Trey Knowles: Risala 20 – Asia (Listen)

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Peace to you, my brothers and sisters in Asia.

You have heard that it was said to those of old: “You shall not murder,” and whoever murders will be liable to judgment. The soil of the innocent—those who died—cries out to the blood of their families: “All we wanted was a life, a God-given life.” The colonizing devil has taken life from us.

Japan (1945): Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, plus extensive conventional bombing.

Korea (1950–1953): Extensive bombing during the Korean War destroyed most towns.

China (1950–1953): Strikes during the Korean War.

Vietnam (1961–1973): Intense bombing campaigns during the Vietnam War.

Laos (1964–1973): Over two million tonnes of ordnance were dropped, making it the most bombed country per capita.

Cambodia (1969–1970): Extensive bombing during the Vietnam War era.

Indonesia (1958): Strikes occurred.

Middle East/West Asia: Ongoing campaigns in Iraq (1991, 2003–2015), Afghanistan (1998, 2001–2015), Pakistan, Yemen, and Syria.

In Leviticus 24:17, it reads, “Anyone who takes the life of a human being is to be put to death.” But we give mercy to this colonizing devil. It is written in Genesis 9:6, “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in His own image.” And you, Asia, are made in God's image.

I know that my Lord sees everything. So I tell you, Asia: everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. So do not be like the colonizing devil. Put down your guns, put away the likeness of the colonizing devil, and turn away from your sins, so that our God can distinguish you from the colonizing devil. I know in my heart that you are nothing like them.

Remember Mahatma Gandhi, who practiced nonviolent resistance and helped you gain independence from your colonial oppressor. Gandhi rebuked the colonial oppressor, and he fled. So I tell you: defeat your enemy with righteousness, so that your enemy will have no cause to strike against you, because you have distinguished yourself as nothing like the colonial demon. Do not do evil, and do not do evil against your own brothers and sisters, because if you do, the colonizer devil will use it against you as a reason to attack you and come against you. He will accuse you on matters of your civil rights and violations of his doctrine.

Understand that your enemy, the colonizer devil, pretends to be like an angel of light, but you will know him by his character. He is a wolf in sheep's clothing, waiting to steal, kill, and destroy. Brothers and sisters of Asia, remain in your nature and culture, and to those who are still indigenous in Asia, stay as you are and do not follow this enemy. Believers are to avoid conforming to worldly, materialistic, or sinful patterns of the colonizing enemy and instead focus on the glory of God, for everything is freely given to you.

Grace and peace,
Sincerely,
Trey Knowles

Trey Knowles: Risala 19 – Mexico and South America (Listen)

“Poner buena cara al mal tiempo” — to bad weather, a good face.
You have been oppressed, yet our Lord sees everything.

The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy, and they have taken advantage of Spanish and Indigenous people without justice. For I, Trey Knowles, tell you: trouble is coming for those who create unjust laws, and for the officials who continue to enforce oppression—those who block the poor from receiving justice, who steal the rights of the vulnerable, who treat widows as easy targets, and who exploit children who have no one to defend them.

But you, mi gente, do not follow paths of violence, dishonesty, or mischief. Those ways do not belong to you, but to the Diablo—the world colonizer—who came with guns. Do not take up his ways. I want you to know that you are from God also. Abstain from every form of evil. Do not be like the world that lies in the power of the evil one.

Turn away from idols and from statues. Turn your children away from gangs. Protect your daughters from abuse and sexual immorality. I say this: you must no longer walk as those who colonized and abused your brothers and sisters. Their thinking has become futile, and their hearts hardened. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance within them. They have become callous and given themselves over to sensuality, practicing every kind of impurity.

But that is not the way you learned Yeshua—assuming you have heard about Him and were taught in Him, as the truth is in Yeshua. Do not be like those who follow destructive ways. Rebuke such paths, because they bring destruction to homes and to children.

Repent, therefore, to our Lord and turn back, so that your sins may be blotted out. Mi gente, te hablo con amor.

Busquen a Dios mientras Él aún se les ofrece; clamen a Él mientras está cerca. Que los malvados abandonen sus caminos corruptos y que los injustos dejen atrás sus pensamientos perversos.

Que regresen al Señor, pues Él está dispuesto a mostrar compasión. Que vuelvan a nuestro Dios, porque Él perdona libre y plenamente.

El camino del Señor es una fortaleza para el íntegro, pero destrucción para los malhechores.

¡Oh, vosotros que amáis al Señor, odiad el mal! Él preserva la vida de sus santos; los libra de la mano de los impíos.

