BD.6000
July 13, 1954

RESURRECTION IN THE FLESH

The will to find the truth guarantees correct thinking and cognition. You who desire to move within truth will receive the purest truth. You need not fear any error and will always be blessed if you want to spread the truth abroad. Come to Me with that which is not yet clear to you, which causes you to doubt, and I will teach and enlighten you.

The doctrine of the 'resurrection in the flesh' the way men want to understand it, becomes untenable, when you have penetrated a bit deeper into 'spiritual knowledge', when you have come closer to the truth and endeavor to find the 'spiritual interpretation' to all My words.

What I have spoken is everlasting, unchangeable truth. However I did not put into My Word that meaning which you try to see in it. Everyone who earnestly seeks the truth can grasp the spiritual sense of My words. He who will ask Me for understanding, who is anxious to find the truth, will soon comprehend the 'spiritual meaning' of the word and not 'stick to the letter'.

The words 'resurrection in the flesh' are for you people equivalent to 'life after death', for to 'live' means for you to 'walk around in the flesh' while your spirit is not yet awakened, while you do not understand the actual meaning of 'life'.

People who do not believe in an after-life, think that their existence ends with their physical death. For them, 'life' means existence in their physical body. They know that through death they lose this body, but they do not believe in a 'trinity' of body, soul, and spirit. For them there is only the body, the 'flesh' after the death of which 'life' has ceased.

'Resurrection in the flesh' means for them the resurrection of the physical body and this is a hard doctrine for which men's faith is demanded.

Still, this doctrine can be a blessing if through it man believes in a 'resurrection', in a 'life after death'. This belief would also change his nature and could lead to an awakening, to 'irradiation' with My Spirit. And then he will also comprehend the spiritual meaning of the word 'resurrection in the flesh'.

Resurrection means: to awake from death to life, to rise from a state of sleeping, to step out of the darkness into the light.

And thus everything that used to be concealed by the darkness of night will come to the light. It will reveal itself and become alive in order to bear witness. In a state of death nothing happens that could be attested.

However, what happened 'in life', in that state when you walked on earth in the flesh, now comes to the light reveals it in order to testify for or against you. Not as if the physical body would rise from the dust to cover you once more for a new life. This flesh-body is only a transient covering for the soul which is imperishable, immortal, but can be 'spiritually dead' on its departure from earth. However, it can still awake to life in the beyond, i.e., 'rise from the dead' if it finds its way to Jesus Christ who will then give it 'life'.

Also Jesus Christ took on flesh when he came to the earth, and this flesh had to suffer physical death. Jesus rose from the dead to demonstrate to you people that your life does not end with the death of your body, that also your soul can rise from the dead to life everlasting.

As evidence for the truth of His words He let His body rise from the dead, but it was not a resurrection in the flesh, for His body had become spiritualized. The soul had donned the garment of the Spirit drawing all the spiritual substances from the physical body, which, thanks to His life and death, had already become completely spiritualized.

The material substances of the body, which are actually spiritual substances too, had achieved their ultimate destination already on earth and could attach themselves to the soul and because Jesus willed it so became visible to His disciples in order to strengthen their faith. And since the perfected spiritual is not earthbound, Jesus could rise into spiritual spheres when HE ascended to heaven. You humans, too, will have a body after your resurrection, a spiritual garment the nature of which will be in accordance with your flesh, for 'you will reap what you have sown'. If you have sinned in the flesh, the garment of your soul will give you away. If you have done good works out of love, you will be 'radiant' and thus recognizable.

However, your soul will never again don your heavy earthly garment, which was its abode only for a short time to fulfill its task in the material world.

He who knows aim and purpose of the material creation, who knows of the evolution of the fallen spirits through this creation for the purpose of ascending to Me, does not need such explanations. But he must be able to refute a doctrine, which, due to 'wrong interpretation', is absurd; and if you wish to speak about the resurrection of the 'flesh', let the explanation suffice you that My Word is going to rise from the dead to bear witness for or against you.

I am the 'Word that was made flesh' and I come to every human being in the Word. And when the Day of Judgment for every one of you will have come, it will be My Word that will judge you, who accepted My Word and used it in whatever way it suited you.

There will be a resurrection of the flesh which was offered to you as nourishment - "eat My flesh and drink My blood", meaning that you should accept My Word eagerly and let it strengthen you. And you will have to account before Me for the way you have made use of My gift of love.

This explanation, too, is in accordance with the truth and should spur you on to make good use of your life in the flesh on this earth by letting Him provide you with food and drink, who is the Word from eternity that was made 'flesh' for your sake.

You will find wisdom shining forth from every explanation, even if you men have not yet penetrated into spiritual knowledge. And if your spirit is awakened, you will willingly accept everyone of My explanations, for they will satisfy you whilst the wrong interpretation of My Word will only call forth in you resistance. This it has to do for the wrong interpretation originates with My adversary whose aim it is to confuse man's thinking, to divert him from the truth and deprive him of any belief he may have in a life after death.

Such a Wrong interpretation is also proof for the 'low spiritual level' of people and also of those who bring them My Word, although they themselves have not yet grasped the meaning of it. 'The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life', and for this Spirit all of you should ask. You should pray for enlightenment of your thinking and strive for pure truth, and your prayer will certainly not be in vain.

AMEN