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Jesus Sends Out the Twelve

CHAPTER 17

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve

The progress of the Work of Redemption
depends on the faithfulness and development of those entrusted with it (3).
Baptism with the Spirit of truth (6). Healing of the sick and raising of the dead - Collective guilt - Casting out of devils - Gifts of love should not be forced (7). Hell is not a place, but a condition of the soul (10). Nothing is conceal-ed from God - Only the one who lives in the light of truth knows the word of truth (13). The one who is against Christ is against his neighbour (14)

1. And Jesus went onto a mountain to pray. And, having called His twelve disciples, He gave them power to cast out unclean spirits and to heal all kinds of diseases and pestilences. And the names of the twelve apostles who stood for the twelve tribes of Israel were:

2. Peter, called Cephas, for the tribe of Reuben; James, for the tribe of Naphtali; Thomas, called Dydimus, for the tribe of Zebulun; Matthew, called Levi, for the tribe of Gad; John, for the tribe of Ephraim; Simon, for the tribe of Issachar.

3. Andrew, for the tribe of Joseph; Nathanael, for the tribe of Simeon; Thadaeus, for the tribe of Zebulun*; Jacob, for the tribe of Benjamin; Jude, for the tribe of Dan; Philip, for the tribe of Asher. And Judas Iscariot, a Levite, who betrayed Him, was also among them (but he was not of them). And Matthias and Barsabbas were also present with them. (Chap. 17:1-3)

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:

The words "unclean spirits” mean the impure souls, which often cling in clusters to human beings.

As Jesus of Nazareth, I already indicated what was to come, by entrusting the twelve disciples with building twelve communities. Because they, too, just like people in further generations, could hardly grasp the profoundness of Inner Life which says "fulfil the laws and then act”, they were unable to fulfil many things which I had entrusted to them. I had entrusted these things to them because they had heard much divine wisdom, and it was then time to give it a material form. Despite everything, further and further evolutionary steps of the Kingdom of Peace of Jesus Christ took place from one epoch to another.

At the present time [1989] as well, in which the first foundations of the Kingdom of Peace of Jesus Christ are becoming visible, many of My faithful from the tribe of David and from other lineages are active in My Work of Redemption. The faithful are with Me, and I work through them. As in those days, so today, there are a few among them who do not gather, but scatter. They repeatedly create points of access for the darkness through which it can attack. For that reason, the faithful have great difficulties.

But nevertheless, I Am with them the victor over the earth and over the spheres of purification. Just as I sent the apostles into the world at that time, so will I gradually send My own, who fulfil the law of life, into the world as spiritual teachers. Through My own, I will found new original communities in Me, Christ, the Universal Spirit, so that many people find their way, via these stations of communities, to the central light, to the New Jerusalem on this earth with its twelve gates.

4. And in like manner, He called twelve others to be prophets, to be men of light with the apostles, and He showed them the secrets of God. And their names were: Hermes, Aristobulus, Selenius, Nereus, Apollos and Barsabbas; Andronicus, Lucius, Apelles, Zachaeus, Urbanus and Clementos. And then He selected twelve more to be evangelists and twelve to be pastors. He called four times twelve and sent them out to the twelve tribes of Israel, four to each tribe.

5. And they stood around the Master, clad in white linen raiments, called to form a holy priesthood of God in service of the twelve tribes to which they would be sent. (Chap. 17:4-5)

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:

As Jesus of Nazareth in the earthly garment, I acted in a way similar to how I taught and teach [1989] the prophets and spiritual teachers and all sons and daughters of God from the lineage of David and from other lineages, via the prophetic word through the incarnated part-ray of divine wisdom, and send them into the world according to their actualization.

I taught the faithful ones and instructed them in the actualization of the laws of God. A few of them began to speak prophetically. Others, who are called evangelists and pastors in this book, were the spiritual teachers and elders, who were to co-found the communities and look after them.