Veo lo que hacen tus enemigos: aquellos que te llaman inmigrante, pero que ellos mismos son inmigrantes que mantienen cautivos a los inocentes.

En su arrogancia, los malvados persiguen a los pobres; pero que caigan en las mismas trampas que tendieron para otros. Los malvados presumen de sus deseos egoístas, y los codiciosos maldicen a Dios y le dan la espalda. Cegados por el orgullo, nunca buscan a Dios; sus pensamientos son, básicamente: «No existe Dios».

Todo lo que hacen parece prosperar, y tu justicia les parece muy lejana, fuera de su alcance. Se burlan de cualquiera que se les oponga. En su interior se dicen a sí mismos: «Nada podrá conmoverme. Nunca enfrentaré problemas: ni ahora, ni jamás».

Sus pies corren hacia el mal y se apresuran a derramar sangre inocente; sus pensamientos son pensamientos de iniquidad; la desolación y la destrucción están en sus caminos. No conocen el camino de la paz, y no hay justicia en sus sendas; han hecho tortuosos sus caminos; nadie que los transite conoce la paz.

Diles a tus hijos que no se unan a sus ejércitos ni a sus fuerzas del orden; si los pecadores los incitan, que no consientan. Si dicen: «Esta es la tierra de los libres y el hogar de los valientes; acechemos para derramar sangre; embosquemos al inocente sin motivo».

Se confabulan contra la vida del justo y condenan a muerte al inocente. Pero el Señor se ha convertido en nuestra fortaleza, y nuestro Dios, en la roca de nuestro refugio. Él hará recaer sobre ellos su iniquidad y los aniquilará por su maldad; el Señor, nuestro Dios, los aniquilará.

Gracia y paz.
Atentamente,
Trey Knowles

Trey Knowles: Risala 18 – Africa, It's Time

To Africa and all the Islands that be...

A faithful witness does not lie, and victims are not meant to remain silent. I encourage you to bring evil into the light, allowing victims to voice their agony. Fear no more. What can man do to you? What can mere mortals do to you? Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Yet for our Lord's sake, we may face death all day long; we may be regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. At times, we may feel abandoned, even while remaining faithful. But our Lord will never leave us nor forsake us.

Africa, my Lord, has seen the deeds of your colonizers. Our Lord sees everything, and He has seen the oppression placed upon you. The only debt you owe them is to love them. My Lord also sees their witchcraft and sorcery—manipulation and the misuse of medicine and supernatural practices meant to destroy and harm and make you sick, though such things are often disguised as good...

Africa, be wary of their tactics against you.

Do not allow your colonizers to turn you against your brothers and sisters, causing you to destroy one another. Do not allow them to place wicked men to govern you—kings who take the people's best fields, vineyards, servants, and livestock, along with a tenth of their grain, reducing the people to slavery. Those wicked rulers serve their colonizers.

Whoever oppresses the poor insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors Him.

Africa, put your guns down, for these are the weapons of those who do wickedness in the sight of God. They rush to commit evil deeds. They hurry to commit murder.

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to Him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that hurry to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Turn away from every evil practice that comes from the colonizer. Uneducate yourself from their Shakespeare. Turn away from colonizer magical stories and fairytales, and demonic practices come from under their doctrinations.

The works of the Colonizer devil in your life, oh Africa, caused you to gratify the cravings of the colonizer's flesh and follow their desires and thoughts.

Do not do business with the land of the colonizer. Learn from experience that a lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth brings ruin.

The robbery of the wicked will destroy you, Africa, because you refuse to practice justice. I tell you: to do justice and judgment is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. Hear the wisdom of Solomon—getting treasures by a lying tongue is vanity, tossed to and fro by those who seek death. Those who chase wealth through wicked means pursue their own destruction.

It is a joy for the just to do what is right, but destruction awaits the workers of iniquity. Therefore, Africa, do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers. Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and go your own way.

Love one another with devotion and brotherly affection. Set examples in showing respect and in building one another up. Grow and multiply, for the righteous shall inherit the land and dwell in it forever.

Oh, let the wickedness of the wicked Colonizer come to an end, but establish the just. For the righteous God tests the hearts and minds. My defense is in God, who saves the upright in heart.

Behold, the wicked bring forth iniquity; they conceive trouble and give birth to falsehood. They make a pit and dig it out, only to fall into the ditch they themselves have made. Their trouble returns upon their own head, and their violent deeds come down upon their own crown.

Africa, sing praise to the Lord according to His righteousness, and sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High, Yahweh.

Grace and peace,

Sincerely, Trey Knowles