Complaint against Art Bulla by Ogden Kraut
Complaint against Art Bulla by Ogden Kraut
My Answer:
17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue [that] shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. (Isa 54:17)
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COMPLAINT AGAINST ART BULLA BY OGDEN KRAUT
This contains the answer that I was inspired as I wrote to the unkind gentleman. For if I was deluded as he claims, then he must want and believe that I could be corrected. I never received an answer from him to my reply, evidently showing that he had been confounded thereby. He obviously demonstrates by the tone of his letter to me, the attitude so prevalent among this stiff-necked and unbelieving generation, that of turning aside the just for a thing of naught and subsequently by his actions, saying it is of no worth! Where does he have grounds to make claim of this by being so corrupt and rash in his judgment of the things of God? I, Art Bulla challenge him and anyone else to a public debate upon the items of doctrine which he has so ineloquently slurred over in his letter to me. My anger knows no bounds when it comes to such a self-righteous hypocritical attitude as that displayed within his letter. Especially considering what he has suffered from similar behaviour by hypo- critical general authorities in their actions toward him. Can he not see the beam in his own eye? I warned him that I would expose his imposture to the world, for his arguments are not based even upon sound reason, much less revelation from God upon such matters. Does it not say, "Search ye diligently in the light of Christ, that ye
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may know good from evil, and if ye lay hold upon every good thing and condemn it not, ye certainly shall be a child of Christ? Ogden, by his letter maketh himself blatantly a child of hell, saith the Lord, for He will not be mocked, and if his anointed is rejected by this generation upon such grounds as those presented in this letter, they deserve what they receive even the second death, and I for one rejoice and exult in it. Even so. Amen.
Mr. Ogden Kraut, Aug. 24, 1981
Dear Ogden,
I understand the letter that you wrote expressing your concern. However, I feel that there are certain doctrinal errors which you have somehow overlooked. I feel that an exchange upon these things might be helpful to you as well as my self. To point out these things, the appeal I shall make will be to recognized authorities who have spoke concerning the points you have raised, since it seems that you do not recognize direct revelation, except to them, upon these matters. Hence the need, apparently, to appeal to the dead prophets even though Joseph and Brigham plainly taught concerning the greater efficacy and importance of living oracles to the generation in which one lives. I testify that the revelations which I have received are true and authoritative upon Israel. I confess a certain amount of anger concerning the darkness which pervades the minds and hearts of many of this generation and how they had rather cling to inconsis- tencies and falsehoods and thus perish, rather than repent. Again, I speak, not as a manpleaser, but as befitting that which I have received and know to be true, demonstrably and without question. I am sorry if these things wound your feelings, Ogden, but you have placed yourself directly in the line of fire. The revelation I received for you is authoritative and binding upon you according to the covenants which you made before the world was made.
First, you state:
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"...the Lord has warned us against anyone who would come among us trying to exercise any manner of control, dominion and compul- sion upon any of his people." Letter, August 15, 1981.
This is a blatant to me, but perhaps to others, with shattered understandings, subtle attempt to alter the intent and meaning of scripture. I am not as ignorant and unlettered as you suppose. The key word or phrase here is
Unrighteous dominion, not "any" domin- ion, as you have written. Righteous dominion, control, etc. is what the Kingdom of Heaven is all about. If you will not submit to righteous dominion, you will not enter the presence of my Father and his Sons. Satan contested this very thing, the right of the Father and the legal administrators thereof to have dominion before the world was made. And as Jesus "thought it not robbery to be equal with God" why should I, for according to His statement made in that day:"And if I said unto those unto whom the word of God came, ye are gods, why say ye that I blaspheme...."
Also, did not Joseph say:
"And those Gods, sons of God that God reveals as Gods, sons of God who exalt themselves to be Gods from before the foundation of the world, are the only Gods I have a reverence for." TPJS.
