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from Jesus:
I have no problem with people
reading these books, as long as they consider them to be works of religious
fiction. I do, however, have a problem with the fact that millions of
people have read these books and have either taken them literally and
believe they give a true account of what could happen or have become
so confused by these books that they don’t know what to believe.
Let me make a very clear statement. The idea of the rapture, as described
in the Left Behind books and described by certain fundamentalist churches
especially in the United States, is completely fictional. It has absolutely
no basis in reality.
It would be too mild to say that this idea was based on a misinterpretation
of the Bible. In reality, this mindset is inspired, one might say engineered,
by dark forces in a deliberate attempt, and I might say a desperate
attempt, to keep the largest possible number of Christians in the fear-based
mindset in which they have been trapped for almost 2,000 years.
As I explain throughout this website, it was one of the greatest tragedies
of the Christian dispensation that orthodox Christianity became turned
into a fear-based religion, which denies the fact that every human being
has the potential to follow in my footsteps and manifest personal Christhood.
The real problem with this fear is that it causes people to think in
terms of black and white. This gives rise to extremist thinking, which
so easily leads to fanaticism, as you can clearly see from some of the
atrocities committed by so-called Christians, be it the Inquisition
the Crusades or many others, including the current war in Iraq.
One of my great hopes for this website is that it will help people escape
this fear-based, all-or-nothing, black-and-white state of consciousness,
so that they can discover the middle way of the Christ consciousness.
Let me offer a few remarks for those who are willing to think about
this and seek their own answers in their hearts instead of looking for
fear-based interpretations coming from preachers or authors who do not
have the mind of Christ.
What could possibly be God's purpose for suddenly removing all of the
good people from planet Earth? When you understand the teachings I am
giving on this website on the fact that everything is energy, you realize
that there is a fundamental connection between the consciousness of
humankind and the physical planet. As I attempt to explain throughout
this website, the misery and suffering you see on this planet is a direct
product of the fact that so many people have fallen into a lower state
of consciousness. As Mother Mary explains in her
discourses, it is indeed this lower state of consciousness that
gives rise to natural disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes,
floods and so forth.
The stark reality on planet Earth is that the only thing that prevents
a planetary cataclysm is that there are so many people on this planet
who have reached a high level of consciousness, namely a level of personal
Christhood. These people literally hold the balance, in a spiritual
way, for planet Earth. If these people were suddenly removed from this
planet, nature and physical matter itself would instantly begin to break
down.
So if a rapture, as described in the Left Behind books, were to happen,
you would, within a matter of days, see a cataclysm that would literally
wipe out 90% of the people (and all other forms of life) on this planet.
My point here is that if the rapture, as described in these books and
preached by certain fundamentalist churches, were to actually happen,
the Earth would instantly cease to be a viable platform for the spiritual
evolution of souls. In other words, the whole premise of the books,
namely what happens to those who are left behind, would be a moot point
because there would be very few people left behind after the cataclysm
was over.
As I explain throughout this website, planet Earth was created for one
purpose only, namely to give souls a platform for their spiritual evolution.
God has no desire to destroy this planet because that would counteract
the purpose of giving souls an opportunity to grow spiritually by seeing
the consequences of their actions.
I am aware that many Christians have been brought up to fear that God
could suddenly kill all human beings, as is described in the biblical
flood. So let me take this opportunity to tell you bluntly that the
biblical flood did not destroy all people on this planet save the family
of Noah. The biblical flood did take place but it was a localized event,
and there were millions of people on this planet that were not affected
by the flood whatsoever.
A basic knowledge of genetics should show you that if there suddenly
was only a handful of people left on this planet, the gene pool would
be so shallow that they would die out very quickly due to birth defects.
Incidentally, this also applies to the story of the Garden of Eden,
and this shows that there were more people on Earth than Adam and Eve.
Let me make it very clear that God has no desire whatsoever to destroy
this planet or to destroy humankind. This is not to say that the Earth
could not go through some type of tribulation in which natural disasters
would occur at a larger scale than what is currently seen (which is
already a tribulation). This is possible because we are in the transition
between two spiritual cycles, or ages, as explained elsewhere.
If people will not go through the necessary change in consciousness,
as Mother mary explains,
the result will be natural disasters or wars that forcefully break up
the old patterns of thinking.
Yet as I explain throughout this website, this is not God's punishment.
