2023/05/22

92. In the Spirit, part 3

People, for various motives, voluntarily place themselves in the "spot" where there is an internet environment. They then connect to the internet using terminal devices such as PCs, tablets and smartphones and concentrate on operating these devices to obtain information. The experience of the author of Revelation is similar. He was in a "spot" on the island called Patmos, voluntarily "on the Lord's day," with the motivation, "on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus," as he described he "was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet" (Revelation 1:9-10). The expression, "I was in the Spirit," indicates that he connected with the Holy Spirit to collaborate with him and focused on "a loud voice like a trumpet." He then received information. 

The common denominator of those at the above "spots" is that they have the literacy to obtain information. The author of Revelation, who is said to be John the Apostle, certainly had it. That is because Jesus, at the last supper, had decided that the Apostles would work in concert with the Holy Spirit, saying, "But when the Counselor comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness to me; and you also are witnesses, because you have been with me from the beginning" (John 15:26-27). This literacy of the Apostles, who retained the worldview of Jesus Christ by being constantly with Jesus and who experienced Pentecost, must eventually become that of all Christians. That is because all Christians will also bear witness to Jesus from the moment they come to the Christian faith. So, just as anyone with some training can access the internet, every Christian must, with the same degree of training, be able to access information to collaborate with the Holy Spirit. 

For Christians, the equivalent "spot" of the internet environment for voluntarily connecting with divine informationlessness is the "spot" that, like John, appears on the Lord's day. It is the "spot" where the Mass is celebrated constantly, and the Eucharist is enshrined. For people to connect to the internet, they need terminal devices. So, Jesus prepared the Eucharist also for the need for Christians to be linked with the Holy Spirit at this "spot." People connect with the internet to extract information, but when we are connected with divine informationlessness, the Holy Spirit draws information from us. There, we will see and hear what was drawn from our own memories, just as the author of Revelation did. 

The Book of Revelation was drawn by the Holy Spirit from its author's memory filled with the worldview of Jesus Christ. The following final words of John the Evangelist support the fact that the author of Revelation kept it: "But there are also many other things which Jesus did; were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written" (John 21:25). 

Maria K. M.