I have noticed that one of the most common practises of mankind is to murder itself as much as possible. A practise that has many disguises. One disguise is to hide behind the mask of self-justification. It makes the human race a singularly unpleasant life-form.
As a visitor to your planet a couple of times I have to admit I would be overwhelmed with fear and foreboding that such a life-form exists in the Universe, if it wasnt for the fact that I am not a stranger to you, having seen enough death and destruction on your planet to wipe out a whole galaxy in a single day.
It took me a while to assimilate your disparate languages but I soon found words common to all, which are spoken with such passion and force. Hate is one. Kill is another. Murder. Execute. War. And many like these.
Occasionally Ive heard kinder words from the lips of a more timid and humble kind, but alas they are few. They are few because kind words lose their meaning in the hideous and confusing lexicon of phrases that bedeck the lips of your leaders, like Pray for Victory in Battle, Armed Struggle and Holy War, which pollute your text books and manuals.
As each day of lawlessness propagates another, the total sum of human folly is writ large on the last accounting day, a day when words spoken thousands of years ago take authority over you.
In your world you use words like foragers do, who use them to get something to eat. Untold misery stares you in the face every day and still your tongue has no King. In the world I come from, words are not used in the same way as you use them. As a result we don't fight and kill each other at all, as you do in your region.
You think that words are a means of control, a tool for controlling your future and the future of those around you who are weaker than you. You organise these words into a collective, which you call 'culture', and then proceed from there to bind yourselves to laws and decrees that give you a sense of righteousness to impose your culture by force and by murder on anyone who gets in your way. From what I've seen, you have been doing this for thousands of years, and the soil of your planet is sodden with the blood of the weak. In spite of all your pain and grief you still remain infantile, the state of a child that has learnt nothing. You think that blood spilt by Revolutions, Jihads, Crusades and Missions can pave the way for truth and form pathways to maturity but you are very sadly mistaken. A child cannot inherit a place until it has learned to live in it properly.
You haven't grown up yet. Where IS your King by the way?
I heard that someone from our seed came to teach you how to grow up. I already knew his teaching would fall on deaf ears. You yourselves know what I mean. Those of you who have raised your own children will be familiar with the expression 'deaf ears.' Children seem to be born with them, they have the knack of not listening at an early age and of not growing up until it is too late to change. You too did this when you were a child and it is an annoying habit that gets passed down from one generation to the next.
A friend of mine overheard him say, Im not looking forward to the prospect of going there. I didnt know he meant Earth, otherwise Id have stopped him. When I heard he intended to become one of you, I was beside myself with grief and torment!
You see, he has a perception of eternity that warned him about you. He feared that you would murder him also, and do to him what you do to each other. To be perfectly honest with you, I too thought youd do the same to him but with great pomp and ceremony to inflate your perfidious ego.
Well, that was 2000 years ago and you can't argue he didn't try. Your region received the truth he brought you, which youve somehow managed to rework beyond recognition. Strange, it seems like only yesterday when he died and rose again from the dead. Eternity is like that. To you, hes a forgotten relic from the past but this is the problem isn't it. Time and eternity are not from the same place. Everything he said will happen, has already happened here.
He did try to tell you. Really, he tried ever so hard to show you the truth and to warn you about things to come. He even predicted his own death through Isaiah several hundred years before he went to you and he predicted exactly how he was going to die and how he was going to rise again while he was there, so that you would believe him as one whose words can be trusted. As one who knows the future.
I dont know why he went to so much trouble. He even used his own body and life as a kind of teaching tool, a living example of truth. There was no other way I could have done it. Do you understand? There was simply no other way, other than robbing them of their freedom of choice. I heard him remonstrate once.
Yes, he did it in the most humble way he could. He came from our world where words and existence are compatible and he laid down his life to murderers in the hope you would be moved by his gesture of good will and learn about our world and change your ways.
