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from Jesus:
When you interpret the word
Messiah in the simplest and most direct way, the Messiah of the Old
Testament has already come. I am that Messiah.
From the New Testament you can see that I did and said certain things
that show that I considered myself to be the Messiah of the Old Testament.
To be quite honest with you, I did and said certain things deliberately
to establish a connection between myself and the prophecies of the Old
Testament. However, I must say that the Gospel writers did embellish
upon the facts to make this connection even stronger, and therefore
make it more likely that the Jews would accept me as the Messiah and
accept Christianity.
When you define the word Messiah in a deeper sense, you realize that
the Messiah is a spiritual title, a spiritual office. That office can
be held only by a person who has reached a certain level of consciousness,
namely what I call Christ consciousness on this website. The person
therefore has become the incarnation of the universal Christ consciousness,
or what the Gospel of John called the incarnation of the word.
This spiritual office is independent of and transcends any single person.
In other words, I was not the first person in the history of this planet
to fulfill the requirements of the Messiah and to hold the spiritual
office of the Messiah. And I sincerely hope that I will not be the last
person to hold this office. In the East, the Lord Krishna did hold the
office of Messiah for the evolutions that honor him even today. The
Lord Buddha also held this office as did several other people in the
distant past not known to present-day historians.
So what I am saying here is that the Messiah is a spiritual office that
is independent of any one person or any particular time. Therefore,
one might rightfully say that the Messiah is yet to come, meaning that
the Messiah of the present time and future times is still to come.
In other places on this website, I have talked about the importance
of the second coming.
I have also talked about the fact that there are currently 10,000
people in embodiment on Earth who are ready to manifest a high degree,
even the full degree, of personal Christhood. These people have the
potential to become the Messiahs of the current age. The entire idea
of my ministry was to raise other people up to attain the Christ consciousness
so that the second coming of the Messiah would be the coming of 10,000
Christed ones on this planet. Certain passages in both the Old and the
New Testament can be interpreted as referring to the present-day coming
of the Messiah and some even refer to a future coming.
So once again you see the danger of imposing a narrow or literal interpretation
on biblical passages that can indeed have more than one meeting. In
fact, all spiritual scriptures can be understood at many different levels
of consciousness. So there is more than one correct interpretation,
and the different interpretations might indeed simply be reflections
of different states of consciousness. Obviously, there are also incorrect
interpretations that reflect a lower state of consciousness.
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