Dupade chiroque uñéngaja yoque jeta cháta raja yoque
Dupade sent another to earth to help his Son’s believers: (John 14:16)
Dupade said: “My dear son Jesus is back with me, but I will send another to help you,” he said this because he loved us.
You see, Jesus went away and left this earth long ago. He went back to heaven in the clouds. And we were alone on earth. No longer did we have any of Dupade within us.
But Jesus said to his believers: “I’m going to be leaving soon. I’m going back to my Father. But I don’t want you to be orphans after I leave. And I will send another of us to earth. My Father will send him, and he will be a comforter. (The comforter is what the people call Consolador. And in Ayoré we say Posõrasṍri.)
Jesus said: “I will send him to earth,” he said. “And he will be with you always, night and day.”
It’s as though Dupade stopped communicating with the first people that lived long ago, but he had compassion on us and sent his son Jesus to earth. But his son Jesus left for heaven long ago, and then it was that he sent another to us from heaven. And his name was “Comforter.” And, as you know, Dupade has shown us his comfort in many ways. We also call the one he sent “Dupade’s power the Holy Spirit”, and he is our comforter, and comforts and helps us day and night. He helps us when we are sad, and he gives us his power and strengthens us.
Ecarai likens his teaching to clan names:
Is there an Ayoré man or woman that does not have compassion for his or her child? Of course not, it’s their child, their son. One of you that believes in Jesus, but later stops believing, it’s not possible that he will lose the clan name that his father Dupade gave him . His state of being a believer in Dupade stays with him. You know that even though someone’s son is far way from him, his clan name remains with his son and will never leave him at all. His son is still his son.
It’s the same with any one of you. He might stop believing in Dupade, but his state of being Dupade’s believer does not leave him at all, because it is intact in heaven. I could go far away. We might remove ourselves from our family, but the clan names we were given long ago would remain our clan names. I would still be their son. I would still be their child.
Let’s say my dear son David took off. He went far away to another country and it was as though he died. Or let’s say I kicked him out because he was disobedient. There’s nobody anywhere who would say: “The relationship you had with that child you kicked out is no longer strong. He has a different clan name now, instead of yours.”
In the same way, if I go far away from Dupade, I’m still Dupade’s son, and his clan name remains with me. Dupade will not abandon me at all. He will not stop watching over me wherever I am. But I am the one that goes away from Dupade.
And this is how you can know that it isn’t possible for a person’s name nor his faith to ever to taken away from Dupade. The love that Dupade has for you will never end.
Let’s say that David comes back, and I recognize that he is my dear son, and if I recognize him as my son, I will never disown him. But my relatives, those of my clan recognize him also. And it is not possible for him to lose his clan name. And that’s how it is with Dupade.
It’s not possible for Dupade to abandon us.
It’s not possible for Dupade to abandon us. I can stop obeying his commands. You may stop believing in Dupade, but he won’t stop believing in you at all. You could stop following Dupade and make the Holy Spirit ashamed of you. We know how a man, or a woman sometimes scolds their relatives. And they feel embarrassed around their relatives and don’t visit them anymore. It’s much like that when you stop following Dupade. Dupade’s Holy Spirit stays in a corner of you heart and is very sad. He hunches his shoulders from sadness.
“Why has he abandoned me?” Dupade’s power, the Holy Spirit says. He is hunched over in the corner of your heart, ashamed of the sinful things you have done. That’s what happens. The Holy Spirit doesn’t leave your heart, for you are Dupade’s son. He is all hunched up in the corner of your heart, very sad, but he’s still there in your heart, Dupade’s Power that they call the Holy Spirit. He never leaves your heart at all. That’s because you are Dupade’s son. And it’s impossible for you to destroy the Holy Spirt that indwells you. But he is very sad and is all hunched up in that tiny corner of your heart.
Our sinful nature and the Spirit of Dupade are constantly fighting each other inside of us: (Galatians 5:13, 16, 17)
You know that Dupade loves us, and the one he told us about is with us here on this earth. You also know that Dupade loves his believers and wants us to grow in our faith and to serve him. But you know we are human and we do what our human flesh wants to do, and it is controlled by the earthly part of us. Our earthly eyes see only the things of this world. Our flesh wants the world. And that is because we dwell in earthly bodies.
On the other hand, Dupade’s Son is coming back, and he will give us a new body, a body that will not rot. And then, never more will the lusts, nor the lying of our earthly bodies grab onto to us again. And remember that you believe in Dupade and remember that you’ll never be angry with anyone again.
Your body is a house for Jesus, and Dupade, and the Holy Spirit and so you must not do whatever you want. You must not say, ‘I’m going to get drunk, I’m going to lie about it, I’m going to scold that fellow-man of mine.”
Your earthly body wants to do those things, for it always wants to be like the world. But I thank Dupade, that Dupade loves us, and that he sent his son Jesus to this world. And then, when his son Jesus went back to heaven, he sent another to earth, and he will be with us forever.