Now its important that I remind you about the significance of his words. His words are eternal. The words he used to teach you about our world are eternal because our world is eternal. It is impossible for you, trapped in your prison of time, to try and alter these words. As he said, "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away." Diocletian, and many other despots like him, thought they could wipe out his words by killing those who held on to them but you can't wipe out something that is eternal. It is quite beyond the limited powers of evil to destroy something eternally good.
I nearly forgot. The purpose of me writing this letter! It was just to remind you that we have been patient all this time. We feel now is the appropriate time to bring things to a tidy conclusion, before you destroy everything. That would only seem fair wouldn't it? I mean, you've had 2000 years, for goodness sake! How much more time do you need to spend killing each other before the truth sinks in and stops your mayhem? What would you do in his shoes? Sit here at the right hand of his Father and watch bloodshed and mayhem for another 2000 years? Come on, get real. Justice has to be seen, for it to be real.
You like justice dont you? Will you like it as much if it starts with you? I mean, the purpose of justice is not for you to judge one another, is it? Oh dear, is that what you think it is for? That's rather silly, seeing that you are equally as bad as one another when it comes to anger, jealousy, self-righteousness, hatred and murder. No, the purpose of justice is for you to be judged by words that do not come from your region but from a place where evil does not exist.
The word 'justice' is meaningless if it is not executed at the proper time in the proper place and by proper means. Some people in your region think they have 'got away with murder' - a phrase coined by many who think that justice is an illusion. Yes, justice is an illusion, most assuredly so, in your hands. It exists in name only.
Justice does not exist in your world, if it did, you would be happy with it but you aren't, you complain about it everyday. As I have said, hatred and murder do not exist in our world and as such his words will judge you correctly. So that no-one gets away with anything, his words will be the basis of judgment at the end of time. That's a promise. No-one will get away with anything. No judge on Earth has ever been able to offer THAT kind of guarantee. Just think of all those people who have done you wrong, they'll be judged. Likewise, all the people you've done wrong to, you'll be judged. That's fair isn't it? And, a bonus for you! An opportunity for you to have a preview of the judgment that has already been done! All written down and preserved by him in a book that has survived your hateful and murderous hands. So, you can see your sentence before it is carried out and avoid it by following his instructions on how to escape from it! As he said, "For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man. Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who in their graves will hear his voice and come out - those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned."
This is called his judgment seat. All those who, for example, have killed another person are condemned already whether done in the name of Justice, Revenge, God, Country, Ruler, King, President or Prime Minister. All have been condemned already. Theyve all been here already, murderers begging for mercy. Fortunately, some repented before they died and so some have escaped judgment. As for the rest, he didnt recognise any of them and has not let them into our world because he didnt recognise the words coming out of their mouths.
You heard me calling you to love God and your neighbour. It was the first commandment! You have no excuse, he kept saying. You cannot come in with blood on your hands and sin in your hearts. Wasnt my blood sufficient for you as a sacrifice, blood that fulfilled the 1st commandment?
Many pleaded, calling themselves believers, priests, presidents, reverends, bishops, leaders, shepherds, kings of men. But they all had rejected his words and his teaching and not one had a renewed mind. Still worse, many of them had led others to commit murder by praying for them to be victorious in killing other men. Their fate looked worse than the ones who had blood on their hands!
As he said, "As for the person who hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it. There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day."
From your point of view, reader, the last day has not happened yet. But from where I am, in eternity, it has already happened. So, when he said he has not come to judge the world but to save it, he meant it. And when he said he has the authority to judge, he meant it.
His words that give birth to salvation are the same words that give birth to judgment. The one who accepts his words is born into our world and grows to full stature by eating them (living judgment). The one who rejects his words is not born into our world and does not grow up at all but regrets not having eaten them (final judgment).
The reader must understand that his judgment simply does not mean the weighing up of good and evil, this is far from the truth. His words mean one thing while you are living but quite another when you are dead. Justice has already be done if you eat his words while you are living and justice will be done when the same words lift you out of your grave on that day.