It seems to me that I have detected a hypocrite also. Since when is it compulsion to be called to repentance with the stipulation that whosoever repenteth not shall be thrust into that "lake of fire"? Did not Jesus say as much, and Joseph, did he not also say of Him:
"...if he spoke as rough things to this generation as he did the Jews, that this generation would also rise up and crucify him." TPJS.
As you have done if you are not very careful. Is not the second death a lake of fire? A lake of fire would be preferable to this punishment. I testify that you are near that point, and all because of the statement: "And light has come into the world, and they choose darkness, rather than light, because their deeds are evil." I’m sure that you are horrified that anyone especially Jesus might say your deeds are evil. And yet there has to be some reason that you cannot recognize truth when it smites you in the middle of your forehead as
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with a battle-axe. Are you not more endeared to the carnal security and the things of the world, than being obedient to the righteous decrees of the Father and his sons? Did he not say that many would come unto him saying did we not prophesy in thy name and write books in thy name, etc. and he will say depart from , ye accursed ye never knew me? I have news for this generation, there has been another appointed responsibility of judging this generation, and you will not be able to get past me without my permission, Ogden, my friend, in time, or eternity. I have your number, so to speak and you have offended me as almost all of this wicked generation have done almost to death for your perversity and unbelief and hardness of heart and blindness of mind.
As for your second assertion, which is nothing more than ad homenum argument, which is typical of that use against Jo Smith, in the which that generation said, IMPOSTOR, MONEY DIGGER, FALSE PROPHET, IMPOSTOR, WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING, IMPOSTOR, BEWARE CONCERNING YOUR IMMORTAL SOULS, IMPOSTOR, that this was all the argument they as well as yourself, you impostor, could also raise. I defy all the world with hell at its back to refute the revelations which I have received in name of Jesus Christ, by honestly and humbly going to the source and not being "great big elders" and obtaining revelation for themselves. The reason they will not, is because their deeds are evil and they would rather do anything, even die and perish rather than give up their carnal security. It is the heritage of the servants of the Lord to condemn any voice that rises in judgment against them.
As for the ad homenum argument of "funny farm" analogies, the anti-Christ Korihor used similar arguments in comparing the Proph- ets of God with the basest of men, just as Joseph Smith said the world always did when rejecting true prophets:
"But behold it is the effect of a frenzied mind."
This Korihor was a type of devil that the Adversary has made such dynamic use of in every psychiatrist and professor of Evolution in your world which has turned away the majority of intelligent man- kind from a belief in Christ, and anything which does this, no matter what the system, no matter how plausible, whether it be Skinner, Freud, or Jung or any of the other anti-Christs, is of that evil one. I am surprised that you would descend to that level of reasoning,
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Ogden. It shows a certain schizophrenia in your own attitude. You cannot refute the revelations nor my authority to receive them, hence your need to resort to half- truths, and character assassination. "And light has come into the world, and they choose darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil." What would you have done unto the Saviour, if he made the horrible travesty of labeling you as an infidel? Would not this be righteous judgment in the light of your written statements? Would you not have risen up and crucified him? And all this because you know not the character of God nor his Sons. "And I came unto mine own, and mine own knew me not." You cannot know of these things by reading and copying and culling the statements of the dead prophets into books. You must receive direct revelation on the matter, and if you receive not him whom he has sent, you cannot receive him, nor his Father. There is an order to these things, which you seem unable in your heady pursuit of independence to appreciate or understand. The flesh you people seem to rely upon is between the ears. And this because the natural man is an enemy to God. You are blind, stumbling around in the dark, not knowing where you are going, nor where you have been, tossed to and fro, carried about by every wind of doctrine, with no anchor to your souls, unto whom are reserved the mists of darkness forever, unless you repent. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned, saith the Lord. Joseph said that the world should thank the Lord with all of their hearts and souls that he condescends to give unto the world prophets and Apostles to reveal the path marked out for that particular generation in which one lives.
