In this I really do feel that I have to settle the issue of `The End
of the World' ` Armageddon' `The End Time' `The Earth Shift' or
whatever other names have been applied to this period over the
centuries. Religions warn of dire times to come and some even
proclaim that it will be the end of the world, the end of the planet
itself. The time when the antichrist will rule for seven years and
terror, death & destruction spread across the face of the earth.
Some religions teach that only their followers will be `saved' and
everyone else consigned to `hell' forever.
As I have said many times it is the remit of religion to rule the
people by fear. Fear of what will happen to them if they don't
behave. I hope over the past two years publishing Spirituality
Matters magazine, I have touched upon the hypocrisy of the churches
and exposed a few of the institutions for what they really are. In a
past issue I dealt with the whole idea of the word `sin' and
explained that the initial interpretation of the ancient word was
more than a little inaccurate. The real meaning in biblical times,
was `to miss the mark, to miss the target' and was not meant to pass
judgment but merely to say, "OK you didn't get it right this time, so
try again, don't give up." (You can see the `Sin' article reproduced
by scrolling down this page a bit more!!)
So what is going to happen at the time of the Earth Shift? Well we
are at that time right now. The process is underway. It is a
process of enlightenment for many, many people and it is growing.
Just as enlightenment grows, so too does man's greed and his love of
all material possessions. The Churches will try to hang on to their
old controlling ways and their blind dogma, even in the face of true
enlightenment. So in this, the prophecies forewarning the
persecution to come for Catholics and other radical Christians are
not necessarily incorrect, but perhaps they are misinterpreted by
those who cannot see beyond their dogma-blinkered eyes. The church
of Rome's prophets behold people losing their faith. They describe
Christian sheep abandoning the cathedrals, not obeying the pope, and
so on. From the standpoint of the traditionalists the coming times
when the old-time religion is criticized and abandoned must look like
the end of the world. Perhaps it is the end - of their world. What
the church sees as their final persecution could actually be the next
quantum awakening of human intelligence.
When I examine the prophecies of the Roman Catholic apocalypse or the
other Christian judgment day scenarios I feel the chill of a shadow
which has cast its fearful darkness wherever the love of Christ has
passed. It has been my experience that wherever goes the graceful
mystery of the Holy Trinity of God the father, God the son and God
the Holy Ghost, there follows the dark silhouette of an anti-trinity -
one of which I feel the church has been demonically possessed since
its early Romanization.
Fear - the father. Sin - the Son. And the Holy Ghost of Guilt.
To condemn others in prophecy because they have not measured up as
spiritually pure enough to live in God's final paradise will be seen
as one of the prophecy's greatest goofs. Events in the near future
will show that Christian prophets were projecting an ancient
misunderstanding onto what they feared would come during a new and
unpredictable era in human history.
The real Last Judgment is the day when judgments as such, not people,
are consigned to the eternal flames - along with fear, sin and
guilt. In the era of spirituality which is to come, when each person
will be known by what he or she feels in their hearts and the life
they live in balance with those feelings and with nature, the labels
of catholic, protestant, orthodox or any one of the other 300
religions will be discarded and religion as we have known it will
come to an end.
Along side all of this the wars will rage as man struggles to
maintain his material possessions, his lands and his money and it is
Mother Nature who will take them away.
Global Warming: yes it is happening and it is all part of this Earth
Shift. The planet will survive as it progresses towards its next
cycle. By the time man has finished fighting his wars the surface of
Mother Earth will be scarred and wounded. But survive it will.
Churches will fall, financial institutions will fall, money will be
worthless and the planet will smolder, and through it all real
enlightenment will take a hold. If you live a deeply spiritual life
then you are already well prepared for what is to come.
love and light
Neal
www.spiritualitymatters.co.uk