Let no-one be fooled. Justice has to be done.
As a visitor to your planet a couple of times I have to admit I would be overwhelmed with fear and foreboding that such a life-form exists in the Universe, if it wasnt for the fact that I am not a stranger to you, having seen enough death and destruction on your planet to wipe out a whole galaxy in a single day.
It took me a while to assimilate your disparate languages but I soon found words common to all, which are spoken with such passion and force. Hate is one. Kill is another. Murder. Execute. War. And many like these.
Occasionally Ive heard kinder words from the lips of a more timid and humble kind, but alas they are few. They are few because kind words lose their meaning in the hideous and confusing lexicon of phrases that bedeck the lips of your leaders, like Pray for Victory in Battle, Armed Struggle and Holy War, which pollute your text books and manuals.
As each day of lawlessness propagates another, the total sum of human folly is writ large on the last accounting day, a day when words spoken thousands of years ago take authority over you.
In your world you use words like foragers do, who use them to get something to eat. Untold misery stares you in the face every day and still your tongue has no King. In the world I come from, words are not used in the same way as you use them. As a result we don't fight and kill each other at all, as you do in your region.
You think that words are a means of control, a tool for controlling your future and the future of those around you who are weaker than you. You organise these words into a collective, which you call 'culture', and then proceed from there to bind yourselves to laws and decrees that give you a sense of righteousness to impose your culture by force and by murder on anyone who gets in your way. From what I've seen, you have been doing this for thousands of years, and the soil of your planet is sodden with the blood of the weak. In spite of all your pain and grief you still remain infantile, the state of a child that has learnt nothing. You think that blood spilt by Revolutions, Jihads, Crusades and Missions can pave the way for truth and form pathways to maturity but you are very sadly mistaken. A child cannot inherit a place until it has learned to live in it properly.
You haven't grown up yet. Where IS your King by the way?
I heard that someone from our seed came to teach you how to grow up. I already knew his teaching would fall on deaf ears. You yourselves know what I mean. Those of you who have raised your own children will be familiar with the expression 'deaf ears.' Children seem to be born with them, they have the knack of not listening at an early age and of not growing up until it is too late to change. You too did this when you were a child and it is an annoying habit that gets passed down from one generation to the next.
A friend of mine overheard him say, Im not looking forward to the prospect of going there. I didnt know he meant Earth, otherwise Id have stopped him. When I heard he intended to become one of you, I was beside myself with grief and torment!
You see, he has a perception of eternity that warned him about you. He feared that you would murder him also, and do to him what you do to each other. To be perfectly honest with you, I too thought youd do the same to him but with great pomp and ceremony to inflate your perfidious ego.
Well, that was 2000 years ago and you can't argue he didn't try. Your region received the truth he brought you, which youve somehow managed to rework beyond recognition. Strange, it seems like only yesterday when he died and rose again from the dead. Eternity is like that. To you, hes a forgotten relic from the past but this is the problem isn't it. Time and eternity are not from the same place. Everything he said will happen, has already happened here.
He did try to tell you. Really, he tried ever so hard to show you the truth and to warn you about things to come. He even predicted his own death through Isaiah several hundred years before he went to you and he predicted exactly how he was going to die and how he was going to rise again while he was there, so that you would believe him as one whose words can be trusted. As one who knows the future.
I dont know why he went to so much trouble. He even used his own body and life as a kind of teaching tool, a living example of truth. There was no other way I could have done it. Do you understand? There was simply no other way, other than robbing them of their freedom of choice. I heard him remonstrate once.
Yes, he did it in the most humble way he could. He came from our world where words and existence are compatible and he laid down his life to murderers in the hope you would be moved by his gesture of good will and learn about our world and change your ways.
