T-29.VI Forgiveness and the End of Time
1. How willing are you to forgive your brother? ²How much do you desire peace instead of endless strife and misery and pain? ³These questions are the same, in different form. ⁴Forgiveness is your peace, for herein lies the end of separation and the dream of danger and destruction, sin and death; of madness and of murder, grief and loss. ⁵This is the “sacrifice” salvation asks, and gladly offers peace instead of this.
Expanded
1. How willing are you to forgive your brother? ²How much do you desire peace instead of endless strife and misery and pain? ³These questions [willing to forgive, desiring peace] are the same, in different form. ⁴Forgiveness is your peace, for herein [in forgiveness] lies the end of separation and the dream of danger and destruction, sin and death; of madness and of murder, grief and loss. ⁵This [danger, destruction, sin, death, madness, murder, grief, loss] is the “sacrifice” salvation asks, and gladly offers peace instead of this [danger, destruction, sin, death, madness, murder, grief, loss].
Summarized
If you desire peace, be willing to forgive your brother. Forgiveness brings peace rather than strife, misery and pain. Forgiveness ends separation. Separation results in danger, destruction, sin, death, madness, murder, grief and loss.
2. Swear not to die, you holy Son of God! ²You make a bargain that you cannot keep. ³The Son of Life cannot be killed. ⁴He is immortal as his Father. ⁵What he is cannot be changed. ⁶He is the only thing in all the universe that must be one. ⁷What seems eternal all will have an end. ⁸The stars will disappear, and night and day will be no more. ⁹All things that come and go, the tides, the seasons and the lives of men; all things that change with time and bloom and fade will not return. ¹⁰Where time has set an end is not where the eternal is. ¹¹God’s Son can never change by what men made of him. ¹²He will be as he was and as he is, for time appointed not his destiny, nor set the hour of his birth and death. ¹³Forgiveness will not change him. ¹⁴Yet time waits upon forgiveness that the things of time may disappear because they have no use.
Expanded
2. Swear not to die, you holy Son of God! ²You make a bargain that you cannot keep. ³The Son of Life cannot be killed. ⁴He [the Son of Life] is immortal as his [the Son of Life’s] Father. ⁵What he [the Son of Life] is cannot be changed. ⁶He [the Son of Life] is the only thing in all the universe that must be one. ⁷What seems eternal all will have an end. ⁸The stars will disappear, and night and day will be no more. ⁹All things that come and go, the tides, the seasons and the lives of men; all things that change with time and bloom and fade will not return. ¹⁰Where time has set an end is not where the eternal is. ¹¹God’s Son can never change by what men made of him [God’s Son]. ¹²He [God’s Son] will be as he [God’s Son] was and as he [God’s Son] is, for time appointed not his [God’s Son’s] destiny, nor set the hour of his [God’s Son’s] birth and death. ¹³Forgiveness will not change him. [God’s Son] ¹⁴Yet time waits upon forgiveness that the things of time may disappear because they [the things of time] have no use.
Summarized
You are eternal. You cannot die because what you are cannot change. Everything in the world of time and change will come to an end when you have forgiven all things.
Golden Chain
Catching sight of Jesus he gave a shout, fell at his feet and cried out at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, son of the Most High God?”. —Luke 8:28
Immediately after the distress of those days the sun will be darkened, the moon will lose its brightness, the stars will fall from the sky and the powers of heaven will be shaken. —Matthew 24:29
It will never be night again and they will not need lamplight or sunlight, because the Lord God will be shining on them. They will reign for ever and ever. —Revelation 22:5
Jesus Christ is the same today as he was yesterday and as he will be forever. —Hebrews 13:8
3. Nothing survives its purpose. ²If it be conceived to die, then die it must unless it does not take this purpose as its own. ³Change is the only thing that can be made a blessing here, where purpose is not fixed, however changeless it appears to be. ⁴Think not that you can set a goal unlike God’s purpose for you, and establish it as changeless and eternal. ⁵You can give yourself a purpose that you do not have. ⁶But you can not remove the power to change your mind, and see another purpose there.
