Chapter 15 — Joram and the Chief Priest Raise Objections

DTT.01_015,01 I said, “You have spoken well enough according to your ways and your understanding, for your thoughts and notions reach no farther than your breath. If you could think farther and higher, you would see Me with very different eyes and judge Me very differently. Since you already take offence at what I told you of My inner spirit, tell Me what spirit it was that spoke through the prophets!”

DTT.01_015,02 Joram said, “It was the Spirit of God, the very Spirit through whom all things were made!”

DTT.01_015,03 “Good,” I said. “If the Spirit who spoke through the prophets was the Spirit of God, why should My inner spirit not be the Spirit of God, when through it I can do far greater things than all the prophets from Enoch onwards ever did? They could act only within certain limits. I am under no such restriction. I do what I will, and what I will must come to pass. If this is so, how is My inner spirit different from the Spirit who spoke through the prophets?”

DTT.01_015,04 Joram said, “Yes, very well, that might be so if only you were not a Galilean! But it is written in the book that no prophet comes from Galilee. So you must accept that we cannot and may not put your inner spirit on a level with that of the prophets!”

DTT.01_015,05 I said, “Was I born in Galilee, then? Was not Bethlehem, the ancient city of David, My birthplace? Look in your registers and see whether that is not so. Was Isaiah perhaps no true prophet because he also went to Galilee and prophesied there, near the ancient city of Caesarea Philippi? See how blind you are and how little your judgement holds up!

DTT.01_015,06 “Scripture does indeed say that no one born in Galilee can be raised up as a prophet. But neither Joseph, who raised Me, nor Mary, My own mother, nor I Myself am Galilean by birth. We came from elsewhere and have lived in Nazareth for only nine years. Why, then, should I not be able to have the true divine Spirit within Me, like any other prophet?”

DTT.01_015,07 The chief priest said, “Is it not also written, ‘Behold, I send My angel before You to prepare the ways of the Lord and make His paths straight’? And is it not written that Elijah will come first and prepare people well for the great coming of the Messiah? Has this happened in your case? Where is the angel of the Lord, and where is Elijah?”

DTT.01_015,08 I said, “For people of your kind, who cannot see the forest for the trees, neither the angel of the Lord nor His prophet Elijah has come. But for those who can see, it all happened twelve years ago! You neither saw nor recognised the angel who spoke with Zacharias or the son he fathered by a miracle. You notice nothing unless it comes with fire, lightning and the crash of thunder.

DTT.01_015,09 “When Elijah was told in his cave to watch how Jehovah would pass by, a fire first went past the mouth of the cave, but Jehovah was not in it. Then a mighty storm passed by, but Jehovah was not in that either. At last a scarcely perceptible whisper passed before the cave, and behold, Jehovah was in it!

DTT.01_015,10 “See, this is precisely how the great prophet points to the present coming of the Messiah.

DTT.01_015,11 “You are looking for fire and storm, which have often passed before you already, but Jehovah was not in them. Now the gentle whisper passes before you, and Jehovah is truly in it. Yet your deaf ears and blind eyes do not perceive it and will not perceive it until you are at the end of your lives, when such late recognition will be of little use to you.

DTT.01_015,12 “Now give Me an answer out of your Temple wisdom!”