Why
Don't They Believe Me?
Of all of the founders of the earths
various religions, only one came pre-announced.
I sent My prophets ahead of Me, to tell My children in advance, to forewarn
them, of what I would do, and of what they would do in return, during the
time in which I would walk in their midst.
They responded by killing My prophets.
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 that 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 too
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 gave someone authority, I changed his name
at the same time. This is a sign that I give to them, that they do indeed
have the authority for 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. They say, 'do
NOT keep the traditions'.
I told them who had the final authority
on earth to speak in My behalf. It is My Holy Church, as My dear servant
Matthew wrote in verses 18:15-18. However some refuse to believe Me, and
insist it is the Bible, for which I did not give the final authority.
I also had My dear Apostle Paul tell you in 1Timothy 3:15, that it is My
Church which is the pillar and the foundation of truth . Yet many of you
ignore My words in this verse and insist that it is the Bible and not My
Church.
I made so many promises to My dear
children that I would watch over and protect My Holy Church forever. Just
read the words of dear Matthew in 28:20, where I promised I would be with
My Church every day in every century until the end of time, and with not
a single days gap. Yet many say My Holy Church apostatized soon after My
last dear Apostle, John, came home to Me, and I left My Holy Church, only
to return to the reformers over 1000 years later. I even told them that
My Spirit would dwell with them forever, as My dear John wrote in his Gospel
14:16. My hard-headed, stubborn creatures, who have resisted my words since
the days of Adam and Eve, still refuse to believe Me. Children, have you
not read in Acts 5:29, "We must obey GOD rather than men"?
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 clothing.
Then they nailed Me in agonizing pain on a wooden cross, where I expired.
I thought that after conquering death in My spectacular resurrection, then
all of my children would surely believe Me. But, alas, even My rising from
the dead did not convince so many, as I had predicted in My dear servant
Lukes' Gospel 16:31.
How then am I to convince them that I did not only speak the truth, but
I AM the truth, as My faithful servant
John recorded in his Gospel 14:6?
How will I ever convince 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
Updated October 1, 2001
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