Gifts of Heaven · Volume 2 · Chapter 351

Letter to Andreas Huettenbrenner in Graz about the beginning

of the writing down of the exchange of letters between Jesus and King Abgarus 27th March 1845, Greifenburg.

I want to share with you an exchange of letters between King Abgarus and the Lord Jesus, which happened during the earthly lifetime of the Lord. And so you hear the two letters! Thus the letter of Abgarus to the Lord reads: Abgarus, prince in Edessa, to Jesus the good savior who appeared in the land around Jerusalem, all well-being! I have heard about you and about your recoveries as you perform them without medicines and herbs. For the word goes, that you make the blind see and the lame walk, and cleanse the lepers, and cast out unclean spirits, and heal them that have long sicknesses, and at last even raise the dead. Having heard all these things from You, I have therefore concluded with myself that one of both must be true: Either you are God, descended from heaven – or you, who do these things, are at least a son of the great God! I therefore entreat you through this letter to come to Me to heal the sickness I have! I have also heard that the Jews murmur against You and want to do evil to You. I, however, have a small but well-ordered city, which will be sufficient for both of us. Therefore come, You my most esteemed friend Jesus, to me and remain with me in my city and in my country. There You shall be carried by everyone on hands and in heart. I await You with the greatest longing of my heart! Sent by my most faithful servant Brachus. Answer of the Lord to this letter of King Abgarus:

[1] Abgarus, you are blessed because you have not seen Me and yet believed! For behold, it is written of Me that those who have seen Me will not believe in Me, so that those who have not seen Me, may believe and live forever!

[2] But as to that, because you wrote to Me that I should come to you, since I am persecuted here in the land of the Jews, I tell you: It is necessary that all this – for whose sake I have come into the world – be fulfilled in this place on Me, and that I, after all this will soon be fulfilled on Me, will ascend to Him, from whom I have gone out since eternity.

[3] But be patient in your slight illness! When I will have been taken up into heaven, then I will send a disciple to you to heal your sickness and give you and all who are with you, true health!

Written by Jacob, a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, and sent through Brachus, the king's messenger, from the region of Genesareth. Dearest friend and brother in the Lord! I believe you will prefer this communication to all the Swiss turmoil, which contains nothing significant for heaven. It was indicated to me that there are six more such letters between Jesus and the king Abgarus. When I come back to Graz again, I want to share them with you along with many other things … J. L.