This is simply people punishing themselves by continually going against
the basic laws that God used to create planet Earth. Therefore, people
are creating such a burden of negative energy that it eventually causes
the physical plant to start breaking down.
As I explained in my discourse on the fact that people can create a
false God, the true God is not an angry and judgmental God. God
is a God of unconditional love. God has given human beings free will,
and if they will not listen to the teachings on unconditional love and
universal spirituality, then people must learn from seeing the consequences
of their actions. Precisely because God’s love is unconditional,
God will allow people to destroy themselves, if that is what they insist
on doing. The reason being that this is the only way people can learn.
Right now humankind can be said to be in a ship that is taking on water.
Obviously, the permanent solution to this problem is to find the leaks
in the hull of the ship and close those leaks. The only way to do that
is that a critical mass of people discover, accept and decide to follow
the inner spiritual path that I describe on this website and that I
preached 2,000 years ago to those who had an ear to hear. I am not saying
this website is the only place you can find descriptions of this inner
path because it is truly found in all the major religions and in many
other places as well. Nevertheless, the only thing that can stop the
ship from sinking is that a critical mass of people make a serious and
determined effort to manifest personal Christhood.
The tragedy that I see in Christianity today is that the vast majority
of Christians have been programmed with a set of serpentine lies that
cause them to reject their potential to manifest Christhood. They have
literally been brought up to reject Christ in themselves, which means
that they also reject the Christ in me, because inasmuch as you have
done it unto the least of these my little one, which includes yourself,
you have done it unto me.
Unfortunately, the idea of the of rapture and of the second coming of
Christ only reinforces this mindset by throwing people into a state
of fear, in which they believe they have absolutely no control over
their destiny. As I explain throughout this website, God has given people
free will, and therefore God has no control over the destiny of the
Earth. It is up to people to save this planet, and they can do so only
by manifesting a higher state of consciousness than what you current
see.
I am not thereby saying that the millions of Christians who strive to
live good lives are not helping to improve the situation on this planet.
Unfortunately, what they are doing can be compared to people who are
using buckets to bail the water out of the sinking ship. The problem
is that bailing out water does nothing to close the holes in the hull
of the ship, and therefore more water keeps coming in. And currently
there is more water coming in than the Christians on this planet are
bailing out or can bail out.
That is why I need some of these Christians, those who claim to be my
followers and who are not afraid to listen to my Living Word in their
hearts, to abandon the black-and-white thinking and to take responsibility
for their salvation and the salvation of the planet. I need them to
wake up and make the effort to manifest Christ consciousness, which
will close the holes in the hull of the ship and stop it from sinking.
Let me also say that the Left Behind books give an inaccurate portrayal
of the second coming of Christ. As I explain elsewhere,
I will not suddenly appear in the sky and solve all of humankind's problems.
People must uncreate what they have created.
Another problem with these books is the presentation of a third anti-christ
in the form of a single person. It simply is not true that there will
be one person who represents anti-christ and there will be one appearance
of Christ. As I explain throughout this website, the second coming of
Christ means that a large number of people embrace the path to Christhood
and manifest individual Christ consciousness. The reality of the situation
is that there is a universal Christ mind, and it can be expressed in
this world only through individual Christhood.
Likewise, there is a universal mind of anti-christ, and it must also
be expressed in this world through individual people. Therefore, any
person has the potential to manifest Christ consciousness, and any person
has the potential to manifest the anti-christ consciousness. Any person
who reaches for the Christ consciousness will become part of the second
coming of Christ. Any person who reaches for the anti-christ consciousness,
or who does not resist this consciousness, will become part of the coming
of anti-christ.
Incidentally, this includes some people who think they are good Christians
but who are so trapped in the fear-based approach to religion that they
promote the idolatrous lies about me that were truly engineered by the
consciousness of anti-christ in a deliberate attempt to prevent the
true second coming of Christ, namely the coming of Christ in you.
Can you see my point? The Left Behind books and many of the orthodox
Christian doctrines promote the lie that people are not responsible
for their situation. These ideas literally say that people can do nothing
to change the situation because the problems are caused by a single
anti-Christ and they will be solved by a single Christ. In reality,
the problems on this planet are caused by the fact that almost every
human being, from time to time, becomes an expression of the consciousness
of anti-christ. The problems will be solved only when a critical mass
of people decide to become expressions of the consciousness of Christ.
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