Jesus is coming back to take us to heaven:
But he will see us all over the world, and we who are Dupade’s believers, he will take us away to be with him forever. Whoever wants to go with us, must put his faith in Jesus. May Jesus use our lips while we are still in this world. For Jesus said when he comes back it will be quickly, like the blink of a little eye.
May no person say: “Wait, and I’ll go with you! Mother! Wait, and I’ll go with you! Father! Wait, I’ll go with you!”
But Jesus didn’t say these words. He said: “There’s still time for I am sending my servants into the whole world,” he said, “so that they will tell people that I’m going to punish this world.”
You may know about the men who lived long ago that were called prophets. The prophets were the ones that told about Dupade’s words concerning the future. They were sent by Dupade, but the people would not listen to their teaching. Those of us who tell Dupade’s word today to our fellow people are like those prophets. If you want to go with us when Jesus comes, ask Dupade to forgive your sins. If you do, he will put his health in you. He’ll put peace into your hearts. He’ll put love into your lives if you decide to go with us to heaven.
When a person dies, there is much sorrow among his relatives:
We know that when a person, whoever he is, dies there’s great sorrowing because their relative has been separated from them. It will be like that when Dupade arrives, there will be relatives that will be very sad because they did not believe in Dupade. Despite their sadness, it won’t be possible for them to see us in our state of being a relative again. You know that we will never again see those who die.
One day Jesus will awaken our forefathers and look for their names in his Book:
But when Jesus returns to earth, he will wake up our forefathers, the men who lived long ago. His purpose in waking them up was so that he could look for their names. He wanted to see if their names were in the Book of Life. But if their names weren’t there, if our names are not there, we’ll be very sad.
That is why Jesus told his disciples: “Go into all the world,” he said. “but don’t take a lot of clothes with you,” he said, “just your shoes,” he said. “Don’t take any money with you when you go into the world to take Dupade’s words to the people of the world. Just trust me for what you need.” (Matthew 28:18-20)
This is so that we might know if you want to go with us – and if you do, just tell our Father Dupade. He will forgive your sins. Trust Dupade as I present you to him while you are still alive. On the other hand, I might die, and other believers will tell you about this. But you could die before hearing their teaching.
I know that all of us will die, and no one anywhere will remain alive forever. When a person comes to the end of his life, that will be the end for him, and he’ll never experience another kind of life.
Therefore, the Bible says, Jesus says: “Whoever believes in me, I will give him life. A new kind of life that is everlasting. A life that will never have an end.”
I know that when you are young you’re happy, and you look forward to going hunting, or to look for honey, or to play around with girls, or to eat from your own garden. And you think your life is never going to end. But we don’t know when Dupade is going to arrive.
I know if you’re a young woman, you’re happy, too. You play around and mistakenly think that’s all there is to life. But there’s more to life when you decide to trust in Dupade. If you want Dupade’s state of being the only one you believe in, that becomes your life from then on.
On the other hand, others of you will think all is going well for you, but when Dupade’s Son returns he will punish you because Satan has been your friend. When you chose to do what Satan wanted you to do, rather than believe in Dupade, you chose sadness, for one day, you will reach the land that Dupade hates. Therefore, I have this to say to you: If you haven’t put your faith in Dupade yet, do it right away while there’s still time.
You have heard that Jesus is going to come back again, and when he does, there will be no more time. It will be like when someone tells his fellow-person something and that person believes what he says. That’s because he sees the one who told him this. These are Dupade’s words: If you want to believe in him, then do it right away. If it’s night-time or day-time do it right then before we leave. If I were talking about myself, that I had not yet taken off it wouldn’t be important, but I’m talking about Dupade’s Son’s arrival for he is coming. If he doesn’t come tomorrow then we’ll not yet be leaving, I won’t be leaving yet. We could leave on a Sunday or a Wednesday. You probably know when Wednesday is. But we haven’t left yet. I don’t know when it will be that we leave for Dupade’s city. This is all that I have to teach us. And now I will talk to Dupade for us.
Ecarai talks to Dupade:
Yoqui-Dupade, I am talking to you tonight because I’m very happy that you hear what we say. When we prayed to you for rain, you poured it down upon us, Yoqui-Dupade, and I want to thank you for the rain you poured out. You did that, so the men would be happy with their crops and we could be well-fed and healthy, Yoqui-Dupade. You did it so that they would talk to you and thank you that you love us. You showed us your love when you brought rain to us. And now they are happy that they are eating the produce from their crops. Therefore, I am talking to you right now and asking you to watch over us, those of us here in Rincón. Help us right now and give us health and strength, Yoqui-Dupade. Give us love, for we talk to you in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Key:
Dupade – God
Yoqui-Dupade – Our God
Ecarai – Rincon de Tigre, Bolivia – 1960’s.
Transcribed and translated to English by: Maxine Morarie.
