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Eurípedes Kúhl |
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Second Advent
of
Christ
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A second
advent of
Christ
may well
occur,
as He himself
stated
categorically
Regarding the
second
advent of
Christ,
Allan
Kardec
in the
"Genesis"
initially
highlights two
passages of the
Gospel:
1st -
In
Matthew,
Chapter
XVI,
verses
24 to 28:
Then said
Jesus
unto His
disciples:
If any of
you wish to
follow my
footsteps,
he must deny
himself,
take his cross
and follow me.
Because,
whoever wishes
to
save his life
will lose it,
and
whoever loses
his life for
my sake
shall find it
again
(...), since the
Son of Man
shall
come in the
glory
of His
Father with
His
angels,
and
then He shall
reward
every man
according to
his works.
I tell you,
in
fact,
that some of
those
who are here
will not suffer
death,
without having
seen
the Son of man
in
His kingdom.
2nd -
In Mark,
Chapter
XIV,
verses
61 and
62:
(...)
The High
Priest
still
interrupted Him
and said,
“Are
you the
Christ, the Son
of God
blessed forever?
Jesus
answered him:
I am,
and you will see
one day the
Son of Man
seated at the
right
of the majesty
of God,
coming on the
clouds of
Heaven.
Based on these
two texts,
Kardec
says:
Jesus
announces
His
second
advent,
but He does not
say
he will return
to Earth in a
carnal body, or
that He
will
embody
the Comforter.
He presents
Himself as
coming as a
Spirit, in the glory
of
his Father,
to judge the
merit and
the
demerit
of
every man
according to his
works
when the time
arrives.
Whereas
in the
dawn
of the third
millennium
many are the
Christians, who
misinterpret
some
Gospel passages,
particularly
the one copied
above, I,
humbly and
prudently,
present
some
reflections
found
in Spiritism,
which
perhaps
will
clarify all
doubts regarding
your
understanding.
Jesus never left
us, and He would
not leave us
The quoted texts
form a large
panel, and its
Spiritist
synthesis,
always in
accordance with
Kardec, can be
as follows:
a. The immortal
life is the one
of the Spirit –
the physical
life is
ephemeral. It is
therefore
appropriate to
care for the
first one, and
the second one
with detachment
(the material
one);
b. The fact of
Jesus having
come with the
angels to
acknowledge
(merits) implies
the application,
by the Spiritual
Plan of the
Divine Law of
Justice, which
will have
repercussion on
Earth, where now
live the good
along with the
bad; such
application
shall aim to
separate them,
in such a way
that:
-
The good
(due to their
credits acquired
through their
virtues) will
receive a
passport to
remain on Earth,
by then
regenerated (regeneration
planet is the
one where good
overcomes evil);
- The wicked
will
compulsorily go
to more backward
worlds than
ours, to where
they will take
progress, when
they will redeem
themselves;
c. A second
coming of Jesus
leads us
initially to
three
reflections:
1st - one second
advent of Christ
may well occur.
He categorically
said it. So what
would prevent
such an
occurrence?
2nd - But for
non-Christians,
Jesus would not
be the "Christ"
(the Anointed
One, the
Messiah) which,
would not even
have come the
first time.
Thus, in the
current
religious ground
level, an
eventual return
of Jesus, like
the first time,
at least for
many, likely He
will not be
considered to be
the Messiah. As
we see, here
there is a clash
of faiths...
3rd – For most
Christians (Spiritists
in particular),
Jesus will not
return because
... He never
left us, nor
would leave us.
They rely on the
statement of
Christ Himself:
"Behold, I am
with you always,
until the end of
the world"
(Matthew 28:20).
The issue
"return of
Jesus" should be
treated with
caution
For my part, not
considering the
2nd reflection,
the 1st and 3rd
harmonize and
both one and the
other are
feasible.
Moreover, the
issue regarding
the "return of
Jesus" should be
viewed with
great caution.
To begin with,
three days after
the crucifixion
He was with the
Apostles, from
the Emmaus road
onwards. (Luke,
Chapter 24).
In addition to
the
considerations
of Kardec, which
I have
summarized
above, I
gathered the
four other
Spiritist points
of view, very
short, indeed,
showing that the
subject does not
allow long and
large
dissertations…
Here they are:
1st -
In "Practical
and Doctrinal
Sessions of
Spiritism,"
Aurelio A.
Valente, Chapter
IX, pages 204
and 205, Ed
1937, FEB,
RJ/RJ:
"Jesus will
descend in all
His glory,
leading the
phalanx of
Spirits elected
by the Lord.
According to the
Scriptures, He
came among the
Hebrews to
restore the
Kingdom of God,
but was not
recognized
because they
expected the
reign of men ".
2nd -
In "Allan Kardec"
by Zeus Wantuil
and Francisco
Thiesen, Vol
III, page 85,
2nd Ed, 1982
FEB, RJ/RJ:
"(...) the
coming of Jesus,
announced in the
Gospel, will
take place in
the future when
needed, at the
right time, and
it is not up to
us to evaluate
the right time".
3rd -
In "Jesus -
neither God nor
man" by Guillon
Ribeiro, page
14, 3rd Ed, 1990
FEB, RJ/RJ:
"This second
advent (Jesus)
will occur when
the same Jesus,
as the Spirit of
Truth, comes
across in all
His spiritual
glow to the then
purified and
transformed
planet, as its
sovereign,
visible to also
purified and
transformed
creatures, to
show the truth
unveiled".
Doomsday
symbolizes the
planetary
regeneration
4th -
In "When spring
returns” by
Amelia Rodrigues,
psychographics
of Divaldo P.