Expanded
3. Nothing survives its [a thing’s] purpose. ²If it [a thing] be conceived to die, then die it [a thing] must unless it [a thing] does not take this purpose [to die] as its [a thing’s] own [purpose]. ³Change is the only thing that can be made a blessing here, where purpose is not fixed, however changeless it [a thing] appears to be. ⁴Think not that you can set a goal unlike God’s purpose for you, and establish it [a goal unlike God’s purpose] as changeless and eternal. ⁵You can give yourself a purpose that you do not have. ⁶But you can not remove the power to change your mind, and see another purpose there [in your mind].
Summarized
You can only die if you believe that is your purpose. You can change your mind to see God’s purpose for you.
4. Change is the greatest gift God gave to all that you would make eternal, to ensure that only Heaven would not pass away. ²You were not born to die. ³You cannot change, because your function has been fixed by God. ⁴All other goals are set in time and change that time might be preserved, excepting one. ⁵Forgiveness does not aim at keeping time, but at its ending, when it has no use. ⁶Its purpose ended, it is gone. ⁷And where it once held seeming sway is now restored the function God established for His Son in full awareness. ⁸Time can set no end to its fulfillment nor its changelessness. ⁹There is no death because the living share the function their Creator gave to them. ¹⁰Life’s function cannot be to die. ¹¹It must be life’s extension, that it be as one forever and forever, without end.
Expanded
4. Change is the greatest gift God gave to all that you would make eternal, to ensure that only Heaven would not pass away. ²You were not born to die. ³You cannot change, because your function has been fixed by God. ⁴All other goals are set in time and change that time might be preserved, excepting one [goal]. ⁵Forgiveness does not aim at keeping time, but at its [time’s] ending, when it [time] has no use. ⁶Its [time’s] purpose ended, it [time] is gone. ⁷And where it [time] once held seeming sway is now restored the function God established for His Son in full awareness. ⁸Time can set no end to its [the function God established for His Son’s] fulfillment nor its [the function God established for His Son’s] changelessness. ⁹There is no death because the living share the function their [the living’s] Creator gave to them [the living]. ¹⁰Life’s function cannot be to die. ¹¹It [life’s function] must be life’s extension, that it [life] be as one forever and forever, without end.
Summarized
Heaven does not come to an end. God fixed your function in Heaven. You can use time and change for forgiveness. When you have forgiven all you can return to God’s purpose for you. Your function is to extend life so all life can be as one.
Golden Chain
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. —Matthew 24:35
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death”. —Proverbs 12:28 (KJV)
…but it has only been revealed by the Appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus. He abolished death, and he has proclaimed life and immortality through the Good News… —1 Timothy 2:10
…glory be to him from generation to generation in the Church and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Amen. —Ephesians 3:21
5. This world will bind your feet and tie your hands and kill your body only if you think that it was made to crucify God’s Son. ²For even though it was a dream of death, you need not let it stand for this to you. ³Let this be changed, and nothing in the world but must be changed as well. ⁴For nothing here but is defined as what you see it for.
Expanded
5. This world will bind your feet and tie your hands and kill your body only if you think that it [this world] was made to crucify God’s Son. ²For even though it [this world] was a dream of death, you need not let it [this world] stand for this [death] to you. ³Let this [what the world stands for] be changed, and nothing in the world but [everything in the world] must be changed as well. ⁴For nothing here but [everything in the world] is defined as what you see it [a thing in the world] for.
Summarized
If you believe the world stands for the crucifixion of God’s Son, then you are a slave to the world. When you can change your belief, then everything in the world changes too.
Golden Chain
…he cried in a loud voice, “Lazurus, here! Come out!”. The dead man came out, his feet and hands bound with bands of stuff and a cloth around his face. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, let him go free”. —John 11:43–44
6. How lovely is the world whose purpose is forgiveness of God’s Son! ²How free from fear, how filled with blessing and with happiness! ³And what a joyous thing it is to dwell a little while in such a happy place! ⁴Nor can it be forgot, in such a world, it is a little while till timelessness comes quietly to take the place of time.
Summarized
When forgiveness is the purpose of the world, the world becomes peaceful and happy. Time fades into the eternal.
Golden Chain