The Great Gospel of John
Volume 3
Jesus' Precepts and Deeds through His Three Years of Teaching
Jesus near Caesarea Philippi
- Chapter 23 -
The strange state of the soul of the healed possessed.
Cyrenius says, "Lord, that is a language the like of which I have never heard before! It is evil and unfortunately still true in many parts. What is to be done with these people? Truly, everyone is staring; even Jarah no longer seems to know what she should make of it and I have seen the angel crying a few times! That seems very strange to me! So tell me what I should do!"
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I say, "Look, I have told you before that they would give us trouble. But that doesn't matter now, some of the demons that were driven out have remained in their hearts like a shadow and they must get this all out of their system; only then can they be fully helped, and no sooner. We must also remain here for a while and then with the brightening of day their souls will become a little more harmonious. You will hear some things yet, but it hurts basically neither you nor anyone else. For their souls are not mean souls and belong to the better worlds; therefore we must also have much patience with them! When they increase their awareness then you can look forward to a real fight! But now give them more bread and wine; for they just now will become very hungry and thirsty!"
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Mark hands them bread and wine with great friendliness and says, "Drink, brothers, and eat as much of this good bread as you want! For from now on things will never be bad for you on this Earth, although it is truly no paradise!"
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The five say, "You seem to be a good devil; for otherwise you would not give us, who are basically not of your nature, such an excellent wine and extremely tasty bread in such quantities! We cannot replace it for you, but neither shall you have ingratitude! Look, you good devil, it seems to us that we can talk a little with you. If there were only people on this earth it wouldn't be so bad to live on this ground, but for every five people there are a thousand devils, and everything becomes the devil"s in time! The few people are controlled too much by the devils and can never take a free breath!
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You see, all control goes from one devil to the other, and he lives through spilled human blood mixed with the blood of poor and good devils, as you are, and that is called the reign of God?! Yes, a reign, but not of his love, but of his anger! Why a god is angry - no-one knows! Some animals are the only happy creatures on this Earth, but the rather rare human is the beast of burden of all the evil on this world of dirt! He cannot run fast enough to take flight from the evils like a gazelle! His hands are as fragile as wax, he is naked and nature has not given him any weapons like a bee or an ant to defend himself against an enemy. If you see a herd of tigers, all of them are tigers, and if you see a pride of lions, all of them are lions; they are all of the same nature, and these beasts live well among one another. But if you see a group of people, not everything that looks like a person is a person, instead they are mostly devils! And therefore quarrels, discord and war are always amongst them! Everything in the devil is terrible and there is only the plan for good in a person which can be very easily destroyed under so many devils and the person becomes at least a half devil, or he has to bear what we have borne! But there are different devils among the devils of this infamous world, big and small; but all are easy to recognize because they want to live as comfortable as possible without any work or stretching their strength. They want to be the first and be honored; they know how to take other people"s possessions, clothe themselves magnificently and persecute unto death those who did not greet them humbly!
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In brief, tell me, good devil, what you want, only those like you rule the world and the rare people hide in deep slavery and cannot help themselves, and according to the Scriptures these are the people of God?! Truly, if God looks after these children as he looked after us five people for example, and the fate of the poor children of God consists of serving the devils in their deepest baseness, then we give thanks for such a childhood of God!"
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Mark, who doesn't exactly like the title "good devil", says, "It is probably true that the children of God on this world have often much to bear; but what awaits them after the grave? What an incalculable fullness of constantly growing and multiplying holiness! If a child of God thinks that over, then he can put up with this short life of a test of humility."
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The speaker of the five says again, "Who gives you a guarantee for that? Do you think it is the Scriptures? Get away with this bond! Look, and say who they are who give people the beautiful writings and are honored as servants of God! Look, they are the worst devils of all!
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God Himself should come down in the form of a human and show them all their nameless disgracefulness and make them repent. Truly, if he doesn't stand against them with all his might, it is much worse than for the two angels in Sodom when Lot made the decision to leave these places with his family because he was being judged!
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But if the givers of the prophecies of God are only too easily recognizable as the worst devils and that is incontestable, so tell us, you good old but somewhat blind devil, what a person, or respectively a child of God, has to expect from such prophecies in the end! I tell you, thanks to our diverse experiences which we have sadly had to live through, nothing, nothing at all!
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There is either no God, and everything that exists is a work of the raw power of nature which through all eternity has created everything that there is, or there is some sort of highest godly being which orders the great Earth, the sun, the moon and the stars but which is too big and eminent to concern itself with us lice of the Earth. The whole Scriptures come from people and there is actually more bad than good in it. And what is good, no devil and no man observes; only the bad is pushed onto the necks of the people by the devils!
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"Thou shalt not kill!" God allegedly said to Moses; but the same God allowed David to wage war against the Philistines and the Ammonites and to destroy everything down to mouse, woman and child! A nice life that is, and a special consequence! Would an all-powerful God not have enough power to rid the Earth of his hated nations? Why had a person, fully against the command given to Moses, to be ordered to move and kill not only one but many hundred thousands, because they were not decent before God according to the opinion of a seer; what sort of reason the seer had, and also the kings who were ordered by God to annihilate whole nations from the face of the Earth, only the seer and the kings may know!
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I believe that a God of love should never send evil dogs against people that he wants to educate in love, when he himself has the means to drive out the annoying and renegade devils in human form. That is a truly strange god! On the one hand love and patience and humility, but on the other hand hate, persecution, war and destruction! Truly, whoever understands such a business must have more sense than the average person!"