Jé ũré Dupade ome daruode’
If faith does not accompany the reading of Dupade’s Word, it won’t help a person:
I’m telling us, so that we’ll know, that what Dupade says is true.
But, this is what I think: when one of us doesn’t break from his disobedience, Dupade’s words mean nothing to him at all, and he gets nothing out of it when he reads or hears it.
When a person doesn’t apply Dupade’s Words to his own life, even if he attends church where Dupade’s Words are preached, he won’t pay attention to them, and it will be obvious that they mean nothing to him.
But the day is coming, as it was predicted, when that man will be sad, or that woman will be sad, because, for them, Dupade’s Words had no importance, and faith did not accompany Dupade’s Words when they read them.
A rich man only thought about Dupade’s true Words after he went to the ‘The place of the dead’:
You’ve already heard this, for I have already told you about it, how a rich man who died and went to Jnaropié, the place of the dead, went to talk to our father Abraham, who lived long ago. He said to him: “Tell my brothers not to come to the jnaropié.”
He came to Abraham for help, just as any one of us would do that loved his brothers and didn’t want, in vain, for them to end up in the ‘place of the dead’.
He said to Abraham: “I can’t get comfortable here at all. I’m a victim of extreme heat,” he said. “I’m so tired of being where the worms are,” he said, “and I’m so tired of the flames.” This is what he said.
But Abraham who was one of our forefathers said: “Dupade’s Words are on earth; if your brothers hear them, they might believe in Dupade.”
But, after hearing this, he said to Abraham: “Why don’t you send one of the dead people that believe in Dupade to tell my brothers on earth about him? Then, my brothers won’t have to go to Jnaropié.”
But Abraham said: “I could send one of the dead ones to take your words to them, but they would be spirits (without bodies).” This is what Abraham said to him. “They could walk around but being spirits they wouldn’t be able to do anything else. Your brothers couldn’t believe in Dupade because of anything they could say.”
Any of us, were we to end up in the lake of fire, would be concerned about our relatives on earth.
What Dupade tells about the coming of the One we’ve been waiting for is true”
But you already know that Dupade’s Words say: “There will be wars just before my arrival, and other things happening, one right after the other. Around the time of my coming there will be famines on earth.”
But we’ve never had famines like those that Dupade tells about. But in some countries, they are already happening. Only a few have food to eat in places where hunger is finishing people off. In other places, wars are happening to us earth dwellers every day.
Stars have always fallen, but not like what’s going to happen soon. And Jesus said: “These signs of my coming will happen, but I won’t arrive yet. But they will happen when my arrival is getting near. The sun will completely change and will never return to how it was.” This is what Jesus said.
“The sun will die, and the earth will be dark. And the light from the moon will not ever reach the earth again.” This is what Jesus said. “These will happen when my arrival is very near, and when I return for my believers, I’ll take them away.”
And I tell you these things, so that you all will understand that Dupade’s Son is going to arrive again. And Dupade will keep his word. But he won’t come just yet because he is waiting for others of us Ayoréos to put our faith in him. (2 Peter 3:1-10)
The coming of Jesus is like the river the israelites crossed on dry ground:
Some people these days doubt that Jesus will ever come again, and they are like Pharaoh and his army. They thought that the strange water would never return to its place, coming back together again. But when they least expected it, the sea covered them and destroyed them. And that is how it will be when Jesus comes. It will seem like he won’t ever come, it will seem like Dupade’s Words weren’t true. But the day will come when Jesus will return. And the doubters will be lost. But not the believers – it will be as though they will reach the other bank of the river because they trusted Jesus to save them.
These things are because Dupade always keeps his word.
The Israelites thought that when they left Egypt they would immediately reach their new land.
But they suffered hunger on the road. And they said: “Come on, let’s return to Egypt for we had food to eat there.”
But Moses kept on taking them toward the new land, but they didn’t reach it right away. Instead, they came to a desert and there was no food there. And they sucked on bread that came down from the sky. They existed on what fell from the sky. And there was no potable water for them to drink.
They said to Moses: “We’re thirsty. What are we going to drink?”
And then, Moses asked Dupade to help them. And Dupade pointed out to him a strange stick, and he picked it up and threw it into the bitter water and it went down into the depth of the water, and the water became potable. (Exodus 15:22-25)
At the very beginning when Dupade called Moses to take the Israelites out of Pharaoh’s hands, Moses was afraid. (Exodus 3:11-12)
And the reason I’m telling you these things is so that you will know that Dupade does not lie to anyone. When he said to Moses that he would help him, he did what he said he would do, and he helped Moses and his people with food to eat and water to drink.
