John Apostle of Christ speaks
Apostle John April 8, 1966
Heralds, I, the spirit of Christ's John, come to you and to humanity in the assignment of Christ, in order to relate what is not sufficiently understandable to you, what causes doubt and differences of opinion.
First of all, Christ had not come to Earth as a ruler, nor as God. He was born a man and lived as a man, experiencing all human sorrows, joys, pains, and sufferings. Only His spirit was divine. Similarly, your spirits are not material, but come from Heaven, as Christ did, with God's task, but obviously your tasks are much smaller and more varied. As you have been told, God, being a spirit, saw man's life with all its hardship and enjoyments. Yet, it is one thing to see, and something else to feel.
You can see someone stick his finger in a fire and then start to scream in pain, but unless you have previously burned your finger, you won't be able to understand what pain is and how it feels. You will understand it that it is unpleasant, and that something very bad and almost unbearable for a human. Similarly, should you observe a man toiling hard, or walking for a long time, observe him getting tired and stopping for rest. you will see the results of exhaustion, but will not comprehend what exhaustion itself is, or what feelings in induces. In order to be capable of evaluating what a human can do, and what is within his strength, one must be human himself. That is one point.
The other point is that man must know the God knows him as God, know his capabilities and know his suffering and joys. Man has a right to tell God "Does anything matter to You, up there in Heaven, while ruling over us? What do You know about us? You feel no pain, You don't suffer! How can You ask all that of us, not knowing it Yourself? It is easy to talk, but difficult to do something."
God understood all of that and decided to come to the people Himself in the form of Christ, not only in order to comprehend man as God and as a man, but to prove that He, has suffered all his suffering and even died the most difficult form of death. With that, He told and demonstrated to man, not only in words, but in deeds as well, what he must be like. Also, by coming to us, His apostles or disciples---after His death on the cross---as a spirit in His appearance, He proved that life on Earth is not the most important thing, for only the body dies, but the spirit lives eternally. Yet, in order to live eternally, man must live as God bid him in the Ten Commandments and in the teachings of Christ.
When Christ, after His death, came to us and talked with us, I asked Him how he could still forgive those people who tortured Him, for they were, after all, worse than animals. He replied, "In essence, man is an animal. He comes from lions, sheep, elephants, and donkeys, and most of all from apes. He did not create himself, just as the snake did not create itself. Yet, having been created from the same material from which all animals were created, he was created in such a form as to be able to develop into a human--into an animal who would be capable of becoming such a creation that is capable of receiving God's spirit. He would become capable of transforming the brutal characteristics of an animal, would be capable of thinking, and in time, capable of becoming a helper to God in the work of creating and forming the world."
"To become helper to God?" I exclaimed, "But that is impossible."
Obviously it is, but that will take thousands of years. The current man is still very close to the animals. All people do not know what God expects of them. Such a paradise as people currently imagine it does not exist. Souls do not live in it. They have worthier tasks than to do nothing in paradise. Yet, man must create Paradise on Earth. As to how to achieve that, God has expressed that in various words and instructions, and had talked with people through Me, and will talk through you. Only when every individual knows God's will, will he know what he has to do, and what responsibility he bears before God and the people. And only then will it be possible to demand responsibility for his actions from man. Yet, those people who killed Me did not know what they were doing. How could I not forgive them, without becoming unjust? Would you want to see your God being unjust?
"Oh no, obviously not! How could I serve an unjust God?" I replied falling to my knees.
"Get up John, but keep to yourself what I have told you, for people are not currently capable of comprehending that. When that day comes, I will allow you to tell that to the people."
But how old will I be then Teacher? I asked.
"Approximately two thousand years." replied Christ.
"Two thousand years? But there are not and cannot be any people that old," I said.
"You will not have to be that old. Your spirit will tell that to the people."
"But how, " I asked will that be possible?"
Christ smiled: "Don't ask that much, but believe Me that it will be possible. Now I must go." With that, Christ departed.
After He had left, the disciples gathered around me and asked me what I had discussed with Christ. I answered; I will tell you that in two thousand years."
The disciple looked as each other and Peter said, "Leave him alone. He has not recovered from what Christ told him."
They left me alone.
Today is the day when, with Christ's permission, I can tell humanity what He told me back then.
