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I did not come to bring you the peace of this world
21st March 1864
Matt 10:34-36
[1] Now follows the 10th chapter of Matthew, verses 34-36:
[2] “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.”
[3] Those who takes these verses to be literal – which anyway is poorly translated, out of necessity gets caught in a labyrinth of confusion from where he will not be able to find the light of the primordial central sun. For as can be seen from the preceding, I teach and desire all thinkable leniency, peacefulness and amiability among people; and Moses himself teaches in the fourth commandment from My mouth: “Honour and consider and love your father and mother, that you may have a long life and that you may fare well upon earth.”
[4] How could I then establish exactly the opposite teaching, according to which a son with his father, the daughter with her mother, the daughter in-law with her parents in-law etc., would live together – and that in one house – wielding the sword in perpetual animosity ?
[5] To understand these texts, which are originally really of Me and appreciate them as My teaching, one first have to know at what occasion I said this and how, to obtain a correct translation.
[6] At this occasion I was when I was at a place in Galilee, teaching the people their plight, what they owed God and each other. I told them: “I teach you nothing other than what My Father have taught Me since eternity, of whom you also say that He is your Father, but whom you have never known or recognised. For if you would have known Him, then you would have known Me, since the Father have sent Me to you.”
[7] Upon this, they said: “And what are you making of Yourself; are we then not the children of Abraham, and have not God told Abraham, that we who are descended from him are his children ?” But I got exited and said: “ Because you are descendants of Abraham, you where supposed to be children of God, but you are it no more for a long time, but your father is Satan, your mother is the legion of devils, your daughter in-law's parents in-law are your almost immeasurable blindness, slothfulness and evilness; and these greatest enemies of man are your family ! Those of you who again wants to achieve the true childhood of God have first to grab the sword of the truth which I teach to you and fight against these inmates, until you conquered them.”
[8] Then the small crowd of Pharisees and scribes of course asked how I could dare to call them the children of Satan, all devils and their own blindness, slothfulness and evilness, since it is provable that they are descendants of the tribe of Levi ?
[9] But I say: “According to the flesh it's true, but according to the spirit are you not of Levi – what is from above – from where I come – but your spirit is from below; that is why you cannot recognise Me, but you hate and persecute Me.”
[10] From this it will be clear to all and especially to a diligent and proper expert of the Hebrew language, that I did speak at that occasion these three verses from the 10th chapter that you noticed in the pseudo-evangelist Matthew, or rather, the already known-to-you L'Rabbas of Sidon, at that occasion, which I just explained to you verbatim as I just told you. For the translated verses, which you have emphasised as being the opposite of My Spirit from the gospel, would then obviously directly negate My main teaching of neighbourly love, as well as the law of Moses.
[11] Who of you can, if you had only a single spark of faith in Me and My teaching, think of Me that I would, as the Most Holy, impress upon people's hearts to love God above all and his neighbour as himself – and tomorrow bring another commandment and say: “Hate and persecute each other and wherever possible, take up the sword.” I think that man would have to, out of necessity, put such a preacher from the kingdom of barbarism rather in a safe-house, since such a preacher obviously belong in an asylum. Since I have explained these texts in the right and true spirit, you will be able to see that I never opposed My Godly wisdom and therefore do not belong in an asylum, as some modern writers have denounced Me. This does not fill Me with anger towards them though, but I forgive them, because they really do not know what they are doing. This is enough for now about these questionable verses. Amen.