The word "priesthood” has the following meaning: They are people who strive only to fulfil the will of God, without ceremonies or rites.

6. Jesus sent out these four times twelve and charged them, saying, "With your companions, I want you to be My twelve apostles, a testimony to Israel. Go into the cities of Israel and to the lost sheep of Israel. And when you go there, preach and say: The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. As I have baptized you with water, so baptize all those who believe. (Chap. 17:6)

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:

In the book it is written, "As I have baptized you with water ...” This means in the following sense: Just as you were baptized with water, so will I, as the Christ of God, baptize with the Spirit of truth all those whom you have taught according to the laws of life and who have actualized them. And they will speak henceforth from the Spirit of truth.

7. Anoint and heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out the devils. Freely you have received it, freely give it. You shall not provide yourselves with gold, nor silver, nor copper money in your purses, nor a bag for your journey, nor two coats, nor shoes, not even a staff. For a workman is worthy of his food. And eat what is set before you; but do not touch what was taken at the cost of life, for it is not lawful for you. (Chap. 17:7)

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:

"Anoint and heal the sick” means: Cleanse and heal the sick and lepers and anoint them with the Spirit, by instructing them in the laws of life and helping them to recognize these laws and to actualize them, that is, to clear things up and no longer do what is sinful.

I said from the "supreme law”, the Absolute Law, which is above all humanness: "... raise the dead, cast out the devils”. Raising the dead is possible only when the soul is not burdened with grave causes and collective guilt. It is true that I entrusted this assignment to My apostles and disciples. However, at the same time, I also said that this is possible only for the one who lives in the Absolute Law and who works from the Absolute Law.

The raising of the dead was possible at My time as Jesus of Nazareth, because at that time the poor seldom had to expiate a collective guilt. At the present time [1989], most people bear part of a collective guilt, so that raising the dead in this sinful world is hardly possible.

A collective guilt comes about when people join together in killing human beings or animals and violate the plant and mineral kingdoms.

The soul of a so-called dead person can be called back into the body only if it is spiritually awakened and freely decides to return. Otherwise, the raising of a dead person would be against the law of the free will of the soul, because when its spiritual eyes are clouded by sin, it cannot freely decide. Furthermore, the soul can return only as long as it is still connected with the body through the information cord.

"Casting out devils” means driving earth-bound, benighted souls from the temple, from the human being. This is possible only for the one who fulfils the laws of God and speaks with authority - and at that, only when the human being who attracted the earth-bound soul no longer holds on to it through the thoughts, words and actions that attracted it in the first place.

The statement "You shall not provide yourselves with gold, nor silver, nor copper money in your purses, nor a bag for your journey, nor two coats, nor shoes, not even a staff” means that you should not surround yourselves with the burdensome weights of this world, nor laboriously bear what is unnecessary to you, for the paths are stony and you walk on them with your feet. Everything that is unnecessary is useless weight, and only delays you on your journey.

8. And into whatever city you will enter, inquire whether there is someone who is worthy. And stay there until you leave. Whenever you come into a house, greet it. And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. (Chap. 17:8)

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:

"... but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you” means to bring love and peace into every house. Do not impose the gifts of heaven upon the one who does not want them. And when you are not received, do not be annoyed. Then the peace which you have expressed towards to the house and its dwellers will be with you again.

9. Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. Be innocent and pure. The Son of Man has not come to destroy, but to save, neither to take life, but to give life to the body as well as to the soul.

10. And do not fear those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. (Chap. 17:9-10)

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:

It is the person alone who destroys his soul and his body through his human thinking, speaking and acting, whereby he establishes contact with the darkling. What is against the divine law brings destruction to man. Therefore, fear solely your own offences, for what a person sows he will reap. And recognize: Hell is no place, but the condition of a soul which has given itself into the hands of the unlawful, of the "prince of darkness”.

11. Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? Yet none of them falls to the ground without the will of the Most High. Verily, even all the hairs on your head are numbered. Therefore, do not be afraid. If God cares for the sparrows, should He not care for you, too?

