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from Jesus:
Thank you for accepting my
love, which I give freely to all but which most people reject by using
one of the innumerable “reasons” thought up by the mind
of anti-love, the mind of anti-christ.
Those who reject my love remain in fear, for how can they escape fear
without accepting the perfect love of Christ that casts out all fear—it
simply cannot be done. When you are in fear, you tend to interpret a
spiritual teaching literally, and thus you will see many contradictions
between “your” teaching and other teachings. You will then
reason that yours is the only true one and that it is infallible, whereby
you have the seed of religious conflict.
What is most surprising is that so many Christians insist that the Bible
is the infallible word of God and that it should be interpreted literally
(which is impossible given that no interpretation could ever be literal),
yet they fail to read their Bible so carefully that they see it contains
many seeming contradictions. Consider the following passages from the
same chapter (Chapter 16) in Matthew:
18 And I say also
unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my
church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan:
thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that
be of God, but those that be of men.
How could I possibly build
my church upon the same person that I denounce as being an agent of
Satan? If you insist on a literal approach, you must say that either
Peter is the Rock or he is Satan, for he obviously cannot be both at
the same time. Therefore, either you must see this as a contradiction
– thereby rejecting the infallibility of the Bible – or
you must reach for a higher understanding. Yet the only way to find
such a higher understanding is to go beyond the literal “interpretation.”
When you are stuck in fear, you cannot resolve such seeming contradictions
– which is why most Christians ignore them – but when you
move into love, you are always willing to reach for a higher understanding.
You recognize that a spiritual teaching can – and should –
be interpreted at more than one level, as is clearly explained in the
Bible:
But without a parable
spake he not unto them: and when they were alone, he expounded all
things to his disciples (Mark 4:34).
This clearly proves that
I gave the multitudes a more simple teaching expressed in parables.
Yet I gave my disciples a higher understanding of what I had illustrated
in the parables. If you have enough love to accept this, you will be
open to the fact that there are many statements in the Bible that cannot
be understood (fully) through a literal approach. I deliberately veiled
many of my most profound revelations in order to hide them from those
who were still steeped in the consciousness of anti-christ and therefore
would misuse any true teaching (by using it to inflate their egos) if
they could grasp it. Since then, God has allowed the Ascended Host to
give humanity a more profound and direct spiritual teaching than the
law allowed 2,000 years ago.
One example of this is that whenever I – including in the Book
of Revelation – speak about signs in the sky, it is not meant
to be literal, physical signs in the sky. The terms “sky,”
“clouds” or “heaven” are symbols for one of
the higher realms that are beyond the material frequency spectrum, as
I explain elsewhere.
“Heaven” is also a symbol for a state of consciousness,
namely the Christ consciousness which allows you to attune to/experience/perceive
what goes on in the higher realms. That is why I said:
Neither shall they
say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within
you (Luke 17:21).
The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be
single, thy whole body shall be full of light (Matthew 6:22).
The meaning is that when
you attain the undivided, non-dualistic vision of Christ, you can sense
what is taking place in the higher realms. Thus, many of the “signs”
mentioned in the Bible cannot be seen by the physical eyes. They can
only be seen by the inner vision. When you understand this, there is
no contradiction in your quote above. Look at the entire passage from
Matthew Chapter 24:
23 Then if any
man shall say unto you, Lo, here [is] Christ, or there; believe [it]
not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall
shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if [it were] possible,
they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert;
go not forth: behold, [he is] in the secret chambers; believe [it]
not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto
the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered
together.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be
darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall
fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and
then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the
Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and
they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one
end of heaven to the other.
The meaning of the first
part is that you shall not look for Christ outside yourself, for you
will find the Living Christ only in the kingdom that is within you.
There will be false Christs who show outer wonders, seeking to trick
you into following them instead of the inner Christ. The true appearance
of Christ will be like the lightning that appears only for a split second
and is easily overlooked by those looking at the ground (looking for
visible signs). Again, the coming of the son of man shall be in the
Heavens, as a symbol of the higher realms. Thus, you cannot determine
the true coming by using visible signs.
The tribulation is the raising of people’s consciousness at the
end of a spiritual cycle (as is currently happening). In such an acceleration,
it will become increasingly difficult for people to remain asleep or
indifferent. They will be forced to choose between the visible signs
of anti-christ and the inner signs of Christ. Those who are willing
to go within and contact their Christ selves and the Ascended Host will
receive great assistance during this phase. Yet there will come a point
where the opportunity to postpone the choice must come to an end, and
all outer help is withdrawn (the sun, moon and stars – as symbols
for people’s spiritual teachers – are withdrawn) and people
must choose on their own accord.
Only those who have internalized the assistance given from Above and
have used it to establish a connection to their Christ selves (have
multiplied their talents) will be able to choose wisely between the
outer signs of the false Christ and the true, inner signs of the Living
Christ. Thus, those who interpret the Bible literally and look for actual,
physical signs in the heavens are likely to be deceived by the false
Christs.
When people are exposed to this “dark night of the soul,”
those who have no inner vision (the tribes of
the earth consciousness) will mourn, whereas those with inner vision
will see the Son of Man appearing in the higher realms in the form of
their own Christ selves as well as myself and other ascended beings
appearing in our ascended “bodies.” They will also “see”
the angels and come together in consciousness with their brothers and
sisters from all four realms of the material universe.
However, to truly understand this, you need to add that this is a process
that is appearing over and over again. Thus, many of the events spoken
of in the Bible are not one-time events. For example, the Battle of
Armageddon has been going on for aeons. It has certain turning points
where it enters a new phase, as is currently happening, but it will
not end until the entire material universe is raised in vibration so
there is no darkness left. Thus, the “end of days” “the
end of the world” or the “end times” that many Christians
talk about are not the actual end of existence but the end of certain
spiritual cycles.
There is nothing constructive about people living in the fear that the
world will suddenly end and they will be no more. Yet it is constructive
for people to understand – without fear – that a spiritual
cycle means opportunity and that it will not go on forever. Thus, make
hay while the sun shines—by seeking the inner vision rather than
getting stuck in literal interpretations.
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