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The Evangelist Luke
7th April 1864
[1] I know the four things you want to know more of and I will inform you shortly about it.
[2] Regarding the evangelist Luke, I have, at various instances, told you this and that.
[3] Regarding his Gospel, it is a collection of his investigation efforts in and around Jerusalem about Me and My deeds and teachings as was conveyed to him by different people. Afterwards, he organised it in his own way and divided it into chapters and verses. Of course he could not correspond with the number of chapters and verses of another evangelist, explaining why some parts are found in a completely different chapter and verse as another – as you can clearly see by comparing parallel instances. (Luke 1:1-3)
[4] Regarding his personality: he was a graphic artist and designer. With these products of his hands, he provided weavers, cloth- and carpet producers; the images on Jewish scarfs and curtains was also often his work. He was also a letter drawer and calligrapher, especially when someone would want something to be written neatly and evenly. He understood and spoke Greek, Latin and Hebrew and could in an emergency also communicate in other languages which happened to be spoken generally around Judea.
[5] In addition he was, as there where and is many such people, a diligent gatherer of news and he got to know everything in particular what happened in My time and what people talked most about and made a fuss about. He took pleasure when he could entertain the many curious people among whom he lived, with sensational news – in which he was nothing eclectic, but the first and closest was good enough, as long as it had a hint of something extraordinary.
[6] Initially, to his stories, especially where truthful facts lacked, many additions were added on his own soil and territory.
[7] Only at the time when the Apostle Paul preached My word here and there in Greece, he [Luke] was seriously commanded by his friend Theophilus – also living in Greece – to gather truthful information regarding Me, to write it down and send it to him. He, Theophilus, have heard vastly different things about a certain Nazarene from the Jews as well as the Greeks and he could not gain clarity about what exactly made this person special. The question was whether this supernatural being was only a skilled man in possession of manifold wisdom gained from books. (Luke 1:3; Acts 1:1)
[8] When Luke kept this letter in his hands in Jerusalem, he gave more serious attention to this request and inquire about everything, especially about My person and My message, but he did not readily listen to My true disciples, but mostly to other people who liked Me and My disciples, who knew Me personally, but got their information mostly from My disciples. Between My existence as man on this earth and the completion of the Gospel of Luke, thirty-five years have elapsed (therefore anno 68) and only after that he could send it to his friend Theophilus in Greece – and this Theophilus then compared it with his own notes. (Luke 1:3)
[9] As it was with his Gospel, it was even more so with his apostolic history which he wrote because of the insistence of his friend Theophilus. He did this closer to the end of his life, that is, at a time when not one of My original apostles or disciples was present in Jerusalem any more. (Acts 1:1,2)
[10] The apostolic history have undergone some changes in the hands of his friend and even the data gathered by him in Judea, were often fabrications of such disciples and spreaders of My word who often presented themselves as such without the inner calling and everyone knew better about everything.
[11] Thus it happened that the Gospel of Luke and even more the following history of the apostles, contained fabrications and exaggerations of which My true disciples knew little or nothing; for they did not often reside in Jerusalem, but were mostly active in Galilee, Samaria and in the other more remote parts of Jerusalem.
[12] Now that you know this, you will understand that the named earthquake and darkness at the time of My death on the cross, the opening of the graves in the valley of Josephath, My ascension on two different mountains, the sending of the Holy Spirit, was mostly the result of the fantasy of My listeners and adherents of that time; and it has to be, since the most dependable of all evangelists (John), never made any mention of it. Not even Luke himself says whether he was present at the outpouring of the Holy Spirit or not ! (Matt 27:45, 52-53; 28:16; Mark 15:33; 16:19; Luke 23:44-45; 24:50-51; Acts 1:9-10; 2:4)
[13] His gospel and history of the apostles was declared to be apocryphical at the great church council of Nicea for this reason, but the Western bishops opposed this notion and everything Luke wrote, was consequently declared to be authentic. This Luke til today is regarded to be among the most trustworthy evangelists and until now, he receives higher regard that John.
