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About Blood Sacrifice and the Forgiveness of Sins -
The Healing at the Pool of Bethesda

CHAPTER 33

About Blood Sacrifice and the Forgiveness of Sins -
The Healing at the Pool of Bethesda

The concessions made by Moses under the circumstances of that time became laws (1-3). Animal sacrifice and the eating of meat -
Human regulations bind; God is unlimited love and freedom (4-14)

1. Jesus taught His disciples in the outer court of the temple, and one of them said to Him, "Master, it is said by the priests that without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. Can then the lawful blood sacrifices take away sins?”

2. And Jesus answered, "No blood sacrifice of animal or bird or man can take away sins. For how can a guilt be paid off by shedding innocent blood? No, it will increase the guilt.

3. The priests indeed receive such offerings as an appeasement from the faithful for the violations against the law of Moses; but for the sins against the law of God, there is no forgiveness except by repentance and a change for the better. (Chap. 33:1-3)

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

Moses brought the Ten Commandments from God. When he saw that the Israelites could not put the Ten Commandments into practice in a short time, because most of them had thought and acted against the Ten Commandments for decades, he made some concessions in order to lead them to the inner experience through self-recognition. However, many of the Israelites disregarded these concessions as well and continued to compulsively indulge in idolatry. After further generations, these concessions were raised to laws by the stubborn Israelites.

Animal sacrifices are against the law of God and also against the Ten Commandments.

4. Is it not written in the prophets: Take your blood sacrifices and your burnt offerings, and away with them. Stop eating meat; for I did not speak of this to your forefathers, nor have I commanded them to do so when I led them out of Egypt. But this is what I commanded them:

5. Obey My voice and walk the paths that I have commanded of you, and you will be My people and things will go well for you. And yet they were not so inclined and did not listen.

6. And what did the Eternal command you, other than to practise justice and mercy and to walk humbly with your God? Is it not written that, in the beginning, God ordained the fruits of the trees and the seeds and the plants to be food for all flesh?

7. But they have made of the house of prayer a den of thieves and, instead of the pure offering with incense, they have stained My altars with blood and have eaten the flesh of slain animals.

8. But I say to you: Shed no innocent blood and eat no flesh. Be upright, love mercy and do right, and your days will endure in the land for a long time.

9. Is not the grain that grows from the earth with the other grains transformed by the Spirit into My flesh? Are not the grapes of the vineyard and the other fruits transformed by the Spirit into My blood? Let these, with your bodies and souls, be your memorial to the Eternal.

10. In these, the presence of God is visible as substance and as the life of the world. You should all eat and drink of these for the remission of sins and for the eternal life to all who obey My words.”

11. Now, there is in Jerusalem a pool which is called Bethesda, by the sheep market. In five galleries, there lay a great multitude of infirm people, blind, lame, and withered, waiting for the moving of the waters.

12. For at a certain time, an angel came down into the pool and moved the water. The one who first went in after the water had been moved was healed of whatever disease with which he was afflicted. And a man born lame was also there.

13. And Jesus spoke to him, "Do the waters bring you no healing?” He said to Him, "Yes, Lord, but I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is moved. And when I try to get in, another goes in before me.” And Jesus said to him, "Get up, take up your bed and walk.” And he stood up immediately and walked. And it was the Sabbath on this day.

14. And the Jews said to him, "Today is the Sabbath, and it is against the law to carry your bed.” And the healed one did not know that it was Jesus. And Jesus had left, for there were a lot of people at that place. (Chap. 33:4-14)

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

In the law of God, nothing is written about blood sacrifice nor about burnt offering, nor about the deliberate killing of animals, nor even about the consumption of the flesh of animals.

Only the one who obeys the voice of God by fulfilling His laws walks in God and belongs to the people of God. It is a law that man should practise justice and mercy and walk humbly to the Kingdom of God of the inner being, where the true and eternal home of the soul is. The one who keeps the laws of God also nourishes himself from what the law of God brings forth in nature. He will also bring his life, his sensing, thinking, speaking and acting in conformity with the eternal law.

From the beginning, God gave man the fruits, the seeds and the plants for nourishment. This law will hold true until all souls live in the fine-material spheres and no more human beings live, who need for their bodies the energy which has taken form, the life from nature.

The temple should be a house of prayer, where man cultivates unity with his neighbour, by praying and by worshipping God. From this he gains for his daily life the strength to lead a consecrated, pure life and to live in unity with his neighbour.

In My time as Jesus of Nazareth, people defiled the stone altars in their houses of prayer with blood and then even ate the flesh of the animals they had killed. They defiled their temples of flesh and bone with negative sensations, thoughts, words and actions. Even the people of this time [1989] still do that again and again. And they, too, still defile themselves with the blood of animals which, against their better knowledge, they kill and whose flesh they consume.

Recognize that the law of God is and will be eternally. What was valid in former times is valid today, too, for God is the same law, today, tomorrow and in all eternity.

The one who sheds innocent blood, who consumes flesh is merciless and will have to suffer his own lack of mercy on himself.

A pure soul and a healthy body, which the pure soul keeps healthy, are the memorial to the Eternal.

Natural food contains the substance of God. It is the life of the earthly body.

The one who repents of his sins and does not commit them anymore will also let his sensations, thoughts, words and deeds rest in God and will eat what God has given him.

I correct: It was not an angel who moved the pool, but the elements that moved and move the water. It is not the water that heals, but solely the belief in Him who is, as substance, even in the water.

Just like the Jews, people of all generations kept and keep the Sabbath only externally, because, as such, it is just a habit for them. But in their daily behaviour, they acted and act contrary to what they teach only with words. Their thoughts were and are impure, as are their deeds which they carry out behind walls, so that they are not seen. They talked and talk of the Sabbath commandments, and yet they themselves did not and do not keep the Sabbath, neither in their sensations nor in their thoughts, their words and their deeds.

The sprinkling with earthly water is only a symbol. The one who believes in God's spiritual stream and consecrates his life to God receives soothing and healing through the life from God, whether he immerses himself in the water which is only a symbol or calls out to God with all his heart, no matter where he may be.

God is omnipresent power. God helps, soothes and heals. He does not ask whether it is a work day or the Sabbath. The one who asks with all his heart receives, no matter on which day or at which hour. Only the narrow-minded person has a lot of regulations. He wants to thereby limit the all-encompassing Spirit.

Recognize that God is unlimited love and freedom. The law of unlimited love and freedom does not know the narrowness of the human ego. The human ego is the ego law which man himself has created. It is the seed which already bears the fruit in itself. Man himself has put it into the acre of life, into his soul.