Vol. 3. Page 445 Jesus: I am the True Bread of Heaven
Vol. 3. Page 445 Jesus: I am the True Bread of Heaven
by Poem on Wed Apr 09, 2008 6:46 pm
"No one has seen God except Him Who came from God: He has seen the Father. And I am He. And now listen to the Creed of the future Life, without which no one can be saved. I solemnly tell you that he who believes in Me has eternal Life. I solemnly tell you that I Am the Bread of eternal Life."
"Your fathers ate manna in the desert and they died. Because manna was a holy but temporary food and gave life as was required to reach the Land Promised by God to His people. But the Manna Which I Am, will have no limit of time or power. It is not only celestial, but divine and produces what is divine: the incorruptibility and immortality of what God created to His image and likeness. It will not last forty days, forty months, forty years, forty centuries. But it will last until the end of Time and will be given to all who hunger for what is holy and pleasing to the Lord, Who will rejoice at giving Himself incommensurably to men, for whom He became incarnate, that they may have Life which does not die."
"I can give Myself, I can transubstantiate for the sake of men, so that the bread may become Flesh and the Flesh may become Bread, for the spiritual hunger of men, who without that Food would die of starvation and spiritual diseases. But if one eats this Bread with justice, one will live forever. The bread which I will give is My Body sacrificed for the Life of the world, is My Love spread in the houses of God, so that all loving or unhappy souls may come to the Table of the Lord, and may find solace to their need to be united to God and relief to their sorrows."
They reply: But how can You give us Your flesh to eat? Who do You think we are? Blood thirsty beasts? Savages? Murderers? Blood and crime disgust us.
Jesus resumes: "I tell you solemnly that man is very often more cruel than beasts, that sin makes men savages, that pride makes them blood-thirsty murderers and that blood and crime will not disgust all the people present here. And also in future man will be the same, because Satan, sensuality and pride make him brutal. Man therefore with greater care must rid himself of the dreadful germs through the infusion of the Holy One."
"I tell you solemnly that if you do not eat the Flesh of the Son of man and you do not drink His Blood, you will not have Life in you. He who eats My Flesh worthily and drinks My Blood, has eternal Life and I will raise him up on the Last Day. For My Flesh is real Food and My Blood is real Drink. He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood lives in Me, and I in him. As the Living Father sent Me, and I live for the Father, so whoever eats Me will live also for Me and will go where I send Him, and will do what I want, and will live austerely, as a man, and as ardently as a Seraph, and will be holy, because in order to be able to feed on My Flesh and My Blood, he will abstain from sin and will live ascending and finish its ascent at the feet of the Eternal Father."
They reply: "He is mad! Who can live like that? In our religion only the priest is to be purified to offer the victim. He wants to make us victims of His madness. His doctrine is too painful and His language too hard! Who can listen to Him and practice what He says?"
whisper the people present and many are disciples known as such.
The crowds disperse making their comments. And when the Master is alone in the synagogue with His most faithful followers, the number of disciples has diminished considerably. I cannot count them, but I would say that, more or less, they are about one hundred. So there must have been a remarkable defection also in the group of old disciples by now at the service of God. Among those left there are the Apostles, John the priest and John the scribe, Stephen (first martyr) Hermas, Timoneus, Ermasteus, Agapo, Joseph, Solomon, Abel of Bethlehem of Galilee, and Abel the leper of Korazim, with his friend Samuel, Elias(the one who did not bury his father to follow Jesus), Philip of Arbela, Aser and Ishmael of Nazareth, and some whose names I do not know. They are speaking to one another in low voices commenting on the defection of the others and the words of Jesus, Who with folded arms is leaning against a high lectern.
Jesus thus speaks: "Are you scandalized at what I told you? And if I told you that one day you will see the Son of man ascend to Heaven where He was before, and sit beside His Father? What have you understood, assimilated and believed so far? And how have you heard and assimilated? Only through your humanity? It is the spirit that gives life and is important. The flesh is of no avail. My words are spirit and life, and they are to be heard and understood through the spirit to have life. But there are many among you whose spirits are dead because they are without faith. Many of you do not really believe. And they are staying with Me in vain. They will not receive Life, but Death. Because they are staying with Me, as I said at the beginning, either out of curiosity, or for human pleasure, or worse still, for more worthless purposes. They have not been led here by My Father, as a reward to their good will, but by Satan. Nobody can come to Me unless it is granted to him by My Father. You may go who find it difficult to remain here, because you are ashamed, from a human point of view, to leave Me, but you but your are more ashamed to stay at the service of One Who seems "mad and hard" to you.
Go. It is better for you to be far away, than be here and do harm."
Many of the disciples withdraw, among them there is John, the scribe, Marcus, the possessed Gerasene, who was cured by Jesus and the devils possessing him were sent into the pigs. The good disciples consult with one another and run after their faithless companions endeavoring to stop them.
In the synagogue there is only Jesus with the chief of the synagogue and the Apostles......
Jesus turns towards the twelve Apostles, who are deeply humiliated and are standing in a corner and say to them: "Do you want to go as well?" He says so without bitterness and without sadness, but very seriously.