[14] But everything untrue will disappear out of itself in time and if this will not happen, there could hardly come a time of which John spoke, that there will be one shepherd and one fold. (John 10:16)
[15] Yet, also in these episodes is something spiritually good and true, as I have said previously. But in the sphere of natural reality, it is nothing better than the Song of Solomon, according to whom the daughter of Zion would be of a form in which one would find only little pleasure, but seen on the inside, the spiritual would look very much different.
[16] Why then, would I completely darken the sun at My death – and that for a full three hours ? If this would be so, the sun had to be darkened also in India, Japan, America, etc. and the scribes of those nations would have written it down. Not even the Roman historians do not know of such an event. It thus had to apply only to Jerusalem, where all people present had to be made blind for three hours and only John had to keep his sight, since he did not mention such an eclipse. (Matt. 27:45; Mark 15:33; Luke 23:44)
[17] Just like the solar eclipse, it was with My observable ascension from this world; where would such a heaven be to where I would ascend ?! Where should the Omnipresent One go, to indicate to men where he actually reside ?! I do think that I would be comfortable everywhere in whole of infinity, since I am in everything and am the Primordial Life and conserving principle and without Me, nothing could be anything, neither exist ! Heaven is wherever My Love and Wisdom rules; and in stark matter exists that which proceeds from the might of My judgement and the apparent death. Therefore it is said that the heaven is My throne and the earth, formed by the total of matter, is the bench under My feet. Nobody will really think that the endless space of heaven would represent nothing other than My throne – and to prevent Me to tire while I sit down, have placed the earth underneath My feet ! (Matt 5:35; 27:45; 28:16; Mark 15:33; 16:19; Luke 23:44; 24:50-51; Acts 1:9-10; 7:49)
[18] Yes, in the realm of pure spirits a spiritual sun does exist, where I personally dwell with all those who are Mine; this sun is spatiality visible everywhere for all angels and sprits who possess Me in their hearts through love. She is nowhere visible for others, even if they would try to search for her in whole of infinite space and try to find her; for those who are blind of heart are also blind in their spiritual sight and they see of the spiritual sun even less than what a completely blind person on this earth can see of the natural sun.
[19] But through this spiritual sun I am present everywhere and can also make My appearance (personally) and be at work when and where I want to and I have to consult nobody beforehand,
not in the world of spirits and even less in the world of matter; all blessed angels and spirits ask for My advice though, when they want to perform a great deed in My Name.
[20] Regarding their usual activities in My kingdom, they continually find their instructions in their heavenly homes. What these look like, you have already received in the message “The Spiritual Sun”.
[21] Regarding the spiritual side of our evangelist Luke: he was very diligent for My cause and it would have been good if he would have gone deeper a few notches with his zeal. He was and still is a diligent instrument of My love and grace during his life [on earth] as well as the present, for he was better acquainted with the scriptures of the previous testament than any pompous scribe from the Temple walking with the nose in the air. He could therefore evaluate My deeds of which he received information, as being true and he could explain it to others who asked it of him.
[22] Do not worry yourselves about this man because of some of the errors in his writings – for he was in the first place not the real author thereof, but it were rather his proof-reading successors, of whom I can name you a full dozen. Secondly he was, especially in his later years, full of good will and earnestness to preserve the most pure truth in his writings for posterity. He could therefore not be held responsible for what the later congregational leaders made of him. They have sown tares among his wheat, which grew with the wheat. They knew very well to gather the wheat into their barns, but the tares they used to feed their followers – and they are still using it. These followers does not include My lambs and sheep, but they are donkeys, oxen, swine and other dumb animals who are content with thistles and thorns. Let us leave them at that food for now; only when it will become really disgusting to them, they will come to search for other food, which will change them and where they will be brought into the fold with wool of righteous sheep, where there is only one true shepherd and one true flock – and they will be provided with real food.
[23] Now you know beforehand what of Luke you can preserve – everything else will be shared with you at the promised occasion. Amen.
[24] Yes, My beloved servant, the bear with one deaf ear have lead you to an impressive evangelical controversy upon which you, even though you have read through the New Testament since your childhood years repeatedly, did not encounter it. I would have drawn your attention to it in the future, but it is better for you and all others that this situation should be illuminated now already – for all to acknowledge and see that I came in the Spirit now fully perceivable upon this earth, to recruit and enrol the last workers for My vineyard. These workers are exactly those worldly minded and worldly wise philosophers who are putting in so much effort in this serious time to eradicate Me and other evangelists – as I currently exist among the so-called Christian sects – and became like this only two- to three hundred years after My time, through the heathenish Jewish intrigues, which they still are.
