Answers to God's Mysteries
By Cicily Sunny
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Hell, Purgatory, Paradise and Limbo

In his attempt to save the soul of Judas, Jesus says about Purgatory, Paradise, Limbo and Hell, "Time will come to an end, and only Paradise and Hell will remain. And in Paradise and in Hell, for the men raised from the dead and received for ever with their souls and bodies where it is right for them to be, you will always be Judas, the cursed greatest culprit, if you do not mend your ways. I will descend to free the spirits from Limbo, I will lead multitudes of them out of Purgatory, and you…I shall not be able to take you where I am." (V. 5, Ch. 573, P. 281). 

After raising him from the dead, Jesus explains to Lazarus about the condition of souls, "And the judgment of God is just and inviolable. And it has infinite value. If the soul is judged mortally guilty, it becomes a damned soul. If it is lightly guilty, it is sent to Purgatory. If it is just, it goes to the peace of Limbo awaiting me to open the gates of Heaven. So I called your soul back after it had been judged by God. If you had been damned, I could not have called you back to life because by doing so I would have cancelled my Father's judgment. For damned souls no further changes are possible. They are judged for ever. So you belonged to the number of those who were not damned." (V. 5, Ch. 548, P. 80).

How Jesus Tolerates other Religions

Speaking to a heathen woman named Syntyche who is afraid of losing her family for her faith, Jesus says, "One is at fault when one knows the truth, but persists in error….The original sin is common to everybody, whether one is from Israel or not. It is not a peculiarity of heathens. The pagan cult will be sinful after the law of Christ has been spread throughout the world. Virtue will always be virtue in the eyes of God. And in virtue of my union with the Father I say, and I say this in His name, translating His most holy thought into words, that the ways if God's merciful power are manifold, and they are so intent on giving joy to virtuous people that they will remove barriers between souls, and peace will be given to those who deserve peace. Not only, but I say that in future those who follow the religion of their ancestors with justice and holiness, convinced of being in the truth, will not be disliked and punished by God. Wickedness, bad will, deliberate refusal of the known truth, above all refutation of the revealed truth and opposition to it, vicious living will really separate for ever the souls of the just from those of sinners." (V. 3, Ch. 288, P. 84).

Before his ascension Jesus says to his apostles, "It will be by Jesus Christ and through Jesus Christ that present and future men will be able to possess Heaven and enjoy God, the last purpose of man. Up to the present time, even the most just among the just, although circumcised as children of the chosen people, were not able to attain that purpose. Although their virtues were taken into consideration by God, and their places were ready in Heaven, the latter was closed and the enjoyment of God was denied to them, because on their souls, blessed flower-beds blooming with every virtue, there was also the cursed tree of Original Sin, and no action, no matter how holy it might be, could destroy it; neither is it possible to enter Heaven with the roots and foliage of so evil a tree." (V. 5, Ch. 631, P. 841).

Jesus continues, "God will judge the actions of men, and the Christ, the Judge of all peoples, will reward those to whom the desire of their souls was a voice of an intimate law to attain the final scope of man, which is to be reunited to his Creator, to the God unknown to the heathens, but to the God who they feel is True and Holy, beyond the painted scenery of any false Olympus…. I died for the Judeans and for the Gentiles. My Kingdom will belong to all peoples. Do not take advantage of the patience with which God has treated you so far, by saying: "We are allowed everything". No. I tell you. There are no longer these people or those people. There is My People. And in it the vases used up in the service of the Temple and those that are now being laid on the tables of God have the same value. And more than that, many vases used up in the service of the Temple, but not of God, will be thrown into a corner, and in their stead on the altar will be placed those that do not yet know incense, oil, wine or balm, but are anxious to be filled with them and to be used for the glory of the Lord." (P. 853).

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