12. It is enough for disciples to be as their master and the servants as their lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call his household! Therefore, fear them not. Nothing is concealed that will not become revealed, and nothing is secret that will not be known.

13. When the time comes for it, bring to light what I tell you in secret. And preach on the housetops what you hear in your ear. Therefore, whosoever will confess the truth before men, him will I also confess before My Father who is in heaven. But whosoever will deny the truth before men, him will I also deny before My Father who is in heaven. (Chap. 17:11-13)

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:

God is omnipresent. And He knows everything that exists, for He is the life and the power in everything. His power is in every animal, and so the animal is life from Him. The power of God, His life, is in each hair. He is. And since He is and is in all things, He also knows everything and about everything. All the more does the eternal Father know His child, whom He has created in His image. Nothing is concealed from Him, the Eternal. Even when a person has secrets from others, these seemingly secret things are not concealed from Him. When the time has come, everything will be disclosed, the good and the less good.

A person should therefore fear only his humanness, because this is his seed. When this begins to sprout and grow, it will become apparent and visible to the person who has sown it himself as well as to the one who is involved or who was innocently despised because of it.

Therefore, be careful to sow only good seeds, so that your harvest will be the inner maturity. The truth should be spoken out. It is the light of the soul. And the one who lives in the light of truth knows the word of truth. He will neither judge nor condemn, but will accept and receive his neighbour in his heart and will thus be with Me, the Christ.

Again and again, you should become conscious of the fact that human words can have different meanings. The one who lives in the Spirit of truth does not deny his neighbour. The one who denies him has banished him from his heart. For this reason, the words "... him will I also deny before My Father who is in heaven” mean that I cannot lead to My Father the one who does not live the law, the truth, and He cannot raise him into heaven - for heaven is the truth, and the truth is the law.

Recognize: The one who rejects the truth because he does not want to accept it from the commandments and actualize it, does not know himself as a being of light. The one who does not know himself is also unable to enter heaven, which is his real home. He will know himself and enter heaven only after the purification of his soul.

The pure one is from the truth and speaks from the truth. The one who does not live the truth denies the truth, which is God, to whom everything is revealed. Since God is manifest truth, nothing remains hidden, nor anything secret.

14. Verily, I have come to send peace to earth. But behold, when I speak, a sword follows. I have come to unite; but behold, a son will be against his father and a daughter against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's enemies will be of his own household. For the unjust cannot be together with the just. (Chap. 17:14)

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:

"But behold, when I speak, a sword follows” means that the one who hears the word of the truth and does not follow it and only speaks of it acts against the truth and therefore, against the Holy Spirit. He creates the sword himself, which is also called the cause. And thus, My words, which are the truth, are the sword for those who do not actualize them.

"I have come to unite” means to bring all men and nations together, to be o n e people of God.

The one who acts against the law of life, of unity, is also against God, who is the unity, and against His Son, Christ, who I Am. The one who thinks, speaks and acts against God and My work on this earth scatters and does not unite. He does not follow the laws of life.

The one who is not for Me is against Me. The one who is against Me, the life, is also against his neighbour. Thus, what is written takes place, "... a son will be against his father and a daughter against her mother and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a man's enemies will be of his own household. For the unjust cannot be together with the just.” The law of God says: Like attracts like; the unjust are drawn to the unjust, the just to the just.

15. And those who do not take up their cross and follow Me are not worthy of Me. The one who finds his life will lose it; and the one who loses his life for My sake will find it.” (Chap. 17:15)

I, Christ, explain, correct
and deepen the word:

"The one who finds his life will lose it; and the one who loses his life for My sake will find it.” The meaning of these words is that the one who considers his earthly life to be his real life will lose it and will not know himself as a soul and will not find his home. The one who values his earthly life, but places his spiritual life above everything, will also find it within himself. And he will also know his home, for he is consciously a son or a daughter of God in the kingdom of life.