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Mauricio Berger
This is briefly my story: From the age of nine I was
plagued by dreams and visions of the last days. At the age of
sixteen, I began to relate my visions to my father, who always
associated this with some divine call; but since we lived in a small
town where only one Catholic Church and one Lutheran church existed
at the time, my father tried to put me in a Franciscan Catholic
seminary. Since I started attending this seminar, I realized that I
understood the Bible better than anyone, and gradually I began to
question the doctrines of the Catholic Church. Finally, using the
scriptures, I persuaded a priest named Gilmar Miranda to leave the
church, causing a great stir in the small town where I lived. At
that time, there appeared, pioneers of Jehovah’s witnesses; Soon, my
father told them what was happening to me, and they said that I was
tormented by the devil and that only by baptizing me as a Jehovah’s
Witness would the enemy leave me alone. Then began a long study
process of the book “You may live forever in paradise” and after a
year, my father financed my trip to the city of Santa Maria in order
to baptize me and stay there to be one of them, since in my city
there was still no Kingdom Hall (JW meeting place). About three
years passed, when I was accepted by the Watchtower Society as a
pioneer to Angola, South Africa. But twelve days before I left, I
saw two LDS missionaries for the first time. Being very curious, I
approached them to know what they did and by surprise I got a book
of Mormon. The spirit that took possession of me in reading the
story of Joseph Smith was so strong and disturbing to me that it
induced me to do the same as he. I retired into a pine grove in the
back of the Federal University of Santa Maria, which was close to
where I lived and there, I began to pray, in the certainty that God
would give me the answer to know which of the religions to serve. It
was then, on this occasion that I first saw the angel Raphael (LDS
D&C 128: 21 / RLDS 110:21). He began to give me instructions as
to what I should do, until in the future he would come to me again
for further clarification. So, I gave up being a Jehovah’s Witness,
and in 1998, I became a member of the LDS.
As Jehovah’s Witnesses do not encourage their adherents to secular
studies, I stopped mine in the sixth grade of primary school, and as
soon as I became LDS, I married a girl who was also LDS, but was a
single mother and already had a daughter of two years of age. It was
not just to liberate her of the reproach of being a single mother,
but I got married because I really love her. However, after that,
with little study, I had to undergo various types of work to support
my family, which today is composed of six people: myself, my wife
and four daughters.
In October of 2006, a proposal of work like vendor appeared in a
shop in the city of Caxias do Sul, that is some 400 km from Santa
Maria. But to go, I had to leave in Santa Maria my wife and
daughters for six months. Well, to shorten the story, after six
months away from home, having already arranged to bring them, I took
the car from the shop where I worked and as soon as I closed the
mall, at 10:00pm, I left for Santa Maria. At about 4 o’clock in the
morning, I became sleepy and being near the city of Agudo, where I
grew up, I decided to stop the car to rest. It was on this occasion,
after 8 years, that the angel Raphael appeared to me again. It was
now the dawn of April 6, 2007, the moment I went up the sharp hill
(Monte Agudo). Raphael led me through the bush to the top of the
high hill, and seeing that it was dark, he lit the way with a
portion of energy he produced as he rubbed his hands. On the summit,
he left me alone, and as I prayed to know what was happening, the
angel Moroni appeared, wrapped in an extremely strong light. He
explained everything to me, gave me the plates, the interpreters and
the sword of Laban. On that day, I heard from Moroni, for the first
time, about the Church of Christ, about the RLDS and about the
importance of the land that is in the lot of the temple.
I asked that the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints to
remove me. After a while, they called me in a disciplinary
procession to try to get me to deny this story, stating that only
the president of the LDS could translate the sealed part of the
plates, I was then excommunicated, having the right to appeal to
them when I decided to take them as an eyewitness to the angel
Moroni.
Mauricio had made contact with the LDS church, and had informed them
about their visits with the angel Moroni. Mauricio wanted the LDS
prophet to come. So on Feb 4, 2008, Mauricio asked Moroni if the LDS
prophet Gordon B. Hinkley could come and witness, Moroni informed
Mauricio that the prophet of the LDS had already died.