[25] Blind humanity, who does not test anything and never have, now believe such a work void of salvation, in My Name. (i.e., believe it to be the pure word of God)
[26] I do not want to judge Luke, Mark or Matthew; at least they went to the trouble in their time to sift out the purest that was left of My teachings, which was already deformed multiple times. Yet, as of the material facts, they partly fabricated it themselves, but for the greater part, they had to go with what they heard from those people who shamelessly and forwardly pretended to have been eye- and ear witnesses of this and that. Thus they did compare it with parts of the old prophets known to them, found some resemblance with what they wrote and used this as criteria of the truth they wrote – and with that it was settled and valid.
[27] If the Gospels would have stayed like that, it would have been much better that what it is now; for in these Gospels, much too little awesome, gruesome and fearsome things was written for humanity, making people deem it necessary – especially among the Jewish Christians, Greeks and Romans and already a hundred years before the great church council of Nicea (325 AD), to add to
things which had the smell of awesomeness, as well as what had great judgemental value, to make of Me, the Saviour of humanity, who have nothing dearer to the heart for man than love and truth, exactly the opposite.
[28] I have never acted against the pure science of man, but have taught many people personally at multiple occasions, where they have been in ignorance and blindness before; for what the deceptive Pharisees hated Me most, because I instructed the people in everything the Pharisees put great effort to dumb down the people for the sake of their dark purposes. They have really pushed things so far as to when a high priest Annas, or also Caiaphas, wanted to spur on the people to greater willingness to bring offerings, they called out in the Temple with an angry voice that there would be nothing but blood in the brook of Kidron for three days and that the sun would not shine for one full day. The people believed such nonsense out of fear and hid in their rooms for such a punishment; when the time of punishment passed, they crept, shaking with fear and anxiety to see the Kidron, whether it still had blood flowing in it. If the Kidron then had it's natural water, the people had nothing to do with more zeal than to bring heavy sacrifices to the Temple and to lay it before the priests' feet.
[29] Of course the sun shone and the brook of Kidron never had a drop of blood, of which the wise Jews convinced themselves and they wanted to instruct the poor and overly superstitious Jews, but mostly without success; for in their fear they saw in their imagination blood flowing and no sun for one full day.
[30] As the people found themselves during all times in the blindest superstition, it is still today. You can tell such people the most absurd fairy tales, they will believe it and when they tell it to their neighbours, they will add a lot to it and convert it to wondrous things if they feel there are too little awe in the story of the first storyteller.
[31] Thus it was also in My time very hard to bring the hardened Jews to acknowledgement of the truth. It took miracles to shake them from their sleep and cause them to begin to think a bit about what I have said about this or that.
[32] I have told my Apostles many times in My time that they should preach less of My miracles and much more of inner truth and depth.
[33] Only John have kept true to this guideline, the others, much less so. They preferred to start off with the miracles and only then spoke of the kingdom of God and the inner truth, after the audience was captivated by the miracles.
[34] This addiction to telling of the miracles escalated from decade to decade, multiplied the great number of partly written and more traditional gospels so much that no one could gain wisdom from any of it any more.
[35] Luke, as well as pseudo evangelist Matthew (l'Rabbas) have started with their gospels not long after Me, but they still had it so confused regarding some things, that great dissensions about various issues had to surface.
[36] It was in any way impossible to verify anything, for every evangelist had his specific readers and audience and was little concerned about another evangelist; each only kept with what he wrote and had great joy in his, just as the other had in his.