The dead prophets are fine in their sphere, and ye garnish the sepulchers of the dead prophets and cull their statements into books, and say if we had lived in the days of Brigham, and Joseph and Heber and John, we would not have been partakers with that generation in the blood of the prophets, and yet when the same "pressures" are brought to bear upon them, the majority of them succumb even as them in previous generations. These pressures are the ones which created a prejudice in the minds and feeling of the people against the prophet sent, which spirit stirs the person or persons up to anger against that which is good, and creates a delusional provocation in the mind to the point of inciting to persecution and even murder. This murderous spirit and lying spirit is one that is of that murderer and liar from the beginning. These spirits are real and they form an extortionary mob, as it were, which if you Ogden, allow to compro-
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mise your better judgment, lead to destruction and misery. Hence, Jesus said the weightier matter of the law is judgment, mercy and faith, which the majority of so-called religious people neglect, to their own destruction. But they rush headily in their independence to destruction. For what did the declaration of independence from dominion do for the devils who followed Lucifer. Where are they now? They have their freedom to be sure. What will be their fate? As far as "demanding respect and reverence", I only "demand" that which is my due according to righteousness and truth, nothing more nothing less. As Jesus said when the Jews accused him of being a Samaritan and having a devil, as you accuse me, whether openly or covertly, "I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me." And in the same context, I can say that Joseph and Brigham saw my day and were glad, at which the Jews took up stones as would you, my friend, if put in fairly and exactly in the same circumstances. For to you it is blasphemous in the extreme for one to come claiming even Revelation, much less to be the Son of God, not the Only Begotten, but One also sent to fulfill the purposes of the Father. I know the spirit of the devil when I see it and your have it in this regard, even as Sedgwick had when he passed judgment in this same regard upon me and my Father in Heaven, who has sent me.
As far as your claim that I "lack the power of God" as you put it, you know not what you say. Whenever I have laid my hands upon an individual, they have been healed, some immediately, others, that same day, and if you had heard the voice speak that shook the ground, you would not ignorantly speak of things you know not of. And yet the beholding of miracles performed would not convince you of the truth, for you would immediately question whether it was of the devil, or that perhaps the individual, you say, would have been healed anyway in the natural course of events, for sufficient doubt would be placed still in your mind by the adversary to perhaps doubt your own mind and memory of events. Or you would say, what has that to do with me? My own will and desires are of much greater significance and importance to me than any questionable display of power, and besides it only made the Jews afraid of Jesus. Hence the Israelites when left unto themselves while Moses was on the Mount were open to doubt: "As for this man Moses, we know not what has become of him." The soldiers at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas who heard the voice speak, were they converted by it? I say unto thee, O man, nay! They trembled at the power, to be sure, but no "mighty change was wrought in their hearts" by the scene. They only fled! Also Pharaoh, though
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confronted each time with miracles, when left unto himself, was led to question and doubt his former resolution to let the Israelites go. Hence he was not converted, for also no mighty change was wrought in his heart, which is the greatest and most wonderful and satisfying of all the miracles of God, for great and precious are the souls of men and women in his sight! Did not Jesus of Nazareth say, if any man know of my doctrine, whether it be of me or of my Father, let him live the doctrine? And he also said at one time, Except ye see a sign, ye will not believe. Therefor miracles do not preceed belief, but follow them that believe and are a product or result of first believing. Hence it is a wicked and adulterous generation that seeketh for a sign, because they require these things so that they do not have to walk by faith or the Spirit of the living God and so they are ruled by fear, and a dastardly fear, at that, of power. It would be easy for God to convert the world upon principles which you and all of you mythologists espouse. It is this outward obedience only which is the mark of the kingdoms of the world, for they gain adherents by coercion which is physical, not the love of truth. I promise that there will be signs aplenty to those who humble themselves and submit to the righteous government of God the Father whom I represent, for they shall never taste of death, and they shall overcome and inherit all things, thrones, dominions shall be theirs and God shall fight all nations that oppose his people with mighty power, such as has not been beheld since Enoch, but first they must believe and become united, each man according to the proper order, and that by revelation to him who is appointed to be the head, and again I care not who leads, whether it be Ann Lee, but I have the keys and the means of finding out the mind and will of God on the subject, and I tell you I have obtained it many times in the past and will continue to obtain it, for I know how to approach Him who reigns whether the people know it or not, and this by obtaining His confidence by being proved and tried as by fire in years past, which you who rashly judge, know nothing about, but I tell you there are those who know.