On February 4, 2008 I went up Monte Agudo with Sergio, Jader Machado
and Joni Batista and we all saw a multitude of angelic personages in
the heavens.
On December 25, 2008 I returned with Jader and we were ministered to
by 3 disciples of the Lord and we were commanded to testify that a
great work was about to happen (see Jader’s email of 6/29/2011).
On December 12, 2009, I was discouraged after some men had broken
into my house looking for signs and I wanted to give up everything.
It was at night, and I had just called my family saying we were
leaving Caixas de Sol. I was with my wife and we saw lights appear
across the street in the woods where I had visited with Raphael
before. My wife and I walked out of the house. She remained on the
porch and I crossed the street and looked for Moroni. He was there
and he directed me to meet with several prophets of the past to
encourage me, so that I would never give up.
On December 22, 2009, my 33rd birthday, I returned to Monte Agudo
with Joni and Jader, having the promise from Moroni that I would
receive a celestial blessing. I descended the hill some distance and
there was Raphael awaiting me. We disappeared from the sight of the
other two brothers for about 40 minutes. The other brethren saw a
light appear above them like a portal where I was surely taken to
the Heavenly Zion. (See Joni’s email of 6/27/2011)
Christ’s plan, within the next seven years (as was written in 2010),
was to choose at least one of the apostles of the church of
Christ-Temple Lot to testify to the truth of what I am talking
about, and another two of the LDS church and the RLDS church.
I know it may seem strange to say this, but it is part of Jehovah’s
plan that you overcome the barrier of indifference in order to
prepare Zion for Christ’s return. Your church (the Temple Lot), as
it was revealed to me, is very close to the truth and therefore I
was required by revelation to seek you out. But just as Christ
addresses the seven churches of Asia in the book of revelation,
saying that he has pleasure in their deeds, but there is something
missing; so he told me: that all three, have to return to the
initial condition. Both the three correspond to the beech, pine and
boxwood described in the prophecy of Isaiah 60: 13, 14. “Three trees
that were planted on Mount Zion to jointly adorn the place of the
sanctuary of God . “
I know that the pride that is in the three will not permit greater
approximation, but if all three have the desire to fulfill their
role in this land of being what they claim to be: “the forerunners
to the return of our Lord Jesus Christ,” then, their leaders will
have to put off that pride and fulfill what is written about Jackson
County, Missouri, especially in what was still a revelation of God
to Joseph Smith in December 1833 when he uttered what is in the LDS
D&C 101: 75 / RLDS D&C 98:10c; where the Lord makes mention
of willingness by the churches that bear his name to heed his voice,
to the end of redeeming Zion and establish their desolate places. It
is very clear in this verse that in referring to the churches , it
was not only addressing the LDS, or vice versa among the three who
now occupy the great part of the temple lot. Moreover, his voice,
which the Lord refers to in the section as well as in the past, is
surely the voice of a prophet, which is the voice of the Lord to
restore the land of Zion to the proper purpose of his true owner,
Jesus Christ.
I am not speaking here of the prophet of the LDS nor of the prophet
of the RLDS, for none of them, nor of you of the Church of
Christ-Temple Lot, would yield to anyone among its leaders to
dictate the rules for the land of Zion. Therefore, God in his great
wisdom is again acting as he always acted, choosing someone from
outside to become the perfect link between the three churches that
bear his name. Thus, only revelations from the Lord will be
fulfilled without one church taking offense at the other because
some of its leaders want to overlap with others.
However, as I said before, seven years will have to pass so that
you, the RLDS and especially the LDS can see with your spiritual
eyes, which, for now, are blindfolded, that God is literally
fulfilling in you prophecy of 2 Nephi 28 concerning the sealed
plates and concerning those who dwell in Zion and they persist in
saying: “all is well in Zion”! – 2 Nephi 28: 24-30 / RLDS 2Nephi
12:30-38.
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