GGJ5b

Jakob Lorber – The Great Gospel of John, vol. 5, part B
will lead you in all depths of his divine wisdom, and only then will you see
also perfectly clearly what you now have begun very weakly to believe. Until
then believe and investigate in the Scriptures and also in the whole of nature;
they will say to you that it is so and not otherwise! But you will only see the
full reason later, as I said. – Do you now have anything to object to?‖
[GGJ.05_189,04] Says Hiram: ―No, my noblest and wisest friend! Now there
is no doubt at all among us about these things any longer! But since we now
have talked about some subjects towards the wane of this most beautiful
day, I would like to ask you about something else. I am indeed only a pure
Greek, but nonetheless I have acquired some things through my time from
Judaism which amused me a lot, namely their claim of a Messiah who will be
nothing less than the highest divinity Himself. He will of course make them all
immortal in an instant and reside in Jerusalem as their eternal,
unconquerable king and from there rule the whole world and at the same
time naturally the whole eternal infinity as well.
[GGJ.05_189,05] They laugh at us for our mythical religion of the gods now
almost in every place and declare it to be the very sheerest old nonsense;
but what should one say then to the Jews about their Messiah? By heaven!
Such unlimited foolishness and confusion of the human spirit has truly never
crossed my path in the entire world that I have travelled! Tell me what sort of
an empty joke is behind it all! That is indeed a truly most terrible panache by
the particularly very distinguished Jews mainly against us Greeks and
Romans, and they rejoice already that their Zeus will drive us out of their
lands with an enormous flaming sword, at every well-struck blow of which at
least a hundred thousand of the most destructive bolts of lightning will spring
forth over all the Gentiles! Well, that is a little bit too much! – What do you
say then as a Jew yourself to this old, foolish Jewish joke?‖
[GGJ.05_189,06] John says, ―This issue is also not quite as senseless as
you as a pure Greek might think; and perhaps it is closer to you than you
could ever think! But of course in the way that you have heard it from the
mouth of the Jews it is obviously a very most colossal ridiculousness, behind
which not even a spark of an even seeming truth resides! But what the Jews
in the highly foolish way expect and afterwards will expect until the end of the
world in vain has already appeared a long time ago hidden in front of their
blind eyes and deaf ears – but not to drive out the Gentiles who have long
been bothersome to the Jews, but instead quite the reverse: The Jews will be
driven out of the land and the Gentiles will be given the word of God forever!
Yet we will begin a significant conversation on this topic later; but now we
want to begin to sort out an evening meal and accommodation! For we will
remain here tomorrow as well and then another few days, and then much will
be discussed.‖
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