Answers to God's Mysteries
By Cicily Sunny
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Jesus as King of Kings

After the resurrection of Lazarus, Jesus speaks to a negative group led by Sadoc and tells them in what ways he is God. He says, "No prophet had ever been able to put together what was decomposed, in addition to being dead. God did it. That is the living witness of what I am. One day it was God who took some dust and made it into a form and He breathed the vital spirit into it and man was. I was there to say: "Let man be made in our own image and likeness" because I am the Word of the Father. Today, I, the word, said to what is even less than dust, I said to rottenness: "Live", and decomposition was recomposed into flesh, into wholesome, living, breathing flesh. There it is looking at you. And to the flesh I joined the spirit that had been lying for days in Abraham's bosom. I called him with my will because I can do everything, as I am the Living Being, the King of kings to whom all creatures and things are subject." (V. 5, Ch. 546, P. 57).

Meaning of our Sufferings

Jesus sends a disciple named John far away for evangelization because he knows that he will not have the stamina to stand the crucifixion of Jesus. When John is utterly grieved at his departure, Jesus consoles him saying, "In the name of the Truth which I am, I promise you that I will be bent over the pillow of your agony." (V. 3, Ch. 311, P. 191). 

We can expect that Jesus will do the same thing for all those who suffer innocently. After the vision of the orphans, Mary and Matthias, Virgin Mary tells them how Jesus blesses suffering people. She says, "Have faith. Be at peace. There is no misery which my son cannot turn into riches, and there is no solitude which he cannot replenish as there is no fault which he cannot cancel. The past no longer exists once love has cancelled it, not even a dreadful past. Are you going to be afraid when Disma, the robber, was not? Love and be afraid of nothing." (V. 3, Ch. 297, P. 133.) 

Once Jesus and his apostles got three children abandoned in the streets. The youngest was three years old. Their mother died and their father was killed by highway men. Peter argued with Jesus for the reason of their suffering. According to Peter, they should not be suffering. Jesus said, "They will still suffer. Do not be scandalized, Simon. Sorrow and death will always be on the earth. Also the purest people suffer and will suffer. Nay, they are the ones who will suffer on behalf of everybody. The victims are propitiatory to the Lord." (V. 5, Ch. 551, P. 106). 

On another occasion, Jesus explains to Peter why the innocents suffer, "It seems an injustice, but it is a great justice that the best should suffer on behalf of everybody….The earth is an altar, Simon, a huge altar. It was to be the altar of everlasting praise to its Creator. But the earth is full of sins. Therefore it must be the altar of endless expiation and sacrifice, on which the victims are consumed. The earth, like the other worlds with which creation is strewn, ought to sing psalms to God who created it….The day that the great altar of the earth should omit the praises and entreaties of love, the earth would cease existing. Because once love is extinguished also expiation would cease, and the wrath of God would destroy the earth that had become an earthly hell. So the earth must love in order to exist….But I said that the earth has a double duty of sacrifice: that of praise and that of expiation."

"Because mankind that has spread over the earth sinned in the first men, and continuously sins by adding to the sin of estrangement from God the other countless sins of its consent to the voices of the world, of the flesh and of Satan. A guilty, very guilty mankind that, although it has likeness to God, that having its own intelligence and divine help, is more and more sinful. Stars obey, plants obey, elements obey, animals obey, and they praise the Lord as best they can. Men do not obey and do not praise the Lord enough, hence the necessity of victim-souls that may love and expiate on behalf of everybody. They are the children who, innocent and unaware, pay the bitter punishment of sorrow for those who can do nothing but sin. They are the saints who willingly sacrifice themselves for everybody….No longer lambs and kids, calves and doves, but the sacrifice of one's heart is what pleases God. David realized that. And in the new times, the times of the spirit and of love, only that sacrifice will be pleasant….Before I came, man was a stained holocaust and love was not known. Now it will be known. And man, who will know love, because I will give grace back to him, and through it man will know love, man will come out of his lethargy, he will remember, understand, live and he will replace kids and lambs, as a victim of love and expiation, on the model of the Lamb of God, his Master and Redeemer. Sorrow, so far a punishment, will turn into perfect love, and blessed are those who will embrace it out of perfect love." (V. 5, Ch. 553, P. 123-126). 

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