Why
Don't
They
Believe
Me?
I sent My prophets ahead of Me, to tell them in advance,
to forewarn them, of what they would do during the time in which I would
walk in their midst.
Isa 6:9-10, "And He said: Go and thou shalt say to
this people; Hearing, hear, and understand not; and see the visions, and
know it not. Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy,
and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their
ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I heal them."
I have told them over and over again, repeating Myself, and yet they still
do not believe what I say. Do you know why I insisted that the three 'synoptic'
Gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, be included in My Holy Word, the Bible?
After all, the messages of all three are essentially the same, with a few
exceptions. Why wouldn't only one suffice?
It is because I knew they would not believe Me unless I repeated Myself
as I did in these three books.
In Matthew 26:26, Mark 14:22, and Luke 22:19, I said, "THIS IS
MY BODY."
Yet some, twist My words and insist I did not say that. They add to My
Holy Word, by saying I said, 'this represents My body', or, 'it is only
a symbol of My body. Yet they cannot find those words in My Holy Bible.
They do not believe Me.
After those three books were written, and since they still
refused to believe Me, I commissioned My Apostle John to write a fourth
Gospel, the Book of John. I told him to write it in a different way from
the other three and to write a chapter to convince them of what I had meant
when I said ,"THIS IS MY BODY."
My faithful servant did as I commanded him, and wrote of the promise of
the Holy Eucharist in John Chapter Six. John emphasized nine times what
I had said, and in the end, many still refused to believe it saying, "This
is a hard saying. Who can listen to it?" Then many turned away from
Me and refused to walk with me. Did I call them back and say, "Hey,
I was only kidding?" No, I let them go, and in verse 68, I was willing
to let My faithful followers go, if even they refused to believe Me. I
figured that if they still didn't believe Me after witnessing all that
I had done, then what was the use of pleading with them. Many, to this
day, still do not believe Me, even after having read, "THIS IS
MY BODY", in all four Gospels. I even commanded My servant Paul to
write about it in a fifth book, 1Corinthians 11:24-30, and rather forcefully
at that, but to no avail. They do not believe My servant Paul either. What
am I to do to convince them?
In Genesis 17:4-5, I renamed My faithful
servant Abram, to Abraham, and gave him the title of the 'Father of a Multitude
of Nations'. You see, when I give someone authority, I change his name
at the same time. This is a sign that I give to them, that they do indeed
have the authority of which I gave them. I did the same thing in Genesis
17:15-16, when I renamed Sarai to Sarah, and gave to her the authority
of becoming the Mother of Nations.
I did it again in Matthew 16-18, when I renamed Simon to Peter. He received
the authority directly from Me to be the 'Rock' upon which I will build
My Church, and I gave him supremacy over the other Apostles by that same
name change.
But there are still those who refuse to believe what I had said. They say
My beloved Peter does NOT have the authority, and yet they cannot tell
Me why they say this.
I knew when I asked my Apostles to write the New Testament,
that in order to include everything possible that I did, the books would
become too cumbersome to carry. So I asked My servant John to include a
mention of this in his Gospel. He did this in John 21:25. I saw immediately
that some would think the Holy Scriptures would contain everything needed
by My children, which it couldn't. I asked My faithful Paul to include
a verse in his Epistle, 2Thessalonians 2:15, which said, "So then,
brethren, stand firm, and HOLD THE TEACHINGS THAT YOU HAVE LEARNED, WHETHER
BY WORD OR BY LETTER OF OURS." Since
the book could not hold everything, I asked that the oral teachings or
TRADITIONS, be perpetuated as well.
But, alas, there are still some of those who simply do not believe Me.
In fact, they say just the opposite of what I commanded, 'do NOT keep the
traditions'.
I emptied myself and came down from Heaven as a humble
servant to My people. They didn't believe what I had said was true. In
fact, they believed just the opposite. They called Me names such as blasphemer,
and liar, and imposter. They stripped Me of My only possessions, My clothes.
Then they nailed Me in agonizing pain on a wooden cross, where I expired.
How then am I to convince them that I did not only speak the truth, but
I AM the truth?
How shall I get them to believe Me?
"He who does not believe
the Son, makes Him a liar;" 1John 5:10
Written by Bob Stanley, January 16, 1998
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