Peter replies with sorrowful transport: "Lord, where can we go? To whom? You are our life and our love. You alone have the words of eternal Life. We know that you are the Christ, the Son of God. If you wish, send us away. But we will not leave You of our own free will, not even.... not even if You should not love us anymore" Peter sheds large tears silently.
"Your fathers ate manna in the desert and they died. Because manna was a holy but temporary food and gave life as was required to reach the Land Promised by God to His people. But the Manna Which I Am, will have no limit of time or power. It is not only celestial, but divine and produces what is divine: the incorruptibility and immortality of what God created to His image and likeness. It will not last forty days, forty months, forty years, forty centuries. But it will last until the end of Time and will be given to all who hunger for what is holy and pleasing to the Lord, Who will rejoice at giving Himself incommensurably to men, for whom He became incarnate, that they may have Life which does not die."
"I can give Myself, I can transubstantiate for the sake of men, so that the bread may become Flesh and the Flesh may become Bread, for the spiritual hunger of men, who without that Food would die of starvation and spiritual diseases. But if one eats this Bread with justice, one will live forever. The bread which I will give is My Body sacrificed for the Life of the world, is My Love spread in the houses of God, so that all loving or unhappy souls may come to the Table of the Lord, and may find solace to their need to be united to God and relief to their sorrows."
They reply: But how can You give us Your flesh to eat? Who do You think we are? Blood thirsty beasts? Savages? Murderers? Blood and crime disgust us.
Jesus resumes: "I tell you solemnly that man is very often more cruel than beasts, that sin makes men savages, that pride makes them blood-thirsty murderers and that blood and crime will not disgust all the people present here. And also in future man will be the same, because Satan, sensuality and pride make him brutal. Man therefore with greater care must rid himself of the dreadful germs through the infusion of the Holy One."
"I tell you solemnly that if you do not eat the Flesh of the Son of man and you do not drink His Blood, you will not have Life in you. He who eats My Flesh worthily and drinks My Blood, has eternal Life and I will raise him up on the Last Day. For My Flesh is real Food and My Blood is real Drink. He who eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood lives in Me, and I in him. As the Living Father sent Me, and I live for the Father, so whoever eats Me will live also for Me and will go where I send Him, and will do what I want, and will live austerely, as a man, and as ardently as a Seraph, and will be holy, because in order to be able to feed on My Flesh and My Blood, he will abstain from sin and will live ascending and finish its ascent at the feet of the Eternal Father."
They reply: "He is mad! Who can live like that? In our religion only the priest is to be purified to offer the victim. He wants to make us victims of His madness. His doctrine is too painful and His language too hard! Who can listen to Him and practice what He says?"
whisper the people present and many are disciples known as such.
The crowds disperse making their comments. And when the Master is alone in the synagogue with His most faithful followers, the number of disciples has diminished considerably. I cannot count them, but I would say that, more or less, they are about one hundred. So there must have been a remarkable defection also in the group of old disciples by now at the service of God. Among those left there are the Apostles, John the priest and John the scribe, Stephen (first martyr) Hermas, Timoneus, Ermasteus, Agapo, Joseph, Solomon, Abel of Bethlehem of Galilee, and Abel the leper of Korazim, with his friend Samuel, Elias(the one who did not bury his father to follow Jesus), Philip of Arbela, Aser and Ishmael of Nazareth, and some whose names I do not know. They are speaking to one another in low voices commenting on the defection of the others and the words of Jesus, Who with folded arms is leaning against a high lectern.
Jesus thus speaks: "Are you scandalized at what I told you? And if I told you that one day you will see the Son of man ascend to Heaven where He was before, and sit beside His Father? What have you understood, assimilated and believed so far? And how have you heard and assimilated? Only through your humanity? It is the spirit that gives life and is important. The flesh is of no avail. My words are spirit and life, and they are to be heard and understood through the spirit to have life. But there are many among you whose spirits are dead because they are without faith. Many of you do not really believe. And they are staying with Me in vain. They will not receive Life, but Death. Because they are staying with Me, as I said at the beginning, either out of curiosity, or for human pleasure, or worse still, for more worthless purposes. They have not been led here by My Father, as a reward to their good will, but by Satan. Nobody can come to Me unless it is granted to him by My Father. You may go who find it difficult to remain here, because you are ashamed, from a human point of view, to leave Me, but you but your are more ashamed to stay at the service of One Who seems "mad and hard" to you.
Go. It is better for you to be far away, than be here and do harm."
Many of the disciples withdraw, among them there is John, the scribe, Marcus, the possessed Gerasene, who was cured by Jesus and the devils possessing him were sent into the pigs. The good disciples consult with one another and run after their faithless companions endeavoring to stop them.
In the synagogue there is only Jesus with the chief of the synagogue and the Apostles......
Jesus turns towards the twelve Apostles, who are deeply humiliated and are standing in a corner and say to them: "Do you want to go as well?" He says so without bitterness and without sadness, but very seriously.
Peter replies with sorrowful transport: "Lord, where can we go? To whom? You are our life and our love. You alone have the words of eternal Life. We know that you are the Christ, the Son of God. If you wish, send us away. But we will not leave You of our own free will, not even.... not even if You should not love us anymore" Peter sheds large tears silently.
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