I have received a mail in which the writer has expressed curiousity about events of past centuries and those of the present time. He contends that there have always been disasters. He states that human beings have always fought wars and there have always been natural disasters. In the writer’s own words:
“Just curious! In religion, signs of the end times have always been talked about from time immemorial. So, thoughts of perilous times are nothing new.
“History tells us that the world has been tumultuous and treacherous from the beginning. In my opinion, people react to events without deeply reflecting on grave historical pasts that surpassed what’s happening today. Think about famines, pandemics, record-setting floods, tornadoes, high levels of evils and wickedness of leaders/followers and wars of ancient civilizations that wiped out millions of lives! That was even before the population explosion and advent of today’s technologies in communications, healthcare and great strides in modern warfare.
“The four horsemen of apocalypse have always been and will most probably continue to be around us. Not to diminish the teachings of our faiths (especially the controversial Book of Revelation on Armageddon). Our great-great grand parents have talked about end-times. I am unsure if that will be truncated before or after our own great, great grand children.
“I am just curious”.
It is true there have been wars, all kinds of wars–major wars that are sometimes referred to as shooting wars and those that fall under the category of minor conflicts. There have been wars between nations and within nations. Nations have been known to fight civil wars, inter-tribal wars, and conventional wars. History books, the internet in particular in modern times, are quick to remind us of the World War 1 (1914 – 1918) and World War 11. The latter took place from 1939 to 1945. Both clinched the awful barge of the deadliest hostilities in human history. It is common knowledge that they were total wars in which the so-called world powers were directly involved. The wars claimed nearly 8 million lives, some 3 million of them in gory genocidal extermination. The Roman Empire lasted 500 years in which nations were held in subjugation at gunpoint. Societies were raided and people were carried into captivity after deception or bitter conflicts such as during slave trade. There was Somaliland Campaign of between 1900 and 1920. There was the Sudan revolt of 1900. For three years (1900 – 1903), there was uprising in South-West Madagascar. In Kenya, 1911. There was French conquest of Dendi Kingdom of 1901.
When we consider the ravages of epidemic and pandemic afflictions, the scale of destruction by hurricanes and tornadoes sweeping through lands, the question is then asked if anything can be worse. According to livescience.com, about 5,000 years ago, an epidemic wiped out an entire village in China. The bodies of the victims, old, young, children and middle-aged, were gathered inside a house and set on fire. The speed of the ravages did not permit time for proper burial and the site was totally abandoned; there has never been any habitation there again since the horrible experience. The epidemic in Athens about 430 B.C. claimed 100, 000 lives. According to reports, they battled sudden attacks of “violent heats in the head, redness and inflammation in the eyes, the inward parts, such as the throat or tongue, becoming bloody and emitting an unnatural and fetid breath.” What was called Antonine Plague killed more than five million people in the Roman Empire that held sway from 27B.C. to 180 A. D. The plague is gloatingly regarded as a spoil of joys of victory which soldiers brought back to the Roman Empire from war against Parthia.
According to scientific records, there were no fewer than 20 epidemics in pre-historic times, all claiming millions of lives. Then came COVID-19 pandemic in December 2019. It infected no fewer than 75 million people globally. About 6.4 million people died from the pathogen. About 100 years earlier, that is 1918, the pandemic similar to COVID-19 reportedly killed 50 million people. At the time, says livescience.com non-availability of vaccines and antibiotics accounted for the high death toll. When all these are put together, a great many can’t but wonder what the End-Time could still have in store for mankind and the planet earth.
In the higher knowledge spreading on earth in these times, mediated In The Light of Truth, we learn that we are in the End-Time already. By End-Time is meant the Time of the Holy Spirit Who is the Will and Justice of the Most High; it is the Time of the return of the Star of Bethlehem and the time of Everlasting Gospel of and by the Son of Man that is for all mankind. The Lord Christ said at the approach of His exit from the earth, that He would send the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, who would remind mankind of what He had taught them and lead them to further truths, thus completing His Work. The Spirit of Truth will reprove the world of sins and of righteousness and will bring judgment.
“Nevertheless, I tell you the truth; it is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness, and of judgment; Of sin because they believe not on me; Of righteousness because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged”.
The Lord went further: “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth is come he will guide you into all truth; for he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall He speak…All things the Father hath are mine; therefore said I, that He shall take of mine, and shall show it unto you.” John 16: 7-15. “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” John 14: 26. “But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of Truth, which proceeded from the Father, he shall testify of me.” John 15: 26. “I and the Father are One.” John 10: 30. (Dakes’s Annotated Reference Bible). Further establishing His Origin and therefore His Authority, the Lord Christ said “Believe me: I am in Father and my Father is in me.” John 14: 11. (King James version).
The exit of the Lord Christ was premature by the way, brought about by the conspiracy of the priestly and political establishments of His Time who saw Him as a threat to their power and influence and were determined to get rid of Him. The priests had taught wrongly but the Lord Jesus Christ had brought Light and Life to teachings about life and existence, and about eternal life. He taught about the Laws of Creation which bear the Will of the Most High and gives expression to It. He had said He had come not to abolish the Law, but to fulfill It. “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them”. Matthew 5: 17. He said what a man soweth, that shall he reap. “Be not deceived: God is not mocked: for whatever a man soweth, that shall he also reap”. Galatians 6:7.
