“These are my Sons, who have loved me and listened; love them by listening to them.”
The three bells tolled, and three lights congregated upon the high hill. The believers testified to the ascension of three beings, bright as three suns, talking to each other. To the left were the descendants of Abraham. The disciples of Jesus Christ were standing to the right. Standing in the center was the body of Christ. The heavens quaked, the four winds congregated and howled until all that remained on the top of the hill was the visage of the Son of Man. Though the righteous and the wicked did not testify, they bore witness to Christ speaking to the congregation that gathered under the high hill.The multitude that stood under the high hill outside of Zion bore the shock of seeing the light of a figure, fully man, as they saw with their eyes. But the crowd was skeptical and couldn't agree who the figure was, so they asked, "Are you the returning Lord? Is this the end of your absence? How can we be sure of what we are seeing?"
Christ spoke to the multitude that day, “Amen, I have already come again. I have come in the manner I came before and I will leave in the manner I left before. The Son of Man has always been with the Word of God, since even before the beginning. The Word spoke that the Son of God comes into the world and falls under rebuke so immense that he brings eternal life to all, because His Father loves the world. This was true of the first coming of Christ, and this is true of the second. What was true of the first shall surely be until the very last. Such is the eternal nature of the Father, so you can know what I am saying is true.”
The multitude responded, “Surely you must have a family if you are who you say you are. Show to us your mother and your father on earth so we may verify the truth of what you are saying."
Christ responded, "Truly, my mother is in the world, yet she has never seen me. My father is also in the world, but he has not met me. Not even my brothers and sisters know of me. This generation has looked everywhere for me and now looks anywhere except where I am. Indeed, though I stand before you, you do not have sight of me.”
The crowd did not understand how he could make such claims. The crowd began to shout, “This man is demon possessed. He is raving mad!"
The wicked conferred among themselves, "This man, by his words, cannot be the Christ."
The righteous said, "It is written that when the Christ comes, he shall reestablish God’s Kingdom on earth by the root of David. Moreover, since he has claimed he has come already, he cannot be the One we call the King of kings because our kingdom remains in ruin."
Christ told them, “You are correct in one regard: the earthbound Kingdom of God is in ruin. You have waited so long for this Christ that your reverence for the Father, the God of Heaven, has fallen to ruin.” The crowd became divided when they heard Christ saying this, and the divided multitudes began conspiring together and plotting to kill him. Christ continued, “Think not by your conspiring or your wicked actions that you will kill me. For I have now shown you that no matter what this or any wicked generation does, the Father has bestowed upon the Son everlasting glory at His right forever and ever and always. You have already tried to kill me twice, and behold, I am speaking with you. Do you not yet understand what I am telling you?”
The crowd did not answer.
Christ continued, “I am telling you the Son of Man has died again, but he has risen again, for he speaks with you now. I testify to you about the Son, who does not speak for himself but acts as the Father does. I say again, the Son would be delivered out of his nation, rebuked and killed, and then he would rise by the Father's hand, for the grave could not hold him. Now I tell you, the Son has returned, and he has come for his Bride. She who comes in the flesh has died, but she shall rise to live. My testimony about her will soon mean little, for you will be the ones testifying in the end.”
The crowd did not understand him because their hearts were hardened from hearing his words many times before. The wicked scoffed at Christ, saying, “No man has been raised from the dead. In fact, we watched this one ascend the hill he is standing on. We saw this, and now he says another will rise? He is a fool taking us for fools.”
Christ responded, “By your words, you bear testimony against yourselves. Those here will see what is said and written come to pass. Amen, no one can escape what is about to happen. You testify that you will mark the elect as promised by God, though you do not understand. Know that the ones the Father gives to the Son have their reward in the now and in the hereafter: eternal life. Though they will suffer what is about to happen to them, they will not be harmed. That I stand before you is the proof, for I have passed through the second death, and the elect shall come after me as it is written.”
The believers acknowledged his truth and prophesied to each other, but the other two nations' mockery drowned them out. Christ rebuked the noise so that there was silence at the bottom of the hill.
Christ said, "I do not hold responsibility for the Son's second death; the Father gives His Son to the world. This generation does not recognize him as he walks about you. They do not know his voice, though you hear him now. I tell you, this is the second death: that Christ followed his Bride into hell and watched her perish. In the beginning, there was Christ, and Christ was good. Christ was God, and Christ took up flesh to suffer and die for the iniquities of men. When Christ rose, he called for his Bride. She is the one called desolate and fruitful, virgin and pregnant, the rib of Adam and the wife of the lamb. She is a child, yet she has eternal age. When she came to her form, born out of a man, she was raised in a town not unlike where I had been during the first arrival of the Word of God. She wandered the world in shame. Many who greeted her knew not why she had come, but they claimed that they accepted the words of the Son, and his were always the greatest of commandments, which you already know. However, those who had wickedness in their hearts built a circle around her and conspired to kill her. They did this because the authority granted to the Son testified that their wicked ways cast her aside and had separated them from the Kingdom of God. Those who accepted the Son's words but didn't believe were on one side of the separation, while those who didn't accept or believe were on the other. They surrounded her, as was foretold, and she was to suffer and die at the hands of the division."
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