And what Dupade has told us about his Son coming back for his believers will happen. Dupade has not lied to us. Therefore, Dupade’s Son will come when his Father says it is time.
For Dupade always keeps his word.
God was going to destroy a town and Abraham prayed for him not to destroy it:
Abraham said to Dupade: “If there are righteous people in that city will you still destroy it? If there are 50 of them, then accept them and don’t destroy their city.” And Abraham went on repeating these words of his and said: “If there are 40, or 30, or 20, or even 10, then don’t destroy their towns.”
Then, after hearing his prayers, Dupade said to Abraham (but you have no doubt already heard this): “If I find 10 righteous people, then I won’t destroy the cities.” But Dupade did not find 10 righteous people in either of those cities. And Dupade would have destroyed everyone in those cities if Abraham had not interceded for them. Though Dupade didn’t find 10 righteous men, he did find four, and he took then out of the city, before he destroyed those cities.
Only Abraham’s four relatives were saved because they were righteous. They were righteous because their uncle Abraham had explained Dupade’s ways to them. But when they were safely outside the city, then Dupade sent fire down upon the city people and destroyed the two cities and all their inhabitants.
And I tell this because Dupade always keeps his word.
Our Great Leader that we listen to, Dupade, had said to himself: “I should tell Abraham what I am going to do to those cities. For he is worthy of my confidence, so, I am going to tell him my plans and give him my words.
It’s the same way with us, for Dupade does not consider us who believe in him to be unworthy, and we have his words, and we love Dupade’s Words and we would never consider them unimportant.
I say this because Dupade always keeps his word.
Dupade tells us that he is going to throw Satan and his followers into the lake of fire.
Dupade’s Son is coming back to earth again, and then, Dupade will throw Satan and his followers into the lake of fire, from which they will never depart, never again recover their health. And this is what Dupade tells us and we tell it to each other. We tell it to all the people we know. And when we tell them, it splits the gall bladders of those that do not believe in Dupade.
Let’s say that one of us hears about this and is ashamed before Dupade. And he says: “What have I done to deserve being thrown into the lake of fire?”
But when any of us disobeys Dupade’s Words and does not obey what Dupade tells him to do, then it is that he becomes one of Satan’s countrymen, and where Satan goes, that will also be his destination.
People might conclude: “Only what Dupade’s Words say will show us what to do about this terrible predicament. If I find out what it says to do, I’ll do it, for I don’t want Dupade to punish me.”
There’s something lacking in what he is saying, he must trust Dupade’s Son as his Savior.
If someone hearing this wants to know more about this, what the Words of Dupade are, and has decided to follow Dupade, he should come to me and I will explain it to him.
This is the end of my teaching.
I will talk to Dupade:
Yoqui-Dupade Dios, I talk to you today because I am so thankful for the fact that whatever you say is true. You are truthful in what you say. I’m talking to you right now and so thankful to you that your believers are not growing weary of listening to your words.
Yoqui- Dupade, work in our hearts so that we might be like David who lived long ago; forgive our sins as you did David’s sins. Forgive the things we say that you disapprove of. Forgive us right now for the way we let Satan have control of our words, that you might be pleased with us as we go about this earth.
Dupade, help us here in our village to get as many of your words into our minds as we can, and that we will understand them.
Yoqui-Dupade, I’m talking to you and asking you that we’ll be sincere believers in you, and that you will forgive our sins of unbelief.
I ask you to give us your mercy and be very merciful to us. And that we might be merciful and kind to each other in obedience to your word.
I’m asking you for all these things because we know that your Son it was who shed his blood for us to cleanse us from our sins. To wash from out hearts the lies we’ve told.
Dupade, I ask you to help us right now. No doubt, there are some of us who follow you with all our hearts. Help all your believers that are here. May we honor your words, Yoqui-Dupade. I am talking to you about all these things and asking you to help us all over the world right now wherever-your-words -fall.
Help me, right now. I am sick and ask for you to erase the sickness in my body, Yoqui-Dupade. And give us health and strength and, if it’s your will, help all our countrymen to be healthy.
Bless us with your words as we leave here, and may our minds be on what we have just heard.
I ask this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Key:
Jnaropié – Place of the dead
The strange waters – Sea, the Red Sea
Yoqui-Dupade – Our God
Where-your-word-falls – Place where the Word is taught, church
Our Great Leader that we listen to – Lord
To-split-someone’s-gall-bladder – To frighten someone
Ecarai – Tobité, Bolivia – 1970’s.
Transcribed and Translated to English by: Maxine Morarie.
