The Great Gospel of John
Volume 3
Jesus' Precepts and Deeds through His Three Years of Teaching
Jesus near Caesarea Philippi
- Chapter 225 -
Fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah.
After these truly meaningful words Murel approached Me and sobbed and wept with joy. When he came to Me, he said loudly to Stahar and Floran, "Come here too, and open your eyes which are still very dim! You may have gone further than I in the fore-court of the temple and have taken me with you as a friend to where you were already; but here there is more than your fore-court, this is the true holy of holies!"
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I say, "Be what it may; take the beaker and drink! For you have now spoken much and are therefore quite dry in your throat. Therefore wet your breast with the wine of truth and love, so that you will become strong and a useful tool for Me to fight against night and its consequences!
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Behold, the night has been transformed into the brightest day here, it is true; but all around us the deepest night floats over the souls of the people and it will take more and stronger light in order to drive away the darkness of night; and you shall serve Me as a strong torch!"
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At this Murel takes the beaker with a joyful heart which was full, and empties it down to the last drop. Full of astonishment at the extraordinary quality of the wine he says quite enthusiastically, "Oh you most magnificent of wines that I have ever drunk! You were truly never pressed from the grapes of this earth and were never matured in a skin, but instead you were created for the Lord of magnificence of all heaven from heaven itself! Oh tell me how we have deserved that You dignify us with such an incomprehensibly great mercy and love?!"
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I say, "The reason is the powerful bond between the Father and His children, and again like a bond between bride and groom!
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I in My eternal spirit am your Father of eternity; but in this flesh of Mine I am nonetheless like a bridegroom, and you are all like My dear bride - through the fact that you accept My word and My teaching and believe it actively in your hearts that I am the One, the promised One who should come in order to free all people from the old sin that is a creation from hell, and to open to them the way to eternal life and to the true childhood of God.
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Truly I tell you: Whoever believes in Me and keeps My word in deed, he is like a bride of heaven in Me and I in him as a true groom of eternal life. But whoever is in Me and I in him, he will never see, feel or taste death in the future!
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Whoever believes in Me and loves Me and thereby keeps My easy commandment of pure love, it is he who recognizes Me also in the fullest light of his heart as the Father! And to him will I Myself come always and will reveal Myself to him, and he will be taught and led by Me in the future, and I will lend his will the power that all elements should obey him in cases of real need!
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In the real world My people will not celebrate any shining triumphs; for all people of this Earth are not casually My children, but instead children of the prince of lies, night and darkness. These do not love My light and will not love those who bring My light to them; but My followers should not resent them, for the triumph in My kingdom is reserved for them!
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I tell you that you will have to put up with some persecution and despising from the real world from time to time for My name's sake; but it will then be the complete opposite in My kingdom, of which you can be completely assured, and your willpower will also be covered with great shame on this side, and you will frolic in secret for the sake of My name! For you know who I am and what I can give you all; the world, the terrible adversary of light and of My love, does not know it and will also never get to know it!
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But you know it, and here on this spot it is coming into fulfillment what the prophet Isaiah prophesied: "On this mountain the LORD Zebaoth will provide for all peoples a feast of rich food and pure wines, of fat, of marrow, rich food and wine without yeasts. [On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine- the best of meats and the finest of wines. [NIV]] And on this mountain he will remove the veil that covers all peoples, the blanket that covers all heathens; [On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations;] he will destroy death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from all faces; The dishonor of his people he will remove from the whole earth; for the LORD has said so. [He will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth. The LORD has spoken.] On that day and on this mountain the peoples will exclaim "Behold this is our God, for whom we are waiting!; and He alone will help us all. Yes here truly is the Lord for whom we are waiting so that we rejoice and be happy in His salvation! The hand of the LORD rests on this mountain!" [In that day they will say, "Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the LORD, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation."]
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But Moab (Jerusalem and its evil ways) will be trodden down as straw is trodden down in the dung. [but Moab will be trampled under him as straw is trampled down in the manure.] He will stretch forth his hands among them as a swimmer extends his hands to swim; He will bring low their pomp as his hands (angels) sweep over them. [They will spread out their hands in it, as a swimmer spreads out his hands to swim. God will bring down their pride despite the cleverness[a] of their hands.] The high-walled fortress (self-love and arrogance) He will bend, and strike it down level with the earth, into the very dust (greatest humiliation). (Is. 25: 6-12) [He will bring down your high fortified walls and lay them low; he will bring them down to the ground, to the very dust. [NIV]
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Behold, what Isaiah prophesied on this spot, on this mountain at the sea, when he came to Galilee that is now coming true before your very eyes! Count all the nations that are represented here, and the thick veil will be taken from everyone's eyes, and to everyone a purest wine without yeast will be given, and whoever drinks it and takes up its spirit into his soul, will have taken eternal life into himself, and will be the same for everyone that is here and that enjoys My word as the purest wine from heaven, and who will get to drink it in the future and will consume it like you in great mouthfuls, their death will also be consumed by Me and they will never more feel or taste death!
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Yes, this wisdom is a fat meal, that I have prepared in your nation here on Earth - yes, you are fed and satisfied here with the meat of deepest wisdom and eternal truth.
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But now go over there if there is no lack of just and great provision, to the whole world to the lost brothers and sisters and to all the widows and orphans and dry their tears from their faces, and give them richly to drink from this purest wine that I have given you to drink here in abundance!
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But the time when you should do such a thing will be shown to you all through My spirit in you. If you then act in My name truly and faithfully, My spirit, My being, will always and eternally be with you all.
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From now on you will not have to think what you should say in My name; for at the right time it will be laid in your heart and in your mouth.
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The spirit of this wine, which I gave you to drink, will never volatilize from your souls; for it is called eternal truth. Therefore falsehood will never be able to seize a place within you, for in this wine lies eternal truth. The falsehood is death, ruin and an eternal judgment; but the truth itself is life, and I am this Myself in you, and I am in all eternity the truth, the light, the path and the life itself!
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Whoever therefore has Me in their heart, has everything; for apart from Me there is eternally no other truth or life! Tell Me now, Murel, above all, if this is all plausible and clear to you!"