I would like to quote Orson Pratt on the stakes which you have rashly set up around the almighty, namely the requirement of miracles that the people might know that his anointed has come with power:
"There is a great deal of danger when the people see a great deal of power existing in their midst. For the want of experience and information, for the want of more knowledge, there is a liability to
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sin against all of this power that may be made manifest in their midst and this would bring sudden destruction. This is no doubt the reason why God did, in so short a time, send forth such swift judgments upon the heads of Israel. They had seen the manifestations of his power while they were in Egypt, they passed through the Red Sea, and then beheld the glory of God upon Mount Sinai. If they would suffer themselves to reject this power thus made manifest, it brought speedy destruction upon them."
And how swift are ye, saith the Lord, to reject my revelations, even at this time? Therefor how much greater is your condemnation than it is unto whom I have not spoken, therefor beware how, O man, and O woman, how thou holdest the oracles of God, for there, even there is a second death, which shall come upon all in this generation, saith the Lord, who reject my words as they come unto thee in this manner, for I am He who is able by the might of my power to destroy both body and soul in that hell spoken of, for I will not be mocked by this generation. (This I received even as I wrote this letter I testify in the name of the Most High.)
How can ye, O ye stiff-necked and unbelieving generation, ever
be prepared to receive the presence of the Father and the Son, if ye cannot receive of his written word unto you, how then can ye receive of his presence, for ye must be consumed by his presence, and if his written word maketh thou O wicked man and O wicked woman squirm and wriggle in your discomfort, ye would be consumed by his glory unless you are sanctified, for my God, the God of Art Bulla, not the god of Ogden Kraut is a consuming fire, for I have beheld and stood in his presence. Therefor be thankful that his power is withheld for thy salvation, O Israel, until thy subtle paths which are devious and full of iniquity be straightened by the One Mighty and Strong to your hurt if ye obey not the Lord who hath spoken unto me with his own voice, for ye shall be consumed, saith the Lord, that your remembrance shall be blotted out from both heaven and earth and it shall be as if ye never existed, for his anger is terrible in that day. For ye shall see signs, but not to your salvation, saith the Lord, for one of mine angels is mighty, and behold they fear no army, and ye in your stupidity are despicable unto them, saith the Lord, and in the day that they are unleashed by me, nothing shall stop them for the destruction which they shall bring upon thee, O stupid rednecked man and woman, in thy ignorance, that the earth be cleansed from your pollutions and wickedness in that day, saith the Lord God of
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Israel, who is full of might and intelligence and power beyond mere comprehension of man.
For it is when ye see eye to eye with me, O Israel, then it is that I the Lord your God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob shall bring again Zion and not before when ye are perfectly united with the heavens in that Law of the Celestial Glory, then it is that my might shall be poured out such as has not been seen upon the earth, yea nor shall it be until the end, for I the Lord God of Art Bulla, for he it is that One mighty and strong, shall speak with a clap of thunder and shall the mountains, shall they not move in that day, saith the Lord God of Enoch? For all power is his, saith the Lord, according to the Oath and Covenant of the Melchizedec Priesthood to wield against the wicked which shall gather against thee as anciently, O Israel, and then we shall see who hath power, saith the Lord, for am I not terrible as the Lion and a God of battles in this day? For they shall gather, yea, but not by me, saith the Lord.