Heralds, I, the spirit of Christ's John, come to you and to humanity in the assignment of Christ, in order to relate what is not sufficiently understandable to you, what causes doubt and differences of opinion.
First of all, Christ had not come to Earth as a ruler, nor as God. He was born a man and lived as a man, experiencing all human sorrows, joys, pains, and sufferings. Only His spirit was divine. Similarly, your spirits are not material, but come from Heaven, as Christ did, with God's task, but obviously your tasks are much smaller and more varied. As you have been told, God, being a spirit, saw man's life with all its hardship and enjoyments. Yet, it is one thing to see, and something else to feel.
You can see someone stick his finger in a fire and then start to scream in pain, but unless you have previously burned your finger, you won't be able to understand what pain is and how it feels. You will understand it that it is unpleasant, and that something very bad and almost unbearable for a human. Similarly, should you observe a man toiling hard, or walking for a long time, observe him getting tired and stopping for rest. you will see the results of exhaustion, but will not comprehend what exhaustion itself is, or what feelings in induces. In order to be capable of evaluating what a human can do, and what is within his strength, one must be human himself. That is one point.
The other point is that man must know the God knows him as God, know his capabilities and know his suffering and joys. Man has a right to tell God "Does anything matter to You, up there in Heaven, while ruling over us? What do You know about us? You feel no pain, You don't suffer! How can You ask all that of us, not knowing it Yourself? It is easy to talk, but difficult to do something."
God understood all of that and decided to come to the people Himself in the form of Christ, not only in order to comprehend man as God and as a man, but to prove that He, has suffered all his suffering and even died the most difficult form of death. With that, He told and demonstrated to man, not only in words, but in deeds as well, what he must be like. Also, by coming to us, His apostles or disciples---after His death on the cross---as a spirit in His appearance, He proved that life on Earth is not the most important thing, for only the body dies, but the spirit lives eternally. Yet, in order to live eternally, man must live as God bid him in the Ten Commandments and in the teachings of Christ.
When Christ, after His death, came to us and talked with us, I asked Him how he could still forgive those people who tortured Him, for they were, after all, worse than animals. He replied, "In essence, man is an animal. He comes from lions, sheep, elephants, and donkeys, and most of all from apes. He did not create himself, just as the snake did not create itself. Yet, having been created from the same material from which all animals were created, he was created in such a form as to be able to develop into a human--into an animal who would be capable of becoming such a creation that is capable of receiving God's spirit. He would become capable of transforming the brutal characteristics of an animal, would be capable of thinking, and in time, capable of becoming a helper to God in the work of creating and forming the world."
"To become helper to God?" I exclaimed, "But that is impossible."
Obviously it is, but that will take thousands of years. The current man is still very close to the animals. All people do not know what God expects of them. Such a paradise as people currently imagine it does not exist. Souls do not live in it. They have worthier tasks than to do nothing in paradise. Yet, man must create Paradise on Earth. As to how to achieve that, God has expressed that in various words and instructions, and had talked with people through Me, and will talk through you. Only when every individual knows God's will, will he know what he has to do, and what responsibility he bears before God and the people. And only then will it be possible to demand responsibility for his actions from man. Yet, those people who killed Me did not know what they were doing. How could I not forgive them, without becoming unjust? Would you want to see your God being unjust?
"Oh no, obviously not! How could I serve an unjust God?" I replied falling to my knees.
"Get up John, but keep to yourself what I have told you, for people are not currently capable of comprehending that. When that day comes, I will allow you to tell that to the people."
But how old will I be then Teacher? I asked.
"Approximately two thousand years." replied Christ.
"Two thousand years? But there are not and cannot be any people that old," I said.
"You will not have to be that old. Your spirit will tell that to the people."
"But how, " I asked will that be possible?"
Christ smiled: "Don't ask that much, but believe Me that it will be possible. Now I must go." With that, Christ departed.
After He had left, the disciples gathered around me and asked me what I had discussed with Christ. I answered; I will tell you that in two thousand years."
The disciple looked as each other and Peter said, "Leave him alone. He has not recovered from what Christ told him."
They left me alone.
Today is the day when, with Christ's permission, I can tell humanity what He told me back then.
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