The Great Gospel of John
Volume 3
Jesus' Precepts and Deeds through His Three Years of Teaching
Jesus near Caesarea Philippi
- Chapter 240 -
Raphael's question regarding the mission.
Raphael says, "Quite perfectly, so it is and not otherwise! But you did not create that out of your flesh and blood, but instead out of the spirit of the word of the Lord. But it is enough that you now know such a thing! But what you now know in this sphere, keep with you! For in order to understand that, it takes souls like yours; for the others it is enough that they recognize God and love Him as Father above all else. But if you ever find truly great souls, however, you can then announce what we have just been talking about for the last two hours. But now, dear friends, something else!
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You will often have the opportunity on your ways and paths as workers at the kingdom of God that your disciples will ask you urgently and say: Your teaching is truly very eminent, beautiful and touching; but the prophecy that you made to us has still not come into any fulfillment. We should hear the voice of the Father in us, yes, it was even prophesied that we would see and speak to the Father; but we have so far not experienced any of that. If your teaching contains the truth, then your prophecies that you made to us must also be true. We observe everything, and still we feel nothing of the fulfillment of a prophecy made to us! Give us reason and answer, and tell us faithfully and openly why your prophecies to us do not and never want to come true! - What will you say to them in this case?"
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Here all three raise their eyebrows and Murel says, "Friend, if we make prophesies at the most faithful word of the Lord and our disciples follow and the teaching in deeds, the Lord may then naturally not leave us in the lurch, because otherwise it would obviously be cleverer not to publicize the teaching than to incite the people against it!
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And I would even like to make the honest claim here that similar divine neglect was always a very significant reason for the fall of religions! For the prophesies made were for some hidden reason either not fully and very often not at all put into fulfillment for the believers. Now the teachers had to seize artificial means in order to not be mistreated by the nation! That soon turned the nation's sense towards the outside and there was then no longer anything spiritual that could be done with a nation that had once been deceived.
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The Lord should no longer do that to all His people who spread His teaching; He should no longer leave them in the lurch and particularly in moments when His prophesies have established as certainly true as the main proof of truth and divinity; for I at least would rather be a meanest sweeper than a viciously tortured Jeremiah! And it would be nothing for the existence if one as such could be of use to someone; but there can eternally be no talk of any use, if one only becomes a nuisance to humanity!"
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Raphael says, "But, dear friend, you are getting away from what I actually asked you in your enthusiasm! The Lord will always and forever do what He promised for His people; but it only depends on whether you know the exact conditions according to which the Lord lets the prophesies be fulfilled!
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For it can often depend on a detail with a person, for whose sake a prophesy, once made, does not come into fulfillment; then you must know exactly as true teachers what the disciple is lacking, for which reason he cannot become a master. And look, that pertains to the question I asked you before!"