages about Presidency in the fifth dispensation, and all other previous dispensations, as well as the current one, the sixth.



I mostly studied and marked up my printed copy of chapter 10 of RLDS church history, volume 3.



It is now five ‘o the clock a.m. and 14 minutes, and I am still up, keeping a watch [7/27/2021 AD A watch is NOT staying up all night but it is staying up one watch of the night and then retiring for sleep-BLSKV] and planning to go to the local church later on this morning. I want to get there for Sunday School. Lord willing, Shane will be there too.



[Exactly the 28'th]



Today I was at a bookstore, and I went beyond the Christian section to the Religion for some reason. I looked at a Jewish Torah, then looked a few shelves down and found a book called Visions of Glory, As told to John Pontius. I opened it to the Table of Contents and liked what I saw. Then I looked briefly at the ‘Library’ section, but got curious about the ‘my room’ section which immediately preceded it. I read most of the narrative until I saw a reference to Lehi’s liahona and the Urim and Thummim as examples of tools akin to the one in this man who had the visions’ tool chest. I got excited and said “I must buy this book” rather loudly. I excitedly asked a bookstore staff if I could put a book on layaway and pay for it in installments. She said “no”. Then I asked her if there was any guarantee the book would be here next time I came to the store. She said, ‘no.’ I told her I was going to write down the title of the book and the author, and find it at the library. Then I read the book most of the rest of the time I was at the bookstore.



There was a reference to ‘telestial’, and on the back cover was a reference to the future ‘celestialization of the earth.’ I learned a lot from the book as I read it today, beyond my wildest imaginations. I think the man who had the vision was a Utah Mormon. I also like many of the Utah Sections of the Doctrine and Covenants but most of those were through Joseph Smith, that are not in the RLDS DC. I only believe in one revelation from a Utah Mormon Prophet, Joseph Fielding Smith, LDC 138 [and now I believe in Official Declaration No. 2, which I will designate as LDS DC 139 when I get around to typing it up.-BLSKV 07/27/2021 AD 4:08 PM CDT] Although the Utah Mormons are not a part of our church, God can still reveal things to them.



This is exactly what I need, to check this book out of the library, for a confirmation of my faith because of the mild to warm or hot persecution that is coming, where everyone that formerly admired me will tell me I’m deceived and might even shun me or cast me out from among them. I would like to save up for this book so that I can own it as the Word of the Lord in Testimony. Lord, Heavenly Father, please let the book still be there, or a copy of it, when I have the money for it and return to the bookstore. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen. Or let it be at the Goodwill or Salvation Army for a much, much-reduced price. I pray these things in Your name, even Jesus Christ, Amen.



[This book has a lot of false testimony and false revelation in it, and I still haven't sorted it all out. I got rid of the book for it is mostly false, but it had some true things in it, so I'm glad that I read it.-BLSKV 07/27/2021 AD 4:11 PM CDT]



Montanism was Satan’s way of getting the members and priesthood of the church to mistrust spiritual gifts and manifestations in the fifth dispensation. He tried something similar to try to stop the Reorganization from starting, although it was not this time calculated to make people mistrust spiritual gifts, or at least I don’t think it was, but it was a device to spread



confusion and dismay. False spiritual manifestations sometimes can only be discerned by the ones who can discern that the manifestation(s) is/are false.

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Love is sacrifice.