Franco, page 13,
6th Ed, 1997
LEAL,
Salvador/BA:
"Jesus continues
being the
eternal spring
that we all long
for. To wait for
His return is
the wish that we
must, at the
moment, cherish,
preparing the
Earth since then
for this time of
life, beauty and
abundance... "
Regarding this
issue, Kardec,
still in
"Genesis",
records:
And when the
Son of man shall
come in His
majesty,
accompanied by
all the angels,
He will sit in
the throne of
His glory; and
gathered in
front of all
nations, he
shall separate
them from one
another as a
shepherd
separates the
sheep from the
goats, and will
place the sheep
on His right and
the goats on His
left.
(Matthew,
Chapter XXV, vv.
31-33).
Many are the
reflections of
countless
Spiritist
authors about
Doomsday,
regarding this
evangelical
statement that
defends the
separation of
goats to one
side and sheep
to another: in
an objective
analysis, these
words express
the recognition
of the merits of
each earthly
Spirit, embodied
or disembodied –
to the good, the
regenerated
Earth, and to
the evil, they
shall be purged
here, with a
passport and
compulsory
emigration to
primitive or
even worlds of
"tests and
atonement,"
since there are
millions in this
Universe.
Thus, for me and
I think that for
other Spiritists
too, "Doomsday"
symbolizes the
planetary
regeneration,
not "Final" or
collective, but
rather,
individual, and
such judgment
will take place
at an exact time
for everybody:
the opinion of
several Spirits,
including Kardec,
is that
(Doomsday) has
begun long ago
and that, in
fact, as always,
who defines it
with unfailing
accuracy is the
conscience of
each one,
dictating him
his fate.
Jesus was never
unanimity on
Earth
Those who have
their
consciousness
numbed, the
infallibility of
the Divine Laws,
in particular
the one of
Justice, applies
automatically,
in the words of
Jesus, the
magnanimous,
which I repeat:
every one
according to his
works.
But still
pondering on the
eventual return
of Jesus there
is a painful
reality (at
least in modern
times) for
Christians: He
is not and never
was unanimity on
Earth.
Let us see:
- At the time of
Jesus on Earth,
the world
population,
according to
estimates of
some
demographers,
swayed from 170
to 250 million
inhabitants; I
will consider
the intermediary
position;
- For centuries,
only a minority
accepted Him as
the Master of
the Masters;
- To this day,
not to accept
Christ as the
Messiah, in no
way prevents
someone of
"being good".
No! To be good
is not a
prerogative only
of the followers
of any creed or
religion, or
even any
atheists.
Obviously, to
follow the
teachings of
Jesus is the
best of all
possible ways to
evolve the
Spirit;
- In the book
"Guide" (Roteiro),
Chapter 9, "O
grande
educandario”,
Ed. 1952, FEB,
RJ/RJ,
psychographics
of F.C. Xavier,
the Spirit
Emmanuel
reported that
for the two
billion then
incarnated
Spirits, there
were twenty
billion
disembodied
(2:20);
- The "Spiritist
Yearbook 1964",
Ed IDE, Araras/SP,
in an interview
and in the
psychographics
of F.C. Xavier,
the Spirit Andre
Luiz reported
that for the
three billion
incarnated
Spirits “there
were more than
twenty billion
disembodied" (
3:21);
- So, in the
first quote
(Emmanuel), we
have that for
one embodied
there were 10
disembodied
(1:10) and in
the second
(Andre Luiz),
the ratio was
one to seven
(1:7).
Currently
(2015), the
Earth has a
population of
over seven
billion people.
Among the
disembodied, how
many are
Christians?
The significant
increase of the
Earth's
inhabitants,
from the time of
Jesus among us
to the twentieth
century, seems
to signal that
the planet Earth
is the destiny
of a great
number of alien
Spirits - this
is just a guess,
only a personal
opinion…
- How many
disembodied at
the time of
Jesus and today?
To imagine how
many the number
of disembodied
at the time of
Jesus (± 210
million 0f
embodied) is a
number hard to
judge, not to
say impossible.
Currently, not
that I know of,
there has been
no “updated”
information,
besides the
already
mentioned of
Emmanuel and
Andre Luiz.
-
And,
among the
disembodied,
today, how many
are Christians?
This is a
difficult
answer,
absolutely
impossible.
I am of the
opinion that to
know the number
of disembodied
Christians,
would be
additional
information to
our work,
allowing us to
assess if some
Spirits had yet
no contact with
Jesus, since the
Master was among
us,
approximately
two thousand
years ago. With
this extra data,
we could
estimate for how
many an eventual
return of Jesus
would be a
second time and
for others, it
would be the
first time.
I also think
about the
pungent present
reality:
according to the
"Almanac
April-Society",
2015, Editora
Abril, SP/SP,
page 142, in
2014 there were
about two
billion, four
hundred million
Christians in
the world. Now,
by deduction,
four billion and
six hundred
million embodied
do not consider
Him as a
reference of the
Messiah, Christ
or "Savior" (7
to 2.4 = 4.6).
Sad Humanity…
I imagine that
only when there
is worthiness,
there will be a
new stage of
Jesus among us.
Then this
blessed and
possible advent,
with the
fantastic
existing means
of
dissemination,
will surely
catalyze the
world's
attention,
encouraging
sublime and
expressive moral
improvement of
Mankind, thus
supporting the
regeneration of
this planet!
According
to
estimates
of the
United
Nations
(UN),
published
in 2014
in the
international
media,
the
world
population
reached
the
milestone
of 7
billion
people
in
October/2011.
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