Meerstadt - The 2 Books of John: The Book of John The Essence of Jesus + The Book of Revelation As It Is

S ome people believe that our life is temporary; when you die, the story is over. Others believe that at the death of the body, the soul, the actual conscious person, lives on and enters a new phase of its eternal journey.

Neither of these things is taught by Jesus Christ. He shows us surprisingly that eternal life is optional. Optional? Yes, some people will have eternal life and others wont. And the choice is ours. Not having eternal life has been our default state that we inherited from our parents. When we die we stop existing. Death is the absence of life, of any form of consciousness. Personal intervention by Jesus was required to provide us with the second option, which is eternal life, for everyone who wants to, including those that have already died. How can that be? Just read on.

Eternal life is not something we can earn or attain through our own action, however hard we would try to achieve it. It is a free gift of our loving creator, that is offered to us without any strings attached. In fact, all it takes is that we believe this to be true. And thats where the catch comes in. How can we believe that this is true?

Jesus has already opened up the possibility to have eternal life for every person, the job has already been done and he invites all humans to come and share in it. Now it is up to us to accept the invitation and live our lives from this new perspective. It does not require that we are good people, for in our present state nobody is good enough to attain it by merit.

John shows us, in his description of Jesus life on earth, who he really is and with what purpose he was among us. And it all comes down to two things, of which the first is that we may believe that he actually is the son of God, not an ordinary human, but the great creator, who, in his Fathers name, has made everything that is. John introduces him as the phenomenal power through which everything that exists has come into being. In modern terms we could say he is the programmer of the reality that we live in. This is an important clue to our understanding and thus believing.

He created the universe, life on our planet, our ancestors and all the processes that maintain life on earth. This immense power, which acts out of universal love, had a compelling reason to come to us, to enter the reality he has made himself, to be born as a human child, growing up to be a perfect human, to help us overcome death, something we could never achieve on our own.

The second reason he lived among us, which we can understand if we acknowledge the first, was to give his perfect human life as a ransom, in the name of mankind, to free us from the acquired bonds of sin and death and restore for us the eternal life that had been intended from the beginning. How this can be is also explained in the story of Jesus, as written by John.

So this is a story that goes far beyond everyday subjects. And we will see how most people would not believe Jesus, would reject him and demand for him to be sentenced to death.

Ever since his presence on earth there has been a fierce opposition towards the simple loving truth of Jesus, many layers of deception have been built around it, as to hide it from us in plain sight. Religious empires have been built around it, while none of their contribution is needed, materialistic science has been developed to deny his truth, and many more hurdles have been erected to direct searchers for truth into blind alleys. So, we may have some work on our hands to be able to come to the simple acceptance of his gift to us.

On the other hand, Jesus wants us to find his truth and accept his invitation for eternal life, so he will help us as soon as we resonate from within with the truth that he presents.

This truth is plain and simple and here for us to discover and make our own. As soon as we accept his invitation into this new reality, the world around us will change, we will live in the same space, but from a new perspective of eternal life, with truth as our intent and love as our main driver. That changes everything!