Now its important that I remind you about the significance of his words. His words are eternal. The words he used to teach you about our world are eternal because our world is eternal. It is impossible for you, trapped in your prison of time, to try and alter these words. As he said, "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away." Diocletian, and many other despots like him, thought they could wipe out his words by killing those who held on to them but you can't wipe out something that is eternal. It is quite beyond the limited powers of evil to destroy something eternally good.
I nearly forgot. The purpose of me writing this letter! It was just to remind you that we have been patient all this time. We feel now is the appropriate time to bring things to a tidy conclusion, before you destroy everything. That would only seem fair wouldn't it? I mean, you've had 2000 years, for goodness sake! How much more time do you need to spend killing each other before the truth sinks in and stops your mayhem? What would you do in his shoes? Sit here at the right hand of his Father and watch bloodshed and mayhem for another 2000 years? Come on, get real. Justice has to be seen, for it to be real.
You like justice dont you? Will you like it as much if it starts with you? I mean, the purpose of justice is not for you to judge one another, is it? Oh dear, is that what you think it is for? That's rather silly, seeing that you are equally as bad as one another when it comes to anger, jealousy, self-righteousness, hatred and murder. No, the purpose of justice is for you to be judged by words that do not come from your region but from a place where evil does not exist.
The word 'justice' is meaningless if it is not executed at the proper time in the proper place and by proper means. Some people in your region think they have 'got away with murder' - a phrase coined by many who think that justice is an illusion. Yes, justice is an illusion, most assuredly so, in your hands. It exists in name only.
Justice does not exist in your world, if it did, you would be happy with it but you aren't, you complain about it everyday. As I have said, hatred and murder do not exist in our world and as such his words will judge you correctly. So that no-one gets away with anything, his words will be the basis of judgment at the end of time. That's a promise. No-one will get away with anything. No judge on Earth has ever been able to offer THAT kind of guarantee. Just think of all those people who have done you wrong, they'll be judged. Likewise, all the people you've done wrong to, you'll be judged. That's fair isn't it? And, a bonus for you! An opportunity for you to have a preview of the judgment that has already been done! All written down and preserved by him in a book that has survived your hateful and murderous hands. So, you can see your sentence before it is carried out and avoid it by following his instructions on how to escape from it! As he said, "For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to judge because he is the Son of Man. Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who in their graves will hear his voice and come out - those who have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will rise to be condemned."
This is called his judgment seat. All those who, for example, have killed another person are condemned already whether done in the name of Justice, Revenge, God, Country, Ruler, King, President or Prime Minister. All have been condemned already. Theyve all been here already, murderers begging for mercy. Fortunately, some repented before they died and so some have escaped judgment. As for the rest, he didnt recognise any of them and has not let them into our world because he didnt recognise the words coming out of their mouths.
You heard me calling you to love God and your neighbour. It was the first commandment! You have no excuse, he kept saying. You cannot come in with blood on your hands and sin in your hearts. Wasnt my blood sufficient for you as a sacrifice, blood that fulfilled the 1st commandment?
Many pleaded, calling themselves believers, priests, presidents, reverends, bishops, leaders, shepherds, kings of men. But they all had rejected his words and his teaching and not one had a renewed mind. Still worse, many of them had led others to commit murder by praying for them to be victorious in killing other men. Their fate looked worse than the ones who had blood on their hands!
As he said, "As for the person who hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it. There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day."
From your point of view, reader, the last day has not happened yet. But from where I am, in eternity, it has already happened. So, when he said he has not come to judge the world but to save it, he meant it. And when he said he has the authority to judge, he meant it.
His words that give birth to salvation are the same words that give birth to judgment. The one who accepts his words is born into our world and grows to full stature by eating them (living judgment). The one who rejects his words is not born into our world and does not grow up at all but regrets not having eaten them (final judgment).
The reader must understand that his judgment simply does not mean the weighing up of good and evil, this is far from the truth. His words mean one thing while you are living but quite another when you are dead. Justice has already be done if you eat his words while you are living and justice will be done when the same words lift you out of your grave on that day.
Let no-one be fooled. Justice has to be done.