And now, to resume with Orson Pratt:
"The world say that in those days it was necessary for God to manifest his power in healing the sick and in various other ways, in order to convince the inhabitants of the earth concerning the plan of salvation that was offered to them. Why not convince the inhabitants of the earth in our day? Is there not as much necessity now as there was then? Is not a soul just as precious in the sight of God now as then? If it was needful for unbelief to be done away by miracles then, why not now? Or were miracles given to do away unbelief? This is a question worthy of investigation. We find that miracles were wrought in ancient times according to the faith and belief of the children of men. We might suppose to hear some of the learned divines of our day converse, that the greater the unbelief, the greater must be the miracles in order to do away with it. But let us see how the Lord did operate and perform miracles in ancient times. (I presume, Ogden, that you consider yourself a "divine".)
"We read that he went to his own native country, where he was born, among his neighbors and acquaintances on a certain occasion, and that he could not do many miracles there because of their unbelief. What a great pity it was that Jesus had not some of the learned divines of the present day to instruct him! (I, Art Bulla, have Ogden to instruct me, though!) They would no doubt have told
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Jesus that because of the greatness of the unbelief in his own neighborhood and among his acquaintances, he must perform some greater miracles among them than he did anywhere else (ah, Orson, what light, what reasoning power thou hast, how I love thee, my brother!) That would have been consistent with the present ideas of theologians. But in those days, Jesus (and now, I) operate among the people according to their faith, and the greater the unbelief theless the miracles."[1]
Would not Jesus himself have been bound, even as I, by your unbelief and lack of unity and your backbiting and your esteeming of sacred things as a thing of naught, O Israel? I have received the ministration of angels and have laid my hands upon the sick and they have been healed in every instance. Do you not say when I proclaim these things that I am speaking for my own glory? And thus it is that I have not proclaimed until now these things to the world. For ye do me no honor, for I seek the honor of that Being who has sent me. Does not this statement and others provoke you to secret wrath, that ye surreptitiously raise the cry, IMPOSTOR, FALSE PROPHET, IMPOSTOR, PRIESTCRAFTER, LIAR, AWAY WITH HIM!, even as them of old and in all generations of the world, for men and women, in their wickedness and unbelief never change, as God does not in His righteousness. I have seen you, ye wicked Mormons, Polyga- mists, Hypocrites, and ye shall not escape my wrath in the day ye are brought before ME to stand and give an accounting of your stupidity and blindness and craft and ignorance as to things of the truth as in all ages of the world are ye not the same, O Hypocrite, saith the Lord God of Israel? For are we not one? As Joseph said of the Saviour, whom ye revere as the Jews did Moses, "How EASY it was for Jesus to point out the wickedness in the hearts of those around him." And were they the Jews not looking for a Messiah, even as y e are looking for a Mighty and Strong one, O Israel? Are these things not consistent with Alma: "Yea there are many who do say, if thou wilt show unto us a sign from heaven, then we shall know of a surety; then we shall believe. Now I ask, is this faith? Behold I say unto you, nay; for if a man knoweth a thing he hath no cause to believe, for he knoweth it. And now how much more cursed is he that knoweth the will of God and doeth it not, than he that only believeth, or only hath cause to believe and falleth into transgression?" Alma 32: 17-18.
Again, Ogden, you say, "Elijah also put this test and evidence to the people by saying, ’And call ye on the name of your gods, and
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I will call on the name of the Lord; and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God..." Of course, 450 men who claimed to be prophets, but had no power with God, lost the contest." I don’t want you to lose the contest, for I could certainly call upon the name of the Lord, and presently you would be destroyed, but I have been sent to save souls, not destroy them. Space has been given for a time, for this generation to repent, but don’t press your luck. And again here you require a sign from heaven such as fire, that you may know that a prophet (have him cut off an arm or some other member of the body and restore it again that the people may know he has come with power) has come with power, which Joseph said was a sign of an adulterer. For those who come out in open rebellion, the fire would come would be to their own consumption. Instead Elijah, my brother from before the foundation of the world, had them put to the sword, requiting the law of blood atonement. Jesus said it this way, "Bring mine enemies before me, that would not that I should rule over them, and slay them before me." Luke 19: 27. Justice demands it. And yet this wicked generation who have departed from the ways of the Lord, in marriage, theocracy, as well as everything else are ripening for this destruction, not at my hand, but at the hand of Him who hath sent me. Again Jesus said, "Fear not him who when he hath killed the body, that is all that he can do, but fear him who when he hath killed is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." Again I call this generation to repent, lest ye reap that which others before you have done, in the name of my Father whom ye know not.