From the Lord Christ’s address to His Disciples, there were very important points to note. He promised to send a Comforter. The Disciples were downcast following hints of His departure to rejoin with His Father, the Almighty. The second point is that the Comforter is the Holy Ghost Who is also described as the Sprit of Truth and Who would be sent by the Father in His Name. His Mission was going to remind mankind of what Jesus had taught them and bring further truths which He could not teach them because they could not bear them. Who can have the audacity to attempt to complete Christ’s Work other than a Part of the Holy Trinity? It can only be the Holy Spirit, One Who shares the same Origin with Him! The third leg of the Mission of the Spirit of Truth would be to bring judgment. It is obvious that the Lord was talking about another Person other than Himself. We can note that He used third person singular number (pronoun) as grammarians would put it. Yes, He would come back but only in the clouds and He would not be seen by mankind anymore and yet He would fulfill His Mission. His predicted Successor, therefore, was the Spirit of Truth from the same Origin as Christ.
What we human beings have focused on are the upheavals and affliction and come to the conclusion that there is nothing new. Upheavals are not the only features of the End-Time, the extension and conclusion of Christ Teachings of Truth makes even more poignantly the feature of the End-Time.
Just as the Star of Bethlehem accompanied the Lord Christ beaming the Rays of Love, the Spirit of Truth is also to be accompanied by the same Star but this time beaming the Rays of Judgment.
It is said of this Star called The Great Comet in higher knowledge: “It is thought that it brings upheavals of an incisive nature. But this star portends more.
“It can be called the Star of Bethlehem, because it is of exactly the same nature as that was. Its power sucks the waters up high, brings weather catastrophes and still more. When encircled by its rays the earth quakes.
“Since the event in Bethlehem there has been nothing like it. Like the Star of Bethlehem, this Star has also detached itself from the Eternal Realm of Primordial Spirit at such a time as to take effect on this earth exactly when the years of spiritual enlightenment are to come to all mankind.
“The Star takes its course in a straight line from the Eternal Realm to this part of the Universe. Its core is filled with high spiritual power; it envelops itself in material substance. Unerringly and unswervingly the Comet pursues its course, and will appear on the scene at the right hour, as already ordained thousands of years ago.
“The first direct effects have already begun in recent years. For anyone who wishes neither to see nor to hear this, and who does not perceive how ridiculous it is still to maintain that all the extraordinary things which have already happened are of everyday occurrence, there is naturally no help. He either wishes to act like an ostrich out of fear, or he is burdened with an extremely limited understanding. Both types must be allowed to go serenely on their way; one can only smile at their easily refutable assertions. But the knowing ones could also be told where the first powerful rays are striking. However, since the rays are gradually also encompassing the whole earth there is no use in being more explicit. It will take years to come to this point, and years before the Comet again releases the earth from its influence.
“And then the earth is purified and refreshed in every respect for the blessing and joy of its inhabitants. It will be more beautiful than it has ever been. Therefore every believer shall look forward to the future with tranquil confidence, and not be alarmed at anything that may happen in the coming years. If he can look up with confidence to God no harm will come to him”.
The purification has long begun. With the coming of this special Star and daily approach towards our world and its Rays encompassing the earth coupled with the already anchorage of the Light, the Power of the Holy Spirit on earth, there is unremitted pressure of the Light on earth, on every creature, the earth crust, the entire cosmos, causing also climate change to ensue. With the pressure comes the awakening of all that is dead. In the Beyond, touched by the pressure, and sensing there is no more time left, souls are in dire existential struggle to come back to the earth to atone for misdeeds of previous earth lives and make progress. With the pressure also there is intensification and acceleration of events. In decades past, a striking event of a tragic proportion would be the talk of the world for months. Today the same event or similar to it in severity hardly lasts a day before it is replaced from public attention and erased from consciousness. It has been overtaken by worse and intensified calamities.
We learn in higher knowledge that inconceivably long ago, the journey of man was beautiful. Herbert Vollmann says in his treasure book, A Gate Opens: “The Bells of Paradise were ringing as they departed, and even at the last moment they caught this silver-clear tone, and cherished it deep in their young hearts. Then the little points, whirling merrily, sank into the world-embracing depths. The time came when these delicate little flames had blossomed forth in purity into human spirits…” At that stage they could link with home and with attendant awakening of the beautiful tone they had experienced upon leaving home that was Paradise. Vollmann states that it “was the time when planet earth revolved in luminous orbits, and fresh heavenly dew fell on it each day”.
After a while discords were heard in place of echo in the Dome of Heaven. “The holy singing of earthmen had died away.” Progressively man deviated from the Will of the Almighty and forgot his origin. In place of the longing, the yearning for Truth and eternal Life, the greater part of mankind put the craving for earthly things, the desire for pleasures of the lowest kind, for power and influence. With degeneracy, there were acrimonies, twisted thinking, tension and wars. Killer diseases, drought, famine, earthquakes, landslides and floods, all consequences of the deviation from the ordinance of the Will of the Creator in His Creation. The situation has gone worse over time despite all the helps sent down — the Prophets and the Teachers of mankind. The upheavals will heighten with continuing pressure of the Light which brings about intensification and acceleration of events, of purification to rid the earth of pestilential elements, engender renewal and prepare our world for the Millennium, the 1,000 years reign of peace, when only the Holy Will of the Almighty Father will reign supreme, the reign of the Holy Spirit. Mankind are now in the prophesied era of enlightenment when we are reminded of the Teachings of the Lord Christ and are led to further Truths!
First published by The Guardian
