The Great Gospel of John
Volume 1
Jesus' Precepts and Deeds through His Three Years of Teaching
First mission of the messengers. Great teaching mission
- Chapter 137 -
The Lord's answer to Judas' missionary suggestions. Judas' soul from below. An earthly lifestyle is the death of the spirit. Retrospection to mankind's guidance. Now is the joyous time of the Lord's coming in the gentle breeze. The sufferings of the missionaries. A passage from Isaiah. The disciples comforted.
Say I, 'Since you are a man of this earth you speak also as one of this earth. But He Who is from above speaks differently, because He recognises and knows well what man needs at different times for the liberation of his spirit from omnipotence and from God's wrath, in order to achieve true independence for eternity.
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Because the life of this earth gives neither life nor liberation to the spirit, but death; but the death of this earth is deliverance of the spirit to everlasting life and its true, everlasting liberty.
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If I have to speak as just man however, I say unto you that all this and far more has already been undertaken with the human race; yet ask yourself where in your opinion are the golden fruits thereof!
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What did not take place in the days of Noah, yet how much did many improve temporally, above what they were in Noah's time? And what occurred soon after at Sodom and Gomorrah?
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And behold, all contemporary heathens save black man and the Chinese in the far East are descendants of Lot, as also many animalistically degenerate Scythian inhabiting the earth's western parts; how do you find them, in spite of the lesson their father Lot learnt?
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Go to Egypt and check out the peoples, how much they improved through the seven plagues! What did Moses not do and what not some prophets?!
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It was for forty years that Jehovah let the degenerate Jews languish most miserably under the Babylonian captivity, - they were treated like the most inferior beasts of burden, fed with the fare of swine and dogs, whilst the lovely daughters of Jews were being mortally defiled by the licentious Babylonians, day and night, with flogging and other tortures, as were the boys and youths, who had been circumcised! Go and ask the high haughty Jews how much they improved through such lessons!
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Show Me the period, the year, month or week or a day that the Lord was not punishing degenerate mankind, both individually and collectively?
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Hence your advice is much belated; this has all been here already, having effected for the spiritual path also what it had to effect; yet for man's exterior earthly state there must and can emerge no evident effect basically, for it is not on account of this that anything ever was permitted from above.
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But for proclaiming the Gospel of the kingdom of God on earth through repeated thunder and lightning I should not have need of you; because there would be in heaven mighty angels in overabundance who should be more conversant than yourselves with such spreading of the kingdom of God on earth.
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But that time has now come which Elijah was shown when he lay hidden in the mountain cave. It was not in the storm nor in the fire, but in the gentle breeze that Jehovah was moving about! And that time of Jehovah's gentle breeze before the world-cave is here now! Hence we neither want to nor can, move out through storm, nor fire, but in accordance with God's eternal order in all love, gentleness and patience! Yet you are not to disregard shrewdness! Because I am well aware of your moving out as lambs among rapacious wolves; yet if you nevertheless are clever, you shall accomplish much.
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Beware of certain (world) men therefore and do not mix with them; because it is these who shall be handing you over to the courts and also scourge you in their synagogues, - and this shortly, if you are foolish rather than sufficiently clever! (Matt. 10:17). So long as a lamb finds itself upon a balcony which the wolf cannot reach, the latter can with all his savagery, nevertheless do nothing to it. But if the lamb cheekily leaves the balcony to look at its enemy more closely, it has only itself to blame if torn up and devoured by the wolf.
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But later, after I shall have ascended to the heavens to prepare everlasting dwellings for you in the Father's house, they indeed shall haul you before princes and kings for My name's sake, for a testimony against them and the heathens, so that it may be fulfilled in accordance with what Isaiah, My prophet, prophesied for all time and about the foolish kings in relation to the establishment now of My kingdom on earth.
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[Isa. 32: 6-20]: A fool speaks of foolishness and his heart manipulates misfortune, to simulate hypocrisy and preach error about the Lord, to starve hungry souls yet more and to stop the thirsty ones drinking. The rule of the tight-fisted is harm, finding as he does dodges aplenty to ruin the wretched with false verbiage, when he should be upholding the rights of the poor. But the upright princes will have princely thoughts and dispense justice accordingly.
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Arise you haughty women and hear My voice! You daughters self-assured, hear My speech but for a year and a day and you self-assured shall tremble; for where there is no vine-crop, there shall be no picking. Take fright, you haughty women! For it is the time of the uncovering and the girding of the loins!
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There shall be wailing for the fields, for the lovely friends indeed and the prolific vines; because upon My people-field shall be growing thorns and hedges, as also over all the houses of pleasure in the merry cities. The palaces shall be deserted and the crowds of the cities lonesome, the towns and citadels becoming eternal caves, for the joy of the beasts of the fields and pasture of the herds. And this till the days of the outpouring of the Spirit from on high.
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Thereupon the desert shall turn into field and the field counted among forests. And justice shall prevail in the desert and righteousness reign in the field. And the fruit of righteousness shall be peace and the benefit of righteousness shall be eternal calmness and security.
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Then shall My people dwell in the houses of peace and hence in the secure dwellings and lofty silence. But the hail nevertheless shall remain along the forest and the city here below shall be a lowly one.
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Blessed are ye that sow keenly beside the waters, sending forth there the feet of the ass and ox indeed.
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If you are therefore brought before and handed over to the foolish kings by the wicked fools of this world, as indicated by Isaiah, then do not trouble yourselves about what to say and how to justify yourselves; for it shall be given you in that hour what to say and how to justify yourselves! (Matt. 10:19). For it is not you who speak, but My Spirit - the Father's Spirit that speaks through you! (Matt. 10:20).
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This however applies only to the aforementioned, second sending out, which you shall have to accomplish after My ascension; but for now, your burden is not to be an unduly heavy one.
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Because just as the prophet says at the end, so I also say unto you now: blessed are ye that are to sow at the seashores; because you may indeed, for this soil, send your asses and oxen back and forth, i.e. your diligence for goodness and truth, for which I have called you! There you shall not come upon a foolish king, nor upon haughty women, but upon the poor, the sick, the possessed, the lame, deaf and blind; naturally and even more so, in spirit; to these go forth, preaching unto them the Gospel of the kingdom of God, healing everyone who believes, not keeping My name secret unto them!'