As for miracles surrounding the birth of John the Baptist, there are miracles which have surrounded my birth also, which have been kept hidden from the eyes and ears of men, because of their unbelief, and they shall remain that way, until ye pray and ask with real intent unto the Father concerning my mission, for a witness from him concerning it. And again I care not if I die bearing this testimony unto a wicked and perverse generation ripening for destruction, for has not my soul been grieved almost to death for thy wickedness and perversity, O Israel, Israel, how oft will I, Art Bulla, gather thee, but ye must strip yourselves of all uncleanness for my God is he not a consuming fire? I say unto thee, O Israel, he is mighty beyond comprehension, in the might of His fury, and wrath which shall be poured out upon thee from generation to generation, if ye reject these sayings of mine, but on the other hand his arm which He will extend unto thee, is beyond belief in its munificence unto thee, my people if ye accept my testimony of Him unto thee, O Israel, despite the railings
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of the envious, who afflict the innocent with shafts of envy as anciently.
Again, as for the assertion that you make that Joseph did not come "merely to make a bold statement of being a prophet of God, and all who disbelieved would go into a lake of fire and brimstone." You say, my dear Ogden, "God gave them evidence-- there were miracles surrounding the Book of Mormon." Again this reasoning is along the same lines, that of requiring a sign that ye may believe. Jesus did not say a sign would be given every time a true prophet was sent, but on the contrary, the opposite seems to have occurred. Prophets, such as Abinidai, were sent without anything to recom- mend them except the Holy Ghost, which is the only way of convinc- ing anyone of the truth, as per my own experience, when the voice spoke above our heads the two Sergeants of the U. S. Army were not converted as was not Pharaoh, but were merely afraid. Samuel the Lamanite was sent without any accompanying sign except that they could not hit him with their arrows, which they, the Nephites could have attributed to being lousy shots, which is what I’m sure they did after he had left. Jonah was sent with nothing except his testimony. Lehi, Jeremiah, and Isaiah were often sent this way. It seems that it is more plea sing to the Lord that true prophets be sent without great and spectacular displays of power, except in fulfillment of their prophecies, and the Holy Ghost always bearing record with great power to the spirits of them that heard of the truthfulness of their words. Be thankful that the spirit is still striving with you in raising up Prophets in this manner, not as the mythologist of Utah imagine, but in reality, for if the Spirit ceases to strive with you through Prophets, ye shall surely die, yea even a second time, for it is that ye shall deny the Holy Ghost which giveth me utterance even now, which sin is unpardonable and ye become hardened as the Nephites in their iniquity, that my God destroyed them, as he will thee, O ye Gentiles, surely He will if ye do not repent and come unto me out of Babylon and her institutions . And Jesus did not say by their signs ye would know them, but by their fruits ye shall know them. The "fruits" being their prophecies and gifts of the spirit which Joseph said would more often than not go unnoticed by the majority of mankind, in their wicked hardened and untrustworthy state, full of iniquity, saith the Lord God, because the things of God are foolish- ness unto the natural man, and the things of God, are they not known only by the Spirit of God, and did not the entire sophisticated Roman hegemony disregard not only Jesus the Christ, and also the entire
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Jewish nation, and ye that One Mighty and Strong, O ye ignorant, foolish Gentiles, how ye shall suffer in hell, if ye reject these words, O ye foolish nation, full of iniquity, and slow to hear Him who speaketh unto thee as anciently, through mine anointed servant, saith the Lord God of Daniel! Yea, O ye haughty gentiles, disregard these things and ye shall die, saith the Lord God of violence and hatre
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