[37] As such was L'Rabbas very little or not at all concerned with the circumcision of Jesus in the Temple on the eighth day, neither about the three wise men from the East, neither the flight to Egypt and the cruel murder of infants by Herod in Bethlehem. L'Rabbas (pseudo Matthew) have received such a message in Tire and Sidon and wrote it down in his own way. But since he was, at least before, more a heathen than a Jew, he was in no way concerned with the circumcision of the Jesus-child and as such surface one of the most significant discrepancies between these to
evangelists, while, except for indication of place and time, they do harmonise with each other. (Luke 2:21; Matt 2:1-12; 2:13-23)
[38] According to Luke there exist a fully circumcised Jesus according to all Jewish laws and customs, born in Bethlehem in a sheepfold and was greeted by the shepherds, was not visited by the three wise men from the East, did not have to flee to Egypt, but conveniently returned to Nazareth to live there till his twelfth year without any persecution by Herod, when he undertook a journey with his parents to Jerusalem. (Luke 2, Matthew 2)
[39] In Matthew we saw how Jesus came into the world in a proper house, was not greeted by shepherds, but instead, was visited by the three wise from the East – of which Luke in his gospel did not even dream, neither of the flight before Herod to Egypt neither of the return of Jesus from Egypt or the return of Jesus from Egypt to Galilee under king Archelaus. Instead, Matthew have not even dreamt of the circumcision of Jesus in the Temple after eight days and some other things and so you have according to the writings of these two evangelists, a circumcised Jew-Christian and an uncircumcised heathen-Christian!
[40] After the twelfth year of Jesus, the two evangelists begins to concur again, except for some lesser side-issues.
[41] Now each asks himself: Which of these two evangelists stayed with the truth ? The answer is: actually none ! Each have only mentioned of what he heard. In Jerusalem, nobody dared to talk about the excessive cruelty of Herod, out of fear for punishment. In Sidon and Tyre though, in the Coele-Syria of that time, Herod was hated more than death and his cruelties was not ignored, neither the reasons prompting it.
[42] With the same measure you would, by reading these two gospels carefully, find some more significant discrepancies and dissonances which still could be sorted out and corrected to some extent, like the Jewish circumcised and heathenish uncircumcised Jesus.
[43] Therefore you have to, especially in this time, remove the old and the new nonsense which is in opposition to Me, completely from the gospels, and even Me, for the only and eternally true Gospel of John can enter into the fullness of it's light.
[44] For all shall easily understand and grasp it, that I, in the view of these four gospels as it is written now, as well as some letters of Paul and other Apostles – can not exist for long any more, for every discrepancy in them makes Me before the learned ones of the world, a discrepancy in itself. Just like the modern Christian sects, of which each sect has it's own Christ, granting him the freedom to damn the Christ of another sect left, right and centre.
[45] Who do not want to believe this, just have to look at the Catholic conversion prescriptions, for example when a Protestant would want to go over to the Catholic Church. Read it, you will convince yourselves of reciprocal Christ-damning, for in the last mentioned, the convertee have to damn his still Protestant parents, his birth with all and everything, as well as everything regarding his Protestant faith to the deepest abyss of hell. Only then he is brought into the circle of believers of Rome by means of various ceremonies. Such it is among most of the main sects; how can there be some day one shepherd and one flock, where all the sect-Christs are more angry at each other than the most devouring and wildest animals of the forests?
[46] Therefore, it all need to be gone. Therefore I already employed the workers in my vineyard and they are working diligently (as critics of the gospels, etc.) and soon there will come many more to them which will work with even more diligence and efficiency, for Me to come to the people in truth, as the true Christ and God of Eternity – and not like now, where I have, according to the permission of every sect, nothing else to do but to constantly judge and damn and can only make those happy and bless them in heaven, who are judged to be worthy by the sect leaders and vicars of God !
[47] Who for instance would fall from the grace of the leader for example because of outstanding sacrifices have to – according to their teachings, have to find himself in My grace ! You can see for yourselves the utter nonsense according to which I have already once ascended like lightning to the firmament, can be in future, despite all concordats, not be feasible any more. We will give science some room then, for this will now be an effective sweeping tool to remove the cullings from the world and at the same time [it is] a powerful giant Hercules, who knew how to cleanse the great Augean stable of it's dung. This can be used even in this time as an effective fable from antique heathendom. What has been given and shown to you, you need to consider well and let yourselves be enlightened by it; for I gave it too, I, the true Christ, not a pseudo Christ to whom the truth is a damnable abomination. Amen.