2024/04/08

138. Those Who Have Not Seen and Yet Believe

The path followed by the believers who live their daily routine heading to the next Mass liturgy appears to the evil spirits as the "way for the kings" (Revelation 16:12). Therefore, it attracts them who go out for the "battle on the great day of God the Almighty" (16:14) (cf. blog № 56). 

On the other hand, in chapter 20, the Mass liturgy is over, and the believers who have come out into the world encounter satanised people who have taken in 'human accidental information' as their own knowledge without distinction (cf. 20:7). These are people who will become evil spirits if they die in this state. To God, those who have died and become evil spirits without coming back to life and those who are living candidates for evil spirits appear to be the same because there is no difference in the situation where their 'knowledge and memory proportionate to man', incorporating 'human accidental information', are stuck fast to their 'breath of life'. 

Hence, for their salvation, Christians are responsible for showing them the "way for the kings" that guides them to the Mass liturgy by living the daily routine heading towards the next Mass liturgy. That is because we believers bear the name of Christ (cf. blog № 136). 

With this responsibility comes blessedness. In the Gospel of Luke, the experience of the disciples who met the risen Jesus on the road to Emmaus is described as follows: "He [Jesus] took the bread and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognized him; and he vanished out of their sight" (Luke 24:30-31). The fact that it is written here that "he vanished out of their sight" is suggestive. 

We, who have the New Testament in our hands, acknowledge that the bread broken by the priest in the Mass liturgy is the body of Christ who "vanished out of their sight". And when the believer confesses before the body of Christ, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God" (Matthew 16:16; cf. John 11: 27), these words constitute the confession of faith to the risen Jesus. Then they attain the blessedness of "those who have not seen and yet believe" (John 20: 29) that Jesus told Thomas. 

Moreover, when we, following Jesus' instruction "Take, eat; this is my body" (Matthew 26:26) at the Last Supper, look at the Sacred Host distributed to us, touch it with our own hands and eat it, we will receive with our whole body what Jesus intended when he commanded Thomas: "Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side" (John 20:27). Then, we will accede to the words of Jesus, who admonished Thomas, "[D]o not be faithless, but believing" (John 20:27).

Maria K. M.

Prophetic Composition of the Book of Revelation